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Our choir leader was, ju ite
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We needed, she said, some
,XOunger voices.
' indeed, as I looked:around
1 realized that almost every-
body in that choir was old
enough lo remember life be-
fore television. And –most
chureh;choirs are the same,
What's to be done? Should
•• we gargle with Geritol?
Paint our 'throats with Gre-
cian Formula?
The fact is that the church
• choir may be doomed. Young
folks today are not into or-
ganized choral singing and
they are ,not into going to
church; and there you are.
The thought occurs that
. singing together is becoming
a quaint antique pastime,
like the quilting bee or the
barn raising. Most young-
sters today play a musical
instrument of some descrip-
tion, but few of them enjoy
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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. Soloists sang Glow
Worm, and Drifting and
Dreaming and In a Little
Spanish Town and By a Gar-
den Wall. I don't know when
the audience in the Model
By James G. McCollam
Member, Antique
Appraisers Association
of America
Q. I have a figurine of a
girl milking a white cow. It is
marked as shown in the ac-
companying sketch. I think it
is made of porcelain.
I would like to know any-
thing you can tell me about
it.
A. Your figurine is Royal
Dux and was made by Ernst
Eichler in Dux, Bohemia,
between 1860 and 1890. It
would sell in the $400 to $500
range.
Dux is now part of Czecho-
slovakia and iS called
Duchov.
Eichler used an acorn for
his mark because the Ger-
man word for "acorn" is.
"eichel".
Q. This writing table is
solid oak and very heavy.
Can you tell me when it was
made and its value?
Underneath is a label that
says "Draftsman" and
"Gustav Stickley".
A. Gustav Stickley intro-
duced what came to be
known as "Mission Furni-
ture" around the turn of the
century. He continued in
business until 1916.
Your table would sell for at
least $1,000 on today's mar-
ket.
Q. Just what is cameo
glass and why is it so expen-
sive? I have seen pieces at
antique shows priced over
$1,000.
A. Cameo glass is made of
two or more layers of differ-
ent -colored glass. It is then
carved very much like a
cameo gem, leaving one
color standing out in relief to
form a design or an image.
The work is all done by
hand, which results_.in_-al
most one -of -a -kind pieces
that are veer `c fly to pro-
duce. Even when a nd-new,
oatneo tiaras ensive.
Q,,; Pirie` etiome terms
thaf,'iind' cglhfusing: for ex-
ainple; what is the differ-
ence; if any; Whiten china
and procelain?
A. Porcelain, is a mixture
of kaolin and china clay,
fired at a very high tempera-
ture. It is usually very thin
and translucent; it is hard,
cold to the touch, and rings
like a bell.
China covers the whole
field of ceramics and crock-
ery; it is an overworked
word.
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
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WHEN GOD CREATED
MOTHERS .. .
When the good Lord' was
creating mothers, He was
into His sixth day of "over-
time" when the, angel ap-
peared and said, "You're do-
ing a lot of fiddling around on
this one."
And, the Lord said, "Have
you read the specs on this or-
der?"
She has to be completely
washable, but not plastic;
Have 180 moveable parts
.. all replaceable;
Run on black coffee and
leftovers;
Have a lap that disappears
when she stands up;
A kiss that can cure any-
thing from a broken leg to a
disappointed love affair;
And six pairs of hands;
The angel shook her head
slowly and said, "Six pairs of
hands .. , no way."
"It's not the hands that are
causing me problems," said
the Lord. "It's the three
pairs of eyes that mothers
have to have."
"That's on the standard
model?" asked the angel.
The Lord nodded. "One
pair that sees through closed
doors when she asks, 'What
are you kids doing in there?'
when she already knows.
Another here in the back of
her head that sees what she
shouldn't but what she has to
know, and of course the ones
here in front that can look at
a child when he goofs up and,
say, 'I understand and I love
you' without so much as ut-
tering a word."
"Lord," said the angel,
touching His sleeve gent-
ly, "Come to bed. Tomor-
row ... "
`I can't, said the, Lord,
"I'm so close to creating
something so close to myself.
Already I have one who heals
herself when she is sick .. .
can feed a family of six on
one pound of hamburger .. .
and can get a 9 -year-old to
excitedly. "Yon cannot
imagine what this mother
can do or endure."
"Cali itthink?"
"Not only think., but it can
reason and compromise,"
said the Creator.
Finally, the angel bent
over and ran her finger
across the cheek. "There's a
leak," she pronounced. "I
told You You were trying to
put toomuch into this
model."
"It's not a leak," said the
Lord, "it's a tear."
"What's itfor?"
"It's for joy, sadness, dis-
appointment, pain, loneli-
ness and pride."
"You are a genius," said
the angel.
The Lord looked somber.
"I didn't put it there."
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
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From The Living Bible
Let me add this, dear
brothers: You already
knoW how to please God
in your daily living, for
you know the comYnands
we gave you from the
Lord Jesus himself.
Now we beg you -- yes,
we demand of you in the
name of the Lord Jesus
—that you live more and
more closely to that
ideal. For God wants
you to be holy and pure,
and to keep clear of all
sexual sin so that each
of you will marry in
holiness and honor—not
in lustful passion as the
heathen do, in their ig-
norance of God and his
ways.
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