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I REMEMPER Jim Bell OLD TIMERS Some one called me an Old Timer the other day, I didn’t re- sent it or feel the least bit hurt, not 4 bit. There is distinction in being an Old Tim- er. They have so many more things to remember than the younger people of to-day, who seem to think that they are the last word in knowledge and ex- perience, But let us get back to what an Old Timer really is, 1 imagine that any one who has passed is seventieth birthday and is due to get the Old Age Pension should qualify for the title, Of course, there are other qualifications that shold not be over looked. An Old Timer muat remember away back when about sixty per cent of the men wore whiskers and chewed tobaceo and the women wore ekirts so long that they kept the streets swept clean, They must remember when the sight of a neatly turn- ed ankle was «a rarity and if a woman appeared on the streets in pants, like a man, she would be fe in. the hoosegow in: short or- er. - bring to mind the relief of smith and when an Old reads about the trouble coloured people, his ‘ back to Uncle Tom’s with Eliza escaping over the ice or Simon Lagree with his big black. snake whip. Yes, the Old Timer has a lot of memories to fall back on. Skat- ing, toboganning, snow-shoeing, cutter and bob-sleigh riding and the Lady= of Then, there was the skating. The T mustn't forget the piteh-holes where you had to hold the girl fight. or she would be pitched out into a snow bank: Yes, the pitch holes had their place in the Old Timer’s scheme af things. Old Timer knew the fun of skat- ing on the old mill pond or on a lovely stretch of river in the moonlight. It is very unlikely that the young people of this day and age willsever know that pleasure, Everything is too arti- ficial these days, even the ice and the rosy cheeks, but I must get on and not become sentiments! or sarcastic, The Old Timer, knew 4 lot} about the things of bis day but the wonderful things. that this} generation take for granted, are marvels of discovery and inven. | tiveness to him. To the women of} the older generation, the name Hi-Fi or even Television would |' have meant nothing and as to aj’ cocktail, she would have thought it was the feather on the rear end |) of a rooster. (1 copled that last | phrase from the Cobourg Sen- tinel.Star). One could hardly claim to be an Old Timer if he Jd not remember the advent | + $ h a Me Out to the | } We) thought we had everything then, The Old Timer of to-day has a Jot of memories; some pleasant, |Some not so pleasant, We often — \see some. of the young people smiling in amusement when they hear sme of us reminiscing but about the beginning of the next. eentury, some of them will be) saying, “Do yor remember away | back in 1959, when Colborne held! its Centenntal?”, ete, ete .