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1 ] IPieces ] ] 'f lih Ma KOd by Helen fllnsh Vol. V ig50-5l Mash Collection Society) Amhestbug, Ontaio, Canada

2 Convesation Pieces by Helen Wlash mv ig50-5l Mash Collection Society Amhestbug, Ontaio, Canada

3 Copyight 200 Mash Collection Society 235A Dalhousie Steet Amhestbug, Ontaio N9VW6 (59) Aticles heein ae epinted with the pemission ofthe Amhestbug Echo and Bowes Publishes Ltd. This book, o pats theeof, may not be epoduced in any fom without the witten pemission ofthe Mash Collection Society and the Amhestbug Echo except by aeviewe who wishes to quote biefpassages fo inclusion in a eview. ISSN Fist pinting 200 The Mash Collection wishes to thank Jeanette McGath and Shaon Maite fn volunteeing thei time to assist with this publication. Cove logo by Connie Sinasac let I I It ^ Gonvesation Pieces In 94 Helen Mash gave up he teaching position at the Amhestbug Public School to join he bothe John at the AmhestbugEcho, whee she emained imtil 980 when illness compelled he to etie at eighty yeas yoimg. TheAmhestbug Echo of Septembe 26,94 announced a new featue page entitled "OfInteest to Women"... We ae going to ty and make this as inteesting as possiblefo the ladies - andfo the men, too, if they'e cuious about what the womenfolk ae doing - and they usually ae. It will contain topics ofcuent inteest, hintsfo the homemake and suggestions that might help the hand that ocks the cadle to ule the wold. Women ae taking an activepat in the affais ofthei communities and in theempie today and we will endeavou to chonicle the doings of those in the Haow andamhestbug disticts... The name of the page changed fom "Of Inteest to Women" to "Of Thilling Inteest to Women" to "Of Inteest to the Wold of Women." The latte name emained fo many yeas. Howeve, Helen Mash's miscellaneous column entitled "Convesation Pieces" was fist epesented in 942 and emained a constant, inteesting weekly featue until he etiement. In the following pages we pesent these columns, only slightly edited whee absolutely necessay.

4 Januay 5,950 Something I've leaned since taking ove the housekeeping eins, always use a hot knife to cut fuit cake. I cannot make up a soimet fai enough to expess the eage beauty ofwhite azalea which comes diect in my line offocus evey time Icome in fom the misty outdoos these days. Gowing into the sophisticate is had going - so I decided as I watched thee young High School lads with thei Chistmas pipes tying to be oh! so nonchalant and man-of-woldly, as they awaited lunch and shot "I hope I'm doing it ight" glances at me. Sound like alondone but "Beastly weathe" usheed in the New Yea Fog and ain is not ou idea ofholiday weathe. That and the bids chiping with thei timing wong, cocus patches geen, dandelions, blooming lilac buds full to busting, new figue skates fo show puposes only wee afew ofthe unusual things inconvesation limelight ove the New Yea's weekend. Each Chistmas Iseem to heaagain the sweet soft voices ofthe second gades epeating, by heat and as achous, the beautiful Chistmas stoy fom St T.he ftat lovely little thing, "Winds though the olive tees." It is when Igo to buy books fo my childen ftiends that Iget aflashback to my own childhood when mv fatz ^d eyeij^g he could get his hands on to us, many things (like those meloned above) which late Iead o taught to the wee pupils. You neve foget the nle^u you get finm eading aloud. Evey family should expeience it. It's sols money can neve buy, no can iteve be taken away. past, halfofthe u?? centuiy (and! still pesist in that) thee ae So so iflooking many?hangewh back ove the i we have bcm apatofwhich ae amazing to the young people who can't Sin^^^ the tony clothes, the days without cas, telephones, adios, bathooms washto machines etc. To go on, the auto industy was bom in Detoit in 900 sotweu emenbe my fimt ide in aside-seate owned by Miss Peeie (Geoge Zi Bob ones cousm). Then followed the fist look at aplane at the Michigan State Fai I Ll^ i L.L " L " I ' " I ' I p, -IT- I and it "flew like a bid." Afte that what do you know? One ofthose mechanical bids landed on the Hodgman Beach (Dalhousie St.) and we touched it and looked at it and I was geen-eyed with jealousy because Floa Hodgman had he pictue taken sitting in the cockpit with the aviato. Pio to that time, but about the same yeai think, we had a telephone installed and a bathoom, which made news. Then I could go on to fist silk stockings, fist Aimette Kelleman bathingsuit, fist shot hai, fist pemanent wave etc., but will skip to fist adio, a cystal set built by Bet Abbott and Chuck Fench picked music out ofthe ai. I could go on and on and get a kick out ofemembeing o ofheaing it said that "So and so (an Amhestbug gil) was going a petty swift pace because of he split skit and ice powde." How the tongues wagged! The magazines that ae binging out pictues ofthe pogess since 900 ae making laughs fo the young people who can't believe we woe such funny clothes o did such funny things. They think we'e eal 'Museum pieces' when we say "Why, I emembe that" - which I did. Januay 2, 950 The band new tansfomation necklines ae stuiming. They make a dess a two-time as they can be buttoned up snugly o opened to a low squae. We think we've advanced but the ealy 950 days still bingjust as sticky mud on the neaby county oads as they did in the ealy 900s, except nowadays the tacto snots along defiantly getting families out to chuch. The vacated eath was cetainly wamed with white last Fiday moning afte the snow fell with whispeless hush. It seemed to me that the full moon hadn't been halfas bight this winte as it was when it poued its silve light on the white wold ove the weekend. Also, by the way, did you notice the pink snow at simdown Sunday? - eatable effect. In the Convesation Piece oflast week about being in on the fist ofthings, completely fogot about the fist movie, which think was "The Peils ofpauline" with Peal White, a hoible moving pictue, no sound ofcouse. This was shown at the Town Hall and we all went. If emembe ightly, ight on top ofthis came

5 "The Bithofa Nation" shown at the same place. Seveal new peennials will help dess up the 950 gaden. Among these ae a spectacula white veonica and a sweet lavende hady in the Noth. Veonica Subsessilis White blooms fom August to Octobe sending up huge decoative spikes fo bode o fo flowe aangements. Lavende Hidcote Blue with fagant silvey foliage and violet-blue flowes has poved able to suvive ugged wintes, accoding to E. S. Boeme, eseach specialist fojackson andpekins in Newak, N. Y. "Foyeas wehave tied to cay theoldgaden lavende without success," he said. "Hidcote Blue, howeve, isa compact plant that has poved pefectly hady hee at Newak." Next week, Essex County histoy is to be made when Deputy Reeve Gace Robinson Buk of Leamington, takes he place at the Januay session. In the fall Essex Coimty celebated its 00* bithday but what do you know! As itgoes into its lof'yea, it's got a woman on it. In the home the oles which the Canadian woman plays ae many. She must be a nuse, a cleaning woman, a teache a tinkee, apuchasing agent, ahousekeepe, acook, aseamstess and apsychologist. Now afte handling all those jobs successfully, which ofcouse includes influencing he family in the way ofgood citizenship and establishing a well oganized home which will povide fo thei mental and physical well being, awoman ought to be able to help in the political set-up. Ms. Buk will have a lot offine men as he colleagues and we hope that he ole which has made histoy will be a success in evey way. Januay 9, 950 Most ofthe style inteest this sping seems to be in sleeves. Noticed astunning Dolman effect in aposh magazine which eminded me ofanavy numbe Ihad in the Roaing Twenties which was lined with ceise. What afigue Icut! -I'll bet Moe fashion notes - with egads to colo we women this sping ae to shv away fom black and pick any shade ofbeige fom off-white to suntan and yellow fom gapefiuit to bumt oange. By the way, oange is supposed to be the most [LL.i t IC I» fi' '-^ s i efeshing coloof the yea. Fo those of us who can't wea the colos mentioned above thee ae colo hamonies like thee shades ofblue o geen. Satuday oses wee almost in leaf, the sun danced, the wind oaed and knocked youbeathout, an old pine tee on the old Captain Jack Menzie's popety was upooted and its long life was ove and the settingsun was gloious. Sunday thegey, silve andblacks pedominated in theainandsleet while Monday dawned fai and bisk; who said Monotony ofweathe - unpedictable is the wod fo it. Just to claify a question on aising Intelligence Quotient o "IQ" as we say, I don't believe thee is any method yet known to aise an adult's IQ, but a peson can gow to seem moe intelligent both to youself and othes since most people (mistakenly) judge you IQ by how much you know, not by how easily o apidly you leaned it. Unless you ae an out and out defective mentally, thee's no limitto the extent to which you can go in adding to you knowledge and expeience and thus making the intelligence you have moe evident and useful. One of the old landmaks on the ive font oad, Andedon, the Captain William Gatfield house, is being ton down by its pesent owne, Fed Webste, to make way fo a modem home on the wondeful site. Ifthis old house could talk it would tell ofa chaming hostess. It would tell ofa home whee hospitalityeigned. It would tell ofhappy boys and gils oftwo geneations who played aoimd it. It would tell ofpaties and ofthose delightful days ofold Amhestbug whee people gatheed and thee was good fellowship, good fun, good food and we know good convesation which included Detoit Rive news. Januay 26, 950 Sage advice fom a 3-yea-old en oute to the High School, talking seiously to his pal, so intent on the convesation that they didn't see me, "Don't get bom in Febmay, although I only took 20 minutes." In the woman's wold - Fiend Haidesse says that the big news at the convention in New Yok last week was shot hai - fo all ages, sizes and

6 desciptions. And when she says shot, she means it. I hea thee was an icebidge above town Satuday, although it couldn't have lasted long, fo at five o'clock seveal huge ice floes passed ou house, cunching the Bob-Lo shoe as they sailed slowly down bound. Had in mind what I was going to say about next Thusday -Candlemas Day o Goundhog Day - but have decided that thee is such as caying the idiculous too fa, so Febuay second will be just anothe Pess Day. That's one thing we know fo sue. New Yok says that jewely is as impotant as shoes o ahat in sping costume planning -eal o imitation - as long as it's big, it's good. Incidentally, the oiental colos ofose quatz ojade geen ae the smatest things to pep up all-gey costume eithe injewely, scaves o handkies -ose quatz fo me. Gay and ose quatz as fesh as a sping sunise. Was chided ove o kidded ove being too "itzy-do" fo using Ms. Jane Scatch Bown in alocal item. Iwas wong because until awidow emaies she is Ms. John Bown. Although in Monday's Fee Pess Inoticed two items about women ofpominent families and they ead 'Ms. Iene Ellis Muphy' and 'Ms Ruth Down Doan'. Iguess Iput the woman's family name in occasionally to label that peson, because, like my fathe, I'm keen about family backgounds. Afte eading the following in the 40 Yea column ofthe Echo, it is no wonde that the oldstes needle about "the good old days." Hee is the item: Nowhee else in this county ae they having a bette time than ight in Maiden duing these long moonlight winte nights On Thusday night oflast week M. and Ms. Fed Baun entetained apaty. Fiday night between 50 and 60young, middle-aged and oveeat landed on M. and Ms. Chales Mickle and it was a ound ofmith andjollity 'till an ealy hou next moning. Thusday night pactically the same cowd wee athebet Batt's and had no end offun thee. Besides these thee wee seveal othe sleigh ide paties in othepats ofthe township. V Fi" i-j I'-i-J FT f.l E" li. t f\ 'I t ti A eally ed petunia, something new in the gaden wold, has just made its bow as the only flowe to win All-Ameica Selections honos fo 950. Actually a spectum ed with the flow ofscalet. Fie ChiefPetunia not only caies offthe only All-Ameica flowe selection but wins the fist Gold Medal Awad fo flowes since the fist ed moning gloy. Fie Chiefwill bing to ou gadens the ich ed velvet that gowes have been woking fo some yeas to achieve. It gows about 2 inches tall and wide, flowes fom ealy sping until killing fosts. In the South it lives though the winte. The plants ae compact and bushy without the spawling habit ofmost petunias, and the flowes keep thei wam, billiant colo. It is, theefoe, descibed as "ideal fo bedding, low bodes, edging gadens, walks o dives, and also fo potting and fo window boxes." Unlike the double uffed and othe types ofpetunias. Fie Chief seeds eadily without expensive hand-pollenizing. The supply of seeds of the 950 flowe debutante is, theefoe, enough this fist yea to povide a dozen seeds to eveiy man, woman and child in the United States. It is the top flowe of the yea and will appea in many Ameican gadens and flowe aangements. Most seedsmen ae featuing it. Febuay 2, 950 House plants gowing in wate, ivy o philodendon should be teated occasionally by dopping a piece ofchacoal in the containe. Felt like dooling when I saw the peviews ofthe new Level-On-Hats with thei fowad motionwhich fit level on the head ight at the hailine, fo I think they'e the latest in smatness. The time of focing buds fo indoo bouquets is at hand - so bought in fosythias and pussy willows Tuesday. Peach and chey cuttings also give much delight but feel that it's a fotnight too ealy fo them.

7 Febuay 9, 950 tji iff P A By H ^ Do flickes odinaily stay fo the winte? M. & Ms. Fed Haynes ae feeding one these days. Fed Pigeon was in the office Monday and said that dee ae fequently seen along King's Highway No. 8 fom Tom Mickle's place to Maiden Cente. saw IT yesteday moning swinging on ou clothesline in amost disgusted fashion -you've guessed it -aobin who had aendezvous with Sping and found abittle moming with no food. The publicity agent he listened to didn't tell ofthe vey occasional snowstom this winte! The long ceise band ofsunset Satuday, which made the shadow ofbob-lo on the quiet pale yellow ive outlined with ceise, was one of the most inteesting sunsets this winte. Added to this wee the pue white ice floes in the foegound seemed stange but they took on none of the sky coloing and stood out so dead white. In answe to aquestion, "Is thee any cause to feel hut ifafiend extends an invitation at the last minute to fill in fo someone at acad paty o dinne*?" Thi^ "Convesation Piece" definitely feels that alast-minute appeal fom ahostess s usua ly acompliment because Ifigue out (and I've been asked to do it manv time. that I'm a special fnend. ^ Icetainly can't get excited ove the contovesy in some papes ove the fat that some women have Chistian names intended fo men. In fact Isee nothina t get affled about fo apeson's name gows into thei pesonality and excem Sn been Feddie to all and we saw no eason fo thinking it quee. Winte this yea is cetainly not laying emphasis on sleet, snow, icy tees o ice bound Detoit Rive Always befoe Ithought each season had its bli La In^ end but that idea has bust. Because the calendasays the thid month ofwinte and '^i:,!ll I' I' I' II' 'H n I LLii ' f.l! < I' Mi - 'j we have had so few winte pictues out of doos I get pleased at the occasional samples ofwinte beauty, such as the othe moming looking out ofthe east window at the blue enamel sky, the white pagoda ofthe blue spuce on Miss Hutchins' lawn and the fiendly cadinal billiant and bief as fiewoks against the snow in the backyad. As ifthey ae magnetic, any aticle on teaching childen appeals to me and often has pecedence ove, say, the bidge hand if they ae in the same pape, so was eading a shot skit fo the peschool child on how to teach with pictues and came acoss a sentence that made me laugh and I'll quote it vebatim: "Most ofus have had the expeience offinding some child to whom we have told, say, a Bible stoy will pass it along to anothe o tell it to us again complete with such additions as automobiles, tains, tucks" etc. etc. and othe maks ofmodem living. Nea little fiend's thid bithday I was telling him the stoy ofdavid and Goliath and he just couldn't get the amy angle no the slingshot as I told it and intejected with guns, tanks and othe weapons ofmodem wafae. I evidently hadn't been imaginative enough so he helped funish the naative with the only backgound he knew. Hee's whee pictues help. Febuay 6, 950 Anothe cleve fome Amhestbug atist, Kathleen Pettypiece Dowswell, is doing inteesting pictues on white linoleum. Ms. F. E. Wilson, who attended the successful fashion show staged by McCance, Biks and May Snide (she of the delightful hats) at Elmwood last Tuesday, said that scavesand those stunning Level-Onhats play an impotant pat in the sping wadobe. A peview ofthe music ofsping was head last Thusday night when a theelong and two-shot salute fom the ship on the ive supised me as much as the ealy coaking offogs supise and delight some people. Monday moming afte the heavy fall of snow thee was a wondeful example

8 ofcolo gone fom the design out ofdoos leaving the fact ofmass and line seen so plainlyas I scuied homewad at noon, in the maples outstetched; the old pines, watchdogs ofthe snow waiting fo the sun to shake thei shaggy wet, snow-coveed coats; the lovely cuved mound of white which yesteday was a pile of annoying junk eady to be cated away. On Monday, this W. P. scibble commented on the fact ofmass and line out-ofdoos caused by heavy snow andice. OnTuesday without knowing howi felt about the aftemath ofthe stom, Ms. Howad Heaton in Haow said, "You should have been hee yesteday to see those two tees, a lage pine and a maple close togethe, in RoyWight's yad (coveedwith ice);they lookedlike an old bea as it shook in the stom." Fom what I undestand the exhibition ofessex County atists on display atthe Willistead Libay until Mach is eally woth going to see this yea. A Windso citic in commenting on Ms. But Hoag's pictue "Monteal Staiway" which was accepted fo exhibition said, "This almost iidescent watecolo has an inteesting design of cuved ion staiway." Mentioned also wee Ms. Noman Wilson's "Sping ice on the Detoit Rive," which pictue was voted best in the show at the Bunne Mond Club last sping; Ms. John Gay's "Yellow Ochids," which he said was an "unclutteed, well-painted study in gays and yellow geens." Kenneth Saltmache, C. H. Edmonds ofhaow and Ms. Kenneth Fleming have pictues in the show also. Febuay 23, 950 Awhile ago we commented on those snuggettes women ae weaing instead of babushkas and last week Ms. Milton Conwall came into the office weaing one and it was stunning -ahalo ofhalf-hat made ofjesey with ajesey scafattached the comfot ofababushka with the looks ofasmat flatteing headpiece Since she was nine yeas of age, Maqoie Paks Hamilton (Ms HL)has had apen pal in New Zealand. Though the yeas they have become bosom fiend, though lettes and this summe they ae to meet fo the fist time as the New 0. [I Xj. I L i. Li { I t ( II L H^ (q f Zealandeis makinga tip aboadand will come to Amhestbug to pay a shot visit. Got a hit below the belt - not only diected at me but lots ofothe women in my size goup - when I leaned that "in the tade" 38 is now ovesize. I saw Venus in the Louve in Pais and she wasn't pint-sized. I saw Bunhilde in Wagne's opea and she wasn't potayed as a willowy exta-small and the Statue oflibety suely is a big gal. Ae we to become obsolete in the last halfofthe centuy? O is this ovesize business a manufactue's tick ofthe tade - moe mateial, moe money? A centepiece fo a luncheon which we could copy - ivy in a thin line set off with an occasional camellia and bits ofpale geen and pink-leavedbegonias. "Who used this confection ofan aangement?" you quey and I answe, "None othe than Helena Rubenstein fo a luncheon ecently." "What did Mme Rubenstein wea to he luncheon?" and I can answe that too. A smat gay men's wea flannel suit, scalet linen vest and about he thoat he famous stands ofuneven peals - whose colos ange fom black though geen, bown, yellow, pale gold, pale gay and the most luminous pink-beiges. Joan Thashe, 9-yea-old daughte ofhaold Thashe ofhaow and the late Geta Feis, was chosen Queen of the Ats Ball at the Univesity of Westen Ontaio at London Fiday night. Joan has a tall, dak, stately beauty and a thoughtful expession. When she was in high school I'd see he so often limching with he fathe in a estauant in Haow and she cetainly, to my knowledge, neve jumped on the bobbysoxe bandwagon. Fo the biggest event ofhe life to date, Joan woe a stapless ice blue gown which would set offhe coloing. It wasn't beauty alone that won fo this young woman the coveted "Queen ofthe Ball." He scholastic ability (she's a second-yea hono psychology student), he poise, he pesonality and he exta-cuiculaactivities all wee consideed. Then, too, she's on the basketball team and was a popula dum majoette in the football season. An all-ovmd co-ed who is a cedit to he family as well as an asset to he alma mate. Mach 2, 950 Just as we did in ou geneation, today's childen had a dandy time sliding down

9 the hillsat the OldFoton Sunday. Women stuff- bette than any sping tonic - cisp white collas and cuffs and white canations at the thoat ae in the Sping fashion spotlight. Febuay was on its way out befoe we expeienced a good old fashioned Canadian snow stom with the bittle cold cunching the snow like peanut bittle taffy undefoot. The daffodil sunshine on ou white moie lawn late Satuday aftenoon was wothlooking at. The lovely ciystal icicles which fnnged ou gaage oof and dopped with a silvey tmkle in the softened snow Monday noon. It was stange to look out at the sun playing on them and on the snow and on the silvey pussy willows which have bust thei winte casings on the tee ight in my line ofvision. Comwall In telling said ofa thee faewell was aluncheon paty in Haow of old fo school Ms. fnends, Jessie Conwall fnends who Ms had Havev gone fom "cat, at and hat" all though school togethe. That "cat, at, hat" business is afa cy fom the way childen stat eading pogam at the moment and the wav of descnbmg Pime, Gade I. ^ Quote fom the Echo of last week: "The museum collection of nionee esidents photogaphs is gadually gowing," wites David Botsfod the cuato to what do you taow? 3AM. and Ihave made the Museum, fo when we etums fom Hotow last week Ifound apictue ofus to look ove, which had been given oms. Dan Botsfod yeas ago and now to the museum by Richad Golden alone wth anothe pctue thought to be Thomas Lypps bom in 827 in Colcheste Soutlf The magazines have caied astoy ofthe Sunday tea Ms. F. DRoosevelt hf,h va televson when she discussed the Hydogen Bomb poblem wita Ensten, Davd Llienthal, scientists Robet Oppenheime and Hans Betbp attn fistsundayaftemoonteawithms. Roosevelt, M Einstein SDoke hie on the H-Bomb and waned that itcould annihuate was M. Ensten stheoies which povided the basis fo man's abilitv to atoms. This H-Bomb is beyond the compehension of most ofus bm n^ Atom Bomb until Hioshima. 2 i V the Ik. EI.a... Ji -U i l-l.) - C! / ^ ' b! W Mach 9, 950 I was shocked when I ead that one mechant said that thee was so much shoplifting going on at the moment among women that he had to up his pices a bit because ofit. Even if by the time I am seventyish (o maybe befoe) man has hamessed atomic enegy and I could take a ocket ship and fly to the moon fo a weekend, I don't think I will, fo I've decided to stay eath bound and see the Golden Gate and swim in the ocean at Nassau. I haven't seen anyone with the new doe-eyes (the boldly outlined eyes ofsping 950) but have been fascinated by the models with them in the magazines. I imdestand this new eye make-up makes the eyes look bigge and is effective and that women like it. But - omigosh - wouldn'thave the clothes to go with doe eyes and a beauty spot, yes, they ae back in vogue too. The late snow, the ice and the cold oflast week cetainlycamot change the hou pedestinedfo the flowe, fo Monday was as gay as a peview ofsping should be - all but the ive and it was bound in icy chains - but it didn't look dead-ofwinteish. How could it with the sim binging out the paade ofice blues? I knew what I was talking about in the fist fou lines fo seveal cocuses have aleady opened thei wee puple cups in Ms. J.R. Mois' gaden to look ound at Sping possibilities. Evidently slacks fo women have had thei day and ae out-of-date. Should have ealized it with the good looking advetisements fo "sepaates" in papes and magazines and the pictues of women in active spots, golf and bowling fo instance, in stunning skits and blouses. But just didn't ealize this fashion tun until fiiend told ofbeing in the south fo a month and oftaking thee pais ofslacks which she neve had on. She said that she saw no women in slacks in Floida this season. Potato chips have gone up the social ladde, accoding to the National Potato 3

