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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, October 20, 1987 _ The Terrace Bay-Schrelber News Is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. - Second Class Mailing Permit Number 0867 Senge. oe ee Se ee eee Ken Lusk Single copies 35 cents ~ Subscription rates per year in town $14.00 out of town $18.00 : # ott Member of Ontario Community om jg Oe ee ae ee ee serge: -- Newpapers Association ond The oitee ee ee ee ee ee Bt? ee eS ayié Fou Canadian Community Newspapers Association Production Co-ordinator...................cccccccesecececesseecnsuens Nancy Parkin ~Hallowe'e Safety For Children 1, Wear a light-coloured costume Pedestrians are more visible in light-coloured clothes. Retro- reflective tape is available commercially and should be added to clothing to heighten visibility. Note that retro-reflective is different from fluorescent. | ih Fluorescent colours are reflective only in daylight; retro-reflcc- Y 4, mil i tive items are designed for nighttime use and will "glow" when y ; | i 7 yill car lights shine on them. Wy Yes Uj, M, Look for flame-resistant labels on ready-made costumes or lHEN rr comes 70 ComnoNwealy MATTERS, / TRY 70 BE IOPARTIAL ---- BUT /'9 TERRIBLY TEMPTED 70 HAVE. MY PICTURE REMOVED FROM CANADIAN POSTAGE STAIQPS f material to be used for costumes. 2. Make-up is better than a mask Masks can obscure vision. Make-up is more fun and creative. 3. Wear a short costume so you don't trip 4. Use a flashlight Costumes should be designed so that children can walk easily without entangling their feet or tripping. Comfortable, well-fitting shoes are a must. Also, no bike rid- ing; costumes can get caught in the spokes. A flashlight can help children see and be scen more clearly. 5. Trick or treat on one side of the street, then the other side Avoid crisscrossing the street, even in quiet neighbourhoods. Always walk on the sidewalk. If there are no sidewalks, walk on the left side of the road facing traffic. 6. Go out with parents or friends Basic safety precautions are necded even on Hallowe'en. Younger children should be accompanied by a responsible adult. Older children should go out in groups. 7. Discuss your plans with your parents ing and sct a time limit. Parents and children should map out a route for trick or treat- 8. Never go inside a strange house, apartment or car Children should trick or treat only at homes included on the plan agreed to by their parents. Avoid poorly-lit homes. 9. Have a parent check your treats Treats must not be caten until they are checked by a parent. Discard unwrapped or loosely-wrapped items. Give children a meal or a.snack before they go out so they won't be tempted to cat before they get home. 10. Know the Block Parent homes in your areca frightened, injured or lost. The Block Parent home is a safe haven for children who are 'hetters to the editor Letters to the editor are encouraged. They can discuss any topic but are subject to alteration, in length and content, at the -discretion of the editor. Please send your signed letters to: POT 2WO, located centrally in Simcoe Plaza. Arthur Blac 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, the News, The truffle is not an outright aphrodisiac, but it may in certain circumstances make women more affectionate and men more amiable. from A Handbook of Gastronomy By Arthur Black There are many ways to tell human beings apart from all the other forms of life that slighter, saunter, flay and flutter kick across this planet, but one of our most curious distinctions is the use of aphrodisiacs. No other earthly form of life that I'm aware of feels compelled to gobble potions in order to stimulate the procreative urge. Aphrodisiac. What an odd con- cept. My. dictionary defines it as "any drug, food, etc. that arouses sexual desire." The "etc." category is pretty interesting. Throughout history some peo- ple have believed that they could firm up their sex drives by down- ing quantities of everything from the aforementioned truffles to lob- sters, ginseng, even asparagus. A. 17th century herbalist by the The News, P.O. Box or. drop them off at name of Nicholas Culpeper fin- gered the humble peach tree as a plant of questionable morals. "Venus owns this tree," he sniffed, ",.the fruit promotes lust." The Latin poet Ovid pronounced honey to be an outstanding aphro- disiac while modern Lotharios lean to a heady blend of cham--- pagne and caviar. { suppose our quest for the per- fect love drug would be goofily