Lögberg-Heimskringla - 19.09.1974, Blaðsíða 3

LÖGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA, FIMMTUDAGINN 19. SEPTEMBER 1974
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WINDOW ON THE WEATHER
Thousands of
Business and Professional Cards •
Lögberg-Heimskringla has now moved to new offices
in a building nearly as old as the city of Winnipeg. Question
that if you’re of an age to remember the good old days when
the Avenue building was rising to a great height in one of
the choicest spots on Portage Avenue. It’s still in the heart
of pedestrian traffic, though it looks a bit dwarfed now,
overshadowed as it is by the modem giants across the
street. Buildings never aspired to split the clouds in the old
days.
To be exact, ve’re located at 512—265 Portage Avenue.
There are two elevators with genial men at the controls.
They host the upward flight and chat away the time of day,
a rare luxury in this day of automation and pushbuttons.
It’s a nice feeling. Visit us soon and see for yourself-
This office also has two windows that look out on a
couple of briek walls plus workmen reparing a building
nearby, and the weather.
An outlook on the weather is necessary if you like to
match your mood to that of the day. This is a dull, tearfully
sulky day and who needs it?
You don’t, I don’t, and certainly the prairie crops don’t.
They deserve better after weathering the vicissitudes that
beset them through most of the growing season. Now that
they are readying for the reaping, the wheat, the barley and
the oats ought to get a break
To say that they waited to get a start through a slow
and lazy spring would be bad reporting. Spring didn’t come
at all this year. It slept away its allotted tenure on the
prairies, shedding chilly tears between naps, melting the
snow and flooding the soil to give a good start to illegal
growth like skunk weed and Russian thistle but little else,
while the fields lay black under water and waited for an
assignment of seed to work on.
We would have been traitors to the country, we its
people, had we complained to the sun for baking tis to a
crisp and then simmering us in our own sweat when it fin-
ally tumed the heat on in July. It was the first encourage-
ment it gave to the crops bravely sprouting in the chilly
soil. Once the blades pushed through the ground, they grew
like mad, matured and ripened in record time.
How could they do less for men who had the fortitude to
trust their dear-bought seed to the soil late in June, then
hope for the best?
That’s the farmer, Nature’s own foolhardy gambler!
Now the Wheat, the barley and the oats stand tall and
golden in the fields- I saw them a few days ago when the
sun shone on them, and they seemed to promise prosperity
to the people who took their chances with the soil and the
weather last spring. A short time of grace now, and all this
would be safely gamered.
Now is the season for smiling skies and the odd touch
of heat at midday. The weather has no business to turn on
the tears in September, when neither man nor Nature is in
a mood to take its tantrums But outside these windows of
mine it still sulks, and maybe it’s time we asked the Indians
to put on 'a sun dance. They’ve often done it in Alberta and
sometimes they say it wors.
But why make rude remarks about the weather?
Why not? Nobody but nobody spares a human villain
who upsets the order of things. Tongues lash out at him
from all direction sand usually he takes no more notice than
the weather does. But then a mere man has far less influ-
ence in the affairs of other men thanhas the weather.
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fect place to seat people for
a Baroque concert.”
The balcony leads the eye
to the upstairs bedroom,
reached by a winding stair-
case. Here Margot spends pri
vate hours “looking out over
the great space and reflect-
ing on all the work that’s fin
aily been done on the apart-
ment.”
After signing the lease, she
had the fiocked wallpaper re
moved and painted the walls
pale yellow-green to match
her antique wicker furni-
'ture. All the pieCes are late
19th century American
which she collected from
antique shops.
Margot seems to be one of
the ultimate collectors. Her
favorite possessions are Engl
ish and Chinese silk em-
broideries of animals and
birds. Old quilts and Iceland
ic sheepskin rugs also count
among her interests, and re-
cently she bought a moun-
tain top in Wyoming.
Icelandic by heritage, she
grew up in North Dakota.
Early association with the
Indians and their crafts led
her to her most recent hob-
by: colecting American Iindi
an beadwork jewelry. Trav-
eled through eight Westem
states to visit Indian reserv-
ations and bought the best
beadwork she could find.
Back in New York, she set
up her own apartment bouti-
que in a 1790 American chest
of drawers inher living
room- Since then the collect-
ion, which consists primarily
of belt buckles, necklaces
and barettes, has moved on
to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art’s gift shop
Hobbies aside, it’s back to
the drawing board—in her
case, a leirge Spanish table
bought at Lord and Taylor
at a greatly reduced price be
cause the top slopes. She us-
es the table as both a draw-
ing board and a dining table
when she entertains.
“I like having people ov-
er”, she says, “and I like to
live nicely. Maby this isn’t
the ideal place to live, but I
think it comes pretty close to
being most unusual.”
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