Whitby Free pr sWèdnosday, Maýf 1 Yh i 9'9i, Page7 PAGE SEVEN Wïth OurA77IN Domestie harmony? Let us picture a person at the top of the basement stairs. r The person is trying to communicate to a person at the bottom of the basement stairs. The person says: "ArJe you down there piaying wth the laundry again?» The answer from the laundry room beiow could be a) 'Tes, dear."J b) 'il be right up to fix you a cup of tea.» c) "In a pig's eye.» 43 d) 'Tes, I'm just washing your new sports jacket.» By now, almost every consciousness-raised maie knows that yelling such commenta from floor to floor in a bouse is not the way to domestie harmony. However, it is perfectly acceptable for a person to stand at the top of the stairs, trying to communicate to a person in, say, a basement den. The person yells: "Are you down there playing with your computer again?» ________________________________________ The answer from the den could be: a) "Yes, dear, MIl put the garbage right out." b) "If a little snow bothers you, shovel it." c) "Sorry, I was just trying to get some time to inyseif.» d) "I'm interactivt to Hong Kong on a $2-million deal." I realize that discussion of such matters strains domestic harmony. To the two above questions, there are politically correct answers. There are also spouse-preferred answers. More of that later. This weekend I read a summary of a recent survey on male-female attitudes. Èt held few surprises. Women spend more time on housework than men do. Women also spend more time with children than men do. Women also spend better quality time with chiidren than men do. Men also spend more time at work than women do. If one were a tireless fighter for equality, one might think that as the first sign of equality. But men, it appears, not only spend more time at work, but feel that they just get "no time to themnselves." Pity we poor critters? No way. "Men have no time to themselves," claimed one person, pardon, hyperdaughter of feminist persuasion, "because they spend ail that time at work. And that time at work is time to themselves. Men get great enjoyment at work. Time at work is time to themselves. Men f ind great self-fulfilîness in work.» Try persuading any person of whatever persuasion that SION P1IOCLAIMING WHITBY DUNLOPS AS WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONS, folding laundry is time to yourself," and you would MARCH 1958 understand the foolishness of the argument. Within minutes of the Dunnies' winning the World Hockey Championship on March 9, 1958, Maybe, I thought, the other arguments are similar. Do this sign was unveiled on Brock St. S. Standing with the sign are Tom Puckrin and Whitby women spend more time on housework? Industrial Commissioner Charles Chaytor. Wbitby Axchives photo I did an unscientific survey on this question recently at Joe's Pool Hall and Sports Bar. The answers: 'Il vacuum and dust wýhen she cuts the lawn.» 10 YEARS AGO "I cut the lawn, shovel the snow, wash the car, take out from the Wednesday, March 16, 1983 edition of the Y -I _1. _1_. à l- JWHITBY FBEE PRESS garag, bil an pin. Ishulddut he raestO? *Th OtimstClu oWhtbyha doatd 15-00 t-e.-the- r. JY %.O. udd. Gneral__1Hosital are fulfilled only at the office are sick; men and women fromn the 'Fhursday, Marcnh 1, 1913 ecuuooi meLIt make the best parents; there isn't enough time in a day to IWIITBY GAZETE AND CLIRONICLE do everything for everybody. *l George Branton, the noted boy soprano singer who grew up in Whitby, appeared at the Regarding our test questions: in both cases, the person at Music Hall in his home town on March 3. the top of the stairs could bo either maie or female. * More than $300 in prizes wiil be offered at the Brooklin Spring Fair. Therefore answers a), b), c) and d) are ail correct, depending * The Whitby 111gh School is badiy in need of a heating and sanitary system. on ou prsason Patrick's Day, March 17.1 mmwý