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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1973-06-14, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS News o Kippers East Wornen's Instit- ute will meet in the Legion Hall June 20 at 8.30 pm. The roll call will be "Something I bought that my grandmother made at home." Each member will bring a grandmother and also a wrapped old liat, There will be an apron parade and sale, Mrs. R. Kinsman will be hostess and Mrs. R. Bell lunch convenor, UNITED CHURCH WOMEN The Lt, C. W. of St. Andrew's Church, Kippen met on Tues- day June 5, at Mrs. Emerson Kyle's home with 21 present. The devotional was given by Mrs. John Anderson, her theme was "Faith, Hope, and Love." Hymn 399 was sung followed by Scripture reading from Rom- ans. verses 1-8, Hymn 252 was sung and Mrs. Anderson closed with prayer. The study was taken by Mrs. William Kippen Consitt who gave the pertinent facts of India's Government, Geography, Religion and Ind- ustry. The material used to portray her topic was paters cotupiled by the Explorers. Mrs. Cousin completed her topic with a crossword puzzle using the facts brought out in her study, Reports were given by Mrs. Bert Faber as Treasurer, Mrs. N. Dickert for the Sun- shine. Mrs, E. Kyle for visitat- • ion, Mrs. Tom Reid, corresp- ondence. Other business relat- ed to the hale sent to the London Rescue Mission, bazaars held by the Explorers and Queensway Nursing Home. Plans were fin- alized for the supper June 13 as well as for the Sunday School Picnic June 24 in Exeter Park. Mrs. Bert Faber demonstrated the making of buttermilk scones. ODAYS CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN Dick is an appealing youngster with dark blonde hair, brown eyes and fair skin. When he first came into the care of the Children's aid Society he was diagnosed as microcephalic, which means his brain is smaller than normal. 1le is in excellent health and has good co-ordination. In Grade One, Dick thoroughly enjoys school and sets out eagerly every day. Ile will likely continue his education in op- portunity classes. Dick is shy with adults but talkative and helpful when he knows people. Ile is eager to win approval. Dick has good relations with children. Ile is not submissive but neither is he a leader. Dick plays minor hockey enthusiastically and likes wrestling with his foster brother. Ile bei ngs to the "Y" where he joins whole-heartedly in all the activities. Ile needs parents who are easy and open in expressing af- fection and who are more concerned with a pleasant personality than with scholarship. It is hoped these parents will want Dick to maintain contact with a nine-year-old brother, To inquire about adopting Dick, please write to Today's Child. Box 888, Station K. Toronto M4I' 2112. For general adoption information, please contact your local Children's Aid Society. HE LIKES SPORTS z RICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Noll Ate. Member: Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association , Irw11I Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association "r,,ttis Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States ant. Foreign; single copies 15¢ THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1973 ITS TIME TO PAY A TRIBUTE TO ART 1 have three brothers-in-law, One is a railroader, one is a lawyer, and the third is pretty ill right now. I've always felt lucky about them. Each of the three is a fine fellow, and we've got al- ong with never an unpleasant word or experience between us. That's more than lots of brothers-in-law can say, Left alone, they'd probably be fine, but when the women involved start getting their knives into each other, often a coldness develops among the poor devils of husbands. Aly railroader brother-in-law went to high school with me, and we played football together on a couple of hest teams that ever came out of Perth Colleg- iate Instutute and Lanark County Ivly lawyer brother- in- law worked with me on a chain gang one summer, when we were students, and it was the best dodge -work chain gang that ever worked for the Kodak comp any. We left no stone unturned in our constant vigilance to appear to be working when the foreman came around. Both these chaps are around my own age, a bit tatered around the edges from raising families, and paying off mort- gages, but otherwise in good shape. My third brother-in-law is a bit longer in the tooth, and I always looked on him as some- where between a second father and second big brother. Not that he acted 'either part. Ile treated me exactly as most boys would like Their fathers to treat them. And he never, ever acted the bullying, know- it-all role of the big brother. He treated me as a human being. 1 -Ie never implied that 1 was a kid and he was an adult. When he was twice my age, he talked as though we were equals. Ile knew I was pretty callow when I was sixteen, but he never let on. We were two men of the world together, and I've apprec- iated it ever since. lle'd take me fishing when I was a kid. There was no nonsense about him being in charge. We were just a couple of fishermen. One fishing jaunt I still rem- ember with particular pleasure. We were out in the middle of the lake when a summer storm caught us. No, or few, motors in those days. You rowed. We were as wet as though we'd jump• ed overboard. We got to shore, with the rain still pounding down. We found a cottage unoccupied and managed to get in. We put up the stove- pipes, got a fire going and for- aged. There was a half can of tea leaves. So there we sat by a roaring fire, drinking hot tea and feeling like Ulysses just home from the Trojan war. It was not a miserable exper- ience or a disaster. It was a joke, an adventure. Art sat there, smoking his pipe and re- galing me with earthy stories, and I sat there, happy as a clam, feeling a real man, able to cope with anything. He'd take me off to the cot- tage, when he was courting my sister, and I was about fifteen. What a nuisance I must have been, but you'd never know it, from Trim. When I was courting, I drag- ged hone the critter who is now my old battleaxe, and her kid sister, who had tailed along. He drove the three of us to the same cottage, and he and my big sister accepted us and fed us without a question or a hint or a raised eyebrow. When the war carne along, he was of an age at which there was no need for him to join up, no question of being drafted. Ile joined the air force and spent four years of unheroic, uncornpl- •aining service about two thous- and miles from his family. He could have stayed home and made money as most of his contemporaries did. Ile never said much, at times of family.crises, though he was dragged into our large family. But he was always there, always steady, always the peacemaker. Ire hated rows, and scab -pick- ing, and soul-searching, and when people got into that stuff, he'd change the subject or quietly leave. Like my own father, he very rarely got angry, but when he did, attention was paid. Ile believed in the old adage, as did my mother, that, "If you can't say anything good about a person, do -'t say any- thing." And I never heard any- one say a bad word about hire. He's a good Christian, a good Catholic, but a down-to-earth one, not one of those pious bores He was no world-beater, and he didn't want to be, He was no intellectual, but he had a wit as Irish as his good looks. Ile was always a kind, and, at the risk of seeming maudlin, I would say a sweet man. I hope Ire reads this and knows Trow much his young brother-in- law thought of him when he was an impressionable kid, and ever since. 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