The Huron Expositor, 1978-07-13, Page 3Amen
by Karl Schuessler
In love with strawberries
Each summer I fall in love with strawberries
all -over
Now, some young men may think summer is
all about beaches and bikinis. When all the
beautiful young things come down to the
waters to play and then rest themselves on the
sand.
And there the men in dark summer glasses
sit--watching and gawking behind their
shades. Mostly wishing. Hardly touching and
never sampling.
- Strawberries aren't like that at all. They
grow plump and full right outside my door.
They 'deck themselves out 'in the flashiest of
red and accent their dress in hints of yellow,
with their seeds, 'And on top they cap
themselves in green. They splash on their own
. alluring scent. You' can smell it yards away.
And then -they hang themselves put on their
stem-drooping,...swaying and waiting for the
picking.
Oh, those strawberries act a little coy at
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first--flirting under a coat of leaves and a little
straw. But they don't wear red for nothing.
They show enough to catch "'any eye.
I have it on the best anthority their name
doesn't come from the straw they're napping
on. lecomes -from the fact they're strewn out
under their leafy cover. And so these strewn
berries became strawn berries. For short,
strawberries.
But by any name, strewn or straw, these
berries are summer's tempters.
I'm most corruptible:
Man, can I eat strawberries.
My family tells me•I'm the best strawberry
picket around--from the bowl, that is.
The truth is you don't find me in the patch.
I'll settle for the catch. I figure our daughter
has to earn her allowance somehow. And
strawberry picking is as good a thing as any to
.keep .her fingers out of idle workshops during
summer holidays. , -
• The women in'our house.let me indulge in
my folly. They don't scorn to mind when I put
my hand in their -baskets and grab' a few
berries--an appetizer before they appear in
bowls at the. table.
.They 'don't say a word as I pour on the milk
oradd some extra ice cream. They only smile
when I smother the berries in 'dollops of
whipped cream.. , • • , They watch as 1 life my spoon and rave at
the lovelies s'v:Iimming in white ereatil baths.
They don't say a warets 1 place the summer's
finest intemv mouth. They let me fall in love
with each spOoeful .,1 devour. - • •
• .For they know this summer madness
pass. It's only a three wOck love affair, Then
it's over. The berries are gone. They
knows -and I know-sonic of ins best things in
life can't go on forever.
The women are-'crazy -enough to try to
capture this,"best of the se:Non. They quarter
,the berries. Sugar them, Frt-eze them, And
stick them away--ready to be. ing them out' (in
some cold winter's day ne‘t scar,
But I knew better. Strawberry magic is •
summer. Now is the time.") oday is Lhe clay for
strawberries. I know you ean't store this
summer's passion in a deep freeze.
But let the women try. Elf listen to them
complain about how frozen straw berries
aren't like the fresh one's. They're mushy.
,Soggy. No texture.
I know this winter I'll be eating those
frozen berries, But it's not the same. I don't .
know what went wrong. hut.. the feeling's
gone, .an,d it's just'not like the stintmer berry
But that's okay. I know summer's coming
around again. I can wait. And then I'll fall in
love all over again with' strawberries. .
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You. are -,w-hat :you eat
and let the bodies of bystanders fall where
they may.
Behind the politicians, but not far, are the
civil servants. Empire builders, defenders of
the status quo. Everything in quadruplicate.
Evefything ,secret. The public is the enemy.
Always go through channels. Keep your nose
clean. Don't get a. hiaelc..Mark on your record.
Dull, dull.
Ah, ha! The farmers have been Sitting back -
enjoying this. They're every bit as bad aS the
• rest. It's the government's fault. It's the chain
stores' greed. It's the fickle public. It's the
weather: too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet; or,
if the weather is perfect and the crops are.
superb," it's taking too much out of the land.
• Business men • are just • as culpable.- of
• devastatink"dullaess in their conversation.
Too many ,forms 'to fill out. Lazy elerkS:
Second-rate workmen: Those dam' shopping •
plazas on the edge of town.
Manufacturers are in the same boat'. Wages
are too high. Can't get parts, what's the
matter with those people? Too much
absenteeism on Monday morning. , Profit
down.03 • per gent last year. Can't compete
, with those lousy foreigners who work for
peanuts. Too much government interference.
Dentists ditto,`They-arelustas-dull as lire
others, but they commit the crime of asking a
particularly dull question when your mouth is
so full of junk thatallyourr cant:lois grunt,_anti_ '
then think you are interested and agreeing
, with-their platitudes, when what you'. are
trying to say is, "Shut up, turkey."
As ion, know, I always save the best to the
last. When it comes to dullness supremo, in
- conversation, I have to hand it to the teachers.
