The Goderich Signal-Star, 1954-12-09, Page 344jOnt nOnkt, Of Weeks.
.was rant Mea: Ida. 1V1094a1d,
of GOderickt ozi a,.Charrge of, care-,
less driving, in court here last
Thursday by Magistrrute D. E.
Holmes.
Her eounsel, Frank Donnelly,
indicated that a plea of not guilty
would be entered. '
She was charged as the result
oaf a ' traffic accident early last;;
month. Police allege she Was the
driver of a car which collided with
a motorcycle on NO. ' $ llTrghway:
A passenger on the ' motoreyele,
AC2 ' Melvin C. Scee rah, of the,
RCAF Station at Clinton, was kill-
ed in the crash and the driver,
AC2 Gerald "Fontaine, also of he
Clinton 'Station, was injured.
A 19 -year-old Auburn youth,
Ross Yungblut, pleaded guilty to
careless driving and was fined $15
and costs or 10 days.
He Was charged, as'the result of
a two -car accident near the
Auburn bridge on November 21.
(By Gavin Hamilton
If yoµ lived in the gay nineties
and still travel `the highway of,
Conservative time, ytu will no doultt remember
•
Beautify your kitchen with built-
in cupboards to your specifica-
tions.
Tile your present floors in colors
to suit your taste.
Beautify the walls in your home.
in plywood finishes. •
Change your basement into a rec-
reation room or your attic into
useful space or air apartment.
,. Workmanship by skilled labor.
Free estimates on any alterations
or . roofing . contracts.
Thank yob.
Bruce E. Ryan
BUILDING CONTRACTOR
175 Brock St. Goderich, Ont.
Phone 1455W 44-6-8
the jelly old-time Christmas' cele-
bratiOris -of those days when there
Were no wars or rumors of war.
Tranquillity . peace and jollifica-
tion seen fed to till the air at the
Christmas season. Good eats and
drinks were cheap and wearing
apparel likewise was cheap. You
could buy a loaf of bread for a
nickel, a haker's dozen of buns
for a dime, a pound of butter for
12 cents, a dozen of eggs far 12
cents, 3 pounds of steak for 25c,
a chicken for 25c, a duck for 35c,
a goose for 50c and a turkey for
75c.,, If you wanted to hog it, you
could, buy a whole pig at 4c a lb.
In the, hotels you could get . a
square meal, meat and potatoes,
all you could eat with extras on
the side, for 25c. You did not
have to tip the waitress a nickel;
just give her a smile with "So long,
Mary, be a good little girlie until
I come back." No !today's "Good-
bye, baby, where do you park when
the sun goes down, you la le chick-
adee?" There was nossoft soap
like this for, the waitresses in the
goody goody days of the gay nine-
ties. For the drinks you could
get a glass of whiskey, brandy,
gin, rum, for a nickel, a schooner
of beer for a nickel, a quart bottle
of Carling's ale for a dime, or -
you could' treat yourself and five
of the boysasitting around the bar-
room for 25c; this would put you
in the jolly good sport on six -for-
a -quarter class:
Then the dress parade of the
gay nineties! Girls in their teens
and young ladies dressed their
the yottag youngmen would break the
rules of etiquette by put tid;g oat'
girl's hat and marching around the-
room and would go so far from the
goody rules of the gay nineties as
to tickle some of the giris under
the chin. Such a young man was
classed as one of thelolly good
�-nothing tad hop. .; Then:them
was the .spick and span young man,
hair pompadour, moustache waxed,
sideburns, Prince . Albert - coat,
white vest, striped trousers, button
shoes, Christie hat, white • shirt,
high collar, four-in-hand tie, watch.
chain and finger • rings, carried a
cane and kid . gloves, and chewed
gum, in the summer played croquet
on the lawn with the • girl in the
hong skirts, shirt waist and sailor
at, and went home like a good:
boy before the sun went downe
laid this was in the gay nineties.
