The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-11-25, Page 2(4)
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Page 2 -- Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, Nov. 25, 1965
Love Facts anc
LOVE... it's what makes the
world go 'round --and some-
times seems to make it stop.
Poets have sung about it, wars
have been fought over it, and
no one wants to do without it,
It's the game that more people
have played by more rules in
more times than any other --
even more than dice or poker.
The love game always starts
with the chase. This is the
attention -getting phase, when
" faint heart usually wins fair
nothing." In the South Sea Is-
lands, they use a flower code,
so well-known to all concerned
that it does a better job of an-
nouncing availability than an
electric spectacular sign on
Broadway.
Indian braves used to carve
pictures on trees to let it oe
known they sought a squaw.
Equally picturesque, the practi-
cal, pretty young things of Al-
geria still twine their dowries
of silver coins into their hair to
dazzle impressionable young
men into "love at first sight."
A Slavic peasant girl of a
century ago was a little sneak-
ier. She would stealthily fol-
low the man of her choice,
scooping up his footprints and
putting the earth into a flower
pot. In the pot she planted a
marigold. a flower which was
supposed never to fade. She be-
lieved her lover's affection
would also remain fadeless,
hardy and perennial.
Long before a modern per-
fume maker created a fragrance
" for the woman who dares to be
different", guys and girls faced
the problem of how to stand out
from the crowd of eager young
eligibles.
Fashion was one solution: al-
most 2000 years ago, in "The
Art of Love", the Roman poet
Ovid was telling women how to
find the style and color that
would make them irresistible.
Perfume was another weapon
used by both sexes: ancient
Rome had an entire street of
perfume shops!
Jewelry was extensively
worn and given both as a lure
and a good -luck charm: emer-
alds, considered sacred to Ven-
us and emblematic of success
and constancy in love, were
especially prized by lovers.
In Puritan times, American
swains didn't worry much about
perfume or precious stones --
they were more concerned with
glass! It was customary for a
young man to bring a mirror to
the home of his beloved, and
place it glass side up on the
parlor table. If she left it in
that position, well and good.
But if she turned the mirror face
down, he knew he too had been
turned down and would have to
look elsewhere for a wife.
Once the chase is finished
and someone has caught some-
one, in many cases that some-
one has to pay a price for his
or her mate. In one California
tribe of Indians, a bridemight
cost twelve ponies. In Africa,
cattle are often legal bridal
tender, and a likely young girl
might be worth as much as a
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HOSPITALS, PRISONS
Fancies
hundred head of cattle— pay-
able to her papa. A dowry, of
course, is the reverse side of
the coin -- where a women pays
for the privilege of exalted
wifely status.
Almost everywhere in the
world, the trip to the altar has
many milestones of legend and
superstition scattered along the
path. Rural French brides
sometimes court luck by weep-
ing on the way to church -- and
German girls have an old tra-
dition that they can dominate
the marriage if they step on
hubby's toes at the altar!
American girls might also
step lively if they knew that the
old shoes hanging on the newly-
wed's car bumper are an ancient
symbol of the bridegroom's
authority and ownership. The
rice thrown at weddings was in-
tended by our ancestors not on-
ly to guarantee the new couple
a large family — but to placate
any hungry evil spirits that
might be hanging around. The
bridal veil also originated in
superstition — it was intended
to hide the bride from evil eye.
But superstitions and myths
and such aren't really what
count today. Modern lads and
lasses know the important thing
is that "true love wins all" --
knock on wood.
Diary of a
Vagabond
by Dorothy Barker
PHANTOM OR MIRAGE?
One of the delightful charac-
teristics of persons who people
the Atlantic Provinces is their
superstition. Add to this their
legends and wonderful seafaring
tales and it is not hard to ima-
gine why those who make their
living with words find a fascina-
tion and much subject matter in
every nook and cranny of the
eastern part of Canada.
Irene Belliveau is petite,
effervescent in her conversation
and the wife of Eugene Belli-
veau, CN's supervisor of passen-
ger sales at Campbellton, New
Brunswick.
I sought her out when I
learned, entirely by accident,
that she had really seen the Fire
Ship, or Phantom Ship as it is
more often called, that thou-
sands claim they have witness-
ed sailing on Bay Chaleur.
"I was only a child the first
time I saw the Ship of Fire and
had never heard of the spect-
acle before. I had no way of
knowing about it. I was attend-
ing a convent at the time, just
twelve years old and impress-
ionable. Oh, yes, I was scared
as any child would be to see a
great sailing ship with its sails
and masts blazing on the hori-
zon. I saw it several times un-
til I was 16, then we moved
away from the little town
where I was born. I haven't
seen it since," concluded Mrs.