They go on and on and on abotft some kid who
---just -won't—do his . hemework, ,or • sortie
meaningless memo from the office, or .some
student who decided to spend a nice June day
in God's great out-of-doors instead of in a dull
classroom with a dull teacher.
Maybe I've been harsh in this somewhat
blanket condemnation. Certainly none. of my
friends are' dull conversationalists, Maybe
that's why I have so few friends.
Or perhaps my remarks are based on pure
envy. I haven't.got a condominium in Florida.
lhavea't even a row-boat, let alone a cruiser. I
haven't a two-car garage, though I have two
cars, eighteen "years old between them.
That's. it. Jealousy. I don't have a
swimming pool or a little place—just forty
acres, mind you—in the country. My wife is as
near'to nuts as-can b e. One kid is a missionary
in' Paraguay, the other can't get a- job.
That's why I can't stand around with the
doctors and lawyers, etc., and commiserate—
with them on the fact that the price of steak is
going absolutely out of reach of the ordinary
professional man Making only forty-five thou a
year.
WE'RE HAVING FUN—These three, who gave their names as Matthew, Tina and.
Michael had fdn playing in,the sand and in the:back of this pick up while their
parents and older kids talked over the bike rally Saturday at the Winthrop- park.
(Expositor Photo)
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MS. Davis' eairly 'demise,
probably disillusioned many of
her followers, but it didn't scare
me: )1ltill-try to eat unprocessed,
healthy food, but I did feel
confident enough to reject •those
ideas 9f Ms. Davis that don't
taste good.
Like her ban on barbecue foods
for example. She says they're
carcinogenic. For convenience
and because I like to be outside-
when I get hcane from work, we
eat little else in the summer time. .
Then there's the sensible
sounding t bad tasting Davis
suggestion at you add vinegar,
to stews and
of roasts because it
extracts, vitamins and nutrients
from the bones. Maybe, but stew
Rev.Roberts has services
Goderich at the home of .his sister
Mrs. Beth Plunkett.
Mr. Art Nicholson and Mr. M.
Yeiing enjoyed an outing on
Sunday with Mr. and.Mrs. Harold
NIcholsoa.
Visiting Mrs.• Mary CArter
were her gianddaughter Mrs.
Elaine Shropshall and Mr. jack
Carter,
Mrs. Hilda Rader and Mrs.
Freda Keller of Dashwood visited
Mrs. Adele Fisher.
Mi4s•Lillie Duhdas visited with
Miss Ethel McClure and Miss
Bessie Dvidson.
Mr. William Scott enjoyed an
outing on Sunday with Mrs.
Isobel Scott,
Miss Kate Laverty spent
Sunday afternoon with Miss Rita
Duncan.
Visiting with •Isobel Lamble
We're boring
Canadians, on the whole, -are probably the
nest boring 'conversationalists in the entire
world. I don t say that idly, merely to put,
backs up. I say it from agonizing personal
experience.
It's not because we are a dull people,
though we are.'
It's not because we're stupid, because we
aren't,,It seems.to be based rather on a sort of
philistinism that labels interesting conver-
sation as a "cissy" pastime, fit only for
dilettantes, idealists, Englishmen of a certain,
background, educated, Europeans and other
such intellectual trash.
Next time you're at a dinner party or any --
similar gathering, lend an ear. The dialogue,
will depress you deeply.
Perhaps the real fault lies in the fact that we.
are basically a nation of materialists, and that
we have become tnore.and more so,. with the
withering of the churches and the increasing
affluence of our society.
Our topics or conversation change with the
decades, but remain awesomely inane in their
content.
A few decades ago, Men could talk for hours
about . cars and hockey, while women
chattered incessantly about children' and
Nowadays, the men talk• about real estate
and boats, and women 'go on and on about
..Women's Lilfand 'the trip abroad they have
just taken or are just about to take. • And they
all say the same thing, or ,near enough.
All of them, especially the men, are
absorbed by their vocations, the sadistic,
cruelty of the revenue department, and their
latest acquisition, whether it's a power cruiser
or a swimming pool in the back yard. •
Get a gaggle of editors _together.. and they:
and how much adftrtising
IMage they carried last year.' Seldom a word
-about a powerful, editorial campaign they are
going to launch to halt an, evil or promote a
good.
Dig up a deliveration of doctors, put a glass
, in each hand and listen to the drivel about the
iniquities of medicare,' the ingratitude of
patients, the penal taxes they pay, and the
condominium they just bought down south.