10 Chip Institute. Hee's the eason fo this social climb, and we quote: "Doyou know how to eatpotato chips noiselessly? Atechnique fo munching them without sound effects is beingpublicized by the National Potato Chip Institute as apublic sevicefo 950. 'Thee have been complaints thatpotato chips ae too noisy to be seved in theates and at high society events - but that is wong,' said Fed Meyes ofmadison, Wis., institutepesident. 'The noiseless method is to gently beak the chip in twopieces and allow the halves to melt in you mouth. It's ageat deal quiete than chewing celey.'" Mach 6,950 That new Fie Chief Petunia which is spectum ed with aglow of scalet is ca^nig quite afuoe and getting alot ofpublicity. Ican see whee it will give a lot ot lite to a gaden, which is whatgadenes want. H^e watched and listened fo that obin Isaw on ou clothes line seveal weeks aglimpse ofhim this past weekend when as htdt^v weekend momings, he'd come fo food. But delight fo shetchanges the plants and bits ofpottey and knicknacks souce of n inteest and thepasseby. Fothe pastwhile alivelypotofagsatumlbsas^^^^^^^^ attention when the Mach wind was tying to scae eveything out of doos. Ms. William Mudoch, who took he two young sons to ^, openmg ofthe Legislatue, was saying that the boys got athill out ofha pictues taken in the new chai which was used by both the Lieutenant C ou own Rev. M.C. Davies at the opening. Thil chains On^s p^^^ newest povince, Newfoundland, and will now be sent to St Tnh ' compliments of Ontaio. ^ ^ith the 4 w T' d i I!ii ' When Ms. Yvonne Bailey was sightseeing at the San Jacinto monument, 22 miles fom Houston, Texas, she saw an old map dated 720 on which the Geat Lakes ae shown. She said that the state ofmichigan was a gotesque shaped affai on this map,and that Supeio at that time was calleduppelake; Michigan as we now know it was then called Illenese; Eie was Iie and Ontaio was named Fontenac-Clake. The second item of inteest she found in the museum in the monument was the fact that Bitain ecognized Texas in 840 and sent a consul, William Kennedy, in 843 and that a consulate is still maintained in Texas. Kate Aiken, the well-known Canadian adio pesonality and wite, mothe of Ms. Clinton Thomson, fomely ofhaow, and a gandmothe, was judged one of the ten best-dessed women ofcanada in a ecent poll. I'veneve seen Ms. Aiken but he caiageis what has attactedme in he pictues. Speaking of caiage,thee ae seveal gandmothes ight hee in Amhestbugwhose caiage and gooming could put a younge mothe to shame. These gandmothes of whom have efeence always look smatevenwhenbusilyshoppingin the moning. Theystep along holding thei bodies staight and thei heads high and lookjust as ifthey had stepped out ofa band box - and thee seems to be the secet. Mach 23, 950 txs Cycling on Noth Steet Satuday was a yovmg Dutch lad in wooden shoes. Mach gives us a wondeful example of the split pesonality. We saw he kinde side Monday when she caessed the eath, the sky and the ive and encouagedthe cocus, tulip and daffodil. The othe side ofmach was seen on St. Patick's Day when, like a sadist, she delighted in ou discomfot in the snow-blowain. The Flowe Show opens on Satuday at Convention Hall in Detoit and, fom the stoies of pepaations, should be wondeful. The Chysle Copoation has taken ove an entie section ofthe Hall and is building wold-famous gadens fom six diffeent counties including England, Ieland, Fance, Sweden, Italy and the United States. 5

11 John A. Foste, ceamic instucto at Wayne Univesity and Ats and Cafts School in Detoit, in answeing the question on the evival in handcaft said, "Man is ceative by natue. Machines obbed him ofthe means ofself-expession and the pide that goes with it. Building by hand with clay, metal and theads inhis leisue gives him back some ofhis lost self-espect. The evival is amazing when machines can tun out thousands ofobjects in the time it takes to make one by hand -but that one by hand is the one that counts fo all ofus, whethe we'e ahousewife, docto, lawye, Indian chief- we all like to ceate." Ofthe ten most popula gaden flowes, the best selles -the thee at the top of the list - ae native Ameican. They ae, in ode of thei demand fo the home gadene: Petunias, Zinnias, Maigolds, Astes, Sweet Peas, Snapdagons Nastutiums, Potulaca, Annual Lakspu and Sweet Alyssum. Ou gaden petunias' if you eades want abit of flowe histoy, wee all bed fom two species found ongmally mthe Agentine aea in South Ameica. Zinnias and maigolds wee taken to Euope fom Mexico. Mach 30, 950 gaden'''^ " pe-easte paade -in the mytle blooming in Miss Hutchins' "Copy Cat" is ttie name fo wee gils' boadcloth desses with the companion piece being a doll dess to match - petty cute. When the tain waylaying its catchy tunes Sunday and Monday and thee was mist eveywhee, the thought came that fashion designes say Pumokin N7sh«and Oange ae the big colos this season, and thesetuely middle am ^"7.0 ofthe centij^ belie will be casual, oiginatoofthe daing and boyish Newlike Look thesays heoines "Theofthe 90 slent moves. No hips, no bosom and aclose-copped huicane haicut." [ ^ n! T fs' f ^' Q i Sping was usheed in, inmy depatment last week with a bouquet of velvety puple and yellow pansies in a containe coveed with ose foil lined with silve. (I who love colo cetainly had it that day.) Jimmy, the floist, knowing that colo weakness aanged thebouquet fo a supise and fist used it at the C.W.L. Fashion Show and then it was mine. Was my face ed at fou o'clock lastthusday when a call came egading the wite-up of the C.W.L. fashion show. With all the confidence and assuance imaginable, I looked though the pape fo the page and location of the stoy - the moei lookedthe faste my confidence dained awayfo the stoyhad been left out - The Gemlins of the newspape office again, chuckling at the embaassment they had caused. Undeneath the mud I know Sping is weaving a coloful design on he loom. But it is had to think of the lovely patten when tempes ae gound fine as we battle the wost mud in yeas. We eally shouldn't gouse about mud in town, as the people on the eighth concession of Maiden have been battling it since Chistmas. In fact, in Januay they wee pactically isolated - a teifying situation because of fie and illness, as it was pactically impossible to get help to the vaious homes. But the design being made by Sping on a geen backgound we pedict will, when it comes, make us foget the dity floos, muddy shoes, clothes, faces and hands. Apil 6, 950 Ovehead at the Flowe Show: "Ae those flowes eal flowes o atificial?" queied a man to an attendant. When told they wee eal, the questione opined, "Real flowes look just like atificial flowes nowadays, don't they?" Fouteen-yea-old Jey Bush, son ofm. and Ms. Les Bush, can make many olde and moe seasoned ten-pin bowles sit up and suely take notice. His contol and fom is exceptional. They'e back - not the bids, no the bees nothe flowes, but the boats - and

12 they made themselves head inthe fog ealy Sunday moning. I feel soy fo the inlandes who've neve had those boat whistles in thei blood. Thee ae five sets oftwins living on Bunne Avenue. They ae Rosemay and Magueite Smith, daughtes ofm. and Ms. Fank Smith; Jean and Jane Fox, Geald and Giad Fox, childen ofm. and Ms. Ed Fox; Joyce and Ellen Russel; Lay and Bay Boussey, sons ofm. and Ms. Havey Boussey. The gloious display ofeaste flowes at Gay's Geenhouse Sunday aftenoon attacted people fom fa and nea. Waved to Val Clae who was on the bus going Windsowad afte being at the show and he looked efeshed afte his enjoyment ofone ofthe tangible symbols ofthe meaning ofeaste - new life in flowes. Time and time again we in this office hea, "You didn't mention my paty," "Suely thought you'd comment on my new building," "Looked fo ou baby's bith and It wasn't thee" - As we've said befoe, ou pape is you pape, and we want those local news items and hate like anything to miss them. So, ifthee's anews tip of any kind, don't wait fo someone else to tell us but give us the tip youself. As Iwalked up Dalhousie Steet in the damp wamth Monday moning and looked at the cocuses and chinadoxia in bloom and the daffodils and tulips eadv to bust, still unconsciously in the thoes of the Easte flowe and colo anesthetic to which Ihad been subjected at Gay's Geenhouse Sunday aftenoon Isunised myself by singing away, "The little flowes come fom the gound at Easte time " etc. I'm glad Iknew the cham ofthe childen's wold at Easte as seen though the doft fo?gef spontaneityofthe song, it's something you Apil 3, 950 -M. -Lf, p., L p.. p?i Acheologists nea Bagdad have made a discovey which may foce scholas to ewite the study of mathematics. Histoians always have cedited the ancient Geeks with developing thescience of mathematics. ButIaqui acheologists have uneathed a 4000 yea-old tablet, accoding to a despatch which indicates the ancient Sumeians had the answes 600 to 700 yeas befoe Euclid, who lived in the 3"* centuy B.C. This big tablet may pove as impotant to mathematics as the Rosetta stone was to the study ofancient languages. Ambitious plans aebeing made fotheexhibition of Ats andcafts to be held in the Fot Maiden Museum house the end ofthis month. Amhestbug is getting a name fo itself in the at wold of the countybecauseof the two exhibitions held hee last yea, and the numbe of people who enteed in and wee inteested in the Essex County Atists' Exhibition. I undestand that an At Association fo this Amhestbug distict may be the outcome of this coming exhibition. If thisbe the case, speakes and shows on the vaious lines of at maybe bought ightto us. It's about time fo you to make you esevation fo the fist inteplanetay ocket ship tip. Othe people ae doing it - tuly - yes, applications foesevations aebeing accepted at thehayden Planetaium in NewYok. They began Mach 5, andeach application made at a simulated inteplanetay teminal esevation desk will be kept in theplanetaium's achives andtuned oveto the fist inteplanetay passenge sevice, the cuato of the Planetaium said ecently. It seems that an exhibition thee called "Conquest of Space" is poviding visitos to the Planetaium with a thilling peview ofthis inteplanetay tavel which many expets pedict is "justaound the come." The Space Ship time schedule indicates that, leaving the eath fo the moon at a speed of25,000 miles pe hou, you should aive in 94 hous, unless of couseyou encountedelays en oute caused by meteo showes! I This eathwomepote is not thinking ofmaking a esevation because, as I have said, the Golden Gate and a swim in the ocean at Nassau ae on my mind fo the futue. Apil is asound in geen -so Ithought Monday moning in the ain. Have you noticed how the big dippe is saluting the Sping bv silve studded bowl? aising up its I' t Apil 20, 950 All ofa sudden the heat was tuned on out-of-doos on Monday and we basked 8 9 -ii

13 in it. Miss Flossie Wight ofhaow, who has been blind since bith, is aemakable peson. Just ecently when he siste died Miss Wight wanted to feel an ochid so that she would "know that flowe, the next time she saw one." Thee often is no sign at aconcet which asks ladies to emove hats but it suely IS imtating to sit behind ahatted woman. She's within he ights to leave he hat on but gosh! You'd think he conscience would make he uneasy. I've had this con piece in mind eve since the fashion show atthe Geneal Amhest., say Apil 3, we think ofain, shy violets smiling, ed tipped boughs o^ffodils hoading spingtime in thei cups, but last Thusday was bitte and cold and when Icame out ofthe office instead ofthe usual Apil 3 sounds and sights Ihead the foeign sound ofshoveling coal into two basements neaby. One ofthe most inteesting displays, in my way ofthinking, at the flowe show in Deioit w^ the one of dwaf plants and shubs by an Ann Abo gadene Leaning the Onental at ofoot puning, he has specimens that vaiy in agfffltl to 35 yeas. Most ofthem wee no highe than apotted geanium. Iwas paticulalv inteested mthe 7-yea-old dwafapicot tee in bloom. Paticulaly In aousing vein, people will un down the climate ofou fai Essex Cnunu, One ofthe nastiest ofou sping days Iwas in Haow and Rev JA Wait the office and the weathewaa being discussed. He saw to when h^ to come to this county fiends sympathizedwith him and toldcof etc. etc., but he said, "Thee's longevity in the weathe.in.. thee have been thee 65*^ wedding annivesaiy paties.'' Even though many hee in Amhestbug ae natives and h.a though the season it is supising the numbe who can't tell time bv the know athing about thei oigin. The custom ofthethtofhin! with the use ofahalf-houglass. The man on wm^h tul h dampness to Haow atthe end ofhis fist halfhou and ing the bell once Thic t ^ mtevals, with an amitiona. hell stmls each ttae Sti^^Ig of fou hous, signallingthecompletionof his watch. It is 4^S^l^nal 20 ^. ii--4 V- LIti' Li-.Hi L - I. c C the end ofeach ofthe six watches - ending at 2 midnight, 4 a.m., 8 a.m., 2 noon, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. "One bell" signifies a half-hou late, "two bells" one hou, etc. Thehouglass haslong since beenout of date butbellsae stillused. To complicate things, the hous of the men on watch occasionally vay. Thee ae two "dog watches" oftwo hous each between 4 and 8 p.m. and Scandinavian ships have a diffeent beakdown ofthe time ofthe watch. Apil 27, 950 Making news onlysixtyyeasago was the fact that a lettemade the ound tip fom Ame to Gemany in less than a month. A seven-foot spike ofsnapdagon with twenty inches ofpue white floets, the vaiety "Junglewood" by name, was exhibit A at ou office on Monday, thanks to Jimmie Pouget. The fullness and pefectionofthe giant floets caughtand held my eye. Last but not least - a pai ofgeen thumbs: If anyone stating out on his fist gadening ventue is uncetain of his abilityto coax the most out of natue, he can eassue himself by puchasing a pai of gadening gloves (vey cheaply I undestand) with a geen thumb fo each hand. The pictue ofthe WilfedSykes as shown in a neaby metopolitan daily with the Detoitskyline as a backdopwas fine but it made he look at least a mile long; afte all, she's a 678-foote, the lagest feighte in the wold and a beauty, but inlandes who aen't accustomed to ou feighte fiiends wouldn't think though the fact that the ship was in the immediate foegound, and "just know" that the captain would need a jeep o some means oftanspotation moe modem than that to get fom bow to stem. Thatbeautiful deep two-tonewhistle (pefectblendingofbaitoneand contalto, I thought) in salute as it came into the channel Fiday moming announced that the wold's lagestfeighte, the Wilfed Sykes, was upboundon its maiden voyage,and many of us huied to pay homage to he. That beautiful fieighte glided 2

14 majestically along gay with flags flying and the moning sun doing all in its powe to bing up the maoon and white coloing ofthe ship, the flags at the masthead teased by the light beeze and the deep blue ofthe ive, which liteally seemed to giggle with enjoyment. Padon the haping on the weathe, but it suely has been something to talk about. In anothe Convesation Piece we talked about the sun on the ive and on the WilfedSykes Fiday moning the effect which was beath-taking -but we saved the est ofthe day fo this bit -All ofasudden dakness, ain, then sun, then snow then at sundown apeculia yellow tone in the west making the calm wate in the boat well at the head ofbob-lo aeal yellow spot, then when the sun did tun it on the clouds opened and fo asundown teat thee was asun showe. All this bings to mind the fact that Ruth and Haold Spende came fom Califonia afotnight ago figuing on seeing the tees in leaf; instead they an into snow and ice. In fact M Spende said he was the only man in Windso without an ovecoat. May 4,950 The spint of spnng so fa as I'm concened is always made up of stuff like violets, lambs, ships, colos ove the ive -things to make me excited and tell about - foget that the spmt ofsping and unkempt state ofyad, boken eaves toughs andhousedeamng ae one andthe same. ^ The Fou Chodes -alondon quatet who give vent to thei happy feelings in hamonious melody -will be at the High School Fiday night Thev m^d the TwV Baons which includes Bill Hamilton and Jules PoznL and othes wt S the best taditions offou-pat hamiony, will be thee and I'm cetainly looking wih to an evening ofblending ofvoices - no unsympathetic eas hee May Day was so dismal, damp and cold that the potective vuswelled as Idelighted in aclumpofviolets in ouyad as they tied to pixmtte Have you noticed how the chai designes ae plugging the ocking chai? They 22 if ^ j i ^Li!.L I - p T I*" yd yi contend that ocking calms the neves, efeshes the mind and quiets the pulse. But opponents ofthis say, "Rocking is a lazy stupefying pastime akin to munching on a handful of phenobabital." I'll ente into the "Fo" side of the agument, fo I maintain evey house should have a ocking chai, infact have been theatening fo some time to bing down an old won-down model fom the attic - I'm all fo this ocking chai-in-evey-home-business. One ofthe loveliest bits ofthe caftsman's at at the exhibit at the Museum this week is a steling silve, hand wought candy dish made by Hazen Pice. It eminded me ofthe some ofthe famous Geoges Jensen's Danish silve I'd seen at the Wold's Fai in New Yok. May II. 950 The slam ofall slams I thought as I ead what one woman said ofanothe, "She looks like Whistle's mothe's mothe." Shees have it fo sping and summe wea - and they ae comfotable and attactive in ou hot dampheat. Undestand too, that this is to be a white summe. I likethe whitecool lookon somebody else but whitebusiness clothes and pinte's ink don't jell. Sping ode into ouhouse on a bouquet ofapicot blossoms ove the weekend. The contast between the delicate shell pink blossoms and dak wood and a dash of lime at the tips whee the leaves wee imfolding, exaggeated by thewind-swept late aftenoon simshine Satuday, mademe foget the coldand the diminishing coalpile. Becauseof the impending Mothes' Day celebation, these con piece bits lean to the distaff side this week. A ecent magazineaticle on the Unembaassed Mind inteested me so much that I'll quote: "It seems that women ae ofmany minds (nothing new). With mino deviations, these many minds, itseems, fall into one of thee categoies: the esistant mind, that abhos the imfamilia; the pomiscuous mind, that esists pactically nothing; and the imembaassed mind, which isae." Hee is a definition of the last named (can you make the gouping? I can't) - "An 23

15 unembaassed mind may be defined as one fee fom pejudice and fealess of opinion; amind awae, esponsive and independent that knows ahawk fi-om ahand saw and in evey aea ofjudgement casts an honest vote." It seems to me that especially in these days ofpessues and popaganda it would be a mind had to have andto holdbut impeative to cultivate. This Sunday is the Salute-to-Mothes' Day. Unfotunately, the aticle in the cuent Reades Digest entitled, "How We Kept Mothes' Day," is copyighted o we'd quote it as is. Howeve, the gist ofthe thing (witten as only Stephen Leacock can, with tongue in cheek) was that afamily decided to have aspecial celebation fo Mothes' Day as atoken ofappeciation fo all the sacifices mothe had made So It was decided to take he fo adive, then the plan was changed because Fathe thought he'd bette take he fishing, so she was given the pivilege ofpacking anice lunch. When the ca came to the doo thee wasn't enough oom fo eveybody and as fathe had new fishing tackle, mothe, although fathe said not to mind him 'said she'd stay at home. The gils wanted to stay and get dinne, but it seemed such a pity because ofthei new hats. Mothe stayed to have alovely estful day and eet diime The family got home veiy late but mothejudged the hot tukey dinne iust n^t. Mothe did the dishes because the family wanted to humo he "It was late when It was all ove, and when we kissed mothe befoe going to bed she <?aih it had been the most wondeful day of he life, and Ithink thet wefteas Inte eyes. May 8, 950 "A blue bid on my shoulde" -almost, Satuday moming as it flasheh tn inteest mthe gey day, afew feet away in the bushes against the house. Aft 95-yea-old neighbo and found he nlavina the piano. Afte one numbe she leaned ove and said, "Do you know what thjt and then quoted the wods of an old Scotch song. Fiend Gandma h^ abithday ecently and the youngstes wee each given 25o to get hesomething. They shopped well. Gandma was pleased, but best ofall they 24 t ] ] f t T -^ I I f li : f >, < f T " f Ui n had five cents left ove fo themselves fo a candy teat. Ms. Chales Woodbidge (the fome Rosie Wight of Colcheste South) ecently etuned fom Gemany whee she spent thee yeas with he daughte and son-in-law in the Ameican Occupied Zone. Ms. Woodbidge has the gift of impating pats ofhe expeience aboad in a gaphic manne - this she did to an oveflow numbe of mothes and daughtes at a tea in the Haow United Chuch last week. This gift of being able to sot and tell one's expeiences to inteest a goup ofvaious inteests and ages is something to be cheished and appeciated. A few yeas ago we had a new wod. Nylon - now I was eading we have a newe household wod, Oion. This new textile fibe is coming up so fast it may eclipse its siste Nylon, the aticle said. Nylon when damp is athe cold and clammy to the touch; Oion has a wam fiendly feeling eithe wet ody. In 950 the initial big scale poduction of the new fibe will go to industial uses but in pospect fo eveyday use ae olon cutains that will not shink; infants' wea that has a feel of wool yet sheds wate instantly; and olon umbellas and awnings that will have undeamed-ofduability. As I've said befoe, we ae fotunate that we live in this pat ofthe coimty - within a adius of 00miles of Detoit - that thought pounded on my senses ealy Monday moming when I looked eastwad into a wold of foth, chey blossoms with peach behind acoss the fence, the lovely pink wild plum tothe immediate left, behind them fosythia and magnolia in the moat. All this beauty ight on the doostep with a delicate pink cloudless sky, awaiting the sleepy sun, making a pefect backdop. The fist thought in this con piece etumed again and again becauseas I leisuely put out the milkbottleand dank in the beauty,i couldn't get the Wimipeg flood victims out of my mind. Those people made homeless bythe ampaging Red Rive, thei suffeing and loss because ofthe high wate. Spent hous weekend ago eading a mystey stoy which went vey much against the gain. Astoy in which one ofthe chaactes - in fact thee wee two this time, a husband and wife team - killed a fiend and gotaway with it. They felt they wee justified in meting out justice. I cetainly don't feel anyone, even a chaacte in a book, can take justice in his own hands. I pobably wouldn't have thought much about this book except that it made me hotmde thecolla and fell flat atthe 25

