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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-09-30, Page 3y old expert Lois Lance spoke. The Legion Hall was a quilt fancier's dream, There were more than SQ, mostly old but some 'fug new ones too, „on display around the auditorium. "If the value of a thing is equal • to life that's put into it,• then what's the value of the quilts in this hall?,"Mrs. Lance ' asked. Quite a thing to think' about. Mrs. Lance said, in the U.S. anyway, a girl made 12 quilts herself. It was only when she was engaged that she made the thirteenth; and• she' could Wive help from friends an relatives on that one. This bridal quilting is the origin of the modern bridal shower, she said. There were probably lots of women in that hall who ahve made 12 quilts and more. "They are tomorrow's heirlooms," Mrs. Lance said, and she urged quilters to sign their work. Quilting has always been a form of women's art and they' should get as much credit for a quilt as an artist does for a quil painting. And, most artists sign their paititiitt$S. Besides, as Mfa. Lance pointed out, signing the quil4 you make now will make the work of future collectors and historians a heck of a lot easier, In the old days, no one would dream of buying new material just to make a quilt and so some of the early examples have another story to tell. Somebody's favourite dresses or well worn work shirts are in that quilt and old fabrics can lead to flights of imagination about who their wearers were and what their lives were like, if you let them. I've never made a quilt myself and I'll likely be retired by the time I do, but I've saved bits of fabric left over ftoni -SeWiiig and favourite dresses for many years. I won't throw them out, and I . won't let them be used as rags. They're for my quilt , and the thought of planning it and peacefully working on it, some day, some day, keeps me going during the heCtic times. EX POSITOR, SEPTEMBER loio In H. n in hea n. • CO 1 YES, I'M AT THE CORNER OF JOHN ST. AND MAIN — Miles Little of Seaforth won $29.80 in a contest run by CFPL Radio in London on Thursday afternoon, by staking out the ph one booth and waiting for the station to call. Miles won when he answered the phone after guessing that clues like "think of water and e number" and "the Expositor may help you", meant the call would be to Seaforth. He also wins a provincial lottery ticket. (Staff Photo) $121,000 tender awarded for Hanna's bridge Tuckersmith Township Council awarded the tender, for the construction of the lianna Bridge Tuesday to Roger MacEachern Construction of Mount Forest. The MacEachern tender for $121,868 was the lowest of four tender. The Hanna bridge which spans the Bayfield River is located on Tuckersmith sideioad 15-16 at Concession 3 Huron Road Survey. The township council expects that the approaches to the bridge will cost another $20,000. Engineer Kenneth Dunn of Goderich, • who attended the special m eeting, said his firm will instal a bronze plaque in the bridge. Work is expected to start as soon as final approval is given by the Stratford office of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. it 46 mi 808 4 BETTY'S 441RIE 7 y • 9Th • For Quality Jewellery & Gifts /7//7 -Bulova Watches & Clocks Mayer's Audrey & Lloyd Jewellery &' Gifts Where Personal Service Is still Brus'sels s • important 887.9000 Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley (Continued from Page 2 ) fascination as a prominent western editor fell asleep; not once, but, three times, during a speech by Joe Clark, a potential prime minister. Humored an eastern editor who, armed with a credit card 'from the Grand Trunk Railway, personally isnged by sir John MacDonald, thought he could finance a trip for several of us to Paraguay. Listened -to a numbet of editors of my vintage • tell me they're rich, retired and work one day a week, "just to keep my hand in." Which, , of course, .means interfering with their sons, or daughters, who are trying to pay off the old man the tremendous sum he wanted for the business. • Gave sage advice and a bottle of rum to a young woman called AliceB. Toklas, who assured tiie 'she had quit running around with Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway and Scott- Fitzgerald and all those totters. And then, of course, we've had The Boysl as they are now called. The Boys are the two grandsons. When they are here, it takes four adults full time to keep things even minimally sane. One is at the hell-on-wheels stage. The other is at the crawling, "if you can't.eat it pull it over on your head" stage. And every time our daughter leaves, with The Boys, we are cleaned out. She goes away with a big, green garbage bag full -of steaks', chicken, pork chops, a box full of canned goods, and a pillow case stuffed with new clothes.for The Boys and herself.Next morning, we have to go shopping to get enough grub for our own breakfast. Then there's been the golf. No matter what she does, my wife is an enthusiast. She believes that nothing succeeds like excess. So we've played golf every day. She is really a rotten player, because•she reads books about golf and practices her swing. I am just ordinary rotten. I'm afraid we're going to be thrown out of the golf club. If anyone had tried, to tell me that my sweet, shy bride of a few years ago would come out with the language she used on the golf course, I'd have said: "Sir, pistols at dawn, or nine irons at nine. Take your pick." I try to help, in a gentle, sincere sort of •wasi. When she flubs a shot, I merely point out that her grip was slack, her stance sloppy, her backswing too fast, and her head went up like a toilet seat, and she screams at me, right across the fairway. I heard one elderly lady golfer saying to her husband, quite concerned: "Mark my word,s she 's going to kill him. Why do you think she takes her seven iron home every day, after they play? 