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CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, February 6, 1913
On Monday evening of this
week Mrs. Ken Chowen and
Miss Husband entertained their
friends at the former's home.
Mr. Fred Rumball who has
been in the Royal Bank here
for some time has been re.
moved to London. Fred's many
friends in town will wish him
prosperity wherever his lot may
be cast.
Mrs. H. E, Rorke was At Home
to a number of her lady friends
on Monday night.
Mrs. H.B. Combe entertained
the 500 Club last Thursday.
George McLennan has nur.
chased the comfortable cottage
of Miss Taylor on corner of
Kirk and Townsend Streets,
40 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS RECORD
Thursday February 9, 1928
Miss Florence.Cuninghanie'?
returned on Monday...aftep-hl.
,fortnight's 'yis,it Vt4friebTIVIla,
relatives' in * New York Sty.
She spent the weekend in To.
ronto on her way home.
Miss Marion Thompson was
home from Stratford over the
weekend,
Mr. and Mrs. George Huller
and. Miss Florence have re.
turned from North Bay where
they spent several weeks with
the former's son.
Mrs. Harry Talbot is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs.
Lloyd Makins of Hayfield,
25 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, February 11, 1943
Miss Ellen Fremlin of Hen.
sail spent the weekend with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Theo
Fremlin,
Misses Lois Keaxns, Marie
Plumsteel, Betty Brandon and
Helen Miller on the staff of
Sky Harbour Air School, God..
erich, were weekend visitors
at their respective homes in
town.
LAC Dick Dixon with the
R.C.A.F. on the west coast
is visiting his parents Mr. and
Mrs Frank Dixon.
For a second time this winter
snow has blocked all roads to
and from Clinton and held up
train schedules,
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EDITOR
Sir: When I read your edi.
torial in the Clinton News.
Record on the "Status of Wow
men" my first reaction was
One of extreme annoyande at
your old fashioned attitude and
unfortunate choice Of words,
On second thoughts, since
this is the first time the Clin.
ton paper has mOved me to
anything other than extreme
boredom perhaps you intend
to blow away the dust and fini
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With this in rm'aid, I hope.
fully enclose a cheque for one
year's subscription to be mailed
to me at the a.bakre address,
I also enclose an article on.
the "Status of Womenj which
would like to see in pilift
in your paper so that your
readers may 'see the "other
side of the coin,"
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We had quite a discussion in
class the other day about
dreams. School kids have a nat-
ural reluctance to revealing
their, inner selves, especially to
teachers and parentS, but after
we-got warmed up, I was wish-
ing I'd had a tape recorder. It
was fascinating, It removed
.barriers: ,• y
The whole wit wag--!s•pAfic'd
,bro,'short-pasage of" Hoeft Dy-
lan Thomas's recollections of
childhood, in which life is as
jumbled and unreal as a
dream. It ends, "The memories
of childhood have no order,
and no end."
Thomas dreamed, Later in
life, that he could fly, as a
child. I've had this dream
many times, and I waken from
it feeling wonderful, but then
a terrible sadness comes over
me as I realize it was just a
dream..
Some of the kids have had
the same dream, It takes dif-
ferent forms. Some flap their
arms until they gain altitude,
then just sort of glide. Mine is
always the same. I take a long,
running broad-jump, and by
sheer will power, keep my feet
from touching down again. I
never get more than 10 inches
off the ground, but I'm flying,
swiftly 'and easily and surely,
swooping around obstacles and
absolutely free of the surly
earth.
One boy admitted a recur-
rent dream in which he is at
bat in the World Series, bases
loaded, a home-run needed to
win the game. Seventy thou-
sand people are screaming,
"Come on, Dan! You can do
it." Then comes the sick reali-
zation that the mob is his
mother, shaking him and say-
ing, "Come on, Dan! Come on,
Dan! Time to get up for
school,"
Same chap confessed to a
dream that would fascinate
Siggy Freud. 'Ile was buying a
new pair of pants. Tried them
on, took them off for the tai-
loring, came out and found his
old pants gone. He walked all
the way home with no pants,
and 'wasn't the least bit embar-
rassed.
