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Wednesday, March 4, 1970

SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS

PAGE FIVE

My wife is forever apologizing
to newly-met friends for my
innocent habit. of  cross-
examining them on the details of
their premarital love life.

It’s not that I’m after the kind
of statistics pioneered by the
late Dr. Kinsey, but simply my
passion for discovering the
curious pranks of fate that cause
boy to meet girl-and so to become:
life-time partners.

Of all the forms of social.
negotiation, you see, this is the’
most haphazard, the most
illogical and unreasonable and,
perhaps, the most successful.

' The subject comes to mind
because a dear friend of mine
has just trudged the last mile—
to. the altar in a love match
that, you might say, was made
by a fish.

If he’d landed that big brute on
that Friday afternoon he’d have
taken the plane back home that.
night, as he planned ail along,
and that would have been that.

But, no. The big fish got away.

' He decided to stay on for. the
- weekend to have another go at it.
That. was the weekend we were
also entertaining the little lady
from the city. They met. There.

was that old black magic. And -

-now, as of last Saturday, they are
Mr: ‘and Mrs..."
You see how it is. A man never.

‘knows how it will happen. A girl —

drops a parcel i ina bus. A casual
. friend introduces his niece from

Moosé Jaw: Some fellow goes into. :

.a shop to-buy some perfume for.

“his grandmother. Out. of | ‘such |

simple experiences: come a wife,
a mortgage and: seven or ‘eight :

‘Aids.

: in. ‘a biography. of: Professor
: Archibald’ ‘Low,’ the: pioneer :

inventor of guided missiles, of +
the love-meter he conceived. to
take the guesswork out! ‘of such

‘that love is determined by what

hye Real Thing.

The’ idea isn’t as. crazy. as it
me first seems. --and, anyway, iti isn't j
oS any crazier than Buided missiles. !

BY JACK

a ‘was reading. the other. day” 2

“he. called: “emanation - -charac-
teristics.” People give off a sort
~ of ray similar. to .wireless ‘beam’.
—Yays, he: figured, and these ‘could:
be. measured, He: visioned . the Bo
os lovers of the future strolling’ in:

“the: moonlight, - glancing. every «
-now and then at their: meters to
see if they. were: dialed to. The

sc oTT

After. all, we wouldn't
dream of acquiring any other

possession without

guarantee of success. We buy
a house and we = check
carefully for termites. We buy
a boat and we examine its
bottom for dry rot. We kick the

tires of used cars.

But when it comes to investing
in a life-long, non-negotiable
commodity like -a bride: the
average man is in a condition
that ranges. from. bewilder-
‘ment to utter irrationality.
All-.of the literature - of
romance attests to this. Guys
‘are getting married every
day, just. as they have. all
through recorded. history, for
no better reason than the
-effect of a pair of baby-blue
eyes like limpid pools. ©
There’s a pattern to this sort
of thing in the nature. world
that you rarely, find in human

affairs.

The last surviving boy
-curlew, it is said, could find
the last surviving girl curlew
in-all the vasiness of the fr rozen
“tundra. :
The strongest drone is the
one’-- and the only one -- who
gets to have his moment with
the queen bee on. high where
she has flown to insure that.
the father of her hive will be
the best daddy of them all...
It is all very orderly. There
is‘a reason for. mating.

; But -humans?:

reasonable about aman.
finding his mate because abig
fish-got -of f.: his line? ‘Who.

“would be. out there

S “kitchen, I wonder, if 1 hadn't
gone to, that, wrong door so
Tong: ago? ae =

_ works remarkable well just as it :
is. Unless I'm. badly mistaken its
‘name is love. oo me

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People get married “apparently ~
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Perhaps Professor Low was on:
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between four to six hours a day of

“my, telephone line, They do, with
_perserverance, manage to get
through, ‘as’ did a’ man “who
identified himself as Mr,

‘Salvador on. Saturday, Feb, 21,
in touch with me again after their -

(SPARA) meeting on. February
24, as to the time and place of a

future meeting with us. (This is,
the only contacl..we have had

from them),

1 gather that he was unable ‘to

get through to me again, and F do:

. Wish to extend my. sincere regre!
~ nbout that, But really, for the life
of me, 1 cannot see why a great.
body of influential business men .
would. want sto bother. with oa’
bunch of “well meaning women
“who are setting out to dest toy the :
centire project by. Jack of

thought’?

Whatever the: reasons. behind
your concern about us, “SPARA
public relations committee of.
two," you have given a great
boost. to my morale, and also the

morale of those with whom Tarn

working. It is nice to know that

You are 60 concerned,

T would also like to apologize | to
_ Mr. Parkinson for the behavior of
my ‘ghost’ who. answered my
telephone ALL the tinies you,
called She had ono business
telling you we were “too busy ta
meet with you.” T don't know haw
many times Thave told her to ask
ran firel hefans refusing oa papi
eman's offer to meet with me.
T have already assured you
gentlemen we will be only too
bappy too mect you in any
PUBLIC nieeting. you choose (6
arrange. Naturally, you will alsa,
want {a have: the. awocutives. of
your spovsara.the Rotary Club,
Lions’ Club and the Chamber of
Commerce, along with the

‘members of the councils: of. the:
three municipalities,
Centennial and. recreati
committees, It wouldn't be tair toe
-Jeave.out> executives
Kinsmen, Legion, Army
Navy, Silver Threads, SANSC ‘HA,
“PTA, church... groups,
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- Tam sure that all “my ladies"

who did. so much walking for.us

~- would be more than: anxious. to
vome tand sit resting: :
acheing feet) to meet’ with your
handsome. “all-male!
group, One never. kriaws: what
kind of a union might develop.
After all, most of “my gals"! are

not 80 hard-to look at.

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