The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-03-20, Page 18*BST $POT `IN SHOP—' shite -shine chair was 'built
,around . '1929 by Norman Gibson and provided the - best
'viewing spot iniheshop, allowing anyone sitting in it to look
G theiront window with ease while awaiting fits haircut.
H. GORDON
GREEN
.As 1 'Watched the CBC -
titian of "Teo .Last Tears" the
itber bight and 'kept thinking
toy -own fences of the tlirty
thirties, it occurred to .me that
weren'tthose years unrtlievedly
lumpy and hopeless. Along with
Ike mortgage foreclosures I re-
member
e-
m wr 'house parties of such
gaiety -flint the dace fair $amok
litithihelaughter ofit. Along with
lhoseawfulthnes when you were
adiamedttyevenasklora joband
yan halm. a thine, I remember
Ike ;gam who Were :glad to \walk
mrith you to weever Bre night
beamed andvale. would scald
Imr'thinking that money mat-
iii—girls whose mothers
wiauldleave:a piens the table for
Admen you came hack and whe
mnoldn't =pen the stovepipe up-
iltairs if your loving dallied past
midnight. Sum they were God -
'fearing mothers. They were
Preebyteriaus and Baptists even,
botthey knew it wasn't ,your fault
that you weren't married
And along with the time when
hadtoputthe Model T m mold
iitorage because you coilldn't buy
„gas,1 remember with a naughty
sanie•ihe possibilities of courting
in a lwrse van buggy on a pri-
vatecoimtrynigittfun nflilac and
bowing. peect im til
struck the place where the
corduroy began.
" We ha<d ono loran les then,'' one
ohltimer used to tell me. "Only a
few times when we locked our
in the wooer."
But we did bene finis then
fan. A few. Do you remember the
old feather tick's
Oh, youremember it all right if
yea ever slept in one!"Yester-
year's feather tick was indeed so
memorable that i1 became a part
aurlanguage. To this day When
certain people contrive to get
things just a hit too lures for
themselves—like our MP's giving
'themselves1hatithopping raise n
selary forinstance--we ace
of"bedding"
1 don't know whether the
leather bed ewer got into poetry .
but 1 corn think of at least one song
ethich praised its coadort
•ai] last night I slept in a- hollow
log,
The enemy around me,
But hmight 1 sleep ,an a `fes
heti
With the girl I ioire beside me''
I can't ,seers to remember the
rent. Maybe it's just as well.
Could be that's one of the cleaner
verses of a dirty old army song.
efeather bed which we kuew
50-yeati.ago if we were lucky was
really a feather tick—e cloth
envelope filled with feathers
Which had been placed over the
usual straw tick. It would be six
or eight inches deep perhaps
when you fluffed it out, hut when
you went to bed you didn't just
flap onto it. No, you dropped into
it. Because the feather tick gave
wry 'beneath and swelled high mi
either side of you. And it was so
warm and soft Haat you often
kicked off your longjohns and lay
there as naked and pink as a baby
. rabbit nuzzled in a nest of fur.
No wonder that in those days a
country girl with stars in her eyes
could think of snaking nothing
better for her hope Chest than a
fealerfick. And once it was part
of a household it was treated with
supreme respect. You didn't let
the baby sleep on it. You were
careful not to have it m service
when ymir bed-wetting cousin
was visiting.
Added exquisitely comfy
feel of it there was always the
knowledge that you had had a
part in its making . One didn't buy
a feather tick at an auction You
could never know what dirty old
MEM might have slept in some-
thing like that . So your feather
tick was not only homemade but
it had been made in your own
hntne from feathers plucked year
after year from your own chick-
ens. ducks and geese. And at
plum time in those dam,
everybody plu k ti Even the lit-
tlest
it-tle t of lmngers. u rook an incred-
ible amp= of pia to make a
feather tick and �t of labor
even ager you finally had an
ample hoard of tea But it
was all your Sawn labor. and
maybe that was, what contributed
most of all to its feeling of lilt -
mate luxury
HISTORY OF BARBERING
Alex not so great
without his barbers?
By Steve Varnmak
Without barbers Alexander the
Great of Greece, who conquered
most of the known world in his
time, might have -been referred to
as "Alex the Loser".
And Russia might have re-
mained the sleeping nation she
was before Peter the Gregile-
cided to use his barbers toIllair
best advantage..
In each case the all-powerful
rulers decided that shaving and
:# rt "Bair tw uuld Ving them a
Crossroads 1
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good deal closer to their goals.
Peter of Russia thought that by
forcing his people to shave their
beards, the country would be-
come more civilized and cul-
tured. using the °peen model.
Alex of Greece 71 ught that by
forcing his snickers to shave their
beards and keep short hair his
men would be better combatants
since their opponents couldn't
grab their hair.
