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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-04-20, Page 40Page 10 -Crossroads -April 20, 1983 LIGHT AND BRIGHT -Birds and flowers across the walls of this bedroom en- liven the background to create an elegant ambience. This wall covering is an eight -panel scenic entitled "Woodmere", by Van Lult. Companion fabrics in a stripe are used at the window and for the table skirt. 1 Decor Score By BARBARA HARTUNG Outdoorsy feeling enlivens room Q. We recently bought a new condominium that has only limited natural light- ing. The bedroom is really rather dark and dreary so I'd like some ideas on how to enliven it and give it some personality. I like rather traditional rooms and my furniture is all dark wood. 1 need new draperies and bedspread. The floor is nat- Beautify your neighbourhood. Get out on the street. Take a walk. Fuwnnn,,o��. aarw a Mock.Tesday. TERRY SPROUL CONSTRUCTION Asphalt Shingling Old or New Buildings in Business over 10 years. Free Estimates CALL EVENINGS: Brussels 887-6185 ural wood so I want to buy some small rugs. - R.P. A. Lighten and enliven with light, pale colors, airy designs in fabric and wall covering and adequate nat- ural lighting. Plan window treatment to capitalize on all the nat- ural light you have. Choose a natural wallpa- permural for your bed- room walls to give an out- doorsy feeling with natural colors and palest pastels. Take colors from you wallpaper mural for the bedspread. Use Light solids or stripes or even subdued floral designs in similar colors for area rugs. Use sheer curtains at your windows with a sim- ple window shade under- neath for privacy at night. During the day sheers will filter existing light. Q. I'm painting some old furniture to fit into a newly added family room. We like color but I' don't think I want all the furni- ture to be terribly bright and shiny. What sorts of in- teresting finishes might I consider? - M.V.C- A. Use a latex paint in a color and then after the color is dry, go over with a toner - which is basically a stain. Light, dark or frosted toners are avail- able to cut down the sharp- ness of the color coat. Or another great way to go is to paint the piece of furni- ture whatever base color you want and go over it with a color stain to highlight the grain and pro- duce a two-color effect. Marvelous results can be obtained from a red base and a gold stain, or a yel- low base and a persimmon stain. For a muted pale green, try a white base and a palm green stain. Experiment first on some pieces of wood to find just the right combination for your furniture. Q. My living room is fairly contemporary with touches of tradition. We have a flagstone floor, beamed ceiling, and French fireplace. I'd like to create a country French look. I'm stuck with pale beige draperies that match the pale beige walls. I'd like to add to the window treat- ment but I'm not certain just what might look well. - L.M. A. It sounds like you have a great deal of inter- esting texture in the im- portant elements of your room - your floor and your ceiling. For a country look tor- toiseshell -finished match- stick blinds would be prop- erly charming, their casual quality blending well with your furnishings. With the shades you could keep the draperies pulled open most of the time - furnishing primarily a softness to the room. Repeat the tortoiseshell motif elsewhere in the room - in a small occa- sional chair or a table. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE `April Showers' G of Better Values attr‘ Schuett's Mildmay off" Full size SERTA MATTRESS (with 312 coil con- struction) and BOX SPRING. The pair at "April Shower" Reduced Price of only $288.00 About 15 BED CHESTERFIELDS at $299.00, $595.00 and up and Also, select from about 30 BEDROOM SUITES at $250.00 to over $1600.00 each Wide Variety of OVER 40 DIFFERENT LIVING ROOM SUITES. Two pc. suites $288.00 to over $1 300.00 each. (P.S - Show a cushion from your suite to a Schuett's salesman so that he can evaluate the trade-in" value of your suite) We Deliver In Western Ontario DINING ROOM SUITES and KITCHEN SUITES onkdisplay in our Showrooms, East Side of Main Street. Plus In -Store Specials During the April Showers of Better Values at Godfrey IL SchtieRR Ltd. Phone 367-2308 Mildmay loomi le ScYooI cI'ses an Continued from Page 1 Mrs. Horne later taught at Bloomingdale school for 18 years and she may have been influenced by a teacher she had, Mary Far- rell, today Mrs. McAllister also of Bloom- ingdale. "I had her in Grade 4 - she made school so interesting. I