Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 winning free March ancient chinese knew trick to Speed the parting guest by Judith Martin the Washington Post if hospitality is a divine it certainly has an immediate earthly miss manners is referring to that Sublime moment when ones guests All go if they Ever anyone who has prepared a meal for others and set out clean implements with which it can be who has per formed the feat of looking around his or her own living room at his Dearest friends and still reciting All their names and who has spent an evening encouraging others to Tell their Best stories that he already knows by deserves a the treat is to remove the shoes and eat All the this can Only be done if the guests it is nearly impossible to Man age giving guests a Good time and getting them to Budge no thoughtful Host should be without his own resources for speeding the departing according to the analects birthstones cameos carved on August Gem by Gillian Welsh August Sardonyx Peridot Sardonyx augusts Natal Sar enjoyed widespread popularity in ancient times due perhaps to its availability and people did strange things with the carving weird objects nut of using it As talismans and the the greeks and romans worshipped Many and used the Sardonyx in their before cameos made of Sardonyx were the in thing and from this fad emerged one famous Cameo depicting the entire Coronation of emperor a medieval Folk believed the Gem possessed medicinal its coldness to the touch suggested to them that it would be effective in re Lieving like other gems discovered in this Peri the Sardonyx was thought to be effective against the Poison of Peridot to drive away evil ancient Peoples pierced a Strung it on hairs from animals and wore the contraption on their left the believing Peridots to be brought Back Fine specimens to thus causing a great stir among the the gems were placed in churches and became a Fea Ture ornament during this King Edward Viii of England was reputed to have worn a Peridot As a of As summarized by dear sir Harold an ancient chinese guest was amply provided by his Host with clues on when to when visiting a Supe it is permissible to ask leave to retire when the Host either stretches him looks at his or begins to eat Leeks or garlic As a cure for sir Harold noted in Good be yawning and stretching Are consid ered unsubtle in our watch looking is borderline watch shaking is but that last suggestion now there is a wonderful miss manners also admires Max the Hamburg banker who is reputed to have concluded his entertainment by looking at a clock and you naughty youre driving my guests away for modern Good miss manners recommends that the Host merely arise at the proper time with a grateful smile and outstretched you were so very kind to have visited Taylor school to do musical John Taylor collegiate on Hamilton Avenue and Knox will present Annie get your at 8 april 26 to 29 in the school the a musical come has More than 50 Stu dents in the cast and the music will be played by members of the school miss manners re sponds q what am i supposed to do while people Are drinking a Toast to me i have seen engaged couples who just sit there and Grin while people drink to and others who sip Champagne while being they All look what should one do a when England Prin Cess Margaret Rose was considerably smaller and More adorable than she is she was said to have asked her father what he Sang while everyone else was singing god save the the answer to your question is the same As the answer to hers try to look gratified and dig but under no Circum stances should you join right q what is the Correct Way for a gentleman and a lady to enter or exit a building with a swinging door that Only swings away from said gentleman and lady a the gentleman mans the hinge Side of the door and the lady sails As suming that he will keep the Glass moving ahead of her this is Childs play compared to the problem of a gentleman and lady entering or exiting a door that swings toward q is it permissible to touch up my makeup at a restaurant table a As the ancient greeks understood so its All a matter of it is permissible to powder your nose at a restaurant provided the powder puff is clean and the nose is it is not permissible to touch up the roots of the Richmont furniture saturday super special bauhaus save contemporary 2 sectional measuring 90 across each available for immediate delivery in 100 heavy Indian Cotton in just a few left 549 00 just genuine Patchwork leather we have just received a limited Quantity of 2 sectionals As illustrated above in medium or dark Brown genuine excellent1 Pahio for saturday Only ii ii w free delivery free Lay away budget terms store hours daily 9 Friday 9 9 master charge Birchmont fair nature 61 Albert Iru mum rum i phone 9420781 restaurant reviews by Marion Warhaft rib charterhouse Margrave and Good hotel restaurant with French excellent rack of roast Fine dinner Dally lunch to Tivoli Coffee charterhouse Hargrave and Good onion soup and and that about reasonable to Alices 559 tiny neigh boyhood excellent ukrainian deep Fried cabbage homemade Betsy 1134 simple cheerful Little place excellent indonesian specialities some dutch marvellous pork and banana and Apple wine closed reasonable to re serve for special Bistro 63 wonderful Small Dan ish Good outstanding wine i closed and no reservations Butcher 153 steaks with Good Fla Vor but undependable tenderness delicious sauteed Mush rooms poor dinner Moder Branch also at 1870 cafe de 236 Good French Spe Trout excellent Rabbit a i closed closed Captain 3111 oily Batter on basically Good tasting fish and poor French Fries and Boston an of Manhattan self serve and Chez 426 Good French out standing rack of interesting specialities to Vacherie closed closed 390 Good yugoslav food in a old delicious cabbage Rolls included in Price of chefs Spe Cial stuffed pork or veal dinner lunch to moderate to 159 pleasant austrian atmosphere Well prepared several appetizer salads included in entree excellent veal service sometimes closed 453 gallery 300 memorial extremely attractive restaurant in Winnipeg Art Good lunch to Good old 143 delightful Small Tea