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Villeneuve, 50 Arlington Blvd. Kitchener, Ont. N2A 2G9 that mostportable and ver- satile of all instruments the human voice. It Wasn't always this way. A friend gave cne a yellowed program full of advertise- ments for other quaint things like hand -sewn shoe repairs and "Lavender silk under- wear — vests, bloomers, gowns and pyjamas". The year was 1927 and the presentation was a musical farce called the Prince of Liars, with a cast off 200 people, which wasn't bad for a town of several thousand. Imagine the excitement as the curtain went up at the Model Theatre and a child- ren's chorus sang For the -Glory of the Grand old Flag! There were 140 kids in that children's chorus. I counted the naines. Once the audience had re- covered from that, the play itself began with soloists who were assisted by "10 of Mid- land's most beautiful ladies and 10 of ..its handsomest men." Between the acts of the play, there were specialty numbers. 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Theatre slippi; :;»ut for a stno Ce, or clucked 011 the *thy sitter. There just wt'rt' time, The: treats just ke t oncoming. According to the program the adult chorus assisted in the second act of Prince of Liars, along with the Boys' Choir, the Legion 8 -piece or- chestra and the Legion Band. It must have been a . full and thrilling evening. "If you liked the show," concludes the program "tell ,your friends and come again on Tuesday night." Well they don't put them on like that any more. I don't know what become of the Model Theatre. But the children of those in the 140 voice children's chorus are about the same age as some of the folks in our church choir — the one that seems doomed for lack of young voices. Life moves on. Everything changes. I wasn't around in 1927 and I have no wish to turn the clock back to those days. I've accepted, with diffi- culty, the notion that the small town church choir may soon be a notion as outdated as the vests and bloomers advertised in that yellowed Model Theatre program. But 1 won't let that destroy my joy in singing in here and now. I intend to hang right in there until our glorious lead- er gives the terminal signifi- cant glare,' and I'll know it's time to hang up my tonsils. There's just one thing worrying me. The night we learned that we needed younger voices, we were also told the flower fund was run- ning low. You know what the flower fund is for. It's what we dip into when direness strikes — like illness and stand under a shower." death. The angel circled the The question now is, which mddei of a mother very slow- fs goi.*g • to" go first?` The ly. "It'stoosoft," she sighed. thou`, me or the flower fund? "But tough!" said the Lord SOLID OAK TABLE . 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Chatham Continued from Page 8- after them, found there, they ed the Dutch Republic and plundered and took all away; and the watermen that became at one time the most carried us did further tell us, powerful nation on earth. that our own soldiers are far The roar of the naval guns of . more terrible to those people the Dutch once audible in the of the country towns than the streets of London has long Dutch themselves." since died away and on Ter ,rhe question remains: will schilling a new village - nations ever learn to listen to arose. and appreciate each other, Despite the agonies of the before they have bloodied conflict and notwithstanding each other? the verbal abuse they heaped Man still has a chance to on each other, the English prove that his supposedly and the Dutch remained superior brain power makes mutually respectful and did him capable of reasoning not indulge in barbaric be -first instead of merely en- abling him to reach for the button. havior. When the English Vice Ad- miral Sir William Berkeley, during the Four Days' Naval Battle, was completely cut off with his ship from the English main fleet, he re- fused to surrender. Mortally wounded he retired to his cabin where he was found ly- ing dead by the Dutch who had boarded his ship and followed him. The Dutch, out of respect for the bravery of Sir Wil- liam Berkeley, had his body embalmed and placed in the "Grote Kerk" in the Hague. They sent a message to Charles II offering to send Berkeley's body back to England for burial. Charles thanked the Dutch States - General,, accepted the offer and gave the Dutch vessel which brought back Berke- ley's body a safe-conduct. On the English side, the fa- mous diarist and man -of - letters Samuel Pepys who was in charge of naval ad- ministration in Chatham during the war, had these kind words to say of the Dutch: "It. seems very remark- able to me and of great honor to the Dutch, that those of, them that did go on shore to Gillingham, though they went in fear of their lives and were some of them killed, and notwithstanding their provocation at Scelling (i.e. Terschelling), yet killed none of our people nor plun- dered their houses, but did take some things of easy car- riage and left the rest, and not a house burned; and which is to our eternal dis- grace, that what my Lord Douglas' men who came' Qs Monday, Qctobllr 8. Ilii, `D n Ioria4 pitchsd the only rhlcl' .game. Jo. World SOO* history yne** lt: b#at Brooklyn ! 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