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Well now, we had a ceaI good start for the- week . . on Sun- day morning Partner upsot bal! a psu o water aIl over the ktenfonr And youà know wbat a fiood a little bit of water mnakes n a waxed tiled floor. it tok -the two of, us abouit fifteon minutes to miop it up. I didn't mimd helping to lean up the mness but I was glad 1 didn't iake ït! As it was Partner had pienty to sa'-"Thlese modem- bouses-lan the aid farin kitchen you Coula spili a pail- of water and bardly notice it." The floor there -was bardwood, but not polisied, so it was used ta tbe saap and water treatmnent. We are stili ski'ddîng around on ice outaîde - except wben we're padiing. Freeze and thawr, mild and bitter. And sa it goes. ýThe wý;eather I mea - not the beverage. We make a bee-lIne for stores and banik every time we get a diecent day, otberwise wve are quite content to stay at home. Friday niglit lie and family camne in 4ter shopping rind brought me a Ioew supplies, inp.clud-ing. rock. sait whie we had been trying ta get for a week. Sucbi a demnand for it the tores had rur. out o! supplies,. It was our f¶ct experience with rock sait and Partner doesant tbink it cloes as good a' job as the ordinary bulk saIt we used to get for the cattie. Next time w;e are near a feed store we ghall bring. home a 75 pound bag. lThen I suppose we won"t baye tny more ice, Salt wilkeep an'y- way and it's good for putt 'ng Cout a firè -but heaven forbidl [bat we should need it for that p)urpose, We hiave had a great timne since Chrisbmas catcblng up on littie- lobs that bhad been laid over until the new year. ?artner made a binder,-twin.e mat foc Bob and ia big vwooden box, on cýastors, tor Dee ta keep the, boys' smal toys lia. It bas three partitions, one for David, Eddie and Jerry eespec-tiveiy and deep enougb ta miake -it difilcult for Jerry ta reach. things by bimiseif and thus 4828 $IZES 2-10 m 1 1 even a bo- this preýt-j And of course nielnas the most innocent expression. I ha.ve heen going through a& lot of stuftf stacked away ia the basemnent - magazines, papera, notebooksanadt scrapboioks. one day wve h-ad a visitor here who doos quite a bit o! free-l'ance writingc and she wanted to know ilfl had any information on a certain subject. I thouglt 1 had 50o off 1 went to tbe basemnent and brouglit up two big cartons. of brown envelopes, miarked as to contents. Whien she saw the' boxes she l augbied. "You too,"1 she exclaiimed. "How my hua- band doos go on about ail the paper clippings and articles that 1 1 l~t"Iknew exactly whiat She~ meant as the saine situation exista in our family. Partner ln almnoat afraid ta use a news- paper to light the fire unlesa he asks Me about lt first. Or Maybe he forgets and 1 abnost yeil at hilm - "Don't burn that -_ it bas an article in it on bird- bouses - . . or on training dogs or time saving recipos" - or wbatever 1I happenod to be inter- ested lainat the mZnment.. Bu"t1 imuat admit tbe clippingas do have a w4ay of accumulating so it becomnes abaoiutely neces- sary to go tbrough tbem occa- sioally, Itla sa job ,that caru,, into dais -- or even wee'ks- depending upon how absorbed one gets. An-d t.bere isLa nit\ting _- TV pick-up woirk 1 eau it. Outgrown sweaiters and souks are rîpped out und re-kn-ýitted into mitta and smali blankets, using two stranda of contrasting wool for addl- tional strengtb, Wool frons baby sweaters atarts life again a-, baby souks, only one strand of wooi being used. 1incidentally, play M.tta frrn~ used wool are far more satisfac-teiry than any made, f rom newi wool. The used yarn, already wxasbed and abi-runken-, does not mat wben wasbed. My non-kntttingý ne-igbbors have caught on ta what I amn do- ing and 'oririg me. their oid hand- knlittod garmnents instead o! throwing them irto the garbage. And they feel wýeEi repaid when, ia time, 1 present them witb mnitts for tne ebldren. Quilt tops iasamething else 1 have on the go. How do J get the tirne ta do it ail? Weil, for one thing I arn a faet worker - and 1 also have a dishwasber. No, nio -~ not onie of those elec- trical tinga. This one is human and goes by the namne o! Part- ner. So you see my husband is really a partnier ia the true sense of the word and, lives up to the Dame 1 gave hlm, years ago. There are timos -wbea I would ratiter do the dishes myself but I let it ride .