amusing if we confined ourselves to munching and sipping on vari- ous fruits and vegetables, but we don't. Somewhere back in our primeval past people got it into their heads that perhaps certain animals -- or parts thereof -- con- tained the key to a lusty love life. It was probably an exciting moment for whoever came up with the notion, but it was a major Bad News bulletin for the rest of the animal kingdom. Since then, man has been chas- ing down and cooking up just about anything that has a heart- beat in his search for the ultimate aphrodisiac. Some medieval big- domes prophesied that the horn of the unicorn was what they were after. Unfortunately. that proved to Y Y ae ¢ ------ Uy oe Z a oe / ) hy Lawyers above the law? The Editor: Every Canadian should have a very keen interest in the Royal Commission investigating why Donald Marshall spent 11 years in prison for a crime he didn't com- mit. In the end, this Royal Commission, like those in the past, will likely blame the police for all the wrongs that may have taken place during the arrest and trial of Donald Marshall. be a little too rare -- the unicorn being a mythical creature and all. Accordingly, mankind has had to make do with various "second bests" -- powdered rhino horn and narwhal tusk to name two substi- tutes. Never mind that rhinos are grumpy, reclusive beasts that command the veldts of Africa and are stoutly opposed to giving up their nasal adornments. Nor mat- ter that narwhals prefer to hang out 40 fathams down in the frigid waters of our Arctic wastes. The harder potential aphrodisiacs are to find, the better aphrodisia- cophiles seem to like them. Unfortunately it's getting more and more difficult for Old Momma Earth to indulge the whims of her egomaniacal human tenants. The rhinoceros is now on the endangered species list -- which makes slaughtering him just for his horn all the more obscene. But as a victim of aphro- disiac hunters, the rhino's not alone. Love potioneers are now fixing their crosshairs on the Ben- gal tiger. Reports from India indi- cate that Chinese hunters are trap- ping and killing tigers. along the Sino-Indian border, at an appalling tate Caame thea (henace hava Once again, the things the police said and did will be made public, while what the lawyers did to their clients is private and not available for public scrutiny. Why is the lawyer's prestige more important than that of the police? To this point, this commission, like others before it, is merely lawyers investigating the police. If this commission wants the truth, why doesn't it allow the come up with a "wine" made of tiger bones, pickled tiger sex- organs and cheap brandy that is reputed to turn a diffident lover into, well, a bit of a tiger, I sup- pose. It's no joke. Indian officials claim there are at least 110 illegal distilleries set up on the Chinese side of the border, rendering tigers into wines as fast as they can catch them. But first prize for obscenity in the pursuit of aphrodisiacs must go to the Japanese. You know the coelacanth? It's a fish. A homely, primitive-looking denizen of the deep that is so rare it was believed to exist only in fossil form until a fisherman hauled a live one up in his nets off the coast of South Africa, back in 1938. Scientists were delighted, not to mention amazed. The Guiness Book of Records still dubs it "the biologi- cal find of the century." And just last month -- even more exciting news: a team of West German biologists diving in a submarine off the coast of Madagascar actually filmed a half-dozen coelacanths swimming along the ocean floor. Alas, scientists aren't the only humans -interested. in-what is per- Se a ee ye OE eS, ere SC ae et public and the police to question lawyers and judges? For example, in our lawycr- infested society, the lawyers with continued on page 12 canths on the planet. Word has come that Japanese tycoons have been spreading yen around the fish markets and seaside taverns in West Africa. They are buying coelacanth carcasses on the black market. Officials estimate they may have taken as many as 200 so far. For what? Why, for grinding down into aphrodisiacs of course. Anything that rare must be a pow- erful aphrodisiac, right? I don't know if the Gods have nay special plans for aphrodisiac hunters in the afterlife, but if there's any justice at all they'll spend a goodly chunk of eternity running, pink and naked across an endless African plain, pursued by a herd of their victims bent on vengence. Particularly rhinos. With their harne intact