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show it uy comrpli- them fraakiy. Cbaac- eywill weicome your an1 warmly, and u feel at home again. marry Ms f amily,"' la ar complaffit among ne Hlrst cas> guide h the niny intricate Excuses! A maa cbarged wîth robbery ;n Vienna, Austria, told the court he bla-med it on the f act that he had two blood transfu- sions and later learnod that the deonor was a habituai thief. \Now, bairgari are ieavinr ex- discavered ane ýtiy that sûme- -and fýailed - the firm's safe- :ht. .nd a note: "Hard the Lake police de- his explana- stoppod for Iy tires are ta pet home A Judge asked a Chicaga main wby ,ho stole a car when be had one of bis awn. "I was drinking," the man expiained, "1and taa drun1k-t o drive mny own car." His cau)tiOn cost hlm a year la prison. Mode ri Etiq,îuette .*0 Q,.lHow long aftor the re- freshments are served should a guest renmain at a bridge party? A. This Apends iupan baw (cat-l5 in theevng the re- freshbments are served, but prab- ably about 30 minutes aftor fin- isbing is tire u s ual tisse ta leave. A guieat at any aff air should nover "eat aindru" QIf a maxi and womnan are walking together du ring~ a rain, and bothà have timbreIlas, should e~hone use his ownibrel- la? A. This might prove awk- wvard. it would be 4nucb bet- te,. if bath wýýere to walk uin4er the i-ma's larger umbrelia. Q. la it proper to eat the frutit, soinethuies served !uaa cold driinlç, or is thila supposed to serve s1nereIy for flavor and decoration~? A. This is optionalî; take it or leave it. Q. Wh,, drla'king ay kind (il refrealunent, lsn't it . proper to leave a littie o! the liquid in acessarily. One. may erly drînl.cUitaI], us a bride i3 writing hatiks to friends who know her busband, notes be signed wlth '.*cU * eitber ta the .?Refuse 'Cr >n hese vis- uiness--an absul botb of us. It o while Partner were talkig in 1 went out to tmeway h ai! that's couch foi tains a wl basket. Th ,II may bave had more than ny Lusual seven plats," be ad- mita, "but it did me nu harm." Younger generatiofis can leara a lot from sorne of th~e Old 'uns wbo sbd-W such zest for liv- ing, a wealtb of initiative and, above aIl, a grand sense, of bu-, mour. Tbere were sasse hopeful fe- maie bearts in Columbia, Soutb America, receptiy when the newspapera announced that a wortby citizen was loolkin., for a wife. The girls stopped fixing their make-up, however, Wnen it was 1eairneçl that the an- nouncement was the birthday declaration o! the oldest ia- habitant ,~ aged weli ovex 100! An Ipswichb man, William Campa, isn't as oid as that. But recently hie celebrated bis nine- ty-fiftb birtbday by mryn for the third time. Duriag the boneymooni, bis ffyfv-er old 'bride fouad hbur up a lad- der, painting' the bouse. Womren do pretty well in the old age stakes, -too. Repotr who visited an insitution ta con.gratulate a womnan celebrat- iag lber bundredtb birthday te- ceatly received quite a shock. The woman tbey saw might bave been years younger. She wore lipstick and bier hair bad been newly permied. Shie was eatertaiaiag lber conipanrions witb songa of!lber owa Co.mPosî- tian and -- ta, crown it ai- ahe performed a liveiy tap- Many octogenarians drive cars, but a Sufolk denier dioes somnethinig far mutoe exciting. AI- itbough hoie s *îety-three, he ,oes around in a trap piled by a spïartod pon-_y wbicb takes a lot of controliig. "Giveoup?ý" lio anorts cottemptuously. "Not whi]e I can hold the reins!" Coasiderable anxiety waa feit by the...riends of. eighty-twol. year-old Georges Cormier niat long ago, wheni tbe aged French- xinan could flot be found. But M. Cormier was quitp saf e, le a gone for a jatunt - la b-is bal- loon. "I was blown flifty miles off My course," 'le explaiaied casually. A -few months ag-o a gýroc-ery traveller called at a vi7llage shap. Hle was new ta the district, but hiad beon told that the shop. keeper was "gettting on a bit. Wben, fthorofore, an aid n witb a groy beard camne for- ward, lie begani to talk business. But almnost at once the ld cbap pulled him up. "It isrtý'tnme yau Want tous, hoe said, 4'ît's nme dad.'- "Your dad?" echoed the trav- ellers ia sonie surprise. "Hlow aI1d is he, then?" "ýNinety-oighý-t," repiicd, the ther proudlly, "'and yqvcu'l find hlmn in the garden takinýg up the 'taters." The mai ority of old people are convinced o! the necessity for r-.,ercise andIlbard work. A yolung reporter, sert ta inter- view, a count1y man on blis huai- dredth birthd1cay, was asked by the éentenarian: "1{ow did you geltlieue'." "By car from the tawn-," re- plied the reporter. "Car!"' oxploded the ancient. "Wby, it's unly four mniles. And I walk it there and back e-very if you were weil over a hua- dred, wauld you feel inined to r.ise early? Prabably not; but Albert Woolson bas; differont ideas. This survivor o! the Anie- rican Civil War regularly gets up nt six la the murning. He broke the rule once- 'on bis lOth birthd-iv. Just to celebrate, Albert stnydlae -for one e-xtra bour! HIS NMONEY'S WO1RTH The crystaî-,gazeir who col- lected twentv-five dollars for a reading,, iafarmed lier vîsitor, "My foe entities yoti to ask meé nd the two-stool ~ator and a black man says. about 1haif- il Con-. 