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Zurich Citizens News, 1971-09-23, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1971 The a of the ugly girl! They tell us this has been the Age of Aquarius. But it's really been the Age of the Ugly Girl. Of course there are a lot of lovely ones --they stand out almost incandescently, so fresh, so natural, their hair shining, their faces clean and unmade -up. Yet they too are a trifle over -exposed and in their extreme minis and long hair, resembling nothing so much as a bevy of lovely mermaids. Nonetheless, these attractive ones only serve to emphasize the generally, unkempt, unpressed, almost unwashed look of the majority of girls who stroll our streets. For them, mini skirts and "hot pants" only serve to emphasize their legs, lean, knock- kneed and scrawny, or ugly fat. As girls, they seem deliberately to choose the styles that emphasize the bad points. Where this passion for ugliness will end, no one knows. Are these supposedly "hip" youngsters governed by the same herd instinct which causes women to conform to fashions which flatter no one. Fashions for women for the past three years have resembl- ed something out of a horror movie. Are the current styles just a snide joke of the fashion creators, a put-on, like the one in the Tale of the Emperor's Clothes, which proved that most people will agree on almost anything in order not to differ from majority opinion? Only a child had the good sense to say... "but the emperor has nothing on." (Unchurched Editorial) TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN i "Handsome and lively" Ross is 16 months old, a sturdy, well-developed, healthy boy with big -blue eyes, very blonde hair, and clear, fair skin. A lively youngster, he likes rough games — especially wrestling with a two-year-old. He enjoys books and televi- sion, and though he is a very active child he does like to be cuddled. As a younger baby, Ross had his moments of being irrit- able and difficult, but he is getting over that and is usually sociable and happy. He is developing normally now., but there is a chance he may have learning problems when- he reaches school. This dear little fellow needs loving parents who are easy- going but able to be firm when necessary, and whose academic expectations are not Loo high. To inquire about adopting Ross, please write to Today's Child, Department of Social and Family Services, Parliament Buildings, To- ronto 182. For general adoption information, ask your Children's Aid Society. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 X10 N Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association a Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ''":"9E -e0 Subscription Rates: $4..90 per year ist advance inm (Cuamrand $5.00 in 'lUnited States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents Teaching in our school this fall has been a combination of walking the plank and running the gauntlet, When school opened, about fifteen hundred kids and eighty teachers walked into something that looked as though the Irish Republican Army has been using it for a couple of years as a testing ground for bombs. A new addition, about the third since I came here, was in its glorious death throes. That means it might be finished in six months. It was begun a year ago. It wasn't so bad during last winter and spring, because most of the construction was outside: brick piling and steel work. In fact, it was quite lively, especially in the spring, with the Italian workers ogling the girls through the windows and being egled back, and drinking beer on the job, and yelling and laughing. But during the summer, the termites, the inside workers, got into the mausoleum and the result, for a while at least, is complete chaos. The termites are the electric- ians, plumbers, floor and ceil- ing men and others of that ilk. If you aren't tripping over an electric cable or walking through some fresh -poured cement, you're liable to be showered with sparks by a welder working overhead. The library isn't ready, there is no cafeteria, and the gyne is not finished. These are pretty important areas in a school that size. Did you ever try to teach poetry with a jackhammer blasting a few feet away? It's like trying to have an elegant garden party in the middle of a monsoon. Did you ever try to teach anything in a room that has one naked light bulb at the back and is 'so full of somebody else's junk (equipment), that you couldn't see your students even if you had lights? Just to compound the confus- ion, the numbers of all the rooms have been changed. Thus, my old room, 269, is now E202 or 204, I'm still not sure which. Time was, when a little Children • Portraits • Weddings • COLOR or BLACK & WHITE, GODERICH 118 St. David St. $244787 grade-niner would ask, "Sir can you tell the where Mr. Jacklin's room is." I would answer with sublime confidence, "Sure. Just along the hall to the boiler room, turn right, and it's about three doors down on your left." Now, I haven't a clue where Mr. Jacklin's room is. I think he's moved some- where, and the place is so big I couldn't tell the kid how to get there if I did know. It took me half an hour to find the new staff "lounge", which turned out to be a square, bleak, underground hole with no windows and a couple of light bulbs hanging from the ceiling. In the proposed cafetorium (a bastard word if there ever was one), the windows were sealed off because it would be air-conditioned. Then it was learned that it wouldn't be air- conditioned. Can you imagine what it will be like in there with the smells of cooking and five hundred bodies, on a hot day. It seems to me that school architects are in a class by themselves, like carpenters who would never tackle any- thing bigger than an out -door privy. Perhaps I wrong them. Perhaps they are hampered by rigid budgets. But I can't imag- ine any firm that specializes in designing schools being asked to build something that comb- ined aesthetics and utility. However, there's always a bright side of things. The public address system is not working. The bells are not working. These are two boons, and I hope they never get them work- ing. None of the teachers has gone stir-crazy yet, despite the architect's fetish for windowless rooms. In fact, there's a cert- ain gaiety and esprit de corps among the staff, the sort of thing that always emerges in a great disaster, like a bombing blitz or a paralyzing blizzard. And the kids love it. Kids love confusion, especially in their teens, when they begin to resent bitterly regulations, rules and rigidity. They can wander through the ruins, pretend they got lost, chat with the workmen, and be late for class. That's living. 0 Special hints for fall gardens September is a good time to plant and divide perennials, say horticulturists with the Ont- ario Department of Agriculture and Food. When transplanting, keep the new growth and discard the darker center portions of the roots. Spray roses regularly for black spot and mildew. Pinch off any badly infected leaves. Also check lilacs and phlox for mild- ew attack. Pay special attention to your lawn now. Fertilizer will en- courage a thick growth before winter. A herbicide should be applied for weed control. Use 2, 4- D for broad-leaved weeds and mecoprop for chickweed. Se* the lawn mower blade a liule lower as the grass grows rapidly now. If your area is subject to early frosts, take cuttings of geranium and other plants soon. Dig up dahlia roots and tuberous begonias after the first killing frost. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff . OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527-1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Issac Street 482.7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9.12 A,M, — 1:30.6 P.M. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235.2433 Exeter Robert F. Westlake Insurance "Specializing in General Insurance" Phone 236-4391 — Zurich Guaranteed Trust Certificates 1 Year 6% 2 Years 6z% 3 & 4 Years 7% 5 Years 8% J. W. 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