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ston -~ ------ ¢ with John Gast If your pockets empty as your stomach fills, try some acorn griddle cakes, dandelion crown salad, sweet goldenrod tea, wild gobo, or fried wapatoo. The price is right. In fact, forecasting my yearly grocery expen- diture from now on at about $300 (53 cases of ale) I should be able to save enough on groceries to buy a pleasure cruiser.. two if food prices keep climbing. While others are negotiating a mortgage on a joint of beef, I'll be merrily snipping my way through a field, armed with a pair of hedge shears, insect repellent, and a copy of Euell Gibbons' Stalking the Wild Asparagus. A few bucks will get you the book. In a few choice pages Euell shows how you can eat your chickory and drink it too, pry sweets from trees, and beat the pigs to the pigweed. No waiting at check-out counters. No elbowing down the aisles. No clouting junior for playing hand grenades with the soup tins. Health-wise, things look even better. There are no cancer-causing additives. (Goats and cows have been chewing weeds for years with few side effects). Burdock, for example, gives you strength, endurance, andsvitality of manhood, according to Gibbons. All of which | need. And medicinal value is considered another advantage. Take the case of the much-hated, trod upon, fumigated, poisoned, pulled and "herbicided dandelion. This scourge of the subur- ban back yard, according to Gibbons, has been. instrumental in saving the lives of many thousands of people because of its high vitamin content. A virtual five-course meal, the plant provides boiled and buttered dandelion roots, dandelion crowns both cooked and in a salad, dandelion greens, all washed down with some potent dandelion wine or a steaming cup of dandelion coffee. Then there's sage weed. Beat four handfuls of sage in a stone mortar (tuck under the thumbs) add a quart of red wine, and let it stand for two or three days. If you don't succumb to alcoholism, the mixture will prevent, among other things, gout, tooth decay, dropsy, and swelling of the joints of the body. : Although some of the medicinal claims show similarity with my daughter's .stomack-ache cure (a band-aid across the navel) the author hesitates to completely condemn as useless all such remedies passed on through the genera- tions. ~ Little do people realize the satisfaction of the mosquito-riddled, soggy-footed-but-happy pro- vider as he watches his family happily gnawing on a desheathed, boiled and buttered Super- market of the Swamp, the Cattail plant. Happiest in the high-priced 70s is the man (Edibus anythingus Cheapus) who finds himself amidst mycophagists (fungus). The list of the possible cookery of fungi extends to the length of one's arm (or depth and breadth of the stomach). - Ranging from Shaggy-Manes and Inkies to the Fairy Ring, these fungi provide an excellent menu, including such delicacies as vegetarian shish-kabob. Under the nervous stares of neighbours, I've already started yanking the regular stuff, making room for more weeds. Under a daily sprinkling, they are growing Jike ....... weeds. I'm planning to start with a huge pot of . Knotwood Soup. Pros NONI PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associalion Published every Wednesday by the Par) Perry Star Co Lid, Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office { Department, Oftawa, and for payment! of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0245 Mrs. MacPherson and Mrs. McCoombe of Port Perry, Mr and Mrs. Ray Lister of Toronto called on Mrs. F. Munroe over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Munroe and girls enjoyed the week- end at their cottage. . The Bethesda-Reach Women's Institute will hold their June meeting Thurs., June 19th. We will meet in front of the United Church, Uxbridge at 6:45 p.m. and go to Participation House near Markham. We will stop for coffee and dessert on the way home. On Thursday, June 7, Mrs. R. Armstrong was hostess for a farewell party for Mrs. R. Medd when all the Epsom village ladies met for a visit. After several games, Mrs. Medd was presented with a beautiful swag lamp and a book of Friendship Poems. All enjoyed a lunch and had a piece of the decorated cake which expressed all our feel- ings, 'Best Wishes to a Good Friend and. Neighbour". Miss Tracy Gourlie had three of her girlfriends as - overnight guests on Thurs. "Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Christie recently were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hunter of Uxbridge. Mr. and Mrs. Christie Clarke of Cannington had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Christie after attending Decoration Service at Utica Church on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cec- chetto of Guelph called on Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kerry after visiting Mr. Wm. Stear- man in Uxbridge hospital. Congratulations to one our Sunday School boys, Joseph Pospolita, who won two -- TRY OUR -- Surf & Turf Steaks Filet Mignon Lobster Tails Fishermans Platter Queen St. Emiel's Place Licensed Dining and Banquet Rooms Port Perry vw de satiny aS. PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, June 11, 1975 -- 3 Epsom and area news trophies at a recent Accordion Competition. He came first in one group of 25, and first in another catagory with 15 entrants. 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