Not a BeSt nor a Bathing in the bunch.,
Lawyers arc just as bad. They may be a bit
more sophisticated than the doctors, but ,
they're just as dull. Dropping hints of inside
dope on politics. Obsessed by the possibility
of getting a judgeship or at the very least, a
Q.C. Criers of the blues about the taxes they
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A'party of politicians iscven worse. Jostling
for attention, back-slapping everything that is
warm anc , breathing, needling the enemy; •
seeing everything in black and. white.
"They're black: we're white." Joe Clark likes
westerns on TV. It figures. The big shoot-out,
Winthrop has
Sunday visitors
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Correspondent
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Personals
Visitors with Ben and Elsie'
Wilson on• Sunday were their son
Garry and friend Karen Hadish of
•Toronto. 'Harold and Mona
Wilson, Huron Haven Park,
Goderich visited with Ben and
Elsie Wilson. -
Monday visitors with Ben and
Rev. Roberts of Egmondville
U.C. conducted services at
Seaforth Manor last Wednesday
and Miss Jean Murray of ourStaff
accompanied at the piano for the
hymns. Thirty-four 'residents
were in attendance. Also' on
,Fricia. morning at 10 a.m. Father
• Laragh , visited and held
communion. Bingo was enjoyed
on Friday afternoon and winners
were: Full House, Doris Wills.
Gertie Hall. Harold Walsh and
_Edith Salo; Straight Line, Doris
Wills, „Mary. Neville, Alvin
McNain and Charles Ross; Four
Corners. Miss Kate Laverty.
Barry Schwartz, Mary Neville
and Mrs. Lillie Hudie.
Happy Birthday on Tuesday to
Mr, Charles Ross who celebrated
his bisthday. Also on Sunday Mr.
Ross attended a family picnic at
were two of her ,friends • from
London.
Mr. and •Mr-5• Pave Watson of
Walfbn visited with Miss Bessie
Davidson: Mr: Frank .Crich and
, Mr. Jas. Shortreed on Tuesday.
Visiting Mr. Wilber Keyes
were Alec and Sadie Whitfield of
London. Lillian Mercer.' London,
Mr. Robert Elliot of avistock and
Carolyn Keyes of. Brampton.
Mrs. (3. Anderson and Lois
Schmore of -London visited with
Mrs. Marguerite Shill.
Visitors with Mr. Art Nicholson
were granddaughters Louise and
Cathy Nicholson. Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Nicholson of Preston and his
great grandson Andrew Hobson
of Hespeler: also Mr. Wm. Boyes
of Campbell River, B.C.
Mrs. Stanley. Hillen and Mrs.
Peter Dunlop visited their aunt
Miss Bessie Da', idson.
We're more sensible, and likely
healthier, thanks to dedicated
people like Adella Davis, but here
my goocr,friends, is a little run
down on what we're missing;
Amongst 60 odd pages of
recipes for soda fountain delights
'is this: "Brooklyn Bridge--On an
oblong dish place two sco of
chocolate ice cream, one a eh
aid, Over each cone of ice cream
scatter a few chopped pecans and
top with whiPped :cream. Fill the
space between the ice cream with
mint syrup; connect the two cones
of ice cream with half a slice of
orange. Charge 15 cents."
When's the last time you had
one?
• Then there's the bridal path-
which contains bananas, cherries,
walnuts, vanilla peach and
banana ice cream and cameo
wafers."With each sundae give a
spray of lily of the valley
(articifia1). Sells for 20 or 25
cents. •
In the book's, lunch , counter
section there are some thrilling
news stories
Expositor.
lt4 hot at times upstairs in the
,Seaforth arena and ventilatior
'isn't all that great. Naturally
people are inclined to open the
windows.
But when windows near the bar
were opened on a recent eyeing,
bartenders "were getting bugs in
the drinks" councillor Bill
Bennett reported at council
A storm water manhole behind
SDHS appears to have no bottom
to it and will likely have to have
one put in, councillor Jim Sills of
the public works sommittee told
council Monday-night. •
"That many be costly" and his
committee may have to use
money that was going to go
towards additional new side-
July 9 saw the fourth Summer
Concert in Victoria Park given by
the' Kiwanis Youth Concert Band
of Stratford.
Under the joint direction 'of
Messrs,. D. Manning and J. Irvine
a delightful program of standard
dassiCal music supplemented by
groups of familiar hymns were
played to a 'rather small audience
Egrnon
Correspondent
Carole Geddes
Bedford and Lois Dungey arc
on their holidays. They visited
with Carole and Charley Geddes
over the weekend, Ken and Clara
Swan were with them. We were
at
' Mr. Harold 1-Tudie and Mrs.
Town wants o
information
Seaforth will ask county clerk
Bill Hanly to clarify the county
wide pric system that was
apparently 'okayed at county
council last week.
