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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-01-18, Page 171 '1 'age2_crossroatlS^„Jan. 1131,19$4 • CURLY MAPLE DESK Early American Chippendale Antique or Junque '3= You?/never taik alone People who talk to them- selves are often considered to be as loony as a northern lake, but this is not neces- sarily true. I have talked the notion over with myself and I can assure you that people who hold long conversations with themselves are as sane as bishops. You 'are only crazy when your inner voice suggests something bizarre like "Let's shove Smarties up our nose," and you say," Hey great ideal!" Everybody has an inner person locked away in the back of the brain. This is the little guy who after the mir- ror you hung on one of those gummed adhesive things has fallen and shattered into a million shards says, "I told vou that would happen. Now you're gonna get it." The little inner voice is al- ways there. To paraphrase a favorite old song, "It walks with me and it talks with me �a ++ +tells me I am inade- Early 1900s covered .pitcher By James G. McCollam Member, Antique Appraisers Association of America Q. h have a, small (6'/2 - inch)° covered pitcher with geometric designs. On the bottom is the enclosed mark. Who made it, when, where, and how much is it worth? A. This was made by Knowles, Taylor, and Know- les in East Liverpool, Ohio. It dates back to the early 1900s and would sell for about $50 to $60, Q. This curly maple desk has been in my family for over 100 years. I would like to know what you can tell me about its vintage and value. The sides are joinedto the= top with dovetails .and' other. joints are secured with pegs. A. Your desk is :Early American Chippendale and a choice antique. It was hand- madein the late -18th century and would sell in the $2,500 to $3,000 range. Q. Why should some pieces KT&K. CHINA -of Depression Glass and Car nival Glass made in the 20th century be worth more than a fine piece of hand -cut cry- stal made 100 years ago? A. Good question! They shouldn't. Brilliant -cut. glass is a Work of art and beaatiful'to behold. Depression and Car- nival Glass were _cheap molded glass with little or no artistic merit. When brand new •any piece could be bought for less than $1: One- hundred years ago cut glass was aniexpensive luxury. Collectors have bid the prices up on Carnival and Depression Glass and deal- ers have .fostered the fad. Unfortunately, I have to re=.` port what glass sells for not what I think it is worth. RETURN WITH 0S TO... lit I/ r% • r 1• A FEMALE PRIVAE EYE ? THAT WAS VIRTUALLY U HEARD OF UNTIL THE BEAUTIFUL ANNE FRANCIS PLAYED DETECTIVE HONEY WEST IN THIS ACTION -FILLED ABC -Tv SERIES IN 1905-60. HONEY WAS PROFICIENT IN JUDO AND KARATE, USED ALL KINDS OF AMAZING Devices AS WEAPONS ANCARRIED_A MODIFIED LIPSTICK CONTAINING A RADIO TRANSMITTER. THERE WAS LOGIC IN HER 'CHOICE OF PROFESSION .. - SHE INHERITED TILE FAMILY DETECTIVE BUSINESS AND PARTNER GAM BOLT FROM HER LATE FATHER. HONEY WEST WAS INTRODUCED TO TV AUDIENCES IN AN APRIL, 1905, EPISODE OF ANOTHER, DETECTIVE SHOW... 8I/?A 'B Lew/. HONEYS TRAVELING OFFICE ... rA `-SAN WITH H. W. 80Z r & CO. LETTERED ON IT. Since this column will not appear until after Christ- mas, I won't send greetings, except that I hope you had a merry one and didn't get run over on New Year's Eve. Run over either way. Last year was a violent and, fearful year on this earth. If I were a Bible- thumper, I'd surely believe that Armagedden is just around the corner. Even the plea of the American diplo- mat at the U.N. to the Israe- lis and the Arabs that if only thentztl get together and settle their grievances in a Chris- tian manner didn't have much effect. However, I'm not going to write about the evil in the world and in man's heart. It's too obvious. I'm going to write about the good. I've been bereft for some weeks (I know, Roger Bell, you'll be laying he's been bereft for years.) Anyway, I've learned, and I hope it's not too -late, that there is a deep well of good- ness and kindness beneath our world-weary, ordinary, every-riay sterility. I still can't believe that so many people care about me. My colleagues, to whom I thought I was just Old Smiley, have shown a sensi- tivity I honestly didn't credit them with. With the men, it's the obli- gatory three thumps on my sore shoulder and a mum- bled word of sympathy, or a, "How are you, Bill?" instead of the usual, casual "Hi." With the women, it's more subtle. It's just a caring look, a special gentleness, an invi- tation to supper, an offer to help me into my jacket, which is a painful business. My principal has been a brick (watch your type -set- ting there, Jack.) He has - done everything logically possible to ease my physical and emotional pain. Had I wished, I could have dined out every night of the week. As it is,4've had three roast beef dinners, more than .I've had in three years, with charming, caring families. A lady friend and col' league, who is an excellent cook, sent around a hot, right out of the oven, chicken pie. When I phoned to thank her and tell her it was the best chicken pie I'd ever eaten, `there was a crash of thunder and a big limb fell off my oak tree. (Take it easy, Suze, quate." 