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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-04-18, Page 28Indistinguish.able froflr godliness By Shirley Whittington It came, to pass on the day when all mein rest from their labors that a certain mes- senger from the Soap cbm- pany did come to the House of Whittington and did be - 1' seech the Squire and the Squire's wife to hearken until her. "Behold," she said, ' I bring tidings of great joy add financial independence which is to be gained from the selling of soap and un - BIRMINGHAM LODGE is pleased to announce that they once again have Private, Semi -Private & Ward Accommodations Available. Immediate Occupancy. 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And verily, these things are seem as lovely and of good repute and are sought after by men and women of high and low degree." - Thus spake the messenger, yet pressed he she not her cause nor made she a nuis- ance of herself, but said, "Behold. I leave with you' these books and pamphlets and tape recordings. In three days I shall return. Then, Soap willing, you may pick up your sample case.and fol- low me." And the messenger from the Soap company departed. Then the Squire and the Squire's wife consulted to- gether about what had come to pass. "Let us read the books which the messenger has left with us," said the Squire, "and learn of them." Within the books were tales of men and women who had triumphed over adver- sity and prevailed against the cruel jests of fate. For they had embraced the sell- ing of Soap and had preached the gospel of Soap to their neighbors who likewise em- braced and preached. And verily, their riches increased and their sadness disappear- ed. "I wasn't too keen on my fiancee selling soap," quoth one, "but when I saw the money she was pulling in I soon changed my mind." "I used to dream about a holiday in Bermuda," quoth another, "but I never thought we'd actually have the money to afford one Then we started selling.Soap and now we not only have the money for holidays — we have the freedom to enjoy them!" "Selling Soap," quoth an- other "has enabled us to move into a comfortable house in a good neighbor- hood and to have a swim- -ming -pool- in the back yard and a new car every year." And yet another man said, "I was poor and jobless and discouraged and then I start- ed selling Soap. Now I have my own business but not for long! With my soap income, I plan to retire when I'm thirty-five." And behold, in the book were beautiful pictures of men and women of every age and color smiling and rejoic- es --------------...—®----------g EASTER SPECIAL this . coupon is worth $1 1 off any services at Gloria's 1 Hair Studio. 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But when I got there, I discovered he was selling Soap. What a let- down!" Said another, "A friend asked me to go with him to a distant city to view a new business venture. It turned out to be a Soap demonstra- tion. Was I ever mad!" The Squire and the Squire's wife thought on these things. In three days, the messen- ger of the Soap company re- turned. And when she came, the Squire returned to her the box of pamphlets and books which was hers, say- ing, "We have read these things and pondered them and Soap is not for us." And the messenger with- drew and was not seen coon Or ld April 10, 2(l 'age the verandah again. ' But after she was gone, the Squire's wife said to the Squire, "Had -we just cause to send the messenger of Soap away? I fear to have of- fended a friend, and guilt groweth within me." And the Squire said, "How slippery is the hand of a friend when it concealeth Soap." "Yea, verily," said the Squire's wife. And the Squire said, "And if a man pile up treasures and gold from the selling of Soap, yet still he cannot buy those things which many have need of, like wisdom, love and freedom from fall- ing hair." "You said it," said the Squire's wife. And the Squire said, "If the whole world be mer- chants of Soap, then who shall the buyers be?" "Good question," said the Squire's wife. Thus abideth faith, Soap and hilarity. And Soap may very well be the least of these. YOU BE THE JUDGE—Here is a photograph of water pools on rose petals. Good picture? or bad picture? (ThhO u g h Itb.erA Lens By Holt Confer Craft .Talk By Louisa Rush I often receive very inter- esting letters from readers, telling me of their work and this week I received a photo- graph of needlepoint from a Miss B. Clarke of Van- couver. The design is a replica of , one panel of the famed "Queen Mary Carpet",and it took Miss Clarke ten years to stitch! It looks very lovely framed on her living room wall and it took second prize at the Edmonton Exhibition in 1971. She also enclosed the write-up which -appeared.... then in the Calgary Albertan. Perhaps many of my read- ers have heard about. this carpet, which was worked during the war years by the late Queen Mary, while she was inresidence near Marl- borough in Wiltshire. Every stitch of the twelve panels and the surrounding border was worked by the Queen herself, from 1941 to 1946. She was 82 years of age when it was finished. After the war years, Queen Mary offered it to the British Gov- ernment and it toured the world, raising,money to help pay the country's war debts. The finished carpet mea- sures about 10 by 12 feet. twelve feet. Probably the only carpet - of comparable size ever to be worked by one pair of royal hands, the panels were executed separately on can- vas to special designs sub- mitted at Her Majesty's re- quest by the Royal School of Needlework, which also joined the panels and border together. The bird and flower de- signs are based on genuine 18th century tapestries in the V ie-toriwan lhert-Museurrr..: and elsewhere, but the colors were the Queen's own choice. Her interest in needlepoint began in the early 1930's and she was blessed with excellent sight, and at 82 years