PVE told you about my
cookery classes for men
of my own generation,
how we come together
courtesy of the North
Shore Harvest kitchen
every couple of weeks
and mess around with
meatloaf and other
mouth-watering dishes
so that men who now
live alone can learn to
make a decent meal for
themszives.

The day after our May !st
class, when we explored some
of the microwave’s talents, I
invited myself to join the out-
ing that the Neighbourhood
House offers regularly to
elderly ladics, on Thursdays.
The plan this day was fer
Dave, the straw boss, to take
us out Deep Cove way, with

the
vintage years

special intent to visit the
Seymour Ait Gallery on
Gallant Avenue.

We did a tour of Cates Park
on the way to the ultimate
attraction, where Sylvia, the
lady in charge, who had been
alerted by Dave, offered us tea
and cookies, We enjoyed those
whilst we studied the beauty
of the pictures on the walls
and of the hand-made jewelry

and painted silks in an adja-
cent display.

From there we drifted
down to the batconied area at
the bottom of the street, to
Jook out and around at the sea
and the town, Wher we left
the Cove, Dave threw out the
idea of a quick run up Mount
Seymour before heading home
and the ladies jumped ai the
chance for a little more time
on the foose.

{t was fairly clear and we
had some grand views from
the top and on the ride down-
hill. It was closing on 4 p.m.
when they dropped me off.
I've been thinking a lot about
those ladies and those cook-
ing-men, and of how we've
reacted to old age in our sepa-
rate ways.

Men were almost invari-
ably in charge, everywhere,
when we were growing up.
They were brought up to be

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dominant. How they worked
and what they worked at
determined their status, as well
us the status of their families.

The women they married
wanted what their men want-
ed, bending their efforts faith-
fully in that same direction to
make a good home place. ‘That
involved not just keeping the
place clean and attractive but
seeing to the children, their
manners and their health and
their associates.

The man, the father,was the
provider and the family arbiter
and the definitive boss. Very
interesting. Because when you
look around right now, you see
an awful lot of young, what
we'd have called “marriage-
able”, women who have not
just discarded that “boss” idea
— they've wiped their feet on
it.

And a lot of the ones that
do marry seem to be pretty
careless about the union
they've entered, switching it
for a better offer, even two or
f sree of same. And so the chil-
dren of the first union feel
alien to the adults on whom
they have to depend for liveli-
hood and they have two
options: to put up with it and
scar their home life: or jettison
everything and escape to the
streets.

There was a statistic on the
news about Toronto's street-
kids’ population, some
appalling thousands. I rarely
am abroad after dark any
more, but when I am I don’t
see that sort of thing, although
I do see children } think
should be home in bed.

Are we just lucky over
here, or is it because we have
more sense of community, or
is it simply because we lack
the proper attractions?

Ican’t think what role we
have in this — they are our
children and grand-children
who have betrayed these
youngsters, by discarding the
idea that woman's place is in
the home.

What made it all go so
haywire? Was there anything
we could have done?

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