remember the parades we used to have, she would compose original songs and make garlands of roses for our hair." Mrs. Horne recalls Armistice Day - "We all went out and shouted and sang on the sidewalk." Of her teaching days, Mrs. Horne recall's that teacher's aids were not the same as to- day. To make copies of anything she had to make her own hectograph. She would mix French gelatin and other ingredients, boil them and spread the mixture flat. The master copy of whatever she wanted copied would be written in hectograph ink. It would then be laid down on the moistened jelly and left for awhile. It would be taken up and blank paper laid on the jelly and pulled off with the copy transferred from the jelly to the paper. Mrs. Horne disagrees with the closing of the school. "They (parents) think the quality of education will go down (with triple grading) but I disagree. The school is the heart of the community here. I don't think the parents are being far sighted." Mrs. McAllister, the former Miss Farrell and teacher at Bloomingdale in 1920 is also disappointed the school is closing. Also like her pupil, she was impressed with the new school built in 1919. It was her first teaching job and the idea of two rooms was "marvelous". Her own education had been taken in an eight grade classroom in Kincardine. She taught the junior grades and Stanley Hodgins, principal, taught the senior class. Mrs. McAllister was in Bloomingdale for four years and discovered that being a teacher in Bloomingdale meant being very much a part of 'the community. Like teachers before her and after her, she boarded with Maggie and Ben Moyer a brother and sister who had room in their home for a boarder. Mr. Moyer was a market gardener and going to market was a new experience for a town girl. Mrs. McAllister paid $6 a week for room and board. She made $800 a year; "I thought I was making a fortune." Like many teachers who frame to Bloom- ingdale, she married a local person and settled in the area after marriage. Women were notallowed to teach, however, if they were married. So after four years in Bloom- ingdale and two in Kitchener, Mrs. McAllister only supply taught. The teacher was expected to help in the community and at the church. "I remerhber one trustee said to me he liked to hire 1 MAKE it YOURS By ELLEN APPEL teachers far from home - then they wouldn't run home all the time and they would help more in the church and commun- ity," she recalls with a laugh. But the community did appreciate the teacher and parents stood behind the teacher. ''If you put anything on at all, everyone turned out," recalls Mrs. McAllister. Parents bought the books their children used in school and anything extra was done out of the teacher's pocket and with any- thing pupils could bring from home. The young people of the community held a play and raised enough money to buy a piano for the school. Since the school was new, trustees were concerned with saving. The school itself was something compared to the ones they attended. Most vivid in Mrs. McAllister's mind is the school fair, one of the most important events of the year. Each year a different school would host the fair and pupils would compete in such -events as foot races and crafts. Livestock competitions also took place and pupils were judged on how well they could handle a horse and buggy. "I had never been at one," Mrs. McAllister recalls. "I was warned when I came here that Bloomingdale always com- peted. You often took more time preparing for the fair than for school work." She recalls going to another school one year on a wagon. "Our biggest problem was to keep the children from eating their lunch before noon. Alas, more than half ate their lunch before noon!" After the fair it was the Christmas pro- gram which was also very important. The classes were often large. Principal Stanley Hodgins, now living in Kitchener, recalls that he had 52 pupils in his room one year. One year he also had a few students in the fifth form - or Grade 9. Both Mr. Hodgins and Mrs. McAllister say discipline was not very difficult. The parents stood behind .the teacher and the strap was still permissible. Mr. Hodgins recalls one funny incident. He had a boy and girl in his room who liked each other and he had a hard time breaking them of the habit of talking to one another. One day,i in hopes of putting an end to it, Mr. Hodgins told the boy that if he didn't stop talking to the girl he would make him sit with her. Much to the teacher's surprise, the young fellow moved right over next to the girl and kissed her. "You can imagine the uproar