ViSitors coming by boat in the log cabin home of, Ken Kendall near Nanaimo, B.C.. may be startled to see a shot: this cannon whistle

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BEWARE THE CAN‘NON

across their bow. III the visi- tors are regarded by the Ken- dall's as “stuffed shirts," the shot could be a warning; owner- wise it’s a welcome. They've

had more than 5.000 visitors in the last 15 years and have entertained them by serving such delicacies as rattlesnake. octopus. wolf—eel, beaver. ra-

coon and crow.

(CP Photo)

.By CAROL KENNEDY

LONDON (CH—Nostalgia is for sale Saturdays in the street market in Portobello Road.

Bargain hunters from all over the world converge weekly on

rrow. seedy thoroughfare a short walk north of the posh antique shops of Kensington. There are few antiques to be found in Portobelio Road—this Is the place for souvenirs of the recent past. the Britain oi the day before yesterrday.

Over the babble of a dozen languages drift reedy strains of a wax cylinder record revolving on an Edison Bell phonograph. It might be John McCormack's yearning Irish tenor in I'll Walk Beside You, or soldiers’ songs of the First

. World War—"recorded on the battlefield." the stallholder tells ‘ you proud!

y. Many of the parttime sales- men who spread their wares Saturdays on a few yard Portobello Road are collectors themselves, indulging their hobby and making enough out of it weekends to pay the rent. The phonograph man, forin- stance, has more than 1,000 cylinders at home and can't re- sist raiding his stock for his own collection. CHAIRS BIG SELLERS Some stalls specialize in brass and copper or Victorian furni- ture: others are a ragbag of sentimental bric-a-brac. ,. ere is a pile of Edwardian song-sheets with a picture of

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Bargain Hunters Converge On London Street Market

music-hall star Vesta Tilley strutting in a scarlet uniform ——over there 3 china mug made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Under a map of the world the inscription boasts: “The Empire on which the sun never ."

Buttoned plush chairs are perennial best - sellers. They command a high price however tattered. So do pairs of hansom- cab lamps and tall Victorian telephones with curly brass handsets that sell for anything up to $20. They can legally be installed only as extension phones. but many people buy them as exotic ornaments.

Genuine bargains such as Vic- torian glass paperweights for a few shillings are almost im- possible to find these days. American tourists are often blamed for inflating the prices in Portobello Road. but furnish- ing crazes have a lot to do with it and there has been a boom in trappings of the gasllght era. EDWARDIAN REVIVAL

Right now fashion is swinging towards Edwardian decor. It's smart to convert ornate gas street lamps to flower holders. to have rooms filled with squashy couches, green baize tablecloths, brass curtain-poles holding heavy velvet drapes in rich period colors—plum. bur- gundy, parma violet and‘char- treuse.

Columnist Drusilla Beyfus. writing on the woman's page of The Observer, says the Ed—

wardian revival Is a distinc- tively British contribution to Passengers home comfort, welcome afterl gear: of . barf:1t Japanese and lPOSE PTOblem can inav1an er ors. The cosy solidity of the style. CA8 [NO Show, she writes, seems to “evoke an, ura of permanence" — a re-, rk that perhaps explains why‘ Britons appear so powerfully

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years before the First World ar.

Almost any stage or tele- ation. the Commons seems predestined for popular- nesday. ity here. A weak drawing-room‘ TCA President

comedy panned recently

gecor. Now it’s drawing packed Its automatic reservation i-apa ous Is. ' '

seats available. He told Art Smith

REFORMER RETIRES 1 Calgary South) that the govern

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anti-vice campaigner in

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The Guardian. Charlottetown, Thurs. Nov. 29, I962.

,had been made to penalize such ‘passengers. U.S. airlines were jtrying to do this but bills sent ,lo “no show“ customers pro- duced almost no money.

Asked if he thought ryci‘yilmi: possible has becn done to weed out the no show passenger. who blocks others who could have used the space, Mr. McGregor replied:

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