- except whon I've been baking.t' Then I1 do get themr done mysejf -- it, savesaa lot o! explaining. I know «, would hear -- "What did you nako ail these dshes dirty for - can't you do a bit of baking without al thia mness?" So _- washing the dishes iysel-f la tbe easiest lai the long rua. Cp-ncer Vagccine? Sev7eralj huadred U.S. physi- clans who skseptically groot any imention o! quick-relief serumas for treatinLg cancer listened ce- ceatly as Dr. Gordon i Murray o! Toronto described "'some- aston- ishling effecta" in. last-stage cani- cer victimls injected witb bis owa, brand o! horse serum., So farý, Di-. Murray adaiitted at the annual meeting o! tbe Arnericanîr Academy o! Orthope- dic Surgeoons, in Chicago, there have been po cures witb tbe Serun, cderivod from bbood cul- tures of horses iajected witb humnan cýancers. But at least ten terminal breast-cancer patients ai-d others with stomac2h and colon cancers are alîve fromr two to theeyears after getting their firat injections. Al tbe patients Previous-ly bad been trEate-d, w,îthout succesa, with the stan- dlard therapies --surgery7, radia- ition, and druga. From daily in- SECRET'S OUT -The 6 frst case Raymnond gurr, as Perry Mason, solved on TV involved a capfi- vating «"Restless Redhead". A rtcent 'one involved an equallfy captivoting "BIackeed BlondJe" fioth roies were played by zap- tivatirig Whitney Blake, ahove, a corner in such demand by TV* drr.ctors and producers, that she seldorn has ci day off for herseif. Your Mônnerisms Con Be Important Science is watch.ing our miar- nerisms. ,Experts who have just concluded an extensive probe into the gestures of Iwndre4s of' mnen -a-id wormen declar-, tha- tbey reveal a~ person's character and feelings more effectively than anything else. "Keep in eye on your mnanner- ismas andI gestures and you'Il learn to kçnow yourself and other people. much better,- they advïse. Sci*entifie study of gestures shows that the4r fail naturaily into two classes, "Any downward movement of the head, hands, arma or eye- lids expresses ds ikê r con- tempt," states one scientist who checlced up on 500 mnen and 500 wonen. in diïfferent walks of "lAny upward riovemt-enti us- ually expresses admiration or. pleasure,." He says ithere are a fe-w ex- ceptions to this, but they only serve to prove the rule. For in- stance, there's a way of raising the eyebrows which exýpresse1s a sneer, but then a sneer îa reall1y a compliment which isa meant to be understood as an insuit, the scientist adds. A sneer, too, la deliberate whereas the gestures which real- ly tell tales are always made witbout deiiberation. One of the experts tella of a pretty girl who, although stili in bier early twenties, has deep littie furrows running down one siçie of ber face because of 1ber nrervous imannerism 0of constant- ly screwing up bher moouth. "Another attractive girl 1 kinow would be mnuch more at- tactive if she shortenied her 1Laugh," he suggests, "She open-s her rniouth far too wvidelyi and this mnars her looks. it's a mis- take, too, for a gir]l to try ta smlile continiously and talk at the samie ime. Smiles are flýot alw,ýays loveIV, constant smiling is practiced. by somne flm. and TV star-s in the Iinited Stateýs, ofteni takes away character frorn a glirls face." One girl who was intLerview,,ed during the investigation confess- ed that ber harsh, ucnrfe laugh loat ber a buisband. Sheý had brecomne engaged but n evening ber fiancé told ber frankly that he fudher liaugh intôlerable--and broke îthe en- gfsa gemexcit. "We believe th1-at mnany a girl bas misseda aChance ofnmarriaJîge becaluse of her synthetieaný!d oýbviously inrsincere sil(e," re- port '.be scientists. and judgment of ' the school bus driver; the mechanical condition of bis vebicle; and the conduet of the children thecmsélves get- tmng on and off the bus and dur- ingý the actual travel. Yet Wts a shocking fact that, ir the iwpads o,. Fred Ellis, general pmanager, Ontario Safety League, "Many comnimunities, are apat5etîc to these elementary safety factors." Fortunately, to date tbere haveý been very f ew school bus tra- gedies in Canada. But as bigh- way travel -conditions beýcomý. more bazardous our luck tnay riot