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YOUTH
By "funny** Oroti
Does anyone ever really know
The touchingbeaúty oi'^youth,
Th& joys and páini and blows thai grow^
From cuttíng of tbeir firsi tooth?
pld atiyóiie ever r^^
Oí thekíunvlédge these young hearts holdi Thé^ienderabilitywitbwhich they linh^ Thé iinknöwn troubhsoi old?
Did^anyoneever reaílytry Their probléma to understand; no lor %Béhind the eara they aré not quite dry^ For leadership in this great landÜ
Can anyone «ver really say ^ '
In a ppem OT somé sage book^ Their triiúnphs and failures of each day? Aré tbése by you overlooked? '
Di4 anyone ever really, per chance Cáré eiíough to táke trouble and iitne? Seldom, só-wby don*t you give them a chance For you'H pride in saying »tbey're mineU
StAViC fOU( ART fXHIBITION 6!4 TQIIR OF^ÉSTERN CANÁOA
VIEW of the Czechoslovak exhibit.
Follawing its successful four day premiere stand here, the Ex-hibitipn of*Slavic Folk Art and Handjcrafts is now^n a tour of Western Canada where^ it will be
In oiider to help defray thecosta of the tour there wilí be shown in each city immediately aíter the exhibition two new Soviet films — a feature adventure story, entitled
shown in a number of major cen-jMaximka and a color document-tr€s. ! ary, Volga-Don Canal,
One of the richest collections of j Director of the exhibition during folk art and handicrafts ever dis- its tonr throughout the eountiy played in Canada. the exhibition is wlU be Willlam Malnychuk, ytHing being awaited with keen interest IJkrainian Canadian leader from by thousands of Canadians in the Montreal.
,W€st, both those of Slavic and non-SIavic origin.
Twelve trunks and four large boxes öf articles are included in the display that has been takenon tour. Included are examples of folk árt and handicrafts from seven coimtriéis: Russia, Ukraine, Byelo-russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoalayia and Bulgária. All of the mány categorie» of hsuidicraf ts that were on display in Toronto are also represented. in the tour-ing exhibition: embrbidery, fine lace work, carvings in wood, bone and ivory, hahd-painted pottery, glassware, rugs, dolls, colorful costüniés, reproductions of paint-ings a^d many others. Somé of the wórk has been judged by Toronto artista as being unsurpassed by anything they have seen in beauty and workmanship.
S M I L E
In the days of the old west, an Eastern missionary c^me to con-vert the Indians. As he went to preach for the first tlme he an-xiously ask^ hia white gulde if their luggage would be safe with-out lock or key.
The guide,. a native westemer replied. "Oh sure, ifll be safe. There isn't. another white man wi^iin a hundred miles."
• * ■ ♦ • Twain Story THE MARK Twain anecdotes are all directcd at humbuga and such. Thia one, for example.
Mark Twain was once gucat of a women'/í aociety at the Metropolitan Op<;ra Houac. But hla en-joymcnt, of the opera waa npoilcd considerably hy the fact that the womcn wouldn't atop talking.
Aíter the performancc, Twain thaniced hia hoatcaa and sho aald: •Td üke you to be my gucat again. How about next Wcdneoday? The <^ra la Carmen." ^s.
Td love to," repllcd T^aln. "T-ve nerer heard you In Carmen."
FoUowing its stay at the Lake-'head the exhibition moves on to Winnipeg where it will be shown for four days.
Ita third stop will be in Regina, Dec. 17 and 18 (with film showing on Dec. 19th).
The exhibition will then move on to the Pacific Coast for the Christmaa holidays, after which it will begin working ita way back acroaa the four western provincea.
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More Cliristmos Trees for Hungary
Tó meet big demanda for Christmaa treea, Hungary'a timber trade is putting nearly ,2.000,000 feet on the markét thia . year, ^compared to 1,320,000 feet last year. (Chriat-maa treea are sold by the foot.)
Other Christmaa auppliea in-clude 2,200 tons of "fondatjt" sweéts — against 1,630 tona last year — and 227 tona of the traditipnal confectionary figurea, against 140 tons last year.
One hundred tons of egg pow-der, equivalent tó 10 millión eggs, are arriving from China this month.
COM£ ALL YE MERRYMAKERS
XMA5 CABARET
Everyone Joves the Holiday Season! Fun and frolic, dana-ing and eatíng — that's what the Toronto Kossuth Youth are
looking foTward to.
