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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-03-21, Page 22• • Crossroads --March 21, 1984—Page 7 expensive unpainted chests. or kook/Wm consider chasing metal industrial• pe shelving .that has the good • high tech look when - painted silvery Qr, Mack or even white ^This shelving is very heavy duly and can support considerable weight. Or there's always the old brick and board kind of shelves. 1- by 8 -inch or 1- by 10 -inch boards can be stretched between bricks to hold lots of treasures. • Go Soft 1.••. Sa - Mo NORTHBROOK Water Softener Music On Tap Disc Jockey Service The Allo invaded ern France on M*1541,44. Investors arapleesed to arr nounoe their new repre- sentative for the area is William (Slim . Stephenson Dances, Parties. Benefits for ONLY X99 Call Ron at 291=3709 or Ray at 343®2575 Plus installation Find out just how economical soft water is. LIMITED OFFER -® CALL NOW! a EY V AN.® cLLIGAN Call collect Hanover 364-3830 EARLY AMERICAN LOOK—It's possible to capture the robust charm of Early America with well -execu- ted reporductlons such as this Welsh cupboard, dining 1 ITR • wM* COUPON Coupon ;LIP & SAV $20. On each full case of 72 steaks -4 oz. Bacon wrapped. FILET MIGNON Reg. $111.60 per case ($1.55 each steak) • 'With this coupon 91.60 per case ($1.27 each steak) Ca Only one coupon per case coupon good on case lot and cash purchase only. Offer expires March 31/84 or when sold out. table, Windsor chairs and wing chairs. This setting by Thomas Hills Cook, Arm'sfrong senior Interior de- signer, features furniture by Thomasville. Quality reproductions set colonial mood By Barbara Hartung Q. I have long admired Early American designs and my favorite spot is Colonial Williamsburg with all the houses furnished in such charming ways. Now that my husband and I are furnishing our first home — a rather old house that we plan to fix up — I'm trying to decide what to buy. Mr budget doesn't allow me to furnish with°antiques but do want that elegantly Old World feeling. Please suggest some ideas for starting out. — F.N. A. Truly, Colonial Williamsburg is a wonderful place and walking through the rooms is like walking through history. Another spot on the East Coast is Winterthur, the Du Pont's fantastic collection of historic furnishings. Visit there too for a delightful insight into our forebears' home and decorative arts. Since you can't afford real antiques you can rely on good reproductions. A number of manufactur- ers are creating fine furni- ture that our great, great grandparents undoubtedly would have liked. One com- pany is Thomasville, which 0 0Z has brought out its American Oak collection..1Viost pieces including a Welsh cupboard, clip corner dining table, Windsor chairs, a bedroom wardrobe, a cannonball bed and nightstands, are in a warm brown, hand -rubbed oak finish. A secretary -desk is finished in a pickled oak finish. Colonial Williamsburg works with various crafts- people and manufacturers to reproduce by special license some Williamsburg pieces. These are usually of highest quality. Write to Colonial Williamsburg to inquire specifically. In addition to a few good quality reproductions, you can establish the look you desire by well-chosen acces- Herbert St. Waterloo 884-9600 Tues. -Sat. 10-4:313, closed Sunday & Monday Thurs.-Fri. to 6:00 p.m. �`'� Lam. �'� ��`'�'�.,� �~`�`�•1 �►�'`'�'�•� ��'"" J CR This column is about print addicts and the lovely sur- prises they bump up against as they read their days away. Consider the printaholic, whose eyes cannot cruise past a single line of type without ingesting it. For printaholics, anything linear is fishheads to a cat. Printa- put yourself in our place. C.:4„vr.4•` oxt. 441 • flEITOGA LL MALL HOURS: MONDAY -FRIDAY 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. r T THE INTERSECTION Or= CONESTOGA PARKWAY AND KING s1. N WATERLOO 886 SSSbo holies without morning papers make do with cereal boxes. No cereal box? The Zellers Dollar Daze flyer will do. Don't ask a printaholic to wrap up anything in old newspapers. She'll just start reading the classifieds and the -wrapping can go hang. I heard the other day about a man who frequently wore a classy -looking necktie with an . intricately embroidered design across the bottom. It was a printaholic who finally cracked the code and reveal- ed that the tie made direct reference to the bowel habits of male bovines. Printaholics read other people's bathroom wall paper, the backs of match folders and those sticky Jack and Jill magazines one finds in doctors' waiting rooms. I