The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-01-30, Page 17Long
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By POROTIIIY
5T, JOHN JACKSON
Certified Master
Grapl oanalyst
Dear Dorothy:
A I'm over 50, and young for
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barrier. f feel the need to go
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Age drlscri urination can be
.beat. You've got the qua.Ilifica
titins to, do it.
rIf your age is a, barrier,
your mired is not. It's needle
sharp, seen in the long points
on the n. You're outgoing and
friendly, seen in the slant of
your writing, and you lave
people seen in the large lower
loops.
Then, that long, strong t
crossing is the magnet' that
draws others to you and to
your way of thinking. You're a
natural in sales and the envy
of any hopeful salesperson.
You know your own mind
and can make intelligent deci-
sions, seen in the blunt word
endings and other strokes.
Yet, you've enough give to
yield when you see it will ben-
efit your cause.
Why not watch for the ads
which plead for experience?
Sometimes businesses will
beg for seasoned applicants,
then state an age group which
couldn't possibly fill the bill.
So, as you apply for your job,
sell your background. Sell
yourself. Forget your age.
You may have to write it
down, but businesses don't al-
ways have to adhere to it.
Keep up your appearance
and your handwriting says
that you have good taste. If
you need to diet, do it. Light-
weights can break job bar-
riers better than, heavy-
weights. Act mature and reli-
able — but don't act your age.
D.J.
1!;&i.e-taadit
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There are a lot of questions
floating around in the -. nariY
depths of my mind, and occasion-
ally one floats to the surface. It is
Usually slapped down by someone
(my wife?), or just given a good
shot of Raid, and lies over on its
side and expires.
But recently, the questions
have been boiling up like bubbles
in a thundermug. I felt I should
share them with my long-suffer-
ing readers, and among the six of
us, we might be able to come UP
with some answers. (By the way,
if you don't know what a thunder -
mug is, ask yotVlum. Your Dad
would be too shy to explain.)
They are not exactly burning
questions, but they do create a
small smoulder, from time to
time.
Why are so many men addicted
to hairy appendages to their cra-
niums these days? I can under-
stand any chap growing. a beard
to hide a weak chin. I can under-
stand any young man trying to
grow a beard. It's part of growing
up.
But why all these Fu Manchu
moustaches? They add nothing
whatever to a face that has no
character, and they detract from
one that does.
I'm,.glad I'm not a girl. It must
be revolting to kiss a young man
and wind up with a mouthful of
hair.
When I got back to England
from prison camp, I had a beau-
tiful handlebar job which had
taken me ninemonths of constant
upsweeping to achieve. It carpe
off 20 minutes after I'd looked up
my first old girl friend. She said it
was like kissing a cow's ear.
Blunt but honest, she was.
And why do all those older
guys; o are skin -bald for the
13i11 ami ey
Hair -,raising questions
first two- ,' irds of their skulls,
insist on growing those long,
greasy, forlorn ringlets at the
backs of their heads, falling down
over their collars? They fool no-
body. It doesn't make them look
more virile. It merely makes
them look scruffy, and silly.
They remind me of the guys
who used to comb carefully
across a completely naked pate
eight strands of long hair from
their sideburns. Why not face it,
chaps? If you have a big belly,
stick it out and pat it. If you're a
baldy, you're a baldy, ,and you
wash your hair with a face -cloth.
It doesn't seem to bother the
ladies. Yul Brynner has been a
sex symbol for years. And that
Telly Savalas, or whatever his
name is, that mean -looking guy
on TV (Rojack? Hojak? Wojak?)
seems to be on every second pro-
gram, bald as an egg, and about
the same shape.
I remember an elderish lady
whose chief delight was putting a
needle into people. She was as
bald as a billiard ball on top, but,
by a clever contrivance of buns
and piling -up, she managed to
cover it. Or so she thought.
In her joky way, one day, while
I had my head bent over a book,
in my usual scholarly fashion,
she scratched my crown and
chortled, "My, you're getting a
little thin on top."
It didn't bother me. I was. If ft
had, I could have said something
cruel. Like, "O.K., Rapunzel, let
down your hair and we'll climb
up and have a look at what you've
been hiding all these years."
I couldn't. But I didn't like the
old bat, and it was time someone
blunted her needle. So, I stood up,
walked around her twice, my
eyes glued to her bum, which
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looked like the east end of a cow
going west, smiled, and said
gently, "Yes, my dear, but per-
haps it's better to be getting a
little thin on top than gargantu-
ously thick on the bottom."
She scuttled to the coffee urn,
eyes atwitter to see of anyone had
heard, and shut her mouth for
three whole days. I think it was
the word 'gargantuously' that
flang her.
This started out as a question
period, and is turning out to be a
piece about hair. Sorry. I've
nothing against hair, as such.
I'm not one of those back-to-
the-brushcut people. Lordy, if
someone made 'all my students
(male) cut their hair, I'd have to
learn their names all over again,
and it's already taken me three
months to identify the shaggy
dogs.
In fact, I rather enjoy the mod-
ern novels, which state that, "She
ran h+er hands through his long,
silken hair," just as much as [en-
joyed the old novels which stated
that, "He ran his hands through
her long silken hair." Men's Lib.
If you can find some silken hair,
which is a lot scarcer' than you
think, grab ontd it and run your
hands through it.
One group I do feel sorry for
during this fad is the old-fash-
ioned barber. There's no such
thing as a young barber. The
young ones are all hair stylists.
