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BRUSSELS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1975 ONTAII 10
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
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wise person. The unusually clever person does not
always show wisdom in his cleverness. You can have
a high I.Q. and still not be wise.Wisdom, real
wisdom, can come to persons of quite ordinary
intelligence. Wisdom is not so much a matter 'of
intelligence as of what is done with intelligence.
Teachableness is as significant as intelligence in
the attaining of wisdom. And that is not simply a
capacity to take formal instruction and pass
examinations - - although such things can be
significant.
A. N. Whitehead, one of the most influential
philosophers of our time, said this: "A merely
well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's
earth." He added, "Now wisdom is the way in which
knowledge is held. It concerns the handling of
knowledge, its selection for the determinition of
relevant issues, its employment to add value to our
immediate experience."
In any education that is to count there is an
inescapable•element of sheer dogged grinding. If
you wish to advance from milk to meat you must be
prepared to chew gristle. And you mustn't expect to
be spoon-fed: as the novelist, E. M. Forster, put it,
"Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing
but the shape of the spoon."
What we do with our educational opportunities has
much to do with the degree of wisdom to which we
attain. Stephen Leacock once said, "An education,
when it is all written out on foolscap, covers nearly
ten sheets." Leacock -lade an important point there:
much of the real val of your education is to be
found in what remain= .? ter you have forgotten much
of what y ou deliberai:eiy set out to learn. And in that
can be an essential source of wisdom.
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"Take two aspirins, remove the headband and
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Amen
By Karl Schuessler
I think we ought to get a few things straight,
Pepper.
I'll have to be blunt about it. That's the only
way when it comes to a cat. I should know.
How many years have we been living together
now, Pepper? Four?
Yes. That's it. Four years.. And there's no
way being subtle. So here goes. Straight.
Pepper, your manners need minding. And
not only minding, but mending.
And what better place to start than right at
the door.
Yes. The door.
Now a door, Pepper, is an opening you go
through. Did you hear that? You go through a
door. Not up a door.
I never put two outside doors in our house,
so you could climb them. Walls, okay. All of
us -- on those rare desperate occasions--climb
up walls. But never doors, pepper. No,
Pepper. Doors you pass through.
Got it?
I don't care if you're short. And you only
want to take a look inside. See if anyone's up.
Find out what your chances are on coming in.
You might think it's clever trying to get
attention that way. Hanging on the wooden
slats that run across the storm door.
First you jump up on the first rung.Clutch
that for a second. Then leap up to the next
one.Then the next. Until you're at the top of
the door. Looking, just like a monkey. Then
you take a leap back down onto the steps
below.
And then you start all over again. First
rung. Second rung. Third rung. Top. Then
down the steps again. MeowScratch. Scratch.
MeoeowWw.
You make plenty of noise. Especially at 7!00
A.M.
I want no more of that, Pepper. Down ; girl,
down.
And another thing. It's winter, Pepper. You
just don't walk right into the house--dirty wet
feet and all.
You have to wipe your feet. That's the least
you can do. I've got to do mach More. Don't
you see all the clutter it our door? Boots,
RtibberS. Shoes. Shoe bags. Mats. Rugs.Boot
trays Plastid runners.
I have to Pay attention to all the signs I see
on peoples' doors. "Don't walk in With your
boots on!! "Please remove y our boots". And
the other day I walked into 'a bookstore and ,
,right beside the Chargex sign in the door read
another sign: "Take off your boots. W
provide slippers while you shop."
And every time I go to church and step
inside the door, I see a broom standing in the
corner. For a while there I thought th
cleaning lady was getting forgetful.
But no, Pepper, I learned. When I saw
other men and women come into church, they
took the broom. Swept the snow off the'
boots.
I'm doing that now, pepper. I've learned t
say "Good Morning" to the church member
and sweep off my feet--all at the same time
You must learn,Pepper. This is wint
etiquette. Winter church door etiquette. l'
learning. And there's no reason why you can
learn a thing or two.
And since wdre still on the door, one mo
thing. Mind you. I'm not fussy about which
door you use--front or'back. I could make it
tough on you. Demand the back door,
Designed for kids, delivery men and pets.
But no, Pepper, I'm easy. Either one. Take
the best. Reserved for guest. Go ahead,
That's okay.
But just one thing. When we both' stand
the front door ready to go in ; would y
remember?
It's my door. I have the key for it. I have to
fumble around in my pocket to find the key, I
have to locate the keyhole to put it into. I have
to balance the parcels and books in my arms
have to turn the latch and the key just at the
fight time so the door will open.
And all through the struggle, you'Ve inched •
your way forward: Up front. Cozied your way
in at my feet, STationed. Poised ready to leg
the second the crack opens.
Would you mind, Peppet? Would you mi
giving int the courtesy? Mindl you mind
got thy foot in my own door? First?
Would you mind, Pepper?
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