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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-10-17, Page 7College Professor: "Congrat- ulations! Congratulations! I want you to know that you have passed your ex- amination." x- amination." 4 Football Hero; "Thank you, w tell Ane, what's the name f this course?" Traffic Officer: When I saw you coming around that curve, I said to myself, "sixty, at least." Woman Motorist; I told that saleslady this hat makes me look older than I really am. May 1 handle your personal insurance needs -,-- DIRE, AUTO, LIABILITY? For friendly, capable service, list your Real Estate with us. Agent for Elliott Real Estate Agency Gordon B. Elliott, Broker Blyth, Ont. EDWARD ELLIOTT INSURANCE PHONE 357-1590 NIGHT CALLS 357-1555 W. R. HAMILTON ,OPTOMETRIST Now a whole new golden world of SiGHT and SOUND. See our HEARING - AID GLASSES, lightest in weight. DIAL 357-1361 FOR APPOINTMENT Business and Professional Directory -WEAR AGAIN ,„,,„"LIVING SOUND"® HEARING AIDS John McKibbon, Phm.B. McKiBBONS PHARMACY Phone 357-1880 Wingham AMBULANCE Service CALL — S. J. WALKER PHONE Day - Night 357-1430 BUTLER, DOOLEY, CLARKE &STARKE Chartered Accountants Trustee in Bankruptcy Licensed Municipal Auditor 2nd Floor, rue Building Cor, Josephine dt John Sts. WINGHAM, Dial 357-1561 A. H. McTAVISH BARRISTER, SOLICITOR and NOTARY PUBLIC Teeswater - Ontario Tel. 392.6873, Teeswater Wroxeter—Every Wednesd afternoon, 2-4 p.m, or by appointment y Frederick F. Homuth Phm.B., R.O. Carol E. Homuth, RO Mrs. Viola H. Homuth, RO OPTOMETRISTS Phone 113 HARRISTON - ONTARIO HURON CO-OPERATIVE MEDICAL SERVICES Prepaid Health Plans at Cost the way BOARD OF DIRECTORS President, Fordyce Clark, RR 5, Goderich; Vice -Pres., Gordon Kirkland, RR 3, Lucknow; Mrs, D. G. Anderson, RR 5, Wingham; Mrs. Lloyd Taylor, Exeter; Hugh B. Smith, RR 2, Listowel; Lorne Rodges, RR 1, Goderich; Roy Strong, Gorrie; Russell T. Bolton, RR 1, Seaforth; Bert Irwin, RR 2, Seaforth; Bert Klopp, Zurich; Gordon Richard- son, RR 1, Brucefield; Kenneth Johns, RR 1, Woodham. C. 11. Magee Secretary -Manager Miss C. E. Plumtree Assistant Secretary For information, call your nearest direotor or our office in the Credit Union Bldg., 70 On- tario Street, Clinton, Telephone HUnter 2-9751. Gaviller, McIntosh & Ward Chartered Accountants Resident Partner J. E. Kennedy, C.A. Opposite Post Office Dial 881-3471 - Walkerton CRAWFORD & HETHERiNGTON Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. Wingham - Dial 357-3930 J. H. CRAWFORD, Q.C. R. S. HETHERINGTON, Q.C. J. T. GOODALL BARRISTER, SOLICITOR NOTARY, Etc. Office --Meyer Blk., Wingham DIAL 357-1990 BY PAUL 5. 1gUMAN The Old Order Mennonites A WEDDING Weddings among these peo- ple are generally all day events. Reeently, however, some are held only in the afternoon. Practically all of them are held during the winter season frotn November until Match. Before the wedding, marriage bans are announced at the church for three Sundays in succession. The wedding day is usually set for the first Tuesday following the last announcement. There are no church weddings, they are always held at the home of the bride, Like a regular church service it is usually a three hour cere- mony from nine to twelve o'clock. The guests also have a certain seating arrangement for the occasion. About six young single couples are invit- ed as special guests, and gather in an upstairs room between eight and nine o'clock. They may be cousins of either the bride or groom, neighbours or only acquaintances, but most of them are close relatives. One or two of these people may be engaged. One couple, usually the closest relatives of both the bride and groom, is singled out to act as the "best man" and the "best girl". About '75 guests including six or so school age children are invited to an average wedding. Real, fermented wine and cook- ies are passed around to all the guests between 8:30 and 9 o'clock. Then promptly at nine, the best man and his partner, followed by the pros- pective bride and groom and the other young couples lead the,,procession from the upstairs to the living room below. As soon as all the guests have assembled in this room and the adjoining ones, the long solem ceremony commences. One or two ministers be- sides the bishop and usually a deacon are also invited. The ceremony somewhat resembles one of their regular church services. Long sermons are preached, and the young coup- le about to be married are told about the duties of married life, by elaborating on certain passages from both the Old and New Testaments. Several special hymns, which are used only for these occasions are also sung during the morning. Between 10:30 and 11 o'clock the actual marriage is solemn- ized by the bishop and the necessary papers are signed by the proper parties. No ring is