Belliveau.
She says the phenomenon is
usually seen in late September,
which possibly accounts for one
of the explanations offered in
solution of the mystery. It has
been claimed the spectacle is a
type of phosphorescent marine
life which creates an optical
illusion. Others simplify it by
calling it a mirage, but none
doubt its regular appearance.
It seemed incredible to this
realist that the manager of a
large fishing concern, Robin,
Jones and Whitman, situated at
Lameque on Shippegan Island,
once sent his entire cod fishing
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Nlingbam
Rev. C. F. Johnson, L.Th. Rector
Mrs, Gordon Davidson - Organist
FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT -- NOVEMBER 28
9:30 a.m.—Sunday School and Confirmation Class.
11:00 a.rn.—Morriing Prayer.
Wed., Dec. 1-Bd. of Management, Parish Rm,, 7:30.
Thurs., :Dec. 2—W, A. Guild, Parish Room, 3 o'clock.
fleet in pursuit of the Fire Ship..
There are relatives of fisher-
men still living who vouch for
the fact that the blazing ship
seemed quite close at hand
when they first launched their
boats, but they never caught up
with it,
Phantom ship or fantasy, the
legend lives on from generation
to generation. It could be the
ghost of an old ship whose
charred skeleton is said to be
burried beneath the sands of
Green Point where it was repu-
ted to have been beached in
flames more than 300 years
ago, or the old folks say it
could be the John Craig, a ship
that came to a tragic end off
Shippegan.
With these Maritime legends
one never argues or tries to
reason, They are real to the
residents and as one spends
more and more time among
them, there seems to be no end
to their lore of the sea.
Painless
Attacker
A leading cause of blind-
ness is glaucoma. According
to The Canadian National In-
stitute for the Blind, one out of
every 50 Canadians over forty
suffer from this disease and
most of them don't know it.
These men and women are
slowly losing their sight because
of ignorance and neglect.
'Most of the victims of Glau-
coma," says CNIB, 'had nor-
mal sight most of their lives,
but sometime during their40's
50's or 60's they went blind,
for Glaucoma rarely strikes un-
til after 40. '
"If you are in this age brac-
ket you have a direct interest in
knowing how to defeat glau-
coma. Here are two important
points to remember:
1. It is difficult to detect in the
first stages.
2. It can usually be checked if
caught early."
ADO
HAROLD REMINGTON, of the Wingham IGA, presents Mrs.
Tom Wharton, of Wingham, with a cheque for $500.00, as
Marty Adler, of CKNX Radio tapes the presentation. Mrs.
Wharton was a winner in the Purity Flour "Money in the
Bag" contest.—Adv.
The eyeball is shaped much
like a basketball. But instead of
air, a thick, jelly-like fluid
fills most of the eyeball to give
it a shape. During the first
stages of glaucoma, the pres-
sure of this fluid in the front of
the eyeball mysteriously in-
creases. Nobody knows just why
the pressure rises. The fluid in
the rear of the eyeball -- under
the increased pressure from the
front -- pushes against the ret-
ina, which is located at the
back of the eyeball. The job of
the retina is to receive the light
rays entering the eye and send
them back to the brain, where
the rays are then recognized as
images.
At first, the increased fluid
pressure damages only those ret-
inal nerve fibers which enable
you to see on each side. As a
result, side vision is gradually
destroyed. In the final stages of
the disease, the pressure des-
troys the nerves which permit
front or central vision, and all
sight is gone. ,
SYMPTOMS
Frequent changes of glasses
without satisfactory results; in-
ability to adjust the eyes to
darkened roorns; loss of side
vision; blurred or foggy vision
rainbow -coloured rings around
lights.
Since Glaucoma often at-
tacks without pain and may
even be present without any of
these symptoms, the best de-
fence against the disease is
frequent eye examinations for
those over forty.
NOTICE
Town of Wingham
Municipal Election
NOMINATION MEETING
A meeting of the Electors of the Town of Wingham for
the nomination of candidates for the offices of
MAYOR, REEVE, DEPUTY REEVE, SIX
COUNCILLORS, PUBLIC UTILITIES
COMMISSIONER and FOUR PUBLIC
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
WILL BE HELD ON
Thursday, Nov. 25, 1965
at 7:30 o'clock in the evening and until 8:30
Immediately after the close of Nominations, at 8:30
o'clock, Candidates will address the electors.
Should a poll be demanded or required, the same
will be held on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1965
Between nine o'clock in the morning and six o'clock
in the afternoon.
WILLIAM RENWICK,
18-25b TOWN CLERK.
OVit,fit,t Orit
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