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Marion I. Duke
. With long, light brown hair
Who could be as tough as the situ
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blowing in the' late fell sunshine,
Ruth MacLulich Caine out of the
' Old farmhouse she now ' Calla
home to Make Sure the three dogs.
• Crowding the strange car weren't
keeping .her visitor from eeter.
ing.
•"They make a lot of poise*" she
said.'
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At the sound of her quiet voice,
, the. trio, consisting of two large,
h1,18hY '100k ttlikes and one tiny
Short -haired variety, immedi-
ately ceased their racket and
commenced to wag their tails' Via '
' •gorously.. ' • •
. , The old farmhouse is legated at
the end of:a long lane off the 14th
concession of. Grey TOwnship,
, A;;,•,';,
i - nth . of Brussels. Ruth Mac -
•e, „ Wich, along With a couple of
4 1:2.---otirr people,., moved in "a couple
of months ago". "But we've been
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in the area here fora while now,"
She Said, ' ., ., .
Ruth likes living in the country
"mainly, because. of the. quiet-
ness". ' . ,, •
"As far as privacy. goes, ',think
rotican have far more privacy in
thei,city where everyone is
,i; ,.: lik:4;siftpwded around you, but nobody
n: .„e‘to 'care what happens to.
1 ,72,44,:a you,",she said, In the country,
. Ifilly routine of Office, or (Sc. .
your neighbors and people do
. care. There is a fairly close group
of win the area." • ..-
, Like agrowing number of Other
, • people her age, 'Ruth MacLulich •
has chosen not become part of
' 'the ..,''Ptrat",Werid.'ef the„.00.., ,
ii.,'71.ixt rat'Ilkice;4usteed.:74C4'..0e -
tory job, she is -striving to made a ,
living from her craftwOrk which
includes weaving, knitting,
crocheting and 'sewing And from
her drawings.
Pouring herself a cup of coffee
from the wood cook stove, Ruth
settled herself at the kitchen
table and expertly rolled her own
0 cigarette. It was the first of many.
she was to smoke in the next
couple of hours as she talked
about_ her work and her way of
life. • '
And watching her making her
cigarettes and getting up occa-
sionally to put another stick in the
stove, one couldn't help but think
that for all her soft voice and frail
,appearance, here was a girl with
a broad practical 'streak -a girl
atiOn Warranted. ' •
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FVLLTI4W,CRAOTWORK
Asked, "AY. She had decided to
r ttirif to her •eraftwOrk as a full-
time Job, Ruth replied bluntly,
"Because I 090161 get a job like
She used to; she said, "work at
4 straight job for about • six
amps"; and then spend the other
half of the year on craftwork;
• "But I decided to try and see I
!couldn't Make my living at it 4011-
. time." * .
Bight now, she said, business is
"pretty slove she's hoping
thing$ will pick up.as they ,istially
do around the Christmas seasim.
• Ruth has items she has made
placed for sale in Stratford's The
Between Shop and OrOboros, ,beth
located downtown near the Avon
Theatre; Some of her drawings
are; on display at the Mar Gal-
lery, also in Stratford. "And I'm
taking some to' Toronto to some
galleries there," she said.
"I don't want to do business
here at home,' 'Ruth said. ?I like
to keep my private -aiul business
life separate)* ,
'While ,she is an expert seam-
stress, ' having worked on cos-
tumes for Stratford Festival and
Avon Theatre productions and for
the National Ballet's production
of The Sleeping Beauty, ,ItUth
MacLulich Says, it is her weaving'that moat' '
Or* 11:1,,,444),terestel;,
lit think les because of the up-
surge of interest in the Canadian
identity," she -said. "People think
if they re:seeing something that's
been around for more than 20
years, then they're seeing some-' '
thing old."
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SELF-TAUGHT WEAVER
Ruth is a self-taught weaver. "I
picked up a lot from books and
from going around to craft
centres. I had hoped to be able to
get some instruction from Mrs.
Bannister of the Southlanding
Craft Centre at Queenston-in
my opinion, she is one of the best
in Canada. I went to see her, but
she' said she only took her, own
customers; she didn't have the
time to take in everyone." •
, Earlier Ruth had talked about
a friend who was interested in he -
!coming a blaeksmith,, but could
not find any practising black-
smith who would take him on as
an apprentice, "even though he
had saved his money and could
sup'port, himselffor a . time, so
wasn't rea.11y, interested in what
"In a way, I'm in 'the' same
pesitien, as that fellow who -
wanted to be a blacksmith,' she
said. "There just isn't anyone to
, go to. I would rather apprentice
to one•person, or to a group small
• enough to be, able' to commu-
nicate, than to take talce a e(turSe, 7, a
community college or siMie-
thing like that.'