used in the ceremony, Then another sermon is given by one of the other ministers in which the young couple are reminded of the seriousness of marriage, of being faithful to each other, loyal to the traditions of the church and are admonished to shun the worldliness around them. The bishop also leads in several long prayers during the service and around 12 o'clock it is brought to a close with the regular benediction. One wedding tradition of this group is to invite about four teenage boys to act as "hostlers:. They stable the horses and park the buggies or HALLOWE'EN CANDY KISSES Ib. 33c BOX OF SUCKERS 69c 50 CHEWING CIJM TREATS pkg. 49c _r,___ Use Our Convenient cutters in straight rows in a field beside the barn. They are also responsible for doing all the necessary farm chores on that day. Each guest has to pay the hostler, usually around '75 cents for the work he does. Similarly about six "waitresses" or "cooks" are in- vited to set the tables, clear them off, wash the dishes and do any other necessary work. They also receive a certain amount of money for their work from the young single men who are the special guests. After the ceremony usually three large tables are set by the waitresses and the guests par- take of the great variety of Pennsylvania German foods. A second "setting" is necessary to serve all the guests. During the afternoon people visit, and some English hymn singing, with harmony is in order. Some time during the afternoon or evening, one of the bride's shoes will be hidden by any small girls of school age who are present. They will not re- veal the hiding place to anyone until the best man has paid about fifty cents to each of the girls. Young boys of the same age usually pass around candy, nuts or popcorn to the guests during the afternoon and get paid by the older married men, Between six and eight o'clock at night another meal is served to all the guests, after which the married people and children leave for home. After the old- er guests have left, the younger sets will play games, do stunts, tell jokes etc. until the early hours of the next morning. The newly married couple do not go on a honeymoon, but within a week or so will likely move to a farm of their own. A FUNERAL Funerals among these people 'are generally held in the fore- noon and last all day. Occas- ionally for some special reason one is held on a Sunday after- noon. No flowers are allowed and the deceased is always dressed in a white shroud, with the plainest casket obtainable being used. A half-hour ser- vice is conducted at the house and then the long funeral cort- ege of horses, buggies and carriages, all arranged in order of relationship to the deceased, and led by the minister usually in a flat-topped buggy (dach- weggli) will slowly send its way to the church and cemetery. Here the casket is buried before the service at the church. At the grave no artificial grass mats, flowers or any mechan- ical devices for lowering the coffin are used. The under- taker or funeral director re- mains in the background but sometimes stays for the rest of the service in the church. A plain wooden box is placed in the grave, which was dug free of charge by neighbours, and the coffin is lowered into it, by four men using two ropes, one at each end. It is covered up immediately as these men shovel the earth on top of it. 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As a rule the .church is filled to capacity as every member of that particular church feels obligated to attend every furter, al that is held there, Now begins the real funeral service, This consists of a reg- ular sermon with a long eulogy about the departed one, Two special funeral hymns are sung during the service, as well as the customary prayers being said and then the family, rel- atives and neighbours leave the church, around twelve o'clock to drive back to the farm house for the noon -day meal. Every- body is invited to return to the house and usually one hundred or more people accept the in- vitation. Young men known as "hostlers", who are not paid for their work at funerals, are waiting at the farm to look af- ter the horses and to park the buggies. After the noon -day meal, the rest of the afternoon is spent visiting and in renewing old acquaintances. To outsider these customs may appear • strange, but to these people it is the only way they know, as they have always followed this pattern and likely will for gen- erations to come. Wingham Advance-TinteS, Thursday, Qet. 17, 1963 Page 7 Receive Donations At Rainbow Club The October meeting of the Rainbow Club was held at the town hall with the president, Mrs. Marjorie Jensen, presid- ing. The meeting opened with the members repeating the Housewife's Creed and the Lord's Prayer in unison. The treasurer's report was given and a donation to the club