While Seaforth approved
county wide residency in principle
at a recent council meeting, the
. town hasn't committee itself td
anything. • •
Several council members said
the system had been,"rathrodded
through'' ' at county council.
Coon cillor Wayne Ellis objected
, that Seaforth has never received
the information, the number of
local applicants for example, that
the 1-luron Housihg Authority said
the town could get.
Monday night. ,
"Did they charge extra for
that?", quipped councillor
Wayne Ellis. '
Council agreed to have screens.
purchased for the windows din
question. "To stop the bugs from,
getting free drinks" said reeve
John Flannery.
walks.'
Clerk Jim rocker will check
into liability on the Tart of the
contractors o originally
installed it and supervising
engineers, _ _
Meanwhile a snow fence has
been put around the-whole area,
'councillor Sills said, beeause the
hole is "as deep as.this .ceiling."
of local citizens.
The C of committee would
like to sec the people of the area
attend and enjoy the varied
programs.
-Next concert Jury 16 will be
given by the Mitchell Legion
Brass Band conducted by Clare
French.
dville
all up at the trailer and the
weather was great.
Charley and Carole had.to•go.,to-7
Sarnia on Monday on business -
,and stopped in to see Mr. and
Mrg. Jim Cameron and Pam
,Geddes,
Marjorie Rock and Janette visited
with Mrs. Lillie Hudie.
• Rev: Mr. Bert McSpadden of
Richmond Hill visited with Mrs.
'Minnie Hawley.
Welcome to Mr. James Nolan
who is now a resident of Seaforth
Manor.
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You're
invited
A neighbourhood carnival..
against Dystrophy, Saturday July
15 at the home of David Kunder,
120 John Street, Seaforth. 1 p.m.
The carnival will feature a penny
sale with prizes donated by local
merchants, games and refresh-
ments.
Elsie Wilson were Mrs. Margaret
Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Dennis of Campbellville. Sunday
viistors were Mr, and Mrs. John
Townson and daughter Margaret.
Debbie Nutley, ' spent • the
weekend with her cousins, Lisa,
Steven and Leanna and LoriJo,
Cromarty.
. Francis and Carol Hunt and
girls attended the Reid Reunion
on Sunday at Seaforth Lions Park.
Correction
The Frank Ven Heuvens, inter-
viewed in -The Huron Expositor ,
last week, have 145 cows milking
on their 120 acre dairy farm in
New Zealand, rather than the 45
cows mentioned in the article.
The Expositor apologizes for this
error.
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You are what you eat,
American nutritionist Adelle
Davis used' to say. And she
pushed her philosophy- a
number of books and countless -
recipes that advocated whole
brains, fresh fruit and vegetables
and minimal cooking for
maximum vitamins.
Ms. Davis claimed, and much
of what she said made sense to
me, that by eating sensibly, nne
could not only avoid illness and
disease but prolong life.
Her theories received a slight
setback though when Addle
Davis died at a fairly young age,
and of a disease that she felt
. could be eliminated or at least
reduced. by proper nutrition.
with vinegar didu't,theel with the
apprpval of anyone who ate it at
our place.
Like an over-active conscience,,
the ghost-of' Adelle Davis sat on
my shoulder as I -read through one
of the most thrilling bookg that •
I've ever -owned. -
• It's ' called The Dipenser's
Formulary or Soda Water Guide
and it was a gift from my friend
Johnny Crich when he , was
dosing dov't his bakery and .
restaurant.
The delights it describe
probably have been• unavailable
practically everywhere since the
book was published 'in '1915. We
just don't 'eat like that any more.
anywhere.
A number of 'family reunions and other
will appear in next weRlec
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recipes for sandwiches like snow-
flake, tutti fruitti and gooseberry
goose'.. Souffles, pastry, spies,
custards are also -covered and
'there's a whole page of ways to
make coffee.
I could go on and on, the book
does, but it's oo close fo'luneh
time. I won't 1 an the soda water
guide out (hah, I keep ii with my
cookbooks for especially
rapturous reading) but I'll . let
anyone take a look' at it in my
olfic, while I stand guard.
The sighs that go up from me
as 1 leaf through this relic of
bygone . days' are something to '
behold, But if Adelle Davis, was
right and you are what you cat -it's
just as well ...„ that the soda •
fountain's heyday is bygone.
Because I'd be 'a constant
customer and soon grow too
blimpy •to fit into my closet sized '
office.
I'll return to the soda water
guide. ICS got words of wisdom
on a multitude of subjects.
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Manhole work may
be expenshie,
council hears
Crowd poor at
Sunday's concert
Manor