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THE LIBER’A’E, RM-Imond Hill, Th'ursdziy, Dec. 20, 1951 Helen Haldane HELEN’S GRDBETEMA Richmond Hill Archie Murray Let’s put it this way. Christ- mas is coming and you’re looking forward to a jolly time, with lots of fancy lighting and colorful idec- orations â€" and it strikes you that some spots in ygur home are, well, not so new-looking as you would wish. Actually a bit shabby in places. Yours is a nice home, but maybe a trifle overdue for a re- touching job at the beauticians. You note the worn edges of your thresholds. There's a “traffic” trail across your stained and waxed floor. As the evening shadows lengthen outside, you notice your hall doesn't brighten up to greet you the way you’d like it to when Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec . 14: Bolton vs Kleinburg, 8.00 pm. Kettleby vs Nobleton . 19: Kettleby vs Kleinburg 8.30 p.m. . 21: King vs Bolton 8 p.m. Schomberg vs Nobleton . 26: Bolton vs Nobleton 8.30 pm. . 28: Schomberg vs Kettleby Let’s Fix Up Our Homes For The Festive Season WW 91wqu King vs Kleinburg $8 MERE? King -Vaughan Hockey 1951-52 Season Yes, there may indeed be need for a beauty treatment and who, better than yourself, can diagnose? You can direct the application too, with the help of the men of the house. You can do quite a bit of it your- self, in fact. A touch of paint, properly applied, and the worn threshold. rthe chipped indoor win- dow sill, can be patched to look brand new. A stained and waxed floor will respond to a. patching op- eration too”. YOur kitchen, how- ever, may need a rather more thor- ough going over. More than in summer, when vacations and week-end excursions often have eased the load, your kit- chen is in for a daily bombardment of steam and grease. A bright new color scheme will do a great deal here to preserve during the months to come the summery brightness the weather will not al- ways supply. Whatever scheme you adopt should be light and airy. Enamels, easily cleaned and highly resistant to stain, have their place lhere. An off-white â€" ivory or cream or perhaps sunshine yellow Jan. 2: King vs Kettleby 8.30 p.m. Jan. 4: Nobleton vs Kleinburg' Bolton vs Schomberg Jan. 9: Schomberg vs Kleinburg 8.30 pm- Jan. 11: King vs Nobleton Kettleby vs Bolton. All games are played in the Nob- leton Arena. The Wednesday night games start half an hour later than the regular Friday night games. you switch on the light. As for your kitchen, where you expect to be unusually busy soon, it could do with a “lift.” - â€" is popular, and a deeper hue for the dado and a red trim for gaiety, is an idea to consider. How’s your front door? The festive season is a time when vis- itors come. Maybe you’ll have a Christmas tree on the veranda, adding a jolly touch, and a big red bow of ribbon on you door, with perhaps a cane painted bar- ber-pole fashion to look like candy. After a couple of days of good weather, it may be as well to re- finish your door, to keep up with the gaiety of the occasion. First repair anycracks in the woodwork with one of the ’many available commercial crack fillers. And at‘ this time of year, it may be as well to work in direct sunshine. While you’re using paints and finishes, also, it’s a good idea to look to your decorations. Pine cones. lightly painted and sprink- led with artificial snow before they are quite dry make a pleasing ad- dition to your Christmas finery. You can paint up a‘ packing case to make a‘ toy-chest for Junior â€"- who will be scattering his gifts un~ tidin around if he has no place to keep them. In fact there’s no end of things you can do just now with a paint brush to be just the beauâ€" tician your home may really need. Give a thought to some of the attractive new deepvcolors for your hall. Here again reds are stimu- lating. and in this transient spot of your home you can afford to be rather more daring than elsewhere. Deep greens provide a firendly at- mosphere. Or perhaps, if you don’t want to go too‘ far at this time, it may sufiice to paint just one wall in a bright 1ight~reflecting color; in as little as two or three hours you can create a real trans- formation. The old-time smell of paint is no deterrent nowadays, either; in the past ten years or so the manufacturers have relieved it of its former ofi'ensiveness. Paint nowadays has a clean odor; many people find it actually pleasant. RICE’S FLOWERS BETH AND AL. RICE Far-away places with romantic names have a fascination all their own: Cambodia, Saigon, Angkor Vat â€" exotic and evocative of thoughts of golden-colored dancing girls, Buddhist temples in the jun- le, and the customs of strange peo- ple. In “A Dragon Apparent,” Nor- man Lewis sets out to find for him- self what these places are really like. Most people will enjoy tak- ing the journey with him. This is primarily a travel book, about a country â€" Indo-China â€" of which too little is known in the West. The publishers claim that it is “clear, objective reporting.” It is good reporting, but it is not ob- jective. Rather is it interpretative: the study of 3 Far- Eastern colony by a European stranger who has a deep-rooted hatred of imperialism. It is not a book that Will be wel- comed by the Quai d’Orsay. Lewis sees the French purely as exploiters, taking advantage, some- times in the most brutal fashion of a conquered people for selfish ends. He takes the fairly general view that soon the foreign invader will be driven out by the new upâ€" surge of nationalism, and says as he leaves: “I wondered whether it had all been worth it â€"- the brief shotgun marriage with the West, now to be so relentlessly broken off. Had there been, after all, some myster- ious historical necessity for all the bloodshed, the years of scorn, the servitude, the contempt?” Although he established contact with the Vietminh, though little- explained means, the author giVes no sign of the fact that the rebels are tools of Moscow and armed by the Chinese Communists. Nor does he indicate that the French, perforce, are now in the vanguard of the free world’s battle against the Reds. His impressions are of the weal- thy planters, knowing their time to be limited, conscripting native la- bor to swell their profits even though the men may not survive. When the supply runs out locally, he claims, planters have enough in- fluence to suggest getting as work- ers trained men in uniform. Even high Vietnamese officials serving