Ruth's aim in weaving right
•• now is to produce a cloth woven
tightly enough to be for work
clothes. She is working with cot-
ton which she buys from Quebec
City. And this year, she said, the
price of cotton increased from the
time she ordered to when she re-
ceived ,it.
She noted that wool, while more
expensive than cotton, was easier
to work - with because of its
bounce. "If you have a loose
thread With cotton, it shows up
much more than it would with
wool," she said. "It would pro-
bably be much more reasonable
to use synthetic yarns when you
consider the price of the finished
Pods."
• Presently Ruth is Velfing
Miach. AC;j044)iitterii-.aedt-
eXperiMentifig with color var-
iations. Her loom, located- in a
small room off the kitchen, was
made or her by a 19 -year-old
boy. So far, she said, she hasn't
woven anything wider than 36
inches.
Table cloths, head scarves and
tote bags are among the woven •
articles she has for sale. Her
scarves and table cloths are
priced between $3.50 and $5.
As f knitting o e ing,
she said she does "pretty well
anything", but doesn't make
many clothes because they're so
restrictive. "They either have to
be for a man or a woman al-
though some of them can be uni-
sex. I have done' some wall hang-
ings in knit and crochet as well." f
...
lItith said she would consider get to know one another better
knitting something for someone . and there you areseparatedfroui
in particular, but a lot would de- the main theatre." ,
'N•PelinhcinguP°t:PnwYll'at8ntheereet}earriedn was
Besides her individual work,
„. ENJOYS WORKSHOPS
friend Who had gone to a lot of ...,
Ruth enjoys helping her friends '
trouble, only to be "offered $5 for conduct workshops for area chil-
about 30 hoUrs of labor," , . .
Int' AW' INds, REFLECT, ariliegnh't h"eanindtertlYted°ne"" 'els! "4)
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Ruth's drawings mostly pen Brussels under the auspices of a ,.
WORLD AROUND HER suLachsit year gshohepwpaisoloainvtbhiverd, joie
aaarodunPerld .chlier-.17tehileeetpet4alp"Srhied 1;d11). grant.'
The project
was an
knows and, scenes and individual 'inoluetintlierssuescteglItgh. "e, to '
flowers, etc. from the surrpund-, ,
Mg, countryside. : . vieotsWheasghoe,waaSuthinstaeirdv,ielnwesateaa'dfeoWf
she"' 1/tith neted'th!It'r*Van't ,Ment Or 11101*$' ' the greaP. was'
always display youtitena$ to the
. best advantage. , trying to interest the Brussels:
upon the Optimist Club in sponsoring tpo
s "So much depends
workshop this year.
amount of space you have -espe-
cially where artwork _ is con. .“There are from 10 to 15 of us
cerned. The framing and matting involved in this and 'we're just
waiting work now," She said.
, are very necessary if it is to be
shown to its best advantage; It •• ' Besides lcrafts, the ker111) '
isn't easy to display Your Work ' *might in special films tq'sh w
pwiealcle.ifo you only have 1,1 1,40.,1,1 I:rafthtsess.,helling.drel.4` ry"rdeu' crate:al ,
Ruth was, one of over 50 exhi- * in the true sense a the word -as
bitors at the 'anneal Maple Leaf 'leading out":„," Ruth said. 'It
noted that many of the exbibifori
fair at . seemed to gq over very well last
, they. always speak to us and',
Women's Institute hobby
Atwood about a month ago. Ole year; we got tqknoW the kids and
them," she said. • . . '
• recognize es when they see us
sels Optimist Club had agreed to
sairdeer peoplete, their
likeer aftherself ,,ownihoeoceinni. downtown."
Since the interview with Ruth,
more than a hobby". . • '
"It is a business to many of * word was received that the Brus-
speaking , briefly about Nei, : sponsor the workshop in Brussels
work as a seamstress on theii;,44,iityis Building which is
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Weal-costumet 'ROO 'rioted that -:4-,,,..— ,,,,,,,ki -' ,
at times it can be ,Very Olio-, . *Wwirrii,,,r41.00.0:, Once ,abd 'th
trating. "The easiest way to keep ' -"wrb '''-'4)1,.;•‘. ' doubt
job," she said. "Selinistresseshe decision was welcomed as
There can no but what
working is just to treat it like a '
re paid minimum Wages and do' lima by the area youngsters as
a
by. Ruth and her friends.
not have a union."
Working on all theatrical cos- Ruth, noted that •if any other
tumes, and on ballet costumes hi town was interested in providing
special challenge because the i
offered a such a workshop, they would be
More than happy to talk to them
Particular, she said,
garments had to be sewn in such about' it. "A building is , im-
a way as to - allow maximum portant; we ..don't have to set up
movement. During the pre- every each day -so we can
Paration for the Stratford ‘Festi- leave it there overnight,"- Ruth
An exhibitor, at area 'craft always appealing to the goVerfl-
val opening, as many as from 40 said. "But that's about all we re -
to 60 seamstresses might be em- quire. If anyone's interested,
ployed with a lot of overtime in then can contact either myself or
volved. Joan Smith by calling Brussels
?I like working at the Avon 887-046."
