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AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
RADE SEVEN
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From My endow
By Shirley Keller
According to my information,
Canadian men are following
the example of German fellows
and are buying mini-slcirts.
A department :store in Mont•
real reports it sold a half dozen
of the itty-bity skirts to young
boys apparently eager to be
fashion leaders this spring and
summer.
Well girls, it has been a long
wait but it has finally happened,
After centuries of being the
object of male ridicule and sug-
gestive smirks, women will have
a chance at their innings when
the master bares his thigh.
Milday knows she is the un-
disputed champion of loveliness
and she has grown a little weary
of the 'constant urgings of her
male counterpart to "take it
off".
Each year, at his behest, her
garments became scantier. Her
skirts rose from a rather ridicu-
lous floor length to a very ris-
que four inches above the knee.
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In the same period, the neck-
lines plunged from just below
her 'chin to just above her
navel.
Men stood back, applauding,
until now nothing but a G-string
is left to be shortened.
Speaking on behalf of most
women, we are relieved to note
that men are beginning the
striptease. It isn't that we are
waiting with bated breath to
see the knobby knees and hairy
legs which will undoubtedly
protrude from beneath the mini-
skirts for males. We are purely
and simply grateful that the
heat is off and we can pull our
collars tight again while Mr.
Wonderful becomes the nation's
pinup.
I wonder though how .men
will take to the wolf whistles
when they pass, tell-tale laugh-
ter that will follow them and
the sly girl-to•giri winks each
time they enter a room.
Will men display modesty as
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they climb out of a car with
their mini -skirts •caught in an
up -draught? Will they tug
nervously at their hemlines
when they sit down? Will their
underwear lose its serviceable
quality in favor of something
prettier in case of a spill on an
icey street?
I tell you, it will be worth
it all if my husband learns from
first-hand experience that nylon
stockings, despite their fragile
appearance, are just as warm
as his long woollies,
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Kippen East W.I.
Use New Years
Theme at Meeting
The January meeting of Kip•
pen East Women's Institute was
held at the home of Mrs. John
Sinclair, in Seaforth, with Mrs.
Campbell Eyre as co -hostess.
The meeting opened with a
happy New Year's poem by the
president, Mrs. Grant MacLean,.
who presided for the meeting.
Miss Nancy Berger, musical
supervisor of the Seaforth DHS,
played two delightful numbers,
"The Last Date" and "Autumn
Leaves". Mrs. W. J. F. Bell
reported on home economics
and health, with many safety
slogans.
Two leaders for 4-H •clubs
will be Mrs. Robert Gemmell
and Mrs. Ken McKay. Mrs.
Harry Caldwell was appointed
Kippen East's representative to
the centennial committee in
Hensall.
"Side by Side" was sung, after
which Mrs. Grant MacLean,
suitably attired, reported for
historical research on ',Carpen-
tering Specialist". Mrs. Harry
Caldwell gave the history of
British Columbia; Mrs. Vern Al-
derdire, the treasurer's report;
Mrs. Joyce Copper commented
on the motto: ,`The new year
lies before us fair as tmtrodden
snow".
"Take Your Choice" was con-
ducted by Mrs. Vern Alderdice
and Mrs. Robert Bell. The panel
consisted of Rrs. Robert Kins-
man, Mrs. Ken McKay, Mrs.
Mike Connelly, Mrs. John Mc-
Gregor. The contestants were
Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. John Mc-
Gregor, Sr., Mrs. Ernest White-
house, Mrs. W. E. Butt, Mrs.
Frank Robertson, Mrs. Sinclair
and Mrs. Dave Triebner, who
were credited with winning
$118. The mystery object com-
pletely baffled the panel.
Mrs. Cecil Pull in a n gave
courtesy remarks. A contest
was conducted by Mrs. Stewart
Pepper, and lunch was served
by the hostesses and committee
in charge, Mrs. John McGregor,
Mrs. Joyce Cooper, Mrs. Grant
MacLean and Mrs. Vern Alder -
dice.
100 YEARS OF WHAT
Wouldn't it be fun if we
could conjure up from their
neglected graves Sir John A.
and the ether Fathers of Con-
federation, and take then on a
tour of the nation they tied to-
gether 100 year ago, with string
and sealing wax?
