SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW

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BY JACK SCOTT

When I build my dream house, the minute'the gold comes from the
next Irish Sweep, I’m going to have a kitchen exactly like the Simp-
sons.

This Pll have to do over my wife’s dead body, a bridge I can cross
later. Come to think of it, we might even have two kitchens -- his and
hers. You’re going to dream? Dream big.

My wife’s idea of a kitchen may be found in any of the back pages
of the glossy magazines, a sterile, enamel cubicle sort of like a
dentist's office, in which everything is within convenient reach of a
90-degree pivot.

Like most women, she craves a purely functional headquarters for
“the preparation of meals, a place where everything makes a barely
perceptible hum, works automatically with a feather touch of a
switch and never gathers a mote of dust.

I'm not knocking her concept. Labor-saving devices appeal to me,
too. l often dream, for example, of a typewriter that could be pre-set
to peck out a column rather than put me through this old-fashioned
weekly self-destruction. So I can hardly blame her for wanting the

« labor-saving devices of the day.
a It's just that I feelsoright when I go up to the Simpson’s place and
pull up a rocking chair to that old Monarch stove.

The Simpson’s kitchen probably hasn’t changed a whit in 40-odd
years except for the calendars on the walls. It’s:one of the oldest
farm houses out there just beyond the fringe of Creeping Suburbia,
built in a day when families were big and their needs were simple, an
age I never knew, but for which I feel an ache of nostalgia. As the
Irish say, it makes me want to go back to where I’ve never been.

The kitchen has a charm and an atmosphere you’ll never find in
the ultra-modern, all-purpose “units” of today. Something had to go

° when they streamlined that particular room and what went was the
personality. You could find just as much homely cheer in a
“chemistry lab, in. most cases. When Westinghouse and General :
Electric moved in the friendliness moved out.
‘Tike to walk to the Simpsons on a nasty, blustering day and step
inte the warm embrace of that kitchen. ‘The first thing you do is to.
‘walk directiy to the stove. It is gigantic and black with all sorts of =
elaborate filigree work on it, You put your. hands out to it, + palms
facing the heat. ~
Now. Can you imagine making a gesture like thatt to the automatic,
: thermostatic, | high-fidelity, . super-hetrodyne, electric range ‘of .
today? Do you realize that millions of children of the coming
generation will never know. what it means to Worship a cast- iron.
monster? Poor: little gaffers.
: The Monarch, true to its name, ‘dominates’ the room. There’ Se
- usually bread in its oven and an ancient Airdale in the space behind’:
itand a line of clothes hanging above it to dry. The Simpsons kitchen
has that lived-in look and I wallow i init.
. There’s a living room in the farmhouse, more properly called “the sn
ol parlor’’, but I’ve only": been it once, on Christmas Day. Even the:
= Simpsons, Isuspect, felt strange i in there as if they, too; ‘were guests. a
-| Normally the kitchen is the all-purpose. room. ‘Long: before the©
_architects thought: of conceiving: a home. in. terms of “living”. and.

: “Seven in. the. Simspon family. The kitchen: gracious! accommodates A

In this I am suppor ed by my ‘oldest. daughter who. is oveasionally
invited to ‘dinner at. the farm: :

~ you all pass it up and down the table: Why can’t we do that?” . : :
: - “Some day,’” I said; “when we have our. dream house.” wt

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Band Concert Scheduled
At Tulista Park Sunday

To encourage. more use of Tulista Park and its facilities;
Sidney Recreation Commission has arranged a band concert. -
by the North Saanich Junior high school band next Sunday, :
May 10 at3 pm.

_... Maintained by Sidney . parks department, ‘the waterfront
recreational area’ is in process of Jandscaping one aes
#7 . planned: basis. A tot-lot, picnic tables and, rest rooms. are.

the. International Optomists’

: : “playing”? areas the farmhouse had. the. problem’ licked. There: are |

“Gee,” she said the other night, “it’s fun to eat all together i in the
: kitchen, Mrs: “Simpson brings. ‘all the food i in ‘bowls and’ platters and.”

“Over my ‘dead body, Me said my wife which, I see,, Lis where y you ve

WITH MAX

Ina small village store
the inexperienced daughter
stretches the elastic by an
inch when supposedly mea-
suring a yard. Her more
experienced mother, under
a barrage of small talk, can
stretch the elastic by three
inches when selling what
she calls a yard. By what
percentage is the effective
price of the delivered
elastic greater than the
quoted price, A in the case
of the daughter; B. in the
case of the mother?

Answer to last week’s
problem:

Optomists’ public Speaking The Red bus departure
trophy is held by winner David times are 13, 28, 43 and 58
Lawrence. (Review Photo). ne ee

minutes. after. the hour.
There are 10- minutes. be-
tween the departure of a

Yellow and a Red, and only

5 minutes between the de-

parture of a Yellow and a

Red, and only 5 minutes be-

tween the departure of a

Red and a Yellow and thus

twice as much chance of
catching a Red.

Not Yet

Henry. Avenue: residents who
wrote. Sidney: Council recently
requesting road improvement
details. will be told. that’ paving
cannot. be carried out this year.

“We -are- concerned,’ Mayor

Fourth Big Win
In Speech Tests
For Local Boy

David Lawrence, 15, anda
Grade 10 student of North Saa-
nich junior secondary school, has
captured the Victoria Optomists’
public speaking trophy for. boys
aged 11 to 16 for the fourth year in
succession.

Competing at Oaklands school,
David's topic was “‘Youth, Full
Partner in a Better Tomorrow.”’
He now will take part in the’

‘Pacific Northwest finals to be} Stanley Dear. assured — J.

held shortly at Wenatchee, Wash- Hamilton and other Henry

ington. residents, * “but cannot make any
If suecessful he will qualify for promises.’

The Mayor said that this street,
which will eventually be cut off
by completion of Highway 17; will
-be paved under: the local /im-
provement. by-law. probably i
1972. |

public speakers event scheduled’
later at Los Angeles.

David is the son of Mrs..E. G.
Eichhorn of 9882 Seventh St.,
Sidney.

Fresh flower s : . |
was tastefully :

: 2 - arranged, for

you, for gifts. _

Choose here. from. beautiful arrangements, corsages, oS
houquets and plants, e “oss ; :

Garden supplies - Seeds - Redding: Plants :

Brentwood Florist & Garden Shop
mL West Saanich Ra. - 652. 2131.

among the facilities already available.

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- ~.. R.C.MLP,. successfully “arrested |. f vi eed : oe
Ghee: the attack staged by the Sidney | ‘a es
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qe ball team, last Sunday,’ 7 | .
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catching Constable Jones, three | ‘i
singles anda double; and ager and | —r
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winners. pee
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‘of power. came. from” first}
baseman Janette Hammer who
‘contributed: two, singles and. a
double in their losing cause,
Later the local Kinsmen. were

hoping to cash in on thé victory | > |
fe tral, but by this time all the gals us Cc cl arenes
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pe “innings.

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aingle, double and. a home run
with two on hoard; also e7 atcher
Rarb Scott and second baseman
Joan’ Smale cach — contributed
three singles anda double.
The winning ran was bit in by
Lori Cameron, who happened to
be the winning jpitcher: in (his
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