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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-05-01, Page 22“o Page 8—Crossroads----May 1, 1985 Craft Talk By Louisa Rush I have recently received several letters asking for hints on stretching and blocking tapes try and needlepoint pieces. As I recently finished doing one myself, I thought itAntould be a good. idea to include it in my column. First you will need a.large clean board, larger than your canvas, which should be covered with either clean —white blotting paper or tissue paper. Dampen the canvas on the wrong side with a clean white cloth, which has pre- viously been rinsed in clean water and wrung out tightly. On no account should your canvas be saturated .and I stress this point. Place the canvas on the board right side down and thumb tack or staple across the top of the canvas at half inch intervals. Make sure all tacks are along the same thread of canva,s. Check thatthe top left hand corner is a. true right- angle, using a set -square if necessary, and similarly pin down the left side of the can- vas. The back of the wool stitching should be damp, but not wet, so that at this state it may be necessary to go ,Over the worked area again with a damp cloth. It now remains to tack down the right hand side of the canvas and across the bottom. Do this by carefully pulling the canvas so that the top right hand corner is a, true right angle. Tack down the right hand side, pulling to keep straight as you tack. Check that the bottom corners are true right angles, and tack across the bottom of the canvas. It may be necessary to take out and replace some tacks as you proceed. Do this with a screwdriver, taking care not to tear the canvas. The board should be left flat where there is a current of air until the canvas is set and bone dry. Five days is recommended. If the canvas is badly out of 'shape, it may not be possible to achieve true right 4 angles at the first stretching, in which case, the process should be repeated after, say, three days. The canvas should never be pulled more than it seems prepared to "give”, otherwise it may rip. 0 0 0 This week's pattern is made up of two simple motifs joined together to make the Cheval Set shown. The motifs are 2" or 5 cms across so will make up quite quickly into whatever dimensions you require, and will make a pleasant change from knitting sweaters. TO. order this week's pat- t,ern No. 85-1938 send75 cents 0 pc1171-ter.Afrort. Mee ro tje- 5ta N SkeT,ry 10r 343 -21o2 • plus a stamped self address- ed return envelope. If you do not have a stamp or envelope please enclose an extra 50 cents to cover the cost of handling and print your name and address. Send to Louise Rush, "Craft Talk", 486 Montford Drive, Dollard des Ormeaux, P.Q., H9G 1M6. Please be sure to state pat, tern numbers correctly when ordering and to enclose your stamped return envelope for faster service. At wit's end by Erma tombeck When you come right down to it, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who can tolerate a cricket in the bedroom at night and those who can't. I won't tell you which group I'm in. I will only say it's a very revealing trait and offers an insight into the person's total personality. Those who tolerate crick- ets at bedtime are the kind of people who can sit • through "Aida" and not hear a person sitting behind them Who is ripping a breath mint out of a wrapper at 82 decibels. They're the kind of people •who can go camping and be oblivious _to a party across the lake where the thump - thump of a stereo playing weird music is carried by the winds to your campsite. They're the insensitive ij • Nancy Travers was severely burned last winter She needed plasma, a blood component. She got that plasma BECAUSE PEOPLE GAVE BLOODf'riends for life The Canadian Red Cross Society kind of people who can sleep right through a crying baby at 3 a.m. and have the gall to say the next morning, "Why didn't you .wake me? I'd have warmed the bottle." They can play poker with the guys until 3 a.m. and then come home and tell you with a straight face that they don't know if the Floyds are getting a divorce or not. Ha! Ha! , You can't miss 'em. When- ever you see a mouse in the house in the fall, these aref the flakes who will tell you, "It's only a field mouse and he's just as scared as you are" . . . when you know in 'your heart the mouse is pregriaiit add is' bilitiling- condo in your spices. Oh, make no mistake, it, takes a special breed of per- son who can lie in bed and hear a cricket's bloodcurd- ling screech in the closet, --bathroom-i—then under the bed, and feel nothing. That's it. These' people don't feel. They don't "'acknowledge a dripping faucet, a hook that isn't fast- ened a'bo-ve a 2ippet; a 'Stamp put on a letter..crooked, a '•cupboard door in the kitchen ---stantittsg-gar. They're just!' animals! They can put a book down in the middle of a page, never wash their hands after play- ing with the' dog, don't brush after every meal, and 'call their mother on Mother's Day . . . collect! But mostly, they're people who can sleep while an animal i under their bed rubbing its legs together with a sound that shatters glass, As I said, I won't tell you ,which group I'm in, but youall know *who you areout there. In' 1984, St. John Am- bulance trained 110,000 peo- ple in Ontario in first aid and cardio pulmonary resuscita- tion courses. More than half were employees in business and industry trained by St. John to meet provincial regulations and to help re- duce accidents by increasing safety awareness. For infor- mation „contact St. John Ambulance in your com- munity or in Toronto at 46 Wellesley St E. (416) 923- 8411. Ordinarily you wouldn't expect a new and used book store to be a tourist attrac- tion. But the Highway Book Shop iirthe Cobalt area its no ordinary book store. First of all, it's out in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing but bush country around it. It's miles from any urban centre. There are just a few farm houses in the distance. And the