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Say “Thanks Mom” j on Mother’s Day I I with a Hallmark card and gift] £e*cMxtUtit, Card and Gift Shop 3 Belvidere SI., Lennoxville * 822-2632 75 CENTS Townships Digest Happy Mother’s Day Mom! For miles of smiles She puts a smile on my face, She makes me laugh, She has always been there for me, She is everything I ever wanted to be.I used to look up to her, Though soon, she will look up to me! 1 respect her as she respects me, I trust her as she trusts me.She is kind, fair and never at loss for her words.She treats us differently, but equally throughout She is a beautiful person inside and out.She is for miles of smiles.She is not like any other, I’m glad she is my mother.Nikki Johnston West Brome Today’s Weather Showers Complete weather: page 2 Inside .16 Community Forum .6 .15 Record Album___5 19-23 Sports .10 .17 Theme Page: .18 Beauty.7 Ann Landers Births and Deaths .Classified .Comics.Crossword ./////// Record The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Mutual Funds How do yours compare to the best?Call Calvin T.Chan Financial Advisor (819)573-6006 / 1 800 561-3718 MIDLAND WALWYN Friday, May 9, 1997 New police stations to open in two Townships’ regions By Paul Cherry Sherbrooke Two Quebec Police Force stations will open soon in the Eastern Townships as part of the public security minister’s plan to better serve the province’s rural regions.“This is the start of police service that will be more effective, closer to citizens and closer to local elected officials,” said provincial minister Robert Perrault.The agreement includes the establishment of police stations in the Asbestos and Haut-St-Francois MRCs.There will be more involvement at the local political level concerning how the stations serve their respective areas.Decisions on how officers from the station will patrol the large areas will be made by a committee of QPF officers and a group of local mayors.For example, the committee for the Asbestos area will include the mayors of Danville, Wotton, St-Georges-de-Windsor and St-Joseph-de-Ham-Sud plus a captain and sergeant from the QPF.Under the agreement at least one patrolling officer will be within the MRC’s territory all the time.“This guarantees more service to the areas,” said Perrault.“There is an obligation to have at least one patrolling officer 24 hours a day.And people who know the area will be more involved in their own security.” There will also be two or three patrolling officers in each MRC in the daytime.When asked whether it might not be a better idea to have more officers at night Jean-Yves Imbeault, the police chief for the St-Francois area, said there is nothing to support the idea.He said the QPF has found that most crimes they’ve responded to happen during the day.But he was quick to add that the stations have no set schedule yet and will conform to respond to local |sira|!pj£'s t ^ ¦ : - SSipiK PAUL CHERRY Police Chief Jean-Yves Imbeault, Public Security Minister Robert Perrault and Asbestos MRC warden Rene' Perrault sign a deal for new police posts.needs.Perrault added that people should see the police stations in the same way they would if they were a municipal police force.“It’s very simple.In a municipality there is a contract between the police and the town and the councillors can say to the police where the problems are.Are there too many drugs in the school, how are we going to work it out?This is a better way to set priorities.” What is certain right now is the QPF will be opening a station in Wotton soon but no approximate date has been set on when it opens its doors.The QPF and the municipality have yet to deter- mine where the station will be or whether Wotton or the MRC will handle setting up the station.A station will also be opened to cover the Haut-St-Francois area but the MRC has yet to determine where it will be located.Haut-St-Francois MRC prefect Patrice Dodier said he and the MRC’s administrators will start hearing proposals on Monday.Imbeault said there will be meetings to discuss changes in QPF patrolling between the police and representatives from other Eastern Townships municipalities soon.The meetings are coming up in Magog, Brome-Missisquoi and Haute Yamaska.it SUMMUM Of MQTtCTKM * SUMMUM OF.FMOTFCHON • Coho Brown felt sole • With suspenders • Top of the line quality Limited quantity Also available: MUZZELOADERS Black Powder arms Knight - 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Vaudry’s Flower Shop 49 Belvidere Street Lennoxvllle 563-7272 ¦ ¦ THE—i RECORD to make a mistake, don’t flaunt it er’, as 1 had spelled it.Talk about embarrassment as 1 realized 1 had been spelling it wrong for my whole life, William Safire, the language columnist for the New York Times, had a similar moment recently after he identified Oliver Cromwell as ‘the Pretender’ rather ‘the Protector,’ the title Cromwell actually held when England was a republic.