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the tribune stouffvlue ont thursday mfcy s 1952 onorrry mother we have the nicest gifts for her sunday may 11 th is mothers day handhajj umbrella nylon hosiery gloves handkerchiefs cup and saucer cornflower crystal fine wool cardigan teapot cream and sugar set blouse dress housecoat silk dresslength print housedress tablecloth bathtowels bedspread satin cushion bathmat set livingroom rug bedroom scatter rug showercurtain 9 tile for kitchen or bath room spofford co weekend shopping in britain a joke by george ahcll of stouffville ah that good old influenza how lonesome a winter would be without at least one visit from our old friend just when we thought that our family had developed some marvellous immunity we all came down at once a few weeks ago as this coincided with a freak blizzard that piled snow up in man sized drifts it all seemed so homelike looking out at the good citizens shovelling their paths and feeling like death warmed up brought back happy memories of the same thing in ontario but now the snow and the flu are well behind us the sun is shining and the tulip trees are in bloom so roll on summer and 1 will enjoy life as much as possible in this england of good queen bess the second for a week at easter the head of the house took our two girls to the seaside leaving our five-year- old boy and 1 to keep house this trousers when there are four things to do at once and asking questions such as daddy if you were really a general in the war did you have a white horse oh how 1 longed for nancy cleaver to walk in and use psycho- addening experience has proved logy on him before i used a hair what 1 had ben to suspect be- 1 brush fore that the heroes of this world are not explorers business execu tives or politicians these people should be ashamed to draw any pay for what they do if one of them had to trade places with a mother for a few days hed soon learn the facts of life how do you cook a meal so that the different things are done with in one hour of each other why didnt somebody tell me that kids coloured ciothes and my white shirts shouldnt be boiled together what do you do with a fiveyear but the crowning touch was the saturday morning i took my shop ping bag our two ration books and junior on a ha ha shopping trip after standing in line for half an hour at the butchers he condes cended to let us have a pound and a half lamb roast for the weeks meat lamb he called it what a hopeful statement that butch er probably woidd address win ston churchill as sonny next call is the grocers nobody says anything just hand over your ration book and a pound note the old boy who keeps pulling at yourlittle packages of butter marge sugar etc are slapped down on tne counter along with what change there is the cheese ration for our two books one oz each was just slightly under the size of piece needed to bait a small mouse trap but fortunately there were plenty of unrationed cans of i c- as i remembered reading recently that beans are full of vitamins or botulism or whatever it was the russians recently in vented we loaded up with 31 we could carry magicians bah the greatest magicians in the world to day are british housewives for how they can keep the table load ed twenty one times a week is be- vond the understanding of a mem ber of the weaker sex like myself however things are once more back to normal at our ancestral castle for which my son and 1 are truly grateful to change the subject london is filling up with the first batches of overseas visitors among them are a lot of fellows wearing can army uniforms who claim to be on leave from the can brigade in germany but 1 am suspicious that they may be spies for while they look like can troops on leave looked like a few years ago they certain ly do not act the same they sit on park benches alone mind you or in pairs go sight seeing and snap pictures of each other they are seen in the morn ing with clear eyes and steady hands and there is a rumour going around that some have been in the art gallery i ask you canadian troops on leave in london in the spring with wallets full of the long green taking snaps of each other even in the hours when the pubs and bars are open such a thing was never heard of before and if they dont change their ways scon the whole can army is likely to be boycotted by the worshipful guild of public house and licensed premises landlords oi even worse by the female fed eration of barmaids typists and shop assistants the situation is very puzzling indeed and unless there is some sign of normal behaviour on the part of these boys in the near future an investigation will have to be set in motion for people who live in london and have endured two invasions of can troops on leave in the last thirty years are growing suspicious of this unnat ural conduct a big operator in the old shell game this hen belonging to john bello of niles ohio appears to be resting on her laurels after laving the one- half pound egg that dwarfs the average one beside it measuring eight inches in cir cumference it is four times larger than an average egg ringwood miss belle mitchell returned last week after spending the win ter in florida and enjoying an extended visit with relatives in london and st thomas enroute home mrs fred steckley is visiting her daughter mrs victor brown near barrie while fred is engag ed in construction work at camp borden miss caroline ogilvy spent the weekend with miss diane ratcliff mr and mrs herb hisey accom panied by mrs joe fockler enjoy ed special church services in orillia on sunday if the brain called for food as regularly and as persistently as the stomach does the average person would know more than could be crammed into four encyc lopaedias onservati stahh w mflchaee jnk hear mike starr for 5 long years ottawa has been forcing you to pay surplus taxes last year the average family paid 200 more than was needed to run the country mostly in hidden taxes including defence you owe it to yourself to protest high prices caused by high taxes monday may 5th 700 715 pm in a brief talk about taxes and you early risers special mondays wednesdays fridays 625 am i e i k new 15000 addition to south pickering fire hall is discussed mr h wells representing the south pickering fire area appeared before pickering twp council at their regular meeting on monday afternoon to request permission to build a 15000 addi- tion to the new fire hall located in south pickering the proposed two storey addition will provide ollice for the police on the ground floor and an upstairs ehambei that could be used for a court room im not for it because its going to cost us too much money de clared councillor newman weve set our budget for police costs this year so it will be impossible for us to undertake the project commented councillor balsdon will the police be allowed to set up their offices in the fire hall questioned reeve geo todd a petition could be erected for temporary purposes agreed mr wells but if this council will not favor the construction of a separ ate police addition we will not allow them to set up their offices in the fire hall councillor michell believed that since entertainment was to be allowed to make use of the newly built hall it would be wise to have the offices of the law situated within easy reach other members agreed with this idea but decided to table the plan for the present time bbbbb w markham new slimmer policy doors open 700 pm picture starts 730 030 sat matinee 200 pm last times today the most unforgettable technicolor picture ivory hunter with anthony steel and dinah sheridan also for your added enjovment robinson grazieno fight pictures fri sat may 9 10 honey chile in technicolor starring judy canova plus lets go navy with the bowery boys last complete show 900 pm mon last yea star in rues may 12 13 academy award rs her new pictur the marrying kind judy holiday and aldo ray much more needed than a uni versal language is some form of communication to span the enorm ous gulf 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