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Crossroads—Nov. 7, 1989 ---Page 7
There has been a lot of
moaning lately about the
impact of the computer age
on our overloaded senses. I
heard a man on the radio
recently suggesting that
there was even some stress
associated with moving from
the typewriter to the word
processor.
Stress, hell. It's absolute
bliss.
I have always thought of
myself as something of a
Luddite, although I, don't go
about smashing machinery,
usually. My children still go
into mirthful paroxyms
when they recall the
argument I once had with a
reluctant .bicycle pump. I
jumped on it until I'd killed
it.
I must admit that much of
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the new equipment of daily
living defeats me. I have
been too mentally lazy, for
example, to figure out how to
set the timer on our video
cassette recorder so that it
will tape programs I can't be
there for. So it was with fear
and trembling that I moved
to Ottawa and confronted my
first word processor. I
couldn't help remembering
that even an electric type-
writer was beyond me. I had
been wedded to an upright
Underwood and a brutal two -
fingered typing style since I
wrote my first obituary 30
years ago.
If I'd heard the guy on the
radio before I'd been intro-
duced tothe word processor,
I wouldn't even have played
with the keyboard. As it is,
I've divorced the Underwood
and have gone steady with a
thing called a Unitron 2200
into which I feel an Apple -
writer Two program disk at
the beginning of each date.
It's wonderful. Even my
producers think it's wonder-
ful. In the good old days of
the typewriter, they needed
extra -sensory perception to
get through one of my
scripts. Stuff X'ed out.
Changes scrawled in ball-
point pen. Changes to the
changes made the same
way.
Now I sit in front of my
• GM -1211 screen and fiddle
with the script electronically
until it is the way I want it.
Then I hit the Control P on
the keyboard, followed by
NP and Return and it comes
burbling out • of the print-
er ... sweet and clean.
Stress, my foot. Stress is
something associated with
bicycle pumps that don't
work.
The answer to winter's
driving problems is quite
simple,,
Says ..th.e._0utario.
Safety League. Do every
thing — accelerating, brak-
ing and steering — more
slowly.
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Merwood C.
RR. 2 Listowel 291-3810
Highway 86 - 3/4 mile west of Listowel
EARLY AMERICAN—Patricia Gaylor chose uphol-
stered pieces by Trend Line in Wedgewood blue and
white to set the color scheme in this cozy room. Simple
plate rail adds personality and provides decorative
display for Early American accessories.
Decor
Score
Country look _lends
mellow mood
By Barbara Hartung
Q. I have moved into a
home built 'in the 1960s. that
has almost no interesting
architectural detailing. The
rooms and windows are per-
fectly plain.
I want to create some per-
sonality. using a country
theme.'I'm in the process of
buying some upholstered
furniture with fabrics ap-
propriate to the Early
American period.
What else can I do to add a
mellow country look without
going to the expense of wood
paneling and replacing
windows? -T. D.
A. You can establish some
definite personality through
the careful selection and
placement of, country ac-
cessories and some relative-
ly simple architectural
additions.
For example, paint your
walls a fresh color to corn-
. plement your new upholstery
fabric. In each corner of the
room add a 2 -by -2 painted in
a ' softly contrasting color:
About 18 inches down from
the ceiling install another 2 -
by -2 inch board horizontally
across the walls to create a
plate rail. Use this shelf or
rail for displaying accessor-
ies witha countrified feel. •
' Create a period look at
your windows with a simple
pair of tie -back draperies
topped by a fabric valance.
Use sheet curtains inside the
draperies if you need the
pivacy or light control.
Those two elements — the
windows and the walls
should give you a strong
statement when combined
with Early American fabrics
on xour upholstered pieces.
Q. ttw,�nt,to give my bed-
room more decorating inter-
est. 1 would like my bed
(which doesn't have a head-
board) to be the center of in-
terest. How would this best
be accomplished? I don't
have much of a budget for
this project although I am
pretty handy as a do-it-your-
selfet'.—P. B.
A. A very pretty effect can
THE TIMES
ARE CHANGING
It is now 39 years since Dr.
Lotta Hitschmanova,
founder of USC Canada, first
organized large-scale
shipments of food for
children released from
concentration camps in
Czechoslovakia. In 1984 USC
Canada Will support develop-
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be created by fashioning a
fabric valance that would be
attached to the ceiling and on
the bed wall, extending out
about 18 inches. Hang
draperies floor to ceiling on
the sides of the valance to
.slightly enclose the head of
thebed. Line these draperies
with a contrasting fabric and
continue the contrasting
fabric across the enclosed
part of the bed wall.
Cut a piece of plywood for
a headboard and cover that
in the same fabric.
Fashion your bedspread
either, jrom the contrasting
fabric or the drapery fabric
to co-ordinate the look.
Q. I have a dreadfully ugly
entry area in an apartment I
am renting. The previous
renters added wall -hung
bookshelves on the entry
walls.
I want to use the shelves
for storage but they are
poorly constructed. What
would you suggest?
One has to walk through
the entry hall to reach my
living room.— R. C. S.
A. You might simply
shroud the bookshelves.
Make very simple floor to
ceiling draperies from yards
and yards of a plain fabric.
Run a curtain rod through
the top and let the fabric fall fe 4.
to :the floor, obscuring` the '
objectionable but useful
shelves.
Add ceiling spots to
pleasantly light the space
and draw the eye to the
living room beyond.
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