“1 have been waiting for a moment like this, dealing with another subject, to sneak in a correction that few will notice,” Safire wrote in a subsequent column in which he took The New Yorker to task for an article containing this sentence:“Oscar Wilde was jailed, exiled and ruined for flaunting sexual convention off-stage as brazenly as his epigrams undermined social convention on it." A fine sentence, as Safire remarks.The only trouble with it is that ‘flaunting’ should be ‘flouting.’ The New Yorker wanted to say Wilde showed contempt for the sexual conventions of his time.He scorned them, derided them, jeered at them.Historically, since 1551 at least, the word for that has been ‘flout.’ The word ‘flaunt’ has meant almost the opposite.It has meant ‘to display proudly,’as a peacock does with its showy plumage.That would be the last word on flaunt and flout, except for the fact that language changes over time.And flaunt and flout seem to be two words in the grip of change.The New Yorker defends its usage by citing the latest, 10th edition of Merri-am-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary which contains these definitions of flaunt: “To display or obtrude oneself to public notice, to wave or flutter showily (a flag), to display ostentatiously or impudently, to treat contemptuously.” Webster adds a usage note which concedes the last definition cited ‘undoubt- edly arose from confusion with flout,’ but the contexts in which it appears ‘cannot be called substandard.’ In other words, good writers can be cited as using ‘flaunt’ to mean to treat with contempt.How this happens is illustrated by an episode involving Eric Partridge, the compiler of the massive Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.In a previous book on usage and abusage, Partridge remarked the ‘flaunt for flout seems to be a strange error, and, some would say, a rare one.It may be strange, but it is not rare.I fell into it into it in the first edition of Slang Today and Yesterday (1933) and saw it with horror.’ So a linguist with as finely tuned ear as Partridge failed to catch the error when he first made it.And such citations from distinguished writers are used by such dictionaries as Merriam Webster and become both the agents of linguistic change and its justification.Webster, of course, is famous for the ease with which it accepts changes in the English language.How we view this process depends on whether we are fans of the old words and the old ways or are excited by living on the moving edge of a living world language that shifts and changes as it moves forward, beyond our power to stop, shape or control.As for flaunt and flout, I have a feeling they are already beyond our shaping.The old meaning of flaunt seems to be supported now mainly by the saying, ‘If you’ve got it, flaunt it.’ But the new meaning, essentially the same as ‘flout,’apparently doesn’t sound wrong or ‘funny’ to younger people as it does to older ears.To those who worry that English is going to hell in a handcart, it’s a question of picking territory worth defending.Perhaps an illogical definition of ‘flaunt’ isn’t the place to make a stand for the magnificent English tongue.What do you think?Write Don McGillivray at Southam News, 200-151 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ont.KIP 5E3.Charles Bury's column was delayed through the e-mail system.Omm Pah Pah The Lions Clubs of the region have teamed up with the Musikmeisters, a local Bavarain orchestra, to raise funds for the flood relief effort in Manitoba.Eight musicians in traditional dress will perform at Terrasses de Rock Forest May 17 and 18 from noon to 4 o’clock.Lions members from Sherbrooke, Magog and Coaticook will be on hand to collect donations.Lingo Column Don McGillivray BEN ® by DANIEL SHELTON A / C I WOULDN'T \ S ^_______________J PREPARE ANY PRESSING 5 ^ JUST Y ET.J YESTERDAY, I SOWED CARROT SEEPS, LETTUCE ANP RADISHES,.TODAY, IT'S TIME FOR SPINACH/ 500N, WEIL 0E ENJOYING FRESH GARDEN SALADSALL SUMMER/ ¦ THE- ¦ RECORD Friday, May 9, 1997 page 3 “I feel I’m part of this community - Liberal MP Denis Paradis Paradis launches campaign in Magog By Paul Cherry Magog Liberal MP Denis Paradis officially launched his election campaign in front of a crowd of more than 75 people at the Magog Curling Club this week.Instead of throwing curling rocks, Paradis was pitching another four years of Liberal government.The Brome-Mis-sisquoi candidate told supporters he thinks his party is on the right track when it comes to jobs and he says the Bloc is lying when it says it is in Ottawa to protect the interest of Quebecers.