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Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley Morning Star Rikbeltah Lodge
met Tuesday evening, May 27th
when Noble 'Grand Sis. Leona
Connelly presided. Thirty-two
members attended.
During the business, officers
nominated were: For Noble
Grand - Sis. Leona Connelly; Vice
Grand --Sis. Dorothea Ritchie;
Recording Secretary --Sis.
Marguerite Crawford; Financial
Secretary--Sis. Mary Davidson
and Sis. Aletha Rann; Treasurer
Sis. Janet McCutcheon.
Sis. Jeannie Turnbull reported
on her visitations with treats to
the sick. .
The church Service will be held
on Sunday, June 15th at the
United Church, and the
Decoration Service will be in the
Morningstar - Rebeicans
nominate officers
afternoon..
Delegates to the Rebekai;
Assembly held in mid-June at
Sisters Marguerite Crawford aik Florence Webb.
Following the business, 14
social committee held a pea). auction and lunch was served;
anh. ammo
This is a bad time of year for female
"television watchers. The hockey seasons
are in full swing. And already the sports
writers are running stories about next fall's
football players.
It's got so that' a girl hasn't much choice
on the weekends. She has to knit or get
drunk or do some work around the house,
whatever her thing is. She is a widow, to all
intents and purposes. Her husband has
retreated into the weak-ankled,
hit-fumbled, slicing, pasmissed womb of
his youth. He is of no more use than a large
vegetable.
True, he is sitting in a chair, but he must
be watered and fertilized occasionally or he
will just wither away, as he watches,
mesmerized, large hairy young men doing
all the things he could have done better 10
or 20 or 30 years ago, if only he'd had a
decent coach. or the money for proper
equipment, or hadn't got married.
Wouldn't you think that, in International
Women's Year, the poobahs of television
would have made at least a token effort to
destroy _this annual spring edition of
Canadian domestic life — a big, fat turnip
stuck in a chair with a wasp buzzing around
it?
Surely there is one bright light among
the dim bulbs which illuminate the world of
T.V.This was the year for the big switch.
With a little imagination and
intelligence, the big advertisers could have
millions of women slumped in a chair
drinking beer and never removing their
eyes from the •screen and moving their
limbs only to reach for the sandwich
brought in by George.
There's no shortage of women's sports,
and there is no shortage of women who
would watch them avidly, and who also
control the purse-strings of purchasing.
Why haven't the networks replaced
those panty-waist hockey players waltzing
around clutching each other's sweaters
with women's wrestling — a couple of
bosomy, muscular, sweaty broads with
their false teeth out, pounding each other
across the chops with elbow 'smashes?
This would be a normal release of the
aggressions of women watchers, who
would be as sweet and docile after the
event as their husband are now after
seeing Muhammed Ali pulverize Elmer
Huronview
Scherk.
Then there could be all sorts of women's
contests of skill on the tube.
Every grown man in Canada is an instant
expert in hockey, because he donned the
blades as a tyke, and learned that you have
to shoot, pass and hit, even though he
could never do any of them when he should
have. He shot to get rid of the puck,
pretending it was a pass so nobody would
hit him. -
On the other hand, every woman in
Canada is an expert in 'the things she never
learned to do very well, as well.
Supposing the idiots who tell us what we '
are going to watch on television announced
that there was going to be an ass-wiggling
competition.
Every woman in the country, from four
to 84, would be glued to the set. The males
wouldn't get near it. They would mope
about the kitchen and have to do the dishes
in disgust, or wander into the backyard,
and clean it up, just for something to do.
Just as the men chuckle now, when
they're watching those over-paid clowns,
" and say: "See that beautiful elbow?" or
"That was a lovely butt-end," or, when
some ape slams another orang-outang into
the boards "Wow! Atsa wayda hiddini,"
so would the ladies have their innings: I
can hear them, viewing such a muscular
trial as mentioned above.
"she looks like ,a bowl of jelly with palsy."
"I' da made her look sick twenny years
ago."
"They godda be falsies."
"She didden learn that strut in the
Presbyterian choir."
"She wooden be bad if she • wuzzen
knock-kneed."
Just a sample. There are many other
feminine sports that would be sure-fire to
attract the fair flower of our land and push
those • barrel-chested,
coiffeured inarticulate male athletes right
back to Hayfork Centre, where they came
from.
How about a dirty joke confrontation?
What do you think about a Lemme Show Ya
My Operation contest? How does a Boy,
Did I Tell Him Off! competition sound to
you&.?
The possibilities are endless. But the TV
moguls blew it. And so -did Women's Lib.
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Thirty-nine residents took the mystery bus tour last
Saturday conducted by Bill Crawford.
The residents bid farewell to R4Terand and Mrs. Beukema,
of the Clinton Christian Reformed Church at the regular
Sunday evening song service. Mr. and. Mrs. Beukema will be
greatly missed at the Home as they have been very active in
many ways during the past years. Mrs: Beukema has been
organist for the song services this year with Dick Roorda as
leader.
• Marie Flynn, Frank Forrest, Lorne Lawson and Norman
Speir provided old tyme music for the Mondays program. The
Christian Reformed volunteers assisted with activities and
Mrs. Scott was honoured on her ninety-fifth birthday with a
special number by Mrs. Henderson.
The adopted grandmothers of the Clinton Kinette Club
were invited to a smorgasbord dinner on Tuesday evening at
' :he Clinton Public School. Thirty-four residents took
advantage of the outing and all report a lovely dinner followed
by a program.
The Festival City Rhythm Band of Stratford entertained on
Family Night. The band was formed last year under the
leadership of Mrs. Helen Ebel and has twenty members all
senior citizens with a great deal of musical talent. There are
three violinists, an accordion player a guitarist with other
members playing cymbals, triangles and a piano
accompanist. Eight of the-band members danced the French
minuet and square dance with' another member doing a take
off of three Al Jolson numbers. Mrs. Bessie Elliott thanked
the entertainers inviting them to come again. Whenever
possible.
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