A gitl confessed that she of-
ten dreams that she is the cen-
tre of things, a big Broadway
star just abottt to launch into
the greatest 'musical in history,
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
Beautiful dreamers
with every eye on her. She is
the girl least likely to be a
great star, though a delightful
person who will make an excel-
lent nurse, a grand wife and
mother.
Another girl has nightmares
about big dogs who are always
going to eat her. Still another
dreams:'? of cowboys and In-
("tans, and ,alWays.. the
'cowboy. Anthsby "gollt-Ishe
looks like a cowboy. She's
long-legged and laconic, a
Grade 12 Gary Cooper who
needs only a hand-tooled Bull
Durham smoke to complete the
image.
Another boy dreams that he
has had a sword run through
him, but doesn't feel a thing.
From there we get into the
business 'of whether or not you
can feel and smell and hear in
dreams, whether they're in col-
or. Then we get into the theory
that if you have a nightmare,
and actually hit bottom at the
end of that fall; or that the
monster catches up with you,
you'll die because your heart
will stop.
This kid came up to me to-
lay and said, "Sir, last night I
dreamt I fell six storeys and I
hit bottom, and I didn't die."
"Did you bounce?," I en-
quired, "or did you uncon-
sciously spread your wings and
land gently?"
"Nope, I landed hard, but I
just lay there, all sort of
spread out, bait not hurting
and not dead. I was trying to
jump into a puddle and I
missed it."
"Glad you're still with us," I
countered, "but you've ruined
one of our theories." He was
delighted. He was the one who
has the sword run through hith
about once a week, and doesn't
feel a thing. Another teacher's
theory squelched.
Dreams arc great; I'm all for
them. Even nightmares are
good for you. You can wake up
with pounding heart, in a cold
sweat, scared out of your liv-
ing wits, but what can compare
with that relief, that glorious
comfort as The Thing graclual-
.ly fades, and you realize that
you arc alive and it is warm
and safe and snug in your own
bed.
The only Ching that is boring
about dreams is when other
people try to describe theirs.
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SEAFORTH
Saint Valentine's Day, celebrated
setting for love and at least one
,spectacular gangland .slaughter, -perpe-
Notes itself next Wednesday, inevitable
as Mother's Pay and with the. same corn-
marcial impact. .,„Both days .are cher-
ished by florists, greeting card manu-
facturers and candy merchants,
(iut the day supposedly set aside
:for lovers lends itself to, .o reflection of
our 'Imps better than does Mother's
day, which is sacrosanct, Although
so-called sick verse dominates a healthy
-segment of the greeting card .market„
no sane manufacturer would produce
Anything that .knocked niotherbood,
Writers may drool over, the rhyming
possibilities of such words as: ITCH,
SAG and VOW. Very few persons,
however, will send nasty notes to
mother in jest, Or even when serious.
Mothers, in our matriarchal so-
ciety, are the untouchables. . It is this
untouchability that protects mothers
from Mother's Day barbs, and spawns
in their daughters frustrations that turn
the modern Saint Valentine's Day into
a massacre of males.
Boys still stick with traditional
Saint Valentine verses of sentiment.
Girls seeking greetings. for their sweet-
hearts are discovering to their delight
that Saint -Valentine rhymes with words,
other than THINE and MINE-....such as
SWINE.
Saint Valentine's Day evolved
from a Roman fertility rites festival
called Lupercalia. It was held Feb-
ruary 15 in honor of Lupercus, a pas-
toral god identified with Faunus, a deity
of the satyr persuasion.
With his horns and hairy body,
the satyr was represented as part man
and part goat, an attendant of Bacchus
.fond of merriment and 'lechery.
Lusty males can be imaged hot-
ly . pursuing females during Lupercalia
with the war-cry: "Fertility . . . rite?”
Then came Christianity.
A young Roman named Valen-.
tinus, ,imprisoned during the third cen-
tury A.D. by Emperor Claudius II for
Next week, by golly, is National
Electrical Week.
And here's a warm dribble of juice
from the steaming heap of propaganda
promoting National Electrical Week:
"Ontario Hydro has nearly 70,000
miles of high-voltage transmission and
low-mileage distribution line — enough
to stretch about three times around the
globe at the equator."
Guess what organization shovelled
that dollop onto the pile? Ontario
Hydro, you say? Now, by answering a
skill-testing question, you can win a
free trip to Wingham.
