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Dear Anne Hirst: 1 a1rn Shook- qu-d te learn that my flance's llmîy object to bis mairry-ing We, and aiter w have been en- $aged for two nmonths! 1 have -tiet most of them and believe 1 .0ould get alocng well with themn al. Be d caims he still loves me buit la too confused to think t;traight. HBe is obligated to his <ather for setting him up in business, and I can only think he fears to oppose their wishes. WNhy doni't they like me? My people have been. here for three F enerations, and rny f arnly 1f e as been a happy one. I'm a *0l- ege graduate and hold a gond position, belong to two good)c plubs and have many fine triends. If bis people have any reason for their attitude I don't know what it is, and apparentlY rny ex-fiance doesn't either. (I broke the engagement at once, 0>f course.) I know lihe is seeing another girl who bis family have enter- tained; lie says he feels he "must play along with then." We 3til date once a week, but it isn' the sarne. Wbat is the matter with hlm? fle is~ 30, 1'm 26, and we are bath mature enougli te kxýiow what we want. Why wr't te flgbt, for us? Shall I keep on seeing him~? Or leave town for a wbile? I can get a leave of absence. Please advise me, for 1 arn- MISERABLE.1 A WEAK CHARACTER o do't quite get the point ô f this man's feeling obligated- to teis father. IHis father'e *starting him il, business is ntic *reason enough to allow bis f faminly te run bis persconal. elite; bis financial arrangements *with bis father can be carried *on n- 'matter whom he mar- *Why bis fanily ;su'ddenly *objett to you I cannot know, unless they have chosen this le girl for hlm and demanded. *tht he marry ber. f Why *dicln't they say sco earlier?) le And what does bis acquies- ONE STEAIGET PIECE for skijrt Little shaping neddfor the bodce! Petal stitecli and chain- lotops- easy crochet indeed! Tiiriflty - size 4 takes just6 balla ot cattan! Pattern 637: crochet directions for children's mises 2, 4, 6, years inclu:ded. Sezid THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (ataxaps cannot be acoepted, use1 postal niote for safety) for this patteru .te LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 1231 Eighteenthi St, New, Toreonto, Ont. lPrint pIFiiny AT- TERN, your NAIME an1.d AD- DRESS. Our glit to yau-two wouvode- fuII- patterns for yourselt, your home - printed lM our Laura WelrNeefflecraft Dook... Plus dezens of oether ne-w leigna, toý erder - crochet, knlttIng, eïbroidery, ir(on-oyi3, novelties. Baud 2.b centsa for your cOpy of this bok~ NOW - witb gItt pat- ter-nsm prlted i h! cneindcate? That lie _1-5Ai * sineesacreature whose l0o *for you ý laot se deep as tO * make hhm stýroug enough 11tC *battie for bis rigbts?ý 'i lu uchl a erisis, It will be *weil for you to take a leave an.d disappear- fro-m his sigbit. *Only rmlssing yeu can reveaIl *te hirn the real state 0f bis * eart. WVhen you corne back you whjll flnd oeut where yoti *stand, and desigu-x the pattern il your future accordinigly. I arn s")sorry! WIFE MISSES FUN Dear Aune Birst: Atter two years of marriage I've decided that allrny husband enjoys is his radi and TV. Be doesn't care ýýte visit for to entertain; be thlnks nmarrled couples should stay ,home, period. !le used to enjoy the theater, but we haveu!t been for nearly a year. 1 used love dancing more .than anything and I miss ît se rnuch'! Before ve rmarriled be promised we would go dancing regularly, but new b e says he thinks it' silly. «My friends are gradually pas- sing us b-- and I cani't blame tbem, I feel we are sbutting aur- selves off tramn the usual social lite, and 1 confess the prospect alarma aand irritates me, wben ït ia so easy to solve. I would. comrpromise if be wouIL.What do you tbink? ESTHER. eYou have struck, the chord ethat can blring barmony intô eyouýr rnarried lite. If your bus- Sbaud wil1l take yoiu to the etheater oýnce or twice a month, * wecomeyour mutual friends oiat hom.e, and plan evenings of *dancing, you wil be as gen- e!rous and sit betore TV with- O ut a jjhitpQr. Radio and TV, te my mind, *can~ neyer take the place of '-Iriends. They are e ne-sided *entertalrnent, they permit of Sno participation, One needas *the give-and-take àf goed con- ~ vesatinte exchange cf opiniozis and idens, the thouglittuiness and kindues-.a 1 and. loyalty that hold people ' tog-ether throughout the yeaxrs. " 'Your husbaucl mixres with oh *ers all day, but you bave n * such out'het, it is you who need *social intercourse, the lift 0f *spirit and laugliter that it sup- *plies. Maririage is aiways a coin- *promrise of conflictiýng tastes, *and rnost of ius wo-rk it out *satistactorily. 