HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-02-19, Page 7Button, button, who's got the
button?
Louella Simpson does, 4,000 to
them, of all shapes and
description, age and material,
and she's been gathering them
for 10 years now.
"Buttons have very interesting
stories behind them," Louella
says, "I don't know that much
about them myself, the collectors
do, but I'm too old to travel
around like they do. Most of my
buttons are sent to me by
friends."
Louella hasn't all her buttons
mounted, but a goodly portion of
them are sewn to cardboard in
attractive designs. "I'm not one
to draw," she says, "but I try to
make nice pattern with my
buttons and I never put two
identical buttons on the same
cardboard."
Louella is an 82-year -old
resident of Exeter's senior
citizens' apartment develop-
ment. Unlike antique collectors,
who will pay up to $20 and more
for certain buttons, Louella
approaches her hobby as one
does keepsakes.
Did you say $20 bucks for a
button? Sure. Some collectors
would pay handsomely to sew up
a deal for "Mrs. O'Leary's cow,"
a very rare button cast in pewter,
Then there's buttonsstruck in the
likeness of Lord Byron, William
Tell, King Arthur, Caesar, Joan
of Arc and Sarah Bernhardt.
There's military buttons from the
Boer War and the very rare and
top-priced button representing
Pallas Athene. Or there's animal
buttons — cat's (especially "The
cat and the fiddle" button worth
$20) dogs, cows, bulls, buffalos.
Why there's buttons depicting
skaters, lovers, musicians (a
rare one called "the skater" is
worth $10). There's fancy buttons
and lowly buttons; bottons to hold
up the trap-door of underwear,
buttons of calico to make a young
lady's dress pretty, or a gen-
tleman's shirt genteel.
Do it
• yourself
and save!
• Steamex' gets the dirt other
methods don't reach.
• Removes old shampoo.
• Carpet dries quickly.
• Simple to use as a vacuum.
4000 in collection.
Buttons tell many stories
most men are not liberated but
they have no reason to complain.
Mrs, Elsie Tuckey chaired the
meeting and conducted the
business, Lunch was served by
Mrs. Mary Jane Taylor and Mrs.
June Essery.
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The Elimville Women's
Institute held a successful euchre
at the hail Monday evening. The
winners were: ladies high, Mrs.
Myrtle Doupe; men's high,
Laverne Skinner; lone hands,
Clarence Sweitzer; lucky cup,
Floyd Cooper.
There will be another euchre in
two weeks time,
The ladies of the church are
quilting this week.
Mrs. Ken Lovie, Shipka, spent
a few days this week end with Mr.
& Mrs. Floyd Cooper and family.
Rent 1 the pro
Calico buttons fetch three
dollars if they are the right colour
and design.
Louella has calico buttons, but
they're not her favorites. Her old
buttons are her favourites. Every
one is over 110 years old, she
says, A lot of them are "jet
buttons" of black glass, once
used by older ladies to decorate
dresses.
Then there's Louella's friend-
ship collection, It's a full card of
buttons with the names of friends
and where they live (or the button
came from) written in un-
derneath.
And there are Louella's
"foreign countries" buttons, sent
to her by her sister who toured
Europe,
There is a hand painted button
from a woman friend in Ingersoll.
It depicts Loch Lomond,Scotland
because this friend, is a Scottish
artist, Louella explains.
"Let me see," she says,
rummaging around in the but-
tons, "there are so many dif-
ferent kinds I've forgotten
exactly what I have. I had a
Zodiac button. Here's one that is
a Biblical button."
In metal, a cherub rides a Lion
rampant while below a snake
looks upward.
Here's a button that looks like a
tear," she says.
"Here are buttons from Rome
and Italy and Austria and France
and England and Monte Carlo" . .
. and Louella's sister must have
had a long trip. There's even one
from California, It looks like a
rainbow.
And the buttons from Spain
look like earth, and Monte Carlo's
like a gold piece and Vienna's is a
piece of stag horn carved
delicately in the shape of the
animal it came from and oddly;
and Israeli button looks like a
beetle (the beetle was an occult
symbol to the ancient Egyptians
who believed the insect possessed
healing powers.
