Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fab c Apt. Arm and Ferland exchanged the colourful dress uniform of the Royal Canadian worse artillery band for working to perform More mundane chores that come with Tunny Spring of for the band struggles with a storm window at their Kenas ton Boulevard Home. Ferland lends a helping hand and at the same time keep an Eye on the children who insist on helping. Madeleine. 4, Mark 3, get the rags wet Tor their father be the windows. When asked How Many windows he had to remove. Ferland shot Back too Louis 1. In his Mother in the House and school prevents Francois 7, and Pierre 6, from adding their Little bit to making this a really smooth working operation. Stor y Czaia Zap below mrs. B. R. Wolfe is at a real disadvantage when it comes to asking or. Wolfe to help in Garden the Transcona Golf club is arms the Road from their Home on Plessis Road. Or. Wolfe would rather be swinging a a Iron than pushing a shovel but mrs. Wolf has other ideas. Well if daddy won t help Bernard end Patrick Are All too willing to help. But or. Wolf. Does find time from being vice president of the Canadian chamber of Commerce and Secretary treasurer of a Teal stot. Firm to Cut grass and Rake admitted met. Wolf. Pae year of paint it. Backyard Fence. That started a Chain reason wanted o try his hand with the Brush while his brother Chris t3 t go off to a Good Start she ,0oked when so May not be done but then a is kept quite Busy As the of e realty company and also a travel Agency. V wives on recruiting Campaign a Beautiful Spring Day has strange and different effects on people. To the housewife it is an exhilarating tonic the stimulus which sets it action the seemingly instinctive response to bring out the accumulated dust rags and pails ladders and assortment of Garden tools. But to the husband it is warning and brings out his instincts for preservation. He begins to tip toe out of the House with his Golf bag or he May go to another extreme and just nothing As far As work goes that is. He still tries to avoid that Bane of All husbands at this time of either through sub varsity or just an outright no but still the storm windows can t stay up All summer and those windows Are a trifle heavy for the Little woman to be lugging up and Down the ladder. Most women Are quite to operative though and if their husbands would just take them Down they would t mind at All washing the windows still up and also the storm windows before they Are put away. And that Fence just think of All the wonderful fresh air and warm Sunshine you la get while painting it Shell say to console you. Then Shell list off the numerous things which must be done in the Garden and to the Lawn. Leaves which fell last autumn must be raked lawns should be rolled and fertilizer added to give that Lawn luxurious and healthy thick carpet texture. Those who have Green thumb minded wives will be told this is just the time to transplant shrubs and do some of that pruning which you were Able to talk yourself out of doing last fall. Also she can t just let those perennials lie where they Are but has some definite to where they should be trans planted even if its Back to where they were the year be fore. Some husbands throw up their hands in despair once they have been nudged into a Job by. The fact that Mother s Little helpers turn into Little terrors for father. Cans of paint draw children to them As a Magnet would and be fore father can get one Brush stroke across Hie Wood the Lawn has taken the color the Fence or the House should be. Neat rows of Small plants which poor hut by has spent Bac break hours planting can be uprooted in seconds by Junior s haphazard play with the trimming shovel. For some women the thought of pleading arguing or tricking their husbands Jinto Spring tidy ups is even More exhausting than actually doing the work them selves. And some just quietly Arm Mth equipment and the Job r ;