16 end, ifit hadn tbeen that weeks ago Iwas loaned one which had the same type of ending -we kill, do away with the body and the incident is closed. Icetainly hope that mystey stoy wites aen't going to play on this type ofpsychological plot The fist book made me mad wasting time, but this last one made me want to say 'kaput' to all with mystey flavo andjump on the bandwagon with the people who want to shieldteenages fom the modem novel. May 25, 950 Bamboo table mats ae band new household accessoies, attactive and clean. easy to Spotsmanship at its best - Following the tug boat ace Satuday evening Captain and Ms. John Roen and M. and Ms. Toy Bowning sent Captain J Eafe wei?m'^'' "A geat ace wia the dandelions^^"^ise in the pak ofand yellow lawns onbusting geen, solike Ithought wee suns Sunday out ofthe aftenoon gol and the luminous fosythia swaying as it announces the appoach ofsumz Fiends came fom Toonto and spent Migation week (week of the eighth^ at Point Pelee -the best spot in the county fo bid watching. Which emindfif. ^ ^ ^ ^^^d Avenue fiend, bid watching and baseball hystena ae the two activities of the moment. Ifyou pmodendons gow too long, pinch offthe ends ofthe vine. Then the plant will banch out and the phichet philodendon i,-i ^.4 does. not need sun but must have mooted plenty in wate oflightfof-^pj new nlam, with agood fetilize. ^ ^ ^month To be in on the fist - when the Wilfid Svkpv w!>c j voyage, this epote in abubbling-ove moment about Thin^ WvXudT 26 t "i ^l.,lli_ f" I f! f f I - I' LI "I Maiming to watch fo this modem-plus ship. Afte seeing he the D. was so delighted that he pomised to give me the fist tip on the Flying Sauces' news heeabouts. To me the fact that theatomic won the tug boat ace was moethan fidendship and loyalty to the Captain and the cew ofthat dandy tug with its melodic whistle. Fo I sawhe when shewasnothing but "bone" and looked likethe skeleton of a mastodon lying thee in the boat woks at Owen Soimd. So you see, it's one of those pleasant, "I knew hewhen" cases which linge in memoy. As a bystande I get a kick out ofchilden. Thee's eally nothing new inthe childen today as compaed with my geneation. Fo have you noticed how childen foget in thei casual way, thei sayings and doings (even as you and I). But thee's neve a day that mothe is pemitted to have a memoy lapse about something ageed to, pehaps ashly. Itwas eve thus - "Why mothe, YOU SAID..." When we wee childen the 24"' ofmay meant the stat ofthe swimming and picnic season and the day we went ove to Bob-Lo (by any means possible, on the Don o a flat-bottomed owboat belonging to the U.S. enginees) to pick violets. Sping beauties and Adde tongues. Then, too, occasionally we found the Quay and a olling spot out on the Texas Road acoss the M.C.R. tacks wee dandy places to cook afte ahike. Ieally don't know how 950 childen fill thei 24"' of May pogams but I'll wage they do petty much the same things, except ofcouse, go to Bob-Lo. When the victoious '"Atomic" saluted at seven Satuday evening as she bustled intohe home potwe an to the iveto wave"congatulations." By the way as a thought's detou, it was thilling that Captain Eal McQueen made himself, the Atomic and his town of Amhestbug the toast ofthe evening Satudayafte he won the fist intenational tug boat ace in the histoical old stait that gave Detoit its name "The City of the Staits." To go on with the stoy, fou-yea-old Michael Bowning was at the ive bank and said, as the "winne" came along, "Captain McQueen doesn't own that boat," which tickled me no end, fo inthat childish mind nothing buta Bowning boat could possibly have won theace. 27

17 June, 'i Capt. J. Eal McQueen (left) and John Goodchild, enginee of the tug Atomic, holding tophy won in the Intenational Tug Boat Race, 950 Iundestand that white canes have been seen in the vicinity of the bine welk this sping. Thee's aesh of colo on the McGego house next doo these davs as the wistena, lavetide and wam, is at its best. As fo the lilacs, one ofthe lovelies! splashes ofcolo is on the Godon Williams popety Laid Avenue Cosages can make clothes come alive - thee's no question about what a bouquetoftalismanoses and deep lavende sweet peas did at the Bowling Banqua I ii " :^ f Llj I, -') \ ti) f "i to my old gey suit dess - it made the dess and what was inside feel like Fifth Avenue. Fiend-of-my-teens and I wee talking about the young people's paties oftoday and she, amothe, said, "They cetainly don't eat as much as we did at ou paties." My thought is that the gils oftoday ae moe figue conscious than we wee, have much bette looking clothes and diffeent kinds ofpaties. That may be the eason fo the Coke and potato chip menu against homemade baked beans, Boston bown bead and cocoa ofou day. Ms. Jeome Simpson and I had a dandy talk Satuday moning about he husband's cousin, Sheldon Books, the compose who was on "This isyou Life" pogam afotnight ago. Ms. Simpson said M. Books would be aound 60; that his fathe, Rev. Pete Books and his wife, a siste ofms. Andeson Viney [Veney], lived on Geoge Steet, Amhestbug, whee Sheldon was bom. Rev. Books was an itineant B.M.E. Chuch pasto. When M. Books (the compose) was quite small the family moved to the States. On the pogam which has aoused so much inteest inamhestbug, besides his siste Ruby, the listenes head M. Books play his own songs fo his son to sing them. Fo those of you who didn't hea the pogam, M. Books told that he got the catch line fo "Some Day You'e Going to Miss Me Honey" fom the pating of the ways shot that he ovehead in a estauant - boken omance last wods which he caught up and used fo a song. "Dak Town Stmttes' Ball" is anothe of his famous numbes. June 8, 950 Speaking of lipstick -the swelling ed peony buds in the neighbouhood emind me of a slash of vivid lipstick. The timeof waiting in linebefoe a mio to patchup lips is gone- because a lipstick mio is now mine. Suely wish the sun would beam its wamth and the balmy south wind would push the cold aside and let pefumy June be heself.

18 Neve a dull moment along the ive - at 8:30 a.m. Fiday, the phone tinkled the news that the Covedale (the Hochelagd's siste ship) was upbound, so evey ealy moning choe was fogotten in the pleasue of seeing this new feighte. in The following was good advice, I thought, to a daughte by a mothe who was unable to give he mateial things - "Always speak the tuth, fea God, and emembe that gentlefolk don't whine. I have givenyou life. It's up to you to make the most ofit." Stoecleks, mothes, industial wokes and othes who spend many daylight hous on thei feet can now liteally "walkon ai," fo I undestand ai foam insoles will soon be on the maket. Oiginally they wee designed by expets fo spots. Called "wonde walkes," these insoles absob the shocks ofwalking. They sound wondeful and ifthey feel as well as they "ead" in the ads, we'll all be wanting a pai. Will pass along an idea- in a faily lage family of my acquaintance, the mothe finds ithad to keep soft dinks and snacks on hand. She gets in supplies and they do adisappeaing act. So the idea was conceived that the membe ofthe family who dinks themost, pays the most towads eplenishing the supplies. Thee's a bank neaby and each peson dops ina coin ocoins (fom his allowance) fo what he o she uses. So when the supply is gone thee's enough in the "kitty" to buy moe immediately. This puchase isthe esponsibility ofthe peson who dinks the last bottle o eats the last tidbit. June 5, 950 When Ms. I.E. McQueen spoke to Donald Cisp, the acto, the othe Satuday night, he looked up and said without any peliminay, "I hail fom Abefeldv whep do you come fom?" A v f. L: f ^ I Miss O'Madden's stoe, cica 888. Left to ight: Miss ElizaO'Madden,he aunt Miss Evead, unidentified boy. Dept. ofcanadian Heitage: Fot Maiden NHS Thee cetainly seems to be moe bids, unusual ones too, aound this yea - no doubt because ofthe cold and awful weathe in the west duing the winte. I suppose via bid boadcasting they wee told to change oute of migation. Commenting futhe on the catches of silve bass: The othe wam day a child offive was unning up fom the watewoks in his bathing suit with a good-sized fish in each hand. He called, "I went unde and got them." Ms. Helen Templeton Peck, a fome esident, who was Miss Magaet Hackett's guest last Wednesday, thinking of Amhestbug as she knew it, missed Miss O'Madden's stoe and the Dolly Vaden - a ow oftenement houses which an

19 along the east of Dalhousie fom Rankin to Richmond Steets in he day.' Ms. Peck laughed when she found heself inthe museum with an old school goup - but aen't we all thee? As soon as squae dancing was evived out Aizona way some time ago, costumes, petty and pactical fo young women, began to appea. I looked ove a page of squae dance clothes in a Toonto pape last week and dooled ove the femininity ofcuts and the colos ofthe swiling skits and low necked blouses. The young late teenages nowadays look so much bette and have moe choice ofpetty clothes than we did. Alittle dog which wasn't on paticulaly fiendly tems with the family saved the life of a small gil, the daughte of M. and Ms. Ralph Paott (Blanche Goodchild) a fotnight ago. It seems that the child wandeed fom he home on Ramsay Steet to the dump and became mied in the mash. It was the whining of he dog, who accompanied he, which attacted attention to he and saved he life because in ashot time she would have downed and he disappeaance would have been one ofthose unsolved things except fo the dumb fiend ofman. Miss Helen Staffod, niece ofmiss Annie Hackett ofamhestbug, adetoit consulting decoato, was esponsible fo the inteio decoating of the beautiful Veteans' Memoial Building which opened in Detoit last week. In commenting on Miss Staffod's ability, it was said that only one with vast expeience in ceating coloful inteios on alage scale would be qualified to funish the building so immense was the poject, so she was the one who was chosen fo the job Miss Staffod's paents wee Minnie Hackett and D. Mot Staffod. Afew weekends ago Guy Lombado and his smooth music makes wee out at Walled Lake and M. and Ms. Cliffod Wigle and M. and Ms. Hilton Bush went out to hea and dance to thei music. Ms. Wigle told aftewads that of the 2500 dices appoximately halfofthem wee ove 35, which poves that olde neoole like to dance, and that one dance she noticed was cetainly ove 70. Ms. Wigle It L-shaped, having one section facing Dalhousie and the othe facing Rankin Ho^l T. T southeast come ofdalhousie and Rankin Itdid not extend as fa south as Richmond Steet. 32 ' :! :^'i; -.La-. ILL. ( Ik - ' p ^ " ill f. L' f f I L' il' u; commented on the geneosity ofm. Lombado and his ochesta and said that thee must have been 200 pesons standing aound the ochesta pit. M. Lombado was not giving out autogaphs but when they came awayhe wasjust leaving, so Cliff went ove, shook his hand and told that they had come fom Amhestbug. "Ou visit hee was not in vain, then," said M. Lombado. June 22, 950 Sixtyyeas ago the locals in the Echo occasionally ead thusly,"it is epoted that one of the popula young mechants of Haow will be welcomed in the 'Wight' way." Came acoss the mention of a "boudoi cap" in my eading last week, the mention ofwhich was a bolt fom the past. That's an obsolete aticle which was supposed to give glamoto a 900gal along with a kimona-sleeved job. We'e not so slow musicallyhee in Amhestbvug because thee ofthe fou top Babeshop quatets in the Intenational contest in the west ealy in June had been head by Amhestbug audiences when guests ofthe local Babeshopchapte. We ae fotunate in having a chapteactive enough to bing such top notch music hee and fotunate in having the quatets so close by, because Michigan is noted fo its Babeshop quatets. In this intenational contest, the ClefDwelles took second place; the Antles thid (both of Michigan); and those sweet-toned, yoimg-voiced Fou Chodes oflondon, foiuth. The wite was shocked when I ead the answes ofeleven out oftwelve women to the question, "Do you feel the subjects youtookin school fit youfo adultlife?" All but one woman said, "No" - the one ageed with me - that any fom of knowledge stands a woman in good stead, that the moe knowledge acquied, the bette wife and mothe she will become. None ofus can affod to let ou minds go sou. We've got to keep alet no matte what we, as women, ae doing and ifwe haven't a backgound of infomation (not especially book leaning) fom many souces, how ae we to boaden ou human contacts, o most impotant, live nicely with ouselves. 33

20 We cetainly didn't give cedit whee cedit is due in the saving of that twoyea-old Paot child who wandeed into the mash. Last week we told ofthe dog which whimpeed and cied and attacted attention to the child's plight. Well, evidently the two lads who head the cies ofthe child wee 4-yea-old Bill Smith and young Gay Thibodeau. Itwas Bill who waded in the wate and pulled the wee gil out and it was Gay's coat this thoughtful lad used to wap the child in to take he tothe Flynn subdivision because hethought she must have wandeed fom thee. Ms. Jimmy Wigle took he in and bathed he and notified the authoities. [- seldom wea hats hee, when going citywads you automatically put on a hat, but fomwhat I saw,you don't any moe. I'm glad I'm not in the summehat business, aound hee anyway. Thepeveseness of Junewas illustated this pastweek. We had a funace fie ove the June 7"'weekend because ofthe cold and dampness. Last Wednesday, summe came in officially and I guess to eally show that she is in authoity, tuned on a steamy heat ove the past weekend, which dove hundeds fom the city in seach ofa cool spot along the ive and lake. June 29,950 Ms. E.G. Hais has awhite ose bush on which thee ae 50 pefect oses. The deutzia, the gaceful white floweed shub on the south side ofou house has been paticulaly lovely this past week. Ican't get used to the white ofthe GeateDetoit and the Geate Buffalo the old dak geen ofthe past stuck such afiendly chod. When the Geate Detoit noses into view in the momings, I have to look twice. Anthony Maontate, at 82, jigged and had adandy time at his gandson David Dufou's wedding eception Satuday night. Ofinteest is the fact, Ithought that the young couple (Noeen Bondy ofthe Impeial Bank staffwas the' bide) has fou gandfathes, namely, M. Maontate, John Dufou, Fank Delmoe and Philin Bondy. P Wods ae tools we think with and we cetainly ae caeless with many ofthese tools. As fo me, now that Ihave an Estonian fiend and we ae chatting to impove he English so that she can speak intelligently, Iam ealizing the sloppiness o^fmv wod choice and the amount of slang I have unconsciously bought into mv vocabulay. ^ Cetainly felt like "the only one in captivity" Thusday night when Iwent up to Gace Hospital with ahat on. Iwas always of the impession that although we 34 f!" i LJ. U, (I di I f I The gull which hoves aound the ocks and the ive neaby and of which I have spoken in these bits-of-inteest-to-me, is, I undestand, a ten, because it's a little smallethan a gull and has a longebill. Howeve, ten o gull, it's a fiendly gaceful bid even when it bakes and backs up to get at a bette swooping angle when eyeingand catchinga fish in the ive. Checkme up if I'm wong - To my mind life is to becomevey dull and without its milestones ifthe following convesation becomes geneal - Hee it is, vebatim, "I go to Kindegaten now," said five-yea-old to me Sunday. "I gaduated last Thusday." All this took place afte I had attended the St. Rose gaduation and basked in the thill those students had in the ceemony itself, the attendant eceptions, the gifts and the congatulations. Sunday was thei Gaduation Day - fou yeas ofhigh school wee ove and they ae gaduating into life wok and yoimg man o womanhood, whethe it be highe studies o the wok ofthei choice. July 6, 950 Agood stat - David Goodchild, son ofm. and Ms. John Goodchild and pupil in Gade Two of the Amhestbug Public School,has had pefect attendance fo two yeas. The foegound of a beautiful spakling field of com(comin thesunandwind always looks hinestone-studded) against a apidly golding wheat field made an inteesting colo combination along Highway 8 Tuesday which a top-dawe 35

21 designe could use. Two chaps wandeed into the office in Haow (in vey infomal beach dess) at noon Wednesday, looking fo the Bedal boys to tell them that they had visited with thei fathe, Leonad Bedal, in Southem Califonia on Monday. We had alovely visito on the east window sill last Wednesday -amoth - which unning tue to its moth-like natue, depated in the night. Ou quiveing calle was sand with two peacock blue cicles on the wings, edged withblack. As I wite this the thid ofjuly it is cool, dull and on the vege ofain. The lovely gloious fist and fouth holiday weathe as of yoe is only something to emembe those days by -fo this yea even the sunset Sunday night, when it finally tied to make up fo the est ofthe day, was vey odinay. "What they don't do fo the woman oftoday," was the classic emak of ou poofeade when shown atin ofcanned new potatoes in the office Tuesday. She's young so she'll get into many moe shotcuts (fantastic ones too) fo women in the home in the yea2000, when she'll be aound, no doubt. Ilove the enthusiasm the little gils oftoday have fo thei patent leathe pumps with flat bows and ankle staps. They become so vey ladylike and pim as soon as the shoes ae put on and spend alot oftime dusting them off. The big gils that ae now thei mothes did the vey same thing with asimila type of Sunday shoe July 3, 950 Thee ae moe and moe inteesting foeign ships passing up and down the ive these days, of many shapes and styles. One ofthose fascinating golden spaks which liven up the bushes at dusk the fiefly, got into ou bathoom Fiday evening and soaed, swooped and staighten^h that signifieddange, as it was, to it, of couse. 36 h c iii ; p ' If i ' 'T' i ^ f n' PI Mencan"needle" women in emboidey contest - padon theplaywith wods - a man won fist place with his emboidey at the San Diego county fai. His pize piece was a desse scaf ofcoloed emboidey with combination stitches. When the umo got about that Assumption College was to become co educational, thee wee mixed feelings. Fogetting the long view ofthe advantages, we undestand that some of the students wee a bit upset because they had neve gone to school with gils. Those same lads will like the co-educational way of education when they getaccustomed to pitting thei bains and competing with gils - oh yes, and dessingfo them too. They say that often disappointment makes fo chaacte gowth but I don't know that Ideveloped vey much ove the weekend when I felt tugged towads Detoit and the cicus and couldn't get thee to see the heds of elephants, the squadons of hoses, the wild animals, the bands, the bakes, aeial pefomes and smell that fascinating smell ofa cicus, hea the calliope, eat popcon and hot dogs and jostle with the cowds and come home dead tied and love it. Ifyou wee in Glouste, Massachusetts, oon the south shoe ofnova Scotia you wouldn't think anything ofseeing atists sitting hee, thee and eveywhee tying to catch abeauty spot on thei canvases. But two atists sitting acoss fom the Echo office all last Wednesday aftenoon, painting Dalhousie Steet looking south, attacted a lot of attention. We've got many spots hee woth painting and itis agood thing fo the people ofthe town in geneal to see atists atwok, because they too will look fo and appeciate the beauty in this town ofous which we take too much fo ganted. If people like those atists look at Amhestbug and want to epoduce what they see on canvas, thee must be something hee to talk about appeciate and show offto visitos, even ifwe can't paint it. July 20, 950 Was thilled with the pink oses ambling ove the pine tees at the Allen J. Howies' on eighteen highway. 37

22 A gift bouquet of Begamot and Shasta daisies bightened ou weekend. Begamot sothe name is Oswego Tea and the leaves ofthis showy dak ed mid summe flowe aeused fo pefume. The faux pas ofthe yea was made by the wite who in talking to amembe ot the cew ofthe Magnificent in Haow last week called the H.M.C.S. Magnificent aboat. "She's aship, Miss Mash," said the lad. agnijicent f ^ don't cae if they neve do and slle ^ bluejeans the yo^g ae weaing -moe squae dance evival business Pactically adopted as a Did^ olematis on the south side ofmiss Hackett's house is lovely these days Did you know that clematis is awoodland ceatue which has to have natue's is to succeed? The flowes ofthe clematis only seek As we dive Haow-wad these Tuesdays we see that though ou distict on atide ofdakening geen and deepening gold and scheme is beautiful. No wonde Wend said Sunday "dwtodomv?^ tn geen and gold;" that's the coloscheme natue'is Lltlg top tn backet catoonists, chatting on Dalhousie those Steet modest Monday fellows moning two an^^^^dth ofamenva'q same quiet, sincee manne and same ability to pounce on minute dl i c and unobtusively catalogue it fo futue efeele. ofinteest thought the Queen lived thee and told he mothe so Wheneve T'" fom he home and had to pass the McQueen's she went^ the oad (until she leaned diffeently) so^s not to eves^l^e 38 o v.. ftl. -...IL. IL i: iili. 5- [' yi 5^ July 27, 950 Not an authoity on etiquette but am answeing apuzzling question to seveal, thusly -ifaspoon and fok ae used on asevice dish o fo dessets, the spoon is held in the ight hand, the fok in left - and ae easy to manipulate that way. I have head the 20*^ Centuy called many things but came to with ajekwhen I ead ofitbeing not the Centuy oflights, Autos, Telephones, ada, aeoplanes, but the Age ofthe Tin Can, which to many ofus is moe impotant than the age of the jet plane and the ocket to the moon. The othe moning as we watched the ''Eveton" upbound. Bill Bailey, hee in the office, told that when Scott Meisne was enaming that feighte he wanted to call it fo his son Flying Office Eveet Meisne, who had been killed in action oveseas. But itseems you have to have the pemission ofthe peson to name a ship afte them; as this was impossible, M. Meisne called the feighte "Eveton" Yes, I saw the sunset Thusday night. Itwas at the height ofits beauty when I was picking that iesistible chicoy when cutting acoss the olde pat ofthe dump, bound fo McQueen's home. The sky was blanketed in ceise emanating fom the deep ceise ball, that give ofheat and light and beauty knovm as the sun. High in the sky outside the all-ove effect wee lovely little clouds edged in ceise like white canations with thei feathey edges dyed ceise. Fashion foecasts - Slimness is the key to the fall styles in New Yok. Accoding to the pictues, the silhouette is a slim naow line whittled thin, with vey few exceptions. Howeve, Iundestand, fo those ofus who haven't apefect figue, thee ae slit, wap aound skits and cleve devices using pleats to give fullness whee none is indicated. The slim, basic, quiet classic suit o dess eally is the best fo the aveage woman whose budget doesn't stetch to clothes evey yea. Then let you accessoies go to town and you'll be comfotable fo many occasions. Dalhousie Steet is losing its sombemess and stepping out in colo, and attactive it is, too. The Geoge Joneses have painted thei house adeep lavende timmed with white. Diectly opposite, the house owned by Captain Callam and 39

