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The Seaforth News, 1960-06-16, Page 6tea Maua;�attning irne Again The nun sequitur is the out- ata'ndu+ ° indication that the sett - Pon h:,; advanced and spring lion c ;Liming is on the make. 'seals;' a couple of smaller ones Foss before I take notice, but tht•n I catch one head on, and Initiate my escape soon. This year 'the lip -off was a good one, and 14 tught the following square on the button:: At Breakfast She: Is bhat egg done enough? :Him: Fine, fine. Her: Do you want more toast? He: Great plenty, bhanks. Housecleaner: Do you know Where Millie got the pegs? At this time of year the inured husband will recognize this as an open warning. Eating his egg, he will stop the spoon halfway to his mouth and will have one o those unreal, vacant, blank spasms of mental hiatus in which he has no idea who Millie is, What pegs are, or how we got to this pretty pass. It is now spring housecleaning time. Today is the day to hang blankets on the line, and to lay them away against the sharp frost of another fall. Everything is about to be tipped up, moved ever, turned around — and the smart husband will set his fish- ing togs in the shed and find aerie reason to be away as much as possible. Still, who is Millie, and what pegs? Millie? Well, it's some ten years ago Millie came into our lives. Haynes was her last name, I think. She was driving by on the road and she saw our stub - tailed cat on the lawn, and as dire always wanted a stub -tailed eat she drove in and asked if she could buy Stubble, or did we know where to find another,. And as she stood by the kitchen !door talking cats Mel Thompson and I were at the table settling the world's cribbage champeen- ship, It was two out of three, and For Girls And Boys g=1 mo i. h d itfxit;a MY°.fli. Nothing prettier for play than these little baby sets. Sewing a cinch; embroidery for girls; teddy bears for boys. Pattern 760; transfer; directions; tissue pattern 6 -month, 1 -year, 18 - month sizes, State size. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Print plainly Pattern Number, your Name, Address and Size. New' New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Zook is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular ttesigns to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave — fashions, Borne furnishings, toys, gifts. bazaar hits. In the book FREE 3 quilt pattorns. Hurry, send t5 cent; for your copy. I'd skunked him urns and he took the seeu.nd by three holes. Millie stood there watching while I won the third, and she said, "I'd rather play cribbage than eat." So I took her on af- terward, and beat her two games, and she went away. But a week nr so later she. came in again. Cribbage is a riend-snaking game, and she had brought a little wooden box with a lid, and in it were six ivory cribbage pegs. She'd seen them in a store, and thought of us be- eause we were using kitchen matches for my handsome wal- Put cribbage board. That's all there ever was to It; no lasting rapport was effected and I guess we haven't seen Millie since. But housecleaning time had arrived; the tree swallows were back and lilac buds were swell- ing; and that morning she had decided to start with the living room. No man, of course, will ever understand how they decide where to start, but this time it all began with the lovely antique cobbler's bench I made last win- ter, and my cribbage board with Millie's pegs was on it. Jack Mathews and I had settled the world's ohampeenship again, and left the board there. Jack lost three out of seven, And as she grabbed the cob- bler's bench and turned it Around, the cribbage board slid off and one of the pegs ran wild. She couldn't find it, It defied her. It hasn't been .ound yet. It's gone. So, she thought if I knew where Millie bought them, she might go there and buy another, and so on — and it all meant nothing except that spring house- cleaning was on the agenda again, and today would be the day to hang blankets. Man, as distinguished from woman, plays no real part in this vernal exercise. There is nothing about the up-in-a-heaval he can fathom intellectually, and there is nothing about the work he is able to do. A man's head and a man's back are unsuited, because a man can't begin with this non sequitur thing and come out even. She knows which chairs get moved that -a -way and which this, but a man can't see it, and he has no mental equipment which lots him adjust, If he tries to help, or is forced to help, he becomes dismayed and befuddled by the interrelated inconsisten- cies, and either starts a fight or removes himself to a far place. I'm in favor of the far place, myself, because I'm a veteran at this and my judgment is bet- ter than my courage. Too many times, in the perspective of the years, I have tried to do my helpful bit and heard her say, "Now, can't we shift that stove- pipe the other n -ay?" It is time to leave, for the stovepipe has to go to the thimble, and there is no other way, Or, she points at a 350 -pound bureau and says, "Lift that while I plug in the lamp!" I just can't help it; I say, "You lift it, and I'll plug!" Then I go fishing, or something. I notice, always, a kind of sug- gestion that housecleaning