candies and delicious open 11 to 7 to 11 to 5 678 greek and italian excellent Moussaka and wine and Beer open 11 to 2 4 to 4 4 o ii inexpensive to 775 1100 enduring North Winnipeg institution serving delicious hot dogs and Inex Kum Koon 426 delicious chinese snacks at Superb barbecued Duck or pork Good Noodle dishes to regular chinese menu in 613 Fine North China cuisine Sou hot Harvest in All crispy or peking Duck 24 hours dinner lunch to wine reasonable to Reserve for special Ming 11050 Lakewood at 1 delicious specialities one hours notice beef skewers in Curry Peanut butter stuffed cecum wine reasonable to 257 423 delicious portuguese and seafood marvellous broiled shrimp or octopus Appe deft moderate to expend new Hong Kong chinese snack 407 notre excellent chinese delectable Fried peking shrimp open noon to 6 closed and Nicks 5400 Good hot French Fries real milk Inex pen 287 imaginative Good variety in tiny Salmon fillet with shrimp stuffing Chicken and apricots in Orange luscious wine closed reasonable to Moder Rae 1405 comfortable excellent roast beef and Good garlic bread Good moderate to expend ranch 1761 useful West Kildonan Stop for Good hot corned beef barbecued dinner lunch to reasonable to mod red top drive 219 marys Good Ham 233 1199 appealing bargain Home style excellent cheese specially wine open week Days 6 to 8 weekends 8 to in 1322 marvellous Small jewish restau Superb be file cheese Many takeout open 6 to 6 to swallows 100 informal and scandinavian sandwiches Good hot specialities and exceptional wonderful cheese Pecan swallows quiche and wine separate but same address and exceptional vegetables a la variety of coffees Perrier both restaurant and bar have wine both closed 439 Good North chinese and cantonese pork ribs with Salt and Pepper beef pot with vegetables frogs legs fresh reasonable to 956 velvet in Winnipeg Portage and great elegance but the food Doest most appetizers Are Good but its russian Roulette with the dinner lunch to be River generally excellent Continental Fine veal poppy seed luncheon including Good i closed White 443 great spareribs and unbeatable lunch to closed Reserve a review concert by selected competitors closes curtain on music festival by Ronald Gibson the 60th Manitoba musical Competition festival came to an with its final con Cert by selected competitors wednesday evening in the Centennial concert Hall be fore a fair sized having performed in the and in this 60 years it was for a gentle exercise in an orchestra began the first half of the it was the greater Winnipeg Junior youth and it performed the first move ment of the Beethoven first symphony we were intrigued by an errant double playing with dogged and by the total concentration of the a band began the second it was the fort Rich mond symphonic and it was most rarely have we heard a band of Young people playing with such so Well tuned and so in the third movement of Alfred Reeds we had a delightful foray into the rag time world and in the fourth we were wafted into the world of Offenbach of la vie and the four pianists played solos and three were Young All played Godfrey in Robert Flemings toc Catina Philip Kim no relation in a Haydn sonata and Dietmar who played the movement from travels Gaspard de la this was playing with Fine gallic Karen Klassen played an ostinato by Bartok quite with real the Only other instrumentalist was clarinet St Margaret with her father at the played the last movement of poulenc scintillating sonata with great the sole representative of the spoken poetry was the Bernie Wolfe Community Grade who acquitted themselves very Andrea Ilchena Sang Gilbert and in a song from the Yeoman of the in a most beguiling Christian Keller Sang with splendid handels Shine great Martha the Winner of the Tudor showed us a Fine Mezzo and a charming pres in the it was interesting to contrast the bows one Young Singer was so shy that he could hardly Bear to think of the the youngest pianist gave us a most elegant sweep with shining Black hair waving in seven choral items were a colourfully dressed chorus from Spring Field Heights Sang the deaf old woman with sly there was a Wist Ful Beauty about Sargent Park schools singing of the Blue Bell of Scotland and the senior group of the Winnipeg girls made a Lovely with Good Dic in Britten there is no what they lacked in spiritual they More than made up in with Lovely tone and Kelvin schools excerpts from Anne of Green proved to be highly divert with Happy singing and the Young men from Churchill High made an impressive showing in ran Daji Thompsons setting of frosts poem stopping by Woods on a snowy the Grad choir Sang a French Canadian Folk and a Motet by with great Beauty and Daniel Mclntyre senior High girls were most sensitive and very expressive in a Lullaby by William the Long program ended with a Blaze of when Rose bowl Winner Marmot Sim Sang Schlag ende her and the Waltze song from Gounod Romeo and she showed the same rare musicianship and Here is an entrancing a very impressive and a real pres ence on what More could one ask for As the final item the mens music club deserve our through years of famine and of Plen it has fostered this Festi and brought so much Talent to two childrens to films coming two National film Board childrens films Are scheduled for National telecast on the cd ctr sail an adventure film about a boys first experience in a sailing will be shown from 10 to the action takes place on a trimaran that sails from to a buoy marking a wreck near the Gulf soap Box a come will be shown monday in the same time in the the girls take on the boys to get a piece of the action in a famous Soapbox Derby race held every september at planetarium open easter weekend the Manitoba museum of Man and nature will observe the following schedule during the easter Fri Day March 24 to monday March 27 the exhibit Halls and gift shop will be open from n noon to 6 March on March 25 the hours Are from 10 to 9 on March 26 the hours Are from 12 noon to 6 and on March 27 from 10 to 4 the planetarium will be showing the exodus Factor March 24 through March 27 at and 9 the Hail of astronomy will be open March 24 to 27 from 12 noon to ;