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1 Pieces by I[elcji IHash 4 I L MoH V.5 IQ4(l-liS LCC Miish ('olu'clion Socicly Amhcslhiiy. Ontaio. Canada

2 jll Copyight 2000 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, opats theeof, may not beepoduced in any fom without the witten pemission ofthe Mash Collection Society and the Amhestbug Echo, except bya eviewe who wishes to quote biefpassages fo inclusion in a eview. ISSN Fist pinting 2000 Pinted by Ti-Gaphics Bown & Associates Amhestbug, Ontaio The Mash Collection wishes to thank Jeanette McGath and Shaon Maite fo volunteeing thei time to assist us with this publication. f T t I 'T JlJ. t Ju., [ v I n Jig P P p P P (Sonvesation IPieces In 94 HelenMash gave up he teaching position at the Amhestbug Public School to join he bothe John at the Amhestbug Echo, whee she emained xmtil 980 when illness compelled he to etie at eighty yeas yoimg. The Amhestbug Echo of Septembe 26, 94 announced a newfeatue page entitled "OfInteest to Women"... We ae going to ty and make this as inteestingas possiblefo the ladies - andfo the men too, if they'e cuious about what the womenfolk ae doing- and they usually ae. It willcontaintopics ofcuent inteest, hintsfo the homemake and suggestions that might help the handthat ocks the cadle to ule the wold. Women ae taking an active pat in the affais ofthei communities and in the Empie today and we will endeavou to chonicle the doings of those in the Haow andamhestbug disticts... The name of the page changed fom "OfInteest to Women" to"ofthilling 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. Cove logo by Connie Sinasac f(i' V

3 J3H Septembe 5,946 Cockscomb in Septembe - nothing could be lovelie than that dense ed in the gaden and that colo used as a basic aticle o accessoy to stimulate a fall wadobe. When I stopped teaching I had what I thought was an inexhaustible stoe of childen's stoies. Svmday night the wee gil at ou house wanted "The Thee Beas" so I stated and what a stoy ittumed out tobe, as I had completely fogotten the sequence and consequently omanced hee and thee befoe I finally got Goldilocks unning on he way home though the woods. I have a petty dim view at pesentof my ability to chama child with a stoy. Afte teaching phonics and now, in this job, unning into so many new Canadians who have difficulty with English, Ithooughly appeciated the following little gem which illustates one ofthe wost stumbling blocks o fi-eaks in English. The sentence is headed (cetainly with tongue in cheek) "The Basic Ough -Aoughcoated dough-faced ploughman stode though steets ofscaboough coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfiilly." I ead once an Italian who tying to explain English to his countymen wote a volume entitled "English as she is spoke." When we wee having dinne at the Haow Fai, avey lage, quite old, most inteesting Gypsy woman laden with jewely and gay with shapeless clothes'came and sat diectly opposite. I could hadly keep fi:om staing at he, even the lines in he face wee fascinating. I wanted to ask whee she was bom (and ifmy fathe wee hee he'd add why?) Whee she had lived? How many childen she had? Whee they wee? Ifhe life had always been nomadic? But do you know, was too shy and now I fea that I'vemissed something. How do they do it? Yea afte yea we attend the Haow Fai and look fowad to one ofthe highlights, the fai dinne. Each yea we think that this is the best yet, but it isn't. The capabilities ofthose Haow women's goups, so fa as cateing to the public.is concened, is inexhaustible. We looked fo evidence of shotages but thee was none -chicken on Fiday (lots ofit too) with all the timmings. When you plan achuch suppe you know appoximately the numbe ofmeals to pepae, but when seving as this Helps Class ofhaow United Chuch did on Fiday you know ' f ' f f j' L. " ( L J33 P p T> '-J how many meals wee seved last yea and can use that as a yadstick, but as was the case Fiday, 75 chickens wee pepaed fo the day and fifty wee used fo dinne so the ladies scuied aound and got anothe 25 fo the suppe cowd. Ms. Lawence Quick, the pesident, as we saw Fiday evening when things wee a bit tense fo fea of "the gmb miming out," is a vey capable leade and doesn't seem to get flusteed in a pinch. At five o'clock people wee in a queue in font ofthe dining hall and afte seven when we came out thee was still a line-up. Afte seving fo two hous when we went in, the chicken, potatoes, hot gavy, applesauce, peas, caots, salad, tomatoes, com elish, pie, coffee, etc. couldn'thave been tastie. Septembe 2,946 Himdeds of swallows swoop into the Geneal Amhest High School chimney evey night oflate - getting eady fo thei long flight, I suppose. The time ofjewely is at hand and decoative gold buttons used aound the cown of a cloche do fo the favoite of tailoed hats what a head of galic does to a juicy steak. I always thought that when a woman stoodwith hands on hips the stanceadded ten yeas to he age. In the latest edition of an ulta smat magazine, thee out of fou ofthe sleek models aepictued with hands onhips andthedistubing influence is not thee. But I still don't like it, fo when a woman stikes that attitude she invaiably stands with all the weight onone leg and the back view is petty awful. I'm not awfully pleased with these ealy Septembe days - too many uninteesting leaves on the goimd andtoo manydull dab spots on the tees andtoo much pepless, washed out looking gass - no ain of couse - the gadens at the nothem entance to the town and the splashes in font ofthe Andedon elieve the monotony ofwhat looks like a lifeless cololess fall - and howi'll miss the colo if this actually happens. P.S. The ain on Tuesday may chase the autumn pictue, hee's hoping. P LJ 'f

4 .Jl! The gape smell will soon pevade all households wheejelly, jam and juice ae. being made fom this popula fuit. Most Canadian woman add gapes to thei shelves because ofits taste appeal, but don't ealize that vaious medicinal values ae attibuted to gape juice. Five thousand yeas ago gapes wee consideed so impotant to health that thei intoduction was thought to be supematual. The Romans cedited gapes to Bacchus, the Geeks to Dionysus and with the Egyptians it was Osiis. I'm just at the stage whee I will not ecommend no definitely endose one thing. I ave ove a book o a movie; fiend picks bothto pieces. I shop fo fiend and neithe the colo no quality isasgood aswhat I have owhat othes get (so she says). I paise food stuffs and what she gets at some place doesn't come upto he standad and she "wondeed how I could use what I got." So fom now on I've decided that I'llsimply give my eaction to book, movie o adio pogam and shy clea ofthe food business altogethe, so ifthe meat istough the esponsibility won't be shifted to me. I'll wage it won't make oft-epeated convesation eithe. Septembe9,946 Afish stoy - evidently inthe ush and tea without the Edito aninfinitesimal bit oftype - (thee itis) -. - used as adecimal point was left out ofastoy last week - the.50 inches ofainfall vs the.47 last yea - it's not aflood we'e having but a dought, almost. One ofthe Geneal Amhest gils who is at a camp in Nothen Ontaio has witten home seveal times these past two weeks about the penetating cold at night and he night gea, but the pay-offcame in alette Satuday when she said that she had slept with mitts on. I, fo one, who knows the lad, will be glad when Vincent Pice gets out ofoles ofamaladjusted peson, apsychopathic case. See that he has signed to co-sta with Heny Fonda in "A Time to Kill" when he will play the pat ofamagician in astoy ofpost-wa Pittsbugh and hope he smiles and is gay as he is in eal life. n l.l.j h Many have been the compliments on Rose Mimge's wedding gown (she was maied in Haow a week ago Satuday). It seems that both the satin in the dess and the net in the veil had a decided pinkish cast which made an unusual effect. The tade name fo this new (to me anyway) bidal mateial is cameo. Pink and white cosmos in a geen Gecian vase, placed on a west deep-silled window with the ive and simset in the backgomd at the old Hough house Satuday night, gave wamth along 'with the lage open fieplace to the bae oom whee we had dinne. The gaceful vase eminded me ofthose objets d'at which we had to copy and shade way back in Wold Wa I high school days. Septembe 26,946 cqn Tun the hose on spide webs and see how beautiful the inticate silve stands become- and too, it's amazing just how much wate those fine theads can hold without beaking the patten. Despite the flae-up caused by the maigolds, chysanthemums and dahlias, I still think that this is to be an uninteestingfall. The sun playing on the much-toomany died leaves fo this time ofthe yea lying on ouivefont lotdid liven things up a bit. But what I want is dense colo in the maples, lavishly splashed aound, fogetting what colo should be placed beside what. Old-time epoting oflove events and pedictions m the distict as witten in the sixty-yea files amuse me. Fo instance, last week I an acoss a news item, "Doves ae hoveing aound the sixth ofcolcheste South and two maiages ae expected," and "Aman ofthe second ofmaiden is eyeing with matimonial intentions the belle ofthe fouth ofcolcheste South." Bing in a few annuals to add to the indoo gaden this fall - petvmias and maigolds will flowe gaily in the house, if you choose bushy plants to bing inside. Ms. Walte Wigle has geat success with this. Last yea afte Chistmas she had fuchsias, pettmias and snapdagons in full bloom in an east window. Then too, hee's a tip, ifwhen the fist fosty nights come you have a lot of flowes in bloom

5 in the gaden, wate them with a fine spay towad evening. Dampness evens up tempeatue and helps potect flowes fom ealie fosts. Was eading that natue's gandest desse is Woody, the beautiful dake, who spotsa cest. I've neve seen this gay membe ofthe duck family but I have seen some of J.H. Button's pheasants and they cetainly flaimt thei gaudy colos. Although the oange, ed and bowns in the golden pheasants don't appeal to me like the black and white combination in M. Button's silve pheasants. The inticate pattens in fine black and white etching on the backs ofthis paticula beed wee as lovely as any lace I have eve seen. As I lookaound it seems to me that mostof us have the wong appoach with fiends, family and childen egading some of thei habits, o shall I call them deadlines. Bomany ofus foget that othes, especially teenages, have a diffeent tempo of living, so why getomselves in a lathe because they ae not getting to the movies on time o to a dance o to a swimming date. It's thei loss. I wonde ifwe cut out the nagging only when it should be done, when thee's a bus o a mail to catch, fo instance, wouldn't itcany moe weight. Bo often I've seen paents talking away about huy up and they might just as well have saved thei beath because evidently ithas become so chonic that the childen neve hea it- much less obey. Octobes, 946 O) Jxi Two tips - Bave milk bottle inse and add egg shells fo plant dink. undestand plants and flowes thive onit. Ifdishes ae to bedied inthe ack inse fist with boiling wate, then add afew dops of ammonia to solution and bing to a boil. Theninse and dip in alcohol. Anothe tip - Diamond ings can be cleaned at home. Put in a staine ove white soap suds and add a few dops ofammonia to solution and bing to a boil Then inse and dip in alcohol. Petty plain wods but sometimes we too have found with loaned books, you need them - noticed one of D. Abbott's old medical books at the Museuni and I J-j -L_... T w! pinted on the leaves at the top wee these wods, "Btolen fom R. H. Abbott." When J.A.M. was in Toonto on Batuday he was talking to a fiend who etuned vey ecently fom a tip to Euope. He told that the clothes and food situation in England is ghastly - that Englishmen and women don't seem to be bitte eithe when they lookat the attactive clothes being displayed in the shop windows and at the sign below which eads "Foexpot only." Noticed that the Pictou, Nova Bcotia pape editoially is advocating that a woman un fo town councillo. The edito says, "Don't think the idea is silly, eithe, fo thee neve was any sot of business that wasn't the bette fo having a woman's touch." I heatily agee withpictou's idea and we have plenty of smat, sound-thinking women ighthee in Amhestbug who could, if theywould, be an asset to the council o the school boads. [Editos' Note: Thefist woman elected topublic office inamhestbug was Josephine Ouellette, who became a tusteefo the Essex County SepaateSchool Boad in 957. Amhestbug'sfistfemale town councillo was Rose Kelly, elected in 973.] Ms. Iene Kitchen isgiving a fine pictue ofthe Bouth Dalhousie Steet ofeight yeas ago to the Museum. It shows the west side of the steet fom he gandfathe Kane's Dug Stoe (now thel. J. Montgomey house) to oldms. Kingsmill's house (The Deehead Club). Bouth of the dug stoe is Heny McKinny's house, whee Amhestbug's fist libay was housed. The D. Jas. Pak house looks exactly as it does today and the Kevill house on the come is gone. John Kane was appointedthe fist coone in Essex County in 860 and Ms. Kitchen is also giving his official appointment to the Museum. When the Jaunting Goup of the Windso Univesity Women's Club was holding an infomal meeting on the gounds at the Museum Satuday aftemoon discussing the jaunt fo Octobe, I listened in. The women talked ove tips to the zoo, Detoit Times, Canbook, the Rackham Building, Detoit Institute of Ats, Geenfield Village, Detoit Libay and Pelee Island. What stmck me duing the discussion was the fact that the women had neve been to those spots so nea Windso, that they knew nothing of that chaming poject at Canbook o of Detoit's famous AtCente. It all boils down to thefact thatso often things closest to us aewhatwepassby. We do go aoundoftento seethe points of inteestin ou

6 locality when wehave visitos fom afa. They, inanswe to ou"what will we do today?", get usout to Deabon oto the at cente, fo they know moe about those wondefiil pojects than we who almost liteally live ight on top ofthem. Octobe 0,946 Natue is in its most polific mood these days, but Istill wish she would get a little moe geneous with the colo. Face the nothwest tonight (Thusday) and watch the shooting sta display -a phenomenon that we can't affod to miss (ifweathe conditions pemit, ofcouse) The ten-yea-old gils oftoday make leaf houses just as we did, only Inotice that they have the occasional piece of eal funitue and don't make thei houses with as many ooms as we did - tend of modem home building has stmck them also. JLi One day of late a mothe and young son. Kindegaten age, wee going out of Jones' Soda Shop and as lad boimded out, mothe in low tones asked him to "come back and open the doo fo mothe." It was done vey quietly and I thought that little things like that, leaned as a small child, help youngstes ove the teenage stage and make themcomfotablegown-ups. They ae not sociallyawkwad at any time. Ou ive, o as I think ofit, my ive, catching the eflections ofthe tees, the ive lights, the stas, the dak hulk ofthe feightes, its smooth suface gashed by the moonlight, was vibant with hfe Sunday night. Did you eve look at the moonstip on the shimmeing ive though an old pine tee? It's just like something a moviepoducewould think up to set the stage fo omance. Thee ae seveal spots along the ive - Captain McQueen's, F.H. Coope's and Hebet Paetz' - whee this pictue may be seen. Octobe 7,946 Inteest is gowing in hooscopes and sales of magazines on astology ae eaching big figue backets. Evey so often of late, when talking bithdavs someone wdl say to me, "Ae we in the same sign?" -people whom you would neve associate tvith an inteest in that subject. I couldn't concentate on one thing in paticula as I walked alone Laid at twilight Monday mght -the pinkish glow fom the setting sun gave amagical effect to the most commonplace weed, the almost full moon was not to be outdone and ^^Mi^feave^^^^ continuous light staccato Astunning h^d-loomed knitting bag was my suipise package Satudav \\^eavmg IS one ofcanada's most inteesting handicafts and now that wool i^ew eleased fom the scace list gadually, the possibilities ofthis caft will be It IS most inteesting to see the wok being done by seveal of the moe advantd pupils of the weaving classes which wee given last yea in the basement of th. libay. P p n "Ashap tongue usually goes with a dull mind" - At fist glance you'll think I'm wong, but look aound. Last Tuesdaynight at the Rotay dinne someonewas thoughtful enough, o I was smat enough, to sit nea a btmch of nastutimns which was like contolled flames with its wee tongues offie. Dissension in the anks of the 8-2-yea-old boys all ove the bell bottom touses andnavy hats of the seascouts. Some of the ladsof the Cub age evidently ae so keen about the swank ofthe two aticles ofunifom mentioned above that cubbing and its unifom has lost its glamo - bell bottom touses the eason. Do you wonde? Seveal times of late on a chillyevening, we've had the fieplace oaing and I noticed that it makes things aoimd it fluid and beautiful (fo nothing is moe beautiful than wate to me), even the eflection ofthe lamp, -window cutains, bass candlesticks, window. Royal Doulton sette opposite as seen in the mantle mio dift and become molten and wam. LJi f

7 Octobe 24,946 Some spots wites haven't a moe avid followe than I - although with the gloious wam weekend weathe Ijustcouldn't devou the epot of thered Wings game in the Monday moning pape - hockey and the lustous blue to which Octobe's sim has polished the skyjust don't go togethe in my mind The edito isglowing in his paise of Malcolm Bingay's "Detoit is My Home Town" - so I've something in the eading line to look fowad to this week if unmiaging and othe such activities don't knock too many hous out ofmy day. Embaassment oftenesults whenwomen do not knowthe diffeence between "Let's have luncho dinnetogethe" and"i shouldlikeyouto have lunchwith me." The fist cetainly means a "Dutch Teat" affai and the second definitely should be answeed by "Thanks" (and no fumbling fo money). The death ofms. Vincent L. Pice, Vinma (Vincent and Magueite, pat of thei fist names, to coin the name) Lodge bings to mind the many outstanding entetainments which she diected fo Chist Chuch, Amhestbug. Ms. Pice had the knack of good showmanship and she could daw into he goups often the geenest of geen local talent and afte he taining and suggestions the finished pefomance was woth seeing. The othe night befoe attending a meeting of the Essex County Libay Association at Willistead Itook in the exhibition ofcanadian Atists in the galley Although I wouldn't have any place in my home fo Kathleen Munn's woks, I found he two pencil dawings by fa the most inteesting. The geometical pecision in the backgound, the shading and the atist's emakable knowledge of anatomy appealed to me. The two Munn pictues being shown cuently ae "The Cucifixion" and "The Last Suppe." Evey time I go to Willistead Libay Iget alift fiom something Isee, and the othe night the biggest chuckle was fiom aglance though abook "I am aneuotic" - the autho was adocto with amavelous sense ofhumo who with his tongue in his 0 ^ ' li! l_jp!=. f I i I- w p If, ' FT ) cheek put us (women especially) staight on many of the queeish things we do, which although we don't ecognize as dange signals, some psychiatists intepet as such. Afte eading this book we don't need to fea when such and such a psychologist tells us that when we ush back in the house too often to see if the stove's offwe ae in the fist stages ofa mental illness. Octobe 3,946 The houses have spung to life these autumn nights, even in the Sunday night fog. No use ehashing the gold and blue weekendwith all its gloy, but the teenages playing football on the pak in thei bae feet caused moe than a chuckle. Real hai nets ae on the maket again at 25c a piece. These necessities ae made in China and the athehigh pice shows what inflationcan do to a coimty. At that pice, I undestand the wholesales ae just making thei nomal pofit. As a membe of the Fouth Estate I cetainly don't feel that I should get into vaious functions without paying. I am a citizenof this community and as a citizen ealize my esponsibility towad civic o chuch functions. Bulb time is hee fothe indoo gaden as wellas the outdoo. If sping bulbs aeto be foced indoos, buycued o teated bulbs, which have beenpepaed fo focing long befoe they ae on sale. Eath is the natual situation fo bulbs, although in pots o glasses they will bloom imde unnatual conditions. Potted bulbs must be allowed to make a vigoous oot gowth in a dak, cool spot befoe being bought into the wamth ofthe oom. Novembe 7,946 About 00 Essex County Atists ae cuently exhibiting thei wok at

8 Willistead. The two monach butteflies that glided acoss my path Sunday liteally glistened inthe shap sunshine and soft ai which wee mixing thei heady elixi, not only fo me but fo them. When thoughts ofstoking coal, winte clothes and winte activities ae being pushed aside by the wam unbelievable weathe, itseemed vey stange to see M. St. John cleaning up the skating ink spot inthe pak Monday, pepaing to get un the wall boads. The sumac on Bob-Lo is poving amagnet to me and dawing me to that island to wande aound as I did evey fall as a child gatheing nuts and mushooms and getting my fill ofthat delightful spot v^ithout alot ofpeople aound who don't cae fo much thee except the amusements. So we esent the fact that some ofthe Bitish bides find us cold. I wonde if they haven't apefect ight to thei opinion. Hee in Amhestbug thee ae pehaps 55 Bitish bides and Iwonde how many calles o invitations they have had. They who ae used to acup oftea and achat in the aftemoon must miss it -and it'ssuch an easy fom ofentetainment. Since I've been iding the buses moe fi-equently of late, I've had my eyes opened on why some men don't offe thei seats to women. They've been embaassed too often. Isaw it myselfthe othe night. "My seat, Madame," he said "Oh no, Icouldn't," and the agument went on and on as people pushed and pushed' and I'll wage the poo man felt he had plague. Sometimes we hate to take the tied businessman's seat but it would make him feel bette ifwhen he offes we accent with gatitude and no agument. It makes me povoked when men say we'e impolite in cowds - but maybe we ae. In 50 yeas the Women's Institute has become apowe not only in Canada but in the wold. Next yea when the Golden Jubilee is celebated the eading public wiu hea how this women's oganization has aised the status ofwomen thovmhont the wold. 2 LL I! PI [' ' I' - u. It's eally amazing how the populaity of the Bunne Mond Fiday evening dancing paties has kept up though the past fou yeas. The young people of the town fom teenages to the twenty-people ae a dandy lot and it's a pleasue to be thee with them. Was eading anaticle onwhy women pefe to wok fo men and the theoy advanced was that when women wok fo women the omance facto is gone. No do they take odes so eadily fom women bosses because a woman is moe ofan equal. Then too, the aticle went on to say awoman employe can see though many little feminine ticks that a gil can wok successfully on male employes, which makes he unpopula. Then, giving the olde woman a dig, said she may feel jealous ofthe younge, pettie gil employee, especially tue since the younge gil may be able to may some man who is even supeio to he woman employe and thus quickly gain an indiect supeioity to the woman boss. Well, I haven't been aound in business enough to feel this o see why women couldn't wok togethe amicably - to be poweful, women have to stick togethe in a good woking unit. When eading about the citical pettiness of women bosses, I thought of a fiend's ecent comment on Detoit's highest paidwoman columnist, Vea Bown. Fiend knows Miss Bown intimately, in fact woked with he, and said that although Miss Bown isa vey had woke, 4 to 6 hous a day and neve misses a deadline, she is most sympathetic towad pesons unde he who have neithe physical stength no the ability to keep up to he standad, and she's always eady to give help and encouagement to evey gil in the office. Neve too busy to assist and give constuctive citicism to the epote just leaning the game. As a consequence, fiend said Miss Bown is liked by all who wok with he and cetainly not fogotten by those who have left the Times, as fiiend has. Novembe 4,946 Like the looks and the feel of low-heeled wedgies but despite the New Yok shoe fashion designes, I cannot see the beauty in the high-heeled ones- a bound Chinese woman's foot comes to mind. 3

