The Brussels Post, 1979-03-07, Page 11STREET CLEANING — A number of trees beside the senior citizen's
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ATTENTION
By the time this appears in print, the
worst of the suffering in Canada will be
over. And I don't \ mean that dreadful
February cold snap which turned us into
our annual winter condition, a nation of
misanthropes.
Burst water pipes, cars so cold you can't
even put them into reverse to back out in
the morning, and temperatures that would
freeze the brains of a brass monkey are bad
enough. But we're used to them. We know
that in another four months, we'll be
gasping in a heat wave and beating off
mpsquitoes.
No, that's not the suffering we did this
's February. It was being smugly satisfied on
a Thursday night, mildly dismayed on a
• Saturday afternoon, and utterly humiliated
on a Sunday night that caused • the
suffering.
Talk about blue Monday. That Monday
in Feb., after them Rooshians had kicked
the living stuffing out of Canada's finest,
was so blue it was almost purple.
I'm not saying that 1, personally, suffer
when Canada's primary export, hockey
players, is no longer marketable. I'm not
saying that. I'm just saying that I bleed a
little, internally, when a bunch of rotten
red, pinko communists make a group of
fine, young, liberal, capitalists look like a
bunch of old-age pensioners whose Geritol
has been cut off. Right after the second
game, I went to the clinic and had a
cardiogram, just in case.
I must say we took it well, as a nation.
For once, there were no alibis. How could
there be, when hundreds of millions of
people saw our collective Canadian noses
being rubbed in it?
Sports writers, their guts churning,
praised the play of the Russians anc
intimated that they knew all along what
would happen. As they always do, after the
event.
The Canadian players showed more
grace. The best of them simply admitted
they were beaten soundly by a superior
team. But they knew in their hearts that
they, and all their highly paid buddies,
were facing not a physical Siberia, but a
Siberia of the soul.
They were the Best in the West, and
• they had not been just beaten but
thoroughly trounced, by the Best in the
East, where hockey is a relatively new
sport.
Not for me to ask, "How did it happen?"
All the experts have agreed that the
Russians skate better and are infinitely
superior in physical condition to the
pampered Canadian pros, who weighed an
average of nine pounds more than their
For a century or so, Canadians have
been hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Fair enough. We had lots of wood and
water, and still have and other people need
them.
But we also had three superior finished
products manufactured at home, that
nobody else in the world could touch, when
it came to quality: maple syrup, rye
whiskey, and hockey players.
Our supremacy in these departments is
virtually ended. Our whiskey has been '
watered more and more, our maple syrup
has been thinned to the consistency of
greasy-spoon gravy, and our hockey'
players, with a few stalwart exceptions, are
more impressed with their hair-dos, their
press clippings, and their financial state-
ments than they are with beating their
opponents.
There is a sadness here. Rye whiskey is
bad for the liver, maple syrup bad for the
teeth, so perhaps their denigration is not a
national disaster. But to have a hockey
team that is second or third or fourth best
in the world? That is unthinkable.
Every red-blooded, middle-aged male in
Canada has hockey in his veins. He
personally knows, or his best friend does,
or he lives in, or lives in the next town to,
or is sixth cousin of, or grew up with, or .
was preceded by only 10 years by, in
school, a genuine hockey player, who made
it to Junior A, or Senior A, or even the
NHL, or one of its farm teams.
Two of the quarterbacks on my high
school football team, Les Douglas and Tony
Licari, made it to the Detroit Red Wings
organization. My brother-in-law, Jack
Buell, played Junior A and Senior A and
became a referee. My grandson, at the age
of two, was given a hockey stick and
demolished his grandmother's hardwood
floors in the living-room, smashing a puck
around the floor with great vigor and a
certain lack of control. (She finally put her
foot down when he insisted on scrim-
maging around the piano while she was
giving lessons. )
To add insult to injury, this idiotic idea of
Iona Campagnola, Minister of Jocks, has
popped up. She wants to give $18.5 million
of my money and yours to four Canadian
cities, so that they can build big arenas to I
accommodate four more losers in an NHL
that is already so watered-down with
mediocre talent that 60 per cent of them
couldn't have made a Senior A team 30
years ago.
What she should do is support an
Order-in-council which proclaims that with
the emergence of Red China, RuSsia is now (1
a second-rate power, not worthy to be
faced-oft against.
Then Allan Eagleson can organize
A house is nothing in
itself. A red brick wall, a
pantry shelf, a place to eat
and a place to sleep, Floors
for a woman's hands to
sweep. But whither or not
that place be fair. Depends
on the people dwelling there.
Brick and wood and mortar it
stands. Awaiting the touch
of a woman's hands, 'f he
sound of a footfall on the
stair, The prattle of children
to make it fair. With never a
face at the window pane. A
cheerles place must a house
remain. For neither builder
nor architect. In the walls '
and roofs which his hands
erect. Can leave one memory
sacred there. Like the sound
of a footfall on the stair.
* * * * * *
If you have a plug that gets
stuck or docked into a re-
ceptacles call an electrician.
Do not cut the cord or try to
pry the plug out of the
receptacle.
You do not need an ex-
pensive spray to get rid of
cigarette smoke or other
unwanted odors. To dispel
cigarette smoke light a
candle. For odors set out a
saucer of vinegar.
Fashion designers are
trying to get ladies out of
jeans, slacks, granny clothes,
etc. The emphasis now is on
a more feminine look, dainty
with a touch of elegance.
For a fast, efficient shine
on your taps use bathroom
tissue.
If you have a pet that
sheds hair try removing it
from your clothes with a
dam p sponge. Hair clings to
the sponge. It does not fly
around as when brushed.
If you plan to use a wood
burning space heater be sure
you know how to use it safely,
You can get an excellent
booklet on. "Heating With
Wood Safely" Published by
Central Mortgage and
Housing Corporation, it is
available free of charge from
any of their regional offices
or by writing to Information
Services, CHMC., Montreal
Road, Ottawa K1A OP7.
Never be a slave to fashion
Chose clothes, hair styles,
'that do something for you,
with which you feel comfort-
able. Do not let overzealous
fashion designers or sales-
persons talk you into some-
thing that does not suit you.
CHOCOLATE ROLL
1 egg
1 cup icing sugar,
1 cup chopped walnuts
'A bag multitolored
minature marshmallow,
3 squares cooking chocolate
1 tabsp butter
Coconut.
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he worst suffering is over
THE BRUSSELS POST, MARCH 7, 1979 11
Household tidbits
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of memories
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f the Century with China ;
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. that.
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