1 am sure that *you can, ttoo. Whetber your problei s large or small, write to Anne Rirst atout IL. She bas lbelped two generations tbrouffi devlous sit- nations, and been able to COrn- fort and gu>de tbemn safely tbrougb. Address her at Box 1, 123 Elghteentb St., New, Toron- to, Ont. Boy's Toy Rang WVeddlingBtelis Atiter a Bolivian tourîst had burhd a tone at the fmu M \ona Lisa painting in the Paris Louv,,re,.he expiained away bis action by saying simpl-y, "I wvas seized wtb the desire ta do so." i These people were seized with 1a sudden impulse, ike the saihor who wavitked into a pub soon afd- ter stepping ashore, was at once attracted ta the barmnaid and ah- maost immediately found hmself paopping the ai question Alter a mnoment's he-sitationi she saftly murmured, "Yes."' Friends of. bath parties shook their heads, propbesied that the m -arriage would quickly go on the rack, It didn't. The imrpe- tuauis couple were ideaily bhap- pyA sudden kiýndly act was the inspiration et îanother happy marriage. A girl was looking round a big store when she saw a poorly déressed s-mail boy gaz- woftders y, MQmrny sur on aczccunt Last week was "wreckingr- week" - the first of several 1I imagine. Soziietimies, in a man- uer of speaking,, things wreck us--this time we were wrecking thiugs. Wb-,ihe I was in the house r7uthlessly filling up boxes fCor a bonfire, Partuer was out iu the d.riving-shed wrecking the faithfuh old binderý. Jehnny came along ta help hlm. There it was lu th~e corner of the shed, untouched for several years, its canvasses. rolled and stacked on the piatform,. along wýith the reel-armis and other parts. Rt was a dusty, cumbersomne look- ïng piece of machinery that rio ane would have said thank yo-u for bad it been offered as a, gift. And yet, were it net for, the in- tro7duction o! niodern machiner y that samre aid binder wouid, have given gaaod service for- a number of years. The Iran on it was still goad and the wDoodwoDrk as sound as a belil. Ma ,ver as bulit ta last when we boughI-t it, over thirty years aga. And what a istary 15 coni- nectedI with that aid binder. Money was biard ta came by wheni we started farm-ing so mrachiniery was bou)ght aon time, it -took us three years ta pay fer thebbinder. It c2ut good crops and poar. Sametimies the sheaves were s0 heavy you would won- der how it could deal witW hm Or sametimies, after a bad ramn and windstorm "Itfters" had ta be used ta get the crop cut at, ail. One year, when sprîng crops, were very heavy, and a. ten-acre fld of oats hlaif cut, there camei a terriflcra- regular de- luge. Bef are the field had a cýhan(ce ta dry out there was moere rain. The flrst storm hadî came suddeniy. Ahi that could be donc was loosen the canvas,- ses and leave thre binder lu the fteIl. 11t sat there i aIl ai It coufldn't be drawvntbrough a slaugh of rnud, even by h2orses We hsthevy on aur sprlug ci-op that year-andIi,1 beieve àt was befor-e the binder ,,as en- tieynaid for. 0f course al aur imple-mentsg at that time were horse-drawn, Percli and Qucen were hittched ta the binîder for thfirats rouzid then 1 woulid take Prince ta tii. field and Partier would carry oný with the three hojrses w%ýhile 1 iveut alng the outsi!de of the fleld tbrowi7ýng the £iret sheavesý out 0of is way. Sornetimes, if we- couid aiffordl it, wïe Lad a hired iman for a-fewweeks. We ýpaid btim t he goiug vwag-a-îdolhar e day allôims keep, But evýen sO I ha d to heIp in the fleld and at the barrn. Partuier stayed eut unti' dark (by standard tine) and then did the ehoras atfter- ward. it was usuahly ten o'clock betore be was through. Thce chil- dreni were- net old enougli ta do much more than set the table, wabdishes and f eed the chic-4 0f couse we