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LNtSTj upear Aie Hirst: 1-1w 1long do you think a wîdower in his 5's shouild wait before malçing dates? I realize this is extremely personal, but is there such a thing as a conventlanally acceptr- ed period? (It sceems ta mie th 'at as one grows aider the perMa should grow shorter.) "I have developed a typically adolescent crush on a mnar with whom 1 have had one arrang-ed date.,IHe appeared ta have a wvonderful timre, but 1 haven't heard fram his since, I had the feeling he was a ittie surprised at hiniseif for enjaying another woman's campany sa soori after his wife's death, which accurred eight mnonths aga. aWe are in the same age group and are professional people wMt interesting jobs; we awri aur own homnes ini which we each live alone, aur respective chul- dren being married. My hussband has been dead several years, and 1 amn truiy loniely. 1 honestly don't care whether 1 remarry, 'ut 1 would love ta have a con-. ,enial companian for my leisure iîours. "I wrote hinm a decorously en- Ihusiastie, brief thank yau for ffie expensive eveniing we had .ogether as part of a group and aave, had noa reply. Can you sidg-~ lest anything further I could do~ ,b.at would flot be overbold? I g-uess yo&'l say it's recally up ta aim at this point, He is really a 3reamboat, and 1 can't help feel- ing - HOPEFUL." WEY NOT? Il this mnan enjayed himself Sas much as lie seemed ta, he~ Smay be, feeling a littie guilty, *in whi'ch case he wauldl hesi- *tate ta take the next step. * Iiwever, there's na reason *why yau shouldn't arrange a *dînner at yaur home, inviting *hlm and anather couple who *joined. you the. evening of *your first date. The man could *accept or decline, and at any; *rate w1-11 know that a cail from *him later an wauld be wel- *camed. *The acepted maiurning per- "Flower" Apron Pick thîs pretty "fiower- for your serving apron-fasbà*ined of remnants in shades of vivid colour! Sew simple ta make for -1 smnart hostess glît, bazaar best- s;eller! Patterni 623: Emibroidery trans- fer, dlirections for making a "flomer" apron, 17 inches long. Send1 THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted use postal note for safety) for this pattern ta Laurïi Wheleer, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print. plainly PATTERN «NIMIBER, your NAM1E anid AD. DRESS. Our gif t to you - two wn dtrful, pattern s f or yourselIf, yaur home - printed in aur Laura Wheeler Neediecraft Boak . Plus dazens of other uew dzesignî ta ord.er - crochet, knitting, erm- br6ldery,. ,'ira)n - ans, xiaveities. Send 25 cents. for your copy a1 tlhIs book NOW -- with g.if t pat- terris pr;nted i it *iod before a mani renews his s ocial llfe after his mnate's * death varies withb the cuAstoms ofa one's community. It seems *ta me that after a year, lie xnight cal! an ther wamen *without criticismn. I agree that «* the waiting time should dima- i nish as one grows aider - *hf e is so short! One advantage *of miiddle age is that it gives o ne the privilege ta mnake his *or ber own rules. * Whether the man. cansiders Smarrying again or not, a *pleasanit friendship could be *encouraged, and yau can be >1 trusted ta guide it where yau *will. FAITIILESS LAD "Dear Anme Hirst: For nine nionths I have been in lave with a boy whom I trusted camcpletely. Now I have heard he is having an affair with a girl, whose repu- tatian is nat good. I aske-d him about it, and he denied it flatly. But the ather day 1 saw therr, tagether. "Now he admits the gossip is true. lHe swears he made a is- take, and asks mie ta forgive hirm and. forget it. 'What do you think? My mther is against my dating him. 1I do lave hlm very much, but 1 don't want anybody 1 cannat trust. * Yaur mather is right. If the *. bay admitted the truth of the *story and promiîsed not ta se *the irl againi, he might be- * came trustworthy, again), but lie *contînued ta deny the truthr *until he was faund aut. To * make a mistake is human,. but *the honorable persan does riot * bde behind a lie. * f J yu carmat accept i *word, what is bis friendshi *warth? Y oau will miss hlm for" a *while, but that will nat, be as *painful as having hlm deceive *yau in the future. Let ihlmn *knaw oncee and for al that yau *are ane girl wha values truth *abovr- everything. MhdlIe-aged people wlth taat and grace cani follow their owsi incinations lu a way adolescents can't. If yen are In a qisaldary, iask Aune lrst what'te do. Heri understanding andi c o i n M on senise will guide you safely. Ad- dress her at Box 1, 123 Eigit~ ieenth St., Nfw Toronto, ,Ont. COINS BORE HEADS IN ANCIENT TIMTES The first time the likeness af a humnan being appeared on a coin was about'fthe year 330 B.C.