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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1967-12-07, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1967 eciaalual ectitimed RAW - NM You Save At Home Your hone toren stores are your best bet when it comes to providing service and saving you money. There may be occasions when the consumer feels he can save a few dollars by following up advertised specials and shopping elsewhere, but reflection and experience will prove that he saves both effort and money by adopting a policy of shopping at home. An interesting article in a recent issue of a popular magazine digest points out the folly of "biting" on spectacular offers of reduced price merchandise, suggesting that goods never at any time had the original price quoted. Shopping at home, one is acquainted with regular prices and aware if a reduced price offer is a genuine bargain or not. It usually is, for local merchants are not in a position to, or desirous of, fooling the public with inferior merchandise or flagrant advertising claims. When you shop at home, you save in yet another way. Merchants are heavy taxpayers, and your dollars spent here come back to you in the way of increased services and sup- port of local institutions. There is also the point of service on goods pur- chased— ur-chased--- where else do you get prop- er service on appliances and such articles, except at home? Don't be fooled by some of the plass produced circulars offering a wide range of merchandise and most appealing prices. If your merchant has not the article you require, he can probably get it for you — and probably save you money at the same time. Puy from your local mer- chants who have built up a reputa- tion for public service and who offer you goods you can "see and feel" be- fore you make your purchase. Distant pastures, as well as new and attractive avenues for shopping, can sometimes be most appealing. In the course of a lifetime, the aver- age shopper knows he or she gets more satisfaction from local mer- chants who are the mainstay of the town's economy. Dollar for dollar, you can't beat them. To consistently save — patronize the advertisers in this newspaper. They publish special prices and new goods to cut corners on your shop- ping hour — and put extra cents on your shopping dollar. Let's Put Santa Claus Back Into Christmas ! This is the season when people are most easily taught the spirit of St. Nicholas, the generous nature which will again sweep over the world this December. Very little seems to have been ac- complished by the bathrobe dramas that have sent countless boys down church aisles carrying gifts to repre- sent gold, frankincense and myrrh. Christmas has been a beautiful sym- bol, but the good news has all been left to the angels. When the spirit of generosity is expressed, not in symbol but in fact, something of the Christmas meaning begins to take shape. A clergyman's wife found that out in 1904 when she added White Gift Sunday to the church festivities. She came upon a legend which told the story of a birthday celebration in the court of Kublah Khan. In his honor, all the gifts and decorations were white. Many c h u r c h es still celebrate White Gift Sunday, but it has be- come a presentation of canned goods and other gifts supplied from par- ent's well -stocked shelves. It all is turned over to some annonymous in- dividup.l or organization to distribute. No mention will be made of service, or personal involvement. That's Santa's secret. He doesn't send . his gnomes to deliver the gifts. He comes himself. He is personally involved. With each gift there is the rosy red smile, the loving con- cern. That's why we should bring the spirit of Santa Claus back into Christmas. The three wise men made history when they presented gifts in Bethlehem, but if we are going to make history, we will have to pre- sent more than money and perfume. The world is in desperate need of people who will enter the lives of the lonely, giving their time as well as their treasure. Such a gift could be a year -around concern of a modern Saint Nicholas, not just an annual easing of the con- science, by giving away something we can do without. Pigs Are Inspiring We are told that we owe a lot of our daily conversation to the humble pig. Aside from the entire language of Pig Latin, many of our more color- ful expressions used today have pigs as their source of inspiration. For instance a common expression "eating high off the hog" traces back to many years ago when salt pork was the standard fare for many peo- ple. If .a person switched from salt pork to loin roasts or pork chops, he was considered to be living very well indeed. Loin section roasts and pork chops come from the upper section of the animal, and hence he was eat- ing "high off the hog". "Bringing home the bacon" is an- other old saying which probably was first used in connection with the greased pig contest at many Iocal fairs and exhibitions around the country -side. It used to be the cus- tom that whoever caught the greased pig—kept him! In this, the winner, literally speaking, "brought home the bacon". How about "going the whole hog?" Many years ago a 10 cent piece was commonly called a "hog". Anybody who was willing to squander an en- tire dime on some special luxury really went the "whole hog". Even today, actors are often de- scribed as `hams', and this is thought to have originated in the days when actors used ham fat for removing their make-up after a performance. Pig talk is not just a lot of "hog wash" either! If you are a poor driver, you are a "road hog". If you are subborn you're "pig headed". If you're read this, you should be "hog wild" by now. (Grenfell (Sask.) Sun). Zurich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher J E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $.00 in United States and and Foreign; single Copies 7 cents. From My Window Those of us who live in small towns are often intrigued by the stories we hear about the evil doings and earthly happenings in cities like New York, Mont- real, London, England or Hong Kong, In fact, some of us who call a progressive euchre party at the Town Hall a real bash are inclined to question wheth- er we are somewhat ignorant about life as it is lived by a few. Maybe that's the reason that soap operas — those afternoon programs for the housewife — !ha've such a keen following of listeners. Script writers for these real life episodes pack a whale of a lot of varying ex- periences into 15 minutes and for a brief time .the lady of the dishpan is transported to another town, another season, another world. There, no dishes wait in the sink, no beds must be stripped and remade, no meals have to be prepared, the baby seldom cries. Heroines of these stories, though homemakers and moth- ers, are rarely seen doing the tedious chores we must daily perform. They have coffee with the gal across the street, eat lunch with a foreign agent or go dancing with a dashing, brilliant husband. Always they are properly dressed, freshly made-up and manicured, gener- ally lovely. Is this what life in a big town is really like, I wonder? All the men have important jobs at sufficient salaries. They never have to take an evening off to collect for the Cancer Society, help out at the rink or fix a leaky faucet at spinster aunt Helen's house. Instead, they are at home either roman- cing their lucky ladies or ca- vorting at a swanky party where the action is fast and danger- ous. And the kids. They are the most remarkable. They are quiet and intelligent. They never are caught with one foot in the refrigerator door, an- other foot sharply kicking sis- ter and both hands turning volume buttons an the record player. They don't have prob- lems at school or on the bus. By Shirley Keller These things are too trivial, Soap opera kids find dead bod- ies, overhear secret plans and reunite lagging marriages. Surely big city kids aren't that much more wise and won- derful. Or are they? A day which began last Mon- day can still be next Thursday and a week can pass in the time it takes for a eoanmercial. 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