23 occupied by Ms. Si Beitand is being painted pale geen with accents ofdak geen. Then thee is D. Hutchinson's pink house futhe along. All look as if they ae fom the palette ofsumme -but fom my expeience with the Hutchinson house none will lose its attactiveness with the dull days, the snow o the bae tees so suite o winte the houses in colo wok into the seenity ofou tee-lined steets Not an aftethought by any means but the C.P. Melos' dak geen is and has been a joy to any colo spot. The clothing size chats in Bitain ae outdated as men and women have Get out you discaded costume jewelley, fo I ead that Pais is highfashioning even old ba pins this season. The slim plain fall silhouette means (as it has befoe) that jewels ae dashing into the beach with expanding self impotance. When Isay jewels Imean, ofcouse, hinestones o the like, to flicke and flit and give the dash to the plainness ofthe costume we must be thinking about ifwe'e to keep in step with the times. Thee ae splashy hinestone clips of yesteyea tucked away in abox somewhee at ou house. Guess I'd bette look them up foa base ofthethoat effect. ae getting plumpe and the men ae getting thinne. Aveage phvsical h^af" ^ fom whatthey wl fa 9?9 I spee. Th 3^<,s ofmen. women and chlen ufas do -^eless. ettts"' So the clothing mdustiy development council of-dy-dedie" now is planning acountv- all but il- Sixty yeas ago humou - fo this is what the Echo says about the style changes in 890: "Thee is vey little bustle in town since the gils quit weaing them." August 0 & 7, 950 Iene^fmds ^commented on what Iene, Hollywood designe e making of clothes fo the movies a wondeful oactical tain* taste mclothes fo the aveage woman. Continuing the chat' because apictue may not go into ciculation fo aye^ August 3, 950 J0hn''sqid?0?ifavTde":;e v^^t gaden -becoming as vol^tuoas L h.w"e the bonze in thelningfigm pulling" and "calling names" stage when my attention w ^ wilde swoop of "hai etuned late, as in so many ows, all was seene. diveted. When I j..il. II II T I Li <i! ij The simplicity and beauty ofthe combination ofcolos inthe Chicoy, Queen Anne's lace and ed clove swaying along the oadside these days appeals tome fa moe than the daing colos of the Bid of Paadise which I have seen at Flowe Shows. Was eading about an exciting showoom in Sydney, Austalia, Gace Mooe's, whee thee ae cases and cases filled with evey imaginable kind offlowe fom the modest conflowe oclove to the ae lilies and ochids. All ae soeal and fesh looking that itis had to ealize that they ae atificial. These flowes ae some of the most beautiful being made today and what makes them ofspecial inteest isthe fact that they adon hats won by Queen Elizabeth ofengland and he daughtes. Gace Mooe is the tade name fo an unostentatious Austalian couple who always pefe to emain anonymous. The aticle went on to say that though advesity, illness and a hobby, a teific business had been built up bythis husband and wife team and ittold ofthe cae taken and atisty used inmaking anatificial flowe fo hat and costume decoation. It's sotue that in a few minutes wecan spot faults in othes which wehave too, but neve see in ouselves. 40? 4

24 Fothe fist time inyeas wepinted (because ofequests) "ToRent" signs hee at the office ecently. That shows the tend of things in geneal, doesn't it? The wee shells I saw on the shoe last week fascinated me as much as when a young thing. I would collect them and using a daning needle and chod make necklaces and bacelets. Ifwe women wea sun desses while shopping we ae apt to be the subject of citicism, but in the following quote fom Bockville to my amazement and supise we get citicism fo putting on the boleo which is pat of the sun dess. Hee's what was said: "Although the sun dess was designed to keep the female ofthe species as cool as possible duing the humid weathe, a numbe of its weaes, though afalse sense ofmodesty, seem to completely defeat its pupose by insisting on weaing the little jacket that comes with the dess. In many eases this exta aticle is won duing the swelteing heat while tavesing downtown pavements and only emoved in the confines ofone's cool home. Seems stange..." Now we know how it feels to be in astate of emegency. When the distilley explosion shook the town Tuesday night, in ou neighbohood we went ivewads thinking afeighte had exploded and, as J.A.M. put it late, sabotage. Then the wail ofthe sien and ush of cas and people towad the distilley. The feeling of helplessness and emegency aose when cental said, "Is this an emegency call. We'e accepting no othes." August 24, 950 The ship's clock which was pesented to Captain I.E. McQueen when the Atomic won the tug ace has been set and mounted and given apominent place on the mantle. It delights me eveytime it bells the time. Was inteested mthe question, "Is thee such apoduct as adistinctly Canadian food? and the answe. Chey olives." This is afom of pickled chey which gives eye appeal to an hos d'oeuves dish o asalad plate. I like them but neve thought of them having any national significance. t, ^l ki. i If ii i ^ i The Staight-Seam Club to which many ae "poud"to belong will go out of existence ifwomen follow the tend offashion and wea the seamless shees being advetised fo fall and winte. I fo one am pleased because I don't like my own looks when seams get out of line and I hate to have someone say, "Ifyou don't staighten you seams you can't belong to Ou Club." Ms. Stephen Pettypiece, 9, was in the office Thusday telling of he holiday spent with he siste, Ms. Utte, 85, at one of Michigan lakes. Ms. Utte has a canoe at he summeplace and the two ofthem went canoeing all the time. "Do you help with the paddling?" I asked. "Why ofcouse, I paddle font," Ms. Pettypiece answeed. If you ae inteested in hoses, the Suttons ae entetaining at a Hose Show at thei fam on the aftenoon of Septembe thid. If you ae not inteested up to now, emembe the date and the place anyway and dive down and see Sue Sutton handle he hose in that ochad noth ofthe house o V f gt seeyoung Jimmy ide his pony - andyou inteest in this type of spot will be stimulated. This is not a "Men and Hoses" depatment but I thooughly enjoyed a simila aftenoon at the Sutton fam. The skywasdak, the eath waswetandthe ainandi metas I walked alongthe ive southwads Fiday night, and because ofthe downpou was able to admie lacy leaves, hanging tied, dense, still and ain soaked, on which the steet lights and passing ships' lights played, making them appea as if they wee veneeed with mios. While on the subject of the ain, I'm especially fond of the bight umbellas and gay ain coats being won by women of today. In the gayness of ainy days, the bobbing of gay umbellas eminds me ofbight petals, making the steets full offlowes. The stunning ain coats on the maket now-a-days cetainly ae dandy all-pupose coats and a boon to anywadobe. Although the pocess of making staight hai culyhas been making pogess fom the time of Cleopata to the pesent day of pemanent waves, I undestand we'e not though yet. The veylatest pofessional pemanent claims to have a way

25 of infusing active new potein into thehaias it isbeing waved. Hee's an histoical sketch ofthe business ofmaking staight hai culy - Egyptians, histoy indicates, hadpemanents that consisted of hai culed ove wooden ods, then coveed with mud fom the Nile and baked in the sun. In the Thid Centuy B.C. the Romans evolved a pocess ofculing hai and then hadening itwith a gummy fluid. In the 7*^ centuy hai was culed aound clevely concealed wies which atthat time was the accepted method ofwaving and culing hai. The 9*^ centuy saw buttefly culs, the foeunne of the pape culs. As late as 890 false culs wee wound aoimd ods heated in the oven and then attached to the head. Not until 905 did we have ou fist pemanent wave machine invented by M. Nestle. Just pio to Wold Wa I, in 95, it was still taking thee full days to give the complicated pocess known as apemanent wave. By 930 the pemanent wave was as much a pat ofameican life as the hot dog and soda pop. Then in 940 came the evolutionay cold wave when fo the fist time a pemanent wave could be given without heat. Now the Potein wave makes its appeaance. August 3, 950 The low cut opea pumps featued this season ae stunning, think. Ifyou can SAY you ae educated, you know fou things (and this will bowl you ove as it did me). Hee they ae - The histoy of the wold in boad outline- the histoy of human ideas; one science and one language (pefeably you own) haven't finished with the "educated man" - you must also possess a tained conscience, toleance, kindliness, emotional matuity. You must love beauty love people and finally you must live ageat eligious life. Neve again will say Ihad afai education, because accoding to the above, didn't touch the fnnge. Men ae always being spoiled - but it's one of women's most pleasuable occupations. Noticed that one ofnew Yok's shops has stated a depatment "Annivesay sevices fo Men." It might be that the Detoit shops have such a depatment too, but I've not head ofthem. It seems that men do have ahad time emembeing bithdays, annivesaies, etc. which ae impotant in ou lives Well by using this sevice all aman has to do is pay the bills, afte he gives the impotant 44 td. 'l T i ^v. T' : LJ ''i! P [j Li I la dates. On St. Valentine's Day, fo instance, the woman in the case gets he emembance. It's bette to have them emembe themselves, you ague; cetainly, but, when because ofthe business ofbeing a man, they don't o can't (that's bette) this sevice seems to me to be good and dandy. It was on the moning of August 9 - the annivesay of the combined opeations aid on Dieppe in that Ms. Diffod Betand called and told me about visiting Foye-Dieppe House which is built fom Lauentian mountainstone, at St. Hilaie, Quebec. When M. and Ms. Betand and M. and Ms. Elme Queen ofessex wee on thei summe moto tip, they went all though this home whee 68 fome pisones taken at Dieppe ae being bought back to health. To keep the ex-pisones occupied thee is a wok shop, paint shop and combined eceation dining oom. These lads need cigaettes and at Ms. Betand's suggestion any membe of any oganization wishing to help now o at Chistmas time can call he fo fiithe infomation. "Colonial Comfots" is an old ecipe dating fom the eighteenth centuy which is still used in New England fo Histoical Society meetings. These delicious little fied doughnuts ae the size and shape ofa ping-pong ball and ae tuly Colonial. Eighteenth centuy women always haddough eady to dop into the hot fatwhen they sawthesoldies coming down theoad o tail, hvmgiy, tatteed andweay. An 800 cook book evealed this ecipe - So hee it is: cup ofsuga 2 eggs (slightly beaten) cup ofwhole milk 3 cups offlou 2 teaspoonsful ofbakingpowde pinch ofsalt tsp vanilla 'A tsp. nutmeg Mix thooughly, and dop fom teaspoon, pessing offinto deep fying fat. Keep shaking the pot to keep comfots symmetical. Shake in bag ofconfectiones' suga. 45

26 Septembe 7,950 Thank you fo the emembeed smell - that's what I thought when we talked of jointsandpokoasts withscoed skin, and stuffing - and othedinnes of the past. What has become of theold-fashioned soup-to-nuts Sunday dinnes? Gone the way ofmany othe family institutions inoubusy (consequently tied) expensive way of life. The othe night I had occasion to call onthevicto Ouellette home and to my supise and delight a childish voice in answe to my quey about his mothe-athome said, "Yes she is,just a minute please" - and then didn't tum and sceam, "Mothe" so that vibations hit my dum, but evidently went to wheeshe was to tell he she was wanted. Telephone mannes ae impotant and achild showed clealy how nicely they can be attained. Septembe to me always means enewed activities and pesonal inventoy. Because of my school expeience this ich, beautiful month was always the beginning, neve Januay in my pogam. So once again like the old etied fie hose, I find myself full ofambition and the thill oflife as a six-yea-old just stating to school. At the moment I want to look up old fnends, wite lettes, entetain, buy some new clothes, stat planning fo Chistmas, go to a'movie weekly and ead and ead. The feeling's nice while it lasts -but it won't last long. Will go the way ofsimila feelings ofothe yeas. ONRETURNING Thee's a zip in the ai And thee'szipin each step And each lad and lassie Is chockfull ofpep. Eachplaidskit isfliting Eachjacketjust waiting To see ifhe 'II think The combo woth ating. t C- J L. PT kji (i I ' kj^ i ^ -j (I L. I The dape pants and the squae toes Ae all setfo the killing She can't help but sigh Gils - isn't he thilling? Thejobsofthe summe Ae each tucked way But it suely was woth Getting setfo this day Wheeve they tavel Be it nea ofa - Should they thill us to the plaudits Ofa ball cowd o Cza. Should they stand on a stage With encoes descending Should the books that they autho Bing paise neve ending. You may allshakeyou heads Even call me a fool Thee's no thill to compae With thatfist day ofschool By Angela Smith Fot Maiden Dive Amhestbug. My fist intoduction to Wedgewood was a pitche which Mothe had when we wee childen. I liked the little blue beauty spot with its white figues, whichwas pat ofou childhood palo decoative scheme. So fo along time Wedgewood to me was blue pottey with white figues. As a matte of fact we still use that little pitche fo some types offlowes. 46 fl 47

27 Septembe 4,950 Sunday aftenoon the ive acted pleased with a peky white sail boat and its paddy geen sail which was skimming its suface. The sound of the click-clack of the squiels in the Callams' walnut tees and the tick tick tick ofthe bits hitting the sidewalk on Fiday was tuly an Autumn sound even though Summe was in a dowsy, deamy mood that day. I watched the Geate Detoit going up ive last Wednesday moning quite unconscious that itwas on its way to Detoit to be tied up fo the season. And was a bitdisappointed when I knew, because thee hadn't been a salute. Time and time again in this season s wedding wite ups we find the flowes Glamellias used in the bidal bouquets. This flowe is supposed to epesent acoss between agladiolus and acamellia and is made with gladiolus blossoms by putting a smalle blossom inside the tumpet ofa lage one. The esult makes a dense glamoous effect. ' Ms. Joseph R. Head, who now lives on Gosse lie, was asked to do a centepiece fo a golden wedding paty fo exhibition at the Flowe Show He aangement of goldenod and wheat was so effective that she won ablue ibbon. And I undestand, the comment was made by some who saw it that it cetainlv doesn't take expensive flowes to make fo centepiece beauty ifthee is oiginalitv and taste. ^ ^ 'Twas eve thus -that lump in the thoat feeling when the Bob-Lo season is ove and the last ship calls at the Amhestbug dock and the ochesta plays "Auld Lane. S>me^^^d the ship salutes "Good-bye fo Now" -Sunday night when the Ste. Claie said. See you next season" and the captain saluted as we waved fom the shoe I had aepeat ofthat nostalgic feeling, as poignant as when Iwas ateenage. t t ^ When the membes ofthe libay boad wee discussing the ebinding ofsome of the widely ead classics Fiday aftenoon, Iwas inteested in the fact that the books mdie need of epai wee Stevenson, Dickens and Victo Hueo Th.- Wavely novels and the woks ofbalzac hadn't been so popula, so thei condition llii- - il--l f-- il- I ii j! 'i HI told us. I can emembe when I had a teific cush on Scott, Balzac and Dumas. And some of the points in histoy leaned that fictional way have neve been fogotten. This point was poven lately when I enewed acquaintances in the Fench and English couts at the time ofheny VIII. With the inceasing populaity oftatansduing the past yea (and I'm vey fond of them) among eveiy age goup of the Canadian family, designes have delved into the histoical backgound ofthese clan designs and come up with some fascinating facts. The tatan, they found, can be taced back to ealy Egyptian civilization. They discoveed that the clothes of vey ealy Romans wee woven and dyed in designs closely esembling those of the pesent day Scottish clans. The Scots adopted tatans as thei national dess somewhee about the middle of the 2*'' centuy. Today's popula tend intatan shits seems tohave stated in England and spead to the United States and Canada like wildfie. Believe me, both hee and in Haow on the fist day ofschool, I neve saw one child with too lage clothes on. Whoeve thought up the old idea in these 950 days that mothes still send youngstes off to school in outsized clothing, I think is wong. The youngstes with thei mothes just stating outon the exciting ventue of"stating to School" wee adoably dessed andthe olde childen cowding into the bookshops to get supplies looked appopiate. As fo the high school gils - a goup ofgeneal Amhests walked ahead ofme down the steet that fist Tuesday and they wee lovely inthei skits, sweates and blouses. I esent theinfeence that paents of 950 would eve do anything to make thei childen a subject ofidicule. It was done in my day but neve now. Septembe 2, 950 It was a stiing sight to see the toops and packs ofscouts and cubs allying in the Town Pak Satuday aftenoon. My days as a cubmastewill neve be fogotten and I felt as if I'd like to go ove and tell those cute little cubs that I was once an Akelaand hea and see them look up at me with thei seiouslittle faces once again and call me Akela

28 "Tiges" hysteia is fa eaching, I found last Tuesday. Ms. Wayne BedaTs fathe and bothe came to visit he in Haow fom Nova Scotia, timing thei visit with thenew Yok-Detoit games sothat they could gotobigg Stadium Thusday, Fiday andsatuday. My mothe andi became kinded souls when I casually said to them, "We'e inteested too." We'd be queeish ifwe ween't. Cab, cab, gouse, gouse - what about? The weathe this past summe of couse. But befoe I go on, thee was nothing to complain about Monday moning as I walked officewads and basked inthe beauty spots lighted by the sun shining obliquely though themist, giving a gloious effect on the pakandthe iveand the wold ingeneal. To goon, we down hee inthe Sun Palo shouldn't gouse about weathe because Jack Noble, an ex-agicultual epesentative in Kikland Lake was atou house Sunday moning and told us that on August 8 he scaped ice off the windshield ofhis ca. Itseems that Evelyn Wiese (namesake ofou Essex cousin) ofwallacebug and he young docto husband ae inengland whee he iswoking onhis Fellow ofthe Royal College ofsugeons degee. They got cads to come to Buckingham Palace at such and such atime to meet the Queen. The geat day aived and when they enteed the ladies wee diected to the ight and the men to the left. In the ight dessing oom thee was ayoung gil and when Evelyn enteed she said, "Ae you as scaed as Iam?" which boke the ice when Evelyn admitted he stage ffight. The second gil was ayoung docto's wife fom Austalia so the two got moal suppot They went into the othe oom as diected and waited. All ofa sudden when his attention was elsewhee, the young Canadian docto found afnendly hand in font ofhim which he gasped and spontaneously said, "How do you do. Si." It was the King. At the end of an hou of waiting. He Majesty came in'and apologized pofusely fo keeping them waiting but he audience with Ambassados and such had held he up. She talked with each gil and was chaming in he simplicity -and asked them to be sue and stay fo tea. Septembe 28, 950 Do you know Alex the Geat? - well, he stole some of my thoughts the othe 50 nn ^ li ii.i. p ii^- P!" IJ. ni ii Ll ^ k: 5 night when he said, "The moe I hate cetain choes, the moe fun I get fom the knowledge ofknowing they'e done. Ealyfall was in a goldenmoodtuesday, easilyseen as we dovefom Haow. And I thought that if I wanted to bing that golden mood indoos, I'd put some nastutiums in a luste bowl. When M. & Ms. Luke Ouellette mak thei golden wedding yea next Tuesday,they will have two ofthei attendantsoffifty yeas ago, Ms. Dennis Pilon and Ms. Jack Deslippe, celebating with them. They ae a pivileged couple, I would say. Head seveal times this summe about a membe of the Detoit Tiges who came into the libay fo books, but it was only last week that I foimd out that his name is Eddie Lake - the Tiges' Utility man who is summeing at Lakewood Beach. Dak ed stides, shot loose-backed coats and flatties cetainly gave a Chinese look to thee young cuties - the Beethams and Elizabeth Amstong- the othe night. I thought they looked smat fo infomal wea. In the jittey cold Sunday, childen scuied though the pak with mittens on and the occasional male stolle looked comfotable in his ovecoat. In the weid pall of Sunday aftenoon, Septembe 24, the cold ai aoimd ou house was pimctuated by the ciesof a dozen yoimg boysplaying "wa" up and down the moat. In talking to one of the chief exhibitos in the women's depatment at the Haow Fai, we commented on the many "epeates" (aticles which tun up yea afteyea in the sewing classes). She obseved that a pesoncan't wokall yeajust fo fais when thee's no maket fo handwok. Maybe a women's exchange woking though the Institutes would be the answe, sew-show and sell. I missed the blue sun on Sunday at noon but cetainly got in on the eeiness and awesomeness, when the wold lacked colo, the est ofthe aftenoon. That leaden colo finged with yellow became a leaden feeling when at two o'clock the fostiness and queemess out of doos combined to make an "Anything can happen" 5

29 ' feeling. Smoke fom the foest fies innothen Albeta was the cause of the allday-twilight which caused a tulyuncomfotable aftenoon. The wondeful sweet com feeds we have enjoyed ae almost ove fo anothe yea. Did you eades know that, popely speaking, com is a misnome? Wheat was the com ofegypt and is still known as com in most ofeuope. Com, as we call it, is Indian maize and is native to Ameica, as also is tobacco. It fomed the pincipal food ofthe Indian long befoe the white man came to ou shoes; and the com havest was atime fo ejoicing and fo ceemonial dances of thanksgiving among nealy all the aboiginal tibes. Octobe 5,950 Found the following fille which waants epeating - Walking is excellent execise fo eveyone -it cues cold feet, hot heads, pale faces and bad tempes. Ms. William Cavan, Noth Dalhousie Steet, is weaving mateial fo adinne dess fo he daughte. The mateial is puple-banded with gold stipes of eold thead. ^ Lonely demue wood violets and lush chysanthemums have neve seemed intimate to me. But that's what Isaw Satuday aflemoon all within the hou in the sleepy mellowness of the late aftemoon. The violets came fom Miss Hutchin.' gaden next doo. Asot ofsmoke mist ove the ive eally exaggeated the ed and sold in the pageanty ofautumn on Bob-Lo as Icame out ofthe house Monday motninn OoM IS ^ly being spilled on that island as the molten yellowed sentinel elmlwed Md that and the fieiy sumacs along the shoe pulled me ivewad to get agood look fo my disposition's sake. ^ Afloal tiumph -the Anthuium - may be seen at Gay's This deen eu. ieathe-iike flowe is classed with the ochid by floists and is Imo fo teis quality. Anthunums ae native ofhawaii and have been hybidized in the Stati 52 IL F- kl. pi: p IL I ^ p; Li n I They ae slow gowing, taking almost as long as an ochid, and thee is one bloom at a time. They ae new to ou taste but in time will be moe popula, as is the ochid. This summems. Yvonne Pouget was in Chalottetown, Pince EdwadIsland. Shewasattending the fai on the 6"' and happened to lookon the shoulde of the man ahead who was eading the Patiot. The sub-heading, "Spectacula Explosion and Fie Rocks Ontaio Town" caught he eye and thee in Spot Numbe One was the stoy ofthe Distilley fie. I'll wage the old ule "neve talk to stanges" was fogotten by Ms. Pouget fo I can just hea he, "Why, that's my town!" In one of ou Ontaio towns I ead of a women's oganization which had a wondeful special meeting to which all old membes fo yeas and yeas back who had moved away o lost inteest had been invited especially. It tuned out to be a eimion offiiends and cetainly an exchange offamily news - And was so successful that an annual event is being planned. Fom the epot, I took it that it was oiginallyplanned to make a little money fo the oganization, but when the affai was ove, the enjoyment ofmeeting fiends meant much moe than the collection eceived. Ofcouse, a hostess doesn't want a guest in the wok-out squad, but I've neve been of the opinionwhen I go to an intimate fiend's house as he guest that if I ask to helpo makemyselfuseful that I'm slamming my hostess, intimating that she has notpovided fo a paty fom statto finish. Anyfiend who helps me seve a paty I've always been gateful to, so it wasn't until lately that I was told that it's ude to help out a fiiend when a guest. To my way of thinking, it's a fiendly gestue to offe to lend a hand, that is ifyou'e a close fiiend and ifshe wants it she'll say yes - ifnot, she'll tell you. Octobe 2, 950 dib Fiday moning ealy befoe the sun got eally going, the ive was like silve spinkledfom a spoon. 53