was re- ceived as well as some articles for the northern bale. Further items can be brought to the November meeting. Twenty-two members and one visitor were present. The draw was won by Rita Hasel- grove. The ladies enjoyed a conducted tour through the new CKNX radio and television MANY NICKNAMES Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island, may be its richest in nicknames, It is known by such familiar titles as "The Garden of the Gulf," "The Million -Acre Farm," "The Garden of Canada," "The Island," and with more rever- ence to its agriculture than its native elegance, "Spud Island," The people of the little pro- vince - its area is a tenth of one per cent of all Canada - tend to call it simply "The Is- land. IN TRE LIBRARY By DORIS G MPKIBBON For an ordinarily voluble per- son I have been extraordinarily silent of late. It all started with two books from the library. Within each was an account of the 1960 Sharpeville riots. Now there has been no lack of ma- terial on the race question this summer; daily and weekly periodicals dealt fully with the issues and developments. It should be of great concern to us — therefore I read but never seemed to quite catch up with the flood of material, I shall merely, on this occasion, assess the two books that plunged me beyond my depth. They were: The Glass Barrier by Joy Packer and Let My People Go by Albert Luthuli The first book is a novel written in Lady Packer's com- petently exciting style. She must dearly love humankind — she limns them with such cum - passionate perspicacity. Pri- marily this is the story of two families, related through the mothers. The cousins were un- usually close, so much so that the two girls, Maxie Lamotte and Rima Antrobus fell in love with the same man. This situa- tion ituation is a typical Packer com- plexity. We peer into the life of wealthy South Africans in several fields, namely, depart- ment store business, agriculture, both scientific and gentleman- ly, and Art, the art of talent and means, not of struggle and starvation. Even on this level of society the race problem enters. Maxie's brother marries a col- oured singer. It matters not that she has international fame and success — the rift in the family is there none the less. Just as distressing to another family is the marriage of Rima's coloured maid to a Bantu, a black tribesman. From that union came the tragedy that concluded the book. Maxie's father too was one of the vic- tims of the race riots and Lady Packer, who personally attend- ed the hearings paints an un- forgettable picture of this disastrous upheaval. Joy Packer writes well; the fascination of the concurrent plots keeps the reader absorbed and breathless from start to fin- ish. There are times too when her artistry makes me feel that South Africa must be one of the most beautiful countries on the face of the earth. 0--0--0 Luthuli's book, an auto- biography, by its very quiet and definite assurance is charged with real emotion. His measur- ed prose is powerful and heart - shaking. He was the grandson of a Zulu chief, and himself also a chief of his people. This position has tremendous res- ponsibility and power. Rightly used it can be a great force for good. In Luthuli's hands it was such. He was educated and had been a school teacher before his involvement in politics. He rose to be president of the Afri- can National Congress. He was a Christian and rarely does one see a man live his faith so completely. It is easy to see why the Nobel peace prize was station and returned CO the town hall for lunch, Hostesses for the November meeting are Eva Hain, Eva Carr, Rita Drehmann, Ann Nicol and Marjorie Jensen. A tupperware party and spelling bee are planned. awarded to him. in a simple, unassuming way he exemplifies human dignity at its highest. His chief target was the injustice of laws gover- ning property, work opportuni- ties, and educational systems. Most of the odds seemed again- st him but he encouraged his people to make use of every small advantage, even when the outlook grew more and more grim. He looked forward to a multi -racial society founded on justice and equality, In great detail he too des- cribes the riots at Sharpeville. The facts are the same as in the novel but his unimpassioned view is even more moving. In the epilogue he says: "If friend- ships make a man rich, then I am rich indeed. . , . but the strug- gle truggle goes on. , , , The Supremacist illusion is that this is a battle of numbers, a battle of race... It is not. It is right against wrong, good against evil.. . the task isnot finished. South Af- ::ica is not yet a home for all sons and daughters. There re- mains for us the building of a new land.... a synthesis of the rich cultural strains we have in- herited.... 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