Theatre bettebe
r cause there are As theinterview ended, the sun
ewer people involved and you was seting and the fire needed
tending: Earlier Ruth had said
that Wood ,was getting harder to
find, "but we managed to get
some from Wroxeter."
The price, she said, was now
$20 a cord, "up about $5 from last
year". Still, she didn't look un-
duly concerned, and you got the
impression that energy crisis or
no energy crisis, life this winter
would proceed pretty much as
usual for Ruth and her friends in
the country farmhouse.
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WITH A 006 NAMED bonovin for company, Ruth
4MacLulich of 6rey Township, near Brussel, works on her
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loom. As she puts it, "For me, crafts are something more
than a hobby; trying to make my living from It."
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CP Air signs
in- China
Another hurdle in preparations
for CP Air service to China has
been cleared with signature of a
commercial agreement between
the airline and the Chinese Avia-
tion Authority. This was an-
nounced by Ian A. Gray, CP Air
Vice -President, Technical Ser-
vices, who with an 11 -man team
from Canada has been holding
discussions in Peking with Civil
Aviation Administration of China
officials for the past week. The
group will visit Shanghai, Hang -
chow and Canton before flying
back to Canada from Hong Kong.
Still to be resolved is the pro-
blem of en route refuelling in
Japan, a subject currently under
discussion between Canadian and
Japanese government author-
ities.
CP Air was designated as the
Canadian flag carrier to operate
air service between Vancouver,
Shanghai and Peking following
signature of ,a Canada -China air
agreement, last June.
--Canadian Travel Press.
AIR CO-ORDINATES
Plane and Pilot magazine of
London, nngland says Charles
Lindbergh "was the first man to
fly the Atlantic and the last one to
arrive at the same time 'as his
luggage."
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DOING MOSTLY pen and ink drawings, Ruth-MacLulich likes to draw life as she sees it
around her. Above she -holds a drawing made during a walk in the countryside. ,
Clearing the air on charter flig
BY BRIAN MARKSON
Coach House Travel
Goderich
So much has been written about
Charter flights—some good,
some not So good.
A lot has been heard from
many people, regarding un-
fortunate experiences on charter
flights. Despite this, many people
find that flying by charter is a
rewarding and economical way
of travelling.
Charter flights can be divided
into two main categories:- (J)
The Advance Booking Charter
(A.B.O.'s) (2) The Inclusive Tour
Charter (I.T.C.'s)
Starting last April the Cana-
dian government laid down cer-
tain new regulations and changed
others regarding A.B.C.'s. The
main changes are as follows: -
(A) A charter passenger does
NOT have to belong to any club or immediate family.
affinity in order to benefit from Watch the preexisting condi-
the economic transportation of tion clause in those inSurances as
charters. (B) All reservations they have cauSed heartache.
must be made at least 90 days The regulations 7 regarding
prior to departure. &B.C. charters are governed by
This latter point is, of course, Canadian government rules for ,
very important and does mean flights originating in 'Canada.
that prospective charter passen- Flights from neighboring states
of the U.S.A. are not so governect.
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gers must plan well ahead of in-
tended departure date.'
You will find that a nonrefund-
able deposit Will be necessary at
the time of booking and final pay-
ment, also non-refundable, will
be required several weeks prior
to departure. ' /
Cancellation Insurance is
available (payable at the time of
making the initial deposit) at a
per person cost of about $5.00 but
be aware that rekunds are only
made on the prodhction of doc-
tors' certificates indicating sick-
ness etc. in the passengers'
Inellusive Tour Charters are -
used in conjunction with inclusive
hotel holidays. Commonly called
"Package Holidays" the prices
quoted in brochures are inclusive
of flights and accommodations.
, In• most cases, these holidays
are for specific periods of one,
two or three week duration. While
not having the 90 -day booking
deadline of,A.B.C. charters, they
do have non-refundable clauses
which should be watched when
making reservations.
GRANADA, the southeastern Caribbean island that will become an independent member
of the British Commonwealth on Feb. 4, 1974, is known throughout the West Indies as the
"Isle of Spice". Certainly the waterfront around the capital of St. George's is redoleot of
spices. Sailing ships, of course, have given way to modern freighters for the shipment 4f
most goods now, but around this picturesque old port it is still possible, as piptured here,
to capture something of the atmosphere of a bygone era. Bananas, cocoa, nutmeg and
spice are the chief crops grown for export in Grenada today. ( Photo by Jack N. Oldham.)
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