The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-04-12, Page 10Auxiliary
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Members of the South Huron
Hospital Auxiliary learned
Tuesday afternoon that they
made approximately $2,000 at
their rummage sale last week,
the biggest profits at any such
sale yet.
These figures include the
results of the auction sale, and
the silent auction, at which over
$80 was realized, Two of the more
interesting items sold during the
silent auction were two antique
ink-wells, one which sold for S15
and the other for $13.50.
The ladies were especially
pleased with the results, since
many expressed the opinion that
they didn't feel the rummage sale
had been very well attended.
They didn't seem overly busy at
any one Elate, but decided that the
extension in the number of hours
of the sale accounted for this.
Already they are planning for MRS. INGER CHRISTENSEN
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Facts 'n Fancies
By Swan
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Meet your neighbor
Says television a treat
doesn't mind at all paying our
prices for meat. "It is much more
expensive in. Denmark," she
said.
In her spare time, Mrs.
Christensen has several hobbies,
including needlepoint, playing
tennis and horseback riding, In
addition, she and her husband
have done quite a bit of
travelling, and lived in Ireland
for about a year and a half,
The Christensens have no
relatives in Canada, and she said
that, naturally, their families
were sorry to see them return to
Canada. "We hope they will come
over to visit, though," said Mrs.
Christensen.
They have some friends in
Montreal, but "you just can't go
there every second weekend,"
she said.
Mrs. Christensen speaks
English very well, both because
of her stay in Brampton, and
because she studied it for six
years in school, She added that
the slang expressions really
confuse her though.
The one thing that Mrs.
Christensen regrets is that she
hasn't met very many people
since coming to Exeter. "The
people in the shops have been
very friendly," she said, "but we
just haven't met many others",
"But maybe when the weather
becomes warmer, we'll meet
more," said the friendly,
outgoing Mrs. Christensen.
She came from. Denmark to
Canada, went back to Denmark,
and has recently moved back to
Canada, hopefully for good this
time.
This week's new .neighbor,
Inger Christensen, and her
husband, Bent moved to Exeter
recently from Denmark, and this
time, they expect to stay, Mr.
Christensen works as a
production manager for JF
Machinery,
They have lived in Canada
before, however. In 1968, they
moved to Brampton for 18
months. They went home again
for two years before returning to
Canada.
Mrs. Christensen is a
labora tory technician by
profession and worked at Peel
Memorial Hospital while in
Brampton. She said she would
maybe try to get a job, but not for
a while. "I'm just too busy get-
ting settled," she said. They are
living in an apartment on San-
ders St,
Although Mr. and Mrs.
Christensen lived in the suburbs
of Copenhagen, the change to a
relatively small community
doesn't bother Mrs. Christensen.
She said, however, that one of the
biggest differences between here
and her native land is the size of
the country, compared to Den-
mark. "We think it is a big trip to
drive to Goderich," said Mrs.
Christensen.
Television is something else
that is new. The Danes have
television. but it is government
controlled, with only one station,
which operates between 7:30 and
11 p.m. each night. "There are no
advertisements," she ex-
plained," and there are more
documentary then entertainment
programs."
"It is very expensive too," said
Mrs. Christensen. They have to
pay every six months for the
privelege of owning a television.
"We watch it a lot here, because
it is new to use."
Otherwise, life in Denmark
isn't so much different than in
Canada, Eating habits, and food
prices are both much the same.
But Mrs. Christensen said she
LOCAL GIRL ON TV — Pine Mitchell host of "Junior Talent Hour" interviews Kim Gaiser of Dashwood at a
recent program toping. Nine-year-old Kim played the piano on the program telecast April 1 on Channel
10. (CFPL-TV photo)
Au advertisement for a current
situation-comedy On television
demonstrates this point very
well.
"Is he ever heavy!" says a
young teenage girl to her father,
when talking about a sister's new
boyfriend.
"You mean tie's fat?" asks her
father.
"No dear'," interjects the girl's
mother. "That means he's
groovy".
"Why didn't you say so?"
answers the thoroughly befud-
dled father, "It took me a whole
year to learn 'groovy' ".
These are just two examples of
a whole vocabulary of words w hi c h see m to originate over
night. are picked up by the whole
populace and then fade out of
existence just as quickly,
This isn't a phenomenon of the
seventies either. Any late, late
C i t1l demonstrate t at ac h
decade, perhaps even each year,
has a distinctive set of slang
words, -That's the cat's meow"
is just one of the many ex-
pressions that used to be popular.
Not too surprisingly, though,
many people can't remember the
little words and phrases that
mere popular when they were
teenagers
My brother is the worst one in
our family for adopting these
expressions. His habit, however,
is not to use a great collection of
trite w ords and phrases at once,
but to pick out one, and beat it
over the head with over-use often
to the point where we would like
to beat him over the head with it.