would always be easier if I would help. But I don't know how to help. I can move a bureau, all right, but I don't understand why it has to be lifted over a bed. And after I have vacated and come back, and she implies, "See how bushed I am, you lazy thing!" I never really feel ashamed at shirking. She takes no notice of the more shameful thing, that man ie so vastly inferior at this time that a terrible feeling engulfs him, and he is mentally unhap- py at being so associated with something beyond his ability. He is sitting quietly eating a soft- boiled egg, and hears a non se- quitur about an ivory cribbage peg, and knows deep down, in spite of him, that this is a logical and lucid thing, sound as a nut. He can't cope with it. He's licked. Anyway, I'm writing this in the henhouse, Q. Is the bridegroom supposed to pay for the beverages served at the wedding reception? A. No; all expenses of the re- ception are shouldered by the bride's family. PAT ANO WIFE — Singer Pot Boone and wife Shirley smile as they ,arrive in New York after a six-week European tour, ONCE OVER LIGHTLY — Allan Hay, 5, isn't impressed by this chandelier at the 27th annual Chicago Antiques Exposition, bt Was made about 1900 by famed glass worker Louis Tiffany of New York. It was valued at $1,200 when new. HBONICLE IINgitqclel The best part of last week was the first part so that's where 3'11 start. Last Tuesday was the day of our W.I. District Annual. It was held in Streetsville this year so we didn't have far to go. It was a lovely day (actually!) and the meeting was well attended. There were the usual reports in the morning, all very interesting with excellent music sandwiched in between. The programme was well organized which means that it was not unduly prolonged. Luncheon was almost on time. That is always an advantage. Not that the members get too des- perately hungry — just desper- ately tired of sitting. How much attention one gives to reports depends a good deal upon the length of time one has been sitting. I have known district an- nuals where luncheon has been delayed over an hour due to long-winded reports, Fortunate- ly that doesn't happen too often these days. The caterers for the lunch were ladies of the W.A. belong- ing to the church in which the meeting was held And what a lunch! Country caterers can out- do high class down -town hotels every time — at about a third of the cost One thing is certain, judging by the way the food was disappearing there couldn't have been many calorie counters at that luncheon After we had all fed — probably not wisely but too well — the guest speaker was introduced, Mrs. Pauline Harris, of Erindale. She had re- cently returned from a trip to New Zealand and was literally bubbling over with wit and wis- dom as she tried to describe to us highlights of life in that coun- try, Mrs, Harris had been enter- tained by several W.I. branches in New Zealand and brought back a number of programmes and several issues of "Home and Country" as published in that country. Quite a different publi- cation from the Canadian "Home and Country." It contained a serial story, recipes, household hints and various short articles besides detailed accounts of W.I activities. It was very nice but personally I ant well eontent with our own "Home and C'nun- try", From other weekly and monthly magazines we get all the stories and recipes any wo- man could possibly want but when we pick up our W I maga- zlne we know the, reading ma - will deal exclusively with ' 1. activities — extent for the Lay short pricing, wisely seketed to give us inspiration in our work, What amazed Mrs. Harris was the astonishing amount of ener- gy and initial!es displayed by New Zealand W.I. members. Competitions and demonstra- tions at every meeting, most of them involving a considerable amount of time and work: b', ldier'aft, home baking, art, r''imatirs, spelling bees and so no. She didn't know how they e1 r got thrnueh with it all. "Nut, of course," said Mrs. Har- ris, "they don't have television in New Zealand. And life is car- ri ed on at a more leisurely pace. They are home -loving bodies and enjoy social and cultural pas- times created by themselves." From the printed programmes passed around for us to look at it was obvious they had time to think — which resulted in most original roll calls — timely and witty, For instance — "Describe your husband in one word!" Now there's poser for you. Here's another — "Name your first boy friend." Can't you see skeletons popping out of cup- boards with tht one? 02 course there were others, more serious and thought provoking. Even from the little I have told you I am sure you can read- ily understand why we enjoyed our speaker so much that day. We could have listened much longer but alas there was still a lot of unfinished business to attend to, so we took to our hard chairs again, listened to more reports and took part in the election of officers. For the rest of the week what we listened to at home by radio and television was neither entertain- ing nor inspiring but downright alarming. The collapse of the Summit Conference. Wednesday night Partner was out. I was busy with some sewing I wanted to finish so I had the TV on and until 1.30 a.m. I