“They are big talkers and little doers,” said Paradis.In his riding, Paradis faces Progressive Conservative candidate Claude Boulard and former Magog town councillor Noel Laçasse, representing the Bloc.Earlier this week Laçasse said Paradis has ignored the town - the most populated town in the riding - and its constituents since taking over the MP seat two years ago.Paradis’ eyes widened when told of Lacasse’s campaign criticism.“I was very visible in Magog,” he said.“I promised to have an office in Magog and I did it.No MP before me, accept for possibly Yves Foret, has had an office like that here in the last 25 years.The office gave people the opportunity to talk to me.The phone number was there for people to use and it produced concrete results.” Paradis cited the three federal grants he recently announced as an example of results in Magog.They included a federal contribution of $350,000 to the Centre d’Accueil Notre-Dame, a government run nursing home, as part of the Liber- Parizeau plan is ‘scary’ By Paul Cherry Magog The political fallout from thereve-lation that former Premier Jacques Parizeau would have declared sovereignty without negotiations with Ottawa if the Yes side had won in 1995 could be felt all over the province, including the Townships.While campaigning in Magog Wednesday Liberal MP Denis Paradis said he was shocked to hear the news.“He was hiding this from his own government, and that’s scary.He was the Premier of Quebec and he had this on his mind, it’s frightening,” he said.Paradis, a lawyer and former president of the Quebec Bar Association, said the revelation helps justify a legal challenge to separation the federal government is supporting.“I’m really glad that we have this thing in front of the Supreme Court,” Paradis said.“We have to find out what the rule of law is in this country.I think its going provide a good clarification.Everybody has to obey the law in this country, myself, the prime minister, the premier, everybody.” As he was on the campaign trail the Liberal MP also reiterated the Liberals position on the national unity issue.“We’re ready to open the Constitution if the provinces are willing to include things like a veto or distinct society or thing like that,” he said.Paradis said talking of another referendum is negative thinking but that if Lennoxville Rifle Club 22 Beattie SAT.MAY 10, 9 p.m.to closing Music by “THE HOEDOWNERS" Everyone welcome (including non-members) it does happen soon the federal government would work to ensure the question being asked to voters is clear.Paradis wasn’t the only MP talking law after the news of Parizeau’s intentions came out.Yesterday Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said the Canadian government had “enormous justification” in leaving the decision to the Supreme Court.Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion said the Supreme Court case is essential in avoiding any other future “trick” like the one Parizeau thought of pulling.Justice Minister Allan Rock said the comments in Parizeau’s soon to be released book.Pour un Quebec souverain, will be used in the Supreme Court case scheduled to begin this fall, probably as an affidavit.Rock said he wants to use it to prove that Quebec separatists believe they have the right to break the province away from Canada without negotiation.Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe has dropped the idea of involving Parizeau in the federal election campaign like a hot potato.In an attempt to give a disastrous campaign a fresh outlook last weekend Duceppe called Parizeau an elder statesman and a welcome addition to his team.Parizeau had said he was interested in helping Bloc candidate Yves Duhaime in the St-Maurice riding against Chrétien.Dennis Gfe zos CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Tel.: 819-82.3-0800 151Q m e e n,S h i t e D, L e m n 0 x v i ( ( e ( Q c J 1 M1K 5 al’s infrastructure program and $75,000 for the Lake Memphremagog swimming event La Traversée for publicity on the site.He also confirmed a financial contribution of $800,000 from the federal government to the Magog municipal authorities to go towards repair on the federal wharf.The money came through an agreement to be completed with the municipality and Public Works and Governmental Services Canada.“I feel like I’m a part of this community,” Paradis said.“I was elected by all the people of Brome-Missisquoi and I’m pretty sure Magog will give me a good majority.” Besides talking about Magog during his speech Paradis listed issues he has been involved in all over the riding.He said he has helped to develop small and medium sized businesses in the region.He said he would like to see businesses encouraging potential American customers to shop more in towns like Magog, Knowlton and Cowansville.But Paradis seemed most proud of convincing Environment Minister Sergio Marchi to acknowledge the pollution levels in Lake Champlain as a serious problem.When Prime Minister Jean Chrétien met with U.S.President Bill Clinton in April, Lake Champlain was on a list of the six top Canadian environmental concerns.Paradis said both Clinton and the Environment Protection Agency have been made aware of the problem.