in the room," Mr. Hodgins says. But it accomplished what the teacher wanted. The girl refused to speak to the boy for over a year! One of the things that the principal and his bigger students did for the community was to clear ice on the,,, l eek for skating. Mrs. McAllister recalls that if the moon wasn't bright enough lanterns were hung in the evergreens. Easy quilt -look Print fabrics provide shortcuts to a wide variety of crafts. It's easy, for ex- ample, to make a print fab- ric look like a pieced -to- gether quilt. All that's re- quired is choosing the right print, lining it with batting, and then outlining the print with stitches. The secret to success is in the choice of print fab- ric. The best kind is a sim- ple print with big shapes and flat, rather than shaded, colors. Scarves are often suit- able for quilting. In most cases, the central design is an excellent size for a pil- low or quilt block. If your favorite scarf or print fabric, however, it too large or too small for your purposes, you can ei- ther cut it down, or add a contrasting border. Directions for quilting a print fabric follow. Look in next week's column to learn how to applique with print fabrics. MATERIALS: Scarf or print fabrics; solid -color fabric for pillow back and/or borders; muslin or other fabric for backing; polyester batting; polyes- ter fiberfill for pillow stuffing; sewing supplies. CUTTING: For approxi- mately 18x18 -inch pillow or quilt block: 1. Cut 18x18 - inch square from batting and backing. 2. For pillow, also cut one 18x18 -inch square from pillow back. 3. For pillow front or quilt block, cut a square of print fabric no larger than 18x18 inches. 4. If your square is smaller than 18x18 inches, cut fabric borders from contrasting fabric as fol- lows: 1. Measure difference between your print square and 18 inches. 2. Divide that figure in half, and add inch for seam allowance. That is the width of your border strips. 3. Cut two 18 - inch long, border strips for sides. 4. Measure your print square. Cut two bor- der strips to that measure- ment for top and bottom border. STITCHING ON BOR- DER: (Note: If your square is already 18x18 inches, skip this section and go on to quilting directions). 1. With right sides facing, pin short border strips to top and bottom of print square. Stitch t/a inch seams. Press seams open. 2. With right sides facing, pin long bor- der strips to sides of print square. Stitch 1/2 inch seams. Press open seams. QUILTING: 1. With right sides of print square on top, sandwich batting be- tween print square and backing. 2. Baste a large X - shape through all three thicknesses. 3. Outline your print with machine -stitch- ing. 4. If your squre has a border, machine -stitch around edges. PILLOW: 1. With right sides facing, stitch pillow front to pillow back. Leave small opening for turning. 2. Clip corners; trim bat- ting close to seam; turn pil- low right side out. 3. Stuff pillow with fiberfill. 4. Sew opening closed with tiny hem stitches. Salmon aren't alike Unlike Pacific salmon, which die after spawning, Atlantic salmon return to the sea and are then called "kelts." A certain number of them will return to spawn a second time before they die. s a As teachers, they were expected to set an example for the pupils but both recall getting respect and support from the com- munity in return. It was on July 7, 1919 that the cornerstone was layed for the new school. A jar off coins and a list of names of the most important officers of the country were placed there. In 1962 two additional rooms were added and in 1963 a fourth room opened. In 1965 Bloomingdale became a junior school for Grades 1 to 6. Grades 7 and 8 went to Breslau and Kindergarten was offered in Breslau for parents who took their children. In 1979 Ontario's lieutenant governor Pauline McGibbon honored the school with a era visit and planted a tree on the front lawn. Schools do develop their own personalities through the years and Bloomingdale did have a special feeling. No doubt for resi- dents the absense of school bells and chil- dren's voices will be missed for awhile. The school board hopes that the commun- ity will be interested in using the building al- hough no definite plans have been made as yet. A reunion has been dated for June 29 in conjunction with the annual strawberry social held on the school lawn; No definite plans have been set yet but anyone in- terested in detailsmay call the school closer to the date for information. �lu ON ALL OFF SUITS For example: Pure wool suit. Reg. 189.95. 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