30 I always feel so inadequate when eveyone asks apoint ofetiquette - but ty to look upand answe to the best ofmy ability. So, the question was asked about the signatue used by a bide when witing a note ofthanks fo gifts to fnends ofhes who do not know he husband. She shouldn't sign both thei names to the note, just he own, I undestand, but ofcouse, she must include he husband's name in the body ofthe note, "Tom and I ae gateftxl, etc." Just at that spot in the moning when last Fiday's sunshine spead tense and still at o'clock and time seemed to be holding its beath, Itook time offbusiness to pick an amful of ageatum; zinnias in thei gloious pinks; deep velvety, ed snapdagons; calendulas and white, lavende and puple petunias, in' the Hutchinsons' gaden. Then placed the whole mass ofbeauty in alage geen mixing bowl. The golden wamth ofoutdoos was cetainly bought inside on that bighttime-of-the-yea bouquet coming fom thei late gaden. Family quaels, nevous childen, iitable husbands and theatening divoces nught be caused by the colos in the home than by the dispositions ofits occupants Oh! you eades say you make that statement because you'e disguntled that you couldn't get away ove the Thanksgiving weekend, to see the splash ofcolo in the noth. That snot ight, fo the fist sentence has been poven to be tue and advice is to be had on colo schemes fo diffeent types offamilies -Red and yellows the wamth stimulating colos, fo the quiet family, helping to povide alight to spiits Then blues and geens with thei cool quiet elaxing influences fo high s^ne nevous pesons, who need maximum aid to elaxation. Vaiety is impotant too ^e smat homemake nght hee in Amhestbug ealizes this and is using two o thee colos onthe walls of a single oom. Octobe 9, 950 the sw fom Ilike toe face veils which ae all made up complete with gosgain ibbon ties They can be easily adjusted on toe hat and ove the face and nifty when tied. T~ L ^ a. L I f f I, a [' J' 5' ' 3 s; I L. I they stay in place. The fist civil maiage sevice to be pefomed in Windso by Judge Godon was fo an Amhestbug gil, Helen Hais (daughte ofalonzo Hais), and James Hais, a Detoit man. Thei maiage was last Thusday. Page the atists in the distict,fo I couldn't sketch what we saw in the sapphie halflight Fiday evening - the slende ac ofthe new moon spilling out its contents (thee's ain coming, said Scotch lassie, and sue enough it was) etched on the southwesten sky with mounds ofbob-lo tees, the silve blue unuffled ive and that lovable silly old pine on the McQueen popety giving foegound inteest. Met a woman ecently who had lived in Gemany in the yeas immediately following the wa. In commenting on Geman beauty palos she said that the opeatos thee ae extemely cleve and do wondeful jobs on the Geman women with vey little to do with. Fo instance the Canadian woman with whom I was talking,said that while he hai was dying she was having a cigaette. The opeato came ove and asked fo he cigaette ashes and with them did a neat job of dakening he custome's eyebows and lashes. Octobe 26, 950 (&> (TO Calendulas aanged in a bass vase, Sunday, made me think of minted sunshine. Felt as ifi'd lost a pesonal fiend when A Jolson died ofa heat attack in San Fancisco on Monday night. It was way back in the oaing twenties that I head him sing"mammy" andhavenevetiedof M. Jolson's typeof entetainment and the way he put himself and song ove. Got a dandy idea fo heightening ceilings fom Hay Duby Satuday, when he called me in to see the colo scheme being used fo his new place - the yellow ofthe noth wall was extended about two feet on the ceiling on that side, up and ove, and the illusion ofheight was cetainly thee. 54 u:- 55 ^

31 I was most inteested in the expeiment being tied out at Dee Pak Public School in Toonto thisyea. It seems thatschool epot cads aea thing of thepast. They ae being eplaced by a seies ofconfeences between paents and teaches. Officials ofthe school say the new system will let the paents know what sot of peson is teaching thei childen and will acquaint the teache with the child's home backgoimd. If the plan is a success it will be extended to all public schools in Toonto. Afte long yeas of teaching expeience I look back on the epot cad business with distaste. Afte being waned to ty to "keep it clean and not lose it" (quote H.M.), the small child gubbily caies it home with a sensation ofeithe fea o delight that he had beat so in so, only to be deflatedso often because Mothe was too busy to sign it and daddy "didn'tsay anything." How often I got that when I asked what paents had to say to the child about his pogess epot. With this paents-teache, peson to peson contact, the elationship between thehome and school should be close. Novembe 2,950 Thee is no end tothe ceaseless cycle ofetuning things, and as I've said so often, I like the change ofseasons and what each bings but atthe moment I don't wantanyone to pullthat"so many days till Chistmas business" on me. When we think ofabid sanctuay, whee one can see wild ducks and geese, we think of Jack Mine's place - but Heny Robidoux on the Maiden-Andefton townline has an inteest in the wild ceatues of the sky and is developing an inteesting wild bid sanctuay on his popety. It was only in 95 that Winston Chuchill began painting as a hobby fo elaxation, so his book "Painting as a Pastime" says. This Chistmas, Chuchill Chistmas cads will be, I'll wage, collecto's items, fo seven ofhis scenes ae to be epoduced by a cad fim. Vital statistics -fifty yeas ago last Tuesday Hemy D. Andeson and May Paks wee maied at the home ofhe paents in Maiden. Of the 25 guests at the wedding thee ae only eithe 2 o 23 pesons left. And, inteestingly enough, the 56 i p- jl^ tj f I' -f' U f \]l\ la-i majoity ofguests wee younge than eithe M. and Ms. Andeson. Thee was a time when diving though the county at this time ofyea we saw "Indian Villages" in field afte field, as those com shocks made me think of wigwams stoedwith goldengain- miss that sight,fo between Amhestbug and Haow this yea we only spotted one goup ofcom "wigwams." That com picke hasn't a sense of beauty - it is so pactical and business like and cuts out all the sentimental Octobe fills in ou lovely countyside. When looking though magazines, advetisements o on a shopping spee I often get ideas fo gifts fo this peson and that, but when the annivesay o bithday comesup, fo the life ofme I can't emembethe splendididea I had, so often settle on something uninteesting. If a peson would clip o jot down ideas fo gifts and put away in a specialenvelope, when the time comesto ecall what to send, by a hasty thumbingthough, the gift is pactically given - all one needs then is the mino detail, money. Thee's no question about the value of knitting, as a hobby, as an at, fo its theapeutic value and fo the economy's sake. This epote has stated a bit of knitting and consequently thoughts ae cented on that caft. Back though the centuies to the pehistoic times wool has poved itselfthe most duable, pactical and attactive of fabics. So much so that man has neve been able to invent a satisfactoy substitute fo it. Wool has been one ofman's wamest fnends due to its unique qualities. Wool fibes, composed of layes of intelocking cells, ae highly esilient (can be stetched as much as thity pe cent of moistue without getting damp). It is one of natue's geat insulatos, keeping bodyheat in and cold out. The Aabs, who wea those voluminous wool tubans to potect thei heads fom the deset sim, have also discoveed that wool keeps heat out. Knitting, lovely colos ofwool and Mid-Fall ae on the best oftems. Novembe 9, 950 So often oflate we hee at the office know that such and such a thing has been found, a baby dess fo instance, yet no one inquies. We likeand wantto be of 57

32 sevice, and although we don't un a lost aticles bueau, we sometimes know who has found things aound town. Says a fiiend in Detoit:A vey fine wite-upabout the books ofthe lakes in the Echo last week was much enjoyed by ou eades hee. It will be emembeed that the late James M. Kelley ofamhestbug had seved as fist office ofthe "Snyde J" fo twenty yeas and late on was made captain ofthe "Shenango," siste ship ofthe "SnydeJ." Eve since I stated going to Haow, I've woked at a desk behind a baed window looking out on apostage stamp sized cout with apatch ofemeald gass. And I've liked this funny little quadangle. Last week pogess and gowth of business flooed me, fo now I look though those bas ight into a blank wall not two feet away - fo the shop next doo has gown back ove that lovely little coutyad. Because Bill Nattess won the $00 scholaship awaded by the local Babeshoppes last fall, he has had the oppotunity ofstudying voice in Toonto unde G. R. Rosselino, in fact has almost finished his couse of lessons. Next Fiday night, six young Amhestbug singes will ty fo this yea's awad given to the voice with the most pomise. This is indeed an oppotunity fo the young singes and the local Babeshop chapte deseves apat on the back fo sponsoing the awad. Novembe the fist was agloious day in the 80s with childen dashing aound in the golden sunshine in summeiy clothes, and fosythia, pink bidal weath, oses and nastutiums in bloom. That fosythia was inteesting, fo neve can Iemembe the lovely little yellow tumpets and the lage leaves with peach backs, appeaing on the stems at the same time. But that's the way it was on that Gloious Fist Put on my desk was apussy willow banchjust eady to bust. In decided contast was the cold, the ain, the bleakness and finally snow ofsatuday but though that gay day thee still was acolo inteest aound about ifyou ween't too busy hunching you shouldes and pulling in you neck, to look fo it. 58 [ "i,l-. M. " n [j Novembe 6, 950 The shives up and down my spine at the Remembance Day sevice in the town pak Satuday aftenoon when the bugle played the Last Post and the bag-pipes played the echo. Whethe this was done by intention of substitution, it was vey effective. When eading "Belles on thei Toes," B.M. got a laugh-out-loud ove the quinine and casto oil episode when bothe Tom gave it fo chicken pox. She laughed longe when I eminded he ofa simila casto-oil incident in my childhood which involved Floa Hodgman and myself. I'd like to know whethe o not gils play with pape dolls now-a-days. In talking about gils' leisue time activities Satuday, mothe ofgown up gils and I talked about the pape doll age and wondeed ifdolls' families and thei wadobes had any inteest fo the modem eight to twelve miss. Lucky thiteen - M. and Ms. John Beaudoin (Muiel Vollans) ofcolcheste South celebated thei 3"' wedding annivesay Novembe IB"* and thei son was nine yeas ofage onthe IB"* - this family cetainly has poven that thee events on the IB"' discount the Old Wives' Tales of supestitions egading the numbe. This little stoy was sent to me fo the Con. Pieces, and it was suggested that it might be witten unde the caption: The Etemal Feminine. "One of those lovely days last week, I took little niece fo a walk. Duing ou walk I met an old fnend whom I had not seen in some time. We chatted a few moments and in the couse of ou convesation my fiiend emaked that my niece was a vey petty little gil. That eveningat dinne he Daddy and Mama wee amused but a little shockedwhen littledaughte pipedup with,'aimtie andi wentfo a walktodayandwe meta man and he said I was petty.' Little niece was thee yeas old last May." When I statedteaching BO yeas ago, I thought I was lucky (and I was too) to be in such a modem oom as that old nothwest come at the AmhestbugPublic School. But the pogess in education in those thity yeas, in all its phases - teaching methods, equipment which includes eveything fo health and happiness ofchild and teache - was clealy shown to all ofus who attended the open house 59

33 at the new St. John the Baptist Intemediate School on Sunday. The beauty in the colo inthe class ooms cetainly must make fo bette woking conditions which includes easie disciplinay poblems, I should think. One point that stood out in equipment which you pobably would think mino was the satiny blond wood (I must have an ovedeveloped sense oftouch because I had to ub my hand ove the top) of the teaches desks. This made me think of my fist desk which was a kitchen table with one dawe. When late I got that dak oak job, the latest ofthe latest teache's desks, Ifelt that nothing could be bette and that the vey best was mine (as it was) but the light wood desks ae eally moe conducive to gacious school oom living, in my estimation. Novembe 23,950 The Novembe sky was cetainly fowning Tuesday moning - the tees on Dalhousie St. wee stipped, shiveing as Iwas, in the bae, bown, bittle moning. The finest bit of philosophy came fom a peache in convesation with a Maiden fiiend ecently. The fiiend commented on the "Hell on Eath" to which the peache eplied spontaneously, "Yes, thee is lots ofhell on eath -but thee's lots ofheaven too." Last week my siste-in-law was in Leamington and when she was in font ofa estauant along came two young gals with flat shoes and skits almost to the shoe tops. They looked at he in he new length coat and skit and said citicallv "LnoL at Sadie Shot Skits." Was eading in one of the old files about ageat stom in these pats which nade the beach along the nve dy to the channel bank. Back Itumbled in mind to the days when we loved the aftemath of the stom which did Just that tick and we'd un up and down the muddy ive bottom fom the Watewoks to Menzies' dock, fliting with the chamel bank and looking fo the ive bottom teasues This is the Echo bithday week and below the masthead to the left of the date line, the Vol. changes to 77 (enteing ^yea ofpublication) and the No. to. This 60 fl '" I' j: Ji. p f f n ni ' Li pape was founded only seven yeas afte Confedeation so has pactically seen Canada gow toits pesent age. The Echo has seen lots and lots ofchanges inevey way oflife - and it's still young as Canada is, and we hope it will beable to keep apace with the changes ofthe fiitue - ofoti distict and its citizens and ou county. The wonde of shadow, half light, the colo blue and the beauty of line and symmety was beautiftilly exampled looking fom ou house ivewad beyond the apples and the locusts in that peiod ofthe day between the dak and the daylight Fiday. The westen sky was a sweep oflaye afte laye ofalmost navy blue out of which peeped a thin stip ofyellow inone spot and a gash ofpeach inanothe. The eflection ofthis colo didn't make the ive sombe but its blue dotted with silve gave a Chistmas wapping effect - Madonna blue and silve. Refeing to the Scholaship awad contest to give the yomg peson with the voice showing most possibilities the oppotunity to study, I would like to heathe judges' decision in detail. I think that a little "why" and a citicism otwo would help the losing contestants. In Fiday night's contest Babaa Shaw's tue notes and he unaffected manne showed up, but the speake fo the judges didn't say that (that's what I say). I gant that this contest isn't a music festival but would be of moe benefit to the singes if a few "whys" wee given. TheSPEBSQSA $00 Scholaship awad ceated a geat deal of inteest at the Geneal Amhest High School Fiday night. In announcing the awad, Heny Shubet, a Detoit musician, said that hewould like to see the losing contestants ty again. Ifmy opinion means anything, Iwas disappointed that not one oflast yea's contestants enteed thisyea. Often thegeatest successes in lifecome aftea defeat o geat disappointment. And it sometimes takes a defeat to bing out that confidence in ou own ability to "I'll show you next time" and wok towad that end. The May Cout Club in Windso deseves a geat deal ofapplause because of the wok it has done fo undepivileged childen. But with the opening of the Mental Health Clinic fo childen on Satuday, I feel it has eached theheight in its achievements. Reseach has gone a long way in this line of health andwith help fom psychologists and psychiatists, paents and teaches can lean how to deal with childen who need adjustment, toput them back onthe path to nomal living. 6

34 Thee is both a psychologist and psychiatist at this clinic whose sevices ae available to toubled paents. Once upon a time we thought it disgaceful to even discuss mental heath, but now, thank heavens, its disgaceful not to face maladjustments and do something about them when help ingetting tothe oot ofthe touble is ight at hand. [ ou inteest. Wose still, we don't know the poblems ofunning a municipality yet we gouse at those tying to un them. We can't make attendance at annual municipal meetings compulsoy, that would be imdemocatic, but attendance at a meeting might change ou viewpoints on municipal affais. Novembe 30,950 Lee and Haiet Stanley ae gadding about in Cleveland and in a note to the edito. Lee said, "have noted distant tain whistles not as inteesting as the boat vaiety." He's got Amhestbug and the Detoit Rive in his blood too, hasn't he? The ai was so much colde than the wate Fiday moning that at 7:30 clouds and clouds ofbillowy white steam wee ising fom the ive. This evidently told ofthe Noth Pole popotions, stom - Santa Glaus weathe - which aived with all its fiiy Satuday moming. The combination ofthe wind, the snow, the cold and the eeie thee-longs fom aship on the ive at 8:30 didn't make apleasant mixtue fo the senses. I like the Apon Tend - the desses with the tie-on apon oveskit fo both fomal and infomal wea -and Isaw some stunning fussy apons in afashion sheet lately. Igant they wee moe fo looks than pactability. Ithought ofan old fiend who was invited to a house paty yeas ago. Befoe going she told me she was taking apetty house dess and afussy apon so she'd look well aound the house and in the kitchen. Because the men like it, she added. And it woked They met and the gold band was eventually hes. That's atip, gils, that Doothy Dix would give heselffo I know she believes in "good homebody tactics." We say we ae ademocatic people -we have in ou land democacy at its best but we fall down in tying to uphold ou democatic pinciples and ou democatic way of life. Rev. J.A. Walke told the atepayes of the town of Haow Fidav night that nomnation meetings wee Democacy in its simplest fom and yet too few take enough inteest to see how democacy woks. That's tue, we sit back and don't even encouage the men who ae tying to administe ou ^unicipalities by 62 k IL-'!! El.. e: l; lj U V Decembe, 950 The ealy Decembe days ae shote, the dusk ealie, the chill keene - spaows ae chatteing andcomplaining andthe feightes aeapidly getting into thei winte beths befoe ice locks the Lakes. Fo all the fnends of Dave Buck, who is aboad HMS Athabascan in the Koean aea, we should have given you his addess long ago but an "hello" fo the New Yea will please him in the long thee months xmtil Mach when the Athabascan is scheduled fo home. Hee it is: O.S.S. D. Buck, 9473-E, H.M.C.S. Athabascan, do H.M.C. Dockyad, Esquimalt, Victoia, B.C. Got myselfall woked up again ove childen's books. This delightful feeling always comes when thecalenda only has one page left. Thee aelovely books fo childen on the maket this yea, ich in colo, illustations, action and content. I can hadly keep fom buying the whole seies of those 39-centes which aejust ight in size fo the wee child to handle - not too much detail and evey page alive and inteesting. Thee is nothing nice than a fiendly alet house at night with bight eyes blinking and making pleasue fous as wetudge along the dak steets - that's why I like this lamp on the window-table vogue. But thee ae some houses which put on an intiguing mysteious aloofai, as if they aenot having fun andfind lifedull and uninteesting. It's a wong impession often, as inteesting things no doubt go on inside, but a little moe light on the inside fo those outside would be appeciated. My Scotch fiend gave me this tend ofthought when she told how fiendly thehouses on Sandwich Steet wee at night. Fo weeks I have enjoyed the Gum-dop Tee in the Melos' font window and 63

35 got a bang out of the gadual disappeaance of the bight coloed candies. Finally the bae whitetee was taken awayonlyto appeaa day o so lategaily doneup in wee Chistmas tee omamentswhich wink away when the light is ight. The Gumdop Tee eminds me of the Suga Plum Tee, that chaming poem of Eugene Field's which we loved as childen - a fancifulthing which becomes eal to childen and even eal to me when I saw that lovelylittle tee. The Gum-dop Tee is not had to make. You fashion a tee of diedtwigs stuck into a base of some sot, a piece of woodfo instance, paint white and dust with a spakling substance such as atificial snow, tiny glass beads ofpowdeed mica. Place small-sized gum dops in vaiegated colos on the tip ofevey banch. Decembe 4, 950 Afte wondeing about pape dolls fo gils of today, I an acoss an advetisement fo Culy Top, the aistocat of pape dolls with eal hai and washable pape clothes to wash and ion. M. and Ms. Leslie Ounswoth ofhaow wee in Chicago afotnight ago and she was telling ofthe beautiful lage nusey hyme figues on the lamp posts in the shopping distict as pat ofthe Chistmas decoation scheme. Quoting anothe Haovian, Hay Ridsdale, who has ecently etuned home fom Gace Hospital, said to me that astay in the hospital does apeson lots ofgood because you see othes wose offthan youself and you'e ashamed to cab about you aches and pains. Some people ae cleve mechandises and suely apply business psychology. Was eading about aslot machine in which you put six quates and get out apai ofnylons and whee do you think that company put its nylon slot machine? -ight outside its lunch oom doo. You put you quates ina slot, pull a knob beneath the colo and size you want and out comes the newest little packet ofnylons you eve deamed up. What could be a bette way to use a slot machine? I amveiyfond of thenew gold necklaces which snuggle into the base-of-the- I TI I J. '"! J TP' J i thoat-line o those shaped necklaces studded with simulated ubies. But the loveliest necklace of this type I eve head of was one pesented to Pincess Elizabeth aboad the figate Supise in the Athens habo Satuday by the Geek pime ministe. Itwas anecklace ofancient gold coins fom the time ofalexande the Geat. This coin necklace will be copied and ecopied fo the vaious puse levels (yous and mine) and I could wish fo nothing moe stunning than a copy to wea witha high ound necked blouse o sweate o that smat basic black dess. Byway ofexplanation, as you eades know the Convesation Pieces ae witten ealy in the Echo week. They have to be because the Women's Page is pinted in the fist sectionof the papewhichis eady to tuck into the second sectionafte it (the second section) is pinted Thusday. So as happened last week, I commented about thebittle day, Monday, afte seeing andheaing spaows pactically apping at the back dooto tell me of theihunge. Thenon Thusday, the day you eadthe pape, came one ofthose gosh-awful days when we an the gamut of weathe changes ain (the sky opened), sleet (which picked my face asi an fom the house atthee p.m.), wind (45 miles pesaid adio), snow and finally atnight cold and ice. The ive got high and highe and Fiday when I went to the shoe it looked as if it wee unning up-steam - wave tumbling on wave. Decembe 2, 950 Histoy was made in Ladies' Five Pin bowling last Thusday atthe Receation when Ms. Fancis Maontate bowled 390 outof a possible 450 fo he fist game. I could go on and on and wax eloquent via the pen about Chistmas 950, its joys and soows, but instead will simply say that which conveys my most sincee geetings, "a Happy Chistmas to All." "Could a Little Theate Goup beoganized and live in Amhestbug?" was the question asked me at the Rotay Ladies Chistmas Paty last Tuesday night. Ieally think that with a good leade thee might be enough inteest hee to stat possibly not agoup to give plays but agoup, a so-called wokshop goup, to study, ead plays, lean poduction, lighting and the udiments behind the actual poduction of ' K,

