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Remembering
Walking country roads in an old fashioned fall
By W. G. Strong
"Season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the
maturing sun;
‘Conspiring with him how to
load and bless
With fruit the vines that round
the thatched-eaves run."
(Keats)
Some folk like city pavements
but others prefer country
ways:—es, rural lanes or fore§t
trails. In ea ely fall there comes an
urging to get out into the country
where back-roads twist and turn
and seem to stretch to that
so-called never-never land of
green fields and wooded hills;
roads that skirt corn fields,
desolate and bare, stubble fields,
bleached and dry, where mullein
stalks, sun-dried and brittle ,
stand se ntinel.
He who will can leave the hard
arteries of asphalt and cement
and seek a winding country road
that meanders through peaceful
valleys and wanders around the
shoulders of low hills. It is
another world when one travels a
dirt country road where grasses
grow between parallel lines of
hard-packed wheel tracks, where
ferns glow green. and gold in the
shafts of sunlight that filter
through overhanging branches
from which droop wild grape
vines and vagrant bittersweet.
Trees line the road and shrubs
and brush push close to the
tracks.
Along this road boys and girls
tramped to school; whole families
drove to town on Saturday
evenings and to church on
Sunday. No more does the sound
of buggy wheels, or the clop-clop
of horse's hooves break the
silence. Here and there are small
farmsteads where cattle graze in
pastures lush and green or stoop
to quench their thirst-knee-deep
in a gurgling brook of clear, cpol
water that mirrors the blue
inverted sky or where a solitary
bovine idly rubs her neck against
the gnarled trunk of an aging
shade tree.
Behind an old frame house,
mellowed by the years where
potted plants in tin cans bloom on
the window sills, patchwork
quilts, sheets and the weekly
wash flap in gentle breezes.
Beside an open ,barn door stands
an empty hayrack. Within one has
visions of swallows swooping and
darting, pigeons nesting on
weathered beams and where on
sunny summer days children
played kneee-deep in fragrant
clover hay.
In a near-by fence corner rests
an abandoned wheel which shows
one or more broken spokes and
creeping rust has st ained its
circli ng band of steel. In very
truth, out under the blue vault of
heaven there is a freshness, a
prior to studies on patients.
Research in lung disease
actually boils down to "why the
patient coughs," "why he has
sputum" and 'why is he short of
breath?"
From the patients point of view
diseases such as asthma, cystic
fibrosii, acute and chronic
respiratory failure, tuberculosis
and other infectious pulmonary
diseases are being investigated
for their benefit.
The Canadian Thoracic Society,
medical arm of the Canadian
Tuberculosis and Respiratory
Disease Association is
responsible for reviewing,
assessing arid determining which
research p rojects are to receive
Christmas Seal Research dollars.
Unhappily, many excellent
projects must be discarded or
urged to seek funds elsewhere
because the, available dollars
never approach, let alone meet,
the demand for funds.
The Canadian Thoracic Society
is endeavouring to encourage and
stimulate research in fields likely
to prove of most benefit in
sense of emancipation from the
cares and responsibilities of daily
living.
Mellow Sweet
"Could this little old road be
enticing me now
Through the Indian Summer
heat
Where the meadows are
sprawling with flowers and
grass
And the orchards are mellow
sweet?"
(Burgess)
These are balmy, lazy, hazy
days. Dawns are moist and cool;
early morns are misty but when
-the sun rises the fog clouds lift.
Soon the sunshine, warm and
bright, breaks overhead but by
mid-afternoon shadows begin to
lengthen as the days grow shorter
and soon dusk will bivouac in the,•
hollows. The coolness • of the
evening air is inviting. Soon light
fades and darkness settles down
as if night dropped her curtain
rather abruptly. One does not
need a weather report to survey
the rime or hoarfrost grass
and the damage done to garden
vines and flowers. As the day.,
progresses gusts of warm air
denude the trees of some of their
foliage.
At this season, nature takes
over the entire countryside' and
paints it ablaze with fall colours, a
veritable pageantry of colour. The
air is full of foliage flakes gaily
understanding the develOpment
of various respiratory diseases in
order to develop prevention and
treatment programs.
The Canadian Christmas Seal
scholarship program is designed
to initiate or continue to train
physicians in lung diseases in
specific centres in North america.
These young doctors are specially
trained in the investigation and
management' of various' lung
problems to ensure there will be
sufficient respiratory specialists
in Canada to adequately serve the
population, in the future. Some
may become involved
eventually in lung research
projects of their own after their
period of training has been
completed.
The aim of the Huron Perth
Lung Association, your Christmas
Seal organization is the
prevention and control of lung
diseases including those arising
from environmental threats to
breathing - air pollution and
smoking. Much of this can be
accomplished through research,
using Christmas Seal &liars.
fluttering and dancing tranquilly
or eddying turnultously.' in a
sudden gale. They are a shower in
a breeze, a deluge in a storm and
a flood underfoot at day's end.