listened to Khrushchev ranting and raving in his repetitious monologue of invective. Next day we were glad to get away from it all and literally tuck to the hills — the Caledon Hills. We visited friends and had a wonderful time among the birds, trees and scenery. The fly in the ointment came when it cost us $47 to get home. Car trouble, and we had to walk a mile to phone for a tow -truck. But that' Life — quite often the bitter and sweet come in one packet. We can anly take what comes and make the best of it, and be thankful it is no worse. Q. What is the proper way to eat squab and quail? A. Though small -boned and hard to handle, squab and quail are properly eaten with knife and fork. Anchor the bird firmly with the fork while cutting with the knife so that it doesn't do a three-point landing on your lap, 'That 'all expenses' tour you sold me was Just tint!' Wee .3 ngj fora"i0.1113 is Draw Hoge Crowds The Rev. (keret,, l'r;mde:ls had taken to iris bed. "f have a lot of stamina," said the hand cane; 41 -year-old _ priest last month. "1 am used to sleeping only three or four hours a night, but the last month finally got hie down," Like Father Papadeas, many members of the congregation of St Paul's Greek Orthodox Church in Hempstead, N.Y., have been running short of sl.:ep in recent weeks. It all started in mid-March when the first of three icons of the Madonna be- gan to "weep," and curious pee- ple by the busload started con- verging on the new Byzantine church, The icons' tears were the first such signs that had ever occurred in an Orthodox com- munity in the Western Hemi- sphere. By now more than 150,000 persons have visited the icons and bought 10,000 photographs (at $1 each) and more than 100,• 000 candles to light in memory of departed relatives, On the stands that hold the icons—three simple lithographs of the Virgin —or tied to the sills cord in front of them, pilgrims have left some $10,000 worth of jewelry, The steady flow of the devout and the curious has put an un- usual burden on the congrega- tion. The regular activities of the church organizations (Mr. and Mrs. Club, Young Adults, Women's Auxiliary, and the va- rious youth groups) have been drastically curtailed as members pitchedin to help make the vis- itors welcome (5,000 cups of coffee and hundreds of loaves of pound cake were served one busy Saturday). A gala bazaar has been put off till next March; time originally allotted to dances and other social functions is now given to lectures and discussions on the icons. As the church secretary, Mrs. Electra Karamargin, puts it: "From the minute I walk into the office in the morning, the phone doesn't stop ringing. But what's happened here is very in- spiring. It makes you keep going and going, and finally you look up and say, `My heavens! Is it that late already?'" Father Papadeas, who was back on his feet makes the report that church membership has•rYr- en to a high of 1,500. Regular services in the church, which seats 700 and stands another 300, are jammed, "The 9:15 Sunday service, which was never crowd- ed, is now over capacity," he says. "The late morning service is pure asphyxiation!" This new life for the St. Paul's community began last March 18, when Mrs, Panagiotis Catsounis saw tears coming from the left eye of an icon which she kept in her home in nearby Island Paris. First friends and neighbors, then a steady stream of people, came to see the "miracle." On March 23, the icon was taken to St. Paul's, The second icon belonged to Mrs. Peter Koulis, a great-aunt of Mrs. Catsounis, who lives in Oceanside, It began weeping on April 12, and two days later was taken to St. Paul's, where it was enshrined by Archbishop Iakov- os, Greek Orthodox Primate of North and South America, The third is a Madonna which the, archbisop gave to Mrs. Koulis to replace the second, It began • "tearing" on May 7, and by the end of the month was reported still showing signs of tears (the other two have now stopped). "The first weeping Madonna," says Father Papadeas, "was so I 1 line a t n t , 14teienie cage .a . ..1 1, hele,e:1-- the l:•'.:'�1 1 to be e.,rnh11 frosts rl•.ht ue u's lair eyes. I teas t. n"'1 'ti Lo snake 'no public armorer -.went about do • third i.'c;n. I said to 1llrs;•lioutis: 'Look herr, 4,000 people went throw='u ,v::ur apartment last time, Let's take the new one right to the church'," As Father Papadeas explains it: "Most of our .people feel that Gad has spoken through the icons, that lle has very vividly brougl•1 His message, that I -Ie is very close to us."—From NEWS- . WEED. Modern Etiquette 15, Anne Ashley Q. When a secretary is usher- ing an expected visitor into her empioyeris office, what form of Introduction does she make when she knows the two men concerned Ido not know each other? A. All she has to do is merely anncunce the visitor — "Mr. Bradford." Surely, the visitor knows the name of the person he came to see. For Hcilf Sizes PRINTED PATTERN 61-14L _7444 Smart Summer companions — separates or a suitdress with trim, slim lines to make you look taller and narrower. Choose tweedy rayon, cotton, faille, wool. Printed Pattern 4838: Half Sizes 141.4, 161/2, 181/4, 201/4, 221/2, 241/2. 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