WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1977, PAGE 5 Thie older we get the fcwcr things in life truly surprise us., Iat's mot Mlurphy's Law or any of those but it is a fact. Emry day of a busy life brîngs new experiences and &trpriues' of experiences that have neyer happened before and are rare as we get on in years - rare but nevertheless delightful. One of these experiences hiappened to nme a couple of weeks ago ut Chandos Kake north of Carnpbellford. I was relxxing at a friend's cottage (well as înuich ais 1 cam ewr relax) and while sitting around is not niy ciîp of tea for very long this particular day 1 was really having trouble stopping even long enough to enjoy the beautiful sc'enery. And it was something else. The luke was rather deceiving iiN thet it at first appeared much smaller thian it really was and the trees almost crowded out any excuse tor ai beach. 1 found out later the Lake is also much deeper than I suspected too. But anywaiy I stook on the doc k looking at the lake, looking at the boat and its outboard which 1 knew would mnake a certain am-outNt of noise and possîbly snîoke und 1 looked back out at the quiet, unrippled lake, completely bereft of any hurnans so far this day and 1 didn't have the heart to fire Lip the ouitboard and go for a spin. But lakes are meant to be explored und when yoLi get the BOOK RE VIEW By John Roberts Pierre Berton: The Dionne Yeairs, A Thirties Melodraîma (McClellund and Stewart. S 12.50) The aiturnm list of new books is beginning to trickle out fromn the publishers, and one of the season's nost prom.- ising is ainother in the long list by Pierre Berton. this one dealing with the Dionne quints of Caliander, Ontario. Berton wiil likely be better renirnibered in the future for The National Dream, The Last Spiîke, My Country or one T Fmeous o-the- it i[t'tT-T1ve sprâigfTrn -*h-1 Berton miiil, but The Dionne Years wili certainly make ainipaict, especially if the pre- ,publicaitiofl reviewers are to be believed. "It is flot possible," Berton writes, "to trace the social history of the Thirties wthout reference to the Dionne quintuplets." He adds that the reverse is also true. The Quints were very much a part of their era - the era of the soap opera and the movie with the happy ending, wvhen people were convinced that nioney couid solve aIl problemis This book is about a miracle that turned first into a melodrama antd later into a tragedy. It is a book about well-mneaning people - politicians, niedical experts, civil servants and ordinary mon and woînen - who did ali the wrong things for the right reasons. It is aiso a book about media exploitation - the manufacture by press and radio of Villains and Heroos. The birth of five identical baby girls to a young farm wife in the backwoods of northern Ontario in Maîy, 1934, was a genuine miracle. It was only the third such birth in recorded history. Despite the" fertiîity drugs of a later era, none has been recorded since. It was almost impossible to tell the five girls apart. Until that ime no quintuplets, fraternal or identical had lived for more than a few days. But the five Dionne girls - Yvonne, Annette, Cocule, Emilie ;Ind Marie. - -g rewto adulthood.. For the first nine years of Ask us Corne and tell us what you're Iooking for in a job. Tell us what you are today and what you wvant to be tomnorrow. Ask us if we can offer opportunities and challenges to match your r;eeds. No obligations on either side. We'll be glad to talk. And we may have just what youïre looking for. But youlIl neyer know until you ask. Visit our Mobile Recruiting Unit Canada Manpower 'Centre OSAWA WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31 10:00 a.m. - 3:.00 p-. THE ~ ANADIA chance it's a shanme to miss out on a littie exploration. Thon 1 reîneînbered that in the basemnent of the cottage were the sails and paraphenalia for a littie foani type sailbout with arernoveable centre-board. 1I hesitated, cven tlioughi it was only briefly, because 1 had neyer bcen sailing and ait hough 1 tlhouglht 1 kncw the basics of it 1 had neyer donc any sailiîîg because it neyer made much scnse to nie to zig zag ail over the water to get troin point A to point B ;and, failing any iechianical failures, youi took al lot Iess imie tu do it thian you would iin a saiboat- with hlaif the fuss on boarid as wel. So 1 can't explain wwhy, mven Lhoigh I1 had a prejtîdicc or preconceived notion about saiing, that 1 actuially stood there on the dock considering it except for thc fact that 1 knew sailing was quiet. 1 didn't say sailors weie quiet - just sailing itseif! 0f course there was no instruction manuial handy so I hiad to figuire out how to put the sail boat together niyself. 