only ap- parent signs of activity are the cars and trucks on near- by Highway, 11 which leads up to the James Bay Fron- tier. But the Highway Book Shop startles people who stop 'there. Because it's huge! Although it's way out in the country, it's vast! It rambles on and on. And there are over a quarter of a million books on the shelves! Every time I've visited the big complex there have been several people wandering around looking at, or buying, books. During the summer the big store is visited by an average of 1,000 buyers or browsers a week. In the back part of the building iS the publishing side of the business. In terms of titles produced, the High- way Book Shop ranks up there with Ontario's top pub - fishers. The last I heard they'd published over 200 titles, the majority small books about the north coun- try. The man behind this suc- cess story is Doug Pollard. In 1957 he and his wife open- ed a small printing shop on some property they owned beside Highway 11. Later they began to sell books as a .sideline. Then people started to ask for more local histori- cal material, and Pollard began printing local . pam- phlets. Eventually .he branched out into publishing northern, authors. The whole thing mush- roomed and there are now 12 full-time employees. The walls bulge with books. The presses are constantly print- ing and reprinting publica- tions. Pollard himself is a book addict. A vociferous reader. And he's been a boon to writers and artists who live in the northland. He's so highly regarded that Njpis- smg University conferred an.. honorary Doctor of Letters degree upon him, because of his contribution to culture in the north. I've never met Dr. Pol- lard. He's on the road much off the time buying books, ar- ranging distribution and so forth. I've heard about him, read about him, and seen pictures off him, but locating him has always eluded me. Of course, I'm alwaystra- velling too. A publisher friend of mine, Ian Rhind, tried for months to arrange a meeting of Doug and myself. \ One time we were close, but missed each other by about five minutes. I hope our paths cross someday. Hopetupy,•right on his home grounds, At On- tario's now -famous Book Shop. Over 150.000 graduates recommend Young Drivers of Canada Training contras coast to coast YOU LEARN TO DRIVE 'ONLY ONCE. DO !TAINT! 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Two words that rhyme and they represent the only two ways you and 1 can le- gally earn investment income. When I was a child, I was taught by my parents that the only safe, sound invest- ment I should ever make was to deposit (loan) my money to a sound financial institution, called a bank, or trust company. There was supposedly no risk, and there was an assured gain. Not same problems These -aspects of "loan- ing" money are still true today? But today we have problems that were not pre- valent in my growing up years. Then, in the 30s, if my parents deposited $100 in the bank and earned , three per cent, they had a three per cent spendable gain. There was no infla- tion, and they paid no in- come tax: Today, if I follow theirad- vice, I can't seem to get ahead. If I loan my dollars to an institution that pays me interest, I find the gov- ernment wants to tax all those dollars (once the $1,000 investment credit is used up) that I earn. This means if I earn 12 per cent, the government wants six per cent in the form of taxes -(if I'm in the 50 per cent tax bracket) leaving me with only six per cent. Then I discover that in , the past 10 years inflation has averaged over nine per cent per year. That leaves me with a three per cen t /oss • in spendable dollars; whe- Advertisement IT'S YOUR MONEY Paul J. Rockel reas my parents on y earned three per cent, but had a three per cent pur- chasing power gain. True, in 1984 we had the lowest it, nation record in years at 4.4 per cent. But, even with that low inflation rate, if I, earned 12 percent, lost 6 per cent to taxes, and 4.4 per cent to inflation, it leaves me with only 1.6 per cent spendable gain. In • truth, now that inflation is at this low point, it is hard to find an institution that will pay me 12 per cent; most are paying 11 per cent.and less. At: 11 per cent, I'd lose 5.5 per cent to taxes, 4.4 per cent to inflation (in 1984) leaving me with only 1.1 per cent in spendable gain. Is the correct advice I was given 40 and 50 years ago, still correct today? „ I say "no." There is simply no way I can get sub- stantially ahead by being a "loaner". When I deposit moneyin the bank I am • really lending them my money and they are agree- ing to pay me "rent" (inter- est) for the use of my money. How can I improve my in- vestment return, to keep 'pace with inflation, and re- duce my taxes? I must "own" something, that "earns" me dividends, and increases in value (capital gains)., Both these "types" -of-return are_taxed at only 1/2 or less than interest gains. But, maybe you're like me, and don't know how to invest in ownership, partic- ularly in such things as apartment houses, or stocks. That's why I use mutual funds, many of which have proven aver- ages of 15 per cent and 20 percent over the past years. Using the 15 per cent exam- ple, the maximum tax I would pay (for most people it's less) would be 25 per cent, namely 3.888 per cent (3.9 per cent), and losing 4.4 per cent to inflation, leav- ing me with a spendable gain of 6.7 per cent. Com- pare that with my 1.1 per cent spendable gain on earning 11 per cent interest. Sorry, mom and dad, times have changed, and your advice no longer fits. I can't afford to "loan", I • must' "own". For a FREE table show- ing 5 -year Guaranteed In- vestment Rates over the past 16 years, vs. two mut, ual funds, write Paul J. 'Rockel, Regal Financial Centre, 153 Union St. E., Waterloo, Ont. 1‘12J 1C4. Ask for "The Choice is Yours" chart. Paul J. Rockel is President of Regal Capital Planners Ltd. and of the Independent !ri- ves nt Fund Dealers As- aocIt3thj of Canada. THE INCREDIBLE APPLIANCE REBATE. 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