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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1923
Page
6
A nostalgic reflection recalls a warm kitchen and welcoming doorway from the speaker's childhood. The piece contrasts a mother’s presence with the current absence, expressing longing for home and the comforting care of a loved one who has journeyed before. Helen Cowles LeCron.
Barrie Country Club Ladies' Section shifts their annual meeting to Tuesday October 9 from October 6. Bridge prize winners for the season were announced at the Clubhouse on September 24 with multiple prizes awarded for best scores, attendance, and monthly totals.
Admirers recall Sam Walter Foss and his inspiration for The House by the Side of the Road. A traveler found a humble roadside home with a spring and fruit, where a kindly pair shared water and fruit with visitors. Foss credited the scene with shaping the poem's ideal of a simple, welcoming house by the road.
The text offers practical advice such as frying ham until fat browns, adding lemon juice to chicken croquettes, loosening screw tops with a nutcracker, cementing broken china with plaster and egg white, softening onion skins with warm water, and admonitions against wearing old worn shoes to save money without proper upkeep.
Guthrie U F W O U F C and U F W O clubs held their September meeting at the Campbell home with a large turnout. Mrs Collins Stayner gave an address, and a varied program featured instrumental music by Mrs Caldwell and Angus Cameron. Prizes were awarded for dahlia and aster displays and a best arranged bouquet. Next meeting set for October 4 at the Robi Caldwell home with a tea biscuits contest and an 8 p.m. start. Tea advertisement included.
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