“It’s a really big issue,” Paradis said.“People from Bedford, Philipsburg and Stanbridge Station are drinking that water.” The MP also met recently with U.S.mayors asking that a 4000 ft.causeway in the lake be removed to let water flow freely.The mayors want to remove less than half of the causeway because of budget restraints but Paradis said he is expecting a development on the issue soon.¦ ¦ let’s vetJ te 2 jiir.cm June 2,1991 Otoe of Un cmt> Liberal MP Denis Paradis and wife Vivienne greet supporters in Magog dur-ing official campaign launch Wednesday night.HELP FOR MANITOBA Some people have expressed the desire to help out the flood victims in Manitoba.Caritas will accept cash donations and will forward the amount in its entirety to the disaster victims.Receipts will be given immediately to the donors.Please send your donations to: Caritas-Sherbrooke Help for Manitoba 636 Quebec Street Sherbrooke (Québec) J1H 3M2 CARITAS 562-5414 sea-3035 TsusJhk SSAL“° Specialized Services*18 1.Transport for appoint-ments“D (Doctors, dentists, hospitals) 2 methods a) One way trip with waiting time (maximum 20 minutes $7.00 for waiting) return free b) Two way trip at a fixed price and time (for one to 5 persons) 2.Collective taxf° Shared transportation service (maximum 5 persons) towards the same destination: therapeutic, social, recreative activities, shopping, visits.THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIMEr SSAL»° Services Spécialisés» 1.Transport pour rendezvous * (Médecins, dentistes, hôpitaux) 2 méthodes a) Aller avec attente (maximum 20 minutes - $7.00 pour attente) Retour gratuit b) Aller-retour à prix fixe, à heure fixe (de une à 5 personnes) 2.Taxi collectifK Service de transport partagé (maximum 5 personnes) vers une même destination: activités thérapeutiques sociales, récréatives, magasinage, visites.AU BON ENDROIT, AUBONMOMENTr page 4 The Record, Friday, May 9, 1997 Canadian Veterinary Medical Association L'Association canadienne des médecins vétérinaires Hôpital vétérinaire Dr.Susie Lépine Dr.Claire Beaudry Dr.Luc Savard 2736 Galt Street West Sherbroke (819) 562-8585 490 Main Street West Coaticook, Quebec CLINIQUE VÉTÉRINAIRE DE COATICOOK Dr.J.Porter, M.V.Dr.P.Voghell, M.V.Dr.E.Martineau, M.V.(819) 849-4865 After business hours: (819) 346-0317 ______Fax: (819) 849-9492_ Dr.A.Fleurant, M.V.Dr.R.Dodier, M.V.Dr.R.Martineau, M.V.Dr.A.Renard, M.V.Dr.P.Cardyn, M.V.Qünique 3Vétérinaire cftocK ¦« Ju -«t < : SsW'fiSf'y MSfaSA.iM * i v.vtm-fjm HWf Clarenceville Mayor Kenneth Miller and Secretary-Treasurer Thérèse Lacombe outside Clarenceville town hall.URGENT.¦' :: ¦ C€»m i*0*«5jr* 911 service on line Mom’s Day bake sale Don’t forget the Sherbrooke Hospital Ladies’ Auxiliary’s Mother’s Day Bake Sale which takes place on Friday, May 9 in the front lobby of the hospital from 8:00 to 12:00 a.m.Take advantage of the wide selection of homemade bread, pies and delicious pastry and stock up on them for the holiday weekend.Old Fashioned Love Parents and drama lovers will enjoy the theatric efforts of nine children from the Richmond area as they act out the play “L’Amour Préhistorique.” Directed by Yolande Roy, the children will interpret the humouros worn which depicts a history specialist recounting a love affair between two cave people.The play will held at the Richmond Centre D’Arts at 3 p.m., Saturday, May 10.Admission is free.Parent finders meeting A non-profit organization for adoptees, birth parents, and siblings will be holding a meetingThursday, May 15, at the Royal Canadian Legion, 700 Jenkins Avenue, Dorval, Que.H9P 1A1 at 7:30 P.MAdoptive parents are welcome.For information call: (514) 683-0204 or fax: (514) 685-7384 Road closing The City of Sherbrooke is advising the public of the scheduled road closing on King Street West between Grandes Fourches and Wellington Sunday May 11 from 6 a.m.to 8 p.m.The closure is necessary to allow the CN to change rails and carry out work on the line.Traffic will be re-directed via Wellington North, Frontenac and Grandes Fourches North.South bound traffic will be detoured via Laurier, Galt West and Grandes Fourches South.Waiting for CALisBeginning this week almost everyone residing in the MRC Brome-Missisquoi region will have access to a 911 emergency service for ambulance, police or fire fighters.The Town of Brome Lake and Stanbridge Station are not included in the 20 municipalities numbering more than 40,000 residents.Brome Lake Fire Chief Pierre Laplante has assured residents that the issue is under serious study.In case of emergencies, Brome Lake residents can call 242-1222.There are two different answering centres for 911 emergencies.In Cowansville the call will go through the police and in Bromont through Gestion Laplante, a private