The planning committee — Edith Stelger, Helen Welnrauch, Joe Jastrab, Ntek Swnik — started good and early to prepare for íhia auper-duper whale of a time. .
With^the romántic strings of JOE KREMER and his GYPSY ORCffESTRA, candlelight and cofíee, ham on rye and dili pickle, BILL CZEGLÉDI MC-ing the Floor Show, cheek-to-cheek under red and green trimmings, the shining Christmas Tree — v/hat a way to start your Holiday Season!
For the lucky winner, there will be a beautiful door-prize of a 5-plece Sllver Te* Setl
The planning committee cordially invites all our friends in Toronto and are extending their special invitation to the
youth of near-by cities.
Saturday, Decemb^ J8 8K)0 p-ra. AdmlHSlon — f 1.00
The Squaré
By Árthur MouM
I£ there is one thing aa typlcally Canádiah ás the lumberjack it la the SQuaré dance — with a OftUer. Jh no country Iwt Aiiierica ard callers ttóed in folk dancing, for It is really the folk of Canada who hava developed the.% dancers. The free-and-eaay rollicking fun is not síiipaased in aiiy other dance. When the strainá of the fiddle and beat of tljtí drum strike up The Devil's Dream. the Chicken Reel. SoIdlér*» Joy, _snd so forth, all tlie tiredness of the lumberjack and the farmer, and the woa?ir.ess of the shop-worker fali away, for those old jigs and' reeis n'^J^e the feet dance to "swing your partners all".
How did Canada cpnie by this fun-Ioving and lively dance? Por rse!s, jiga and quadrillea — a square dance is really a quadrille — had been danced'for years in both England and Scotland, but not with the vhn as danced here. The answer is by the introduction ot a Caller. In the old countües they danced more decorously. following the lead of the head cóuple. But when the ScottisH settlers came to Nová Scotia and wanted to dance their. quadriUes or reela, many of their girl friends were PrenchCanadüana and did not know the stepa. Somé wise and AWtty Scot who had picked up a bit of French called the steps in. French and English, "a la main left," and so on. "A la main left" haa.in English-speaking Canada, gradually lost its French fla> vor, and we üsually hear something like "allemand left" or "allém orí the left", but it still'just means "to tlie left hand". Símilarly our present-day "dosl do in the corne^-" has come down to us from French "dos a dos", or back ♦o back.*
■ Now ín spite-of the fact that Henry Ford spent thousands of dol-lars trying to prove that the square dance was a United States* In-vention, it is nevertheless Canadian in origin. It had to start amongst French Canadians and with Scottish settlers to have attalned its pre-sent charactfer. The originál tiinea were Scottish, Iriah and English folk tunes, and these largely remain today.
One can imagine those early settlers, many of whom had been evicted from their small holdínga in Scotland, now in a struggle with natur«. and with none-too-helpful land companies and govemment of-ficials,'building themselves a home in a new land, wanting to give vent to their*motlons in a hilarious dance. Aa they dance, the Caller' ia urging thém to "swing 'em high, swing 'em low", The decorum of the old land waa past; life waa grim? llfe waa exciting; the dancte reflected their life. The accident of the girla not knowing tbc at^pa had produced the Caller; and sp the Canadian square dance was bom.
Aa time wenl on itspread throughout Canada and to the Uhttcd States. On its way it gathered variations m steps, callB and tunea, according to the locality, but all with the basic character of its Scottish-French Canadian birth, for wherever you go, you. hear "Go alle mande". ;
Many of the tunes today have taken on the characterai of prairie, cowboy, or southem songs. such aa Oh Susanna, Golden Slippera, Yankee E>oodle, and even hymn tunea. Many new danCea have come and gone in the yeara paat, but the graaa roota of Canada have held on to the aquare dance. No matter how you may enjoy it on the dance floor, unlesa you have been to a real hoedown In the large old farm-house, brother, you've seen nothin*. Prlnceaa Elizabeth made It popular for the moment with the eíite, but it atill remain? the dance of the people, where you all become friendly because of the continual mix-up and cooi^ration, for you cannot aquare dance unless you cooperate. From the daya of the early settlers the aquare dance haa been part of the warp and weft of the fabric. of Canadian social and culturaV life. — Courtc.^ of NEW FRONTIERS
THE li^MILTON group rdbearalng » C^aiuuUan Mjiuure dance for the
IMBF 25th JuMlee Featival heM in Junc, 195S at Strectsvllle.
UTTLE FARMER