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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1969
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Aprons or diplomas?
Why don't girls just get mar-
ried, the way they used to?
What is this desperate thing in
modern society that insists a
girl must get a degree or be-
come a nurse or learn a skill,
such as punching an adding
machine.
Frightened, frantic parents,
with the shadow of The
Depression peeking over their
shoulders, are ramming their
daughters, willy-nilly, into
something they can "fall back
on.,
The irony. Of course we
want them to get married.
Eventually. To a nice boy with
a nice job and prospects; a nice
home, nice children, a nice
neighbourhood and at the end,
a nice pension.
But first we want them to
have anywhere from 13 to 18
years of "education" so they'll
have something to fall back on.
We are tacitly admitting that
if they do get married, they're
going to be abandoned, di-
vorced, or their husbands are
going to die at 28. So, they
have to have something to fall
back on.
Why don't we just let them
get married and fall back on
their husbands for a living?
My wife has been falling back
on me for almost 23 years and
I'm still in reasonable condi-
tion. Even though my back has
fallen a bit into my front.
I suppose you think this is
just a diatribe. Well, you're
right. But there's a reason for
it.
My wife and I have nursed
and cursed and wheedled and
needled our daughter through
high school. She hated it in
Grade 11, loathed it in Grade
12, and abhorred it in Grade
13.
But by a combination of
blackmail, bribery and piteous
whining, we made her stagger
through the process.
I promised, "If you just get
your Grade 13, you can , do
whatever you want, Go to col-
lege. Get a job. Drop dead. But
you'll never regret it."
Already she's regretting it.
Now she has to go to universi-
ty, which she's about as much
interested in as she is in catch-
ing leprosy.
This whole column is in-
spired (or uninspired) by the
harrowing effort of getting
Kim organized at university.
She thought she might be
able to hack university if she
had a pad of her own; a grill to
burn beans on and burn toast
on, and maybe a sleeping bag
on the floor, and a few psyche-
delic posters and a few cock-
roaches and her cat for com-
pany.
This was all right by me.
I've slept in barns and box
cars. This was freedom from
home and parents and all the
awful things they represent,
such as cleanliness and godli-
ness and so on.
But her mum had different
ideas. And her mum, as I have
reason to know, is a domineer-
ing, forceful, overpowering
and illogical woman, like most
other women.
So Kim is going to stay in a
nice home, with a very nice
middle-aged couple. As far as
she's concerned, it's getting
out of purgatory and into hell.
I've never heard of anybody
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Through the ages, pork has
been the meat most often eaten
on special occasions. In England,
no feast was complete without
its roast suckling pig, while in
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being kicked out of hell, but I
imagine she'll manage it with-
in about three weeks. If you
have a teenage daughter, you'll
know what I mean. They're
absolute slobs until they're
married, when, by some
strange process, they go
around emptying ash trays be-
fore anyone has used them,
But three weeks of dirty
bare feet and a bedroom that
looks like a Salvation Army
old -clothes depot and a bath-
room that looks as if it went
down with the Titanic and
even that charming, calm land-
lady will be screaming, "Out!
Out!"
However, I guess the trip
was worth it. We met a nice
lady in the registrar's office
who reads my column (hello,
nice lady, keep an eye on my
beloved). We had a couple of
roaring fights with subsequent
tears, which is good for every-
body.
And we got home, aftez a
fairly disastrous stopover with
friends, to be greeted by our
other rotten kid, the vacuum
cleaner salesman, who has de-
cided to go back to university
after two years of drop-out,
who has made $3,500 in the
last eight months, who has
"Maybe enough money to pay
my fees," who was just drop-
ping in at the old oil well to
see if it was still pumping.
Somebody said, "Life is
short and life is sweet." Thank
goodness it's short.
Barbers, Charlies
Clash in Finals
The Barber Boys and Charlie's
Auto Sales now meet in the best
of -seven final series, with the
first ganie scheduled for last
night (Wednesday), supposedly
under the lights in Dashwood.
The next game is to be played
at the Zurich Park on Sunday
afternoon, with the Wednesday
night game again under the
lights. A fairly large number
of fans have been taking in the
exciting semi-final action, and
we hope that even more will
enjoy the upcoming finals bet-
ween these two strong teams.
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