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Whitby Free Press, Wednesday. May 19, 1993, Page 7 Harry anditheSgay Let's start off by examining sorne sexist doggerel: M'ary, Mary, quite contrczry IIow does your garden grow With silver belis and cockle sheils And pretty maids ail in a row. We came across this littie poen in a library book. To telliZ_ the truth, I was very surprised. Imagine the book police letting such sexist nonsense through . Let us examine it inr detail. You'Il see why: Mary, Mary: Obviously a girl's namne. Seems clear. Notice the head-shaking repetition. Can't this girl doe__________________________________________ anything right? Quite contrary: A subtie way of calling Mary the B' word, which rhymes with 'witch.' Sexist innuendo of the worst kind. How does your garden grow? Again, fernales depicted perormngdrudgey while the man of the house is wacigthe NHL hockey post-playoff series through late J=une and erly July. With iliver belle and cockle shela: Demeaning to fernales, implies that girls can be swayed with worthiessî trinkets. And pretty mnaids ail in a row: Has to be 'pretty' rnaids, eh? Whatta maie bias. What other kinds of maïids are there? Studious, primi 'n proper, grouchy. What'sit, some W s, guy think he's got ail the best looking girls ail lined up? . -What afantasy. With respect, we rewrite this piece: Harry, Ilarry, quite contrary IIaw does your garden grow? With siluer beils and cockle sheils And pretty guys ail in a row. The nursery rhyrne derneaned Mary~ for its first three hundred years; no reason Harry can't shoulder the burden for the next three hundred. Right, Harry? Gilinour for Premier While we're talking of NHL playoffs, what about that NDP government, eh? The province struVgles with the deepes.t financial crisis in sixty years -- that s two generations, maybe more. Thus we should ail be on the edge of our seats today, waiting for Floyd Laughren to bring down the Ontario budget. We should be up ail night devouring news analysis, flipping channels, ripping the tax increases apart, figuring out which province we could rnove to next, how to dodge the-- extra increases, ail thàt stuif. ST. ANDREW'S pRESBYTEIAN C.IIIRCH CHOIR MAY 1934 But we won't. This choir won first prize at the Stratford Music Festival in April 1934. The director, Helen In tact, rnost of us won't even be tuned to the budget. Spratt, is holding the David Smith ýChallenge Shield that was awarded to the choir. The Nor the analysis which will corne with the inevitable news choir is standing in front of the old church at Byron and St. John streets. Wib mie bt that cornes every night.WhtyAhvopoo And why? 1 ER G In one f e Map eLefugeroromheWednesday, May 18, 1983 edition of the Ion elswoop, the Leafs have pushed thebdt froWIIITBY FREE PRESS the minds of Ontanians. If that weren't enough, they have l he Kinsmen Park outdoor swimming pool. will receive $21,200 worth of repairs. j the pile on the dash. Drives to the nearest letterbox. Mis I Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier speak in Toronto. I the letter. Lotter>' ticket and al. f * The sod for the first cottage at the new Hospital for the Insane was turned on May 8. I }is wife laughs and laughls and laughs. Tells him he e Whitby artist Florence McGillivray, now studying in Paris, is president of the British and I better not win. And that he should not to write about it. 1 1 American International Art Union. Forturiately he didn't win.