Nevertheless, my sister came
up with the all time great. She
was doing some cooking a t home
one weekend, when she an..-
flounced that she had to "go to the
feed store for some munchies and
grow hes"
This elicited a look of pure
horror on my mother's face as
she asked what on earth my
sister was talking about. Jane
started to laugh and explained
that this was her room-mate's
expression for going grocery
shopping -It was obvious, wasn't
nets most ever
rummage sale
research clinic of the University
of Waterloo. Guest speaker will
be Dr. Findlay Stewart.
Plans were also made to attend
the Seaford.) Hospital Auxiliary's
40th anniversary bazaar and tea
May 12, and further discussion
was held on the centennial tea
and open house to be held by the
auxiliary July 5 in Exeter.
The auxiliary has 127 paid-up
members.
the fall rummage sale. It is
tentatively set for the first week
in November.
President Mrs. Olga Davis
presided for the business meeting
of the auxiliary. Mrs. Tom
MacMillan arranged for the
showing of two films, one on
cancer called "Decision" and one
called "Sylvan Sketches" on
nature.
It was decided that the tour of
the hospital for grade two
students would be carried out in
May. More than 140 students
from Stephen Central. Us borne
Central. Precious Blood and
Exeter Public Schools will take
the tour.
Some auxiliary members are
planning to attend the spring
conference for the district to be
held April 30 in Waterloo. The
conference will include a lun-
cheon and a tour of the medical
Of the Many things I have been
grateful for in my life, one of the
things I am most grateful for is
the fact that I was born to an
English-speaking family. There.
is nO question of discrimination
here, or no inborn feeling of
Superiority, In fart, it is just the
opposite.
Tho reason for my thenkMlness
In this regard is simply that I
would hate to ever have to learn
the English language as a second
tongue, or any way other than
gradual initiation as a very small.
Child,
I have great admiration for
anyone who does take it upon
himself to study English as a
second or third. language and it is
no small feat to master our ex-
tremely complex system of
words.
Take me, for example. iWell,
dont actually take me. just
observe my example). Here I
am, I hold a university degree
with a major in English, and 1
have a diploma stating that
graduated from a journalism
program, and am presumably
capable of writing in the
English language. But I get
confused about words. and
grammar, and verb tenses all the
time, not to mention spelling.
Dear knows how many gram-
matical errors I have made
already in this column without
realizing it.
One day recently I had a
discussion with an English
teacher who was a little upset
because had changed a verb
tense in something he had sub-
mitted to the paper. He said
shouldn't have changed his "If it
were" to if it was", even though
it sounded more correct. He
Staunchly supported his claim
with air impressive sounding
argument which had something
to do with thesubjunctive tense of
the verb. In the end, I agreed with
him, but I'm still not sure what he
was talking about.
Last week I met a lady w ho
recently moved to Canada from
her native Denmark She had a
head start on the language
because she studied it in school
for six years, and then lived in
Canada for part of 1968 and to
She has a very good grasp of
English, but like most new
Canadians, or those trying to
cope with our unfamiliar
language, she said the slang
expressions are very confusing.
Not much wonder she is
bewildered, when English-
speaking natives can't keep up
with the latest faddish saying
In the long run the pessimist may
he proved right, but the optimist
has a better time on the trip.
The difference between public
relations and publicity?A woman
who wears a subtle perfume is
using public relations, whereas a
woman who wears clothes a size
too small is employing publicity.
Both can be effective.
Sarcasm adds just one more
confusing element to the English
language. It is hard enough
normally to understand what
some people are saying, but when
you run into someone who says
one thing, and means another,
that is even worse.
Then there are antonyms,
synonyms and homonyms.
Antonyms are easy - they are
straight opposites like day and
night, black and white, old and
yoliginnyms are a little more
difficult. They are words that
mean the same, but are spelled
differently. Street, road and
avenue are general synonyms for
the same meaning, as are ter-
minate, complete, and conclude.
But the ones that really mix
you up are homonyms; words
which sound the same but have
have different meanings. "Bear
feat" sounds the same as "bare
feet", but certainly doeSn't mean
the same.
One group of most commonly
confused homonyms are "to"
meaning toward), "two" rthe
number), and "too" meaning
also).
Or what would you do if con-
fronted with this statement:
"The seen was scene by many
people". You wouldn't question it
if you heard it, but seeing it
written down is something else.
You could go on forever talking
about the "Idiot-syncrasies" of
the English language, Suffice to
say that the more I think about it,
the happier I am that English is
my native tongue.
But before I terminate tar
complete, or conclude) this
column, I would like to share with
you the following poem from my
public school days. It seems to
embody all the c onfusi on
inherent in the language we
speak and write. iMy apologies to
the author, whose name I have
long since forgotten.
Once there was an elephant.
Who tried to use the telephant
No no, I mean an elephone,
Who tried to use the telephone
Dear me. I am not certain quite
That even yet I've got it right.
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk,
Entangled in the telephunk.
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee.
I fear I better drop the song.
Of elephop and telephong,
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