was still threading her own needles! Each panel bears her signa- ture "Mary R" in the lower right hand corner. At least two hours each day, and , quite often more during those long war years were taken up with the needlepoint, and during this time quite often a Lady -in - Waiting would read the daily news and items of impor- tance. She took her needle- work seriously and would of- ten TuiipTck a section which to - her critical eye was not quite perfect. She was described as a neat and meticulous worker, keeping her em• - broidery wools in the strict- est order and no tangled skeins in her brocade sewing bag! Both- the late Queen Mary and the present Queen Mother, have done much to encourage the preserve British traditional craftman- ship. 0' 0 0 These lovely little ponchos for the toddlers are just what is needed come the first few days of Spring! Quickly and easily knitted, you'll find them handy as they can easi- ly be slipped over the todd- ler's head when going in and out of stores and shopping centres. To order this week's pat- tern No. 7101 send 75 cents PLUS a stamped self ad- dressed return envelope. If you do. not have a stamp or envelope, please enclose an exti a 50 cenTs—ro cover The cost of handling and pr' t your name 'and c . ess. Send to: Louisa Rus "Craft Talk", 486 Montford 1 rive, Dollard des Ormeaux, P.Q., H9G 1M6. Please be sure to state pattern numbers cor- rectly when ordering and to enclose your stamped return envelope for faster service. WHEN Tull MI TIP PEEKS THROUGH, RE- VFRSE'TiNC 0O1WD AND DR%LLTNROUGM FROM THE OTHER SIDE. NO SPLINTERS. NO CHIPS. TT' AIDES ONLY A LITTLE LOIIGEIt 1 BE A &' AC ' (A Complete Eye How to read a column You picture -taking folks who read this column very likely read a great many other columns as well. There are political col- umns, religious columns, legal columns, medical col- umns, humor columns, homemaker columns, and on, and on. And while the subject matter in each of them is different, there is one common tie of similar- ity — every one of them is mostly an expression of the author spinion, The important word is opinion. And as the reader, it's very important that you take the time (or invest the thought) to separate the facts in a column from the opinion in a column. For example, when I tell you the suggested retail price on a piece of photo- graphic equipment, or tell you that the filter factor on a Cokin polarizer is one and two-thirds stops — those are facts. On the other hand, when I tell you that a particular camera should meet cer- tain of your photographic requirements or that I didn't care for the way a lens focused through the -zoom range — those are opinions. The facts I give you about equipment and pho- tographic processes are al- ways taken from reliable reference books or directly from the manufacturer's literature. The opinions you read here -- even the strongly negative ones such as the remarks I made about an Eastern in- surance company that was trying to finagle photogra- phers to give up all rights to their pictures when they entered the firm's photo -contest — are made with the idea that you'll take a moment or two to evaluate the equipment or the situa- tion based on your own cir- cumstances. Here's an example of opinion in operation — over this last weekend, I ran into a longtime friend at a local restaurant. He said, "You're just the one I want to see — is a disc camera a good buy?" Since that wasn't, I felt, enough information on which to render an opinion, I asked him what he want- ed to do with the camera. "Just have something easy to operate that I can stick in my pocket and take snapshots," he told me. "In that case," I suggest- ed to him, "I think it's a great buy." Now, if my friend had told me he wanted to take pictures at athletic events, or photograph a stamp col- lection or do architectural photography, my opinion would have had to have been just the opposite. And even though in that partic- ular instance, my opinion might be shared by a great Remember that whatever your judgment is — it's an opinion, not a fact. ('Photo by Holt Confer) many people, it's still an opinion that, along with 25 cents, will buy you a doughnut. Opnions shouldn't come disguised as facts. It's dan- gerous. Take, for instance, the physician who tells you an operation is needed. While it sounds like a judgment based on facts, it's really, an opinion, and many of the medical insurance car- riers are willing to pay for your visit to another physi- cian just to make certain the second set of "facts" agrees with the first set. Now when you get into the arts photography, music, theater, painting, dance, crafts, and so on — opinions get to be pretty strong. And it isn't at all unusual for those opinions to be given with such per- sonal feeling behind them that they sound factual — "I loved the play, I hated the music!" type of review. Columnists, reviewers and anyone else who is respon- sible fo F directing .. public opinion do have a responsi- bility to let us know what's fact and what's fiction. Politicians appear, for the most part, to have exempt- ed themselves from this re- sponsibility. Anyway, the point of all this is not to take colum- nists too seriously — we're all trying to - inform you and many times in per- forming that task, we in- ject our own prsonal opin- ions. Our responsibility is to let you know when we're giving you facts and when we're editorializing; and your responsibility is to in- sist we keep the two func- tions separate. Some crickets mute Many cricket species look almost identical even under a microscope but their chirps differ greatly. Rarely do separate species make the same sounds. And many mute species have been dis- covered, including at least 100 in Hawaii alone, particu- larly in volcanoes. HEY KIWI LEARN TO DRAW WITH DANNY COUGHLAN 1. Here's Danny's complete diawing. c 2. Finish what Danny started. 3. NoW try it yourself!