What self-respecting editors would
want to be ignorant Of those Ontario
Hydro facts?
Frankly, most of them.
National Electrical Week has also
sparked tributes to Thomas Edison, this
one from Canadian General Electric Co.
Ltd.: "February 11th to 17th is the
week when the complex electrical in-
dustry breathes a silent 'Thank you, Mr.
Edison' ..."
Editors across Canada cringe on
Mr. Edison's behalf.
In the same CGE emission it is
noted: "Years ago, lighting engineers
thought nothing more could be done
to improve the light bulb. Edison him-
self once said that he doubted any-
thing more could be done. But much
more has been done.
"For instance, the ordinary light
bulb in those early days cost about
$1.25 each — at .1 time when good
sirloin steak cost about 30 cents a
pound. Today it's the other way around
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,giving aid to Christian martyrs, accord-
ing tq legend befriended the blind
daughter of his jailer while awaiting his
own martyrdom and restored her sight.
On the night before his execution,
Valentinus wrote a farewell message
to the girl and signed it "from your
Valentine". He was put to death Feb. 14
and was buried in what is today the
Church of Praxedes in Rome.
Lupercalia was switched to Feb.
14 in honor of Valentinus. And its
name was changed to Saint Valentine's
Day, bringing decorum to what had
probably become a vulgar romp.
Men, however, continued to pur-
sue women on Saint Valentine's Day,
albeit at a higher spiritual level.
With the advent of greeting cards,
about 1850, it became possible for men
to pursue women at such a high spirit-
ual level that there was no need to
touch them or even to speak — just
send moon-June-love-dove verses en-
twined with forget-me-nots.
Then came female suffrage. •
And the men were stuck with for-
get-me-nots all over their faces.
At least one local girl is drooling
over the Valentine message she intends
to send to her boyfriend: JUST CAN'T
WAIT UNTIL VALENTINE'S DAY . . .
THEN I'LL MASSACRE YOU.
For the sake of the florists, greet-
ing card manufacturers and candy mer-
chants, let us k9ep the name of the
game the same, but return to its Luper-
calian beginnings.
, Fertility rites are more natural.
— it's the steak that costs $1.25 a pound,
and the light bulb about 30 cents . . ."
Editors sigh nostalgically and wish
that light bulbs were edible.
Most of the nauseous nonsense
flooding the editorial desks of Canada
on behalf of National Electrical Week
will be tossed, rightly, into garbage
cans.
So what is the pdint?
Editors hate to admit there is no
point when they know that behind
'those breathless, badly written releases.
are fellow flower-children who might
otherwise starve. And, there, but for
the grace of diligence, hard work, edi-
torial integrity and wealthy relatives,
go they.
These promotional releases, a
bleating, boundless flOck of them,
many overlapping, are as familiar as sin
but not nearly as entertaining.
Editors constantly hope for a truly
original week worth promoting with
glee, such as: Discredit Doris Day Week;
Poison Your Mother-in-law Week; Hate
Thy Neighbor Week; or Paint Your Back-
side Blue Week, It never comes.
Meanwhile, with noses quivering,
editors would settle for a National
NothingWeek. Just nothing . .. nothing
. . . nothing . .
But sure enough they would then
face the ultimate nightmare: "Mortimer
Moondreck, local chairman of National
Nothing Week, 'said today he intends
to turn National Nothing Week into
Something, this year"
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Early Files
15 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS RECORD
February 5, 1953
Mrs. J McKenzie, Hayfield,
leaves today to visit her
daughter Mrs. Manley Thomp.
son and family in Chicago, Ill.
Mrs.: Fred Anderson Sr, and
Helen, returned home to Clinton
on Saturday after visiting re•
latives and friends at Fraser.
ville, Belleville, Trenton and
Kingston.
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February 6, 1958
Mrs. J.H. Cobb, Hayfield,
accompanied by Mrs. F. P.
Lyttle, Toronto, left on Thurs-
day last to motor to Tucson,
Arizona where they will spend
some time.
Donald Haddy, Winnipeg, vis-
ited over the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. A.E. Haddy,
choon news-AecPrd, Thursday, February 5th, 1988
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