The Windsor Star from Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 22

Trrr vrrrr 1 nnnnrrmrr nrrm -H The Windsor Star Friday. April 23, 1976 Jim Cornett Sad irons lightened work load i I -J sK Who, When lA Whatnot Whether Windsor is or isn't a lunchbucket town will likely be argued for many more years to come. But it's certainly taking on the appearance of being a jLUNCHBAG town. Keep your eyes open and you'll probably notice that more and more people who used to eat at lunch counters or in restaurant dining rooms are now brown-bagging it. Brown punchbags galore are showing up on the laps of people sitting park benches, or on car seats on waterfront parking lots, or at a person's work desk or bench.

Dear Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan: Thanks for helping to change our image. had been heated at the hearth. The iron stayed hot as long as the insert was hot. As it cooled, it was replaced by another from the hearth. When stoves made their appearance, the housewife was able to dispense with these rather awkward utility pieces and moved to hat we know today as the sad" iron sad by definition simply means The first ones were still the familiar triangular devices with fixed iron handles.

On ironing day the housewife loaded the top of her stove with as many irons as she had or thought she would need and allowed them to heat. Since the fixed iron handles grew as hot as the iron itself, it was necessary to keep a heavy ironing cloth clutched in the hand as she worked over the shirts, doilies or anything else she felt needed freshening. While that was a significant advance over the charcoal or brick irons, it was still not the simplest task in the world and then Mrs. Potts came on the scene with her wooden handles. Mary Florence Potts' first invention was in 1870 when she devised an iron with a fixed wooden handle, but evidently it wasn't until a year later that she came up with the removable handle invention that her name was destined to be linked with the sad iron thereafter.

That year she took out patent rights to her design and assigned the patents to two foundries in Philadelphia. Accordingly, the earliest of Mrs. Potts' irons bear the name of Enterprise Manufacturing and American Machine Co. When the patents expired, iron works in Canada and in other nations began copying the design. Two of the largest Canadian firms that made these irons for distribution in Canada were James Smart of Brockville and Tay lor-Forbes of Guelph.

The Taylor-Forbes Company supplied Eaton's catalogues with Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Irons. The 1896 catalogue shows a set of three irons and a handle at a cost of 70 cents. However, the collector of sad irons should use balanced judgment when buying these today. The fact that they were invented in the last quarter of the 19th Century doesnt mean they are all that old.

For instance; we recently resurrected a 1941-42 edition of Eatons catalogue and discovered they were still being offered at that time just over 30 years ago. The set of three irons, a handle and a trivet was priced at $2 that year. But let's go back to a time before that. Since clothes irons were in use before the advent of the cast iron cooking or heating stove, the only source of heat for both warmth and cooking was stilt the kitchen hearth. Obviously you couldn't make use of an iron that had been heated in a bed of ashes to press clothes, so an iron had to be invented that could be heated from within and this led to the development of the charcoal and the brick irons The charcoal iron was simply that a large, boatshaped vessel that could be filled with a bed of hot coals.

It was equipped with a small door" at the back that provided draft when needed to keep the coals red hot. A small chimney-like affair at the front permits wisps of smoke to escape. By the way, to the eternal exasperation of the housewife, it also allowed flakes of dust and soot to snow down on the freshly laundered clothes that were being ironed. The brick iron- was somewhat smaller, a little cleaner and easier to handle, but perhaps not quite as convenient to heat. These irons were cast in either iron or brass and were equipped with a small, lift-up door at the back.

To heat the iron you simply pulled a small vertical shaft-rod that opened the door to permit the insertion of a triangular piece of brick or iron that BY CARL MORGAN With all of the modern, work-saving paraphernalia around the home today, if you were to ask the contemporary housewife which among them all would she single out as providing the greatest relief from the daily chores, the chances are she be hard-pressed to pick one over another. The automatic dish washer? Clothes dryer? Vacuum cleaner? Deep freeze? Any of them would be a contender for honorable mention but what about something a little simpler? The common hand iron, for instance? The answer to that would depend largely upon the housewifes generation and her recollections of an earlier period in time. Certainly, the introduction of modern textiles that dont need ironing and the invention of the modern steam iron would rate well up on any scale. And before that, the introduction of the homely little sad iron that you see so much of at country auction sales, flea markets and antique shows, merit -consideration. The heavy iron with the curved walnut handle marked a turning point for many women faced with mountains of clothes to be dried out and stored away.