centre.When you dial 911 from a residence, business or a public telephone, the address and area of your situation appears on a computer screen.Technology is not yet available to trace calls made from a cellular phone, so callers will have to identify the location of the call.Briefs page 6 Friday, May 9, 1997 Record COMMUNITY FORUM Desperate dinosaurs 1 wish that Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe had stopped off at a condom factory this week, rather than a cheese-curd plant.That setting would have at least provided the photo opportunity to reveal the man for what he really is and what everyone has thought of him for a long time.Remember, this is the official opposition leader of all “Oui” Quebecers as well as the rest of our fellow Canadians.To give him his due, his journey to the House of Commons has been fraught with perilous challenges.A little over a decade ago he was cleaning bed pans in a downtown Montreal hospital, when he wasn’t engaged in “extremely” left wing political activities and trade unionism enhancement.He showed again this week that he was a man of solidarity with the little people by orchestrating the demise of the campaign bus driver who had followed party directions to get to a campaign stop, only to miss the mark by 45 minutes.Duceppe has slithered and slathered his way to a nice lifestyle by hanging on to the coattails of his actor-father and a whole litany of other public-monied Canada-bashers for over a decade.Now he says that any true Québécois will vote for the Bloc to continue to defend our rights to smoke cheaper and obtain more powers and regional handouts from that horrible federal system, until the shackles have been finally removed and we can be governed by his ilk.Jeeshum! 1 have never been comfortable with the word Québécois.As a fully integrated anglophone Quebecer I have been told that I am a Québécois in that I live here, I pay taxes of various kinds here, 1 have a “feel” for the place, work enthusiastically in French, and conform respectfully to the laws which the government of this society has passed for all of us.I am not a good Québécois however because I voted “No” in two referendums, not that anyone paid attention to that, because I frequently criticize the regulatory zeal of the government and the human garbage the political process has hatched, and because I simply have no sympathy for the victim- VlEWPOINT Gary Richards ization bleatings of the nationalists.But there’s more to it than that.Above all, I feel that if the example of a Québécois is personified by Duceppe or Bouchard or Parizeau or Landry or Larose et al, who would want to be identified with this lot?Worse still the term denies the existence and contributions of millions of French-speaking Canadians from across the country, but most especially here in our own province, to our history and very identity as Canadians.When Bloc member Jacob incited the French-speaking military forces of Quebec to switch to the new army after a “Yes” vote, I thought of my shipmates and two closest friends when 1 was in the navy, Jean-Guy Béland of Drummondville and Alfred Leblanc of Shediac.When Claude Charron was PQyouth minister and bolstering the grant system for Québécois athletes to win at what would be their “last Canada Games.I thought of Arthur Laforest who taught me and the other neighbor kids how to throw a curve ball, and Louis Legaré my baseball coach in Sherbrooke’s Little League system.When Josée “Chuckles" Legault speaks of traditional Canadian disdain toward the Québécois people, she means French-speaking Quebecers most of whom have experienced far more disdain from their own governing elite than from any ill-intentional Canadian.When Bernie “dirty” Landry, our august minister of finance berates an immigrant “looking” hotel clerk because he assumed she voted “No” in the referendum against the people of Quebec, I think of growing up in the Townships with people from all over who were just glad to be here and an active part of everyone’s community.These are among my “real” and “respectable” examples of what Québécois are.It’s almost as if this still-young election campaign is suddenly not so much about issues or about Canada and its hanging together as a country, but of a last desperate fling by Quebec’s dinosaur nationalist coalition to continue to cling pathetically to power in any way possible.a division of Communications Quebecor inc.2850 Delorme, Sherbrooke, Que.J1K 1A1 Fax: 819-569-3945 e-mail: record@interlinx.qc.ca Randy Kinnear Publisher .(819) 569-9511 Sharon McCully Editor .(819) 569-6345 Sunil Mahtani Corresp.Editor .(819) 569-6345 Susan Mastine Community Relat.(819) 569-9511 Alain Tétrkault Adv.Dir.(819) 569-9525 Richard I.essard Prod.Mgr.(819) 569-9931 Mark Guillette Prod, Superv._(819) 569-9931 Francine Thibault Prod.Superv.(819) 569-9931 DEPARTMENTS Accounting .