By GWYN WHILSMITH
I clutched the door handle as
our taxi careened out of Toronto
airport, jerking for stops and
blasting off again to weave and
manoeuvre at a hell-bentspeed in
teaming traffic toward our hotel.
"Good heaven's," I gasped, "I
think I'm going into culture
shock."
And not much wonder. Just
three and a half hours before, we
had taken another taxi ride to the
airport in Bermuda to board our
plane for home. What a dif-
ference. Through streets
fragrant with blossoms and
bright foliage we had leisurely
driven along picturesque Har-
bour and South Roads, at the
maximum speed of 20 miles per
hour, Our happy, good natured
driver, with pleasure and evident
pride, pointed out the many
beauty spots and places of
historical interest as we slid over
"I have a chinese one some-
where, she says. (It's the letter E
in chinese pictograph.)
She has "copies" — buttons
depicting cats, dogs, toadstools,
and a bird that came from
children's clothing.
"I got a maple leaf too, " she
says, "and here's one from the
WAC's —our neighbour's girl was
in the WAC's."
Louella's neighbour lived in
Farquhar, Ontario, where
Louella lived with her husband
for 47 years before she became a
widow.
Louella was born in Scar-
borough township on a farm near
Toronto that's now vanished,
become a subdivision.
"This is my Heinz pickle
button,' she says. "They used to
give them away at the Toronto
Exhibition when I was a girl,
That was 70 years ago." Buttons
help Louella remember in a way.
She has a souvenir button of
King George and Queen
Elizabeth that celebrates the
coronation. Marked below the
picture of the royal two is a date,
May 12, 1937.
Then she points out a button
imbedded with leaded glass.
"Those are called shiners," she
says, "the kind that have looking
glass in them."
I just took a notion to collect
buttons," Louella explains, "I
like quilting and things like that,
I'm one of these ones who likes to
keep up to date."
'And Louella says buttons
aren't the same these days.
They cost too much for one
thing. "You go into a store to buy
a nice button and it costs 69 cents
or $1.50," Louella explains.
"I had a three-eyed button
once," she says, but I don't know
if I have one now."
Still it doesn't bother Louella,
buttons are keepsakes. "Buttons
have a lot of stories behind
them," she says again, "but I
don't know, they are just bottons
to me."
the winding and narrow roads.
His talk was continually in-
terspersed with greetings to the
many of his friends we passed
along the way. "How's your
darlin?", he called to one. Or if it
was an attractive lady he'd quip,
"How are you, my darlin'?", with
a gleam in his brown eyes.
When he left us at the airport
he'd made us feel he had really
enjoyed meeting us. "Have a
good trip home," he wished us,
"and come back again."
How pleasant, how friendly,
how enjoyable.
In three short hours we were
back in Toronto desperately
searching for a cab. Oh, there
were lots of them to be had .
that is, if you were travelling far
enough. Unfortunately, we were
only going to a nearby hotel to
pick up our car which was parked
there. It was as if we had
smallpox, no one would take us
in.
All the cabbies were out for
more lucrative trips to the
city.We actually saw two of them
fighting, pushing, shoving and
grabbing the bags of a man who
was obviously good for a large
fare, The police had to move in,
It was the police who finally
came to our aid. Recognizing the
fact that we might stand all night
in the freezing wind, an officer
insisted the next taxi in line take
us to our destination. The cabbie
was very upset and made up his
Elmore Boomer, social worker
at Goderich Psychiatric Hospital
and author of The Exeter Times-
Advocate column, 'Our Response
to Now', was guest speaker at the
meeting of Xi Gamma Nu, Beta
Sigma Phi Sorority, at the home
of Mrs. Sally Lou Raymond,
Tuesday evening.
He gave a review of the
book, "Fascinating
Womanhood", by Helen B.
Andelin.
"What is Happiness in
marriage for a woman? asks the
author. Is it having a lovely
home? Happy and healthy
children? A successful husband?