in the Bee Dai regime told him, he says, that they hated the French, “who are driving us into Communism.” He does not em- phasize the tremendous difficulties the administration has fought since 1945, and seems to have failed to appreciate the significance of the immense loss of face suffered by the French when they did not defend the country against Japanese in- vasion. The nickname part is relatively unimportant. “Butches” can win hockey games too. But; they also need manoeuverability. Brawny Butch Bouchard showed that with the Montreal Canadiens. He has learned the knack of moving his bulky body into the paths of rush- ing forwards with resulting bruises to the forwards â€" and control of the puck. The ability to manoeuver On ice wins hockey games and nicknames as shown by Max “Twinkletoes” Bentley of the NHL. Toronto Ma- ple Leafs. However, as already mentioned, the book is a complete_success as Star hockey players like Bouch- ard‘ and Bentleyhave found their ability to manoeuver aptly in their own po’sitions invaluable aids.. The Sports Clinic The ability to skate into scoring or defensive positions is not a born talent. It is the result of uLiterally Speaking" . . . About Books A DRAGON APPARENT By Norman Lewis MANOEUVERABILITY (An official department of Sports College) Conducted by Lloyd “Are” Percival In clear, pungent prbse he des- cribes the cuStoms of strange races and cultures on the point of van- ishing. The lavish photographic illustrations give an excellent idea of the“ story’s background. Natur- ally he visited the fabulous temple ruins of Angkor Vat, “probably the most spectacular man-made re- mains in the world,” which drained the wealth and manpower of thous- ands of villages for generations. There is a John Gunther-like quality about Lewis’s ability to find and correlate facts about a coun- try hitherto unknown to him. He writes on vivid initial impressions which he manages to convey to the reader intact. . By Richard M. Saunders This is the story of a jaunt taken by Mr. Saunders â€"â€" who is profess- or of modern history at the Univ- ersity ‘of Toronto â€"â€" in the June of 1936 for the purpOSe of seeing and hearing birds he had not had opportunity of encountering before. He was accompanied on the trip by Thomas Murry, at that time a. student at Toronto, and now a quite noted bird watcher. The book is enriched with some char- ming woodcuts of bird life by Sylvia Hahn. Professor Saunders has the gift of writing pleasant narrative, and even if bird watch- ing is not one of your hobbies you will find yourself carried along and becoming almost as enthusiatic about each bird discovery as the author. And there seem to be so many birds in South Caroina â€" dozens of different Warblers, her- ons, egrets, rails, terns,- pelica‘ns and many others; colorful birds and birds that 'sing, friendly birds like the tits (kin to our chickadees)‘ and the great lonely vultures. a. colorful travel document. Lewis has been to Wild and dangerous territory far from the tourist routes, and while he does not say so, several of his trips must have taken considerable mental and phy- sical courage. “A Dragon Apparent” is very readable, and will open the eyes of many to things the existence ot which they had not susupected. And one encounters human be- ings, also -â€" sometimes seeming almost as strange as the birds. It is a pleasure to meet “Old-Man Do- ricott” and certainly pleasanter to dine with him vicariously than in actuality. The final chapter is devoted to birds of the south in Canada; for many of the birds that were new to the author in South Carolina ‘he has since seen and welcomed along the shores of Ontario lakes. His description of some 80 persons all eagerly waiting for a rail to ap- pear â€" much to the bewilderment of a provincial policeman -â€" forms a. delightful coda to the book. practice â€" not skating practice alone but a thorough study of con- trol skating. That means cutting, not from one direction but from and to all directions. One of the most important as- pects of control skating in hcokey is the cross over. It is found that some stays can reverse, cross or change direction instantaneously. Combined with speed and the abil- ity to stickhandle they generally are the stars who have most goal scoring opportunities. The cross over is nothing more than cutting corners â€"â€" getting to an awkward situation quickest in the best possible shape to utilize a break. To be effective a player must be able to cross both to his right and his left. The ideal training prgram for workout-for the hockey player who wishes to utilize his corner cutting abilities to best advantage is a square skating exercise. For the exercise beginners, a 40 foot square is best. It can easily be formed with four chairs, pucks or eVen snowballs. As manoeuvera- bility is incrOased, the square should be decreased, first to 30 feet then to 20 feet. The skater moves first to the right and then to the left. After timing his swing around the square he probably finds turning in one direction takes one or more sec‘ ond more than the swing the other way. That then, 'is an immediate fault to be practiced until it is cor- rected. As the swings around the square become faster the skater should develop fluid ease in cutting cor‘ ners and changing directions. With that ease comes manoeuverability which pays ofl" in goals for for- wards and effective checks for de‘ fensemen. In The Hockey Handbook, 9. 160,000 word instructional guide written by Lloyd Perciv- al, an entire chapter is devoted to the subject of skating and its development. This book can be obtained from Sports Coll- ege for $3.50 plus 10c postage. Many other valuable ser- vices, including special instruc- tional literature in all sports, is available from the College. There is no membership fee. To join, write Sports College, Box 99, Toronto 1, Ontario and mention this newspaper. Sports College on the air is heard ev- ery Saturday over stations CBW, CFGP, CBK and CBX. CAROLINA QUEST NORM’S SHOE REPAIR 9 Yonge St. N. E. C. Mansbridge & Staff A. 0. White British American Service [Station RICHMOND HILL In the hearts of our friends this day. As joyous songs of Christmas Night RICHMOND HILL Ring out in their own sweetlway Morley’s May all be calm and all be bright “W” May a joyous Christmas usher in a New Year of happiness and good beam: for all our cherished friends. .L Happy New Year to all. A Merry Christmas and D. W. Young