« 1according ta the Book 9f Knowledge. At that time the coins af Macedor were ilnprint- ed with the portrait of Alexan- der the Great. Before then the portraits on coins hadl repre-sen- ted the vaiaus gods. It is by means of these coin portraits that reasonable likenresses ()f many early Greek and Romani rue o i whom no other such record exists, have been passed down ta the present timne. Julius Caesar, A-,iguistus., Nero and Cleopatra are amongst1 those commiremmorated in this 3a. BOONE BOOM -Pat Boone, populaîr sîinger, s5 ridi!ng a wave o)f movie success. He will star in "Be-rnadinej' a film about teen-agers. In addition he- Ïs also scheduled to have his own TV show in the failI Bconie, mparried with three chul- dren, has recoqrded f ive 4iit songs SQUEEZE PLAY-With tangue in cheek, Dr. Rob.ert Rase, right, explains that anly by coordinating their breathing .did he and1 two compa nions ride "comfortably". The gàs tank of the tiny German-miade lsetti-3OO, of Itatian design, holds anly 2.4 gal- Ions, b~ut that's enough, as the dloodlebug gQets 60 miles to thie gallon. Its six-horsepower motor cruises, at 60 miles per hour. %/1NGERFARM Last week 1 ended my columnn with an unbelievably prophetic statement. I said "by next week we may be snowed în -- wha knowsi"' And we have been- more or iess. Trucks, and cars with chains or snowtires man- aged ta get througýh ta the bouse but that's about al. There is nioxe snow in the lane now thian than we have haýd for se'veral years. There is also a big snow- manon hefront lawn. o, we have neither afILus reaahed our second chldhood-we hope The' snowman was built by twa lit-le tots and theîr mother wbo were staying with us ail last week. Niece Betty and hier childrepn- Susan, age twe and Ra half and Michael .niineteean months old, T'wo af the nicest and hanppiest wee souls an-yorie could want ta have around. Truc, they made plenty of noise, got into misebief and had cryîng- speils. But one cari forgive al that if thýe child- ren have nice dispositions. De- liver me froni youngsterswh are ýr.iteful, peevishi and spoilt. There were times last week whenj this oid plac.e was really a mnad-house. One day two neighbour-childrený came ta vi sit and w-hen the four of them got properiy acquaintedt and started ta play-shrieking., laughing and chasing each other through the ros-twaDs really terrific. The sanie tbing happened the Suinday b efore when Dave wvas out bere. The rest of us sit back and miarvel at their energcy. I generally mnanage ta get the menfolk[ into aj room by vth-emi- se-lves so) they can talk if they want ta witbout too mucli in- terruption. Niece Betty and her famnily were here for a iast visit before beading North--to Sudbury-as her busband hs been tiransfer.- red ta a hydro, proajcct in that, regcion. 1 suppose it will be a long tinýie bel are the children are back on a farm again- moýre's the pity as they do lave ta see the hei-fers kîck up their heels, and the aid biddics cacide and scratch. There cdrtainly mrust be, an effliity between childrcn and animais. David is just as k.ieen, if grandpa goes ta the barn without hlm there- is reaiiy-aowl. We seem inta live a 1ffe of con- trasts these days. When Partner and I are alone the house is uinbcl-ivably quiet but Jt à usualiy thie lui', befaore a starrn --a starmn such as I have just nicntioncd, created by chidish exuberance andenr.rgy. How- ever, this weekend d probably be uneventfui, except that Joy and Bob may lie up' Neitheý weather nor roads hînder Cheni when they want ta come-and tbey usually do if for no other- reason than to get eggs. Somt- tirneam we msk theni if they corne te see us o r te et eggs! Eggs . . . Dee2 and Joy bath say they neyer get eggs froriaa store the size that-7aur liens la)' even though what they pay for, are suppqsed ta bce Grade A. Large. They wonder where the big eggs go. We are puzzled about that toa. We rarely see -e,«gs for sale as big as those we seil - and certniniy they can't be as fresh. Buý, we are verY well satisfied with tin mlk now that we have tao buy if. Homo- genized milk is far mare palat- able than fresh miilk straighýt frû4mithiccw, ta sýay inthing 0 f pateurîzation. And the sk9im mrilk we buy for ourselves is very good indeed. We have alsa beent experimenting with citrus fruits and juices. Besides aur morning grapefrit welike oranges samnelimes during the day. 