In ,bath cases, and m many
more through -history . ti eliar°ber
took on a role that was not only
vital to the Row of society., but at
times vital to its existence.
Without barbering tecimiques,
monks in the middle ages
couldn't have shaved all their
tarial hairs, a fate the Church
had decided was intolerable.
biblically, with the order to
shave all haler, the moults were no
-longer allowed to perform blood-
letting tedhuiques whin they had
dune for . centuries. This, more
than aiyinm8, added./o the im-
BUSY BARBERSHOP—As an example of how busy barbershops really were, This photo
taken from the 192D's of Fred Howe's shop an Main St. West, Listowel, depicts The turtle
`and bustle that was associated with the trade.
(Photo courtesy of Mrs. W. W. (Annie Howe) Marks)
'SIMONS BARBERSHOP SHOP 'WALLACE AVE., IfISTOWEL.
high
1,1122.115
Robert etwer, interns -
tam grandmaster from
V ,Ger "* uy, weld r83
U.S.of "it tea fourth
SChess Federation
Inter-
national Tournament at
res., .ii 20, I9J4-
is ranked as the
UNb or llthtesi 'in the
world in the Woad Chew
Federation's 1975 Interna-
tional Bating List. Be cum -
petal against a straw field
that nd three other in-
ternational grandmasters
and two international mas-
s.
Diehner was a quarter-li-
mas'
piarter -
na s' t in the 1971 Candidates
Matches to mine the
1972 challenger for the world
championship. In the 3973
Leningrad Iwai, he fin-
ished m a tie for fluid -sixth
place and won the award for
meal innovation in his
game in the Interzonal
against Miguel Cuellar of Co-
lumbia.
penance of the barbering trade
which grew with the years.
The barbershop became an im-
portant part of the social scene. It
was a place to meet, to talk, to
gossip, to argue politics and, oh
yes, to get a shave and a haircut.
Way back in Kaman aiid Greek
times, the barbershop was a type
of community centre. In fact,
relics of ram have recently
been discovered dating back to
theBronze Age.
The barbers of yesteryear were
the , precursors of today's sur-
geons. Referred to as barber -sur-
geons, they performed many of
the minor operations of the day.
For example, blood-letting was
practised from which came the
traditional barber pole. The red
and white stripes represent the
blood and bandages while the
blue symbolizes the veins.
It wasn't until rulers in Europe
passed laws that surgery and
barbering were separated.
The well-known barbershop
quartettes its roots in the sole
alwthe local barbershopywhere it
was comma described as 1'a
favorite spot for idle persons".
Many a large *would
provide entertainment for waft-
ing customers, and the barber-
shop
arbe -shop quartet naturally devel-
• d-
While barbering schools in
general have closed in Ontario
and all over North America, ..
there is at least one new school,
based on the traditional model
that recently opened in London,
called Barbers 4. It is not a hair-
styling school.
The school's brochure promis-
es a rewarding career in a field
that will always 'be in demand.
Some of the courses offered
are: hygiene, sanitation, bac-
teriology,
ac-
teriology, diseases of the skin,
shop management, shaving, fa-
cia and, yes, hair -styling. The
course covers a span of eight
months according to regulations
set down by the Department of
Labor. A provincial examination
is then administered.
'The Benda :etas
Bulletinfrom lie E
Iir A 'titanic
from YugoalavWfiniidtins
diwos
the Yvia
Feder:-
stases.Chess Informint ae-
ries.
The highest position fora
ILS.plalerwaslnternational
Master Edema'
place. Medals fondled ahead
ai Internationta iGrandman-
tars Vlastimil .antro i
CzechosIvoikia and Mate
El ie ,of Yugoslavia,
and be finished well ahead of
the other international mas-
ter in the tournament, tiliu
Kaplan -of the United States.
Mednis has ingr and his
performance from earlier
s. I3e was a full
paint behind Kaplan at the
Third -TJSCF International
Mammon in los Angeles
and two paints behind Dam-
janovic at Slimier in 1974.
rand and .Meanie: played
against each tither at Madon-
na Di Compiglio early :in 1914
and finished with equal
scores.
The primary purpose of
USCF- ed internation-
al to to give U.S.
players the once to play
against the level of
cxmipeti-
tian that well quEdify them for
the required international
master and grandmaster
norms. At Houston, Medals
came within four
Meld Wool
ia a camper?
TUCSON, Ariz. To
stimulate student ,ink` in
rural, the (fie of
Medicine +orf the University el
Arizona is developing a fed -
funded
d -
fed programa lo
relieve ihe &Wage of
health care people in rural
areas.
A caniper4ype van is being
developed pass the T1s'
(joedf and ii-
y, including
ideotape
system f i .Medical
lectures zeta procedures.
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tiiree.judgeselected
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Huebner and Julio Kaplan
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