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Is it possible that the Annual Campaign for funds through the United Way is an outgrowth of this spirit of sharing? • "Now thank we -all our God With heart and. hands and voices Who wondrous things hath done, In whom His world rejoices." (Rinckart) Across the land Canadians will gather around a table laden with food for the traditional dinner. In kitchens across the Dominion women will bustle about as they prepare for the home celebration highlighted by roast turkey, cran- berry sauce and pumpkin pie. an indigenous part of our national culture. It is doubtful that the first feast included cranberries from the neighbouring bogs. It is also doubtful that the feast included pumpkin pie. If such pie was served, it is certain that it was not topped with rich whipped cream for the Pilgrims .had no cows. By practical custom the week- end is a time for family reunions which may not be repeated f6r months. For those with ties to the country-side, heartland of the harvest, it is a time of pilgrimage into memories and a renewing of the joys of the festive board down on the farm. Thanksgiving Day gi% es Canad- ians the opportunity to .eflect on how fortunate they are; to realize they live in one of the richest and freest countries in the world and to take stock of their responsibili- ties in the light of their abund- ance and freedom, It is a time to weigh, their lot against that of people whose lives are jeopard- ized by fear, insecurity and the threat of starvation. I'd I read a story recently on what to do if 'you have a fire at your house. One of the things it said was to look around your house', and decide now, before anything ever happens, what you would want to save and where it's located in your house. Then if, God forbid, you ever have a fire you'll have already decided what two or three things are absolutely irreplacable and you won't find yourself standing outside clutching a kitchen pot aii'd a toaster that never worked too well anyway, while your home goes up in fladies. . I thought it over„ and do you know what I would really hate to lose? A couple of my old quilts. It might not be very rational but I love those quilts and they are absolutely irreplaceable. Who knows how many women put how many hours into piecing and quilting a very old log cabin quilt that I bought at an auction? I don't, but 1 like to think about it and the loving labour of those W. G. Strong "The heart goes home on Thanksgiving No matter how far you.may roam; Nostalgic memories overwhelm US With a calling, calling for home." (Odum) Thanksgiving, as we know it here, is too often described simply as an offshoot of a tradition established by the Pil- grim Fathers of New England. Yet nothing could be much further from the truth. From • remotest ages, man in all his successive civilization, has seized upon the time of the harvest as a time for rejoicing. -The custom of setting aside a day of offering thanks to the deity has been traced back to antiquity and throughout recorded history many .such observances have been held. It was an occasion for giving thanks for, the bounty' of nature once the granaries were filled against. the days ahead. The ancient Hebrews at their feast 'of Succoth gave thanks to God• and recalled His constant providence and goodness. They took gifts of the soil, the first fruits of their harvest, grapes and fruit of every kind, olives and grain, to the synagogue or to the great Temple at Jerusalem. Their offeting Was in accordance with the size of their harvest. If they, had been plenteously blessed, their gifts would match God's generosity. If they had suffered reverses of fortune and reaped a poor harvest, they would give only as they were able. Whatever the size of the crop, they were thankful for what was theirs. As St. Paul was to say centuries later, he was thankful whether he had much or little and in either state he would praise God for His goodness and rejoice in His providence. Throughout the years as the ancient Hebrews observed the rituals of their faith, they sensed the presence of the Most High as the constant, abiding power in their lives 'and in the world around them. ""In the continuing drama of nature renewing itself in the animal and soil kingdom every year; they knew that God was the source and spring of all life's blessings and' trials and they were thankful. It is believed that this custom of giving thanks inspired the Pilgrim Fathers to do likewise. The Druids and the Romans celebrated the triumphs of their faith, The cornucopia; that mystic horn of plenty, is central to decoration in many church ser- vices where gifts for the poor are received. Humility The unique ingredient about thanksgiving to the Jews and the Pilgrim Fathers was its humility. Thanksgiving bay had its inspira- tion in the proclamation issued by, Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony in the autumn of 1621 after the newly arrived Pilgrim settlers had reaped their first harvest which assured them survival through the coming winter. The bitter winter of 1620 when the Mayflower had brought them to the shores of a new country was over. They had known hunger and sickness dur- ing that first dreadful winter which had• carried away half of the original band of settlers but life was better now. New hope sprang up. The seeds sown early in the spring of 1621 had produced a harvest that would allow them to increase their scanty ration. The settlers were enjoying better health. Work was progressing on the houses' they were building. They worked peacefully and safely in the woods for they had made friends with the Indians. Because of their good fortune,. Governor Bradford decreed a