36 plays - to even give plays among themselves befoe actually poducing one fo the public. This is not the sot ofthing one can dash into, in my estimation. The Little Theate Goup has a geat deal behind it with seveal sides fo study besides the actual chaactes in the play - staging, sound, popeties, etc. etc. Decembe 28,950 Thefull moon ove theweekend seemed to caess thebaetees. Do younotice how nea the sky seems to be when the tees ae bae? The beauty of the whites and blues of the snow, shadows and sky along the shoes and ice-blocked ive is tuly Chistmas weathe at its best. An Essex fiend told ofj.a. Dowswell saying that as a etied Public School pincipal he is enjoyingteachingnight Schoolto 28 Hollandes, 3 Italians and one Chinese in the Essex High School. They ae eceiving a ich educational couse fom such an expeienced teache. Evey touist in London, England, including myself, goes to Westministe Abbey to see the Coonation Chai and the Stone of Scone. The thefl and subsequent disappeaance ofthis 336-pound stone, Chistmas Eve, fom the Abbey eminded me ofhighland and bode feuds and abductions ofold. I'llwage that if and when the stone tuns up in Scotland, the case will be dopped. Flowe gowe John Woolman ofdoidge, England, has found away to put scent into chysanthemums. Nomally these flowes have no distinctive pefume so afte five yeas' expeimenting his eseach has been ewaded and he found his fomula. Thee ishoweve only one odd thing about the scent inm. Woolman's chysanthemum - it smells like violets. It was the longest day of the yea last Thusday when we wee in the midst of gand old-fashioned Canadian winte days, that Miss Blanche Cook told ofhaving fosythia in bloom in the house fo Chistmas. The blooms wee not lage, she said as the sping-foced vaiety but wee none the less beautiful. 66!' ill J,i I..'L PI J J I In Vea Bown'scolumn in thedetoit Times last Thusday wasthe following human inteest which shecalled Feline Staandwe quote: "Catoonist LeeStanley who does 'The Old Home Town' fo King Featues now lives acoss the ive in Amhestbug. He's always used his cat. Suga, a huge tige, as a model fo the cat in his dawings. Just wanted to say that Suga is dead. He expied at the age of twenty yeas and fou months, a ecod in cat longevity. When we lived in the Indian Village Mano a lot of people in you town knew Suga. He was in Lee's catoons at least thee times a week fo some 20 yeas, which makes aoimd 320 times. He was a geat favoite with cat loves all ove the county. With the fist of Januay, I guess we ae eally hitting the half centuy mak, although most of us celebated that event last Januay fist. Nevetheless, whethe o not, it's a Happy New Yea to all. The othe day M. Goe Richadson of Colcheste South was in the office. M. Richadson is making his 82"'' bithday today. In talking ove the events and changes ofthe past few yeas he said he'd like to be ableto come backfifty yeas fom nowjust to see whatwas happening on this old eathand I said to him that even thoughpeoplethoughtme pagan,i'd like to see what people wee doing and thinking and the things they wee using in the yea Januay 4, 95 OT TO Because it's New Yea, we feel this little stoy is woth etelling: "Once a thoughtless schoolboy laid a whole town by the eas with a bit of gossip. His teache helped him to see what he had done by asking him to scatte a bag of feathes on the wind and then ty to etieve them." One of my Chistmas pesents was a lage book, the pictue stoy of the fist half centuy, 900 though a tuly emakable infomative pictue ecod of the pogess and the changes in ou way of living; advances in science, at, music, tanspotation, etc. etc.; then too thee is histoy including was, disastes, also spots and books, in fact eveything of inteest inthe past fifty yeas. The little modified beets which I'll call pancake-like flattes being shown in 67

37 0 t the swank Detoit stoes ae stunning and flatteing to milady. They ae won staight on and one ofthe most fashionable had a naow bim. With these wee shown stunning scafaangements, one olde woman model had he scaftied on the side with a bunch of lily of the valley tucked though the knot so the lily bells glanced the chin. Januay, 95 Not to be outdone by Santa Lady, a six-yea-old white and black English sette down the bank pesented he ownes with quints on Chistmas night. The all male quintet is doing fine. Thei fathe, awhite and black pointe, was not pesent fo the event. Someone, no doubt, told him ofthe happenings and he was aound passing out bones. Satuday aftenoon I walked in on two fiends who wee ioning. Thee is something about that household duty that fo the outside - wasn't doing the job - makes fo high pleasant thoughts because of the sweet, clean, damp smell that envelopes the kitchen when the job is in pogess. My fiends wee both cleaned up to ion, so wee thei kitchens, and the neat piles ofcoloed skillfully ioned aticles gave some sot ofsatisfaction I'm sue - as fo me, sitting by, I smelled deeply. L. h I-Li I an undignified manne. What an indignity! They looked so dejected, folon and desolate lying thee along the sidewalk awaiting thei fate. I felt soy to see them, they deseve a bette end - that's why I'm keen on a dignified buning of the Chistmas Tee celebation to have them leave us afte binging so much happiness in a espectful way - up in flames, fagant to the last bit ofesin. We don't get in a ut as fa as weathe is concened these days. New Yea's moning was cold and I shiveed as I watched the Atomic cut though the deep windowed ice, going up the ive as neatly as you please. In the cold sunshine that moning the colos on the ive with the sun playing on the ice pisms and the tug as it cunched though wee lovely. That was Monday - on Wednesday I was wakened by the hythmical dip-dip fom the oof and the day bought thaw, fog and the squawkof a cadinal. Sunday aftenoon, I felt as stiff as the tees lookedin the late aftenoon sun when it was so cold that the bae gound sang undeneath. Even if you know nothing ofastonomy, just a look at the stas studding the beautiful dak velvet Januay sky these nights is thilling. Venus is an evening sta low in the west. This month ofjanuay is a good month to stat the study ofthe wondeful heavens with childen because the milky way stands out, as does the jeweled belt of Oion - The big dippe and the little dippe can be made out so clealy. When showing these it would be a good time to tell the child how navigatos down though the ages have used the Pole staas theiguide. j Tommy and Jimmy Menzies, talented young sons ofm. and Ms. Ivo Menzies, Detoit, have been in Hollywood the past two yeas and have appeaed in seveal pictues. Many hee emembe fathe and will ecall when these two lads delighted the audience with thei comedy songs at the St. Andew's Chuch Vaiety Show at the Geneal Amhest High School a few yeas ago. The boys, now and 4, may be seen in the Fieside Theate pictues on TV Tuesday nights, following Milton Bele. Next yea, I'm going to advocate a community Buning of Chistmas Tees ite so that those tees which have bought so much happiness in so many homes -the once poud happy cente ofthe home -won't be thown out along with the gabage in such Januay 8, 95 A point of etiquette onwhich we ae too lax is the calling business especially afte a wedding. Then it is ou duty afte accepting a wedding invitation to call on the newlyweds when they ae established inthei new home. That'sa must - don't ask me ifi do it - but I know it should be done. A poinsettia isa most satisfactoy flowe because it speads enjoyment aound fo such a long time. Ou Chistmas poinsettia is still dealingout happiness. This gay plant came to us oiginally fom Mexico whee J.R. Poinsett discoveed it in 828 gowing wild in a topical valley. In Mexico it is called Painted Leaf, an

38 .Jll J? accuate name, fo the scalet "blossoms" with thei beadlike yellow balls at the cente ae eally clustes ofleaves. Was eading that many New Englandes don't have much fo Sunday night suppe. That that s the most infomal meal ofthe week. One family always had Sunday suppe in thekitchen andthei meal usually consisted of cackes andmilk. I had completely fogotten about that delicacy and can see my fathe getting his bowl eady, cunching the big cisp McComick's in his lage hands, then ceaming and sugaing them and smiling with satisfaction as he ate. Thee's loveliness in the winte wold that none of us should miss and that is the gaceful fetwok of bae tee banches against the sunset, o I get it looking pakways fom the east kitchen window in the monings with the sunise in the backgound. Thee's beauty and design in those bae banches, so don't miss the expeience. Januay 25, 95 The feel ofthe ai Satuday at noon was like the wam, damp touch ofapil - it was a scap of Spingtime tossed like baitto us - and how we bit. Miss Judith Ross on Dalhousie Steet has adelightful hobby -painting bisque fi^nes. She buys unglazed white pocelain statuettes and paints them heself using he own ideas as to combinations ofcolos. They ae cleve. I'm afaid we'e in fo them - shote skits. At least that's what fashion designes in London, England pedict. The pice ofwool has moe then doubled in the past 2 months and fo that eason Euopean skits will be shote and tighte in 95. Gone will be the padding and quantities ofmateial. It seems that London's big 0 dess designes, now planning thei sping collections, ageed that the well dessed woman of 95 will have a few cuves ifshe's depending on pads full gathes and yads ofmateial to supply them. Shot skits! I?-the thought makes me shudde. ^ -. i - fii ^ M T" A few weeks ago we got a death wite-up ofa Ms. Seaphin BeneteauMaion, 83, a native ofandedon, who died in Sandwich. A fiiend ofthis pape wote us that Ms. Maion's husband died 46 yeas ago and she was left with a family offive young childen. At the time they wee keepinga stoe in Sandwichand she kept this stoe until 2 yeas ago when he health failed. She was a vey chaitable and kind heated woman and often when some ofhe steady customes had sickness o death in the household she would tust them fo bead and goceies. It was vey seldom that these bills wee not settled as soon as health etuned to these families. And when she did lose she would say, "Well this I will not collect, but I hope it will bing good luck to me in othe ways." He kindness and faith in humanity, no doubt, caied he along though many a had time and she was amply epaid - not in money but in satisfaction thatjust by he actsshe washelping othes - thus giving he moe undestanding to deal well with he own poblems. Detoit is 250 yeas old this yea and geat plans fo the celebation of its bithdayae undeway. Amhestbug was, accoding to the ecods, establishedin 796 when the Bitish evacuated Detoit. But it is possible that thee was a small settlement hee befoe that because ofou geogaphical position with egad to the settlement that has since become Detoit. As the Windso histoian Geoge F. Macdonald said in a pess inteview in Windso, neithe the settlement on the Ameican (Detoit) no thaton thecanadian side(windso) wasactually named in 70 when Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established the fist handful o so of Fench settles in this aea. He went on to say that facts ae acknowledgedto be that both sides of the ive wee settled almost simultaneously. M. Macdonald continuedthat it happened in this way. The ive was in those days only a ive. It constituted no boimday lines. Thee was no Canada and no United States of Ameica as such. Thee was just a lot of vigin teitoy, Indian-infested and plagued by the diseases and afflictions ofthe swampy aeas suounding. Fot Pontchatain was built appoximately whee the lowe end ofdetoit's business section stands today. The teitoy potected by the fot, fo all pactical puposes ofthe day, extended two miles on all sides. This meant that the land on the southen side of the ive came undethe fot's administation. At fist, the settleschose land close to the fot on the east o west. Thus the fist settlements wee stung along what is nowthe Detoit sideas fa downive as pehaps to whee the Rive Rouge entes the Detoit Rive. Beyond this wee hostile Indian tibes in consideable numbes as well as unhabitable swampland. 70 7

39 Febuay, 95 Page Ms. Howad Heaton in Haow if you want to know how to enjoy and keep enjoying cut flowes. The Fiday befoe Chistmas she got amixed bouquet and on Tuesday she was still delighting in one white chysanthemum (which was cutdown and down of couse) fom thatchistmas gift. Ms. Helen McKenzie, chaming woman fom Beaveton who has made many distict fiends because of he Ontaio Red Coss executive position, is now the eeve ofbeaveton. Ms. McKenzie, who is mothe oftwo teenaged daughtes, enteed Beaveton politics and won because "women have aplace in politics." In neaby Baie, fo the fist time in the histoy ofthe town, awoman is mayo. She is Ms. Maijoie Hamilton. David Botsfod told me Satuday that he spent Fiday aftenoon looking up a Lafoet family who could speak abit ofthe Wyandotte Indian language. He also told me that he had a line on the peson named Clak who is supposed to know a few Wyandotte wods. M. Botsfod was to have avisit fom the senio ethnologist fom the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, who is anxious to make a ecod of as many wods as he can ofthe Wyandotte language befoe it is lost in the passing yeas. P.S. That wod ethnologist means apeson who studies the science ofaces and thei elations to one anothe and chaacteistics. Blue is the colo ofmany oflife's most pecious things -the list would be long but at the moment I'm ecstatic about the blues in natue - the shadows on the snow on Monday fo instance - the blues ove the ive as we look lakewads - the blue in distance and the misty blue that hoveed ove ou wold Fiday aound five o'clock. Thee wee thee colos in the out ofdoos that evening - lots ofblue with black and white accessoies (tees and snow) not livened by the sim eithe because ofthe dense blue sceen and the effect was lovely - so much so that I had BM admiing it. At Chistmas time we had the gift ofachistmas cake which was equally good to taste and good to look at. The cake had awhite icing, decoated with aweath 72 J [ T i' of geen coconut "tied" with ed cheies. It sat on a Battenbug pape doily on a gaily decoated boad. A fine example of both eye and taste appeal in the at of cooking. The Battenbug doily inteested us too, a goodepoduction in pape of that beautiful lace which I emembe seeing a woman making in Bussels. Since Chistmas I have noted Battenbug pape place mats fo dining tables, advetised andthought how lovely they would be on a polished table - to use, enjoy andthow away. Febuay 8,95 All of a sudden, Monday aftenoon the whole set-up peked up when Majo Gieg of Bellevue Veteans' Home bought in a few spigs of the annual Schizanthus which has dainty fem-like leaves and wee flowes in pastel shades of pink and lavende with yellow mottled centes - vey ochid like. This was an entiely new annual in my books and I was delighted with the "little shell pink ochids." Come sping and the dailies ae all unning educing diets on thei Women's Pages - and I ead them all and think how nice itwould be to have a chunk ofme offhee o thee when the fist wam day comes and I gocoatless andsteamlined to the office. Butup to nowall I've done is ead. The sub-head, "Mental diet fo educing" and the full head, "See youself slimming and you'll lose weight" in Monday's Detoit pape cetainly appealed to me - no giving up poidge with bown suga, ceam and a bit ofbutte - justthink you'e getting svelte hips - and thee they ae. We ae now in Lent 95 and unsettled and uneasy ae these days. The Potestant Council ofchuches has adopted the idea behind "Shaing" fo its theme duing this Lenten peiod. To me that embodies so much and if"shaing" is caied out in its fullest, deepest meaning stating with the individual though to the U.N. and beyond, things cetainly would be bette. Ms. Noman Wilson (Gace Wilson), Rankin Avenue, whose pastel of the Detoit Rive stole the show at the Distict At Exhibit at the B.M. Club two yeas 73

40 ago, has an oil painting "Duffy's Dock" accepted in the Essex County Atists' show at Willistead. Ms. Wilson, a busy housewife with a husband and fou childen to look afte, is making quite a eputation fo heselfwith he at studies. When the had dy snow unde foot sings and the winds bite then laugh at ou discomfot as they did last week, I dool ove the floweed hats advetised in the papes and magazines. And was almost envious ofa pink hat won with a black dess at a tea paty last Wednesday aftenoon. The weae when I came in was sitting in a pictue window which hada ow of hyacinths along the sill - and the snow was swiling and feveishly dancing outside and the ice on the ive looked theatening and pale gey - the only ive colo being anangiy gey stetch of wate made bythe Atomic a few hous befoe. Coming back to the pink hat - it would make a woman pu and be glad to be a woman. The othemoning Bud Guest in his adio sunny bits of news commented on something his"amhestbug fiends would be inteested in." It wasn'tthefact that he gave us favoable publicity which inteested me - it was the fact that he ponoimced the name ofou town like anative -"Amsbg" in afluid sot ofway. Which eminds me of a Canadian teache fnend who came hee when the bode was closed faily tight. She wanted to go to Detoit and was told to answe the question, "Whee wee you bom?" with "Amhestbug," which she did - only ponounced it"am-hest-bug." So natually the immigation man who had been stationed hee on the dock knew she was kidding and wasn't a native. M. Guest couldhave passedthe native test with flying colos. Ms. Donald Ridley lost he wallet last week with a lot ofmoney in itand no identification except he wedding pictues - so she hoped fo its etum but on the othe hand had kissed itgoodbye when Miss Ruby Chapman etumed it. In anothe little convesation piece we talked about shaing and in my mind this honesty of Miss Chapman's comes into some ofthe meanings ofthe wod, that is, "I'llshae with you my ideas ofight and wong and do to you what I'dwant you to do to me." [ A [ '' i Febuay 5,95 All last week I thought, each time I looked out on the snow on the oofofthe cottage opposite, that scenes on the Canadian Atists' Chistmas cads have nothing on what was called befoe this winte the Banana Belt. That snow clinging to the oof eally made a lovely effect, especially when the sun was out and it became diamond dust. Evey once in a while a fashion tend appeals to me geatly and this yea it is the Pyamid coats. I thinkthey ae stunning with thei littlepeky collasand flat yokes. A bide I know has one which he mothe made he fo tavelling and it waps aound in high fashion style. Fiday the men in the plant found a food ad dated 932. This is going to make you long fo the good old food pices, said my fnends who keep house. In it appeaed thefollowing items - Canned tomatoes, 4 fo 25 cents; com,4 cans fo25 cents; also shimp 9cents; lobste, half-pound, 29 cents; and Jewel shotening, two pounds fo 9 cents. Ms. Getude Peston eceived a cad fom Jemsalem last week fom a cousin Bill Maye who is the son of the fome May Fleming, Sandwich Steet, Amhestbug. In this cad wee pessed flowes fom Jemsalem which closely esembled ou wood violets but the leafwas fine and dainty fen. In the note M. Maye said that they hadn't been able to go to Bethlehem as thatpatof Palestine was in Aab hands but they had been at Nazaeth seveal times. On the dippiest most uninteesting day of last week, Tuesday, sping came to ou house in a sweet little polished bown Italian pottey shoe and it told of the songs of the bids, the blossoms and the whistles on the ive. What was this habinge of sping's appeaing? It was the cuddliest little bouquet (inthe shoe I mentioned) of foget-me-nots, pussy willows, two tiny daffodils, a spig of pink sweet peas, a few pieces of two shades of pink begonias and blue bowallia (the flowes fom the vine used in many window boxes). A Valentine heiloom - Ms. Howad Heaton in Haow has a beautifully peseved Valentine 02 yeas old. It seems that when he fathe. Captain C.H. 74 i h 75

41 Bassett, was thee, his olde siste got avalentine and he was so boken-heated not to get one that his mothe went into Ann Abo nea whee they lived and bought him the Valentine his daughte now pizes. Ms. Heaton said that he fathe was vey fond ofthe Valentine and as one can see fom the state ofpesevation, it was popely caed fo though the yeas. She said she emembes it being kept in the family Bible. The Valentine is a wok of at. The faily lage lace pape backpound is dainty and atistic but ecu-colo with age. The cente, howeve, with its pictue and message is bight and gay as the day it was made - 02 yeas old - that's Let's see, what was the wold doing in those days -? f " I : to be seen at Point Pelee. Leamington obseves said that on thei Sunday dive they saw 40 o 50 obins. One couple wee so supised at obins in the dead ofwinte that they got in touch with M. Nichol, a natualist at the Canbook Institute of Technology. He said it was indeed an unusual sight fo this time ofthe yea and explained that, howeve, the obins would find plenty to eat in wild gapes and loganbeies that gow in that aea. Also he said they would find shelte in the heavy foliage. Ifyou have any inteest at all in bids. Point Pelee is cetainly the place to go and as it's only 40 miles away we who like them should all ty to get down much oftene than we do. Febuay 22,95 Ms. Eugene Pouget, Pike Rd., had anew gand-daughte last week - he 62"*^ gandchild. Ms. Pouget is only 68 and 4 ofhe 6 childen ae living She also is the poud geat-gandmothe of8childen. Stangely enough, the few deaths in this family all have been male. Seveal yeas ago when Ms. James Flynn's daughte was in Japan, in this column we chatted about he painting the design on some beautiful pape-thin white china. Recently Ihead that Ms. Edwin Hutchins had painted oses in the cente ofhe plain white Wedgewood dishes and that the effect was lovely. Came acoss awite-up ofthe Rose Ball in the Echo 30 yeas ago. It was on a Monday night, too. (We'd neve have aposh paty like that Monday in these 95 days.) The gand mach fo the affai, to which we all woe ou veiy best bib and tucke and the men wee eithe in tails o tuxedos, was pomptly at nine. Thee wee no pivate paties befoehand and eveyone danced with eveybody else not just thei escots. The dances wee listed and the women kept tack of thei patnes, often on pogams. (The youth oftoday will think we'e old fogies but we had awondeful time at the Rose Ball). The non-dances sat in the galley and that was fun too. Suppe was seved in the Council Chambes and M. Finzel himself was on hand with his ochesta. Right afte Chistmas thee was comment in the pess on the numbe ofobins 76 i I Hamony at its best will be head in London this weekend when the annual Babeshop songfestis to be held. A fotnight ago the Gand Theate was sold out fo this event and a special matinee was well on the way ofbeing standing-oom only. London's Fou Chodes will highlight the pogam along with the Clef Dwelles, the Antles and the Buffalo Bills. Consevative Londones evidently love close hamony even as you and I, and do you know, thanks to ou own peppy and enthusiastic babeshop goup, I've been fotunate enough to have head and thilled at the notes and timing ofthee ofthe quatets mentionedabove. The BuffaloBills haven't come to Amhestbug yet but they might - and if they do we'll hea Ameica's numbe one quatet. I ealize that thee has been a battle oyal ofthe citics' opinions ove Enest Hemingway's latest book, "Ove the Rive and Into the Tees." ButI in mysmall way admie his witing caftsmanship and new stipped-down style in fom and philosophy. When I ead this book in the fall I didn't comment on itbecause I knew that eades as well as citics would eithe like it o tea it to pieces (and me too); thee would be no lukewam admiation. But in a new biogaphy of this wite, "Enest Hemingway, The Man and his Wok," the autho John McCaffey says something about M. Hemingway that we all in evey job should notlose sight of when we fly offin a citical flight, and we quote: "Excellence always excites envy and public excellence excites gossip, which isa public expession ofenvy." 77

