Lögberg-Heimskringla - 17.12.1993, Side 3

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 17. desember 1993 • 3
1 Cnristmas concert
„the^MorfÍing Star school
igji served this district
s with a major por-
opulation being of
n.
the kids put on
the story, “There
ady who livcd in a
were get-
;ihe shooed
O hri st m
Now that the Chíistm^s ona farm. This was a different
Season is upon? us, it h CHiristmas.:..with nothing that
time to reflect back ört cíiií: can remgmber in the way
the days in the Interlake jp(toys» Therö was however a
Country during our
and youth.
Recollections reflect
childhood when our |
were pulling a hand
West on Sargent Ave.,
Winnipeg loaded with t
gifts. Our father was
man in the Unitarii
Sargent and Sherb
it still stands wttl
box like structUíe; on tha fro
end facing Sherbrook. tRStcai
of its original Greek architec®
tural beauty it now presents an
architectural conundrum, dat-
ing back to many years ago.
This had apparently been
the Christmas church concert.
Recollections tell us our father
was pulling a sleigh full of toys
along the street railway tracks
as the heavy snowfall prevent-
ed us from traversing the side-
walks.
A year in one’s early life
does make a difference, for the
following year we were out in
the country living with friends
n
elpPbne. To the
s.in the audience,
f||l|pííbe no end to
íg out of the shoe
as Jjggy wajtesdfrom behind the
stagC Stfrcen b«t appearcd to be
comíng out of the toe cap. It
was a wonderful Christmas
concert for a five year old.
It was a Christmas barren of
toys, for there was no congre-
gation to supply the clergy-
man’s children with gifts. There
were however hot chocolate
with whipped cream and home
made candy.
Mothers have traditionally
pressured the school teacher to
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include their little darlings in
the Christmas program put on
by the school children, no mat-
ter how awkward or dumb they
might be. This became a prob-
lem for our teacher when she
was faced with this dilemma in
regards to the writer of this
article. He had grown too
rapidly and his feet tripped
over obstacles whether they
were there or just imaginary.
But there was no way out of it,
so she solved her problem by
improvising. She concocted a
short play, with a dialogue and
placed a saw horse covered
with a horse blanket on the
stage. The brighter children
discussed this stage monstrosi-
ty and decided it was a horse
covered with a blanket. The
actor, whose mother had to be
pleased, went over and looked
under the horse blanket and
exclaimed, “It is not a horse it
is a saw horse!” These were the
only words he had to utter.
Mother was satisfied, the
teacher was off the hook and
the actor relieved it was over
with.
Before the Village of Oak
Point could
a f f o r d a
concert and
dance hall,
the custom
was to use the
cottage style
it wa
school house. Invariably the
teacher had left to visit with her
people. This made it all the
more interesting, for with her
being away it was easier to be
mischievous, such as putting
gum in some girl’s hair and lis-
ten to her scream blue murder.
If the teacher had
By Einar
Amason
community.
Their church
edifice was
well construct-
cd and main-
tained with
propcr furnish-
ings. There were no rousta-
___ bouts, only hon-
been around shc ApertCCt cst well bchaved
would have meted COmmUBity and húW God-fearing pco-
out punishment by theycehbmted Ple- Their rcc°g-
kccping you in after r'hristmns nition and cclc-
school hours for an bration of Chríst-
extended period of time. mas was a formal event to the
Christmas brought with it extent of having a well known
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many pleasantries. The ques-
tion of a Christmas-concert and
dance was you might say, “A
pre-Christmas event before the
teacher left to visit with parents
and immediate family. Gen-
erally the teacher was an attrac-
tive mature girl. This gave the
young men of the community
an opportunity to dance with
her. Often she became a perma-
nent resident in the community
through the charming approach
of some young man. These
were all matters which the
more nasty young male pupils
observed closely and conjec-
tured about.
At the midpoint between
Oak Point and Winnipeg there
is the Village of Warren. The
area was mainly settled by
Eastern Ontario people who
melded into an almost pcrfect
United Church clergyman
brought in from Winnipeg. This
became the task of the perma-
nent clergyman who arranged
to have a guest of the cloth
deliver the Christmas service,
look after accommodation and
arrange personal visits to the
homes of the elite in the area.
There werc no concerts or
danccs, and nobody touchcd
liquor, you had to go north into
the Interlake country for such
dcviations, whcre the Iceland-
ers and Ukrainians togcthcr
with Metis livcd under lcss for-
mal guidelines.
Thus populations vary and
the imagc of cach arca diffcrs.
“May you all have a Mcrry
Christmas. If you want it to bc
diffcrent, visit thc Intcrlakc
country.”

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