'But good oranges are about the hardest things ta buy. Yeui never know until you peel your orange how thick the skin is, or how dry and pithy the orange ma5y be. Sa now we buy eîther concentrated orange juice ini smail cans or p ure~ juice in car- tonis.-But the question remiainsg --where are He good oranges like we had wAhen 1 was a child? No artîficial calouring, thin siers and lots of juice. Hnow can the quality of oranges change sa And then wecame ta patatoes. otate tatlook fine on the oýutside but Ïhave ,lreat cavities on the insýide-. Some have dry- rot or the hDeinning o! rin-rot and go black wben they are boled. The grading mnay not be intentienally dlishonest as many defecions do not show on theê outside. Last week I bouglt a sack of potatoes that were really Grade A.L.-but they were not Ontario potataes. We had a lot of wet weatber la9st year during the potato growing seasan 50 we cani hiardi1y blame the .potata growers for the poar qu.aiity. We should rather pity them for thec loss tbhey incurreçI. Ah well, same things im,-pr ove witho the years, some don't. Pot- atoes and or anges mnay be in- ferio btwelke the way chuld- ren are'dressed now compared with years ao. Thick heavy clothing, gum rubbers and over- soc 1ks were the best we had ta offer. Naw children have padded nylon smnow-suits, fur-lined boots and they go out warm and un- hampered. They roi] around in the snow and remain warmn and dry. The only drawback Is zip> ing them ita the blessed things. Gra-pdrmas need a little educa- flan to ereorm that job success- fu!1y. I1 have finally reached the etage «X getting the cacoôn out of its covérlnig but getting it back in agajin 1; another story? M ?other generaily has ta came te 'the rescue./ ISSUE il - 1957 Odd Sorts Of Stomach Trouble When bis four-yeer-old baby brother began taecqy recently, a North af Engiand youth tricd ta makce hlm laugh-end gaot a live bullet in his stamacli, He haid put the b,,ulle-t be- tween bis tceth ta amuse the little boy who was sitting ou lis knee, Whem he saw it, the boy stoppcd cryirig and bounced up andi down with deliglit. Sud- 4enly bis head bit his brother's chin and - gulp! -tebuliet cisappeared down lis 'throat. At the hospital. an X-ray showed fthe tbree-inch builet lu the youth's stomiacli. Stcps wcrc at once taken te remaove it. Hospitals are frequently called upon ta reniove strange articles which have been accidentally swallowed. A schoolboy af twelve onece piaced a tuck-box key in bis maouth while eagerly unpackingr a food parcel fIroni lis parents. A school pa av ehlmr a friendiy slap on the'bâ~c and down wcnt the key, ring, 'abel and al. A surgcean located it by X-ray and saw that its position must somehaw be changed be'lore it couid he rcmovcd. The lÏad was told ta go out and eat as big a lunch as he couid, without any fluids, The manocyre proved successfui, for at the second ex- aminatian flic key couid be scen in a position from which its re- moval aoffcrcd na difficulty. Specimens gathered from ial over the country and displayed1 ta miedical men by a surgeon who speciaiized in remnoving them f romn peope's stamaclsisnl- included a small wrist-watch, a tay trump)et swaliowed by a boy, twenty marbies swallowed by a ittie girl, anl eg-cujp swailow- cd by a convict and a coin which lied been inhaled bDy a news- vendor. Sanie adults occasionalîy guip down denitures whicb can usu- aily bc recavered by skillcd sur- geons, At a U.S. hospital sur- geons found no fewer than twenty needler iniside a 73-year- aid uphoîsterer. Sanie years ega a Cape Town' surgean removed 2,442 ane-inch mails fram the stamach i a young carpenter. He had appar- en,11y developed the habit of swaiiawing a few at a tlmie while working and was foreed Ia seek medical advice for persistent ini- digestion. Dog's Long Wait An unusuai and touching story of a hast ~dog camnes frain Nc-w Zealind. A famnily tif four were on a motor tour there wheni during a stop, their dog wandered inuotei thick bush, aud f aiied ta retuirmi For hours tflcfamily searched frantlcaliy, but as dusk wasfth- img, tbey hâd ta give up and drive sadly away without the doýg. About nine months late-r they were travelling again over thé samne desert road, thinking wist- f ully of their missing- pet, when suddenly, to, their amazement, they saw him, sitting- forlornly by the side of the road at the plae where hie had left the car. 1Evidently. the dog had kept patient vigil there, day a.cter day during 'the long and weary months, awaiting their return. An aid Maori living in a near- bý hÙt conflrined this and said that he had fed the dog when- ever he was hunigry during hit ninýe-months' vigil. 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