Of course much of it was straightened by hand to work the wrinkles out before storing in the linen press. The most famous name associated with the development of the iron over the years is that of Mrs. Potts or if you will, Mrs. Mary Florence Potts of Ottumwa, Iowa who demonstrated that if you were to devise a wooden handle to grip the iron with, it would be a lot more comfortable. Until then, the sad irons being used had fixed iron handles hich became so hot that the housewife had to grip them with a thick and clumsy wad of cloth, or else they simply couldn't handle them.

Sometimes nay, many times one has cause to wonder why City Hall goes to such great lengths to provide attractive, well-kept parks and recreational spots. Those times are the times you see people young and old (particularly young) dropping pop bottles, pop cans, ham- burger wrappers, candy bar wrappers and other trash wherever and whenever they please in the parks, and the Jtimes you see people allowing their dogs to mess up the parks jj in spots where other park users fear to tread. Aside from keeping parks department employees busy "enough to hang onto their jobs, and keeping other citizens in condition to be agile high-steppers, the offenders are contributing nothing in return for whats provided for them. Remember the time when punishment dispensed in the field of education was dished out to students for something they had either had done or hadnt done? You might say Premier William Davis has changed that where Windsor is concerned. Lack of intervention in the teachers-trustees dispute after three weeks indicates he chose to punish the students parents for electing only Liberal and NDP members from this area to the Ontario Legislature.

It's about time. It's time the trustees of the Windsor Board of Education made a move conducive to the playing of fair game of ball with the city's 12,700 secondary school students by, ending the lockout and letting the non-striking teachers into their classrooms to teach the students while negotiations proceed. Dear trustees: You should have realized long ago that, at election time in December, you can be replaced, you know. Or maybe it would be called being locked out by the electors. EARLY IRONS Although one tends to think that an iron is an iron is an iron and that there could hardly be any thing different to mark their evolution, this is far from correct as illustrated by the three irons in the photo above.

At the top is one of the earliest kinds a charcoal iron. These were in use before the advent of stoves and the deep base was filled with hot coals; the centre iron is the first in a series of "sad" irons, heated on the top of the kitchen stove. The problem was that the fixed iron handles were uncomfortable to handle. The lower part shows the final development in the sad irons with removable, walnut handle that did not conduct heat. Career roots nurtured by childhood fascination He didnt ask for this, but in fairness to Howard Levis, manager of the Palace Theatre, one of the four Windsor theatres panned in Tuesday's column for the film fare presented at the Easter weekend, you should know about another facet of his part in community goings-on.

Howard has been knocking himself out on behalf of the current Canadian Cancer Society campaign as publicity man for the Essex County Unit for numerous activities to help raise funds for the war on cancer. He's in the homestretch with two events left to go. One is a benefit dance, featuring the Lancaster Band, on Saturday, from 9 p.m. until I a at the Cleary Auditorium, with tickets at S3 per person available at the society's office at M3 Victoria Ave. The other is the Ladies' Great Ride for Cancer on May 2.

at the Devonshire Mall, starting at II u.m. Women, or men drexsed as women, will ride bicycles for so much money per half-mile lap. Those people who wish to sponsor the riders, organized by the Windsor Jaycces, may obtain sponsor sheets at the society's office and at most bank branches. trs-' Jfl St I S5 i'-' i -v- 1 WAK 'l ''I SPEED QUEEN KITCHEN CONSOLE Range and Dishwasher Continuous Clean Oven 1 Closed Door Smokeless Broiling 1 Eye-Level Controls 1 Large Cooktop Work Area 1 Four Total-Heating Surface Units LIFETIME WARRANTY on Surface Elements An etl in on space saving 30-inch wide appliance tor your dream kitchen. Full Family Capacity Dishwasher 6 Cycle Model Super Scrub Pots and Pans Cycle Sanl Cycles with UPF.

Water Temperature Quiet Operation Incidentally, when I saiJ that the erotic film fare presented on OooJ i hday and Easter Sunday at in Jxor's theatres was through the kindness of the film bookers and distributors in Toronto, I neglected to add that managers of mdor theatres have no say over what films their theatres til present. I urthermore. the layer Sunday show at the Palace was presented by an individual who rented the theatre for the occasion, ir it it It 1 ime marches on for all of os, but particularly so h. ho mauhed off to af at the outset of hotiS.ts in 1914. ths weekend, the handful of sufsnors of the Or who Mt Windsor shortly after the I its! World War began.

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