holiday in which the . Pilgrims and their neighbouring Indian friends might rejoice together in a three-day festival of recreation and feasting in gratitude for the bounty of the season. The women and children spent ' several days preparing for the feast. The celebrants gorged themselves on venison cooked on a spit over a blazing open fire; roast duck, 'roast goose, clams and other shellfish, corn bread with nuts, groundnuts, a potato- like tuber baked in hot ashes, with wild plums and dried berries for dessert - all washed down with wine made from wild grape, sweet and strong. Everyone ate outdoors at big, rough• tables. At this first Thanksgiving feast in, New England the company may have enjoyed some of the long- legged turkeys whose speed -of ifoot, in' the woods constantly ,amazed the colonist's. U.S. Thanksgiving For years there was no regular national Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Some states recognized a yearly holiday, others did- not. It was not until 1789 that President George Washington issued a' 'general proclamation naming November 26th a day of national thanksgiv- ing. In the same year the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that the first Thursday in November would be a regular yearly day for giving thanks "unless another day be appointed by the civil authority." In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that the last Thursday in November would be recognized as a day of thanksgiv- ing and praise to a beneficent Father. All 'the succeeding presi- dents have regularly issued pro- clamations calling the attention of the nation to the observance of this festival which ranks as a legal holiday, and the duty of observing it 'in a fitting manner is likewise proclaimed by the various gover- nors in whom alone is vested the legal 'authority to declare a There .4e0mS, to In little interest in a distrlict490th council in Huron and Perth countieS, considering the nunther.of people atrendin# a publie- meeting held at COSS Tuesday:. night. ' About 35 people from the two counties attended the meeting, the first in a series of informative ,- question an ) (swer sessions. Stephen Scorcz, a health ministry official told the group the ministry wishes .to form a district health' council • within the two counties, but "district health councils will not be forced on any area that does not want it," he said. Mr. Scorcz also felt it would be unfortunate to have a council if there was no , support from the communities. But, Dr. J.K. McGregor,' a Wingham doctor and a member of the steering committee designed to set up the district health council, if, it is wanted, said that district health councils are inevitable and "we'll have one wJether we choose or not". There are already 15 health councils in Ontario taking care of 75 per cent of the population and Mr.' Scorcz predicted there will be 18 by the beginning of 1977. The councils are being set up as an intermediate step between local agencies and •the ministry. "Without the council," Scorcz said '"about 800 separate bodies must appeal directly to the ministry. The main role of the council is to set priorities and plan for local heatlh needs." A council in Huron-Perth will have a budget of roughly $75,000, a small permanent staff and 15 councillors appointed by the province on the recommendation of the steering committee. Ideally, six councillors would be from the health field, six would be consumers and thiee would 'be from the local government. Dr. G. F.' Mills, medical Officer of health for Huron ' and also a member of the steering committee said that although a district health council is another layer of bureaucracy, " at least it is at' the local level." "A lot of input into district health care would come from the public', which is a good thing," he said. Also speaking at the meeting was Lloyd Morrison of St. 'Mary's, chairman of -the health council steering committee; Norman Hayes, administrator of the Wingham hospital; and Gwen Pemberton, a consumer representative from Bayfield. , The meeting was open to the floor following the speakers, questions were answered. Those 'at the meeting were asked to, pa out a, ballot stating their pieferenee on ;the. 'health:" mind! question. These bnllots will be used by the steering.` committee as 4,rough 144 as..to . what the public wants- More public meetingS wilt be held in .the X.141' future to test Public' reaction, If the • first Meeting was indicative of 99009 • reaction, people of littron, and Perth don't really care What happens. You're Invited St. John Ambulance Brigade Meeting will be heldkin the Town Hall, Second' Floor, tonight, Thursday, Sept, 30 at 8-p.m.. All perg-ons interested in joining the brigade are asked to be present at the meeting. )44...zokar) I 3 BOB & BETTY for le /14 ":3 /4 It I :1 S /1/1a9 7's and rc Cubes at IQ tt P RO C ssiNG O a" P ../A riNG 1/ 15 W ester C/ n °Ur % Lab % vo o o save unknown ladies Inaltel the log cabin very important to me, I have ,another (Mt that MY husband and I found in a closet of an old house that We lived 'in Michigan when we were first married. It's back and front are of unbleached cotton and it has an unusual pink and green floral pattern appliqued on top, I don't know what the pattern is called. My grandmother, • who's been looking at quilts for most of her years told me that she'd never seen one like it. "I'll trace it one day," she said' bilt she's unable to do that now: That• quilt is the only'thing we have\fre%the house where we spent the st-year of our married lives. The house was bulldozed after we moved out and its lot and the farm land behind were used for a new subdivisioi. I love old quilts but I didn't know so many other people did until I attended a packed' meeting Sponsored • by the Hospital Auxiliary last week when quilt and