42 Mach, 95 Gace Fields said on he SS"' bithday ecently that fom now on she will be "only 39 - a lovely age." Apicot cetainly is flatteing to the skin, a subtle sophisticated accessoy colo to liven navy, gey andblack clothes thisseason. Ty it instead of white o pink, the peennial sping accessoies. Because Easte issoealy this yea, thee has been nolong monotonous dag fo me between Chistmas and the Sping equinox because fo the last month the papes have been full ofsping clothes, hats and sping flowe aangements. Even though the Januay days wee cold, I seemed to think sping because of those tempting advetisements, falling, of couse, ight into the patten the manufactues and mechandises wee cutting. Intalking of theoldquotation about Mahomet going to themountain, theothe moning B.M. said,"in the fist note I got fomyou fatheafte he left the Essex Fee Pess to wok on the Amhestbug Echo, he wote me that quotation." My fathe must have been keen tothow quotations aound when he got the chance fo mothe telling that eminded me ofonce when Idocked in Monteal when coming fom Euope I got a wie fom him befoe I left the boat saying, "This is my own my native land." We've laughed atouselves and with othe people at the awfiil mistake wemade in allowing the intechange in the cut lines unde two pictues in the Echo to go though last week [see note on page 04]. The ink was hadly dy befoe the kidding began. When nothing eally seious came out ofthe mistake, agood laugh atyou own caelessness doesn't hut atall, in fact impesses the impotance ofthe wod "detail." Page the teenages - fo this is an "as-tue-as-fiction" stoy. It seems that seveal yeas ago some ofthe lads down Oxley way found a bottle which had been washed up on the beach with seveal gils' names and addesses fom the Ameican side ofthe ive in it. The gils had thown away the bottle afte achuch picnic in the summe and itdidn't tum up atoxley till next sping. The boys contacted the 78 (^ ft- J.. - I ] gils and VealeFonville late maiedone ofthe gils he met this way - and they ae living a happy and busy life now in Califomia whee he has gaduated in aeonautics and is now a flight instucto at Inglewood. A chat with paents - when you childen ae inteested in an oganization, suppot it, not necessaily with moneybut with inteest. You want outside-school inteests fo you childen, such as Guides. Ifthat's what you want fo you gil you can't expect the women in the mothes' auxiliay without daughtes, leades o the gils to do theibest fo you child without eal suppoting inteest fom the home. It seems to me that when mothes and daughtes have a common inteest that "Let's see what WE can do about the Guide Camp Fund" would cay moe weight with daughte than theimpesonal, "What aethey doing about the Camp Fund?" In my mind even though the pessue at home, the woy of home expense and the constant demands on time and money is had on the paents and they feel they can't take on one moe thing, the oganizations you childen ae inteested in must become yous. Mach 8, 95 Snowdops aeout! Ms. P.G. Fench senth.m. a few lovely buds Wednesday moning. The puity of thei white cetainly fits into the meaning of Easte. The ive was opalescent in the sunset Sunday. And afte those lovely changing colosin the sky,iveand ice floes faded theewas only one sta in the dakening westen sky, like a daffodil. Did you ealize with all this talk about the 38*'' paallel that we ae pactically sitting on the 42*"'? That ituns though the Detoit Rive light. An Amhestbug eight-yea-old was asked about his new little bothe, by his teache. He saidthey had a new efngeato too. "Which do you think is best?" questioned the teache. "The baby must be," was the answe, "fo he cost the most." "Padon me, buttheslip of theedito of theamhestbug Echo must be showing 79

43 afte lastweek's pape," said theleamington Post and News when efeing to the tansposition of cut lines unde the two pictues in the fotnight ago issue. That's a good way to explain ou caelessness and embaassment. Spank! Spank! why do we women do it! What? apologize - evey time anyone says they like ou outfit ohat. Why can't we say "thank you" instead ofgoing into a long song anddance about it being twoyeas old o lastyea's job o made ove- I've always felt when women stat to apologize, inteest is lost. The chonic apologize is had to take. Afte making such amistake as we did in checking page poofs two weeks ago, we hate to laugh at fellow caftsmen's eos but I'll bet some poof eade was called up on the capet when in descibing a big do at Buckingham Palace in an oveseas news sevice last week Queen Elizabeth woe a diamond tiaa and neckless. Last Thusday night the Rotaians and the Ladies ofrotay had a chaming Austalian young woman as thei speake. In he talk she told so many things about he county down unde and I thought as I listened to he (meaning me), "You've been in nine ofthe ten povinces ofyou county (no Newfoundland) in fact you've tavelled fom coast to coast seveal times and Iwonde ifyou went to Austalia you could tell about you county one quate as well as this young woman did?" Head ecently ofa neighbohood goup which povided moe than social time fo busy housewives. It seems that one mothe in the neighbohood was vey keen about eading to he childen and made it pat of he pogam to see that that pat of thei needs was satisfied. As the childen got olde that eading out loud was not as necessay, although it was kept up to acetain extent. He busy fiends, knowing she ead aloud well, suggested that they who wanted to keep up with the new books o at least have a talking-knowledge ofthem, fom a goup to knit, mend and have he ead to them and in this way good eade made a little exta money and he listenes had twelve books ead to them last yea. That seems a lot but that's the way the stoy was told to me. I. lul _ W ^:i f 0-] f ^ 'li' -i fj [ i Mach 5, 95 The young Mach wind Sunday was cetainly animpeial andaogant fellow. The Geen will be in evidence on Satuday and the lowly shamock will become Queen fo a Day. Next Wednesday is not onlythe fist dayof Sping but the day when Amhestbug comes of age in one espect with the dial telephone changeove. The thought of emembeing all my fiends' numbes is distubing me, so \ have decided not to even ty but to get a wee memo fo intimates' calls fo my puse and make simple chats fo home and office. Thee's an expectancy about Mach that is thilling if you can ovelook the unpedictable weathe. Because the eath's swinging aound, the colos ove the ive ae changing, the buds ae getting full to busting, St. Patick's Day with its symbolic geen always tells me thee's moe and moe geen to come and this yea Easte gives Mach a special place in the paade ofmonths. Last Thusday was an histoic day in Ontaio fo women, as on that day in the Ontaio Legislatue, women wee given completely equal status and equal esponsibility with men. Abill poviding that women who do the same wok as men will get equal pay fo itwas intoduced and passed. The bill says that women cannot bedisciminated against financially because of thei sex, poviding they do the same jobs as men. Anothe piece of social legislation passed that day gave women the ight to seve on juies. Both acts will come into effect Januay,952. Mach 22, 95 Bead and butte (at 87c pe pound) jam, topped offwith a glass ofmilk once was consideed a lowly snack but now (add it up) this snack is in the "cavia and emine" table delicacies class. '

44 f j k The Easte Flowe Show at Gay's Sunday wasjust what the docto odeed fo a bleak biting Palm Sunday aftenoon. Thewhite double tulips with geen bushed into the petals wee new to me and lovely in thei puity. Got an idea fo Easte accessoies (when you have neithe an Easte costume no hat) fom the snowmonday moming - just snowwhite gloves and a snowwhite canationtucked at the font o side thoat line - they should do the tick. M. and Ms. Byce Fonville ofcolcheste South have motheed 40 childen fo the Childen's Aid Society since they took thei fist child on the tenth of June, 934. So fo thei effots in helping so many unfotunate childen to take thei places in society by living in aeal home whee they felt secue, at the last Thusday evening meeting ofthis society Ms. Fonville was given a silve tay. "Daughte home-cans salmon fo Dad's bithday Sunday" could be the heading of this stoy. William Thashe of Andedon got some cans of salmon fom his daughte Claibell which shehad canned heself. Claibell andhe husband Dean live on Vancouve Island whee he is adeep sea fisheman so he caught the salmon, she canned it and dad is pleased with his bithday emembance. Anothe boy meets gil stoy - and I like them - Helen Pice, who has lived in Maiden fo yeas duing the summe, has been out at the Univesity ofmichigan doing post gaduate wok. She met a lad, Alge Luckham fom San Benadino, Califonia, at the gaduate school and they dated. In the couse of time she mentioned something about Amhestbug and in his amazement he said, "Amhestbug, why my fathe was bom thee." This little stoy has ahappy ending - they'e going to be maied in June. Mach 29, 95 Because I haven't gotten into the televised Kefauve cime investigation, I cetainly have found my convesation limited, ecoding a new low. Afte the cold and snow oflast week and the howling winds on Satuday, the 82 i i: -" J. f J f J ' ' n sun smiled a bit on Easte Sunday and on Monday it looked as ifsping had eally invadedthe coimty and will heal the soe fost bittentips ofthe cocuses, tulips and daffodils. In answe to a question about the sequence of pages in a social lette, it is pefectly coect to wite on pagesone,thee, two and fou- especially one and thee ifthe note ends thee. Howeve, I pefe one, two, thee, fou so that I can ead the lette as I would a book and this sequence cetainly saves a lot ofconfusion in a long lette. Manyof the old childen's stoiesae ageless - they seem to attact childen of one geneation afte anothe. Little culy headed gil gota book about Pete Rabbit in the late 940s fom he fathe's cousin in New Yok. Recentlyhe fathe found a copy of theselfsame stoy in thei basement which hadbeen given to himin in fact the two books wee identical except fo the cove and ofcouse the fact that the new book has been used moe than Daddy's - as thee childen have ead and eead the newe copy. "Is thenewspape office the placefo a gil?" was the subject of Edwad Bok's editoial in the Febuay 90 Ladies Home Jounal. Thity-nine out of foty-two newspapewomen asked said, "No," giving such easons as "unwholesome, neve acking, disageeable and unefined." Said one newspapeman, "I would athe see my daughte stave," and anothe, "Young womanhood is too sweet and saced a thing to bing into a newspape office" - when people look though ou 95 files in 200 they will see lots ofthings that will tickle thei funny bone as the above did mine so I won't make any comment. Apil When Anold Ridsdale in Maiden epoted that one sow had 8 pigs on Apil fist, Ms. Ridsdale thought it was a big joke until she stated feeding six ofthem on bottles. J.G. Paks and I wee discussing things ingeneal one day 83 / /? / q/ { fcu, jh*

45 Tt" I ] k hee at the office and communion came up and he epeated a bit of philosophy which I liked and will epeat to you, "He who plants a seed must believe in God." A fotnight ago I had dinne in a estauant with thee little childen and one of them wanted some money, so I gave hea nickel. I've chuckled to myself since then about that nickel, that obsolete coin, which even a five-yea-old couldn't use fo exchange. All ofa sudden the ive has become alive as if electified. Ou gay ed buoy is back in place and catches my eye evey time I look ivewad - lights wink and flit as feightes ae upbound these nights - am awakened by feightes saying hello in the dead of night - and small caft and lage ships ae making bustley, busy, "we'e-glad-to-be back" sounds all day. Up to now the ain has always had a fascination - at nights occasionally I'd compae it in mind to a music box as it beat out its epetitive oundelay onthe oof. Butnot any moe do I look fo the geen ain at this time of the yea o fo the ain that statles the gound so that a puple cocus pieces its way though like those did in the Melos' gaden last week - That ain which I have always upheld when othes goused about it is my fnend no longe, fo it dipped though the coppe oofight on my bed thee weeks ago. An attactive woman has come to Haow to live fom Illinois this past yea. At he home in the States she an anusey School so has stated asimila poject on a smalle scale at he home in Haow with about ten little pe-school pupils. This little school is only open one-half day a week, the fee is vey small and the childen supply thei own scissos and cayons. It is amazing what the youngstes ae getting at School in songs, stoies, maching, finge plays, goup games and handiwok. You eally don't need acetificate o alot ofexpensive equipment to stat such apoject fo a goup offou-yea-olds and the dividends ae big. Apil 2, 95 I thought last week when we wee looking up some ofthe family backgound I f-i-] ii f 3i -p. j f. il ofthe late Ms. A.J. Golden (Magaet Callam) that I'm exactly like my fathe in some espects, that I just gloy in family histoy and could suely get lost in the maze offamily tees and love it. Was delightedwith the pottey being done by neighbou-fnend at the couse in ceamics being given by Ms. John Gay unde the sponsoship ofthe Fot Maiden Guild ofats and Cafts. A tuquoise box caught and held my attention. Evidently the enthusiasm in this class is unning high. Last Wednesday night when James Mayes ofthe Dominion Stoe was diving fom Lakewood Beach towad Highway 8 in the Knapp's Island distict, he hadto stop the cato wait fo fou o five deeto get outof theway. Hesaid that they wee tansfixed in the headlights and a child in the ca cied out at the "eindee." The othe moning ove the adio came a song ofmy childhood, "Sing, song, Kitty, won't You ki-me-0." I hadn't head that song about "ke-mo, ki-mo daagh wa etc." since my fathe attled it off to us ages ago and I neve did know what it meant no its oigin. So was supised when all in fa less than a split second, I tavelled faste than jets fom 95 to about 905 o 6 and could see him entetaining us with that ditty. Thee ae seveal old gnaled pines in town which ae beautifuland must have a histoy. I've often wondeed ifthey wee planted hee when thee was a nusey at Rosebank, up the ive font oad, because they don't look native. I've asked many people ifthey knew the name ofthe pines I am efeing to, and each time the question was hit back, "No, do you?" These pines ae on the McQueen's, Cavan's (noth of D. Hutchinson's lot line) and on the Hebet Paetz popeties. Ifanyone knows thei name ohistoy, please give me a call. Got a shock and was embaassed too ecently when a young woman told me that she liked Amhestbug now but was deadfully lonely fo atime last yea when she moved hee. Itook it as apesonal slap in the face because I'm an old time and don't do anything to make it pleasant fo the many many newcomes to town. A

46 gadenes' plots, I thought eventhough I'm shiveing in this lightcoat, Sping sends its pesonal egads in those staight ows ofgeen. LastweekI met the woman who dove the fist Hoseless Caiage I eve saw. You got in fiom the back ofthat wondeful gas buggy and once we had a ide in it. That woman was an example of neveletting down. She evidently has had health, hasbeenalet in mind, body and ideas of dess andgooming all these yeas, fo she is a most attactive woman and she cetainly chuckled when I told he who I was and why I emembeed he. Finished Costain's "Son ofa Hunded Kings" Sunday and it was a stuggle. I thilled with his "The Black Rose" and had a definite let down feeling when I finally got to the end ofthis novel. I undestand that M. Costain has given the manuscipt of "Son of a Hunded Kings" to the Bant Histoical Society (he's a native of Bantfod) because Balfou in the novel is Bantfod, I suppose, and the eade is given a taste of theindustial development, mannes, customs, jealousies, etc. in the 800s and ealy 900s - a documentay wok ofthe times. Gils! Gils! watch youself - Fiend told me Satuday that a young woman answeed anadshe(fiiend) hadplaced intheecho with a scafaound hehead and he hai done up inpin culs. The job would have been a good pajdng one too. But the young woman placed heself at a disadvantage befoe she opened hemouth which didn't ovecome he good qualities. I'm a sentimentalist and even though I dip at times - it's alight too, in my estimation, fo without sentiment life would not be full, fo me at least. To get to the point, new fiiends and old fiiends must be boed with my "Itaught him ohe" - caught myselfdoing itagain ove the weekend when Ihead that Peggy Woof, with he lovely mezzo sopano voice, had won the J. Rose Bowl competition at the Windso Musical Festival Fiday night - and Peggy Buck's contalto had won inhe class. 88 I d Ll LiiJ PI T } ' f aj "' I J f May 3, 95 Deboah Anne Dufou, infant daughte of M. and Ms. David Dufou, is a lucky yoxmg miss because she has fou geat-gandfathes, Messs Anthony Maontate, John Dufou, Philip Bondy and Fank Delmoe. Geneal MacAthu was given a 9 gun salute duing the temendous "welcome home" paties given him ecently. In answe to why "9" - that gun salute is fo a Five Sta Geneal while "2" would be the coect salute fo a King o the Pesident. Got a collection ofstoies published in 85 at the Rummage Sale, and the book is in a faily goodstateof pesevation. As yet I haven't beenableto valueit fi-om a liteay standpoint buti will andamanxious to compae 85 with 95 style and content. A emak egading the amount of cultue in Amhestbug was made in this office Monday - and when you stop to think thee is an inteest in the ats hee - and a faily wide onetoo. A fotnight ago the Music Festival wasthe cente of inteest and this week it's the Ats and Cafts exhibit. A poet might say, "May bugeoned leafby leafand song by song," buti say, "How much bette we women look with a little make-up," and that's exactly what the wold did ove the past week,put on a littlecolo and the effectwas glamoous - CindeellaMay. The eddened boughsup Dalhousie Steet,the leaves that gew as we watched ove the damp hot weekend, the fosythia, the magnolias and the wild plums with thei lovely ed - all did the tick. When I hea about the occasional new Canadian cabbing about ou county o actually getting into a ow because they voiced thei dislikes ofus and ou way of life (as happened on Dalhousie Steet last Monday night) I see ed and feel that I'd like to subscibe towad a ticket to send him back to the old county. Hee's an example oflife in many counties, but not Canada. Itseems a Chinese Commimist magistate in Canton has odeed women unde 60 yeas to cut thei hai offshot o be liable to fine of seven pounds of ice, a woman who aived in Hong Kong fom Canton said this past week. The infomant said the magistate complained that time spent in combing and bushing long hai was "not economic." 89

47 When a peson such as I goes to an at exhibit, I can't citicize because I don't knowenough to do that,but I can pick out pictues I'd like to live with, as I did at the excellent exhibition ofthe wok ofamhestbug atists and caftsmen on display this week at the museum esidence (the old Hough house). I found that Ms. Noman Wilson's inteesting pictue "Rive Fog" appealed to me, as did "Bittesweet" with its lovely dak colos and lights effects which Ms. D.S. Heny painted. Ms. Robet McGee's "Still Life" had splendid eflections as caught in the bass tay and the polished table and I liked he colos. As fo the ceamics, in my estimation that is a healing hobby - modelling with clay and woking with colo would make any toubles ooze out, I'dthink, though the finges into the clay. Ms. Hoag's wee candle holdes and vase wee exquisite. Coming back to "Rive Fog," the house enveloped in fog in the pictue is the watewoks house and as I pace the beat up and down Dalhousie Steet, I've seen just what Ms. Wilson saw many many times and also wamed to the ed hydant in the foegound of he small pictue. Undestand that Ms. Robet McKinley ofamhestbug was unne-up on the "Queen fo aday" pogam one moning in Detoit afotnight ago. So many ofmy Haow fnends wee at the theate that day and thooughly enjoyed seeing this popula adio pogam. May 0,95 The violets which ae gowing hee and thee all ove the lawn at ou house lift thei little humble puple heads so shyly these days they take me by supise. In telling me ofadelightful winte spent in Phoenix, Aizona, Miss Gace Smith was ecstatic about the weathe and the fiiends winteing thee -among whom wee M. and Ms. Buddington Kelland. Miss Smith said that she and the popula Ameican autho (M. Kelland) have been fnends since they wee. They went to the same schools in Detoit. Much has been witten about the Mothe of 95, compaing he with the mothes ofthe same age in the ealy pat ofthe centuy. Then, when awoman was 90 ii ( u I Li 50 she was pactically jumping offstage, but not now, and the "yoimg" modem mothe, whethe she be 20 o 40 o 80, hasn't lost one bit ofespect o love because ofhe tansition. In fact, I feel she is close to he childen and gandchilden. So we can say, hee's to Mothe, and that toast caies the same ideas as in the past, but to a mothe who cetainly has not the same look o outlook. Mothe's Day is hee again and I like it - and don't agee with those who say with finality, "It's a commecial scheme and I don'tappove ofa special day to give mothe something fo he sweet tooth o to oveflow he stock of hankies o pefume" - in fact I appove of any excuse at all to give he a pesent. Thee's whee I let myself in fo citicism with my fnends who disappove, "Why do you need a special day?" "She doesn't need that any moe than a cat needs two tails," but it's He Day so hee goes. The following note came fom Isabel Pigeon O'Neil, fomely ofhaow, now ofkingsville, "I ead you commenton 'Son of a Hunded Kings' oflast week and I do so agee with you. It was a stmggle and with me, you could add a duty as the book was a gift. To me the most inteesting and fascinating book I have had lately was the 'City in the Dawn.' I am vey soy M. Havey died. My gandfathe and gandmothe Wight wee fist settles. She was a Leighton andhe fathe was an amy office at Quebec. She came upto Amhestbug viaoxcat andhoseback and she used to tell me stoies ofthe Indians having white childen in the tibe." May 7, 95 The gingham fields on ou beat between hee and Haow can outdo the hues and tints in a sping yad goods depatment. Attactive D. John Deamess of London, who was pincipal of the London Nomal School when I was thee in 920, celebated his 99"' bithday Sunday. When questioned by epotes he saidthat keeping busywas a big answe to his long life and (what is so impotant in my estimation) D. Deamess obseved, "I'm a ich man because I've a host offnends ofall ages." 9

48 When a young gil - a teenage - gets ona becoming sping fomal and goes to a dance with a boy inimifom - it does something fo the gil (osoi thought at the Cadet Dance Fiday night) fo the poise we oldstes talk about and want them to acquie seems to blossom out with the fomal and the cosage. The young people ae still going though that phase ofdancing with noone but thei escotall evening. When we in fea and tembling tell them how much moe fun they would have ifthey spead thei dances aound, they think we'e old fogies. Afte acadet Dance ayea o so ago, a smat mothe who has cetainly gown up with he family asked he son whyhe didn't exchange dances and tied to tell him of the fun. He was hoified thatshewould be so old-fashioned in he ideas and wondeed how she'd eve caught Daddy, o wods to that effect, to which she gaily answeed, "I met him when I went to a dance with anothe man." When the agument stats that the childen of today ae moe destuctive and give less thought to othes' popety than we in the good old days did, I've always upheld the child oftoday. But Satuday I was inthe pak and almost felt letdown by the boys and gils when Isaw the numbe ofchilden caying magnolia banches and blossoms caelessly tom off, and late thown on the gound and left thee when they stated to swing and play. Those beautiful lush blooms didn't like thei teatment any bette than Idid, fo they dooped in no time and esigned themselves to thei fate caused by little thoughtless hands. Eve wonde why an edito uses the wod "we" in witing an editoial? Ove 00 yeas the Williamstown (Iowa) Advocate submitted this explanation ofthe editoial we : A County Edito - is one who eads newspapes, selects miscellany, wites aticles on all subjects, sets type, eads poof, folds papes, and sometimes caies them, pints jobs, uns on eands, cuts wood, woks in the gaden, talks to his patons who call, patiently eceives blame fo athousand things that neve wee and neve can be done, gets little money, has scace time and mateials to satisfy his hunge, o to enjoy the quiet ofnatue's sweet estoe, sleep and esteems himselfpeculialy happy ifhe is not assaulted and batteed by some unpincipled demagogue who loves puppet shows and hies the abble with a teat ofcide band to vote him into some petty office. Aman who does all this and much moe, not hee ecoded, you will know must be aathe busy animal; and as he pefoms the wok ofso many diffeent pesons, he may justly be supposed thei 92 'i f \ i' "nn III "pi.j epesentative, and to have an indisputable ight, when speaking of himselfto use the plual numbe and to say we on all occasions and in all places." May 24, 95 A flowe huckste outside a Festival of Bitain exhibit did a bisk business peddling little golden buds wapped in a geen leaffotwoshillings (28 cents) each. Hundeds ofgaden-loving Bitonsboughtthe boutonniees withoutsuspecting they wee the season's fist dandelions. Ms. Emest Tofflemie has been having a busy time playing nusemaid to sixbaby squiels. It seems the mothe was killedby huntes, hence thejob. Ms. Tofflemie says they ae saucy little things and she gives them milk, com, etc. To my amusement, the Tofflemies, who ae especially fond of cats, ae keeping them ight away while this squiel-nusing job is in pogess. Poo cats, they will bejealous of the little usupes. Afte the tugboat ace Satuday night Captain "Scochy" Diekens of the tug Ameica said, speaking of Captain I.E. McQueen, "I thought he was too old. When my mothe-in-law, who comes fom England, talks about Chuchill's ability, I say, he's too old. But afte today (and I gave the Ameica [thid in the ace] all she had), I take back what I said about Captain McQueen being too old. Because he's not too oldandmaybe Chuchill isn't eithe." To all this. Captain McQueen stood by and chuckled.^ Fo paents ofgils intaining fo nuses ofo nuses themselves the book, "A Lamp is Heavy" by Sheila MacKay Russell will appeal temendously - it might be the stoy of any gil who has tained to be a nuse. In it is to be found all the heataches, the fim, the pathos, thejealousy, the fea, the apid gowing up and the ^"Cap" McQueen was 59yeas old at the time. 93