For the old-timers, business is
pretty sketchy. Some of them are
cutting -so -little hair these days -
the odd gray lock here, another
there - that they don't even need a
broom to sweep the floor. they
just use a garden rake.
I'm sorry. This started out as a
columns of questions about the
energy mess, politicians who
need a .33 per cent raise in pay
and other such, and it wound up
as nothing but another of my
hairy columns.
No wonder my life is such a
mess. I can't keep to the trail. I'm
like a finely trained deerhound
who goes haring off after a hare
when he should be pursuing a
buck.
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have been added for each quart of
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have no real masking tape on hand?
A. Cut a sheet of newspaper to. the
size or the window pane, dampen it,
and press it tightly against the glass.
This 'will do a good job of keeping
your glass free of paint spatters.
Q. How can 1 remove ink spots
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t> i pary 30, 1973 ---Page 3
H. GORDON
GREEN
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Believe it or not when the
weatherman told us that we were
going to get that last big howler•of
a storm, I actually looked for-
ward to it. You would have to go
back to the days when I was a boy
on, the farm to explain a reaction
lie that, I suppose. You see I was
brought up by parents who be-
lieved implicitly in God, oatmeal
porridge and what the sociolo-
gists now describe as the "Prot-
estant Work Ethic".
If I interpret the latter term
correctly it simply meant that if
you were a genuine 'born again'
Christian, the one sure way to
stay in grace was to work like
hell.
Except for the Sabbath, idle-
ness was just as surely a thing of
the Devil as dancing or ,card -
playing or the ouija board. But
one of the very few times when
God apparently forgave you an
idle day or two was when He sent
you a holy roaring old buzzard of
a blizzard. Then it was all right
for you to just hibernate. Oh, you
milked, and fed the horses, of
course, and you made sure that
your woodbox was well stacked,
but mostly you sat with your sock
feet on the oven door and read the
Family Herald. Or if you didn't
mind wearing the batteries down,
you listened to the radio.
Sometimes you were quite cot -
tent to just crawl away and doz€.
Remember that old couch that
used to be squeezed in behind the
kitchen stove in every farm kit-
chen? Remember how wonderful
ilwas to stretch out on that, snug
as a bug i a rug? How luxurious
it felt to curl up there with a book
and dog and laugh at the wind
howling down the chimney at
you? Only trouble was that your
old man or your kid brothers
would often get in there ahead of
you. Sometimes too your mother
would be cruel enough to hand the
diaper wash up over your face
and you'd get caught in the fall-
out.
Also, at our house there was an
unwritten law that the guy who
had that coUch also had to lug in
the wood which kept it warm, and
at our place that was a pretty
high price to pay because the
woodshed was way out by the
backhouse where the wir,}cf ,bad: no
mercy at all:— • •
But regardless of how you
passed the time, it was really de-
lightful to be snowbound in those
days. It was a gentle time, a time
when you could know the full
meaning of a family, a recess
which the Almighty seemed to
have sent so you would have to
take time out from rush and care
and let your soul catch up with
you.'
Well, it's not quite the same
when a storm hits our jet-pro-
pelled world of today. And yet is
seems to me that even in the
busiest of city streets a heavy
snowstorm has a lovely magic to
hush the rush and bury the noise
of this thing we call Progress.
And did you ever notice that lifter
we give up trying tado battle with
*le storm - after we give up
siwearing at the road depart -
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3 - Sudden gush
7 Parent
9 - Like better
11 - Antenna
13 - Preposition
14 - Disturbances
of the peace
16- Male title of
respect
17 - Reconcile
19 - Denoting one of
the continents
21 - A bu 1 ld ing
e xtenf torte
22 - Ore deposit
23 - Biblical
patriarch
27 - Criticizes
severely
28 - Wading bird
29 - Formal legal
order
3O - A cover
32 - To mimic
33 Powdery
substrate
35 - Irregular rotary
device
37 - Sudden break
39 - Investigate
42 - Male nickname
44 - Italian provincial
capital
45 - Negative
46 - To raise in
esteem
47 - Happens again
49 - Doctor's degree
50 - Tyrolean style
of singing
S1 - Prepoaltlon
D OWN
1 - Beginning of
.opera.
2 - Makes a
summary
3 - Withered
4 - Self-esteem
5 - Amount of
assessment
6 - Experiment
7 - Travesty
8 = Male nickname
10 - Printer's unit
12 - Roman 999
- Lubricates
17 - Of a Biblical
country
18 - Geometric
figure
19 - Was Emits -
posed
20 - Wading birds
23 - Ofacereal
24 - To prevent,
in law
26 - Spanish hero
2- - Frtar'8 title
31 - Common
estimation
34 - To set on end
35 - African capital
16 - 1'ccleslastical
headdress
3h To miscarry
40 - Radiograph
41 - French marshal
43 - Ministerial
degree
4S - Greek letter
46 - Printer's unit
48 - Thus
ment's stupidity, after we give up ,
trying to shove the car out of the
drift, after we give up waiting for
a bus, we are apt to become ,
most human again? We try, to
make snowballs, We been tog.
laugh and joke with people we
never saw before. We walk right
down the middle of constipated
main street now singing, "Let is
snow! Let is snow!"
And we quit fretting about.
we're going to gelid, me or when.
After all, we now have the one
perfect excuse for a night on the
town. ,
Our worries are buried along
with everything else.
Seems to me that for all the
changes that have come to our
winters since I was a farmboy,
the Man Upstairs still likes to
send .us a real oldtime obliterat-
ing blizzard once in.a while just,to
make us give ourselves time ,for
our souls to catch up.
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