9 I heatily agee with what a New Yok advetising woman said, "A woman can beasefficient anany business tycoon - asactive asa lumbeijack! But the secet of he cham is still femininity!" I feel that goes fo women inthe home, too. This is the intoduction to awedding wite-up in the Echo fifty yeas ago. The pess cetainly gave the bide away in a blaze of wods in 896. Hee it is: "At noon on Wednesday last, anothe ofamhestbug's fai and most popula daughtes was sacificed on the Hymenial alta in the beautifully decoated palos at he fathe's esidence," etc., etc. Though the silveyain Monday moning as Ilooked ive-wad the inconguity ofnatue was so appaent, dense geen gass, dandelions, piles of leaves, bae tees, ageatum, salvia, delicate pink snapdagons and petunias blooming luxuiantly ii the gaden. To the noth the pictue was simila with ed ivy, chysanthemums, maigolds, dahlias and zinnias defying the bae tees and gay autumn sky. One ofmy pet peeves is apactical joke, and afte seeing the exhausted state offiiend the othe night afte having had a telephone call that his pal had been involved in an accident only to have the peson supposed to have been involved walk in oblivious ofcommotion, Idecided that doctos should ifthey could pefom opeations at bith on such people and emove the paticula body pat which pompts such actions. The women do it again. When the initial plans fo the Sevicemen's tukey dmne wee made, the fact ofseving abang-up tukey dinne with all the timmines to 400 o so hungy ex-sevice pesonnel in an auditoium without adequate kitchen eqmpment seemed acolossal, almost impossible feat. But when agoup ofwomen fom all dffeent oganizations and chuches get togethe, they can do wondes Evidently fom the glowmg epots ofthe food and the eplete look ofthe guests at cay though How can it be stopped! By paents, teaches and Sunday School teaches cn opeating no doubt. Fo childen so often spoil the solemnity ofan occasion I've notced, just as they did at Remembance Day Sevices Monday aftenoon ' The laying ofpoppies on the gave ofthe unknown soldie is asymbol, asymbol of the 4 I» i ST,I I'i 7 [.! yn I" Ui blood of the soldies in Flandes Fields. In each Remembance Day Sevice this itual is caied out. Unfotunately the sevicemen had hadly placed thei poppies Monday when a bevy of20 o so childen cowded aoimd the gave and gabbed them up. I saw the eal poppies gowing on Vimy Ridge and felt the deep significance and egetted this incidentmondayaftemoon. Ms. Eal McQueenhad an expeience when she was in Ostend. It seems that she went out ofthe town fo a walk and came back with an amful ofpoppies. When the Belgian hotel keepe saw he she cied, "Oh no Madame, the soldie's blood." To he it was a sacilegious act to pick the Flandes blood. By this time the poppies had wilted, Ms. McQueen said, and Madame took the amful offlowes fom he and thew them away. Novembe 2,946 Ms. Robet Pak has a 7-yea-old ubbe plant in bloom fo the fist time - small stay flowes. When a family picnic is held in the Town Pak, Sunday Novembe 7, that is news - and deseves moe emphasis than I'm able to give it. An eathy pink hollyhock is still nodding to me as I come out into the sunshine these gloious Novembe (is it eally?) monings. Evey Sunday when I ead the Sunday papes I heave a sigh ofeliefthat I am not a poof-eade fo one of the Metopolitan papes in the classified section. "I know you'll liketo heathis. Miss Mash," was what a Haow peson close to the Depatment of Veteans Affais challenged me with. Then went on to saythat a pominent official in the Depatment said that the etuned boys in Amhestbug wee doing the bestjob ofadjusting as a whole goup of any unde thei juisdiction. And I did like to hea that. A young acquaintance with two childen wites a homey column and so often uses he childen as copy. Fiends have been citicizing he, saying that the 5

10 youngstes will esent it whenthey gow olde. I ead the aticles and don't feel that way at all, fo the young mothe cetainly doesn't go into too much pesonal stuff, meely tells the gils' eaction to new expeiences and hes, too, as a young, gay univesity-bed modem mothe. It doesn't seem solong ago (and it eally wasn't) that Ruth Haas was attending Geneal Amhest High School, and nowshe's thefist woman to bemade pesident ofa Teaches' College in the State ofconnecticut. With all the acclaim Ruth has had sinceshe stated in the teaching pofession, possibly 20 yeas ago, she has been modestabouthe success. He influence on the teaching goup and he studentshas beenwothwhile and he loyalty and affection towad family andfiiends will be one of hetaits mentioned in hebiogaphy (thee cetainly will beone). One ofou young women atunivesity intoonto was assigned an essay, so she chose Amhestbug. Evidently she did a good job on he home town fo she got a "B"- but when the pofesso was citicizing and suggesting he said, "Why didn't you mention Jones' tin-oofs and a weine oast along the ive." He had spent a day hee atone time and isevidently vey human, fo along with the histoy he liked the eveyday things about this town thatwe like. The stoy was a good illustation oftying to be too eudite (as many speakes ae) when what eally appeals is a bit ofhuman inteest tucked in. Novembe 28,946 The dulle hues in natue, especially the ust ofthe shapely beech on Laid Avenue, ae most attactive to me these days. I've always thought that beauty in the home was not in lavish decoations o too gand funitue with which one couldn't be comfotable, but in abit ofcolo ound about -thee colos, especially. Fo along time I've wanted aoom with navy blue white and coal. Restful andconducive to good livings I think. ' In Austalia it is compulsoy fo each student fom the time he leams to ead to ead one book aweek, and as aconsequence the Austalian aimen in taining in 6 pi f, 'I Canada always caied a book aomd and wee the best infomedof any ofthe lads he encounteed in the R.C.A.F., M. McMullen, assistant I.P.S. in Essex, said Thusday. Ifthis plan could be woked out in Ontaio we would be a vey liteate citizeny. I wonde ifthe childen oftoday got as much kick out ofthe low wate in the ive on Fiday as we used to get. When the wate was pushed out to the channel bank we would mush aoimd looking fo teasues on the shiny, ipply fascinating ive bottom. Hope the youngstes found the empty Callam's Bay; ifthey did and followed wet footpints in the sand and head thei voices caied away by the stong wind, they've stepped into the fun ofa couple ofgeneations ago. How many of us would have eacted like Miss Bey? - shows chaacte and contol, I think. Many yeas ago, a Geogia school teache named Matha Bey asked Heny Fod to contibute one million dollas fo he little covmty school. Instead, he handed he a dime. Miss Beyused the ten cents to stat a peanut cop, and at the end ofeach yea she sent the auto magnate a detailed epot on the eceipts fom he havest. Fod became so impessed with he sinceity that he finally paid a visit to the Bey School and wote out a cheque fo moe than the million dollas that had been equested. You cansay to youself, "I wish they would go home" whenguests afte many "We must go's" keep staying on and on, but thee's absolutely nothinga hostess can do aboutit except a fozen smile and stickto the bitte end. Theyae you guests and even though I do emembe a hostess, when a sing-song was in pogess, stating "Good Night Ladies," it was not the ight thing to do. Pobably you, the hostess, will lean afte seveal all-night sessions that whena guest if you make a gestueto leave do so withoutany settlingback, and that a shot animated visit is best all aound. Recently I ead the mostpaisewothy aticle on pomptness and believed evey wod about it being a matteof budgeting time and of a peson nevedoingmoe than he knows he cando and of the socialeoof beinglate and of clocking oneself fo pomptness. I feltthateveything the autho saidshould be obseved as was,but I wondeed ifhe had eve lived on a small town mey-go-ound whee I find you 7

11 can't say at 9:30, "I'll wite Convesation Pieces until -0, at 0 I'll ead votes' lists," when pobably atten you'e in the ca headed south unexpectedly. In theoy this budgeting time is pefect but... Decembe 5,946 Politeness is like an ai cushion - thee may be nothing in it but it eases the jolts...quite tue. Last yea it was pessue cookes fo Chistmas. Wonde what it will bethis yea? What do you betthatthee will bea un onecod playes and ecods. The veiy latest chatte flavoed with inflation, I thought, when fiend said to Detoit visito, "Why don't you get small boy's hai cut when you'e ove hee today. It only costs 50 cents." Was taken aback with the astonishing beauty ofthat sudden pictue ofpink sky and a pink ive as I looked at it though the gnaled bae banches of the Mediteanean locusts late Satuday aftemoon. It's quite ight, thee is awhole age-goup ofchilden nowadays who will gow up without the thill offlattening thei noses against ashowcase full ofcandy and pickingout what penny candythey like. Sitting by awindow is useless fom ahealth point of view unless the window is open, declae health authoities (I like it anyway and so does the old sun woshippe, the ed sette Bobby). These authoities point out the glass cuts offthe essential ultaviolet ays ofthe sun. In fact the aticle goes on to say that the onlv sue way ofgetting these ays is to stay out ofdoos at least one hou each day. Most ofus have loved the 946 autumn, but not the duck huntes, fo they have been thooughly disgusted with thei bags this fall. The weathe has been so mild that the ducks as theyjouneyed southwad didn't hug the mainland and ty to feed in shelteed aeas as they do in aough, cold blustey fall. This yea thee was no 8 X lj n = fi ' -T need ofthat so they fed fathe afield out of gun ange. Late on it will be a ae teat to be invited to a wild duck (deep fozen) diime with wild ice - an invitation which must not be tuned down. You know I wonde ifwe could bing an element offun into ou shopping this Chistmas and laugh a bit with the saleswomen when we can't get what we want, ifit would make things pleasante. I think ifwe do it fom the othe side ofthe counte that possibly we wouldn't get so many cold sobe definite"nos" with the delibeate tun ofthe heel as a "get out" gestue. I'm going to ty it the next time I go into the wool shop to ask fo pale yellow baby wool. I'll tun on the cham machine and let you know the esults. I know it's vey had fo mothes with yoimg childen to be always nagging about etiquette points but it cetainlypays in the end, fo because of a knowledge of the udiments of coect living, teenages ae comfotable not only with own contempoaies but with olde people. Thee ae two high school age sistes who comeup to the Fiday dances and I findtheiquietmannes most attactive. I don't know thei mothe, have neve seen he, but I know that these gils ae pat ofa lage family so she must be busy, but evidently not too busyto help them adjust fom the home to the outside wold. The most chaming peson is the one who is natual, is heselfand not the one who petends to be something that she isn't. A convesation along this line the othe night ledto social eos made because onewants to be so niceandcoect that she loses that natualness which appeals. In a facetious vein towad the end ofthat chat I said, what foot does the woman who is caeful about entances and exits use to step into the newunning-boad-less cas. I ty the ight foot and find the left excess baggage, in fact almost leave it outside, then sit downkeplunk. I don't get a pivot when I step fist with the left. OhBeatice Faifax what shall I do. Decembe 2,946 Haven't ead "Miacle ofthe Bells" but imdestand fom fiend in book shop who is a good thoughtful eade that it is the best book published in the last six 9

12 yeas. Afte the tagedy in Leamington Fiday when a twin boy killed his mothe, I am moe than inteested in the new pictue "The Dak Mio" with Olivia de Haviland, whichis a psychological pictue in which she plays the pats of the twin gils with decidedly opposite tempeaments. I neve get tied ofchistmas caols when we have a typical old-fashioned cold snowy Chistmas, butwhen I was sitting in a downtown estauant the othenight, having come fom the moonlit steets still basking in the mildness ofthe weathe which meant nohatnecessay, I thought I couldn't stand "Holy Night" blaing fom the nickelodeon. Fo some unknown eason it sounded sacilegious. Mike Coyle is doing a spot ofwiting about hisexpeiences while a pisone of wa and while impisoned in a Gestapo pison afte his escape and subsequent ecaptue. This stoy should make good eading and we hope he gets a publishe who will want moe and moe,because he cetainly has a good stoyto tell. The othe day I was in the Dominion Stoe and was talking about the ovecowded condition ofbuses coming fom Windso and I said, "Evidently the age of chivaly is dead." I was ovehead by the manage and othes who with guffaws kidded me about being so idealistic and said that thee was no evidently about it, it died long ago, didn't I know? When discussing wods, cosswod puzzle wods, with a young woman in Haow ecently she told me that she had ead a Webste's Dictionay fom beginning to end. Being as I've said befoe inteested inwods, I could digest an infinitesimal pat pobably five o six elated wods, but to ead though adictionay would be wose than climbing an Alp. This convesation did emind me of a woman I met on anocean line who wote the "J"fo Webste's and said that itwas fascinating wok afte the fist dudgey was done. She found the newly coined modem wods ofinteest. Iwonde how many new out-of-the wa "J's"she has ("if she's still at it). 20 ji h T ' U jn Decembe 9,946 In a pesonalized column which I ead inanewfoimdland pape I see that the columnist is blowing up the stadium boots which the gils and women on the mainland ae weaing. She descibed this latest of women's winte clothing minutely and hoped that soon they would be available to the Newfoimdland gils. A leading child psychologist who champions the bobby soxes isofthe opinion that ifthe voting age was aised to 30 the esults wouldn't beas good because thee ae too many i^uences than ifit wee loweed to 8, as that is the clea thinking age at the moment. Some ofthose people who cy delinquent youth of946 and compae them unfavoably with the young people ofthe good old days should take note. "I've neve beenupclose to a Chistmas tee," saidone of the Scotch wabides to me, "so am looking fowad to my fist Chistmas in Canada with a eal Chistmas tee." This Scotch lassie also went on to tell ofthei New Yea's customs and taditions - the fist footing and the shining house with its table laid with good New Yea's food and eveyone in the household dessed in best bib and tucke sitting aound waiting the New Yea's coming. What a lovely Chistmas hundeds ofdetoit families ae going to have because they have invited childen fom two well-known ophanages to spend the day with them! Just imagine too the delight of those childen to be pat of a family fo Chistmas. In fact, I undestand that evey child in these two lage ophanages has an invitationfo ChistmasDay. But I eallydon't believe the child's happiness will beas geat asthat ofthe family who has him asthei Chistmas guest. Decembe 26,946 Making angels in the snow! Fom one geneation to anothe this ftm and supposedly good luck act is passed along. "Pomise youselftogive so much time tothe impovement ofyouselfthat you 2

13 have no time to citicize othes." A esolution I'd like to make these change-ofheat days - and keep. No use waxing eloquent ove the beauty Satuday moning with the snow doing the nicest things to the wold. But the Chistmas Spiit cetainly ode in on the snow that gloious day ofthe equinox. Pefect aeas intewoven made by ca tacks in the vigin snow caught my eye the othe moning. A photogaphe withan eyefo modenity would have had an inteesting subject thee at the end ofdalhousie Steet. "Is ittue skits ae longe?" They defmitely ae and in fact abit longe in the back than in the font. Suit coats should also be longe in the back. Mid-calflength isthe vedict. I woe my new suit fo the fist time Fiday. The pencil slim skit is long and as I say tips down a bit inthe back and when I got out ofthe ca afte the keno, in the shadow onthe snow the shote coat and longe skit effect wasn't a good line. In fact, looked dowdy. It would be alight as acostume without atoppe. We women do have ou fashion toubles. I'll wage women as a whole won't accept the longe skit. When Ms. Yeoman was in town ecently she told ofa lightweight but windesistant ski and spot jacket which he daughte Babaa has designed and which has caught on with spot enthusiasts. Ms. Yeoman heself has made gay knitted vestees as accessoies to these daw-sting jackets. Came acoss agood pictue of Babaa in aecent Ameican magazine seated at he dawing boad with one ofthe jackets on a model alongside. The stoy below told ofhe meteoic ise in the designing wold and that at pesent she is associated with Fed Picad ceating clothes fo spot. Would it be alight to say, "I taught he to ead and hold apencil" o is that as comy as "I knew he when." Ms. Semeniuk at the Tea Gaden bought down adelightful stoy on Chistmas in Ukaine which not only told the ancient Chistmas customs but the modem ones in that South Russian county. In the stoy telling of how it was on Chistmas befoe the Gemans came and how it will be again the stoy telle says that in that twilight ofchistmas Eve in the Ukaine the house was wam and shiny clean when the doo opened and fathe enteed, caying a beautiful sheafofwheat. 22 [ I ^ ^Lh] - L' ' L : T t I \h ' "He badeus 'good evening' and stoodthe sheaf of wheat- yes, the 'dyid,' the old man, back ofthe table, in the 'honoay' come unde the icon then laced some basil leaves though the 'dyid's' gidle. "Yousee, long, long ago, befoe Chist came, ou ancestos celebated kolyada, a time whenthe evil ofcold winte passed and the good ofwam weathe, with its fmal awakening of natue, beganto etum o as my babusha usedto say- 'When the sun gew in stengthand the day in length.' That was a tmth, they celebated, the etemal tiumph of good oveevil andto emembe that, we will give thei old god ofplenty, the 'dyid', who fed and potected the family, a place of hono. How long ago was that. Why, my babusha used to say that in those times no one knew how to bake bead yet, but fed themselves with cooked whole wheat gains. ead in books that that was moe than a thousand yeas ago. Think of it, a thousand yeas and we still include a dish ofwhole wheat gains among the twelve couses seved on Chistmas Eve. We call the dish 'kutya.' " Chaming, isn't it? Januay 2,947 The fist quate moon as it hung low ove Bob-Lo Sunday night was a stange scaletcolo making a billiant ed blade cleanlyseveingthe ive. Itwon't be long befoe the wod "stockings" will be obsolete, I'm thinking, fo have you noticed that "nylons" isthe thing to say - fo not often do we hea "nylon stockings." Those ofyou who wee too busy to look upatnine a.m. Monday missed thesun playing ontheiceshow at thetip top of the tees, making them vibate withlifeand poving my theoy that light definitely gives life and beauty. The New Yea is hee andif wewomen ae to take ouplace in what so many and vey wongly too, call a man's wold, do think we should all keep in mind even ifwe'e busy that spucing up a bit helps women to be alet - and it pays dividends too. GO Occasionally one gets in on citicism of the dampness and the flatness ofthe 23

14 Banana Belt. But those who like to hea themselves talk foget that when all about us (like ovethe weekend) stoms - ice, cold, snow - which wee healded became an actuality, we shiveed at the thought of things to come which neve came in all thei fuy, just a small sample. I've always been ofthe impession that the old English Chistmas caol was "God Rest Ye Mey Gentleman," but fiend in hospital who knows all and heas all the adio news because of necessity told that one band leade said that song should be "God Rest Ye Mey, Gentlemen," that it was a geeting simila to a toast. Beingthe sot of pesonto whom books mean temendously, I've picked them up wheeve I've been and labelled them so that when I'm looking aound and see "Pais 936"I have a flash-back to Bentanos and the taxi divewho didn't get a big enoughtip afte he had to wait while I bowsed though a book stall o two on the left bank ofthe Seine when we wee on the way back to the hotel. All this leads up to the "Miacle ofthe Bells" which I got fo Chistmas which is labelled 946 and which in time will take its place among the book ecodsof nice things in the past. Have you noticedthat sweet and slow ballads ae the most popula with adio audiences and ecod buyes these days, fo instance "The Old Lamplighte" has toppedthe Hit Paade fo weeks and weeks. This is an inteesting swingfom the ballyhoo and boogie woogie of the wa days when the bobby soxes' opinion counted. Now it doesn't count at all, fo the moe matue opinion ofthe etuned men with egad to popula music has changed all that. Januay 9,947 T, Those aucous cows which flock along Highway No. 8 wee gobbling dovm the sand onthe icy oad Monday moning. Hitting the all-time low level of tact, acquaintance at the doo ofthe hospital inwindso the othe day cowed, "My dea you look so well I didn't ecognize you." [ I f f l^' t LiJ i ILjji' f-lj ) Can hadly esist the magnetic powe ofthe ice onthe ink and wonde, should I ty out fist in the dead of night o give the youngstes a good laugh - but I know, fo sue, I'm going to get the skates out. The excited dial tone ofthe cadinal attacted me to the south window Sunday moning, "I want food," was what she said to me and continued, "The silvey sheen ofthe wold is beautiful to you but I can't find even a bey, fo the ed babey beies which you admie in thei ice coats aen't appetizing to me." To make quickand tastyfowl-a-/a-king, use a can of mushoom soup. Just the cut-up fowl and soup isa good combination, but nattially the addition ofceley and peppe makes itbette. So often, though, time entes into the pepaation ofmeals when a can opene comes into its own. Read a splendid eview ove the weekend of Lloyd Stevenson's biogaphy of Si Fedeick Banting. D. Stevenson, tie autho, is the husband of Jean Campbell, daughte of the late M. and Ms. Pete Campbell of Amhestbug. Fiend's childen wee pomised that they would be awakened to see the New Yea in. When we wee talking about it I laughinglysaid that I hoped they wouldn't be disappointed iftliey expected a cataclysmic thing, a sot ofupheaval in a physical way. Then went onto tell ofthe time J.A.M. and I got up (infact didn't sleep all the night befoe) to see the sunise fo the fist time. Its beauty and effect on the eathhad been so built up that I could hadlywait fo day to beak, expecting I don't know what, and when it came in all its quietness I felt let down, as I wanted the Eastenskyto open and colo bust foth in a fuious iot. An inteesting womandied in Haow last week, Ms. Fances PolladMcLain, aged 85 yeas, who had inhe youth been a school teache inandedon. Afte a few yeas' teaching, this couageous woman (and it took couage fo a woman to banch out in the 880s)went to Philadelphia and tained fo a nuse. She enlisted in the Spanish Ameican Wa afte gaduation and saw sevice in Femandina, Fla., Savaimah, Geogia, and Cuba. Duingthe wa she maied Isaac McLain who died duing the typhoid epidemic in Cuba. When I head about Ms. McLain, who is an aunt ofthe Pollad family, I thought that she is cetainly one ofthe women who championed the idea in those long ago days that we can think and do fo ouselves