Christmas was spent in many
different ways.. The goody genteel
mostly stayed by their own .fire
side. Others in this class invited
neighboursand relatives to help
eat their turkeys, geese, and plum
pudding and wash them down with
nothing stronger tnan tea, coffee:
or apple eider. For entertainment,
the old people played ' parchesi,
' crokinole or as genteel game with
cards called Authors. Young folks
played blind man's buff, or pussy
wants a corner. Now don't mis-
take me, they were not all goody
goody boys and girls, old men ,and,
women; they did not all celebrate
Christmas by drinking tea and cof-
fee and playing pussy wants a cor-•
ner. They celebrated with good
eats and drinks, turkey, plum pud-
ding, mince pies, shortbread, lots
of beer and whiskey to :wash ' it
down. Older people played at the
old card games 'of euchre, pedro,
high-low-jackwandethe-game. The
younger -people went sleigh -riding,
skating, then to the village ball-
room dances at night, where they
danced the old square dances,
balance all to your partners and
hoe it down all to . the tune of
":Soldier's Joy," or, the Circassian
circle, Lancers and the Jenny
Lynd polka, and Waltz Me 'Around
Again Willie, to the tunes of Pop
oes the Weasel, Money Musk,
Flowers of Edinburgh, Turkey in
Straw, Buffalo Girls. In the
LA- -B Y CHAIK
A LUCKY DRAW TICKET WILL BE 'GIVEN AWAY' °=
ON EVERY .$5 WORTH QF MERCHANDISE PUR-
CHASED Air OUR STORE—AND ALSO ONE FOR
EVERY PAID ON A,C'COUNT.
DRAW T.0 BE MADE 'CHRIS'TMAS' EVE. ____
KEITH ARTHUR
Furniture and Appliances. Auburn
44-49
hair in the pompadour or bangs
style; poke bonnet or sailor hat
adorned the head; shirt waists of
Many colors were shirred, and
flounced; skirts trailed on the
ground. You could not see her
dear little foot unless she held up
her skirt; that would be naughty.
Her waist was bound on the north,
south, east and west by an under-
garment called a corset, filled
around with whalebone and steel
bars to keep my lady straight and
plumb. She . wore button shoes
and slippers. You never knew the
color of her hose; if you tried 'to,
see their color you were called a
rude, bad boy: To put your hands
on my lady's wearing apparel could
only be done legally in a dance;
then you would waltz them around
Willie, but you must not linger
with the skirt after the music
changed to break away. Some of,
holiday week
b•etween
wr
Chris t m a s
and
N..e w
,, , ,'�,�� ••
Year's .very
few of the
natives did
any manual
labour. In-
stead they
had sports,
shooting
matches for
turkeys,
ducks, geese,
hunting for
partridges and rabbits. The come
t try churches generally held their
tea matings, and there were neigh,
bourly village dances. Friends
and neighbours visited one :lane
other; • everyone seemed to as
happy and musical as the 1 gee
of the -Sleigh bells that sounded
so sweetly to the ear in -the Christ-
mas holidays of the gay nineties.
But gone are the Christmas holi-
days of the ,gay nineties and many
of those who knew them have
gone to spend their Christmas in
that land that we are told is.fairer
than day, and we_ shall all have to.
follow. them there some day, Until;
then `may we at the Christmas `'sea-'
son cherish a kind thought of re-
Inembrance of those who ' spent
their jolly Christmas seasons in
the gay "nineties.
P.S.—And as I have seen the
Christmas season twice. forty times
return and then some and by the
laws of nature 1 shall soon have
to spend my Christmas, I hope, in
that land that is fairer than day
with our friends of the gay
nineties. ,until then I wish One
and all a,.,merry Christmas in this
year of 1954. ,
A nal
Livestock
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THE'VNORLD'S
10 COMP
The forms for the, December Sur-
vey of Livestock and Poultry Num-
bers are in the bands of Ontario
farmers. This survey is carried
early in December each year by
the Statistics and Publications
Branch of the Ontario Department
of Agriculture ie co-operation with
the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
This survey makes it possible to
measure” the changes which have
taken place during the past year
in the numbers of livestock on
farms. Information supplied by
an individual farmer is kept con-
fidential. All farm reports receiv-
ed are grouped together to enable
the statistician to make estimates
of county totals. The statistics ob-
tained from the survey are used
extensively throughout the year
by governments, farm organiz-
ations and industry to plan future
operations en a sound basis.
The Department of Agriculture
is anxious to make as accurate
estimates as possible and 'to
achieve this objective needs 'the
co-operation of a large number of
farmers .,in carefully filling out
and, returning these survey sche-
dules promptly.