(819)569-9511 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every day and enjoy the daily news very much.I am writing about a particular story that has been in the paper for a couple of days, because for me it has been very upsetting.It is the issue of the dog law in Philipsburg.First of all, I am a fairly newcomer to the Townships and I don’t really know where Philipsburg is, but my heart goes out to the animal lovers there.I am quite sure, the person making these laws does not have a dog, or if he does, the poor thing has probably been chained out back all its life, and has never been given love nor received love.When I mention pet lovers I am not referring to the people who are letting their animals run wild and disturb their neighbors, because to me they fit into the same category as the person making the law.My concerns is for the real pet lovers.The people who always know where their animals are.The people who love and respect their animals.The people who are not capable of having a family member put down.Consider the emotional trauma to a child or an elderly person especially, when, for no apparent reason, their dear friend has been taken from them.The message I would like to extend is, shouldn’t there be an exception made for those people.The true animal lover people?Joyce Green Sherbrooke Where is coverage of David Price?Dear Editor, Could it be my imagination, or is the Record trying to influence the way we vote?I have been amazed at the utter and pointed lack of coverage accorded by your newspaper to the campaign of Compton-Stanstead PC candidate, David Price.As a community newspaper, 1 believe the Record has failed miserably if it cannot provide any news on an honest attempt by a member of our very own English community to provide a voice for us federally (a man who is also the mayor of a Townships anglo mecca, Lennoxville).As a community, I think we have to ask ourselves, in whose interests is the Quebecor Record really working, if not our own?This is our newspaper, our community, and if you want our support, then remember guys, it’s supposed to be.’all about us!’ Laurie Labrecque Lennoxville Friday, May 9, 1997 page 7 '¦¦¦¦ ¦¦ il» - .— THE— -.— ¦¦¦ '-I.i ¦ n.i— __ RECORD- HEALTH AND BEAUTY ¦ ¦ The first step to beauty is good skin care.If the skin is not properly cared for and lacks a healthy glow, make-up won’t help.It’s never too late to follow these three easy steps.Josee St-Pierre, the beautician on my Videotron show “Rendez-Vous Country” agreed to guide me as I share with you many little skin care secrets.“There is no question that nothing and no one can look good without care and maintenance, but that does not necessarily mean it has to be a boring chore” says famous actress Joan Collins (Dynasty’s unforgettable Alexis) in her book My Secrets.First of all, it does not matter how old you are since it’s never too late to start.In general our skin is what people judge our age by, and it can make us look much older or younger depending on the care and treatment it receives.What does beautiful skin look like?Basically the surface is soft, firm and resilient, with small pores and a rosy glow that comes from proper blood circulation.So many things can change the look of your skin: a bad night’s sleep, illness, smoking, bad eating habits and not using any, or the wrong products.If you start taking care of your skin at 20, you will delay the aging process.At 30, you will keep it young and healthy looking, and at 40, you will rejuvenate your skin.Skin care is always done in three steps, first you have to clean your skin in order to remove impurities, dead cells and excess oil.The second step is to apply your freshener or toner to balance your PH, and to protect your skin against bacteria and prepare it for the moisturizer.Step three is of course the moisturizer which is the simplest and the most necessary form of maintenance for your skin.“Moisturizer is the one luxury that I couldn’t be without, in fact it’s beauty therapy number one” adds Joan Collins in My Secrets.Moisturizer is the shield that will protect you against wind, cold, sun and even make-up during the day and will serve as a nutrient during the night.It’s important to use the right type of skin product for your skin type to avoid irreparable damage.There’s no need to use 30 different products to get excellent results, but make sure you ask a competent beautician to give you advice.Beauty Tips Jessie Au LIS Before Janet Daigneault wanted afresh new look that would be easy to care for during the summer months.After A shorter cut and soft perm provided the wash’n wear hairdo, while make-up highlighted her attractive features.Skin care is first step to beauty From Napolean to Beau Brummel Historically, men have been fashion plates Women have traditionally been considered more flamboyant than men when it comes to fashion and clothing, but