oecasionaily had binder trouble and I wouid be sent te town poq't-haste lun the horse ad-buggy ta get a uew reel-arni malybe. Partuer would, be stoôking until 1 got back. 1 ca't remember that we ever had any major breaks aithougli we somnetimes lost considerablýe tiiime when the kuetter refused to functïon or the twine ýwould break. Eventually we got a tractor- a used one et cou-rse. AdJust- Modern Etiquette by BobertaLee Q.Wben approeblng a re- voîvinz door wlth a womnan, does thenman enter iïrase s as te push the deer for ber, or des be allow ber te enter firsî? A. Be allows the woman to go ahead of bim. lutacthe îla better able tao coutrol tuhe - volving door if s'ne dees go irst. Q. (hie ot my very geo)d girl frlends passed away recently, fler birtbday is cong soOxï. Woutld il be ail rîgbit for me C 1 COPer SrU 13cup~uoe 0e 1 tablospo n on rlo- und bop ,RAN~t rch yrp01 ho ev. heal'WOr ,MX ce in tep . in ubl er. CSOtcR1D oaSyU n CO K, g' e 10 mnute, St rin il tr ycuhl waeV ntl hikneY'~ $rQOo, ove , tc a dleOflluce holdd"uchl~ lgdish oac"I eiei ~to seud some flewers to bel mother on tis day? A. Although ¶his is a kind tboug-ht onl your part, this sort of birthday reminder m-ightl cause greater pain thari sôlace It would be better if, oin occa- ,sîon, you vient to sec yoUt> friend's mother. Jiffy-Cutm Sew!l PRINTED PATTERN ments were made to the binder and it continued ta) give faithiu service. By this time Bob was able to drve the tractor while Partnier rode tbe binder. And wvhat a beating he and the_ bin- der took! The horses had had far more intellige.nce than the tractor. lnstinctively tbey slowed Up and prepared for the joit that always followed after cros- sing a water-furrowi. But, -with a somewbat inexperiençed dri-v- er, the tractor k-ept right on go- tng I was 2n0 1langer needed in the field but mny services wei(re, deflnitelly required to keep the binder canvasses lM order. Some- times by baud, somietimes with the sewing niachîne, I sýtr-uggleýd ta get patches oin those blessed icanvasses, year after year-anid tChey ýwere always brought in fo"r repairs on the hottest and sticek-î iest days. But perhaps rny work paid off as in the years the binder was ir, use, we bouglit only one extra canvas-and that was a tUsed one.1 During World War Il Johnny was with uas and we got through a lot of work. About the timie Bob came out ef the army Part- uer more or less went to pi'eceS. BeIp was biard ta get and coin- binies came into their own. We had our grain customi-harvested. TheoId binder -tayed lu its cor- ner Cf the shed until now, a dusty derelict of the past, re- rninding us only of the years that bave corne and gone; ef goodl fortune and misfortunie tha-t came Our way-but irn0st of it, as I look back, was good. Th- hard timies taught us rnuch that we, would neyer have lýea-rut had it been easy going ail the tiMe.ý And tbe binder ...weli it l3 bringing us more now as scrap iron than it %would as a piece of xnacinery, And what of the scrap metal? Ploughshares to swords, swords te shares, bînders te battlefields -wbere does it ail end?I7 won- der. The binider had a lngand useful lif e. It wou'ld appear its final destiny will be undeserved- ly uncertaiu auclliglorious. And yet, bow are we to -knowe - it night be just the, oipposite! For free folder of other deIicious recipee, write to, jarna Ashlleye Home Service Departmnent, TrHE CANADA STARCH COMPANY UMNITED P.O., Box 129, Montreal, p.Q. lone, 16-month-old IDebora my won't çomxe out and like to, but Momtimy's siJ ýmMy has the mumps. Gwe~do~tr~eP. Ctô&,rke 1 "Corn Starch Makes eue 4784 ,JIFFY-CUT Printed Pattera la a cinch to sew! Tissue patter1% ,i3 ail one plece; cut out the en- tire dress at once! Such a flat- tering style, too - with love:y princes Unes; soft back iiil1ne%% clnched by tiny belt. Printed Pattern 4784: Misse Sizes 10, 12, 14, 1H, 18. Xies1 requires 4 yards 35-inch f-abrIc. Printed directions on each. pat- tern part, Easier, faster, accuratr. Send FOIRTY CENTS staiMp cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattera. Print -plainly SIZE, NAME, AD- DRESS, STYLE NUMBER, Send arder to ANNE ADAMS, iBox 1, 123 Eighxteenth St., News Toronto, Ont.' ISSUE 15 1957