Two Top Debaters
Of Junior Farmers
Picked At Contest
CQnvictioi( of a Moro , to-WOM
on an infraction of a, h w kers"a d .
bM by -1 ,r paw last year
G,oderich Tom Council was
registered` in court here last week
bbl Magistrate .D. E. Holmes.
Mrs.• , McDonald was fined $25
ant .,cos? 9: r .
'Chief ' Constable F. M. Hall told
the ' court ..that. the woman sold
Toronto -manufactured baby chairs
and play pens in Goderich on
November 11 at two different
places without • a license from the
Town.
'Che ,magistrate, reviewing the
Municipal -Ad, noted that sale of
the .'•,materials., :would' have been
legal irt, Toronto, .since they were
made there, but only • legal sale in
Godericb would have to be made
by a resident of the town acting
as an agent for the manufacturer.
A' letter, from .a Toronto law firm
indicated„th t the woman was will-
ing• to plead guilty and pay a fine.
ing the affirmative of this topic!
were -two Howick Junior Farriers,
John Stafford and Bruce Giles.
On. the topic: "Resolved at the
present time too many agricul{ttir-
al 'organizations are having an
• inhibiting effect of influence on
all,” was mon, by-;_Jamek_-6cott and.
'Carlton. Stingel, of -the Colwanash
club who upheld the negative view.
Speaking on the affirmative were
George Turton and Arnold Alton,
DungarPnon.
, Bert Morgan and Marilyn Mar-
shall of the South -Huron Juniors,
taking the negative view, were suc-
cessful over Laverne Godicin and
Earl McSpadden, of the Seaforth
club, on 'the topic "Resolved that -
TV is a, decided menace to On-
tario's youth during their formal
education."
Other- public speaking, copitest-
arits were Kenneth Bradley, of the
North Huron Club, and Joyce
Little, Dungannon.
Judges were, Prof, James Scott,
Seaforth, John G. Peacock, of the
staff of the Clinton 'Distrust Col-
legiate Institute, and Clarence A.
Trott, principal of the AVM. Hugh
Campbell public school, RCAF
Station, Clinton.
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South Huron Junior Farmers were
named as the two, best debaters
in a Huron County Junior Farmers
debating and public speaking con-
test held last week at Clinton
District Collegiate Institute.
Adeida Hossfeldt, of the Howick
Juniors, was the top public speak-
ing contestant.
The debating • competition win-
ners will be eligible to Oster
Junior Farmer inter -county com-
petition, representing Huron coun-
ty, while Miss Hossfeldt will enter
the provincial competition for
public speaking among Junior
Farmers in Toronto in January.
With six teamscompeting, three
subjects were debated. Top de-
bating team was Margaret Holland,
and Ivan McClyment, of the Clin-
ton club, who upheld the negative
in the topic: "Resolved that a
greater effort should be made to
Oanadianize imm.igran,ts. Uphold -
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Being "well-fed" does not neces-
sarily mean being "well-nourished,"
according to a study conducted"by
Dr. Norman B. Wetzel, a world
authority on child growth,
Over a period of years, Dr. Wetzel
kept a closecheck on the growth of
a group' of schoolchildren living in
a *ell -to-do residential section of
Cleveland, Ohio. He found that one
out of every three children suffered
! _ -,;•; from whaLhe
terms "growth
failure."
The doctor was
unable to pin
down any direct
cause, such as di-
sease, for this
failure and the
children all came
from homes where
they received plenty of nourishing
fdod.
Bow fast should a child grow ? Dr.
Wetzel says that each child'has his
own "proper" growth.pettern which
can be predicted by means of a com-
plicated chart: Growth failure, once
established, "tends to persist and
get worse," lowering physique, vigor
and slowing down the progress of
all -growth and development-- in -a,.
eluding scholastic.
In an attempt to combat the prob-
lem, Dr. Wetzel chose 20 children
who had, been found to be suffering
from growth fault. ,,Sixteen were
given a tiny amount,of vitamin Be,
daily for 16 weeks and gained
almost two niornths' extra growth.
Four other children not given BI.2
.showed no gain and continued to
lose grouted.
•_ f special interest lathe fact that.
pa eats and teachers of the children
retiorted linprOvei behavior, •greater'
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atter treatment with 142. n
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