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"INTELLECTUAL LEADER Britain Pays Tributes To Samuel Johnson * LONDON (CP) -- Some 200 years ago Dr. Samuel Johnson 'gave it as his opinion over a pint of ale that any man who was tired of London was tired of dife. ; " This year the City of London ds returning the compliment with a sound-and-vision exhibi- tion tracing progress from his 'birth in provincial Lichfield, near Birmingham, in 1709 to his death in London in 1784. Fame came late to Johnson. Poverty cut short his 'career at) Oxford University and the lack of a degree hindered his ¢limb up the rigidly-conventional 18th century social ladder. It wasn't until 1765 that he received his honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. Even in his prime, with his monumental dictionary an widely-acclaimed essays. behind \him, Johnson was never fully laccepted by the aristocratic lana court circles--a factor that served to nourish his passionate hatred for the "'vile Whigs" who controlled the strings of power. RULED OWN COURT Unreceived in palaces and sa-| lons, Sam Johnson set up his own court in the pubs and clubs of Fleet Street and the City. For nearly 40 years he ruled in- tellectual London from a tavern chair--a seat he called "the ithrone of human felicity." It was Johnson's privilege, perhaps his misfortune, to be better documented for posterity than any other individual since the death of Christ. James Bos- well's '"'life' of Johnson set a standard in biography that has seldom been equalled and never ' surpassed, ) Typical of the personal rec- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, August 12,1964 17 ollections is one by a WI writer - in Gladys Ridge, Alta. de- scribing the bachelor's ball as it was,in the days when it was the annual social highlight of Okotoks, Alta. RIBBONS AND LACE Women didn't rely on low necklines and makeup to en- hance their charms in those days, they depended on rib- bons, lace and sequins, she says. And cowboys rode in for the event with evening clothes in gunny sacks on their saddles. The history of the region around Clarendon, Que., de- scribes farming methods be- fore the middle of the 1800s. "About all the farming equip- ment they had at first was a hoe made by a blacksmith. Using this, they hoed the SHOP at /y SPROULES fo THERE! new experience. He hated Whigs and cant, He loved tea and clubbable men... . He once described true genius as "a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction." Johnson himself was the genius whose large general powers were never accidentally deter- mined down a specific path. Included in the exhibition is a recreation of Grub_ Street where Johnson scratched out a |living as a hack journalist when he first came to London. "No man but a blockhead ever Recollections Include Potent Health Potions By JEAN SHARP Canadian Press Staff Writer _ Preventive medicine as prac- tised in rural Ontario in the 19th century sounds potent. A-pioneez home remedy calls for eight ounces of squaw vine (partridgeberry), four ounces of cranberry bark, eight ounces wrote except for money," hejof slippery elm bark and one later said. ounce of bloodroot. Grub Street, with its diseased) "Put the above in an earthen beggars and open sewers, is\vessel, add four quarts of gone. But much of Johnson's prea a on the back of the : fenton ig still lok Where Wee tose atey nce can een who succeeded. in "Johnsoniz-|*0" $ Bs i days, then strain and add two ing" England. The exhibition|hardly a pub in Fleet Street/pounds of crushed sugar. Sim- ae heavily * poveet to\that doesn't treasure some me- portray a man whose "soul was not different from that of Ht ceo en ay on other person, but greater. a stable upon which he once! HATED WHIGS ate an "'ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept| | sam Johnson was a man of\and ill-drest roast mutton." | extremes. He was chronically; Above all his spirit is still! lazy, given to severe fits of| evident in the lanes and byways} melancholy and often physic-jof the old city, the Londoner's ally ill; but he also had zest,| spirit that made him exclaim considerable physical strength,|on his deathbed: "I will be con-| warm humanity and a thirst for! quered; I will not capitulate." | ground between stumps andjacquire that space. It wat planted potatoes. ' |threshed by being laid on a "Wheat was planted wher-ifioor and beaten with a flail-- ever there was space. Giant|two sticks loosely joined to. trees were felled and burned together with a strip of leather. Swifty « Nifty - Theifty mer 20 minutes and add half a pint of gin. Bottle and cork, "Take a glassful three times a day for six or eight weeks before expected illness." The recipe is from _ the Tweedsmuir History compiled by the Women's Institute in Kars, Ont. It won a WI na- tional competition this year. Tweedsmuir Histories are chatty, human chronicles of Canada's rural communities and how they grew. About 2,000 WI branches across Canada -- put togéther such histo- es. Even without Boswell, we would still know much of John- son. A man of his intellectual stature could hardly fail to cast a long shadow through the let- ters and journals of his times. But it was the cannily observ- ant Boswell, deliberately affect- ing the role of buffoon to pro- vide a foil for Johnson's wit, OPERATED BY | | A Division of the 5. $. Kresge Compony Limited mmmamcemmennmenarnd DRUG DEPARTMENT G. TAMBLYN LIMITED "LET US FILL YOUR NEXT PRESCRIPTION AND SAVE ON OUR LOW, LOW PRICES" LA I X saat A) . Aa Naa Vas * VV | v1) MB WU Pay 5 HTL me) Copal leas TO Mata Th \ OPEN DAILY 10,0. TO 10 P.M, MONDAY to SATURDAY ccroees | ry She t 1 Xe. 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