Would they think they had
builded well? Would they swell
with pride over the nation that
has emerged? Would they look
with awe on what has been ac-
complishled? Or would they
cry, as with one voice, "Lemme
outa here! What have you done
to, our glorious Dominion?
The physical changes in those
10 tiny decades, a flea -bite in
the human span, would surely
impress them. The vast towers
of steel and concrete in our
cities; the ribbons of road and
rail that span the continent;
the St. Lawrence Seaway.
And surely they would be
thrilled by the vast technologi-
cal leap made since they stood
together for that stiff portrait
in Charlottetown. They would
be dazzled by the simple facts
of electric light and power,
flight by jet -liner, radio, tele-
vision, the telephone, the auto-
mobile, oil' heating, air condi-
tioning, and a thousand other
things we take for granted.
But how would t hey feel
St. Pauls Women
Discuss C'hapter
Of Study Book
St. Paul's Anglican WA held
their regular meeting on Jan-
uary 18 at the home of Mrs.
Annie Reid. The new presi-
dent, Mrs. T. Lavender, opened
the meeting with prayers and
Mrs. J. P. Gandon read the
scripture.
Following the business peri-
od, the rector, Rev. J. P. Gan -
don, presented a further chap-
ter of the study book, "The
Church Grows in Canada", deal-
ing with the minorities in Can-
ada, and a discussion followed.
The Warld Day of Prayer will
be held this year in St. Paul's
Anglican Church in Hensall, on
February 10. Arrangements
were finalized for the confirma-
tion service, pot -luck supper
and annual general meeting
held Sunday, January 22.
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about the country they created
after the fancy wrapping came
off the toys? After they'd seen
the Toronto City Hall, and flown
across the country in a few
hours, and plunged into the
bowels of a modern mine, and
gone up in a chair -lift at Jas-
per, and faced annihilation in a
Montreal cab, and groped for
their drink in a gloomy cocktail
lounge?
Behind the glittering play-
things, would they really find
much change in the country?
Not at this time of year, any-
way. It would be still a sham-
bling geographical m o n s t e r,
buried in white, tail turned to
the north wind, Only a sprin-
kling of lights, a few curls of
smoke, and a few ants crawling
about would suggest it was not
straight out of the ice age.
And if Sir John A. and his
fellows lifted that f a milia r
blanket of white and peered
under it, would they be sur-
prised and delighted by what
they saw? Would they perceive
a mature, virile, independent
people proudly proving that the
twentieth century belongs to
Canada?
One look would reveal a ma-
terial prosperity and comfort
beyond their dreams. But it
would show that a lot of other
things they were familiar with
had not changed or improved
in 100 years. Fear of the U.S.,
corruption in high place s,
French and English Canadians
wrangling, dirty fighting at Ot-
tawa, the taxpayers being bribed
with their own money, the rich
getting richer and the poor get-
ting children: a familiar world
to The Fathers.
But the sorrow might change
to horror when they looked be-
yond the familiar things and
saw that the healthy -looking
body was riddled with disease.
The pollution of air and water
would make them furious. The
soaring rate of divorce, drug
addiction, homosexualism, alco-
holism would appall them. The
number of dead on the high-
ways each year would sicken
them. The power of huge mono-
polies would frighten them.
And the apathy of the average,
well-fed Canadian would disgust
them.
No, we'd have to divert their
attention quickly, and turn it to
other things that would dazzle
them. Perhaps they'd be im-
pressed by some of our great
cultural traditions, developed
since their time, Like the Grey
Cup game, when the punks and
the drunks take over. Or Hock-
ey Night in Canada, one of our
great national customs, when
this entire, sprawling nation is
linked together into a warm,
friendly group of idiots, rising
as one man to fetch another
beer when the commercial
comes on.
Maybe they'd enjoy a tour of
one of our new atomic energy
plants? But f wonder what
they'd thing of the pictures of
Hiroshima?
We could tell them what we
did in the two great wars. .But
one look at the tax bill for
defense would give them apo-
plexy.
And so it would go. Person-
ally, I think that after the in-
itial novelty wore off, Sir John
A. and The Fathers, more in
sorrow than in anger, would
return to where they came
from, without ever 'taking a
look back,
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