15 even in what was then called a man's wold. Januay 6,947 Balmy Tuesday made a pefect eflecting mio of the skating ink. Put stips of watepoofadhesive tape acoss the soles andheels of ubbes and the icy wall^ won't hold such fea. Noticed in a Hollywood dispatch that Vincent Pice is slated fo the movie vesion of"miacle ofthe Bells". Eight-yea-old got a cowgil suit fo Chistmas and when Mothe and I wee talking I commented on both the cowboy outfits and Indian outfits which J.A.M. had and she saidthat youngstes of today aen't inteested in the Indian side of playlife. RoyRoges is the heo so cowboy life is the ultimate of all things wondeful. As if to show what eally could be done with colos, the sun liteally belched out beath-taking eds Monday moning, all the moe effective as I soaked in the display with the banch of the sleepy maples in the pak in the foegound of my vision. The eflectionofthis volcano-like puffofed on the windowsofthe Scatch house gave it a faiy-castle effect. Babaa Ann Scott, Canadian and Noth Ameican Women's figue skating champion, who isinswitzeland atpesent contesting the Euopean championships and who will seekthe wold title in Noway, is a yoimg fiend of Captain and Ms. J. E. McQueen. It seems that the McQueens lived with he mothe fo a shot time when they wee in Ottawa. Ms. McQueen was saying that with all the acclaim which this young eighteen-yea-old has had not only fo he skating but fo he music, she is completely unspoiled. Seem to be dwelling too much this week on what I see out-of-doos but the polonged sleet stom did bing outsome unusual shots - fo instance as wedove home fom Haow last Wednesday the landscape had a glazed effect in the 26 n LlM f ^ L - - p L aflemoon sun and J.A.M. got edgy with my too fequent, "Oh look at this o that," afte all the highway itself was glazed and diving pecaious, but he did espond to my enthusiasm as we skimmed alongby the stone schoolhouse and saw the vmusual - the Amhestbug channel completely blocked with ice, good fo skating in spots, and a feighte puffing along down the Livingstone Channel. Januay 23,947 The fiendly toots fom the Atomic and Heny Stokes boke the winte ive silence on Fiday when they wee en oute to Walkeville to move some ships to Ecose. In the gey wold ofmonday, the patch ofmytle which coves ou so-called ock gadenwas amazingly St. Patick geen, dense and lively. The geys and that geenset off a nicespak fom my aesthetics choddespite the fact that the ain was dipping in my shoes. The following littlestoycould most cetainlybe captioned,"move Ove Emily Post." It concens anothe ule ofetiquette that has been added to the oste at a Califomian Militay Camp. The point of etiquette eads: "Heeafte, a socially matue ookie will not cut in on a dance imtil the couple has danced 25 steps. He may, howeve, if he wishes, stalk his intended victim counting in his ea'lo-l-2-3-4', povided he maintains the pope cadence." A few yeasago I head Ann Lukes, daughte ofwilliam Lukes and Ann Lee, give a seies of eadings at Wesley Chuch - well done, too. Now I see thatthis yoimg woman is on the staffof the John Robet Powes School of Cham in the Book Building, Detoit. Accoding to a wite-up on this school, which majos in cham, it's not onlytlie body beautiful which is encouaged but the mind comes m fo a couse in taining, too. In the pictue ofthe entie Powes staffmiss Lukes, who teaches diction and voice quality, stands out fo he poise and chaming looks. Having sat in on EssexCounty Libay Association meetings and head about the loan collections ofecods and pictues, I was paticulaly inteested that pictue 27 U

16 lending fo a libay cad and a small fee actually began Satuday fom Willistead Libay. Moe than 30 oiginals ofboth outstanding Ontaio atists including A.Y. Jackson and Essex Coimty atists and some epoductions of Ameican and Euopean atists ae available fo ental so that people may enjoy pictues inthei own home fo a stipulated peiod oftime a month. Windso isthe second city inthe Dominion to attempt such a poject which in myestimation will steadily aise the cultual standad not only in the city but in the county. Young women about to step out into a wold of business who want an adult ating should know at the outset that thei days of sloppy sweates, bobby sox and flattees ae ove, that pospective employes so oftenjudge gooming and cham above intelligence and ability. I emembe eading what a vetean businesswoman said that the wise young woman makes he heaviest clothing investment in becoming appael fo the pat of he life that povides he living. I know that it's a complete switchove fom the infomality ofdess ofhigh school and commecial class days but feel that whenenteing the adult woldof business it pays fo them to look and act the pat and know that with these young women a little thought along this line bings along a dividend not only fom men but fom women employes. Januay 30,947 Even the bids and the bees and the flowes (ou tulips on the wam south side of the house) liked the peview of Sping ove the weekend. As fo people and dogs, they wee ecstaticove the balmyai, the sunshine, the sky and the fact that when wzdking they geeted fiends they hadn't seen in months. I noticed too, that the pessimist who gumbled, "We'll pay up fo this late," was saunteing aound looking things ovein pepaation fo Sping, fogetting as we all did the date line. While we basked in an almost semi-topical Januay 26 weekend, snow blanketed Euope fom the Scottish Highlands to the Fench Riviea. Thee days befoe bathes swam in themediteanean andat oneesotit wasthe fist snowof a centuy. In flash back I thought of Nice on the Riviea - of its lovely Lido (swimming spot), its wide avenues lined with palms, its outside cafes whee in ulta 28 n [i-i- [J T' L, -- spots attie people leisuely eat and dink and watch the pomenades, but cetainly not a Nice coveed with snow. I can hadly conceive a palm tee with snow on it, just as I canhadly imagine a nothen Chistmas dinne (as we know it) in a hot county. The death of Miss Blake in New Yok last week bought out inteesting anecdotes about he mothe's people, the O'Raffetys, who emigated fom Ieland. The fathe of thisvey lage Iish family bought hischilden eis fa as he could and still emain on Bitish soil, so the place they landed was Amhestbug. It seems accoding to hisganddaughte, Ms. Denis Pilon, that ashe came up thehillfom theboat which landed at the Muay Steet dock in those days, he was bewildeed about night's lodgings and cae of allhis sons and daughtes in a stange land. He metold M. O'Madden who, when he headthat M. O'Raffety wasjust out fom the old land, took the whole family home and insisted they staywith them. As a consequence a wam and long fiiendship developed. Noelationship, asmany have thought. Febuay 6,947 The Hungaians aound Haow wee delighted to see thei fellow countyman Ilona Massey in Holiday in Mexico. In fact, I undestand, onefamily on the Potlake Road had known he in the old county. Thee's nothing boingaboutthe weathe no the colos oundaboutthesedays with the whites and blacks and geys of the sleet,the gaudiness ofthe sunise and sunset and daytime skyon the mild dayand the blues whipped in by the windand cold as oftuesday. Was inteested to leam that in England paents who leave thei young childen locked up alone in the house while they go to the theate o othe amusement ae liable to posecution by the Society fo the Peventionof Cuelty to Childen. Remembe the good old days when we women went in fo fiills and lace and uffles? Well,those days ae hee again and I'm glad,fo I love the feminine touch 29 u.-

17 on softly tailoedthings - on all ou weaingappael. A too stictly tailoed woman misses a lot ofthe thill ofthe fou-fou which shoots up one's selfespect, I think. Saw Lalique glass in natue Wednesday aftemoon. Soon afte the ice stom stated I was sitting in the ca facing a coloftil sign boad at McDonald Moto Sales in Haow. The windows ofthe ca wee coveedwith ipply ice and all I could see (in the dullish gey light) was a beautiful effect ofindefinite colo though cystal fom the sign. Clai Boothe Luce pobably got in wong with many ofhe sex when she made the following emak in New Yok ecently: "Men will be bette, wise and moe peace-loving when they ae eaed by wise, tendee and moe intelligent and imselfish women. Ou geat failue is not that we have failed to be politicians o statesmen, o scientists o soldies o scholas. It is simply that we have failed so tagically to be bette women." The Jolson Stoy is fine entetainment - a eview of the ise of the famous entetaine whose novelway of putting ovea songhas bought pleasue to millions duing the past 20 o so yeas. Having head A Jolson sing"mammy," "Swanee" and seveal othe top-notches fom his wide epetoie, I was caied away by the stoy of his life and amazed that his voice doesn't seem to have been hut by the wea andteaof the yeas. Fo I undestand, eventhough Lay Paks is in the title ole, M. Jolsondoesthe singing. And one can't helpbut comment on the hous of pactice on M. Paks' pat to make him so lette pefect inhand and mouth gestue. Febuay 3,947 Agay bonnet loaded with lush pink oses, won with ablack dess, caught my eye and suely held itata paty on Sunday. With the biting wind whiling the snow and cold aound outdoos, to come into a wam fiendly goup and see those oses gaily peched on top had a wondeful psychological effect. I like this kind ofingenuity and individualism - ahady obin, the stoy goes which decided to pass the winte inottawa has a steam-heated nest. The featheed 30 t --'i - - I fnend of govenment employees ina tempoay building on Caling Avenue took the pecaution to build his nestovea steam pipeoutlet. Those inteested ingood theate should know that "Fathe Malachy's Miacle", a comedy in thee acts, is being pesented in St. Alphonsus Hall, Windso, this (Thusday) and Fiday evenings ateight o'clock. This isthe play witten by Buce Mashall whichwas damatized by BianDohety of Toonto, a cousinof Ms. Geo. H. Jones and Ms. C. C. Kemp. Belonging to the school ofinteio decoation to which ceam and pale yellow walls appeals temendously, I had mytheoies poven to meat least when I attended moning woship in Chist Chuch Sunday. Theinteio of that chuch has been e done in ceam and the effect with the outstanding walnut woodwok, lovely windows and bass is beautiful, wam, sunshiny and conducive to woship and peace. I'm open fo suggestions onwhat kind ofa ubbe o galosh to wea with heelless otoeless shoes. Odinay ubbes slip offocatch the back stap ofthe shoe at the wong spot, to say nothing ofthe dust left on the stockings. Galoshes get so dusty inside afte a vey few weaings that the same soiled stockings esult. I'mall fo aclea plastic ubbe which can be wiped out inside and which is built to gip and not cut the heel. Found itdifficult to think ofmy feet and with what swiftness I could upset on the icy walks Tuesday moning when Isaw what I've been looking fo fo days and days - the inne blue ofthe snow and ice. Itwas so definitely thee onthe ive that moning and I also saw it with the sun slanting though the blue spuce with snowdift in the backgound. Snow blue is at its best in the moning I think although the night befoe the ceise sun ball (without one staggling cloud ofsuii bust) complemented the dak blue ofgosse lie. "Did they do it because they wanted to, obecause they felt they had to," was pat of a telephone convesation Fiday moning. The "they" wee the woinen of this Red Coss distict and "it" was Red Coss sewing. The gist ofthe convesation was the lage matte ofa Red Coss sewing quote fo Euopean childen fo which an appeal to the women ofthis distict had been made, fo which (soy tohave to 3

18 M-BL say it) only two calls came in. Why do we do it? - What? - WaitimtilSt. Valentine'sDayto tell ou fiends how much they mean to us o to say get well to shut-ins. Which eminds me of Fiend Duffy who doesn't do that at all. Afte a Rotay meeting when membes discussed the degeeof illness that madea membeeligible fo flowes, I facetiously said, "Send me mine when I can enjoy them" - so F. D. (and it wasn't St. Valentine's time) bowled me ove delightfully the next day with a Sping bouquet - and did I eve enjoythem. In my mind I thanked Ms. Nellie McClungfo "Flowes fo the Living" thought. Febuay 20,947 This Sping-in-Winte weathe daws me to the fuit tees fo some twigs to foce, which help that Mach fame ofmind a lot. Youngest membe of thefamily head a obin cheeuping fo food on Monday moning. The flash of the cadinal, the estlessness of the pussy willows and the bazen two-inch shoots ofthe daffodils ae my only Sping signs. Seem to beontheundepining tack this week but saw the smatest suit slip in Vogue with snowywhite lace-timmed bodice atop a sleek black lace-timmed smt. Looked pefect fo a dak suit wea and wondeed why it hasn't stuck the fashion wold befoe. Fidayaftemoon I was eadingan aticle in the Chistian ScienceMonito about a smat young mothe who to aouse and keep uphe childen's inteest inthe piano was taking lessons also. About anhou late fiiend with thee gowing boys, two in the now-you-must pactice stage, came in and we had tea togethe. To stat the convesation ball going she said, "I'm stating music lessons." I could hadly believe my eas and laughingly epeated whatwas so feshon my mind, "J felt that iff kept ahead ofthe boys, I could help them and we'dall beinthis thing togethe and fo themthe sticking pocess would be easie," she said. So you see we don't have to have pofound child psychologists to diect ou living pattens - only call it h k III BM L-W-i I fi-j. "ill f.[. : n! C I 'T by anothe name, common sense. Moe about the yoimg Canadian figue skate, Babaa Ann Scott, who won wold's championship in Stockholm Sunday. Ms. McQueen was telling me that when fou yeas ofage this child wanted a pai ofice skates and sohetaining was begun because of he own whim (no focing). She (Ms. Mac) also said that the young gil neve went to school, that she had a goveness who put he though a igid couse of study and that heday was planned fo study, music and spot but despite this she had lots of fiends. Having lived inthe Scott home in Ottawa, Ms. McQueen was in the position to eally know this young Canadian and couldn't speak highly enough fo he even tempeament, kindliness and fnendliness. Since Septembe I've beenshopping fo an exquisite intimate (nightie to you) fo belatedbithday gift and also fo ain-check-chistmas-pesent fo H.M. Picked up Satuday's Toonto pape and thee it was made fo me, just what I've wanted andhoped to find fo myself with the following sales talk, "Adoables of petalpink chiffon with filmy applique of satin and gey beige lace (cotton). Nighties of coutuie styling - $ " The bias cut slip was$25.00 andthe panties $65 to complete the set. I can look at the pictues, can't I, and it's no wonde I can't get one in the $5.95 goup. I almostfeelthat it wouldbe wotha tipto Toonto to see a $200 exquisite intimate. Had an oppotunity the othe night ofheaing what two young lads, Vemon Kennedy and Diffod Betand J., ae getting fom the Boys' Band. These two junios ae pactising duets, difficult numbes too, and thei inteest and knowledge amazed me and it goes without saying that they'e eally good. Thee is a young Colcheste Southgil, Joan Smith, daughte of M. and Ms. Ralph W. Smith, who fom what I can hea fom he fiiends is vey talented inthe dama field. She is a student at Dake Univesity, Des Moines, Iowa and is in the fine ats school majoing in dama. Last week she played the leading lady in the univesity play "The Hasty Heat", which goes without saying that she must have meited the hono L-i

19 Febuay 27,947 Fiend fom the coal company behind the Echo office ushed in Wednesday to liteallywing me to the back windows to see a male cadinalpeeninghimself in the sunshine on an old unattactive boken-down tee with the coal pile timmed with snow in the backgound - an intavenous though the eye - geat stuff. When speaking to Louis J. Fox about his bothe Ed's wedding annivesay, we mentioned his Mothe and Dad, which thew me completely offinto childhood fun when Louise Dixon and I went to he home (whee L.J. lives now) to get milk. I could smell the milk Monday and could see us tudging back up Dalhousie Steet swinging the pail ound and ound in a complete cicle without spilling the milk. Sometime women ae so discouteous. Fo instance, I've noticed that they will coss thei legs in a cowded bus and bush against stockings o touses. I uined a nylonby the swishof a swinging foot on a Ouellette Avenue bus Sunday and have noticed people time and again looking down to fmd the cause ofa jab in the shin. Thetelephone is in the news this week - andhowwell I emembe wayback in 92 when I had scalet feve, inthedead of winte too - Dad, thewage eane, had tomove out bag and baggage, which meant hadships fo mothe, coal to bebought in (which didn't wam the house), fozen pipes, "in the shed plumbing fixtues" along with thepecautions of scalet feve in those days, a sheet wetwith Lysol ove the doo, etc. Anyway the above build-up bought a telephone to ou house so mothe wouldn't feel so isolated and excitement eigned when I well emembe the speechless thill of heaing my fathe's voice when the awfiil fumigation pocess was ove and I was allowed to oam. Mach 6,947 Because I'm not a cat fancie, I can't see gace o cham about any of that family, but I must admit that the Mach Lion bought a lot ofbeauty when itleapt into Town Sunday moning. 34 ^ - m t. K' p., is In the I-Neve-Knew-Befoe pigeonhole I'll tuck away the infomation that nose pints ofdogs coespond to finge pints ofmen; veteinaians say that evey dog's nose is diffeent and that thei nose pints ae eliable fo identifying valuable animals. How do you like Liam O'Flahety's anti-feminist cack fom Pais: "The best idea I eve head was to wipe out all the women in the wold. Then men could stop woking entiely. Thee is plenty offood and dink left fo all ofus until we die. But of couse thee would always be one fool who would hide a woman, then it would begin again." So often of late people have egetted the fact to me that thei news items ween't on the Women's Page. The mateial fo that page is all on hand befoe Tuesdaynoon at the latest, the heads ae witten, evises ae done and that section is pinted so that it will be out of the waybefoesectionone comes up Thusday. Occasionally, howeve, in a one section pape, at geat inconvenience to men in plant,news itemscan be tuckedinto this page but its cetainly not the usual ule in this office. The Michigan Dog Show Satuday night at Convention Hall was excellent. Thee must have been ove 000 dogs ofall kinds and classes shown and cowds and cowds ofdoggy people in attendance. But I came away convinced that Ou Bobbywouldcetainly have beenthe bestin the show,even though Chicagobeede whose Iish sette had taken all in his class in New Yok and JAM tied to convince me that Bobby was too big, too heavy, too long in inches fom hee to thee, too shot fom thee to hee, feathestoo long,neck not clipped,teeth not good, etc., etc. Despite allthishe's the bestsette of them all. Anda clown too,as he folds up like an accodion when we want him to show offhis good points - and he has some too - his colo fo instance and his disposition. As we ode along to Callenda to see the quintuplets and on to Quebec yeas ago, thepaty which included twoyoung gils played "Who am I", a game in which the playes ae allowed 20 questions to guess the identity of the thought-peson. How the mothe in hospital, olde daughte and I seem to have gaduated this week in to the "What am I" class - which is much moe difficult. The hint to the 20 questions answe isgiven by the playe when she tells whethe it's vegetable, animal 35 L_j f]'

20 o mineal o a combination. Sunday "the expets" wee stumped on "the tain on which the peace teaty was signed in Wold Wa I" and thee wee laughs fiom "Chuchill'sciga" and"the hose in which the Geeks hid when they took Toy" and "Lillian Russel's bustle" of which young lady knew nothing. Mach 3,947 Tuesday was one ofthose days that one occasionallyfinds between Winte and Sping. Aday that no season tuly owns - mild, still and glistening fom sun playing on the fost on gound in the gey-bluish moning. Aspial ofpefect, attached smoke ings with all thei dense whiteness gave me a stat asi appoached the salt plant the othe moning. The back dop was palest blue andthe silhouette of commecial Detoit - powe andbeauty go hand in hand and to be found fo the looking. Time waswhen you wee invited to a luncheon o teain a pivate home o an infomal dinne paty in club o hotel you woe a hat, it was just second natue because it was the thing to complete you costume. Nowadays, fequently I hea "What ae you going to do about ahat?" -and often Ijust don't wea one (especially when going to the Andedon fo dinne) but I eally feel that fo my own sake a smat dinne hat would be a good investment as hai stays tidie and a smate appeaance is made. Afte all thee ae a few ules of dess etiquette which it wouldn't hut us to follow. How the Sunday pattem has changed in most houses! When we wee gowing up we always had a lagish beakfast Sunday moning, bacon and eggs and all the timmings, which fathe cooked and we all sat down togethe in state to eat. Then at five o'clock itwas almost a paty dinne followed by an evening ofmusic and eading, out loud mostly. Now it's acase ofcatch the food when and ifyou want it. Nothing fomal at all about the meals, aswing to the othe end ofthe complete elaxing in the household duties pogam. I wonde ifit'sa good thing because in the difting we have lost the stimulation ofbeing togethe as a family. 36 JJ II > - i ^ it i " i" You meet an old fiendand she sayshow badlyshe's wantedto see you and you tell hehow badly you've wanted to see heand how busy you've been and thatshe (o you) simply must come ove, that you'e dying fo a good old chat - and to goodbye until the next time you meet and the same old ecod istuned on. We've all gotten into the "you must come ove" habit. When we eally should be a bit moe definite. If you want to leave no doubt of you sinceity name a time of gettogethe o foget the "Come up and see me some time," as it doesn't mean a thing and neithe you no she believes this waste of wodenegy. Mach 20,947 <&> wt Thee's no doubt about it - spank, spank to the women - thee is no woman chaming enough to seem chaming while listening to you with he mind on something else. Even though he was panned by a bette music citic by fa than I, I liked Chistophe Lynch, the Iish teno, in his concet in Windso Wednesday night. "Panis Angelicus" and "All In An Apil Moning" wee his two outstanding numbes (fo my enjoyment) but his simple Iish folk songs did have a lot of pleasue fo me packed into them too. Although it's notfo me- saw thepefect sping colo scheme as I looked ove the ive ealy Satuday moning. Thewate wasa definite Mediteanean blue (no geen) washing against the snow timming the Bob-Lo shoes and standing out was the yellow tile ofw. A. Patteson's chunney which gave the dash. I saw inmind a blue costume, white accessoies set off by a deep yellow canation o two. Red with blue and white has always been a pet with me but the ed of the channel makes on the Livingstone side linkedup with the blue and white combination was quite posaic beside the tile effect. I think about colo combinations fo clothes which I catch out-of-doos, but Ms. J. R. Head sees and does. She showed me a "Pelee" scaf which she wove befoe Chistmas, a beautiful combination of colos picked up on a tip to Point Pelee last fall. Quoting he, "the tan was the sand, the geen the evegeens, the 37