some readers may find it surprising that females do not have an exclusive corner on oddities and eccentricities in dressing, and at times are indebted to men, who have innovated trends in styles and dressing.Let me take you back to the past 200 years or so, then bring you back to the present again, to see examples to support this conclusion.Consider the flamboyance of Napoleon’s tailor, Leroy.According to the historical findings of Mila Contini, he, the daring innovator, “.Guided the Emperor along the byways of fashion.He was of humble origin.he dressed the hair of Marie Antoinette.At the beginning of the Revolution, loyal to his aristocractic connections, he continued to dress in pink satin, powder his hair, and wear pointed shoes.” The same hairdresser and tailor became a secret advisor to Napoleon.If you are familiar with the phrase “blue stockings, referring to women with literary interests, you may be interested to know its origin.My source states that the term originated in the 1750s to refer to “London social gatherings where literary discussions were preferred to card playing.some of the men wore their ordinary blue stockings instead of the formal black silk usually donned in the evening.By the 1790s the term was used, derogatorily, to indicate a woman with literary or intellectual interests: most late-18th and early 19th century feminists were given this label.” Around the middle of thel9th century, fashions which originated in England made an invasion of Europe, notes Contini.“Beau Brummel was leader in this field.He bought his clothes from the most exclusive and expensive tailors; his coats from one, his trousers from another, his waistcoats from a third, he was the leader of all dandies.” My encyclopedia informs me that George Bryan Brummel was born in London in 1778, and was educated at Eton and Oxford, “at both of which places he acquired great distinction by his taste in dress, which afterward made him the autocrat in the world of fashion.” Another tailor, Paul Poiret, like Leroy, distinguished himself for his extravagance.He was employed byj.Doucet, says Contini, who further informs us that Poiret spent his first month’s pay at Doucet, “on a splendid pair of cuff links.“Poiret perfected and launched the masculine-inspired walking skirt, which he called the trotteur.” Early in the 19th century men’s suits and coats were black, says Ms.Contini, “but were distinguished by a variety of overcoats: the Ulster, double-breasted, and with a detachable cape; the inexpensive loden (though, I cannot imagine why she would consider a loden coat “inexpensive”, as it is a very fine wool, water repellent and toasty warm), with a cape and hood attached; the paletot, often made of wood, lined with fur, with a shawl collar and double breasted.” Worthy of notice, is a touch of flamboyance about an artist-Boldini, the painter, who always wore yellow gloves.” Likewise the portrait he painted of a nobleman: his subject is wearing yellow gloves.In the present century social status is not marked by strict dictates of what should be worn by various strata of society, which immediately calls for greater relaxation in dress.General Montgomery’s (W.W.II) military duffle coat is said to have been an influence on designs of women’s coats.To all appearance it may have been made of Loden cloth.John Fairchild in his CHIC SAVAGES, published in 1989, tells of an incident in which an American President is cast in an extremely informal appearance.Fairchild was told that “Gerald Ford couldn’t find a morning suit to fit him, but he went to the palace anyway with his trousers much too short: it did not bother him or the Emperor (Hirohito).” Then the person who told of this incident to Fairchild, went on to recount the Emperor’s first visit to the American Embassy after the defeat of Japan.The Emperor left his household staff in the small library and walked alone through the long embassy salon to General MacAthur, who was behind his desk and in his uniform but with an open shirt.The Emperor, top hat in hand, bowed.” Eccentricities and extremes in style continue: witness the style in topcoats for men today with their super-padded shoulders, making their wearers look as if they were dressed to play football.John Fairchild approves of sportswear in the right places, but prefers dress shoes to Adida’s type footwear in airports.In his opinion, those who wear dress shoes while flying are somehow set apart and appear more fashionable, and in this be includes men as well as women.Finally a word from Ann Landers to gentlemen: Ann relays a message from a clerk at a clothing store for men: “I love to see a wife come in with her husband.Women know better than men what looks sharp and know how a garment should fit.” Gentlemen, I am merely using a quotation out of a sage lady’s column! 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