49 J mistakes of yoimg women in taining. Jean McConnell's cleve illustations which wee used in he book, "Nuse Please" ae used in "ALamp is Heavy," which was published last yea but is just catching up with us now. Sweet hamony, mino chods and fine blending of voices will be head once again at the high school this Fiday night when local and out oftown babeshoppes get togethe at the Sping Festival ofhamony. This yea thee is to be a gils' quatette fiom Gosse Pointe, the Babaettes, to show us that ifbabeshopping is fim fo men, it is fun fo women too. Ifyou ae inteested in heaing goups of people who like to sing, who delight in finding and clicking with new combinations ofchods, come on Fiday night and get acquainted with this type ofsinging - and the laughs will do us all good. Quoting Majo Gavin Geig afte the wondeful, spontaneous, enthusiastic geeting given Capt. J.E. McQueen and his cew when and afte the Atomic of Amhestbug came fiom the ace Satuday night, "We outdid MacAthu's do in New Yok. Thee they only got out 95% ofthe people to welcome the Geneal while hee in^^^estbug 99% ofthe people got out to welcome Captain McQueen and the boys." And H.M. adds to the quote -it was the enthusiasm, the laughte, the stimulating flavo ofthe happy occasion, the joy in accomplishment ofthat sweet little tug and he cew that appealed to me as we all enteed into the celebation - in fact we could hadly wait to hea the fist toot ofthe Atomic upive as she, waving he flags ofvictoy, came home in the sunset. May 3, 95 When I looked at the white fluy aound the spiea at the noth ofou house ove the windy ainy weekend, I felt that Sping could be tanslated into Winte. The dial phone is apet but so had on the nail polish - the end of a pencil instead ofindex finge, does the tick ofsaving the polish -and the stockings. hls. Taz Tillotson of Colcheste South was telling me of the beauty of he English walnut tee in blossom. The blossoms ae geen and esemble a cat-tail [ I f [-^ ] -..X...X f I" -..J f J f - n somewhat. The following is fo the teenages. It seems that a psychologist was asked, "Ae gils who helpthei mothes moe likelyto be popula?" and the answewas,"yes, accoding to a study of 40 feshmen gils at Montana Univesity. Afte six month's acquaintance in a domitoy, they voted thei pefeence ofoommates. Those who 'kept thei ooms at home,' 'painted funitue,' 'washed the dishes,' 'did choes aound house and bam,' and even 'helped to wok in the fields' wee found to be fa moe popula. Lend mothe a hand, gils, and be popula! We have a eal faiy tale being enacted in Amhestbug. About a yea and onehalfago a young Italian came to Amhestbug. Hebought with him a pictue of a young fellow-county woman whom the young man's cousin hee thought was vey attactive. So he beganwitingto the gil and they got to know one anotheso well though lettes that a poposal of maiage and acceptance followed. Quite ecently the bide-to-be came fom Italy and the happy end ofthis stoy is that a maiage is announced fo mid-jime. June 7, 95 Stawbeies ae ipe - and they cetainly smelled, looked and tasted good in Haow Tuesday, when once again the cool weathe was the chief topic of convesation. It was just 60 yeas ago that hundeds of maple tees wee planted in Amhestbug. They cetainly make good neighbous and I thank the old town fathes fo thei foesight evey time I go to the pak. I feel as if a fiend is gone when the wind catches one ofthem imawaes as it did Fiday night and ips it apat. Haven't seenthem advetized heebut waskeenly inteested in (nowthat I'm keeping house as a side line) Bondwae pape sevice, a matching highly nonabsobent sevice, the plates plastic-sufaced, which look tobe attactive labo saves fo summe - and inexpensive, in beautiful colos

50 Amodem convesation ovehead in Amhestbug estauant. Thee little boys wee dining togethe and one said when looking at the menu, "What's a pokehouse?" "That's not a poke-house," said anothe in disgust because of his sophistication egading meat cuts as he tied to explain. "I wouldn't know," said the fist, "we only have hambug at ou house" - and don't we all. i.iii -HI June 4, 95 I thought Miss Magaet Tuman's eply to the question as to whethe onot she would cutsey fo the Royal Family was the essence ofgood taste, "I'll do what I'm supposed to do." I'vesaid befoe I wish I could live until 2000 to see what was going on (but I won't by a long way) but if the following is a sample ofthe tend ofthought fo 95 I guess I'd bette stick aound to see how love and family life is going to be handled in 2000, and we quote, "If you ae 30 and still single, you ae a psychological case, accoding to a docto ofphilosophy in Johannesbug, South Afica, who has stated a maiage bueau which aims to match those psychologically suited to each othe." Thee cetainly isa vivacious ai about the gadens duing the Iis mach which is just about ove fo this yea. I always get such akick ove the iis emblems and the stiff geen swods. The following appeaed inthe Echo sixty yeas ago: A fame's wife binging 0 dozen eggs to Amhestbug o Windso can exchange them fo 4 pounds of ganulated suga. In Detoit she could get 33 pounds fo the same numbe. We have a woman inamhestbug, Ms. William Cavan, who makes beautiful hand-loomed textiles. The othe night as I was going home she called me into see some towels in lovely pastel shades which she had just finished to send to Califomia, and the nice thing about he at is that she is willing to teach othes. So ifyou have a yen to leam the at of weaving, we have an expet in the caft up Dalhousie Steet who is willing and eady to show othes. Ms. Cavan has eally ceated beautiful fabics and I'm sue that she would be only too glad to show he wok to anyone who might be inteested. XJ ] So often a peson's walk is a dead give away ofemotional condition - you might coect me onthat statement saying that we ae all inclined to slouch, that we have fogotten that head high, staight back and feet placed the ight way gives gace (which is an asset) - and that shouldes dooping, head down with eyes on sidewalk doesn't show woy. I'llnot ague the point but on Satuday I had occasion to watch the passesby downtown fo an hou and Ifelt that fom the childen up, we do show how we feel as we go about ou eveyday business when we think no one is paying attention o it doesn'tmatte what wehave on. It is awell known fact that chonic cossness is asue sign ofpoo health and die peson who pesistently "flies offthe handle" should see the family docto. I'm just as sue that destmctive citicism, which in most cases is bed by jealousy and unhappiness, is also a case fo a docto. I'm positive that the peson who sees wong in eveything anyone does o who citicizes anyone who does well needs medical cae -expet attention to get thei minds on ahighe plane ifthey can't do itfo themselves. Thee is too much destuctive citicism ofthis and that and the othe thing flying aound and ifwe eve expect to have a fine community whee eveyone is happy and woks togethe, we should say to ouselves befoe epeating heasay. Do I actually know that what I'm saying is ight." f I June 2, 95 Stawbey shotcake - that delicious food ofthe day - am abit patial to the wam butteed tea biscuit base athe than the cake - but eithe tickles the palate. See that to be ight up to the moment in the accessoy line this summe the smat woman weas alage medallion o locket with he classic shit. The chain o ibbon which goes unde the colla holds the onament at second button length, this giving asoftness which is so essential to the looks ofawoman.

51 Heaven fobid - saw pictues of the new fashion in hai in a posh woman's magazine and it'sbouffant, wide and sleek. The tick to this new style is the unde pemanent with hai on top smooth. The new style eminds me ofthe way we did ou hai in the oaing twenties, back combing the unde sides to get the bouffant look. In fact, ifi emembe ightly, occasionally in those days we used "ats" to make fo width. We wee talking about change in woman's leisue activities and a blanket statement was made that women nowadays neve have luncheons with cads aftewads oaftenoon cad paties. Duing the convesation the obsevation was made that we wee only talking about a few women, that no doubt that type of eceation is still going on - maybe it is, but ithas been a long time, since befoe Wold Wa Two, that Ihave head ofapivate bidge luncheon o bidge tea. This stoy about the actess Helen Hayes (who played Queen Victoia in "Victoia Regina" and had Vincent Pice as he Pince Consot) and he daughte May beas etelling. It seems that May had told he mothe, when Miss Hayes had confided in he that she was afaid of falling duing asilly dance in aplay, "So you'll fall. So the wost will happen. So you'll pick youself up and stat'ove again." Two yeas late when May died ofpolio. Miss Hayes emembeed those wods and found new stength in them. On Sunday we listened to and gloied ove atop flight adio teno singing "In the Gaden." His endition was beautiful but Ms. Alfed Stainton's intepetiion of that same lovely old hymn supasses his. Thee's nothing like music in my estimation, to emind one ofnice incidents in past life that have been tucked away and appaently fogotten. So it was on Sunday when the beauty ofthat hymn filled the lovely noontime ai, Icould in mind see ou fathe, tying out his bass on that hymn and woking up chods which would delight amodem babeshoppe. When the "Cliff's Victoy" glided upive on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. we had nngside seats fo the showing of that amazing new lakes' feighte She's a steamlined giant but the whistle coming fom such aviile ship disappointed me. Iguess Iexpected adeep bellow. This old Detoit Rive -thee's nothing like it fo beauty o continued inteest. [:"ii [" ^ ""V - liii tiui I"' pi June 28, 95 (&> Sunday week, M. and Ms. Allen J. Howie, Maiden, had a delightful visito in the peson ofthe Cisco Kid. Thei fnend Fank Dayus bought this cowboy heo of young and old down to call. Ms. Howie was telling me ofthe Cisco Kid's quiet cham and that being up ona pedestal inthe eyes ofsomany hasn't tumed his head one iota. That he is just an awfully nice young man. The childen's clothes made of billiant fluoescent-type yams ae cetainly lively. They ae abit statling in thei adiance and the colos ae cetainly high. The gleaming satin ofthe jackets I saw seems to act as a eflecto when the eye suddenly lights on them. I haven't seen any ofthe aticles thusly pocessed fo adults no have I seen them at night, but fiiend said in effect, "Did you eve see a pai of SOX walking?" Missed something vey, vey special Simday aftemoon because of a full pogam. Ms. Lucille Ouellette Shanahan was entetaining Siste Maie Anthony ofst. Louis and he blood siste. Siste Louise Maie ofloetta Academy, atthei home below town and I was invited to meet them. The nuns ae in Detoit while Siste Maie Anthony is designing &poducing the moe than 500 eye-catching costumes needed fo the "City offeedom" musical spectacle. The show, Detoit's 250*^ bithday poduction, will take place fom July 3 to 23 at Univesity ofdetoit Stadium. This Loettine mm thinks on a lage scale. I imdestand as she sketches the costumes and scenes with chacoal, held at am's length fo pespective, and thinks ofcolo combinations fo the vaious sequences ofthe gigantic spectacle to be shown on afive-level stage, as she goes along. He siste assists he constantly. She is even designing the costumes fo the living sceney (actos dessed as wate, winds clouds and mechanical objects), as well as fo all the othes. I was disappointed not to meet this dynamic peson and he siste - one of those nice things in life which occasionally almost touches you and passes you by. to be continued in Vol. VI 98 99

52 Abbott, Bet, 3 Aiken, Kate, 5 Alexande the Geat, 65 Andeson Heny D., May (Paks), Amstong, Elizabeth, 5 Ame, Allen, Bailey Bill, 39 Yvonne, 5 Balzac, Honoe, 48,49 Bassett. See Heaton, Howad, Ms. C.H., Capt., Beaudoin John, 59 Muiel (Vollans), 59 Bedal Leonad, 36 Wa3Tie, Ms., 50 Beetham,, Misses, 5 Beneteau,. SeeMaion, Seaphin, Ms. Bele, Milton, 68 Betand Diffod, Ms., 45 Si, Ms., 40 Bethe, Hans, 2 Boeme, E.S., 4 Bok, Edwad, 83 Bondy Noeen. SeeDufou, Noeen (Bondy) Philip, 34, 89 Botsfod Dan, Ms., 2 David, 2, 72 flame Index Boussey Bay, 8 Havey, 8 Lay, 8 Batt, Hebet, 6 Baun, Fed, 6 Books Pete, Rev., 29 Ruby, 29 Sheldon, 29 Bown Jane (Scatch), 6 John, 6 Vea, 67 Bowning Michael, 27 Toy, 26 Bush Hilton, Jey, 7 Les, 7 Buck Dave, 63 Peggy, 88 Buk, Gace (Robinson), 4 Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe, 7 Callam, Capt., 40 Magaet. See Golden, Magaet (Callam) Cavan, William, Ms., 52,96 Cavan family, 85 Chapman, Ruby, 74 Chuchill, Winston, 56, 93 Cisco Kid, 99 Clae, Val, 8 Cook, Blanche, 66 pi "" pj F n ] L.J.J- Conwall Havey, 2 Jessie, 2 Milton, Ms., 0 Costain, Thomas, 88 Cisp, Donald, 30 Davies, M.C., Rev., 4 Dayus, Fank, 99 Deamess, John, D., 9 Delmoe, Fank, 34, 89 Deslippe,Jack, Ms., 5 Dickens, Chales, 48 Diekens, 'Scochy', Capt., 93 Dio, Chistian, 6 Dix, Doothy, 62 Doan, Ruth (Down), 6 Dowswell J.A., 66 Kathleen (Pettypiece), 9 Duby, Hay, 55 Dufou David, 32, 89 Deboah Anne, 89 John, 34, 89 Noeen (Bondy), 32 Dumas, Alexande, 49 Edmonds, C.H., 0 Einstein, Albet, 2 Elizabeth, Pincess, 65 Elizabeth, Queen, 4, 50,80 Ellis, Iene. See Muphy, Iene (Ellis) Evans, Ray, 38 Evead,, Miss, 30 Feis, Geta. See Thashe, Geta (Feis) Fields, Gace, 78 Finzel,, 76 Fleming, Kenneth, Ms., 0 Flynn, James, Ms., 76 Fonville Byce, 82 Byce, Ms., 82 Veale, 79 Foste, John A., 6 Fox Ed, 8 Geald, 8 Giad, 8 Jane, 8 Jean, 8 Fench Chuck, 3 P.G., Ms., 79 Gatfield, William, Capt., 5 Geoge VI, King, 50 Gignac, Magueite, 87 Golden Magaet (Callam) (aka Ms. A.J. Golden), 85 Richad, 2 Goodchild Blanche. See Paott, Blanche (Goodchild) David, 35 John, 28, 35 Godon,, Judge, 55 Gay, John, Ms., 0, 85 Gette, Lysta, Ms., 86 Gieg, Gavin, Majo, 73, 94 Guest, Bud, 74 Hackett, Miss, 38 Annie, 32 Magaet, 3 Minnie. See Staffod, Minnie (Hackett) Hamilton Bill, 22 Maijoie (Paks) (aka Ms. H.L. Hamilton), 0-, J SI 0

53 Hais Alonzo, 55 E.C., Ms., 34 Helen (nee Hais), 55 James, 55 Havey,, 9 Hayes, Helen, 98 Haynes, Fed, 8 Head, Joseph R., Ms., 48 Heaton, Howad, Ms., 0, 72, Hemingway, Enest, 77 Heny, D.S., Ms., 90 Hoag, But, Ms., 0, 90 Hodgman, Floa, 3, 59 Howie, Allen J., 37, 99 Hugo, Victo, 48 Hutchins, Miss, 6, 52 Edwin, Ms., 76 Hutchinson,, D., 40, 85 Hutchinson family, 54 Jensen, Geoges, 23 Johnston, Edwad, 87 Jolson, Al, 55 Jones Bob, 2 Geoge, 2,40 Kelland, Buddington, 90 Kelleman, Annette, 3 Kelley, James M., 58 Kennedy, William, 5 Lafoet family, 72 Lake, Eddie, 5 Leacock, Stephen, 24 Lilienthal, David, 2 Lombado, Guy, Louise Maie, Siste, 99 Luckham, Alge, 82 Lypps, Thomas, 2 MacAthu, Douglas, Geneal, 89,94 Macdonald, Geoge F., 7 Manning,, D., Maie Anthony, Siste, 99 Maion, Seaphin, Ms. (nee Beneteau), 7 Maontate Anthony, 34, 89 Fancis, Ms., 65 Mash Bessie, 59, 72, 78 John, 2,42 Maye, Bill, 75 Mayes, James, 85 McCaffeiy,John, 77 McConnell,Jean, 94 McGee, Robet, Ms., 90 McGego family, 28 McKenzie, Helen, 72 McKinley, Robet, Ms., 90 McQueen J. Eal, Capt., 26, 27, 28,42, 93, 94 J. Eal, Ms., 30 McQueen family, 38, 85 Meisne Eveet, 39 Scott, 39 Menzies Ivo, 68 Jack, Capt., 5 Jimmy, 68 Tommy, 68 Melo C.P., 40 C.P., Ms., 4 Melo family, 63-64, 84 Mickle Alexande, 86 Chales, 6 Tom, 8 Mine, Jack, 56 Mooe, Gace, 4 Mois, J.R., Ms., 3.,T ^ n J Mudoch, William, Ms., 4 Muphy, Iene (Ellis), 6 Nattess, Bill, 58 Nestle, M., 44 Nichol,, 77 Nightingale, Floence, 86 Noble, Jack, 50 O'Madden, Eliza, 30 O'Neil, Isabel (Pigeon), 9 Oppenheime, Robet, 2 Ouellette Lucille. See Shanahan, Lucille (Ouellette) Luke, 5 Victo, 46 Ounswoth, Leslie, 64 Paetz, Hebet, 85 Paks J.G., Majoie. See Hamilton, Maijoie (Paks) May. See Andeson, May (Paks) Paott, Miss, 32, 34 Blanche(Goodchild), 32 Ralph, 32 Peck, Helen (Templeton), 30-3 Peeie,, Miss, 2 Pettypiece Kathleen. SeeDowswell, Kathleen (Pettypiece) Stephen, Ms., 43 Pigeon Fed, 8 Isabel. See O'Neil, Isabel (Pigeon) Pilon, Dennis, Ms., 5 Poinsett, J.R., 69 Pouget Eugene, Ms., 76 Jimmie, 2 Yvonne, 53 Pozna, Jules, 22 Peston, Getude, 75 Pice Hazen, 23 Helen, 82 Vincent, 98 Queen, Elme, 45 Richadson, Goe, 67 Ridley, Donald, Ms., 74 Ridsdale Anold, 83 Anold, Ms., 83 Hay, 64 Robidoux, Heny, 56 Robinson, Gace. See Buk, Gace (Robinson) Roen, John, Capt., 26 Roosevelt, F.D., Ms., 2 Ross, Judith, 70 Rosselino, G.R., 58 Rubenstein, Helena, Russel Ellen, 8 Joyce, 8 Russell, Sheila (MacKay), 93 Saltmache, Kenneth, 0 Scott,, 49 Scatch, Jane. See Bown, Jane (Scatch) Shananan, Lucille (Ouellette), 99 Shaw, Babaa, 6 Shubet, Heny, 6 Simpson, Jeome, Ms., 29 Smith Angela, 47 Bill, 34 Fank, 8 02 PI! 03

54 Smith {continued) Gace, 90 Magueite, 8 Rosemay, 8 Snide, May, 9 Spende Haold, 22 Ruth, 22 Squie, John, Ms., 40 Staffod Helen, 32 Minnie (Hackett), 32 Mot, D., 32 Stainton, Alfed, Ms., 98 Stanley Haiet, 62 Lee, 38, 62, 67 Stevenson, Robet Louis, 48 Sutton Jimmy, 43 Sue, 43 Templeton, Helen. See Peck, Helen (Templeton) Thibodeau, Gay, 34 Thomson, Clinton, Ms., 5 Thashe Claibell, 82 Geta (Feis), Haold, Joan, William, 82 Tillotson, Taz, Ms., 94 Tofflemie, Enest, Ms., 93 Tuman, Magaet, 97 Utte,, Ms., 43 Veney, Andeson, Ms., 29 Vollans, Muiel. See Beaudoin, Muiel (Vollans) Walke, J.A., Rev., Webste, Fed, 5 White, Peal, 3 Wiese, Evelyn, 50 Wigle Cliffod, Jimmy, Ms., 34 Williams, Godon, 28 Wilson F.E., Ms., 9 Gace (aka Ms. Noman Wilson), 0, 73-74, 90 Woodbidge, Rosie (Wight) (aka Ms. Chales Woodbidge), 25 Woof, Peggy, 88 Woolman, John, 66 Wight Flossie, 20 Rosie. See Woodbidge, Rosie (Wight) Roy, 0 woct GO Editos' Note: The Echo of Febuay 22, 95, page, has the caption, "Capitalist Heads Nationalized SteeF' ove a photo ofa man. The cut line below states, "You ae looking into theface ofone ofnatue's most vicious ceatues, the man-eatingpianha..." On page 5 the caption, "We Look Like Dinne tohim" tops a photo ofanugly fish. The cut line below eads, "A capitalist membe ofthe Bitish Labo paty, Steven Hady, 65, has been made chaiman ofthe boad ofthe Ion and SteelCopoation of GeatBitain..." No wonde the Echo took some ibbing about this mix-up! [ * " ^- ' 04 jt

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