21 bown, the tee tunks and the oange and yellows, the bittesweet." Pais dessmakes and designes. New Yok and Hollywood ditto, make money on what they see and combine in the colo line fo Ms. You and Me but even ifwe don't make money on it we have the satisfactionofseeing it's hee and thee about us. "Tell Miss Mashthat I eadwhat she said about the wold getting smalle and quite believe it," wote Miss Dency Quick fom Califonia as she told he mothe Ms. Lawence Quick inhaow ahout a pape pinted in Shanghai, China, Febuay 7 and beingead by them in Redlands, Califonia, Febuay 9. Rev. J. A. Walke ofhaow was in Califonia at the time as the guest ofms. C. F. Smith and Miss Quick. He was inteested in this Chinese newspape because he knows Shanghai and Chinaso well and no doubtcompaed the tavellingtime with the fist time he went out to China. Mach 27,947 The fist day ofsping bought a tantum fom Winte - a dying kick just like an adolescent who gets satisfaction fom the last wod. A ubbe-tied tacto pulling a hay ack filled with gay young people - that's the Mach 947 vesion of the old fashioned hay ides. Same fun but on a faste scale. So often the comment will be made that "Idon't bothe with the pape because I know all the news" - when that's said to me I chuckle and wait fo the inevitable follow up which might come ina day oso oa month. "Thee was the most awful mistake in the pape this week" - said fiiend, chotling with glee, fo a mistake which isdiscoveed in the pinted wod invaiably bings peculia satisfaction. A eade census can often be made when thee ismistake inthe pape, we find. Chiseles, we'll always have them with us, people who want to get something fo nothing. The following stoy fom a Windso hospital is a mavellous illustation ofthe above: Child, about 2 yeas, waiting fo aleg opeation, achaity affai, paid by a sevice club - was chatting with visito inthe oom. In the couse 38 iij iji"! T ^ J ' I. '/[ U,.. 'i ofthe convesation he commented on his tailo-made gabadine suit fo which his paents had paid $60. "That a child's social behaviou is fomed at fou yeas," was cetainly a bombshell thown at the membes of the Young AdultGoup of WesleyChuch by the assistantpublic school inspecto. Aside fom possiblya SundaySchool teache, a maid o gandpaents, up to that agepactically no one but the child's paents has had any influence ove him so it cetainlyis the paents' esponsibility to mould the child befoe school age and not think that "he'll change when he goes to school." Not satisfied with its kick-back Fiday, Winte, whichthis yea seems so loathe to give up, staged anothe flae up Tuesday, binging out wind, snow, cold and scowling colo. Besides the nostalgic thoughts oflast yea totheday when publicity was being given to the fames onthevegetable gaden fams fom Amhestbug to LaSalle because adishes, onions and lettuce wee fa advanced and also in the soft sping sun of 946 the boys weeplaying ball in the pak, I'm completely boed at the eveyday patten ofputting onthe same old winte clothes fo wok. No thought given to, nostimulation fom the action of, walking to the closet andpicking out the same old blue suit. A gay sping thing tvith a cocus tucked in the belt, that's the answe. Imagine a city whee people don't smile nochilden laugh onthe steets, that's what Ms- Kendall's English fiend told last week when telling of the geat diffeence she noted in ou Canadian cities. She was talking of London and said that to he that was the thing that stuck he when she got to Canada befoe Chistmas. She sailed fo home Satudayaboad the Queen Elizabeth and afte the ghastly winte which they have had in Bitain thee couldn't possibly be a smile left, so I'm stie afte thee months hee in Canada that sobeness will be much moe maked to he. Hunge and cold cetainly don't go hand in hand tvith laughte. Apil 3,947 Sping IS hee! Although the eve hungy funace and winte coats don't confim thatstatement - buti know because of the gay salutes of seveal feightes 39

22 going up the othe channel Satuday moning I've come to the conclusion that the Easte Bunny and Santa Claus go almost hand in hand in the child's wold - they seem to cetainly with the youngstes on Dalhousie Steet who talk tome as I pace that beat evey day. Buttons, which ae both attactive and expensive nowadays, make stunning eaings. Itseems that scew backs and special glue can be bought at the dime stoe and the pocess of making is so simple that a ank amateu can have eaings to complete any type ofoutfit. Although Iealize that fo puposes ofsafety the enomous silve poplas on the moat at the McGego House must come down, I hate to see those old landmaks emoved. They, along with the maples in that distict, wee planted in Confedeation yea, 867, and to me it's just one moe link with the past done away with. Ou wee thee-yea-old cousin Babaa, who ice skates atthe Ganite Club in Toonto, always causes a bit ofamusement and inteest because ofhe size. Once in the fall Babaa Ann Scott was skating thee when Babaa was on the ice and asked the youngste he name and took he aound the ice once. As was natual, thee was much talk at home among the othe childen also skates (aged five and fou), about the pominent gil skate. So when the family went to the eception at the club afte Babaa Ann Scott had won the wold's championship, all agog wee Babaa watching the doings when someone asked he name and she spouted "Babaa Anne Scott" - immediately a most embaassed expession came ove he face as she quickly contadicted, "No, Babaa Joan Casson." Read the fiinmest aticle ecently by avancouve newspape woman on the still tagedies get upset which when we (ofou I think geneation) about the used whole as soy leaming-to-ead lot of them medium. "The Boy I, too oii can the Buning Deck", "The Babes in the Woods", "The Inchcape Rock" "The Poo T\nU Doll I Lost in the Heath", "The Weck of the Hespeus" and that hoible bit of hyming "Excelsio" and othes. Ican actually emembe being afaid to open an 40 HI G 'T T ^ n a ' - -' i i ' ul ' '[ old eade at the pictue of thebabes being coveed with leaves when they died in the woods. Imagine the compiles of those eades being so sadistic. Then I can think ofmany othe "pieces" which I was afaid to ead yetwas attacted to fothe emotional inteest. A tibute to a mothe - know May Waldon Beeman won't mind the following quotations fom a lette which she wote to me afte the death of he mothe, Ms. William H. Waldon; "The passing of my Mothe seems to me theconclusion of an ea - an eaof gacious hospitality which was dispensed so lavishly by myfathe andmothe. In the age of speed, huy and ush one vey often heas dispaaging emaks of the Victoian ea but it did possess a quiet chamand I am filled with a sad nostalgia wheni think of the gloious days of my old homewhenmy fathe and mothewee young and eveyone who happened to make ou place at noon o night be he peddle, politician opeache was made welcome. Those wee the days befoe the automobile and people did not tavel so many miles in a day and ou home was always a convenient stop-off fo food, convesation and est befoe esuming the jouney. My paents wee neve too busy to spae a few moments tothe many who passed byand I am sue each one left a little happie. Thee was no pejudice o intoleance allowed in ou home; people ofmany diffeent faiths and nationalities wee entetained thee and all made equally welcome. My mothe, a woman of vivid pesonality, has passed on but he kindness and cham will be ecalled by many." Apil 0,947 Glen McKenzie has made a eplica ofthe tug Atomic which is vey complete as to detail and excellent as to wokmanship. The cy of swans sailing ove last Wednesday night was a delight, as is the honk-honk fom the ducks as they settle and polka-dot Callam's Bay. New Easte toggey means so much to the younge gils and women that I'll wage thee was much disappointment when the day dawned and continued bleak 4

23 and vey windy. Thee wee vey few Easte bonnets in ou chuch but possibly it wasn't only the pe-easte day weathe o as in my case - a simple little just-mystyle hat fo $8 - which I didn't get. This old Eastebeliefpleasedme so that I'm passingit alongto you: "One of the loveliest of theancient beliefs concening Easte was thatthe sundanced ealy on Easte moning. It was the common custom to ise at dawn to watch, and in cetain pats of thebitish Isles people helped things along byplacing lage pans of wate outside to catch thefist ays. It is said that to this vey day thee ae peasants in lonely pats ofieland and Scotland who ise at dawn oneaste moning to watch the 'dance' ofthe sim, egading it as a symbol not onlyof the new life on eath but ofthe Chistian esuection." I quite ageewith an aticlei ecentlyead that eades who ant and ail at the salespeople in the bookstoes on thei likes and dislikes in the modem fiction wold should be mu2zled. Believe me, I do it, infact only a fotnight ago I got eally hot unde the colla when talking to a fiiend in the lending libay about a best selle which annoyed me because itwas too Hollywoodish. The aticle went on to say that signs should be put up in bookstoes thusly, "We ae not esponsible fo anything that takes place inside these books." This might notpevent the customes fi-om bludgeoning salespeople with thei opinions (I'd ead and disegad, I'm afi*aid) but cetainly would give them anofficial phase to eteat to. Ofcouse the cmx ofthe thing is that many people cannot econcile themselves to the fact that men and women have elations in books, ifnowhee else. It wasn't the man-woman angle that made me libeally fly at my fiiend, nothing like that, it was the money and publicity angle. Putting me in my place, she quietly said, "It's the sign ofagood witeand a wellwitten book when a peson like yougets sucha eaction." Apil7,947 ffln JX) The Softball season is almost upon us and thee ae acouple of fans in pesons of Bobby and myself who ae anxious fo the "Play Ball" signal. It'sa good spot and we get so many laughs that it's a good tonic too. jnc; nj :. I " Had a note Tuesday moning fiom Iene Kopacz, one of my fome pupils, telling me that he husband August Koziol is one of the bass violinists in the Scandinavian Symphony Ochesta, which is putting on a concet in Detoit this Satuday night. Last week when Ms. Paul Halen was in the noth county she wote about the beauty of the sim shining on the pink maple buds - and Monday moning on ou eally fist balmy sping day I saw that effect when the moning sun squinted and flited with the maple tees in the pak. I wonde if I wholly agee with Clifton Fadiman who in his book"reading I've Liked" says thatchilden andeveybody else liketo ead booksthat aejust a little ove thei heads and he also lays down the ule that unless a wite's mind is supeio to, o moe complicated than you own, it is a boe to ead him. The second yes - possibly ifa eade aveage is stuck - but the fist no - at least when I see the temendous sale ofcomics. Apil 24,947 Have you head the golden lyics in the willow tees these cold, windy days? Aboutthe only fivolous thing aboutthis Sping. Foimd out accoding to sick fiiend whom I was diecting in the setting up mechanics of diamond sox that I've evidently fogotten all the teaching method points and use too many "don'ts" and not enough to the point"do's." The bells ofou bave wee chinadoxia onthe south side ofthe house ae tying to heald Sping, but they look socold they ae blue than eve and thei white eyes seem aghast at when they see aound ou yad - the debis ofwinte. FoChistmas the Callam boys gota aft exactly like and similaly equipped to the one used by Eddie Rickenbacke when he was downed in the Pacific and in which he andhisfew camaades lived so long befoe theywee escued. The boys ae having geat fun owing this new kind of DetoitRive caft ove to Bob-Lo ' u

24 That two cents exta tacked to the chocolate ba pice is a convesation piece in ail cicles. But the cocoa bean souce ofchocolate candy has isen as much o moe than any othe commodity. Last Octobe, we undestand, it sold fo nine cents a pound. Today it costs 30 cents a poiuid which makes a pice ise of 233 pecent in six months. (Thee I go quoting statistics, which I hate). Gown-ups who neve take walks with thei childen o anyone else's don't know what theymiss. I've foundthat out as I walk along LaidAvenue with Bobby and am joined by a child o two who chattes delightfully about eveything in thei wold and ply me with questions about things just outside that fist homebound peiod in thei lives. They want to begin speading thei wings outside the home so askabout natue including Bobby, about theive, about theboats andthei signals, the lights, the sky, othe childen and on and on. May,947 The Noman Wilson childen on Rankin Avenue gatheed the sap fom thei maple tees this sping and they and thei mothe have made seveal quats ofmaple syup. Ms. C.C. Kemp gave Ms. McQueen and me the following tip, which is delicious: To ceamed peas add mushooms which have been sauteed in butte. Head two Joan Reaume ecodings at the Libety Theate sceen Sunday aftemoon and they wee good. This young Amhestbug canay will sing again this Sunday at twelve. Nestled among the dy bown gass and flowe stems of anothe yea on the south side ofou house isa patch of blooming violets and also two peiwinkle blue hyacinths (owee befoe B.M. putthem in a cystal goblet). I always knew I liked bown with violet accessoies, but now I'm cetain ofit. Felt so elieved when I ead that the D. and C. [Detoit & Cleveland] boats would commence again May28. So fa as I was concened thee was a lonesome 44 \«'! f. ti T " ) '. fi f ' f f ^ f d feeling when navigation opened and thee was no Cleveland boat winking gaily as it huied down to Cleveland at 2:30 a.m. o not-always-on-time Buffalo boat silhouetted in the simset. In the aticle on Handcafts on this page, one of the Canadian atisans mentioned is Miss Helen Mowat of St. Andew's-By-the-Sea, New Bunswick. Miss Mowat and I have a mutual fiend in Windso and seveal yeas ago when Miss Mowat was hee looking fo a maket fo the homespun which the women in he county had made unde he diection, she was my tea guest. Not only is Miss Mowat an atist, but she uns a successful shop in the hotel at that famous easten esot and does a spot ofwiting on the side. Why? Last week a tansposition occued in the Echo whee a line fom each of two sepaate items got whee it shouldn'thave been. Fomthe moment the pape gotoffthe pess thetelephone stated inging. In fact, thee even was a lette about it. The mistake was unfotunate but so easily undestood by those in the know. Hee's how: the two items wee on the same column o galley oftype fo the poof eade. Evidentlythee was an eo ofspelling in each and when the lines oftype with the coections wee finished they just got into the wong beth, that's all. May 8,947 We have a lage bouquet offosythia on a table nea the west window and its golden bells suely did contadict the ain Sunday aftemoon. Walte Hilton and Havey Hamilton ae witing splendid lettes to thei families about thei expeiences and obsevations in Kaachi, India. M. Hilton wote that they went toasea pot nea Kaachi and went though one ofthe little Canadian tugs which was built at Ojibway. We hee in Amhestbug know those tugs so well, as they did, and itmust have been like a bit ofhome to spot that tug inthe habo and actually boad he. "Have you seen the flowes in font of Lou Fox's house?" is the oft epeated question this past week. Talk about that "iot ofcolo," thee itwas in pictue fom 45

25 fo anyonewho didn't know what that phase meant. Daffodils in the backgound and hyacinths in blues, lavendes and bonze with each flowe pefect in itself made a gand showing. Moe about the wee thee-yea-old cousin Babaa, who skates at the Ganite Club in Toonto. It seems she was a clown in the skating canival a fotnight ago and on the last night pesented flowes to the guest ice skate Babaa Ann Scott. The tiny gil skated the full length ofthe ice befoe making the pesentation. Then Babaa Ann Scott picked he up and skated offand little Babaa took the acclaim ofthe cowd by waving to all in the enthusiastic audience. When I ead ofthe mude down on the lonely isolated onion fields of Point Pelee, I switchedback to the ainy eeie nightjust at twilight when I missed the tun when coming fom the Point and dove along the dike in this altogethe stange-fo- Essex-County spot. When at last I found a spot to tun aound I went down offthe dike into a stange looking yad whee a police dog was healding ou appoach. I've thought ofthat night so often and ofthe teified feeling I had when in that peculia light and ain eveything seemed so distoted even to the sounds and foeign to anything I had eve gotten into befoe. Tom Dougall, whose caee in the witing and adio field both in New Yok and aboad has caied him fa, was in Amhestbug on Thusday. His cham cetainly lies in his modesty and simplicity and he appealed to me when he talked of Amhestbug. His pied a tee as he called it, fo hee ae his oots. When he was oveseas (we head his voice ove the Amy Hou) he said that he felt that not Detoit but Amhestbug was his home and since his etun to wok in New Yok fo National Boadcasting Company his one idea was to get back to the place ofhis adoption. To combine the thee pimay colos is a difficult and almost impossible job whethe it's in clothes, flowes o home decoation, but it can be done as was seen in the stiking floal aangements used at thedelightful gaduation eception given fo Miss Dee Uzelac by he fathe at the Andedon Hotel Monday evening. The Gace Hospital colos aeyellow, blue and edandas it was the gaduate's nightof nights - fo ealie in the evening she eceived he gaduation diploma fom that hospital- she wanted the colo scheme caied out in he hospital's colos. So the combination ofscalet tulips, the bluest ofiis, Russian statice, bachelo buttons and daffodilswas used in all the bouquets thoughout the eceptionooms and the effect was statlingly beautifiil. The buffet suppe table with its low centepiece in the same combination and lighted ed, blue andyellow tapes in cystal candelaba, its inteesting eye appealing and cetainly taste appealing food made a pictue that could most cetainly have been in a posh women's magazine in colo actually to show what can be done with what an amateu at combining colos thought was almost an impossibility. - V.?! May 5,947 What wouldyou think if you liteally bumped into a bouquetof lavende sweet peas, one pink ose and two pink feathes? Same as I, I'll wage - just what the docto odeed as a peppe-uppe. As I sat watching the yoimg people at the dance Fiday night, I convinced myselfthat I like, without esevation, the longelength pencil slim skitson those good-figued gils inthei late teens and ealy twenties. And the majoity have good figues and good caiage, too. One of mypet Detoit papes gave me a jolt Monday withthe small 4point line ove the mainheading catching my eye(as it should), "Haveyou head?" Then below"fall Fashion Foecast" - suchpematue thinking on the pat of the fashion edito, I thought, when I haven't even a Sping hat yet. Fo a efeshingwod pictue ofa child's wold, get "Who has Seen the Wind?" by W.O. Mitchell, a Canadian fom High Rive, Albeta. I knew I'd like M. Mitchell andhiswok as soon as I eadthebit about him on thejacketof his book; "I hope mytwoyoung sons willbe good to theimothe andthatthey willneve fish with minnows." I have often felt that a hostess would athe sit and chat afte dinne instead of cleaing up the dishes and having me poking about the kitchen asking whee this andthatgoes and sometimes embaassing hebecause as youknow when huying u

26 with acompany meal we sometimes put the implements ofkitchen labo in peculia places. Anyway, accoding to Emily Post (which will please the young people especially), in answe to a question ahostess said, "I don't want to be helped as I feel my guest would like anight offfom hum dum kitchen duty." Ofcouse the cicumstance altes eveything and ifthat's the best place to get caught up on lapsed fiendship, let's do it ovethe dish pan. May 22,947 That two Canadian atists who have made a name and place fo themselves in the United States, but pefe to etun and e-establish themselves in thei native land, cetainly does make news. The two soloists in question ae Russell Skitch (bass) and his wife Noa Conklin (contalto) ofkingsville, who have taken this step. Fo the fist time I actually saw natue unwap he bud packages last weekend. Itwas the most amazing thing to watch the lilac fom ou east dining oom window Sunday moning the flowe buds wee geenish cast with puple and by late aftemoon the wappings wee taken fom the ich puple that had been stoed away fo the winte. This is indeed acompliment-the London Fee Pess epote coveing the Fot Maiden Minstel Show put on fo the patients of Westministe Hospital Sunday wote ofbeveley Thashe, daughte ofm. and Ms. Devee Thashe, in Monday moning's pape (and we quote): "Miss Beveley Thashe, the honey-h^ed beauty in the choal goup, povided the most outstanding voice contibution ofthe show." Mothee and gown-up daughte too often, Ifeel, have atendency to dess alike which spoils both outfits. This citicism is diected to me, too, fo mothe and I invaiably like the same things and often look like Mike and Ike. This, of couse is undestandable in aclosely knit family o fiiendship, but still Idon't like it. All' this is pompted by amothe-adult daughte team whom Italked to ecently who woe pactically the same hats. One would have been stunning but two wee too much. 48 X_i ' 5 ' 5^ i, 9 J ' I\ 'jy May 29,947 Op The scented plumes ofthe lilacs combined with tulips in the shades ofpink sing Sping in the funace heated living oom anyway. The Osca Bilodeau gaden in Haow is a thing of beauty these days and compensates fo the hous ofhad wok which have been put in by M. and Ms. Bilodeau to make it such a pleasue spot fo passeby. News - "So nice to see the night sky" - afte a continuous steam ofain the new moon and the few stas as ifwalking two by two in the sping nights (the old in the Sping a young etc., in thei life too) gave me, at least, the assuance that the weathe will change and be amiable. June 5,947 Ms. Getude Peston dew my attentionto the death of Ms. S.S. Kesge in Detoit. She said that when she (Ms. Peston) was woking in Rayl's Hadwae Ms. Kesge wasa fequent custome andtold howas a young gil she had been one ofthe cleks in the five and ten and it was thee she met he husband. Sounds like an Hoatio Alge in skits. Saw in the pess that Alois Lang, fome acto of the Passion Play at Obeammegau, was declaed a followe of the Nazi Paty and fined 000 maks ($00) by a Geman cout. HeLang, whopotayed the oleof Jesus in 930 and againin 934, potested thathejoined the Nazi Paty m 938 only to save himself fom financial uin. The fou-man cout teated He Lang with defeence and coutesy but decided on the evidence it was impossible to gant him a complete acquittal. The same cout ealie uled that Anton Pesigne, who potayed Lazaus in 934, also was a followe of thenazi Paty. Hewas fined 2000 maks ($200). We went to Convention Hall in Detoit in the 30s to see the Obeammegau playes at wok wood caving and pottey making in aeplica ofa Bavaian village 49

27 set up in that vast auditoium. As the following excepts fom a lette J.A.M. and I eceived fom Chub Hamilton show, he is cetainly getting a lot outof his expeience in India andtells aboutthe life and people in an inteesting fashion: "We ae the only thee ofou ace inthis town of6000 population. As I said befoe, this town is entiely new, built out ofthe deset. "Have found the people ofindia and especially this new town (Mithapu), seven yeas old, vey efmed and co-opeative. Have been teated nicely by one and all. The men we wok with ae mostly Univesity men and thei wives, the majoity have been though college and all speak the best of English. The childen ae the same as ou own at home and maybe a little bette behaved. The town is located on the GulfofDutch and Aabian Ocean, fou miles fom the Pot ofokha (whee Captain Thomas Paisley has been), some 350 miles noth of Bombay and 250 miles south of Kaachi Pot. Climate hee now is 90 to 94 degees with nice cool beeze blowing inoffthe sea atall times. The hotel whee we ae staying isjust 20 minutes' walk o 0 by bicycle fom the sea o ocean. Have been swimming twice and play alittle tennis (not good), billiads (not good)j cads (not too bad). Receation besides those mentioned, Bombay dailies, ping pong, eading fom libay hee seveal good books. Food is good and we have a cook who has been in the sevice ofenglish offices and sue knows how. Aveage dinne, soup, vegetable oftomato o pea and onion. Fish, fesh o baked; chicken fied o oasted; lamb; have had one meal of patidge; potatoes, fench fiied, o baked o boiled; tea and coffee; bead and butte; jam, aspbey, stawbey, plum and apple; all Austalian made and puddings, custad, jello and believe it o not Ripley pie. "No, we have had no good bananas o ice ceam o stawbey shotcake o oast beef o agood T-bone o pot of any desciption, but on the whole we ae living vey well. Ou health is ofthe best. This plant at pesent time is not in opeation and will not be until the ainy o Monsoon peiod stats, which will be sometime in July o August. Imean the soda ash section. The othe plants, owned and opeated hee in the wok and poducing the bomine, salt, caustic ash, acids, Epsom salts, chloine, all these plants ae unning and poducing." 50 A J I? I June 2,947 The wild flowe season is ove now but in talking to one ofthe Bob-Lo officials on the island, he said that the noth end was bedded with wild flowes. Well, do I emembe those yealy befoe-season tips to Bob-Lo when we would picnic and pick wild flowes. Exotic was the way Ms. Heny F. Wisme descibed a Wisteia in thei gaden in Andedon. This Wisteia was puned to shub fom, was about ten feet in diamete and coveed with appoximately 000 pale lavendeblooms. The Fidaynight dances at the Bume MondClub ended fo the seasonfiday night in a blaze of good music fom a 2-piece ochesta. Although the summe is almost upon us, with two dance places available to the young people, I still felt Fiday night that most of ou young fnends (fo that's what they've become) egettedthe fact that these infomal dancing paties wee ove until fall. To have a pinted silk dess fom Libety's London, England, has always been my ambition eve since my fist tip to London. With the touch of an atist that London fim displayed thei silks and jewely as it should be in a galley with a pefect lighting system highlighting a length of silkon which is placed accoding to the colo exquisite beads o bacelets o ings of ambe, peal,tuquoise matix ojade. A few weeks ago I sawthat a Toonto fim was impoting Libety silk so wote immediately - planned and talked - about my tailoed out-of-this-wold dess. Much to my constenation and supise whenthe samplescame the mateialwas $5 peyad, 38 inches wide. The deam did not mateialize. Enjoyed "An Epicuean Symphony" (witten by a man, too) which extolls the taste satisfaction of potato salad - thathumble food. The autho says something, howeve, which I have always contended: "Two-day-old potato salad is best." As to ingedients he suggests, "A gentle nudge of galic, sliced onion, small chunks of sweet pickle, bits of had boiled egg, a little pimento, a tiny bit of edpeppe, some celey seed (I diffe with this last item and want chopped celey) and homemade salad dessing." Sounds good and if the gils still think that the way to a man's heat is though his stomach they might ty out this suggestion the next time the beau-of-the moment comes to suppe. 5