The woods are alive and
vibrant. Those who walk their
leafy lanes see squirrels from
their lofty lookouts fling
themselves from bough to bough
in bursts of activity .
Woodchucks, grown fat and lazy,
sit erect by their earthy burrows.
One may flush out a flock of wild
canaries that circle round before
flying off. Gathering swallows
twitter on Wire fences or from
power lines near the highways.
Migrant birds leave according
to their mysterious schedule. The
trumpet call of wild geese flying
high, far above the crowded
haunts of men, can be h-ard as
they southward ...trek. Here .and
there st ark branches re etched
against a cloudless sky. Empty
summer nests, once the above of
singing fledgings, swing and
sway at the bough's edge.
Blanket of Silence • .
At eventide beneath a' mellow
moon, when a blanket of silence
seems to be about to settle down,
one is suddenly startled by the
fiddle-playing of the ebony field
cricket, by the seemingly endless,
monotonous rasping of the cicada
or by the lonesome, eerie hooting
of the barn owl.
Autumn abounds in things that
delight the sense,of sight, when
trees flaunt a lavishness of colour,
when fruits ripen and mellow. At
roadside market-stands we
gladden to share the beauty and•
richness of a generous and
bountiful harvest - newly' dug
potatoes, field turnips, ripening
squash, plump tomatoes, jars of
golden honey, bottled amber
cider, pot-bellied pumpkins
grown fat on the vines, delicious
apples, luscious pears, plums and
grapes. Here one can find all the'
ingredients,, for homemade jams
and jellies, preserves.and pickles.
In several counties in Eastern
Ontario many pasture lands show
original stone piles weathered
through long winters, the mellow
sun of summer and' autumn. All
are qtfite similar in colour, that
acquired by time and exposure to
the blasts and the blessings of the
elements. Over-run 'with poison
ivy and Virginia creeper vines
they form colourful backgrounds
for wild asters, fringed gentians
golden rod and -the sumac's
maroon candles.
Seen from a hilltop, stone
ferices make patterns over the
landscape. They define fields and
pastures, separate orchards and
meadows, encompass garden
patches, encircle an old cemetery
or finally disappear into the edge
of the woods. These fences follow
the contour of the land, rising and
falling with the u ndulations of
the terrain, hugging the slopes as
steadfastly as if there were roots
holding them there. They have
stood for generations when men
cleared their fields by their own
labour and, in the process,
bequeathed to us a tradition for
honest toil : Here woodchucks,
skunks, foxes and other small
animals make their homes but
when the farmer's collie hunts at
Will he rarely catches anything
save burrs and bootjacks. Yes, it
is good to walk across such a field
bounded by these ancient
landmarks and reflect on our
heritage. •
"Across a waste and solitary
rise
A ploughman urges his dull
team,
A stooped grey figure, with
prone brow,
That 'plunges bending to the
plough
With strong uneven steps. The
air
Rings and echoes with his
furious cries."
(Lampman)
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grants are an integral part of each
year's Christmas Seal program.
Each Provincial Association
including the Ontario Lung
Association devotes a portion of
its Christmas 'Seal funds to the
Canadiarr Tuberculosiis and
Respiratory Disease Association,
y our national Christmas Seal
organiKation, for its national
research and scholarship
program. In addition, the Huron
Perth Lung Association provides
funds for research and also for
medical education within the
province.
On the national scene there are
19 physicians involved in 14
research programs cross Canada,
from Newfoundland to British
Columbia, and five physicians on
scholarships including one
studying in the United States.
The research areas cover
anatomy, physiology, pathology,
treatment, cause and diagnosis.
Approximately 50 per cent are
concerned with basic research in
anatomy, physiology . and
physiopathology of ` the
respiratory system in health and
disease. For example a University
of Manitoba project is investi-
gating the "Effect of Protein
Deficiency in Stlructure and
Function of Lungs"; a McMaster
program is invovled in "Studies
of Particle Deposition and
Clearance in Patients with
Airways Obstruction" and at the
University of Toronto an
investigation is being conducted
into "A Study of Pulmonary
Extravascular Water Volume in
the Diagnosis arid Management
of Acute and Chronic Respiratory
Failure."
Occupational hazards are under
investigation at the University of
British Columbia with "Studies
on Occupational Asthma" While
the University of Manitoba is
involved in "Inve stig,a dons in
Hypersensitivity Lung Disease in
Farmers"; In addition certain
physicians are using animal
•
models necessary frit' research,
14—THE BRUSSELS POST NOVEMBER 26, 1975
Christmas seals finance
respiratory research
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