1I had seen thein a few tirnes previously and it wasn't long before everything looked to be in the righit place. The sail lowcred or raised with a rope and the tiller had a long hiandlc thus allowini e to place myscîf about mid-ships, keeping the weighit rcasonably well balanced. I kept the centreboard handy but didn't drop it in place because of tle shallowness of the water off the dock, puished offt and glide.d out into deeper water. The next part involved a simili but to-the-point prayer and down wcnt the centreboard and up wen t tlie sail. 1 took control <of thie situation by immnediately figuring out 1 was hieading for the end of the bay and the swanip con tinued therein and it woLild be approxirnatcly 37 seconds before the boat and 1 would be titice renîoniousty grouinded iii the inuck of' the swamip. It was indeed a Lunie for action. 1 thought if ever 1 hiad to learn to sail uip wind now was the Limie. 1 did a 180 dcgree and set the sail and crossed niy tocs - niy fingers wcre ail very btisy with sails and ropes and stLîff. A puff of wind camne along and 1 was nioving. 1 wasn't going straight back up the Lake but what the het;kI, i thleir lives they lived a fishbowl existence, separated f'romn their parents and siblings and on exibit daily to millions whio camne fromn the far cornters of' the carth to. 500 themn. At their peak, they represented a $500,000,000 asset Lo the Province of Ontario. In this book, Pierre Berton tells flie story of.the Dionnes against the background. of their imte, providitig miuch new miateriail froi govertnnent archives aînd Iloinieycwitnless accounts. î-le chronicles the strLiggle betweeii Olivai Fionne, the baibies' father, aind Allaîn Roy Daifoe , the main %vo at- tended ait thecir birili andUbcaîme the best-known doctor ini the world. 'rthe story inoves fromi the schists aînd gnieisses of the Cainaidiain Shieid to the new niighit clubs of NeNv York, where Daîfoe vais given ai Lindberghi-like treatitent, aînd to Chicago, wliere the Dionne parents were thrust onto ii vaudeville staîge. [n the finial chaipter, te aiuthor describes the breaîch thait occuirrcd witin the f*ainily and looks at tlhe three surviving quints ais tliey aire todaiy. hidden fromn the glaire of* publicity - Lvo sepaîrated fromn their liusbaînds withl almiost al the mioney froin their million dollaîr trust fulnd gone. and the third a semni-recluse. Like the Terraiplaine aind the 1 Iupinobiîe, the dune cliain bLeter and the douhîe-dip ice cmain cone. the Nationaîl B1arn Daînce and the Fred Allen Show. the soup kitchen and the relief' caîmps. they bciong to another erai. ln the words of author H ugli Maciennain itle Qepression erai "bred ai generaition deternmined to give ils children te good Lhiings iL haîd laîcked aind spaîre thenii the hairsh disciplines it haid known," but iii the words of'Ite Quints thcmnselves, "There waîs su inuch more money than love iii our exist- ence. 1It took ai long tiime Lo realize the effect, it had on ali of Ls .. . The Berton fans wiII enjoy this one. It's ann engrossing story of our imie and un interesting vignette fromn Caînadian history which wili bc with Lis for somne tinte Lo cone. This and other fine books are availaîble froi Plurn Holiow Books, 135 Brock St. South, Whitby 'I wasn't heading for the swamp any more either. Thon I remembered that sailboats have to zig zag. 1 know thaît's not the term I- think it's called tacking - but whatever, 1 attempted -ta do it. The. combination of settîng tlie suil aînd steering the tiller made things rather hectic but 1 got iL all. Logether and Io and behold the little boat and 1 started sailîng up wind. Asil neaircd the shore line I acked aigain, again, setting the course on a diagonal to the wind and across Lhe srnali bay. I began ta geL a. littie overconfidunt with the suiccess and met my Waterloo where the bay joins the larger part of the laîke. At this point 1 discovered two things alniost ut once. First, the wind goes where iL feels like going - not where you want iL to go, and secondly, when the wind changes constaintiy iL maîkes iL rather difficoît to set both sails and tiller. Tfhe wind- caime in puffs froîn different directions. One puff was quite strong. The sail billowed, grew stiff aînd the mast creaked. The boat creaked, as they're wont to do when placed on a 40 degree angle, and the occupant tried ta think of another past prayer. The occupant thotight too slowly and it came to him and his head broke the surface of the water froin below. 1 don't blame the boat for tipping, it knew 1 wa sn't a proper sailor but thiat day 1 combined successfully a long imie fuvourite sport with a nowly discovered sport - sailing and scuba. The way 1 sail, scuba experionce is a noce ssity 50 you can survive in the water but 1 readily admit 1 grew vory fond of sailing thunks ta that little boat, Lake Chandos and three sunny but windy days. When the oppartunity comes along l'Il sail agaiin and in tho meantime l'Il road up on what 1 should have done compared ta what 1 actuallyýdid. Such is life. We build Our "custom concept"doesn't lock you into standard dimensions, spacing, sizes. Re Bibmau Construction, Ltd. 655-3381 ~o-Prud.nmeWbM ydWdrýO A Division of Dominion Bridge Ltd. 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