28 Huah! The Put-in-Bay has not been sold so will continue to un pekily up and down the ive again this summe. When the fist news of he leaving the Detoit Rive came out, Ifelt that anothe fiend had gone. I knew that I would miss that boat which had plowed up steam evey summe evening, listing badly and saluting gaily to eveyone hailing it fom shoe. Since 875 thee has been a passenge boat between Detoit and Put-in-Bay. Fist the oldalaska, then the Fank E. Kiby in 890, which in 9 was joined by the Put-in-Bay. Fo nine yeas these two boats seemed to un the ive oute. Then old age which is always pathetic when one gives good sevice, caught up with the Kiby and she etied. Still the Put-in-Bay caies on and I'm glad. Young fiend on a visit in the Noth in May commented on the fact in a supised way that when she went to adance, danced all evening and didn't dance with the same peson twice. That set me thinking and even Ieally hadn't noticed that the young people hee don't make apactice ofexchanging dances -but they don't seem to. You dance with you escot most of the time. Duing the twenties when we "balled" it with fequently die long duing waisted, the season-rose shot skited taffeta Ball, I.O.O.F. o chiffon Ball, shapeless Masons evening Ball etc gowns we gals the amazing hai do's, gold o silve pointed slippes and feathe fans always danced the fist, last and suppe dances with ou escots - that was a must and he usually demanded afew moe. But ofcouse, then thee was apogam with the dances listed and alittle pencil wok was needed to keep tack. "May Isit out numbe 2 with you?" How those heavily beaded skits showed annoyance as you'd athe dance that Rye waltz with someone else. Then, too, along the same line when the mothes and dads entetained the Geneal Amhest basketball teams ecently thev planned all sots ofnovelty dances and the young people had a"swell" time, as thev had neve mixed up like that on the dance floo befoe and thought it fiin m ILA n[ " P, --X " below. One inteesting detailofthe Mowe-Pigeon weddingthat was ovelookedin the ush last week was the fact that the bide, Doothy Pigeon, caied the same handkechiefthat he mothe, the fome Lillian Bailey, caied at he wedding 40 yeas ago July 5. Anothe item of inteest is that Ms. Pigeon was chistened and confimed in the chuch which he daughte was maied. Ms. Elizabeth Padgham, siste ofthe gil in the song "When You and Wee Young, Maggie" andaunt of Ms. Chales Ayest, Laid Avenue, died in Canisteo, New Yok, this past week. Ms. Padghamhad the oiginal manuscipt of the song witten fo he siste, Maggie Clak ofmount Hope, by Geoge W Johnston, then a Mount Hope school teache. Maggie Clak late maied the young compose and lived in Cleveland. To the Costume Institute ofthe Metopolitan Museum thee has been added a complete wadobe of 947 styles. And accoding to one stylist this selection cetainly demonstates to histoy itsbadhabit of epeating itself, showing as we see evey time we pick up a fashion book the influence of the 920s on the 947 silhouette. The diffeence, I undestand, is that the modem adaption is cisp athe than mannish. Thusday night contempoay, contempoay's young daughte and wee looking ove pictues ofus inthelate teens andealy 20sandloudwee the laughs and gasps of incedulity at both the Sunday best and bathing beach outfits. OhNo! Suely not Butthee we wee and wethought those bathing suits athe daing too (at the time). June 9,947 Natue is amazing. Stanley Bailey ofcolcheste South was telling me that fo the fist time in his memoy, the potatoes this sping ae gowing on the oots in fan like fashion Just below the suface of the gound because it's fa too cold down 52 t June 26,947 We foget the gousing about the weathe (even last week) as webake andpu in the typical summe weathe dished outto ou satisfaction this week. Even the clumps oftige lilies inthe oange, which doesn't fit inwith the pinks ofjune, in the gaden next doo ae beautiful to me. j I 53

29 Noticed a swimme weaing newfangled swimming equipment, a pai of stocking feet to match he suittied at the ankles. Just the ticket, I thought, fo the swimme such as I who is annoyed by the sand and mucky ive bottom as I wade out to swim but likes feedom fom bathing shoes. To have a ecod libay is one ofthe nicest ofhobbies I should think. Sunday nighti hstened in on a convesation aboutecods, ecoding bands, opeas and the best singe fo the title oles and decided that my education along that line was not only sadly neglected but was blank. I could see fom the enthusiasm of the one young peson that this hobby goes along with stamp and book collecting and is equally as thilling. July 3,947 We have a clump ofchives which gives the needed touch to cottage cheese, but it's not its taste value I admie at the moment,but its wee puple flowe balls. Geat people ae simple people, I've found. The fact was poved Satuday aftenoon when M. & Ms. John Backen weehee. They both wee inteested in the little things aoimd and believe itonot when they left inbidding goodbye could call almost eveyone by name. Speaking of ecods - what a satisfaction it is fo close elatives to hea on a ecod the voice and pick up the cute little speech manneisms ofa membe ofa family who is a long way off. This is what I thought Mondaywhen listening to a ecod made by Shiley Menzies on a tip to the Catalina Islands in Califonia and sent to he paents. It's things like this that bing families so close togethe. Ms. HaveyHamiltonalso had a ecod made to send to Chub in India so that although fa awayhe can get in on the family life hee. He son Tommyand Joan Reaume sang a duet fo Tommy's Dad on one ecod and she plays the "Rosay" and sings "Always" on anothe. When I see the youth oftoday in small caft o swimming out to meet the Bob- Lo boats, I quive fofea they will be sucked unde. At the same timeas the quive plays up and down my spinal chod I have a nostalgic feeling when I switch back to dayswheni did the vey same thing. We'd see the Bob-Loboat huyingdown the channel andwould eitheun alongthe shoeand statout aboutthe gulley (foot of Alma) o have ou timing so pefect that we would jump off the Abne C. Hadingat the watewoks andcatch it a bit upsteam fom the Lizad house. Then, too, I emembe how povoked I was at M. McCaffey because he told Dad that we wee taking mothe out in the canoe to meetthe Bob-Lo boatsand it must stop, as she couldn't swima stoke. He was pefectly ightbut at the time I thoughtthat no ham could come fom a fiend - the ive. In spite ofthe fact that we did it in ou geneation, it's dangeous pacticeand a waning to the youngpeopleto be cautious and alet at all times is necessay ight now. f.!(,.. ",Li.- I Picked amsful of peonies (attheequest of M. Geig) in thegaden behind the newveteans' hospital Satuday aftenoon. Those lushflowes cetainly do stage a gloious show. And afte they stop blooming the shiny handsome foliage makes a nice display among the annuals in the gaden. Thetalkative sun-speckled ive has a geatattaction fo me these days. I can hadly keep away fom it- its daytime and nighttime beauty ae magnetic and so also is its cool-to-the-skin wate. I've come to the conclusion with my fiiend the ive that I have othe eyes which pick up its beauty and othe eas which ae sensitively tuned to catch the night sounds. Nea the skits of the mighty - and I didn't even touch them. That's what I thought when I ead ofm. R.B. Bennett's death. Once when I was coming home fom thewest, I gotupvey late one moning (alittle habit I have on tains) andthe pote said, "Madame, ifyou huy you can have beakfast with M. Bennett." So sue enough when I got inthe dine thee he was, eveyone else had beakfasted and gone. So Iwas put at atable away facing him -and Ilooked at the mighty. The Lewis Bailey family is moving next weekfomthe home and fam on the second concession next the quay, which has been owned by Baileys fo thee geneations. William Bailey was the fist to own this popety. He sold to his bothe John, who left it to his son Ed, and then it fell to Ed's son Lewis. Infact fou geneations have lived thee, counting Lewis' two sons, Kenneth and Clayton. The encoaching quay and then blasting have made it necessay fo them to sell 54 55

30 ed-winged blackbid with its ed and gold epaulettes in one ofhis pictues as we did. Last Tuesday evening when we wee at the govenment dock bidding Bon Voyage to the sailos on the Atomic and Kamloops, thee was asailboat skimming aound in which thee was two vey boed looking passenges. Even to look at the poweful Atomic and the Kamloops with he wondeful wa ecod should povoke inteest, I'd think. Anyway, M. Bugess, a Detoit schoolmaste whose summe home isonthe old Johnston popety, told me the next day that the two sailboates beezed up the ive and passed his house. One man waved to them and the othe in a disgusted fashion said, "Why wave at those damed foeignes." No wonde they ween't inteested in the goings-on at the govenment dock. That the pefectly popotioned woman of947 is lage than Venus de Milo o Psyche (the beautiful wife of Cupid in Geek mythology) was given ina table of statistics in Life ecently and the changes in women's measuements was so inteesting to me it was woth passing on to you. The following ae the popotions as of893 and 947. The 893 measuements ae supposed to be Psyche's. Venus Ibelieve (in fact Iknow fo Isaw he in the Louve in Pais) is abit bigge in spots '4" Height 5'7" 2.5 neck bust waist hips thigh knee calf 3 7'4" ankle 8 40 weight 8 So dastic ae the changes in fashion silhouettes pedicted fo fall, with the long swaying skits and often uneven hemlines, that shoes and feet immediately take the spotlight and seem to like it. 58 an Id p - I '!< The changeove fom the pale sun-tanned stocking to the dak shee that matches the costume also accentuates shoe inteest. (Just an aside, what amuses me is the pai of gil fiends as on the Bob-Lo boat Sunday, one with the new long length while he pal still shows he knees, the contast spoils both outfits). Evidently, comingback to shoes, eveyoneis to wea platfomsthis fall - in fact all fashionable shoes will be cut highe. I still don't like the looks of high heeled platfoms, but I've thought that aboutmany high fashion points andeventually have had a complete change-oveofidea. July 24,947 As ifemboideing with golden knots hee and thee in the inticate shadows made by the bushes on the noth side of ou house, the fieflies ae fascinating needle-wokes these nights. Aftehaving a five-yea Misswith us fo the pastmonth,i knownow that evey house needs a child and that adult households have an impotant facet missing. I also know now that you can't swallow whole what the syndicated wites on child behaviou say, no canyou apply youschool teache methods of discipline. Those of us who invested in summe clothes this yea (and I did fo the fist time in yeas) took a chance and lost, as did the mechants. Let's hope that the fashion designes pompted by the big manufactues don't make too dastic changes instyles fo summe but I'll wage they will. The othe day we wee commenting on summe hats also andsaid thatthe loss to manufactue, wholesale and etaile must be alaming as all women, both county and city, ae weaing hats just as infequently as they can get away with it. Ms. IvanBondy, NothMaiden, sent me the following clipping which I quote below and said in commenting on McKee Rankin, "I emembe heaing my fathe, the late John Fox of Haow and ColchesteSouth, speak of McKee RanMn. My fathe woked fo him when he was living on Bois Blanc." Ms. Getude Peston also talked to me about the aticle and said that McKee Rankin, the acto, built the lage house atthe middle ofthe west side ofthe island 59

31 in which Colonel Atkinson lived late. The clipping which Ms. Bondy sent was clipped fom the Windso Daily Sta as follows: Theategoes hee seeing the cuent movie, "The Fame's Daughte"pobably won't appeciate that one ofthe outstanding chaacte actos in the pictue is closely elated to fomely pominent Windsofamilies. Rankins andmckees In the 830 ea, when Col. John Pince commanded the Essex Militia, a youngensign namedathu Rankin sevedwith distinction in the foces at the time ofthe Patiotinvasions and the Battle of Windso. Late Athu Rankin became a colonel and commanded the Essex Militia. Always coloful. Col. Rankin enteedpolitical life and was electedas a membe ofpaliament in his late yeas. Col. Rankin'sflaefo showmanship ledhim to take a goup of Indians fom Walpole Island and Windso to England whee a typical Indian show was staged with Indians iding thei hoses in thei natual habit. The show was vey successful andplayedfo ove a yea in EnglandandScotland. Col. Rankin maied a Miss McKee ofsandwich, an auntofthe late William McKee, and thei son was named Athu McKeeRankin (he lived onbois Blanc) whofollowed hisfathe'sfootsteps and was anoutstanding acto andshowman who tavelledwidely thoughout the UnitedStates and Canada. Stage & Sceen Athu McKee Rankin maied and had a daughte, Phyllis McKee Rankin, who also tuned to the stage. She maied Hay Davenpot. Hay Davenpot is the bothe of Fanny Davenpot, famed actess ofthe 90's, and although he is aging now he is still able to playchaactepats,following his long expeience on the legitimate stage and in movingpictues. His wife died about 0yeas ago afte a long life on the stage. f - : I ^ j The Miss McKee who maied Col. Rankin was the daughte ofcol. Alexande McKee, who was the Indian agentfo Uppe and Lowe Canada and gained consideablepominencefo his activities in the Ameican Revolutionay days. In 790 he was instumental in closing an ageement with the Indians to puchase the landfom PotStanley to Windso. Windsoites who have seen the pictue can ecall the chaacte of the old docto and pehaps imagine some of the fine acting backgound that has gone to make himthe gand old gentleman he potays on the sceen. July 3,947 An old-fashionedcutglass caafe filled withshastadaisiesis an attention-gette. The man-madehills ofcoal behind the Echo office ae doing awful things to my office ive views. Public spiited Wheatley citizens ae taking 500 childen to the Detoit Zoo today. We think alike...thei feet...the adults', not the childen's. Foegoimd, a field ofspakling (as ifitwee spatteed with wee mios) golden wheat - backgound, a lage pile of tile aanged imconsciously, of couse, in a modenistic fashion made a stiking pictue on the Colcheste-Maiden town line Wednesday. When I'm swimming o sunning evey Simday aftenoon, the South Ameican leisuely steams up ive, saluting this peson and that in the fiiendliest, almost affectionate I-like-to-say-hello way. Listen fo he as she talks to those on shoe next Simday aftenoon and you'll see what I mean. Blossoms afloatmake attactive floal aangements fo both dining oom and coffee table. Hollyhock blossoms pulled off shot at the stalkand floated in a low bowl, with nastutium leaves fo lily pads with pehaps a figuine stok, tutle o 60 6 J i;

32 swan bings a lot ofthe pak ight into yon home. One moning as I was esting ove a glass ofmilk inthe Coffee Ba, Ms. C.W. Lees ofedgewate Beach sat with me. She's a most inteesting peson and told me that he fathe, D. Andew Jackson Gage ofknoxville, Tennessee, was named afte the pesident, and although a geneal inthe Confedeate Amy and the owne of 42 slaves (she has his pictue with them), didn't appove ofwhat he was fighting fo. She also said that thei fou-stoey colonial house isnow a museum. Ms. Lees also told me that he youngest aimt on he fathe's side was Andew Jackson's wife and she has some ofthei lettes. Still haping at skit lengths fo fall. So hee's the latest, the daytime skit is now appoximately 4 to 5 inches jfom the floo. This length should come between five and six inches helow the knees. So when fixing you skit length be sue to measue both and also when tuning up the length wea the shoes you intend to wea with the suit. Ofcouse, you know no designe can dictate as to length of skit because the individual has to decide fo heselfpetty much, taking he figue and legs into consideation. But skits ae definitely longe and ae smat, in my opinion. Klaus Rothfels is woking on "chomosomes" and fo his expeiments he uses apaticula kind of gasshoppe which he and his wife Joanne Manning went to Oegon this summe to locate. They found it the fist day ofthei seach. It seems that the wok M. Rothfels is doing in cells will aid geatly in cance eseach. His wife, who even showed possibilities in Gade Iwith me, is acleve atist and does the atwok fo he husband's findings. Some hostesses seem to be so much bette equipped to give thei guests an enjoyable time than othes. When cads ae on the docket the hostess has no touble, but when atea often apeson gets stuck and doesn't know how to beak away. Seveal hostesses of my acquaintance have the knack of evey so often asking seveal guests to scout aound and talk to diffeent people. So if you'e stuck, hee's achance to ask Ms. Jones ove in the come about he gandchild To me it's so much bette than standing o sitting with the same people all the aftenoon and with the hostess subtly woking in the backgound eveyone has agood time I J. ',4 ci iv ' " V n 3 T IV ^ I " August 7 & 4,947 Young Stephen Smith, gandson ofms. Fed Smith, is caddying at Banffthis summe. Recentlyhe had the thill ofa 7-yea-old's life, he caied Bing Cosby's club aound the couse. A night o two befoe I went away I had to wok hee at the office, and when I walked to the south window I saw something which I have neve seen except in London, England. Against a peal gey twilight sky was the peach-coloed full moon hanging diectly between the two chimney pots on the Bank of Monteal. That the Mullenhomeon Dalhousie Steetnot only is old but bingsa geatdeal of atmosphee to that paticula pat oftown was pointed out by F.C.B. Falls, who saidthat it was shownin a pictue of Amhestbug in 82. He also went on to say that it is completely bick-lined. Bill Baileyof the Echo saw in News^eek that his geat uncle. Si Joseph Cook, had died in Austalia. Si Joseph was pime ministe of that vast land-below coimty duing Wold Wa I. Bill said thathisuncle emigated to Austalia as a coal pitboy and has woked his way tothe top ofthe mining industy thee. August 2,947 At last I'm to get (thanks to young fiend who keeps he eye on fashion accessoies) some shoulde pads which will stay in place and give the squae shoulde effect which of-the-naow-shouldes-type needs. They ae the newsnap-on vaiety which attach to slip and ba staps, stayput and can be used in any dess. Theysave the tackingin and ippingout businesstoo, as well as the woy of getting them in the ight spot. With the tempeatue night and day hoveing in the nineties I can eadily see why people in vey, vey hot climates ae unpoductive mentally. Some say (in fact LJ i

33 in a facetious tone, of covise, I did it myselflast weekto the menin the plant)that heatis only a state of mind. I wish I hadthat contol. Anyway, Tuesday moning afte a hot night I came downtown at 7:5 a.m. to get the moning pape and I actually envied the young lad of 2 coming aound the Ramsay-Richmond come in his bathing tunks heading fo the watewoks. When that teific wind and ain stom mshed acoss the ive last Thusday aftemoon at 5:30 was unning up Dalhousie Steet andalmost gotin the fuy of it because I was so fascinated by the unuffled dak gey backgound ofthe westem sky behind Bob-Lo and the billiant, dense emeald geen ofthe estless ive - a foeign colo,but beautiful, and I'm glad I got that combination of colo unusual on the old Detoit. Fo thee yeas Ms. Hebet Paetz has nused a yoimg chey tee and it was a pet. This yea it had a cop of about thee hundeded cheiesand she cheished the idea that those cheies wee to go into the deep feeze and next winte she could say to hefnends when she seved chey pie, "Those ae allmine, I gew them, I nutued them, I picked them and I pepaed them fo winte use." The long anticipated day fo the ite ofpicking was coming up ealy on a Sunday moning. Satuday night befoe the Paetzes went down the bank fo suppe, they looked ove the little tee with its shining ed fhiit and talked ove the next moning's pleasue. But ealy the next moning, the tee was stipped. Just acouple ofpits left. Someone must have used a flashlight fom the looks ofthe bae tee. Such a letdown. ; A and I had to be dessed all the time." We've cetainly got eveything hee fo summe and eally don't need to go to a summeesot except fo the change in faces, convesation and ideas. Two young Amhestbug television enthusiasts and television students (fo they ae both studying the subject in Chicago), in the pesons of Paul Montgomey and Geoge Robets, have set up a television unit in the Amhestbug Receation because that building opeates on 60 cycles. Amhestbug is ideally located fo television eception, ight on the ive within the 50 mile adius of WWJ TV's telecast pogams, including the baseball, in the aftemoon until fou. We've had a nuse visiting us who was oveseas with the Afican foces and spent he sevice yeas inafica. She said that when she aived insouth Afica eve so often she was kidded about the fact that she talked though he nose. When she aived back home in Nova Scotia she said that she often felt like sceaming when in a goup because she thought she couldn't stand the aucous Canadian voices and the fact that eveyone was talking though his nose. I laughed because I have an ai foce lad tell me the same thing afte fou yeas oveseas. He said that the noise of ou voices gated on his dums. Septembe 4,947 Whenlooking intothe life of CaptainThomas Paisley, we foundthat on August 4,94, his ship (mechant maine) was in the habo at Hambug, Gemany, and he was intenedthee fo the duation of the wa. August 28,947 The August Chatelaine has a splendid aticle on Kate Aitken, the popula Toonto commentato, who is the mothe of Ms. Clinton Thomson in Haow. Monday I met a fiend who had been holidaying on Lake Simcoe. "Do you know whee I'd athe be than anywhee else insumme," she challenged me. "In Amhestbug?" I queied. "That's ight," she continued. "Itwas so hot at the lake l( - New flowes (to me) wee bought in this weekby SusanWigle, daughte of M. & Ms. Cliffod Wigle - button astes in all the shades of pink. Such dainty individuals they wee too, andcetainly bightened the poof-eading job. The song the summe sang, despite the ight-about-face of theweathe, was a faily nice one but Ithought this weekend with the long dense shadows both Sunday and Labo Day monings, the music ofthe cicadas inthe evening and the gallant bits of colo - the fall has itshigh points and don'tfind it sad