Time for Talents? Husband and
wife having fun together? No
money problems?"
In reply to these questions Mr.
Boomer said all of these things
are important and some essential
but there is one need which is
fundamental and that is for her to
be loved and cherished by her
husband.
"But is it not true," he asked,
mind that though he was tieing
forced to take us, we certainly
weren't going to enjoy the drive!
Hence our harrowing escapade
down Dixon Road.
"Well," said one of our party,
"at least now we know we're
back in Canada."
Bermuda is a gorgeous island .
. . beautiful and tranquil beyond
description, but it's the people
who make a lasting impression
on the visitor. Although some of
the natives told us that the
decadence and revolution
sweeping North America is
slowly moving into Bermuda we
were scarcely aware of it. The
Bermudians we met, either black
or white, are a gracious, gentle
people who take pride in their
lovely island which is set like an
emerald in an azure sea, They go
out of their way to make the
tourist welcome and perhaps
that's understandable since
tourism plays an important part
of the economics of the country.
But what really impressed us is
the courtesy and concern they
display for their fellow coun-
trymen as well as the tourists.
It's good to be in a country
where the bus schedule is not so
important that the driver can't
wait a few minutes for someone
to catch up. On occasion, we had
a driver who stopped right at the
entrance of our hotel rather than
make us walk the short distance
back from theregular stop.It was
"that women should accept a
man at his face value? Don't you
know you must always be willing
to accept a man as he is and
never try to change him!"
He said men need to be ad-
mired. The centre of woman's
happiness in marriage is to be
loved, but the centre of man's is
to he admired. Mr. Boomer
pointed out iaan's pride is very
sensitive and it is important that
he he the guide, protector and
provider for his wife and family.
The speaker strongly advised
the members to get a copy of
Mrs. Andelin's book.
The program, "Viva la Dif-
ference" was planned by Mrs.
Raymond, who introduced Mr.
Boomer, and by Mrs. Brenda
Hennessey who thanked him.
Roll call was taken by an-
swering the questions, `What
does man need? Is he liberated?
Does he have reason for com-
plaint? Various answers were
given but the most frequent were
man needs love and security;
good, although it almost shocked
us, to see young people giving up
their seats on the bus as a regular
practice. These same young folk,
crowding the buses on their way
to and from school, were the most
mannerly and tidiest we'd seen in
years. Every school has its own
attractive uniform so there are
no frayed jeans or scruffy T-
shirts.
Bermudians are never in a
hurry, a trait Salvation Army
Captain Bill Bowers says drives
him up the wall.(Captain Bowers
on whom we called on day, is a
brother of Fred Bowers of
Crediton)."You call a service for
7:30 and they're still wandering
in at nine." However, the Captain
hastens to add that their tar-
diness is more than made up for
by their kindness and gentleness,
Bermudians have much to
teach us. They know how to be
happy and they don't crave the
big dollar. We were told there is
only about 2'U percent unem-
ployment and there is little of the
squalor that mars the beauty of
many of the Caribbean Islands.
Nice thing about them is that they
appreciate their way of life, The
first day we arrived we said to
our driver, "You really need to
come to cold Canada to ap-
preciate Bermuda."
"No Ma'am'." he replied, "I
don't have to go any place to
know we've got the most
beautiful place in the world to
live,"
Mr. & Mrs. Ross Skinner
visited. Friday evening with Mr.
& Mrs. Alvin Cooper.
Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Cooper
visited Saturday evening with
Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Cooper.
Several from the community
attended the Crippled Children's
Day at the Pineridge during the
weekend.
Mr. & Mrs, Russell Morley,
Exeter, visited Sunday with Mr.
Mrs. Floyd Cooper.
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Kyle,
Hensel, visited Monday evening
with Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Cooper.
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LOUELLA SIMPSON Exeter, displays some of the 4,000 buttons she's collected over the last 10 years.
Louella doesn't describe herself as a button expert, but she says buttons can be interesting, photo by Bagley
Man's pride easily hurt, Elmore
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