Men -l glaciers- and fthec flakes an îe hmari At other the Moqst knowWS nven t 0--s wibh sb ivl[izabltori anima.is, ~or the waste pia y ~reCefltIy. 73 Dveieu l t. act you, won'b yoli u did no't buy the nes;t(ol tables 1 bhoughýt we couldn't pos-ýsibfS' do without. Now tha-t sto-uld cortrnend itl. self te the mian of the fansly, don't you think? Not that I cins entîrely stsideven yet but the- preseýnt arrangement will do until 1' gel asther brainwave, You know, 1 think haîf the trouble with most of us is that we lacIk vision. We get se used to seeing things. good and bad, th!e way-, they are ta in limie w2 aculydon't sce t'hem at al, For instanci(e, one f riendi was vis- bIing' another for, the' fir-st time0. Shie was entranced by the beau- tiful scenery. "01h, how 1 env-.,y you jthiis view."e And thern zbe added -"But I sppose 'you are se) usedi to il you never even sec. it. She was absolutely right, Unles we keep ourselves aort we ae a b le telose osr war- ness of so rn-any thinga. Ev-en the Santa Claus parade. Mayhe 1 amn s1gh1y ifantile but I dropped everythinig laýst Satur- day,-- and so diid Parîner - ; we could watch the Parade on tlevisin and we thorougil y enjoyedit. BUtwbat a sharne il rained. Later two younig iothters hloo ed aiiniais; pottery - and perhaps with it the invention of wheeled transport; and the ruv olutionaýry technique of grind- ing, polishinig, and boring stone toolss o as 'ôtoniake them almost as efficient as the lateýr toc,]s of mretal. Tre cave mren did not f arm; t1hey wý,ere hunters anid fishier- meùr, and thecir women collectèd w ild fruit, vegetables, and grain TI-eyv lived lives rather like thl-ose of the Amnerica.n Plains indians before the introduct1ion of thie horse. They dlid not domesticate- animnas-or at best only- one aimai-il, ojur oldiest frienci, the dog. They livedi largely n n mals;theythou;ght about aîni- mais constantly; but they were hunters, so they treated evýen. the horse as somnething 10 obe stami-pede7td over a cliff and thenj caten. Thecy knew somecthing about cday andow it hardens in thle fire; but so f ar we have foundi no real dlay dishes or con- tainers amiong their remains, Wefind it diffLicuit to imiag-iii lile witbout th-e peaceful corn- fiLids, the quiet cattie, and th-e dishesz froin whicb w eat and drink; yet for mrost of man's existence on the earth these thiings were unknown annd un- drea2ýmed of. Settled f.armîng began somiewhere about 7,000 years ago, in the New Stone Ag-e: that see-ms likce a long time ago, buti, t is only about 200 generations fromn our own time. Our tohndehgrandfather was one of the ftirsti armecrs. But before that there was a long, long. period-not, ten imées as great but soein like a hun- dred turnes as great -~- durirug which our forefathers livý,ed in caves and hlunted the -Wîld ani- mais and made tools and molded the human mind imb somiething recognizably lilke its present et- fLectivenes.. That was what geologists cal! the Pleistocene period, and 'his- torians thec Old Stone and -Mid- dIle Sto.nes ages. Some of it was uinbelievably bard and terrible, withi muchi of -wlat is.now the habitable woridci overeLi withi grtindling ice and thundering sters ý%oLd have lo-ved J.watc- ing it on TV." Our daughter gces to the otlier ereie - s ,ela n ts her boys, to see every' vpara-de tht cornes alon'giacidgen-erally takes ail threce down- town. This turnlýe twoï of ~themn mi.-ssed out. Jerry ha measles and David the 1mumps. So) Art stayved homne withi the a)fflicted ones and Dea took Ed- d'ie to see tne parade. Ross dîdni't even see it even on TV be cause Joy was another onee who forgot. And now for those nbuae in- Ierested in reading partiec larly in history -- ay 1 recoin- nend to you "Life in t1he -Clear- ing-s" by Susanna Moodie. A sequel to "Ro)ughing it in tlhe- Bush".' 1 Althocugh the -book was written around 1850 this is ils first publication in Canada. It concerns the Belle-ville district. Il seerns aliost impossible that life couid be so dîfferent and yet be only a hundred years apart. Obviously eac'i period has its adivantages and disadvan- >Marshali scoo4s coround -the lune UnivFersity Fipld. Her teami, Pi Beta The ex-perts helieve thait recogl- nizaible men have existed oni this earth fQr hi a millionyýeâî-s; and fromr 500,000 B.C. (give or take a fwthious-and) to thle coniarativeiy recent date 0! 5000 Bl.C., they were whaitiwe know as cave, men. YZet their life was moreý intet- ligent and coniplicated, we ay aFlost sayv comifortable, than one would expect.-From "Talentý a-nd GeiieThe Pleasur-es ol Appreciaitioni,- by Gilbert HighetL Accessory stars - lhey ltend sparkle to dinner table, trayvs or under vase or larnp. PrelttY pine?.pples torni doiies -each miade in one day Pattes-n 641: cýrocbe-t directions for qsr 7,o-valixiround 10 ire in No. 50ý cotton. Sendl THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannet be LaCcepted, ' 1se p-ostal not for saIety) for thliq patteýrn te Laura Wh1ee!er, BoxY 't, 19-3 Eigbteenth St., New Tur-, onto, Ont Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAMEýl anrd ADDRESS- NeW! NeW! New.! Our 19(;< Laura Wheeler NeicatBo r- readyl NOW! Crammned wmr exciting, unusual, popular do signs to crochet, knit, sewý, ets broider, quill, weave - fasýhion! homne furnishingýs, toys, giffi bazaar, hits. In the book FRFEJ - 3 quilt patterns. 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