34 Once in ablue moon when Iwash seveal pais ofnylons togethe, they have gotten mixed and I've won two decidedly diffeent shades to wok. When looking down Ikidded myselfthat they wee unnoticeable. But the othe day I saw asmat fall outfit on atum-to-look-at figue taking abus and he stockings ween't mates and the ensemble was spoiled. Hee's whee the bomide "you'e not kidding anyone but youself fits it. Foty membes of the Gaden Club of Detoit, who ae all alumni of the Univesity ofmichigan, will come to Amhestbug Satuday aftenoon to visit M and Ms. Hebet Paetz' gaden. They will also call at the Mawood Menzies home to see the attactive gaden, outside gill and patio which he and Mauice O'Beay have made on asmall lot. Among the inteesting people in the goup will be Ms Ruth Moshe Place, gaden edito ofthe Detoit News, and Ms. Bouton, who is in chage ofthe Gaden Cente at Belle Isle. ' Septembe,947 The Lifebuoy-coloed sun dangling (with no ays whatsoeve) in the west Sunday night against aclea, peal gey backdop up so high, then alaye ofgev with afaint tinge ofpink, made aeal "Now the day is ove" impession. In this day ofising household pices Iwas supised when fiend told me that she neve knew what it cost he and he family of thee to eat, that she neve has kept tack ofhousehold bills. Even ifthee is endless money on hand Ifeel that it IS wong pocedue to spend too much on food when thee ae so many wothwhile spots fo It, whee you'll have something to show besides excess baggage in the way 0 l3x, When talking to one ofthe Detoit Gaden Club membes Satuday as we stood nea the shoe, she said, "Fom hee you can see both the sunise and the sunset on the wate" - was abit supised that adetoit native wouldn't know that he citv IS on the tum ofthe ive and consequently he east and west is ou noth and south But inteests diffe and as I've said befoe, things closest to us we so often don't nav much attention to. ^ 66 ^..i '?! "' ft " u Public washooms in estauants, hotels, etc. must be a headache to the popietos because ofthe caeless public. Seveal times lately I've noticed the filthy conditions ofsuch places late in the day and the epulsiveness was not due to poo housekeeping on the popietos' pat, I'm cetain ofthat. Why is itthat we, the public, ae so caeless in public places? Flicking ashes on hotel floos, thowing papes aound, sticking gum hee, thee and eveywhee and many othe annoyances and indeed filthy ticks we wouldn't think of doing at home. Satuday aftenoon I joined a goup of most attactive, alet gaden-minded Detoit people who wee the guests of M. and Ms. Hebet Paetz and Mauice O'Beay. One ofthe women was sitting alone nea the gill, so Imoved ove and we talked about this town and he gaden. Late on she and I got togethe again and again flowes, thei beauty and satisfaction was the theme song. On the bidge going back to Detoit she had aheat attack and died soon afte. When I leaned about it Monday moning I couldn't help think that he last hous wee aswewould all wantthem - looking at flowes andgadens withtheeye of a Ceato andtalking ofthem, living to the full and basking inone's hobby to the end. Septembe 8,947 q8p (TO A centepiece with chaacte - low white glads aanged hoizontally in a flat white containe withgeen lining, flanked by white tapes. Eve so many paents took thei childen to theodeo in Detoit Satuday to see Roy Roges and his famous hose. And fom the talk, he in peson lived up to all the heo woship he had built up inthem in the movies. One of the finest books I have ead against ace pejudice is "Gentleman's Ageement". In this amagazine wite, Phil Geen, was assigned aseies ofaticles in"antisemitism" and so he could actually get the feeling and undestanding fo this aticle he became a Jew fo eight weeks. I found the book fascinating and vey wothwhile. Fo the fist time since I stated this job thee was not a death fo me to wite 67

35 lastweek. With the exception of the notice egading Ms. John Powe's gandson Lawence Powe, who had died in Chicago, and the fact that in the "Convesation Pieces" I mentioned the sudden death ofthat Detoit gaden love, thee wee no local obituaies. To me that fact was woth a comment. Being too childish - as it eminds me of my own blond little gil pale pink and baby blue childhood (why oh why do mothes of tow heads insist on that combination). I've neve caed much fo the pink and blue flowe combination but I must say that I've gotten the habit oflooking out ou east window these monings to see the white-eyed delft blue moning gloies entwined on a lattice with a few pale pink ones. They lookso fesh andwide-eyed to geet the day. Afte the Coy-Nash wedding Satuday, eveywhee I went people wee talking about the hats wom by the women guests - not my 940 model - but the up-to-theminute stunning fall models gay with plumes and flowes. What I noticed paticulaly was that they eally wee becoming, not the ulta-exteme heavy cowned down-ove-the-eas hats that I was shown late in July fo fall 947. Was wishing thati hadbeen invited to a wedding inleamington to see thecolo and design used inthe attendants' desses. Although wam last week fall hues wee inode and the Victoian gowns, with off-the-shoulde and bustle effects in lime lilac and bugundy velvet with yellow chysanthemums used in the bouquets must have been beautiful. The attendants' hats wee wide and cownless ofmatching lace withmatching velvet ibbon steames which fell to the hemline. Sounds lush. Septembe 25,947 Q&) <K) The ecod is on again - quote: "When ae the B.M. dances going to stat, we have nothing to do." The boat ''Miss Amhestbu^\ inwhich Hay Duby placed fouth inthe Rive Rouge Labo Dayaces, was built by himin his ownbackyad. The Washington fashion-minded wee shocked when Ms. Tuman stated off :i,...,j. I il ( ;, f '"T [ - j : j to Rio de Janeio in a black dess with a blue hat and ed shoes. If nothing else Banana Belt weathe is inteesting - On Satuday I went swimming and on Monday atseven the childen wee olle skating with coats and mittens on in font of the office, andthee cetainly was fost in the offing. Well, ae we to go into the undepinning that my mothe woe onthe eve ofthe twentieth centuy which is putaway with he beautiful, and I mean beautifiil, satin and seed peal timmed wedding dess. When I saw the ads fo these mtimates -this is the laststaw, I gasped, fo with themodem figue theboned wasp-waist effect just doesn't fit in. Latest idea fo Bitain's youngstes andthei long suffeing paents is the night nusey. The plan is ofcouse, to see that paents get an evening out togethe occasionally. To me this seemed a splendid idea, not only asa moale builde fo paents, but as alucative business fo some one. Iwonde ifin time when mothes ae no longe needed inindusty, ifnight nuseies won't become moe popula than day nuseies. Ithought ofian Thomson, oganist atchist Chuch, when Icame acoss afille headed "Avocation as well as vocation" which said in pat: "What is the special quality that diffeentiates the musician fom the sculpto, the painte, the wite? It lies in the fact that he loves his at so much that he pusues it not only as a pofession but also fo elaxation. He makes his caee in music and then he has not had enough ofit, he makes his gaiety and good times with music also." Ajoke on the Convesation Piece. It seems that a goup ofwomen wee talking and one said, "Thee's awoman who comes downtown in ablack ca evey moning in a dessing gown and with skits flying (felt like a Geek goddess with that pat) without saying anything to anyone, sails into Reids fo the moning pape. I'mnot citical," she went on and added, "But Miss Mash has even mentioned he inthe Convesation Pieces (and I did when commenting on something that attacted inthe 7:30 a.m. beauty). Afiiend who was listening insaid, "Don't you know who that woman is, why that s Miss Mash

36 Ill.. Octobe 2,947 The wild astes along the oadway as we dove fom Haow to Ame last Thusday inthe noonday sun was a foam ofpuple-lavende. "Long skits ae immoal" said awestem peache, and afte eading the aticle Istill don't know what he's hitting at. Just wanted to get his name in the pape as taking a stand in this Fall 947long and shot ofit feud. The summe cetainly blew into Fall quickly this yea and accoding to the gadens in ou neighbohood thee aen't many flowes buning candles to fall at the moment, but thee will be soon with the pomised bloom in the chysanthemum beds. What olde women ae doing - it'snot age but mental outlook that counts and I mean it. This week in a despatch fom Ottawa it was announced that Miss Elizabeth Smellie (a fiend ofms. A.R. Batlett's) had been named westem egion nusing consultant fo the Depatment ofveteans' Affais invancouve. With the incease in the pice of bead, we have wondeed whethe o not bakes could put out a smalle sized loaf. Ou family oftwo doesn't eat a full loaf in a week and often the end gets so stale o mouldy that it has to be gabaged, which is wong when thee ae so many lage families who have depended on the afte-school snack of bead and butte as acasual thing, but which now has become aluxuy. Went to hea Monsigno Fulton J. Sheen in Windso Sunday and his lectue was so full ofthought that I'm still mulling it ove. The gist ofhis lectue was that Kal Max, the Communist, and Sigmund Feud, the geat psycho-analyst, wee on the nght tack when they developed what they thought would be solutions fo economic and mental unest, but they eed in one espect by leaving God out ofthei plans. Monsigno Sheen descibed each man and his ideas thooughly and pointed out the good. In fact he feels that each made an outstanding contibution to living in the twentieth centuy j I' ''T ^ ;^' I J* If E.J. Patt is one of Canada's noted poets and his poweful stoies in vese (emembe Dunkik) can be enjoyed by teenages as well as adults. His woks become majestic and musical, especially when ead aloud. Noticed that his new long poem "Epic ofthe Convoys, Behind the Log" will be out soon. In this he pesents with powe and incision the damatic stoy ofaconvoy duing the wa. Fo the tme backgound and atmosphee M. Patt went to sea ona Canadian destoye and it should bea thilling volume. Gant MacDonald, famous fo his navy potaits does the illustations. Miss Ruth Moshe Place, the gaden edito of the Detoit News, and I wee laughing about ou jobs and she said that it bums he up when people say to he epeatedly how much fun it must be to wok on a newspape. Thee is the fun element and we all get aound, but the wok has to bedone whethe it's at4 p.m. o 4a.m., and then thee's the pessue ofahuman woking against a gowling hungy linotype. But Idon't feel belligeent towad the people who say that, as Ms. Place seems to, because as anaudito said when hee inthe office last yea, I neve knew an office'to have such laughs and it's those laugh peiods that ease the pessue and as a matte of fact eveybody woks and eveybody knows thatthee's not such a thing as a soft jobinou day. Octobe 9,947 Inthe mildness and beauty of Sunday night I had fo thefist time this fall the fun of heaing the swish of the died leaves on the sidewalks, making good backgound music fo good convesation. Some of my aesthetic fiiends on Laid Avenue feel that my clothes colo scheme should be changed to match my dog Bobby's beautiful mahogany coat - Hate to ja my fiends' sense ofbeauty but the bown shades and geens which would compliment Bob ae unbecoming. Bobby has his paticula colo scheme as to face, skin, hai and eyes and Ihave mine and they do clash. The Emily Post of650, whose name was Hannah Wooley, passed out some petinent advice to the belles when she wote to the Gentlewoman's Companion; 7

37 Closeyou lips whenyou eat and do not smack like a pig. Discove not by any avenous gestue you angy appetite no fix you eyes too geedily upon the meat befoeyou. Fill not you mouth so full that you cheeks shall swell like Scotch bagpipes. It is vey uncomely to dinkso lage a daught that you beath is almost gone and you ae foced to blow stongly to ecove youself. n" wok. Almost 20 pecentum of immigants seeking efuge in Canada ae pofessional men tying to escape thepohibitive taxes in Euope, D. Joseph Hilbet, Hvmgaian bom painte, told Haow Rotaians last week. I met one of these pofessional immigants in Huntsville lastsumme, although notexactly in the same categoy, as he, a docto, fled Czechoslovakia in 939 and his wife and he motheescaped fom Bohemia. They wee chaming people and thei English, quite bookish and spoken accoding to ules (we could all do a little moe of that I thought), was pefect and thei expessions extaodinay and expessive. Octobe 6,947 Until I talked to Ralph Wight in Haow last WednesdayI thought punes wee died plums. But he assued me that they wee not a plum, but a pune and that he has Califonia punes gowing on his fam at Ame. Funny how we go alongfo yeas with wong impessions - pobably ideas we made up ouselves and neve asked about them. Evey so often something comes up that I'd like to do - but the dea old desk and I ae at the ball and chain stage. This time it is to sell books at the Detoit Gaden Club Sale at the Tulle Hotel on Novembe 6. Some ofthe membes will sell flowe aangements, othes pictues, and still othes books. What a busman's holiday I would have with those books ifi only could... To me these Autumn days ae without pice. Fo as I've said so often this, my favoite season is at hand. The only thing I've become like those people who queue fo food and scace clothing aticles, when the demand fo gloious sunshine playing onthedense colos ound about these days begins to exceed the supply, I wantmoe and moe. Essex Coimty's lades ae full to oveflowing as you can eadily see as you dive along the highways - yet the people in England ae asking the Canadian Red Coss fo food fo the vey fist time since wa began. It's had to believe and Canada has been handed a challenge though the Red Coss to do something and we women in Amhestbug must accept the challenge byknuckling down to peacetime j,..j " J Octobe 23,947 The yellow in theleaves along Laid Avenue has cetainly bought the sunlight down to us these days. One thing we women have become vey inconsideate about, and that is emoving hats ina movie. Ifwe want to act accoding to Hoyle, we should take off ouhats nomatte how small. Onsecond thought the etiquette book pobably didn't mean a calot but a hat as small as pill box might pove aimoying to the peson behind. As fo a lage hat, it's just bad mannes. One day oflate, we wee talking about Captain Jack Menzies, who lived up ou steet when wewee childen, and of the fun wehadswinuning fom hisboathouse. Like a flash I was eminded ofthe 5 cents hestill owes mefothebass I caught off the Will Menzies' ocks. I emembe that day as I walked up fom the ive he called fom hiswheelchai that that would be a fine tidbit fo his suppe and he'd give me 5 cents fo it - and I'm still waiting. Along the same line, my mouth is still wateing fo maple walnut fudge which I was pomised if I'd un a message way up Sandwich Steet yeas and yeas ago. Fo that too I'm still waiting. If people would only ealize childen neve foget - they mi^t fo a long time and then, as itdid with me, e-egiste -they wouldn't pomise without caying though. The young women ofthe Junio Guild ofchist Chuch did something the othe 72 J 'i: 73

38 night in the Paish House which is good fo a cowd of people and fo the community in geneal. They had an "At Home", which commenced with asing song, musical pogam and ended with both oimd and squae dancing. (Although the latte wasn't so successful ifone has studied the at ofthis paticula kind of dance because the young couples pesent just didn't know how, but it povided much amusement fo the onlookes.) Those in attendance had adandy time and as I looked aound, my theoy that young people like to sing was poven. Infomal affais like this whee olde and younge people ae togethe appeal and thee should be moe of them, as it povides a social contact which we don't often get. The membes had decoated the hall with an autumn motifusing fhiit, vegetables and leaves and on the buffet suppe table they aanged a centepiece of fuit and bouquets ofthe season's flowes, which all added up to make fo the success ofthe evening. Afotnight ago J.A.M. boowed aband new book fom the libay which had only been out once befoe. It was spotted ove the cove and positively filthy. We just couldn't believe that anyone would have the neve to etun a book in such condition. Octobe 30,947 So many people can't seem to see beauty in the fall because they find too much pathos in the dying leaves and gadens. But to me this passing ofloveliness that's going on all aound, is healding the beauty outdoos I find in the new season to come. When Ms. Getude Peston was in Pontiac this past week she had apiece of he siste's (Ms. Ed Agus') wedding cake that was made by Fed Cutis, the bake hee in Amhestbug 44 yeas ago. Ms. Peston said that the cake was moist and palatable. An inteesting age situation came up amonth ago when Lucienna Wisme's daughte was bom. Lucienna is the wife of M. Havey Jones, Andedon. The young mothe is 9 yeas of age and when he baby was bom he fathe, Dawin 74 f- i '^ n T - I" ) \ - f -M: f ' -T Wisme, was 38. I hadn't head thiseasoning befoe butit sounds alight, that etiquette is a pat of mental health pactice; it ounds out the pictue ofa healthy mind in a healthy body. "Mames, in addition to making the man, makes the healthy and happy man." This statement is based on the assetion that the mannely peson, being socially moe acceptable, is coespondingly happie, and hence healthie. Hugged close to the sidewalk along Fot Maiden Dive was a dift ofmaple leaves beautiful in thei bowns, yellows, eds and bonze (befoe they wee too died out oain beaten), peeping fom the blanket was a pefect ageatum inall its peiwinkle blue daintiness. Stange to say the masculineness ofthe leaves and the feminineness ofthe ageatum complemented one anothe - But that's life, isn't it? The shot slip - longe skit situation is snowballing into a big feminine question. Within the month Igot ablack nylon slip to wea with alengthened black wool cepe skit (thin mateial) and the slip is a good eight inches shote than my skit. The saleswoman suggested black lace as a slip lengthene but nothing doing in that line eithe. So the whole voguish longe length skit is spoiled fo the time being. On the fist bithday ofhe geat gandson, Jason Guy Sanfod, July 22, Ms. Lemuel Russelo, Simcoe Steet, who has been cippled with a boken left wist since the bith ofthe boy, began to avel and e-knit a fine woollen sweate which had belonged to the child's geat geat gandmothe James. Despite he handicap, Ms. Russelo peseveed with the knitting and finished a sweate fo the yea-old gandson this week. cetainly put most ofus to shame. Novembe 6,947 Ms. Russelo's detemination, ambition and couage can Statistics that have inteest to the distaff side - unmaied women between 20 and 30 have thee times as good achance ofmaiage as did women ofthe same age in 94, it isestimated. 75

39 Sucha mixedup season as we'e having in the plantwold. Sunday J.A.M. and I went to seethe Webstes' chysanthemum show in the ock gaden which spills down the hill towad the ive, andthee cockily gowing andunning well in the colo show wee clumps ofpefect nastutiums. Black face type set in a box ina hot spot onthe font page ofa Toonto daily poclaimed pussywillows in Toonto Thusday. Ou pussywillows have mistaken the season also and have eached matuity but ae not as lage as they get in the sping. Pussys andtulips aea delightful combination but I have mydoubts about pussys and chysanthemums - could be. Still at it- but the inconguity ofthe govth calls fo chatte. Monday night fiend had thee bouquets inhe living oom - anaangement ofdelphinium ina cut glass vase; anothe ofameican Beauty oses; and the thid was chysanthemums, all fom hegaden. I quiteagee withthefee Pess which made the comment that the weathe was conscience sticken fo what it didto us this sping and summe - even that killing fost the last week in Septembe was a ditytick. Jack Hambleton, young Windso atist who did the illustations in the new book "Facepowde and Gunpowde", the stoy of Canada's Red Coss Cops oveseas, has a pictue "Old House, Amhestbug" in his cuent show at the C.H. Smith Auditoium. Coopeating with M. Hambleton onthis exhibit is anothe of Windso's outstanding atists, Kenneth Saltmache, the cuato at the Willistead Libay At Galley. The old house is the Ouellette house up the bank. M. Hambleton's othe pictue ofthe Post Office fom the south west side shows a bitofthe Echo office. Winte season usually means a pepped-up paty life, moe sophisticated clothes and cosages. So afew pointes on cosages, because they seem to be eveywhee these days, on old, young and in-between women, would not be amiss. Evey once inawhile we women get a supise cosage which does not match apaticula outfit fo aspecial event but wea itwe must (so as not to hut feelings), even ifwe tuck itinto the hai so it won't clash, o I've seen them wom effectively on the left wist. Then, too, thee ae still women who make the mistake ofweaing the blossoms down - always blossoms up, ibbons down. Just atpesent many cosages ae ma f> up without ibbons so the weae will have to decide the position fo heself - L n T' i-.'. f * " f I Recently Iead that the latest fashion edict is to wea the co^ge on the ight Shoulde. Atip fo the young, young women, ochids ae lovely, but fo you should besaved fo anexta special occasion. Novembe 3,947 % It seems that aman in avey neaby town was aested ecently and seitt to jml fo selling liquo to minos-last week the town council got alette fiom his wife lhat "Youput my husband injail so Iwant aton ofchestnut coal, also meat, goceies, etc. etc. evey week." The howling and powling ofold man winte Satuday aftenoon when he blew bits ofsnow aound didn't distub the flowes as much as it did us who ateut the sudden change, fo Isaw achaming bouquet of pefect pink baby osebuds picked Satuday. One way to get them - Ove this past weekend I listened in on seveal v.iions egading pheasant shooting both on Pelee and the mainland. But the Sckeftlwng I've seen in the pheasant catching line was on Satmday aftemoon whetthe btb diven by Mickey Cochane hit apheasant with its bnght plumage. M. Cochane etieved it and was as poud as punch. Pn.siblv I'm old fashioned, but Iwas eading that ifaneighbo comes to call hniss when you ae ahouse guest and the convesation continues along es^ozd news and tivialities, it is pefectly alight fo you, the «to excuse youself and go to you oom to est, kmt, ead, unpack o SSevS's onyou mind. Idisagee with this, because aguest owes something m u ntess and can suely listen to babies, ecipes, commgs and gomgs, fo awhile uhthostil^ts actace to diectthe convesation into boade channels. But sit ^est!t m must, awodlng jjjpjct, to myfo sense we often good become mannes. so inteested Ofcouse in ou we all own have littlea we foget thee ae outsides inthe goup to whom the convesation must be boing

