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Trouble in the home
Watching
Amen
by 'Carl Schuesler
Goats milk
Professor M. V. C. Jeffre ys, an English
educationist uttered this lament a few years ago:
"Housing, however imperfect, has never been
better; but for many people home, has never meant
It does seem that many homes today are primarily
dormitories and private restaurants and places to
stay while the car is being repaired. Part of the
trouble is the pace at which so many of us try to live.
Frantic busyness is a widespr• ead affliction these
days: we are frantic in our work, in our play, even in
our relaxation. And all this frenzy does menace
home and family: many parents .find it difficult to
take sufficient time for sustaining good relations with
their children.
Same parents • today seem to be more the
proprietors of their children than parents. It is not
really a home if there is not much time` for easy and
spontaneousTelations, if there are not expressions of
real interest ' in the concerns and problems and
idiosyncrasies- of all, if there, are deficiencies in
expressions of the love which .is a concern,
sometimes a sacrifical concern, for the good of
others.
No occasional and slickly synthesized together-
ness, even when ,helped . by modern conveniences
and ornamented by the latest gimmicks, can
compensate for the personal qualities which make a
home really a home. As Dr. Karl Menninger, one of
the most influential psychiatrists of our time, has
warned, "Swamping a child with advantages is often
a substitute for giving him: time, interest,
companionship, and love."
There is much evidence that the influence of the
home in the development of personality and,
character is far more significant than the combined
influence of the school and the church and all the
community agencies with which children have
contact. And children do not develop values mainly
from their being told about them: it is .the values
which parents embody and express in the ordinary
Course of their lives that influence their children.
(The United Church)
When my new son-in-law David called
up, he asked if we wanted to try some
goat's milk.
Sure. Why not?'Why not try some of that
gourmet health drink right fresh from a
mama goat named Mary Lee.
Yes, that's what happened to Mary tee.
She's found her way dorVn to David's
house, since all. our building plans for a
goat. mansion have stayed only castles in
the air.
",Sure, .we'll take a sample of goat's
milk;" My wife said.
"There's only one catch," David said.
I knew it. 'I knew it right there. Goat's
milk comes in a bag alright, but not the
plastic kind.
"You'll have to come down and milk
her," David said, "We're going away
' overnight' and we thought you'd like the
experience."
"It will be an experience alright",
David's new mother-in-law said.
"It's .,really quite easy," he said.
"Yes."
"All you do is tie the goat up. Hold the
teat between your thumb and forefinger.
Press from the top down,Then release: And
start squeezing again.
"And a stool?"
"No stool. You can do it on your knees.
Takes only ten minutes::
"And the goat won't mind?"
"Not Mary Lee. She'll let you practice.
She's a good goat. Besides, it's lots better
to learn how to milk all by yourself. No one -
breathing down your neck."
"Okay, That would be an experience,
wouldn't it?" •
"But you really don't have to milk her if
you don't want to. If you can't, I don't think
she'll burst, before we get ,back."
Well, none of David's new in-laws
wanted Mary Lee busting out all over. But I
sensed right off this wasn't a one-woman,
job. Milking Mary Lee needed' my help
and my daughter Sarah's: This Was going
to be' a job for three people.
We didn't exactly have a pail, a proper
pail. Oh, we do own pails of course, but
they were..all ditty. That whirlwind of a
storm that Sunday afternoon closed down
the hydro. And when the hydro goes, there
goes the 'water, the.. -,stove, the. tea
kettle--you name it.There goes eleaR part
All we could manage for Mary Lee's milk
was a big cooking pot. A Dutch oven style
part.
Now, Mary Lee's an okay goat. I have
nothing against those mini female bovines.
If, of course, you like skinny legs and
knobby knees. Bulgy eyes and boney head.
But if 'she's going to 'Put her hind foot into
the milk pot' while I'm milking, she can at
least put in a clean foot.
You'd think once would be enough. But
no. She lifted up that rear leg of hers three
times and deposited it firmly in the dutch
oven pot. •
1 knew this was a three person job. It was
lucky I insisted all of us go down. We
rotated our jobs. One to hold Mary Lee
with the bailer twine wrapped around her
neck. One to milk her and the other to
watch that foot. Keep that foot out of the
pot. '
After a half hour we got our goat's milk
alright. And we got a few other things too.
We got straw and hay.' Hair, and manure.
Dead flies and dirt.
And we • got experience loo, I learned
-another way to exercise my piano fingers.
My wife learned you can get personal with
a goat's mammary glands and not get
slapped in the face'. And Sarah learned why
a fellow named Pasteur came up with the
idea of heataing milk to 145° for 30 minutes
to kill all the germs.'
I almost cried when I poured the milk out
on the ground. Imagine. The earth-wet
already in rain- had to drink up all that
milk and I didn't get a sip.
I couldn't even gather up enough
courage to dip my finger in the pot and take'
a lick.
Students use cannabis, alcohol study shows B of E
One quarter of all students in
Ontario schools have Used
cannabis (Marijuana or hashish)
at least once in the past 12
months, according to a recent
study presented to the Huron
County Board of Education ;.
Monday. A total of 81.9 percent
had used alcohol in the same
period,
The provincial surly Of alcOh01
and drug use attiiotig OtitArio
students in 1977, Which included
Huron oinity; said 26.1 percent
of students in grades 7 to 13 had
used Cannabis in the iaStbieaf.
The study which involved 104
schools said the users of most
drUgs used them infrequently in
the previous year,
"The Majority of users of glue,
solvents, . heroin, Speed, psycho-
active drugs and illicit 'drugs
reported using them only once or
twice. However, use of alcohol,
cannabis and tobacco waS much
More frequent among users, "the
report prepared by the Addiction
Research . POundation Said.
AleehOliVaS drunk at least once a
week or more by 17,9 percent of
the studentS, cannabis was used
10 or thbre tithe§ by 11:9 percent
of all' students. About 16 percent -
had been drunk and ,23 percent
had had at least five drinks on.
Kline Occasion in the preceding
month.
In most cases there Was a
higher drug use` aitiong male,
students, except in the case of
tobacco. According to the sample
52.1 percent of fen-laid students
smoke compared to 28.5 percent
Of the Males.
The `study found drug use was
"significantly and positively"
related to age, with most frequent
drtig use oectittingin the 16 and
11 year old age group.
An inverse relationship was
found between drug' use and
grade average. As drug use
increased, grade average
deereaSed. In the case of cannabis"
12,1 percent of the students with
the highest grade average
reported use,. but 40,2 percent of
those with the lowest grades
reported ',cannabis use.
Alcohol consumption WAS, also
Mated to gtado dotage with
ttegtteht drinkers having leWet
averages.
Students, it northern' Ontario
reported Mae use of aleehot i,
tobacco, cannabis, and other
hallucinogens. The Midwestern
region Most often had the loweg
rates of drug use.
The study notes that sUrveYsO1
alcohol and drug use typidallY
"under-report" such use as coot.
pared to estimates deriVed from
official .records and other sources.
The report concludes that
Changes in driig use Shied 1914
"have probably been- strati and
increases confined to a few cirog!
e.g., aleOhei, cannabis and 0.
• The BO-ard decided to ,rake th,
report. available to leachers'
throughout Huron County,
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