The Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-02-23, Page 17LINES
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I-4 K 1;#/k SPRING
IN SHOES FROM MARHAN SHOES
MARHAN SHOES ARE NOW:SHOWING SOME OF THEIR
FOR MISSES,' BOYS, LADIES AND MEN
Come In Now
tt, and See What's e New For Sprin 1444*
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lots of 114. nter ef !
YES, YOU'LL STILL BE •NEEDING YOUR 'WINTER BOOTS
FOR AWHILE YET AND MARHAN SHOES CAN STILL FILL
YOUR WINTER BOOT NEEDS.
WITH THE COUNTRY MOUSE
A day'or twb before Christmas,
lhada•two ,hour train journey ;
Nowadays. we db. not. look forward
to (a train trip with 1.11ucli pleasure ,
sot went equipped with a book
and intended to read/. But. the
tripAurned out to he niuch, more
interesting than I had anticipated.
For .a -star-t, when I was leaning
against a post in the station wait-
ing for the gates to open, I got'
into conversation with a lady and
Ma short time, wediscovered
that_we_had _travelled_ together. ,
before, we had a pleasant chat
until'we boarded the train-when
we were separated becauSe of dif-
ferent destinationS. • -
The Coach I was in was'the most
modern I have seen. 'The seat
were easily 'adjustable, there were
little trays to. lower to hold, your
lunch, and the doors from coach •
to coach were not the old, kind
that had to be .pushed or pulled.
N you lust lightly tbuched7a .
metal panel and th'e (fool slid
open. ''The train was:reasonably
quiet and •as• we dpproached a
stop there was no' booming- •
voiced conductor. calling the •
station, There wasa very polite
voice on a P.A. !
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fertile Plain west-of -Toronto.
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the party.
The meeting was called to
order by the 'capable chairman
Mrs. H. L. Noblitt, President of
Federated Women's Institute lof
Ontario, ,
The, guest, speaker,. Mrs. Olive
Lanyon, Farquharson 0.1i.E. and
President of Associated Country.
Women of the World came from
England to speak at this luncheon,
She thought of 'the Women's
Institute as a candle spoke of in
"Merchant of Venice". How far
that little candle throws its
light.
Letters of Greetings came from
:Her Majesty the Queen; Pierre
Elliott Trudeau,, Wm. G. Davis,
Wm. A. Stewart , Minister of
Agricultur and food, also, -
horut. many associated Country
Women of the World, constituent
societies the World over.. •
It was a pleasure to. be able to
t-e-nd.-t on and
as Mrs. Trivers, Past President of
Federated Women's Institute of
Ontario said ,,"We as membert felt
great pride in being a small part
of this vast organization.!'
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corner of'the 'Canada they were • • • • -
ready to give life, and 'health. fOr..
I enjoyed my two hours on the-
-train and I'm sure I saw a lot
More than if I had been driving" a
Car. Try using your eyeSSOme
Winter day when youar'e just: •
a passenger. It may surpriSe you'.
And 'you probably see by now „
why I still_call myself - The
Country Mouse.
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Get a higher yield •
L HIRED IT
THROUGH THE
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WANT ADS
OPNESPAY FEBRUARY 23,..1.912 THE 44/CKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW ONTARIO
'tiny things like maple keys •'
.clinging to some of the trees.
•Sotil ..Qf the ev.ergreens were in,
.definite layers and sonic had such
large cones„ that they were quite
'easily seen from the train. There
were patches of young trees - re-
forested - and very bright green.
*The other big'old evergreens'
were very dark almost black,
and many wind worn pines , 'torn
and twisted.. There were patehes
of thorny.sciub, not conducive to
big 'crops in neighbouring fields.
1 saw what.loOked like- a tired
old pear tree. Was it'the'last
tree of an old otohard or was it.-a
fence corner seedling'? 'There.
were trees tfilence rows, groves
single trees and. woodlots. One
had a tree house and a few 'had
birds' nests, but never a :bird to
be seen ,, until later in the city, •
I saw one on a twig like a'black
and white Christmas card.
I loved the lOok of the, bark
and colours of the,rees-..
b
.Yes,
there were a surprising number of,
colours to. be seen ever irp the
dull light,, o, maybe, because of
the dull- iight. Some bark was
silver grey, sonie dark grey,
soilie dull grey-green and 'some .
almost black. One tree looked
as if it had been spray 'painted
silver. Twigs of' the pusSy will-
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glatial lake. I am always.spet-
ulating about how the various
features of the landscape were' •
'formed. -.Soon ws, began , to climb
a, ad I knew we were going up the
steep eastern side-Of the Niagara
Es 'carpment. It is almost
unbelievable, the change a
'very .few Minutes - the flat, fer-
tile plain and then the rongh,.
tumbled-, .hilly , rocky formation:,
on the'escarpment.' There is so •
much waste land there. Sutely,
it could be used :for soMething.
But it isn't. It just sits there,- .
miles of'unspoiled natural beauty
beauty' of a very simple, austere-
kind. Not long 'after wards we .
Were in tobacco country ., and soon
there were large, barns , ,some with
'whole families of silos - father";
'Mother and children! There. were
ploughed fields with lovely 'lines
of snow in 'the' furrows, but dark
'soil on the :edges. We skirted
several deep river ,valleys,
they ben glacial'. spillways at one
tinie?• 'Some had beautiful roll- .
ing hills along.the sides with soft
gulleys -running down to farm ,
buildings nestling at the foot.