40 I J&. Novembe 20,947 It cetmnly doesn't take long fo the young women to pick up the latest the Gibson look. Inoticed at the dance on Fiday night that adozen ofthem had the pnm collas and gay flowing ties. mwestmimste Elizabeth Abbey, ofengland London, this andmoning. Lieutenant Ilike Philip what Mountbatten the chaiman wee ofthe maied New Yok Dess Inshtute said: "The wold has awam feeling about this wedding as a symbol ofthe nght things oflife." ^ Satuday aftenoon when in Windso, Istood watching fo aplace to sit at a food counte and looked ove the backs and leg positions ofthe people sitting thee What achuckle Ihad ove the gotesque (yes, that's tue) sitting positions That waitmg fo asandwich business poved to be pofitable fo me, aeal good lesson on how not to sit on astool at acounte. Women ween't the only offendes -the menlooked stange fi-om the eatoo. As don't take suga in eithe tea o coffee, duing the ationing yeas wheneve was maestauant with asuga love and I'd say "no" to the waitess, I'd usualiv get a^ look. So, it got so that often I'd say "yes." Amistice Day, though got fooled fogettmg that suga ationing was off and neve thinking of ganulated 3h. halfhes in Kleenex fo the wateed second synipcup. instead oftea while 4ndLto pm A Boxall, a lassie fom Edinbugh who has come to live in Ai^estbug, is ahighland dance ofnote. Ms. Boxall has 6 medals to he c^^ ^d when she was twelve was pesented with abible by the late King Geoge and Queen M^, shook he hand and no doubt complimented he on he dancing afte acompetition in Ushe Hall in Edinbugh. When said, "Have yodonelv ancmg since you came to this county as awa bide?" Ms Boxall an<!wa 78 I XjJ) F ' k ' (:,^ p ' T " T Pat Thomas, daughte of Chas. Thomas, is in Toonto now, going to m^t school making pepaation fo Deaconess Taining and woking mthe complmnt depatment ofsimpson's. My young ex-pupil called Sunday and said that she had been kidded in he depatment because she was always talking Amhestbug -the finest town in the Dominion, etc. etc. One day ecently one ofthe staff got alette maked "The Amhestbug Echo'' and bought it to Pat saying. At long last hee s the name ofthe wondeful town in pint" and asked if she knew the wite, which was lettehead me complaining poves what about she was adess. sayingpat about saidthe had "Banana been he Belt, teache etc. So ^dmy that lette &e was passed aound the depatment with lots offacetious en^ks. also went on to tell me that he pincipal, a M. Allen, lived mthe old Methodist pasonage hee when his fathe was pasto ofwesley Chuch about 40 yeas ago. Novembe27,947 As was going home to lunch last Thusday the day was so mellow. The bowns tans geens and occasional odd colo in the few stalwat flowes wee Lned by the noonday sun. The ive was amio. Thee lads wee owing ove fom Bob-Lo in the same line ofvision as afeighte quietly upbound, just as if the season wee beginning. When talking to a young lawye ove the weekend, he said that nothing diseusted him moe than to be one step ahead ofthe autho in amystey stoy. He a«:lid ifhad ead "Halfway House" by Elley Queen and continued mthat stoy he was completely baffled and he consides it one ofthe best "whodunits". So, the mystey stoy addict, bought atwenty-five cent edition and am enjoymg it. On the pak popety afew yads fom ou house stands amaple which up until Monday moning had hadly shed aleaf. The tee was coveed with geen leaves ^th the odd bown spot. Supise! Supnse! When the snow gave adiffeent 7 ked UP fo-winte chaacte that moning, on top ofthe dead whiteness unde S4e whichmention was acoveing ofgeen leaves. Lots ofwhite with adash of geen is astunning colo scheme. 79

41 Decembe 4,947 With delight I ecod this incident. The othe day I walked in on a fiend who has a fine Fench backgound and name and said, "Hello, Miss," ponouncing he suname the Englishway as so manydo. He eyesfied and she said,"my name is," in no uncetain tems, giving it the Fench ponunciation, which means something and is musical in my estimation. I was delighted, fo I do like the old Fench sumames, popely ponounced, which aeintewoven intothehistoy of this distict. Two people whom I have seen that past week pove my point that you ae just as old as youmind- the one, Ms.F.P. Scatch, who will be 93 on the 8"', was at the Geneal Amhest commencement Fiday night, going out onthe fist blustey night ofthe season. The othe was Ms. J.K. McLean ofhaow, who celebated he fiftieth wedding annivesay last Monday. When I was calling on he Wednesday, if I had closed my eyes (not that she'sold looking by any means), fom he gay convesation and the lilt ofhe voice I would have thought I was talking to a eal young woman. Among the seven Canadian newspapewomen who wee sent to London to cove the Royal Wedding was Ms. Kate Aiken ofthe Monteal Standad. Ms. Clinton Thompson ofhaow is Ms. Aiken's daughte and she told a goup of young women about hemothe's activities in Haow last night. I hope sometime when Ms. Aiken comes tothis distict that I'll beable to meet he, justasi did Ms. Mytle Labatt a few weeks ago. Both these billiant women have done andae still doing a wondefuljob ofcombining a caee and a home. Paging Ripley! When Haold Kitchen of Bantfod was in town ove the weekend hesaw a ca downtown, which hethought looked like his favoite oldca sold two yeas ago. Late the ca was paked on the lot next his siste-in-law's (Ms. I.H. Kitchen) home and he mentioned it again and said that if it eally wee hisca it would have some sot ofa boken gadget at some paticula spot. So he saunteed ove and sue enough thee it was. He went to the doo (the Geoge Mallett house) and offeed the man $900 fo the ca, but the owne said that he wouldn't take 80 I- II :i J-!( ' ( ' P - $000. The inteesting thing is that the people inthe Mallett house have ecently come f-om Saskatchewan and, ofcouse, the ca beas a Saskatchewan licence and has tavelled thousands of miles since M. Kitchen sold it. Decembe,947 Chistmas concets, Chistmas paties and Chistmas tees wee the oft-epeated news items Tuesday moning and as Itook the items down and tied to look though the dity windows at the office, so much moe noticeable with the wam sun playing on them, Ifelt like potesting at "Silent Night" and insisting on "And we will ow, ow, ow, way up onthe ive." Am absobed in"sepent's Tooth," a new Canadian novel witten bya Toonto woman. But I agee with B.M. (Mothe) that the two fathes sound as ifthey wee living in 900, in fact, B.M. said, "It sounds like my stict fathe, my dea." On second thought, in ou small hoizons possibly we don't know people like that - and thee may be plenty, so why even in thought citicize the chaacteizations as being a bit fa fetched. Thee's nothing that bums me up moe than having someone compae what "we did when we wee young" o say, "We wee only allowed out on Fiday nights" with the feedom the young people have o to the way the young people expess themselves today "not as they used to in the good old days." Gosh, those "good old days" must have been good -but give me today and its fank, well-dessed, easy to talk to, well infomed young people. Evey Tuesday night when Iwend my way towad the B.M. Club fo bowling, I say/to myself, "Why, Owhy, didn't Istat this activity long ago when Ienjoy it so much." - If I had done that, I know those elusive five pins (chuckling at the geenhon) wouldn't change position when my ball comes towad them just to fool me Then, too, thee's anothe thing, ifi had stated this game ealie in life I wouldn't be so self-conscious ofmy limitations when the now-gown pupils ofmine sav "How'e you doing. Miss Mash?" and Ihave to point to my 98% aveage fo osobe and Novembe. Idid want 00 but that centuy mak, too, just danced 8

42 befoe me andthenaway. I got a complaint at the dance Fiday night fom one of the younge exsevicemen that the gils hee wee not paticulaly fiendly -that othe places he'd been to gils wee not allowed to dance togethe. But since the dancing paties stated this yea, I've noticed two things: that thee ae thee times as many young men as gils and that some ofthe younge men stand aound all evening and don't ask the gils (sittes) on the othe side to dance. And Iask you, can the gils walk ove to the east side of the B.M. Club and coal a dance patne? It's most embaassing fo agil to wam achai at adance but that Ithink would be wose As aconsequence some ofthe gils do dance togethe. I'll stick up fo the gils at the dances -even though they ae in the minoity, to be awall flowe is amajo msult, so how can they be fiendly if the young men don't make the fist move. Some ofyou will say the occasional "gil ask boy" dance o "gils do the obbing'' but that's not so popula eithe. At apivate dance, yes, o asevicemen's canteen yes, but I have my doubts about ou dances, maybe so. ' Decembe 8,947 (TO Tuesday was a beautiful day of patten and design with the feathey snow causmg acomplete metamophosis - looked almost as ifwe wee in fo aspell of magical winte weathe -the kind that goes hand in glove with Chistmas. I admie the efficiency of those fiends of mine who have thei Chistmas pesents all wapped and thei Chistmas cads witten, but Ican't seem to do it until Iget The Spint and when it does stike, as it did Sunday, watch out fo me M Santa. I want eveything in you pack fo my fiiends (big and little) and have a place toput each and evey aticle. While we ush aound shopping hysteically fo Chistmas, gousing because some ofthe delectables fo the big dinne ae still had to find, Inotice that Bitons ae gomg to have achistmas pesent fom thei govenment. It's an exta holidav aton often cents' woth ofmeat, apound and ahalfofsuga and fou ounces of chocolate. - ^ LJ Afeeling of good things to come, contentment and happiness came ove me Monday moning as Iwatched the sunise. Thee was nothing to uffle the easten sky -just apeal gey backgotmd, no ai motion detectable, then qmetiy and cofidently the moe ed than oange glow cept up until apefect ac was fomed shading pefectly fom pale sky ceiling to the hoizon's deep tones. Fo yeas and yeas Itaught the udiments of spelling and neve thought but what Iwasn't an above aveage spelle. But since taking this job with its copy and noof-eading, Ifind that the Oxfod dictionay is anecessity to my daily pogam Ld Io someone else picks up simply awful mistakes. The othe mght Iwas dashing offacad and spelled "disillusioned" wong and knew it at the moment but it was L last cad Ihad, so let it go -Time afte time flie same thing happens and it shows that one shouldn't be too positive ofone's ability many line. Iwas most inteested in the wold pemiee of "Fom Sea to Sea," ac^ada insdied symphonic suite by Monteal's youthful Alexande Bott, which was head TL Monte^ afotnight ago tonight. The 45-minute wok was afiye-movement suite desciptiye of the Maitimes, Quebec, Ontano, the Fames and Bntish Columbia Ai ofthe music, which depends almost entiely on its diect emotional Leal was "to epesent as closely as possible the paticula contibution made by elh aiea to this geat Canadian panoama." His inspiations wee published and ^published folkloe eseaches, documentay films, Canadian paintings and the geogaphical sights of Canada. Decembe 25,947 Idon't think it becomes posaic when oft epeated so what's the use ofdessing it up -Mey Chistmas! Talk about an undegound gapeyine in Amhestbug, its powe was eyident this past weekend when only amatte ofafew hous afte the skating ink was in shlllden and some adults fom all pats ofthe townwee onhand fo the fist skate ofthe season

43 One of the mostbeautiful sunsets of this seasonwas staged Sunday night on the shotest day ofthe yea, when oange and white was the colo scheme used - neve did I think that a calm oange ive with the white and almost black tees in the foegoimd, thenbackdop Bob-Lo, then oange sky, would be beathtaking, but it was. This Chistmas is going to be the sweetest holiday we've had in a long time because not an eyebow is aised when you say to the salesman, "I'll take two boxes of candy, please." Then, too, it's a fudge making time and done so casually, too. I'm gladaboutthe lattefo the youngfolk's sake fo they have been cubed in this fim fo so long - now they can have thei fling. A ual mail man was in on Thusday and told of walking thee miles of his oute because of the snow difted oads. He said, "And what do youknow, I stood onepeson's sacastic emak because the mailwas late." Stange make-up some ofus havethat we can't stand to have ou outine disupted in spite ofthe fact that many things ae beyond human contol. Take fo instance, when the hydo is off, I wage thatif a ecoding could be made ofthe calls thee would be goodmateial fo Hollywood's slapstick comedy wites. Januay,948 The new yea is at hand and may it bing a leveling offin ou way of life and a deepe sense of tue values, not only in the homebut ovethe wholewold. Ou Chistmas flowes had the beautiful snow on Fiday fo focus. Hope they last until New Yea's and the same thing happens again. Just the thought ofit will give a good stat to 948 fo me, anyway. Asaunte down Dalhousie Steet and apeak in at the gloious Ameican Beauty oses gowing in the geenhouse vdll help to make New Yea's esolutions stick - a combination of God-made and man-made beauty such ascouldn't do othewise Thee's a eal Chistmas cad pictue on No. 8 Highway nea the Big Ceek ji. T T bidge on the left side ofthe oad going towads Haow -awee cozy ed house set back among the tees with snow on the oof and blanketing the gound -just the sot of quiet ual impession that people of othe lands have of Canada. Without the snow, too, its pastoal beauty attacts. Such lamenting as is ampant because no oganization has planned a New Yea's Eve dance - but why do it in atown like Amhestbug when thee ae so many places to go - lamenting and eget, yes, but fo two yeas the B.M. Club dance committee went to elaboate pepaations to have agala time on New Yea's because "eveybody" wanted adance and "eveybody" was to be thee, but what happened -"eveybody" had something else to do, so the committee got discouaged -consequently no New Yea's Eve dance and can you blame the membes. Fo the distaffside only -with the new yea and thoughts ofanew Sping dess, watch fabics moe caefully as they can do alot fo you figue, tempeament and mood Accoding to aecent fashion aticle the expets tell us we should always conside weight, weave, luste and design when we'e choosing fabics that will do nice things to the figue. Satin is adandy mateial ifyou'e flat chested but fatal if lumpish -chiffon fo best dess fo that goup. The thin, faily tall woman can pick UD the gogeous tweeds and wea them any place and evey place. That's the lucky eoup fo you get colo and dash and always look well dessed. Unfotunately thee L some women with bad figue points who insist on tweeds, skits and blouses which suely do accentuate the negative -you simply can't be flat and tweedy at the same time. Januay 8,948 Apai of cadinals, annoyed that the beies wee ice-coveed, in no uncetain tems told me that they wee hungy Satuday aflemoon. Thee was the stangest puple light, not playing but settled, on the ice and snow den banches at 7:45 Monday moning, giving an entiely diffeent lifeless look to the wold of tees and shubbey in ou neighbohood. 85

44 New Yea's was a feasome day with the wold amoed with fost, the eeie geyness that settled down, the ive going contaiwise, the lightning and thxmde, the powe off- andin lotsof cases the heatand wate off,too. When the Banana Belt stats to kick up its heels to show it's anindividualist, it goes all out. This little aticle below headed "Best Dessed Woman" I found in thelondon Fee Pess and thought was witten with tongue-in-cheek as a follow-up ofall the ballyhoo aboutthe ten best women of the yea. It eads: Ou idea ofa well-dessed women is one who is so well gabed that when we leave he we have notthe slightest notion ofwhat she was weaing, only the genealfeeling that she was well dessed. We like afiendly smile, afim handshake, a bight eye, a humoous lip, a quick step, a soft voice, a kindly heat. That's ou best dessed womanoftheyea, whethe she be in minko a mothe hubbad. Inou wold the wite has caught the eal idea ofwhat we women want to be like. Looking ove the Chistmas cads afte the ush ofthe Week I don't feel atall as ifthat geeting business has become commecialized o ithas become an "Isend to you so you must etun" o that it's amatte ofmass poduction, scatching off a long list ofnames ofpeople that don't mean a thing. As I looked ove mine I didn't feel that thee was one that caied a"i simply must not foget Helen she sent me one" smell to it. I was glad to have a note fom a New Yok fiend; fom a Detoit fiiend whom Iseldom see, telling ofthei Chistmas tip to Nassau; fom a St. Louis fiend who is off to Oswego, enumeating the doings of the family in the past two months and othe old fnends that I neve hea fom. When we can't see om fiends often, o even ifwe see them almost daily, we still like the wamth and fiendliness that goes into the Chistmas cad. It cetainly is asmall but impotant tibute. Januay 5,948 Hee it is "Leap Yea" and the only comment Ihave head on it was at the dance last Fiday night when ayoung man (yes, it was) suggested that fo the est ofthe 86 I JB -j fjliljs, "] f ^ I'! 3! T. ^ :;J ^ 'f :^ evening the gils issue the dance invitations. Ina Reutes despatch fom Hambug, Gemany, thee was a small fille entitled "Good baitto catch husband," which eads: "A 28-yea-old Hambug woman who advetised fo a husband in the Hambug Allgemeine Zeitung added that she eceived food pacels fom the United States each month - She got 2437 offes." The Bobby Bums Club of Windso is vey anxious to get hold of a bust of Robet Bums and wondeed if one could be foimd inthis distict. Captain Chalie Hackett is the go-between, so if anyone wants to pat with his head ofthe Scotch poet, please call him at29. Oh! Fo aquate ofahead oflettuce with Fench dessing on it. Speaking of lettuce, though, on Sunday we had adelicious Waldofsalad which odinaily would be placed on alettuce leaf-but, do you know, that in this shot time without lettuce neithe the eye appeal no the taste appeal was affected because ofthe lack ofit. In a Detoit pape Thusday I noticed that M. Finzel of ochestal fame was celebating his 6T^ bithday that day. Ijust gasped "67?" I was sue he must be "05" fo I emembe when a little gil Finzel's Ochesta was The Band ofdetoit and Bob-Lo and looking at him then though the eyes ofa child I thought then that the famous leade was OLD. And hee he is inhis pime. I neve knew that the Puitans wee bittely opposed to Chistmas and that in Massachusetts in 659 a law was passed which ead: Whosoeve shall be foxmd obseving any such day as Chistmas o the like, eithe by fobeaing oflabo o feasting o any othe way, shall be fmed five shillings." This law held fo 22 yeas and Chistmas did not become alegal holiday in New England until late inthe fist half of the nineteenthcentuy. "You sue made a lot ofmistakes inthe Convesation Pieces this week," is an oft epeatedjibe. The following jingle tells you just how Ifeel about those mistakes (it's not oiginal) - hee itis: The typogaphic eo Is a slippeythingand sly; You can hunt till you ae dizzy. 87

45 Januay 22,948 But it somehow will get by. Till thefoms ae offthe pesses, It is stange how still it keeps; It shinks down into a cone And it neve stis o peeps. The typogaphic eo Is too smallfo human eyes, Till the ink is on thepape. When it gows to mountain size. The Boss, he staes with hoo. Then he gabs his hai and goans; The copy-eade dops his head Upon his hands, and moans. The emainde ofthe issue May be clean as clean can be. But that typogaphic eo Is the biggest thingyou see. Getting to the stage whee "200" in bowling means something to me. Ihad that figue dangling befoe me, but eluding me, twice lastweek. Sailos fo Sping! The hats, not the men, Imean, what apick-me-up fo us as women. Those naow bimmed saucy sailos with afiinny little font stick-ups and a dash ofveiling ae almost iesistible. In ^e old stufftoday is aepot ofasnow stom that hit 30 yeas ago Satuday The wite-up bought up to mind the hill-sized snowdift in font ofmawood and Mois Menzies' home and the fun we had afte M. Olive Dunba had made a tunnel though it. Newspape copy wites, who ae the pincipal moldes ofou language as it is spoken, can cetainly coin new phases and wods. I was thinking about "new 88 f- look " It's on the tongue ofyoung and old and when adalhousie Steet six-yea-old commented on along skited high school gil on the othe side ofthe steet, "She's sue got the new look. Miss Mash," Iwas highly amused. Although Idon't like to see amovie vesion ofabook I've ead and liked, fom the glowing epots of "Black Nacissus" I feel that this pictue would be an exception. When Iead abook Iknow I'm abit too analytical and then, too, Ican visualize the chaactes until they become almost eal people to me. As a consequence the movie intepetation ofboth the stoy (including my ideas ofthe impotance o unimpotance ofsome ofthe sequences) and the chaactes as bought out on the sceen ae so often disappointing. The othe night at the Rotay Ladies meeting when the subject ofadinne paty menu came up and tukey was mentioned, stange to say it wasn't the most popula choice Time was when Chistmas, New Yea's and tukey wee synonymous and in those days do you emembe, the festive bid had abony beast with little meat - but now with the new tukey beeding methods atukey dinne, winte o summe, is no novelty and with ange and feeding impovements the boad-beasted bid has white meat galoe, so much so that atukey dinne fo alot ofpeople is economical and tasty. In talking to aman Monday night who has been in England since last May, Ifelt euilty that Ihad eve, eve even commented mildly on the inconveniences ofaftewa living. He told ofhis siste's menus, the sameness ofwhich would take away anvone's appetite. "We had, fotunately, because Itook Mazola oil fom Canada, fish fou times aweek," he went on. "But all ou fiends couldn't have that unless thev boiled the fish, because thee is no fat whatsoeve." The clothes situation is desneate accoding to him. And he went on to say that his sistes had pactically notlg especially shoes because they took lage sizes. The food need means wok low up he said and cited seveal instances and the austeity of thei pogam follo^ng thei hiowing expeiences duing the wa yeas has loweed the moale so much that thee's no gaiety no laughte in London. "Imagine asilent cowd o afull dining oom that esembled amogue." Oh, yes in the swank London hotel vou eet thee couses, soup, main couse and asweet. Ifyou want bead you take Aat hi place ofthe soup o sweet. You can't pay fo it, itjust has to be substituted. 89

46 - Occasionally Ihea the pape boys gousing because they find ithad to collect thei weekly pape money. They knock and sometimes they get acall, "I'll pay you next week," o "wait imtil I find my puse," and that latte slows down the collecting and peddling time. The youngstes sometimes, in fact often, ae out of pocket because people think they have paid and have not. We find it so much easie to leave the weekly pay in acetain spot so the pape boy has only to pick up his pay. Iknow ofothes who put out aweekly envelope fo the boy. Both these ideas save answeing a knock, hunting fo change and the lad's time. Januay 29,948 Oh, no! Neve! The new look in stockings (evived by the long skits) show shot ones held up by an elastic below the knee instead ofthe old style oll ofthe oamg twenties. The colos mthe ice of the ffozen-acoss-to-bob-lo ive these days ae mteestmg. Satuday aftenoon duing the snow stom Iliked what Isaw when I looked though the flecks and flakes at an angy patch of geen wate (man-made by the Atomic) with seveal ducks defying it. ^s. Doeen Day of Eaton's, Monteal, made awidely ead Ameican news ^klywith the followmg tuism which most ofus knew and follow and we quote- Thee IS no such thing as 'the best dessed woman'. She is meely the woman who nas leaned to adapt fashions to he own figue and way oflife." While we woy hee about the high cost of living the Aabs in Moocco ae woying moe because the high cost ofliving thee is slowly wiping out the haem Moe and moe of the Aabs ae esticting themselves to one wife at atime ft seems the Ko^ entitles aman to fou official spouses, but it is just too expensive costs f 00,000 to 200,000 fancs ^ (fom $000 to ^$2000) fancs. Now awife Last yea "The Black Rose" by Thomas Costain was good eading- this nast week his "Money Man" held my inteest. This latest stoy of M. Costain's was 90 I '- p -n U centeed aound the cout of Heny the Seventh of Fance and the heo was the King's money lende, Jacques Coeu, who was deftly potayed. The love inteest woven into the Money Man's chaacte was a bit diffeent fom the usual un of Fench cout omances. Something MUST be done to boaden one side of my life, I detemined last weekwheneading a listof the ten bestmovies of 947 andfound thati'd only seen two, namely, "The Jolson Stoy" and"the Yealing." Movies ae impotant to a busy peson's pogam, not only fo elaxation but to keep one up with the wold in geneal and I must get out ofthis lack ofinteest and enegy movie ut. The othe eight top movies oflast yea wee "The Best Yeas ofou Lives," "Duel inthe Sun," "Foeve Ambe," "Unconqueed," "Lifewith Fathe," "Welcome Stange," "The Egg and I" and "The Yealing." Febuay 5,948 Stumping the Convesation Pieces - and inno uncetain tems eithe - "How do you cut up apig. Miss Mash!" and continuing, "We have halfaone and don't know whee to stat." I've always been keen about lingeie touches on Sping desses, and about the smatest tick I've seenthis yea is a dess that got petticoat feve and had white eyelet emboideed uffle on the skit and the epeated accent as collas and cuffs. Have you noticed that moe and moe foeign and domestic tavel ads ae appeaing in the papes? And fo alittle consideation we can go almost anywhee now. I ead them all - the Detoit and Toonto papes - not ina daydeaming mood butwith a detemined view that some day I can go some place byai. Ice skating, ice boating and sailing-on-skates enthusiasts have had a field day this yea. Haow fiiends tell ofthe wondeful times they have been having on Sundays at Linden Beach. Afotnight ago to add to the fun asmall plane joined the lage goup thee, ft landed on the ice and many had the dual expeience that aftenoon ofspeeding ove the ice in asteamlined ice boat and iding in the plane. 9

