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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1967
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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).
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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.
Grandfathers always give the
right advice, injuries are never
serious enough to kill, police-
men can piece together even
the inost evasive clues, women
can eat out every night and
never gain weight, and men
can booze through an entire
evening and never get sloshed,
Is that life as it really should
be Iived? Or just the over-
activity of some Pollyanna mind
purely for entertainment? I
wonder!
a
Police Report
(Intended for last week)
An Exeter girl, Pauline Wells,
17, was slightly injured when
the ear in which she was riding
was involved in an accident.
Driver Stephen Johns, 17, Wood-
ham, and Paul E. Hodgins, 21,
Parkhill, operator of the sec-
ond car, were not injured.
Damages were estimated at
$1,100.
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