9paper far- removed from the farmer's problems. Seerri to bel but they are flot. Everything that happens --iii Britain, the Middle East, Russia, Europe and týhe United States everitually has some indi- rect influience on~ us ail, includ- ing the hundred-acre farmer, the livestock breeder and the market gardener. No one can-or shouid-listeni to the neýws these days and. then shrug bis shou- der and exc-laimn-tWe1l, that doesn't coniéern me." Any think- ing person knows that whatever ha-ppenls, and wherever it hap- penis, concerns us ail. But thank 'heaveTi we don't have to deal di- rectly with thé mighty issues of the day.. We can go about our ord-inary work; the farmer car- ing for his livestock, the farmr- er's wif e busy in the house, sodé o0f therrm cleaning eggs and washing the cream- separato, baking for a sale of work, going Out to~ a cquiting or sewing foùr children or grandchildren.. If w stop to think of it this is a won.- derful country ini whîch to live. Oust imagi,,1ne being- able. to "leadt an average normal if e while great prob]emns of the dlay are being solved, mien at the helmr prot-cting our interests fromy catto coast. Politically. sussîe mamytbinl, oune way and some. another but at least they are do-, ing what they consider to be in thet- best interests oi the men, woMen' and children across Ca- nadla at whatever level of if e, from thce highest to the lowest, even to) one's own littie faily affairs. Which brings mep back to Ginger Farm.- We have had a ver-y busy time the sý at but trict ;rn whucf we livea waen wve were fariagn, in Saskatche- wan and s0 there were two fldm to explore for memuries of mu- tuai friends and acqulaintances. Believe me )vhen two oid tirsi war Vets get together business 19 suspeaded ýas they swap storjes of armny life ini generai and corr- bat experiences in particular. Our new found friend ha* even known a Dr, Vincent Black of Moose Jaw who attended me when Bob was born. As weill U being a ciever doctor lie was kind, friendly and sympathetie. It grieved mne to leara that soiue years agu, wbile crossing the main street Ia Moose 3Jawlie was lknocked down by a car and k;ied. When Bob was a feW mioatbs old he was not expected to live and was ia bospitai oviee a montb uinder.Dr. Black's care. Wben wVe wexit to brinig Bol» homne we stopped at')r. Blacýk's office and asked for bis bill "Bill. just forget it--yuu've bad enough trouble already'" "But. Doctor, you were in to sec the baby every day," 1 ex- claimed. "lYes, yes-but I was going to the hospital anyway. Almost imniediately we mnoved down est" and lot toucb witk Dr. Black. And then, out of a blue sky, came thia visitar, re- viving oid memories. A visitôr who came as a stranlger ame, went aa as a friend. 'B-rc-r-r - but it's cold outsidel Sunday was coid and brîgbt, sû surnny our Toronto, folk came out, as previously plannedý- By 1the time tbey got hiere th car radiator was biing - thermou- stat stuck. Bob camle aliagIr answer to an SOS by telephone. ready to take over atf thinga cointbe fix.ed. However bY eight-thirty they were alonýf their way home again. And ai thatt titne it was 20 beiow zero. It, rose ten degrees during thu night. 1 think we had betterf m.-ake Dee and Ar~t a present âf an outýdoor tb'èrmnometer! 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At night you can hear the chug-chug of the trains aiung the trackz, the warning whistle as they approach the crossing -and you can lie i bed and feel, happy about the whole si,tuaio-at least until Octoker 1! After tha-t--ho knows? it seemis strange such a crippling strike should go on around us and we sufer su littie frorn the effect of it. Our only inconyveni- ence was gettiug our daily paper a day late. Sa it is for the Peu- ple as a whole more t1han for ourselves that wAe are ýglad the strike is over. Whetber it was justified is another questionl. This is a busy tisse for f armers. Sanie folk bave the idea that the wîne months are the farrner's slack seaasn. That is a- situati>on that beionga to the past. New there is nu slack, seasoni. Last week, -for instance, the farmer would go out to bis morning chores, milk the co-ws, cone into breakfast, listen to the niews, hear that Sir Anthony Eden bhad resigned and that Harold Mac- Milan was the-.. aew British prime iminister, Startling events, it is true, but th,-ey ail seem -very and this Just de low buw. st Iwas an ie, 50 I1 vas mvy hiisharw i ransl