47 "EngUsh Convesation Pieces" caught my eye in the otogavue ofthe Sunday pape and ead on to lean of the fist compehensive exhibition of "Eighteenth Centuy English Convesation Pieces" now on view at the Detoit Institute ofats It seems that the "convesation piece" is the name fo atype of painting which shows people mfamilia settings and activity. The style became popula in England m the 720s. The adio and the pess ove the weekend told of cold and colde ai pockets about to descend on us hee in shiveing Essex County and we all had asad sack attitude about cold Januay which, fo the fist time in yeas, fogot to thaw -the depth ofthe ice bidge to Bob-Lo and beyond -the melting coal piles and on into the mght. Monday dawned milde with lots of sunshine, and actually Tuesday at be^ast when Iwas attacted by the plaintive ciy ofastange bid and went out on the back poch Ifound the ai almost balmy and the easten sky in the pastels of Spmg -o that's what the colos made me believe -hope they ween't kidding. acoss fom ^ and ^s. Lee Stanley's home, uppe at an Laid holeavenue. nea the dike M. Stanley diectlv ^id that on Smday they had geat enjoyment watching one ofthem catch aduck The ea^e tned ^d fied to make this kill on the wate, but to no avail. Finally it did get It when the duck was woked ove on the ice. Afte the eagle had had his fill numbes ofcows aucously fought fo the leavings. Accoding to M Stanlev one eagle seems to come fom Suga Island while the othe heads fo Bob-Lo He also Febuay 2,948 ^ ^P^ng and My teste in music is unpedictable - like "Civilization" -it's so gav -and Gacie Field's mtepetation of"now is the Hou." The side effect ofthe dashing new sping hats is efeshing but means that on? «de of the hai will have to be vety well kept up. Isawablack hat Fiday wuch coveed one side ofthe head only and hadapink ose at the neckline below the ight ea - made me dool. P.S.-The name fo this newhat is "Sideswept." The wold Fiday moning aound eight looked almost like a Hollywood backdop with the dense mist giving an almost pue white effect to the fees in the pak (the gound was aleady white) and the sun in its oange gloy with no ays whatsoeve beaking into the white sky, suspended in the east. A symphony in white and oange - that was a bit fantastic. Apictue was flashed on my mind when I ead the old files last week of Amhestbug childen in my youth catching ides on the sleighs as they went to and fom Callam's Bay, whee Aey loaded with ice fo the ice house in town. Then, too, I ecalled the checkeboads on the ive when ice squaes wee being taken out. What ftm we had, too, hitching sleds to those lage sleighs and whizzing down Fase's Hill. When I saw that Louis Blake DuffofWelland, etied publishe and edito ^d authoity on local histoy, is speaking to the Windso Histoic Sites Association tonight, Iemembeed the seveal pleasant times Ihave had in his company -and he is apeson one emembes. One time M. Duffwas hee in Amhestbug and we wee walking in the moat beside ou house when he said: "How long has you family been in this old histoic town?" and when Itold him when Dad came hee to join the staffofthe Echo, he looked at me so seiously and said, "Just an upstat." I wonde ifit's because I'm bowling this season fo the fist time and have picked up a band new and delightful inteest that I un into women bowling enthusiasts and heated convesations moe, o ifmoe women ae bowling now o ifthe bowling spiit was thee all the time and because Iwasn't in the game was just not inteested in the convesation and shelved it. Anyway, ahead in adetoit pape caught my eye, "Bowling Instead ofbidge," at the County Club paty, so bowlmg evidently has stuck that paticula goup. Each fom ofeceation has its place in ou leisue time activities and one should not entiely supplant the othe ' u

48 Febuay 9,948 Iene Stanley beat me to it and said it bette- Moment In Cystal I hea a tinkling cash- I know my window-hap oftwinkling icicles has left the sash! IRENE STANLEY Ashitwaist Sping! And ae they lovely on the gil o woman whose fieue pomts make fasbon pomt news. But, we ofthe small-waisted, naow-shouldld ^d wide-hipped vanety should stee clea, no matte how much the femininitv of he exquisite tucked shitwaists, eminiscent of Gibson gil days appeal ^e<? esistance and the fact tiiat the mio tells all should be uppemost in ou mindj wen we pass ashitwaist (that's the wod fo it, not blouse) counte this Sping. Vf Yet the back wth its exquisitely hand-madefine quilts stitches ae used and and inticate displayed patten on one is equally side onlv L beautiful and if used occasionally it becomes aevesible dual-pupose heiloom Isawamuseum-piece quilt latelyat Ms. H.L.E. Aldich's which w2 aneedlewk gem on the wong side and could easily be used eithe side up -and effectively, too. when Ilooked ou, a. fte ive, fl,e lage^alof Neve undeestimate the powe ofsping " said Ito mv<?pf onte ZTl"? (which ween't thee Sunday) and the bahniness ove the wou to ol dav ^ toed It on Winte and just like abelligeent bully Winte didn't even fil S It just dnpped and flowed itselfaway. ^ The exta long speas ofice took on apastel lavende fom the unusual sty Sunday at s^down. This was my fist expeience with lavl"tctolettd^ gfciv^id^d"^d sc^;.^^^^^^ 94 n T' [ LT Thee's nothing like a smallcommunity in myopinion. Of couse, I've neve lived ina city except in hotels when tavelling but have lived almost in the sububs of a metopolis all my life, so cetainly can ealize all its advantages and disadvantages. All this build-up was bought about by the thoughts ofthe fiendly bus oute fom Amhestbug to Windso, the dives and the commutes. Those dives know usall (also ougood points and idiosyncasies) and putthemselves out no end to be accommodating. To each mypoint on scay Fiday the thiteenth, I was in the Coffee Ba and two bus dive acquaintances (held up because of icy oads) wee inthe next booth. I said to my seat mate casually that I wondeed if Fiend got into Windso as she was going away. "She's ove inthe othe estauant playing euche and waiting fo abus," piped up one ofthe men. Then went on to tell us ofthe euche game fun onhis bus as he shuttles back and foth. This is only one of the many fiendly little nice things about a small town. You'e pat of it, you'e an individual - not just aobot that beathes. Babaa Ann Scott of Ottawa, a young fiiend of Captain and Ms. J. E. McQueen, wound up he 948 Euopean figue skating campaign indavos Platz, Switzeland, Satuday by etaining thewold skating title which she wonlastyea at Stockholm. They'e actually on the wing nothwad, in fact, one is hee - a obin. I've listened and looked but to no avail, but Ms. Aaon McGuie when hanging outhe clothes at 8 a.m. Monday was attacted by a pesistent chiping and thee on the banch sat a bave cocky-cock obin. The idea behind St. Valentine's Day and coming as it does whenwe need a lift between Chistmas and Easte has always pleased me. But last week I completely ove-looked the mention ofcupid's Day inthis column - a big ovesight, too, inthis yea when we women ae supposed to leap. Fiday the thiteenth put on ahaowing, weid show with its chills, sleet, ain, ice cold geyness which potended no hydo, no telephone and moto accidents, disupted taffic and spills, but Satuday moning was awinte Fantasia with the new snow and sun shining happily on itand also on the ice-laden tees as iflaughing at us fo ou pesistent and unnecessay (as it happened) "what's coming next feeling of Fiday." 95

49 Febuay 26,948 As we dove fom Haow last Wednesday the shouldes ofthe oad wee actually spinkled with geen coloing, polka-dotted with meingue-like daubs of ice. The change-ove was so fast that the geen makes news. We foget tying expeiences quickly -and agood thing too - but ty to ecall the feasome Fiday the 3*^ and compae it with the hopeful smiling last Fiday when dust eddied skywad as the men swept the post office come. I don't know how you feel about the tunip - fotunately, I like this lowly vegetable -but to me, because ofthe lettuce, celey, etc. shotage, the tunip has come into its own and is climbing up the social ladde in the vegetable wold. Ms. Ed Agus, who has been in Los Angeles visiting he bothe Fank Hosman, left that Westem City at noon last Satuday and swooped down at Willow Run at 0 p.m. that night -time zones taken into consideation ofcouse. I want to be puzzled and challenged when I ead amystey stoy. I want to stump the expets ifi can as I ead along to see ifi can place the guilt. And although Ifinished it, Ifelt that Mignon Ebehat's "Five Passenges fom Lisbon'' was apot boile, as the answe was given away too often and too obviously -a pnme whodunit fo which I was paying fou cents a day. Odinaily I like he mysteies, so this was a disappointment. Mytle Labbitt on he daily adio pogam ove CBCLW last Wednesday momine gave Amhestbug with its hospitality and fiendly people ageat big plug This wal Ae momig ^e she had been the guest speake at the Rotay Ladies dinne paty lhat Ms. Labbitt is an extaodinay woman: she was woman's page edito ofthe Detoit News fo yeas, took fou yeas out ofbusiness life when he childen wee small, then fo the past 3 yeas has been associated with CKLW. The clothes won by the women guests at the much publicized Rockefelle weddmg wee mteesting, eal classic simplicity, Inoticed, which to me wee good 96 [ II I [ "T i f T pu " plj " taste pesonified. The bide's softly tailoed wedding dess with itsyouthful Pete Pan colla, scalloped details down the fly-font and on the shot sleeves, was something that no one buta gil maying a Rockefelle would wea fo a wedding dess, even if it wee a second maiage. The Duchess of Windso alsohad a Pete Pancolla on he infomal spots fock. I'll wage that the maket will be flooded with "Pete Pans" this sping - and they ae smat. Moe bowling news - "Ijust usea staight slowball," saidgood-to-look-at Ms. Helen Toll in London one night last week when she chalked up a 98 tiple in a thee game set which included a 435 single bowling game. Ms. Toll modestly admits that he season's aveage so fa is only 207, while he husband's bowling aveage is 98. She's been bowling two and one halfyeas. He scoe made NEWS on the spots page ofthe London moning pape and the epote pefaced his stoy withthe comment that "onceupona timea bowling alleywas a placewheea mee male couldmeetmoemeemales, indulge in banging the pins ove, tell a few offcolo stoies and then etun to the peace and secuity ofhis fieside. That's gone. Not only," he continued, "have the fail femmes flocked to the alleys but they have been inging up such high scoes that the men ae becoming leey of competing againstthem." When Gandhi died, B.M. andagued Hinduism vs. Chistianity and she was sodefinite about "But, my dea, hefollowed the Golden Rule." The Golden Rule, yes, and it's the same in many eligions. It eally is idiculous fo us to apply the ten "disbelieve" to followes of othe geat eligions because all, while diffeing in foms of woship, adhee to the same golden ule concepts. In Hinduism the golden ule is, fo example, "The tue ule is to do by the things ofothes as you do by you own;" in Judaism, "Whateve you do not vwsh you neighbo to do to you do not unto him;" and inconfucianism, "What you would not wish done toyouself do not to othes." The othe vesions ae simila. A shock that moe men should get - Two young mothe acquaintances wee discussing thei childen's eating habits while listened in. One laughed and told of he husband unexpectedly coming back fom wok when she was feeding the youngstes and in good actess fashion she mimicked heselftelling what he head, "Johnnie, eat you sandwich," "Jane, dea, dink you milk," and as that went on and on she said she talked to the baby to divet his attention while she stuffed in a 97

50 spoonful ofpablum. He husband was amazed so much so that he said, "Does this thee ing cicus go on evey day, if so who eve thought that young mothes and housewives shouldn't be in the top salaybackets as well as a caee woman." Sounds like life in Utopia. The yeas sloughed off Simday moning when I came acoss the body of an Eaton's Beauty doll in an old chest in the basement. I emembe the little gil Helen's heatache when afte a peiod of haunting page so-and-so in Eaton's catalogue I got a Beauty with blond hai. She was lovely. That night I put he lovingly in the ocking chai on the pavement just off the step and she toppled out and he beautiful head was smashed. The stoy didn't end in a heatache, though, fo ofcouse I got anothe ight away. Ijust wondeed if the body I found was the body of thefist loved doll which came to such a sadend. Inthe same dawe thee was the sweetest head ofa baby doll. They wee eally almost museum pieces but it was fun to bejolted out of the pesent busy ut and though pats of two dolls to be set back into pleasant childhood. Mach 4,948 Could hadly esist a squeal of delight when a sandwich odeed in a Haow estauant last Wednesday had lettuce on it. Fed Webste, whose love fo flowes is ajoy to him and to his fiends, has daffodils in bloom - in pots of couse. Not to be outdone by this geen-fingeed gentleman, we have pussy willows on the east side ofthe house which in the sping feve mood have pushed aside thei shields. When the 'can-go-without-hats' times comes fo women - accoding to the pictues j&om the southen esots - we will wea shot wist-length gloves to complete ou city steet outfits. Sounds and looks silly to me; in fact, I'dpefe hat and no gloves fo city wea and fo county wea, neithe accessoy. Ipossibly am becoming too infomal in ideas. II IiLi^ f U We all have pet peeves, that's sue enough, and my gouse might seem petty to you while yous doesn't annoy me at all. One ofthe queeest pet peeves is that of young cousin who lives in Toonto who would athe he people fom Essex wouldn't telephone he at all ifthey only talk the allotted thee minutes. It annoys he to have cental give the time signal, she wants to chat until she's finished and not be too business-like when she tells ofdoings ofhouse and thee childen. Vey few people in Essex County ealize the extent of the book sevice ofthe old Essex County Libay Association. We eades in Amhestbug know that evey once in awhile we get abook fom the libay with a book plate in it showing that it belongs to the Coimty Libay, o get acall fom Ms. Reaume that the book exchange takes place soon so etun that county book. ^, At the annual meeting last Tuesday itwas dawn to the attention ofthe Boad that $ was spent in new books to sevice the membe libaies and the membe schools duing 947. Books boxes ae exchanged quately and the county libaian -the oganization got so big last yea that afull-time libaian with offices in Willistead Libay was necessay - is available fo book eviews o consultation puposes as well as fo the cleical wok that goes with this ciculating libay. Though this means book-staved childen and adults whee libay sevice is not available ae able to boow the Association-owned books fo pactically nothing. And as in ou town whee the libay sevice is at hand, we eades get a wide spead ofthe new books. Gentle and lovely as the coming sping ae the annuals and peennials gowing fom the hats. They seem to pop up fom the bim and ae on the bim, unde the bim at the ea, on the cown, aound the cown o falling fom the side-swept side. Fashion has deceed no unifomity - ou hats will be as individual as a chunky cutting gaden. All season long the ability ofthe boys and the gils at Geneal Amhest on the basketball floo have been witten up in the School Notes but thee has not been one wod about the cute ticks of cheeleades led by Captain Sheila Dymond. In the cheeing section ae Peggy Woof, Majoie Sandes, Gaile Williams, Fances Webste and Maion Nageleisen, who in thei yellow and black outfits with attactive outines pep up the teams and the spectatos. Last week when Geneal I Uji

51 Amhest went to Dutton to play a semi-quate WOSSA game, Button fans wee en&usiastic about this "accessoy" to the team and when Dutton came fo the game Fiday night they too caied achee goup chosen, pactised and costumed all in a day o so, etuning the compliment nicely. Mach,948 Among the tangibles which Icaimot hold but which mean so much to me is the new moon ove the ive this week. It cetainly doesn't take long fo the New Look to become the Old Look Two inoi^ did it fo me. At Chistmastime my new skit length was, so Ithought in the next week" class but when I put it on Sunday it had done the ising act. These balmy days indicate Sping in the offing -nea offing too. Looked at the tight pointed buds of the fosythia in the Laid Avenue boulevad, and the vellow bells ae beginning to show a tifle. ^ "tote" Sunday night. Befoe cutting, it looked like afiveinch deep chocolate cake but when cut, it consisted of about eight layes with chocolate icing between each laye in aibbon effect, the cake pat is mostly eggs ^^d butte. Do you know astonge adjective than delectable? If so use it fo tote" (ponounced in two syllables to-te). Ms. McQueen in talking ofnassau fun told ofheaing Gacie Fields sing at a mght club thee. She was so chamed by Miss Fields' new theme song "Now Is the Hou, which the vesatile singe told, is the melody ofan old Maoi song which she he^d at^ dive humming in New Zealand. Miss Fields liked the song so much that shehasadopted it fohe ownuse. Ihave abad habit ofunconsciously humming atune on amonotone when I'm wokmg. The song might be something new I've head via adio that's caught mv fancy o it might possibly be set offby asong fi-om the men in the plant The point is this habit must not be an unconscious act any moe. Imust stop the mumbles o 00 [ -i f "T ' J -p n ' ^ f 'T ^ ^ I f j j ' n -n ' I should be told to stop, fo it cetainly must have been had on they've neve complained. This decision came about because Ilistened to fiiend doing the same thing last week -enough said! Those Geneal Amhest Basketball gils have bought the WOSSA to thei school fo the second yea in concession. Isaw that team wok afotmght ago and the co-odination and good spotsmanship was evident fom the side lines and not only that, the gils wee eally good to look at. Is it that teenages ae bette bs in fills geneation o is it thei assuance, smat clothes, good gooming, enthusiasm and fankness that makes them so attactive. I'm enjoying abook ofthe Month Club selection called "Red Plush" -but got abang out ofthe fact that top anking copy eades and book assembles can m e Sesjust like we small fy. In the middle ofthis bookafew pages wee left out ^dfse section which included 20 o moe pages, misplaced. Such an easy thine to do because, fo instance, the pages ae pmted in sections on al^ge sheet, These ae fos then assembled 30 one in pages consecutive Ito 24 in ode. one pat, So it 25 is to easy 48 to manothe get one section and so ^ni ^Hne but not as likely in alage book publishing house whee pages ae ctoked ai^d e-checked. My inteest all goes back to that funny quik. Isuppose, that it makes people gloat to find othes as caeless as they. Mach 8,948 Ilike the meant-to-be-seen petticoats. Iwish Ihad one ofmothe's as agil, to swish in the 948 way. Ihaven't foced any fuit blossoms this yea, but fiend tells of he chey blossoms which have become in indoo beauty spot. Shantung the dess mateial which staed last yea, is to be mthe limelight agab^ summe suits, I think. It is inaclass by itself, especiallymthe dak colos, fo desses and 0

52 Afte the long, long winte the light lingeing in the west these evenings, the stas gleaming fom the balcony of heaven, that lovely Mach moon etching the tees on the ive lot in silhouette ove the weekend and the Mach wind's boisteous dance (as oftuesday moning) make me feel that lovely things ae in stoe fo sping. With the death ofvegetables at the moment, Ms. Housewife has ahad time keeping he meals fom becoming too humdum, so any new ideas ae being clutched at. Ihad adessed up cabbage dish the othe night which was delicious. Hee it is, paboil cabbage, place in baking dish and cove with acan ofmushoom soup and halfpound ofcheese. Bake until tende. The heo -Godon Hutchinson played on the Senio Boys' Basketball team at Geneal Amhest the whole season and hadn't made one basket. But, when the WOSSA title was almost lost to Exete in London Satuday night and the lads wee playing fo blood, in the last two minutes of play Godon sank a basket to give Amhest contol of the game. The best thing Ihave head oflate was told ofacouple who have been leading lettuceless lives but who, because they ae veiy fond ofadog (not thei own), paid 38c a bunch fo two small pacels of leaf lettuce to shed in the dog's supne "because he likes it and it's good fo him." Many tones ofsilve and geen wee made by the ealy moning sun squinting on the lage ice floes as they wended thei way swiftly downive Satuday moning In the lage ice hole ofafloe that almost swept the mainland and the Bob-Lo shoe wee hundeds ofducks, thei tuxedos making astiking accent. Young Haow mothe gave me apointe on child education (as ifi, achildless peson, didn't know all the answes on child aising) that is inteesting he peschool age son. She has found that he can listen to Toonto's kindegaten ofthe m though Ch^am at 0:5 a.m. "I find it is news to many young mothes in Haow, saysfinend. Popety ownes along the Detoit Rive ae concemed with the sping wate level, as popety damage is eaching high popotions, and it's dangeous too, 02»,J j Li^ij F F especially whee thee is a faily high bank. Fiend who has a lage almost yeaound cottage at Amhest Pointe was in and told that he has to go to the expense of moving it back many moe feet to escape the lake s slow chase. Mach 25,948 Fun out offiday's stom - as the stom swept along Highway 8, one ofthe householdes, not ealizing its fuy, went fom the house to the outside toilet, only to find it had gone with thewind. When I have said befoe that the ive kicked up its heels, I meant it,and those who wee looking ivewad afte the stom Fiday aftemoon could see that itkicked so much that thee was a wide muddy ibbon ofchuning wate incontast tothe angy geen stip alongside. That people in Amhestbug like good music and will tun out to hea itwas seen last week when the Geneal Amhest High School auditoium was jammed both Wednesday and Sunday nights fo the St. Patick's concet and cantata, "Olivet to Calvay," espectively. When I etumed fom lunch Tuesday my faiy godmothe, oshould I say the Easte Bunny, had visited my office and left two heads oflettuce on my desk. Itwas the pleasante'st kind of an Easte supise and thee wasn't one little hint of the identity ofthe kind peson who had put them thee. But he o she would have been amply epaid with thanks fo his thoughtfulness if he had head the gasps of incedulity followed by exclamations ofdelight. Because ofleap Yea, Sping eally came inat :57 a.m. Satuday moning instead ofthe Taditional Mach 2st (the ealiest ithas aived so fa in the 20th centuy) and it eally put on ashow with its sunshine and damp balminess. Such a teat afte the way itwas healded Fiday aftemoon with wind, ain, thunde and lightning. Being the sot ofpeson who takes things daily as they come, Iesented the "Yes, it is anice day but you can't expect Sping to settle down." 03 ' u