have stooped this low: I have picked up discarded shop- ping lists in the supermarket and found myself utterly ab- sorbed in stuff like, "1 doz eggs lg. Miss Mew. mush S Even the telephone direc- tory is ocular fodder for the pathological reader. Don't tell me the phone book isn't a barrel of laughs.' Did you ever hear of the Mona Lisa Take -Out Lunch? It's there, in the city directory. You get service with a smile there, I bet. Restaurant names are wonderful idle reading. How about the Cactus Restaur- ant? Would you get stuck with the bill there? There's a Delicious Snack Bar on Queen Street and down the road a piece you'll find the Friendly Deli. And if that doesn't bring a smile to your face, try the Ho Ho Res- taurant, which has an alter- nate number listed if the first one doesn't answer. ("May- be they all died laughing, Charlie. Try the other num- ber.") um- ber.") More flipping through the phone book brought me to the Tip -Top Typewriter Ser- vice. That must be a mis- take. Surely they meant the Tap -Tap Typewriter Ser- vice. One of my favorite young relatives is a, mortician, and sories appropriate to the era. And, when possible provide a background that is tradi- tional and warm — wood paneling, pegged wood floors, beamed ceilings, used brick and small pane win- dows an .ors. Fabrics and wallpapers also help set the mood. he works for the Wing -On Funeral Home. Wow. Talk about heavenly transports. • And speaking of trans- ports, what do you suppose tratiels on Chi -Can Freight Forwarding? Poultry? Global Fruit and Produce is a stopper. I suppose some wise guy is always phoning up the folks at Global and asking for bananas and zucchini. ("Sorry Sir. You want the Lengthwise Fruit and Produce company." ) Take a large shopping bag if you're going to Moby Dick Seafood Store. The Moby Dick Car Wash is sheer poet- ry. Imagine a bulbous Citroen emerging, dripping and glistening from the spray •machines. Almost like a Highliner commercial, eh Billy? Sometimes I have trouble remembering exactly who my hairdresser is. Our little town has almost used up every possible juxtaposition of the words "hair" and "style" and "beauty". But if I ever go to the Chameleon Hair Stylists down in the city, I'd maybeget my hair cut but never colored. I wouldn't want to emerge the ; same color as the walls of the salon. You can only sit around reading the telephone direc- tory and laughing softly to yourself for so long before people start looking at you and tapping their brows sig- nificantly. Then somebody calls the white van with the flashing lights and the jig's Phone 357-2752 Let me show you how to put together a comprehensive personal plan that will help you: ®Keep up with inflation • Control the tax bite • Build up your capital • Meet your investment goals e&eAtea PROFIT FROMOURERPEFIERICE Listowel Textiles Presents Impressions in Colour • A personal colour analysis by a certified colour consultant • Investment wardrobe planning • • Seasonal wallet • Make-up and skin care • Gift of make-up in your best colours All designed for you to create your own personal "impression" Call 291-2271 or 343-3202 We save you more with. oEursuper MAT. SPECIALS - Q. I'm moving into my ' first apartment at college and want two things — a cheap but big working space instead of a tiny desk and lots of room for books and my important things. My folks don't think I need to set up housekeeping and so I have a tight budget. I can handle the rugs and sofa and chairs myself but I need some ideas to see me over my penniless days. —PC. A. We parents are terribly hard on our children, aren't we? Here are some ideas to borrow from your, folks' era — ones they may have used to stretch their budgets. An inexpensive desk can be created by varnishing a hollow core door (don't buy one with the knob hole cut) spanning a pair of in - Sides of Beef . . Ib. Cut, wrapped for the fre Pure Pork Sausage . Ib. Whole or Half Pigs 1.50 and ready ezer. 1.50 lb .90 Harriston Packing Co. Ltd. Harriston 338-3330 OPEN: 'Mon. - Fri. 8 - 5. Sat. 8 - 12 noon ,t 0/7/..‘flati n Pairs?i'n t ori - 20/ up. But, yitp can't keep a dedi- cated printaholic down. Be- cause after you read about a place like the Mona Lisa Take -Out Lunch, you start to daydream about other simi- lar finds. Is there somewhere a Ve- nus, de Milo Player Piano Company? A Night Watch Burglar Alarm System? A Last Supper Poison Control Centre? There is a famous painting by Picasso called Nude De- scending a Staircase. I don't even want to guess at what sort of business might adopt that name. Bonnie Cockwell with daughter Terry -Lynn. Listowel.