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Diary of a Vagahond by Dorothy Barker I was simply fascinated. I watch- ed his meticulously clipped mustache bob about like the business end of an animated tooth brush. This gentle. man sitting beside me was sputtering a protest. The fringe of white. hair that framed his bald pate hung over his ears in feathery scallops, It reminded me of a doily we once owned. We inherited this bit of de- coration from my - grandmother and for all the years of my childhood it reposed under a pot that contained a huge aspidistra, It. was a legend in our home that each spring grandmother had re- moved the doily, squeezed it in warm suds, boiled it in sugar and water until it was as stiff as a board and then returned it to its place of hon- our in the living room. This creation, I was told, was called hairpin work and my mother faith. fully carried on the laundry tradition once a year. That is until onesday, when someone told her she should wash the leaves of the aspidistra with milk. The plant soon disappeared and so did the doily. Mother was no horticulturist and obviously no lover of the art of hairpin embellishments for her parlour. But to get back to my travelling companion. He was a type, the kind of person I have come to recognizo as a chronic complainer. His objec- tion on this occasion was to the lilt of a transister radio. It belonged to two young people in the seat oppo- site ours. They were, I judged, Uni. versity students commuting from campus to their suburban homes, They were oblivious of all other pas- sengers on the train. The lad stu- died from a text book while he clung to the right hand of his companion. She worried her touselled mop of hair and beat time to the music on the windowsill of the coach with the fingers of her free hand. I think the tune was called "He'll. Have To Go. n A thoroughly silly" song I must ad- mit, but their youth and apparent happiness were rather to be envied than criticized for thoughtlessness. | ! couldn't understand why a The elderly gentleman raged his discontent over the music for miles. I hadn't said a word as he mouthed his: vehemence. 1 couldn't agree with him because, for the life of me, | person | should get so wrought up over a tem- intrusion on his aesthetic taste. I thought all of us, whether we admire such so called music or not, have learned to take juke boxes, the blare of TV and, more recently, porary tansistor radios in our stride. This incident brought to mind a hurricane, thé playoffs in the west between Edmonton and Winnipeg for the right to contest the Gray Cup and a train that was an hour late because THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE TWICE the help--HALF the work with our 2-Account Plan Pay 1 Your * all bills by cheque on a Personal Chequing Account. 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I but- toned up my comfortable and utili- tarian burberry; the one my New York columnist friend" had ridiculed As "strictly pre-war", grabbed imy train case in one hand, an over-sized purse in the other and swung out through the doors of the hotel into a whirlwind deluge. Before I could get my second wind the ties of the plastic bonnet were strangling me, my hat was tucked in a sodden mess beneath my coat. For a while It was a toss up whether I, or Mother Nature, would win the strug- gle against my mental odds that I would never reach the station door. I did, of course, only to discover the train 1 was to board for the coast was somewhere down the track to the cast, having its own argument with the storm. Masses of people jummed the station, all steaming wet and bedraggled. Little rivers of water ran down my nose, off my bur- berry and into the tops of my plastic vain boots. I was disconsolate, drenched, disheartened and discour- aged. Then I heard cheers! In the heart of that crowd someone had just scored a touchdown! The little trans- istor, held in the palm of a crew-cut traveller warmed me with the excite- ment of that playoff game. Listen- ing, the hour sped like lightening and I was soon in a dry, air-conditioned roomette with a solicitous hanging up a- dripping burberry and assuring me he would have my shoes dried and polished by morning. Would I have the railroad ban tran- sistors ? Hardly, for there have been other occasions too, when I have been travelling, that I have enjoyed listening to someone else's radio. There will always be the protest- ing type, who has forgottem-to keep in step with the times. In many res- pects I honestly don't blame them, trash is trash whether set to music CANADA'S FASTEST GRO [ABATTS Betwaen rounds sit back with a tall, cold 50 Ale and listen to "PATTERSON MONDAY, MARCH-13%, 10.20 P.M. ON CBC RADIO NETWORK WING ALE met § OHANSSON 'The Heavyweight Championship of the world brought to you exclusively by Labatt's SEE THIS NEWSPAPER FOR YOUR STATION : (ALSO ON CLOSED CIRCUIT TV, +... THE SPIRITED ALE! porter, [| Sh . § i as A eh vat A ar AI BEER THE PORT PERRY STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 0th, 1961-1 or captured between the flimsy covers of a dime novel. Perhaps I am one of the lucky ones, I can mentally turn off my hearing and have pleas- ant things to think about even while amidst the din of jazz I don't parti- cularly like, The same goes for the pornographie novel. 1 don't have to read it, And what of our young people, gomeone is probably objecting in Sas- katchewan, Nova Scotia, Quebec or wherever this column is. read. Don't they need to be protected against be- ing exposed to such rot? Mine safe- ly survived a post war frenzy of rau- cous jaza and salacious literature with no ill effects. Perhaps I am lucky that they inherited my boasted ability to sift the good from the bad. I am sure most young people are capable of this. I am also sure they are not going to the dogs by listening to a youth with a tunelss voice croon "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone". Junior Farmers CONFERENCE A number of Ontario County Junior Farmers will attend the 1961 Junior Farmers' Association of Ontario An- nual Meeting and Conference to be held at the O.A.C. Guelph, on March 10th, 11th and 12th. The 1961 Provincial Exécutive will be elected at this meeting and the programme for the year will be out- lined. In addition, the delegates at- tending will discuss a number of in- teresting subjects such as programme planning, more effective meetings, so- cial recreation and athletics. Last year over 500 delegates attended this Conference. Those attending County are: Jeanne Pearson, Uxbridge, R. 2 Heather McTavish, Uxbridge, R. 4 Beth Ashton, Port Perry, R. 1 Gaile White, Brougham Evelyn Dunkeld, Claremont, R. 2 Jeanne Alsop, Cannington, R. 2 Carl Shier, Cannington, R. 2 Ron "Shier, Uxbridge, R. 2 Bob Barlow, Blackwater, R. 2 Murray Jones, Claremont, R. 2 from Ontario Manchester Mrs. Josh Dobson entertaine? the Women's Association on Thursdav af. ternoon last. The meeting op ned with hymn "From Greenland's ley | Mountains" and prayer.' Mrs, I ld. ing conducted the business ses: on, The roll call was answered by six members and fourteen visitors 1 re present, Mrs, Ethel Franklin rave the report for parsonage commil a $10.00 was: voted to W.M.8., $5.00 to flower fund and $150.00 to the church fund. Mrs. Bain read several "Thank You" letters. 'It was agreed to cater for a-July wedding and final details were arranged for Central Cattle Breeders luncheon, March 16th. Worship period was conducted by Mrs, Mets Holtby, Mrs. Lorne Thomp. son and Mrs. J. Dobson. Mrs. Meta Holtby introduced the guest speaker, Mrs. Edgar Leask of Port Perry. Her theme was "Mis. », Mrs. Leask"ig always a wel- sions come visitor to Manchester. Mrs. Thompson thanked her for a very informative talk. ~ Piano solos by Barbara and Mary Lynn Holtby were enjoyed. The offering, $7.35 was de- dicated by Rev. Mr. Braham. The April meeting will be held in the church. After the theme song and prayer, Mrs. Dobson and her group served a delicious lunch and a social hour was enjoyed. T.0.P.S. will welcome you at thej- cuchre in the Hall on March 11th. | Mr. tertained relatives and friends on Thursday- evening on the occasion of Mrs. Dobson's birthday. 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