140u are not the only per- son in the world who looks in, the bathroom mirror in the morning and hears an inner voice saying, "Good morn- ing, Ugly." I'm sure it hap- pens to Queen Elizabeth now :And the.g, u�' v�,�s t6 ruulye Shields on those days where she can't pay the rent. Because I grew up without siblings in a remote country area. I learned to talk to my - Bill Smiley oodburifilig stoves. self as soon as I learned to break -the next day. (" I'.p!t talk. One day I was the telling you, you wouldn't be- Bobllsey Twins and another lieve the things that broad day I was Abbott and . Cos- was saying. I didn't think tello. The bilis were alive women ever used language with the sound of me. like that.") Inner voices are great ath- There have been times letic coaches. You can hear when I have returned home them on the ski hills or the . after a thorny encounter in tennis court, 'saying, the outside world and I've "Steady. Steady now here slaaniiined i hags aa-;iniagd Gan comes the hard part. Take it the kitchen muttering things easy. You're gonna miss it. like "I'll murder him. You're gonna miss it, you're Imagine the nerve. Who does gonna miss . .. there I told 'he think he is?" And so on. you you'd miss it you stupid I can't tell you how silly I knothead." feel when a doorisilently Sometimes the still small opens and a kid materialises voice of calm becomes an and,says. "Hi. Wbo'Shere?" unruly treat roar. Suppose I now realize that loud um you inadvertently poke sic and talk shows:were in - "somebody with your umbrel- vented to drown out inner la in an elevator. The inner voices. "Play 'on!" roared' The well of goodness yes right out loud,- Henry Eighth to his court voice sa c� Sometimes the pokes thinks i wife. Joan of Arc on the other the remark is directed at hand didn't have a Walk- ' him and a fist fight can`erupt man. She not only heard but if he doesn't believe your obeyed her inner voices and "Silly me. I was just' talking look where she wound up, the to myself." toast of Rouen. A friend of mine nuked a Inner voices cannot be priceless antique lamp once trained to sing or whistle or when she was vacuuming the do much that is amusing. - living room. In her rage.and They tend to be dry, moral, chagrin she forgot that there perfect, little goody two was a man' in the basement shoes. repairing some wiring. Her' They do however exist. A inner voice got `very loud as couple of learned folks have it chastised 'her with a full just written a book called catalogue of colorful invec- The Inner Enemy which not tive which maligned her line- only. identifies the source of age, her vision, her co-ordin- that rotten nagging shrew ation and her intelligence. within us all but tells how to Halfway through the tirade, live with it. Isn't that com- she remembered the elec- forting? trician who was standing be- Time to.stop typing. low astonished and no doubt Dummy; making notes for his coffee There it goes again. crossroads Published every Wednesday by Wenger Bros. Limited as the lifestyle and entertainment section in The Listowel Banner. The Wingham- Advance- Tirpes, The Mount Forest Confederate and The Milverton Sun. Members of the Canadian Community Newspaper' Association, Ontario Community Newspaper Association, and the Ontario Press Council. Controlled distri- bution in Elmira, Palmerston. 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Flowers, food,offers of help, and the decency to leave me alone while, to gnaw the of my grief. iano-tuner and his ove two hundred ay their respects. A Id have done. my son, with whom onship has been r -miss in the past 5, has turned into a angel. No phoney hy, nomaudlin derings. Hard work. He's done more .practical hard work around here than in all the other years put together. Preparing food and making me eat. Shovelling snow. Vacuuming rugs. Shopping for groceries. Making me rub castor oil into my sore shoulder. Forc- ing me to eat porridge (ugh) but making it so delicious with fruit and stuff that I actually; enjoyed it. I could go on for: two columns. But I won't. This is just a note of thanks to God that he has put into people not nastiness and bitchiness and self-pity and self-cen- tredness (they developed those on their own), but kindness and tenderness and goodness and gentleness and the ability to care for one in-- significant nssignificant fellow human. Something else I've learned. John Donne said, "No man is an island." Of course he isn't. A man is a mere tuft of grass in a quag- mire. In comparison, a woman (most women), are continents.- Suze and I used to bicker for bone Her wife d miles to card w Even my rel rather hi few yea hoveri sym m constantly, as I'm sure you do, about who had the hard- est job. She: "You have no idea what .I do around here. You're useless. You can't even change a light bulb; or won't. I have to deal with all the workmen, pay the bills, clean the house, wash your dirty clothes, and come up with a gourmet dinner." And soon. I: "Yabbut you can sleep in in the morning if you want, have a nap after lunch, watch soap operas, visit friends, and you don't have to get up every morning and face those rotten kids all - day. And, besides, who earns all the money so you can have all that freedom?" On both bended knees, I take it all back. You'll never hear a male chauvinist in this column, ever again. 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