HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-03-26, Page 11,Recommend Harry J. Boyle forAmerican Reading
A recent artiole by J.Donald
Adamb in the New York Times
Book Review suggests that Am-
ericans have held Canada hack,
culturally speaking, by assum-
ing the role of big brother. Mr.
Adams thinks that Canada has
been passing through a phase
Americans went through in the
1870's and 1880's -- great mat-
erial expansion and a greatly
increased sense of national
identity -- conditions which
• make for a high degree of self-
consciousness, and thereby a
not too hospitable climate for
self-expression.
He names a few Canadian
writers of the past who have
• enjoyed American popularity --
Gilbert Parker, Stephen Lea-
cock, Bliss Carman, Hugh Mac-
Lennan, Farley Mowatt, Bruce
Hutchison and very few others --
but notes that many American
M
publishing houses issue their
books simultaneously in Cana-
da. Mr. Adams believes that
not enough Canadian books
reach an American audience.
Ile recommends two engag-
ing books by Canadians that
have human quality, which he
thinks have an American audi-
ence for them. They are
"Mostly in Clover" and " Home-
brew and Patches" by Harry J.
Boyle, published by Clarke,
Irwin & Co., Toronto,
Mr. Adams says their quality
was well described by a review-
er in The Toronto Globe and
Mail, Edward Parsons, who
wrote, "Everything is told in a
simple, heart warming style
with a complete absence of
sophistication and a real grass-
roots affection for what he re-
members. It is the warmth,
honesty and simplicity which
lift this book (Mostly in Clover)
high above the commonplace."
The rest of Mr. Adams' co-
lumn reads:
"Mr. Boyle is one of those
persons happily or unhappily en-
dowed with total recall, He re-
members almost everything that
happened to him as a child and
an adolescent. To anyone like
myself, whose memory is se-
verely selective, this faculty
is cause for marvel. Let me il-
lustrate this as simply as possi-
ble. Mr. Boyle can remember
now, as a middle-aged man,
every detail concerning Leis
mother's baking of Christmas
cake that was an eagerly anti-
cipated annual event. My own
mother was an excellent cook,
whose chocolate and orange lay.
layer cakes were masterpieces,
but all I can remember about
them now is how they tasted!
I must have seen them in pre-
paration, just as Mr. Bole
watched the making of that
Christmas cake, but I can tell
you nothing about the process,
"Mr. Boyle grew up in Huron
County, Ontario, north of Lake
Erie, and came into his teens
there, during the Great Depres-
sions. 'Obsolescence', he writes
'was a thing we had never heard
about in those days.' Ttie art
of "making do" was necessarily
carried to a high pitch, and I
have chosen for the Treasure
Chest some passages which Il-
lustrate the ingenuity thus dis-
played.
The pieces composing these
two books originally ,,ppeared
in a column Mr. Boyle has for
several years contributed to The
Toronto Telegram. With no lit,
terary pretensions, but most hu-
manly, they evoke a small boy
boy's reactions to the world a-
bout him:the passage of the sea-
sons, the life of the farm and
of the village, the stories he
listened to, the way things
tasted, smelled and sounded.
There are memorable pictures
of that lonely rural figure, the
hired man, of the country bach-
elors, the country doctor, of
his own immediate family.
Though they are happy recol-
lections, they are not doused in
sentimentality, and I think
there is an American audience
for them."
TREASURE C1IFST
Making Do
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pants. He had a pair for wear-
ing on occasions which he did
not feel warranted getting the
good blue serge suit out of its
tissue wrapper in the spare bed-
room. He wore the moleskins,
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Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday,
March 26, 1964 --Page 3
with a clean workshitt, the
coat left over from an earlier
suit, and a felt hat to sales,
nomination meetings and the
annual meeting of the beefring.
He wore this ensemble also
when applying for a loan at the
hank, In time, he wore the
moleskin pants under a suit of
overalls when the weather got
cold. When they wore out at
the knees, they were cut down
to make short pants for me,
And when I had scudded the
seat out of them, they were
shredded up to make rag rugs.
We bought flour and sugar
by the hundredweight and the
sacks were bleached and made
into work shirts. When the col-
lar wore thin on one side, it
was reversed, Their days as
shirts done, if there was enough
material left, they were cut up
and hemmed into dishtowels;
eventually they became clean-
ing rags in the house, and later
popped up in the driving shed
for the men to wipe their hands
on when they were working with
grease. Women insisted that
their husbands buy overalls with
the longest legs possible. The
extra length was cut off, the
legs were hemmed, and the
leftover was put away carefully
for patches.
Hardwood ashes were put in
one pile and sifted. In the
spring, when the soap man
came around, the pile was un-
covered and for every hundred-
weight of ashes, or bushel bas-
ket in some cases, he returned
so much soap. The soap came
in large cakes and was probably
the strongest cleanser in the
world, next to lye. It was said
that if a boy were beginning to
shave, all he had to do was
lather up with this soap and the
whiskers would vanish of their
own accord.
It was unheard of to buy a
child a pair of shoes that fitted
him. They had to be big
enough to allow him to grow,
and the result was that his feet,
splaying around in the big boots,
soon spread out and filled them.
The same thing applied to store
bought clothes. I've worn over-
alls that felt like balloons and I
'was tempted to try jumping
around inside them
Any boy who blew up and
exploded a brown paper bag, in
a fit of exuberance, was prac-
tically an outcast. Paper bags
from the store were folded and
put behind the clock. Flattened
Gorrie News
GORRIE–Mr, Howard Grain-
ger, Detroit, called Saturday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Grainger and . isited with
Mr. Grainger in Guelph General
hospital.
Mr, and Mrs. Jack Shiell
and family, Wingham, visited
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Templeman.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Edgar
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
John Edgar of Brampton.
Mr. Chester Bennett under-
went surgery in St.Joseph's
Hospital, London, on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Why -
tock and family, Teeswater,
visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Edgar.
Mrs. Bruce Grainger, Lon-
don, spent the weekend at his
home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Brown
and Jean spent the weekend
with Mrs. John Stewart of Tor-
onto.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holmes
and Grace of Molesworth, and
Miss Dorothy Holmes of Kit-
chener visited Sunday with
Mrs. Albert Dustow,
Mrs. Bert Vodden, Mr. and
Mrs. Marray Vodden, London,
visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Cloyne Miclrel.
Mrs. G.A. Anderson and
Joan visited friends in Thed-
ford on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Pen-
nington and family of Tees -
water called on Mrs. Frances
Strong and Mr. Roy Strong on
Sunday.
Mrs. Chester Bennett and
Nliss Shirley Bennett, Toronto,
are spending a few days in Lon-
don.
Misses Karen Michel and
Marian Gray of Kitchener are
spending the Easter holidays in
Nassau.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Koch
visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Rudolph Mogk of Gads -
hill.
out, they were used by Father
for figuring.
Things didn't wear out;they
gave up in exhaustion. Even
our patches eventually found
their way into quilt patterns.
It was fun to look at a quilt and
try to identify former prized
possessions.
Harry J. Boyle in "Home-
brew and Patches" (Clarke,
Irwin & Co., Toronto).
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