24 — Sunday, October 30, 1994 ~ North Shore News

Srushes with future
lead back to the past

WHEN THE rains came
back last week, they
speiled Science Werld

for me and my husband.

He’d been biding, he’s a
space freak, looking forward
to the Omnimax presentation
of the frolic in the ship that
sailed amongst the stars. That
stuff’s way over my head, if
you'll pardon the pun, but it
gave me my first crack at
spending time in the silver
sphere loose, on my own, and I
looked forward to a quiet
prowl into everything.

I poked around in rooms
with tanks of worms and bees,
and other rooms with gorgeous
examples of the sewing aris.
For quite a while I hung over
the stairs above a little forum
where science is brought down
to earth, and after watching the
demonstration of the proper-
ties of air, both cold and hot, I
got really, enthralled by chal-
lenges to try to think on two
levels at the same time.

An expansion on the pic-
ture’s trick; you know, where
some peo: rhe see the vase and
some the4wo human p:ofiles,
and some'are able to switch
back and forth. It was very
engaging." _

As.Was the sound room,
where children jump on “keys”
and ail manner of instruments

.Surprise the ear, The best part,
though, was when ! found an
observation perch thai allowed
me to watch all the passers-by
as well. as the ramp down;
which my. particular space- .
tipper wouid return to me,’ :

What a lot of people, and ;
what a mixture. All ages, vari-
‘ous colors, family groups, lone
observers like myself, and
children, children all over the
place. They were hunched over
the video screens, querying all
the exhibits, playing compli-
cated table-games.

And there wasn’t on anv
childish face a look of diffi-
dence or astonishment.
Absorption, often, and hilarity
— as with the musical pedals
——- and I thought of how lucky
they are, and also how sophis-
ticated.

And I thought about us, you
and I, at that age, 78 years ago.
We'd never seen an aeroplane
(never heard the word, in fact).
A lot of us had never seen a
ship, or ridden in a car.

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Eleanor
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es

THE VINTAGE YEARS

In the North, where even
sightings of neighbors were an
event, our world consisted of
the house, the backyard and
barn, acres of rolling prairie
and the one-room schoolhouse
four miles that away.

We had some gramophone
records to go onto the crank-
up Victrola. Remember
Gallicurci? We had a set of

’ The Books of Knowledge, pre-

war publications (that was pre-
the First War, kiddo). And our
mother sang the old songs to
us and there were no tele-
phones and no movies and our
daydreams were mostly
fuelled by Eaton’s seasonal
catalogue.

Our lighting came from a

- heavy-bottomed gas-lamp that

had to be pumped and have its
mantels changed when they
finally burned out. A mantel? -

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It looked like a doll’s sock,
white and loosely meshed,
There were two, I think, and
the light they gave was bril-
liant in the circle below where
it hung.

So whea I’m in a Science
World situation, I can’t help
but marvel at the adjustments
you and J have made in these
years. That we’ve had the
aplomb and the resilience to
deal with it all without losing
our grip.

I had another brush with the
future when Self Counsel
Press, down on Charlotte
Street, invited me to see their
new computer program Wills .
Self-Ware. The program pro-
vides practical legal informa-
tion and advice, and the will it
produces will stand up in any
court.

{ know, you’ll say “how
many seniors have their own
computers?” Ah, but their
farnilies do, in many cases,
and to me this adds another
attractive dimension, or maybe
two or more dimensions to the
job of making disposal of the
treasures life has bestowed.

The family is thus involved
together, it takes the curse off
it somehow that one’s heirs be
privy to what's going to be on
the table, so to speak. Chuck
Tait gave me a demonstration
and would be pleased to taik to
you too.

To have a look, call him at
986-3366. He has a fax, too:
986-3947.

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