Some ot• the banks were bare and
prObablytadly, eroded but sOnie
were wooded.' There were
creeks'', rills and. some patches of
ice, all with their Owneharrn.'
There was one large river prop= It was a did.l.„(Irab, circa r-y , qrblrtlie e-trand , whtc 11 111,..ick'' a overcast -dayr with sonic of Tor- horseshoe bend at .orie place. In
onto's dirty old smog and smoke, fact ; I wondered for a moment
a good day to read. Se, read I ifit Were Coming back to. meet .•
did,. Ilia not all the time, ' it'self... There were many rock .
outside' world attracted me quite cuts With crunibling layers of't.'ed'
often. As we. weregoingthrough or grey rock: Then Suddenly we adeep,roch cut ., I looked up.and were on level groUnd
saw a tow 6f SIsliliac,nubbly, probably another old .glacial ,la
Ittith)by branch ends silhouetted 'bed. •
ed me looking. The trip be
came a delight trees „ grass,.
buildings, colours,, the whole'
country-side', almost more than I.
could take in.' For the'first half
hour or so, we were in the very
against the dull sky and that start'- I always find trees,int.eresting .,
and worth looking at. .Some had
tufts of leave's here -and there •
on the 'otherwise bare branches.
Others had piles of leaves lodged
in the'crotches of the limbs -
loVely dull colour. There were.
And of course there were a num-
ber of ca,r and truck graveyards.
I hope ,the metal can be salvag-
. ed and recycled very,soon.
'There were clouds of dust at one
stone crushing plant - or it, may
have been a cement plant with a
bright green pond in the middle
of it: That particular rape of the
countryside seemed. to go on ,for.
miles.. At another place there
were huge piles of gravel like
sickening , 'Oozing sore's.. There •
were many dead eims like ske.1-
etons, with..hanging, broken ,
arms.
A few nights lYeT-O-f-e--nly trip
I had gone with a i group to sing
Carols at Stinnybrook Hospital,
Most of the melt there were 'First
War veterans,' and ,as l'werit along
on my trip I thought,. this. beauty
.and'this ugliness is in one.tiny
Attend W.I,
75th Anniversary
On Sathrday, February 12th,
lf.j)0 Women's Institute members
attended a dinner luncheon in the
Canadian Room in.the Royal York
Hotel, Toronto. This luncheon
was in the honour of the 'founding
of the Women's Institute in Ont-
ario.
In these 75 years theInstitu.te'
has grown -extensively and now
has sister organizations in fifty-
six countries Of the world.
Many thanks, goes to the Dist-
rict President Mrs. Wm. Arnold;
'Ripley, and District Secretary'
Mrs. Angus. MacLeod,' R. R. 2'
!Kincardine in arranging for the
two buses to take the ladies from
our District "Bruce 'South , Huron
East and .West" to this. Anniversary..
There were 15 branches, Every
I branch,in the. Bruce South District
including Teeswater Junior Worn-
en's Institute was represented at
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knoW called pully wistle's, a • few
years ago) had a rusty orange,,,
bark and-,the willow •trees had
falling yellOW limbs like long .
yellow hair. The,beecties show-
,,ed ,their characteristic shape in
winter and that lovely smooth .
silver grey bark, There were -a
few tufts of•leaves•Clinging •to
son a.4111 'Dr() na bly oak
The eolotirs of the.'grass and
weeds were a bit' more •
subtle,. Some looked' like tarnish-
ed silver or bleached ,gold. There
were some vivid green' wheat
fields:and a• .fe*,• with very short,
thick 'green graSs. I wondered.if
it Might be graSs being grown to
sod/lawns next -spring'. • The • •
-brightest eadur I saw
was, on a wild rose hush •- a few,
Brilliant , red ros.e hips.. Some
of the weeds, shoWed very interest-
ing 'silhouettes a;.,,ainS1 the' snow
No,. the landCaPe'\;s'as..z far from.
colourless, :with red don.2woo0
white birch and 'pale gold 1..-orn 7
s tilks• \Neil the others l
have mentioned .;.
There were. maw, marks of
man -; ,J„dOd and had. I' always
to see the dignified' old .
brick honses .but it saddens ilie
too so Many ne ,l'ected, and the'
harnS'turr:bling.down. Tdo much
of Ontario appears to he d(;elict.
modern and Comfortable .but
lac kiiw iti Characte:r , stark on the
landscape with no: had,.
or shelter. (1.c.an hear cow-
Hie urs about that ,I.ItC1:)(2111. !) In
a recent' hook I1\ •JaMes Scowhe
saYs*in one chapter that our ma
nuiseums.seem, to him a death
ish!. I did netqUite follow
line of reasOning; but I thou :,1,1
of it when I saw: a beautiful ox -
how hanging o.\,er the garage' door,
of one of the new houses. To
m•e., it Was- MOW a groping for
the older , simpleer.less-complie -
ited•life.
Everything I have mentioned
so far .has been pleasant, but there
were number of c,,'esOres. I lyd
-to'pylo'n =ltd '1-1 aerials ire no
ornament unless the pylons go
striding, over a wide open hare
laridseape, adlutt that they aft'.
'necessary for our living standards
and comfort and entertainnlent ,
hut they arc not beautiful.,
saw a* huge railway recia tion
'yard", dozens, or more probably,
hundreds, ears.
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correctly designed from quality material, rely on ,
SKELTON MEMORIALS
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