hold out. The numrber of accidents in recent years involv- ipg schiool vehicles sbould serveý as a stern warning. During the last six xonitbs of 1956 ini On- tario, for example, there were 31 accidents. British Columbia had 27 accidents ini 19571 - or an average oi neaïly 'three per inonth aver the 10-montb sebool year. No statistics are available ,for ail1 Canada. The ~irony of tbe situaition la.i that safety extperts know 'wiat precautions must be- taken ta prevent large vebicles fromn be- coming involved in accidents. The trucking industryfoow îbeir advice eagerly witb the re- suit tbat commiercial truck driv- ers bave an imipressive safety record. On the otber hand, many school Rdministrators fail to fol- low the truckers' example. One can only conclude that many comrmunities attach more im- portance ta delivering a carload of furniture or a tankfiul -of mnilk than the,ý do to transportingý tbeir cbildârn safely. Somne recent accidents emphia- size this point. Near Orono,1 Ont., a bus carryiag 14 higb achool students3 stalled wbile going.up aq bibi and started roiling back- wards. Tbe brakes faiied and the bus rolied over an embank- ment. Four of the children werie î.njured. Ther-e would likely have been many more injuries bad the vehicle gone over a much di~eeper drop nearby. There's a gooci chance that fthe inefficient eng-ine and the defective brakes migbt have been detected before the accident, bad the bus beeni vndergoing routine mechanical checks. The school bus inspec- tion systemn in Ontario fias been Ji'mproved since then, but in some provinces mnany school buses stili go several years without a tborougb mnechanical check. In the Mundare district In Alberta a seven,-yeari-old girl ol-'ighted froni a school bus and walked in front of iÉtot cross to the other aide of the biighway. As she was doinig so, she stooped over to pick up a book she had, dropped. At thati J'nstant ftie driver - Who couldn-'t see bier - pulled abead. and crusbed her to death. Safety officials have longc advocated the necessity of. escoring criiîdren on and Of'f buses and helpin.g tbem aýcross the,,road. On a school bus near London, Ont., student passengers were shooting hiard paper pelleta at orie another with rubber bands. One ôf the pellets bit a 16-year- old girl ini the eye. Shec may Modern Etiquette QHowMay a womarn know whether or not ta offer her hand ta a mani whèn being lntrodueed? A. There la n c ule for this. It lsafatogether optionai with the woa.She can remnember, how- ever, that the pro1fered hand is ber way of sbowing sincere and genuine pleasure over the meet- ing. Q. when two mien and two girls are eating, togetlatr in a public ,place, ait a samail table, ,how shoufld théey be seated? A. The girls siiouid bLe seated opposite enacl other. Q. What expenditures does flie besi mari have fer the weddling? A. O-nby the expenses of Pa gift phasizes this point. One sectio-o of the 56-page Safety Handbook published by the American Auto mobile Association shows how order and discipline can be main- tained by scbool bus patrols. In Saskatchewan, a achool bus driver was fired after a formai road test sbowed that ho was incapable o! bandling the Job His was not a rare case. Con- trary ta the advice o! safety ex- ports, a man cani becomne a achool. bus driver in any one of severai provinces iwitbout a stif! mredical examiinaition and witbout knowý- ing mucb aboutI driving, a bus. In investigatÉng, the safety 0 f our school transportation in Can- ada, I questione--d police, safety experts, and provincial educatin and bigbway officiais,.1Iposed these questions: Are we doing al we can do to protect our chuîdren? Are wo i2noring hia- zards that cculd ho removed? What are the greateat danger points in our pi-osent achool transportation systema? Their anusvers give cause for botb optimyism and pessimiasni. The cbeerful nes l that many achool authorîties are fully awaro ci the achoi bus safety problem aind are meeting it wv'ith vigor and imag-ination, gonorous- Iy back by dollars; others are. becomiîng awareofo the bhazardaý and are organiizing, to meet tbiem. 1On the gloony aicle, 1 found that minmany parts o! Canada the fui'. nature of tbe orobiem lantitye± realized and that very littie i2 being done. linsnme localitios, considerations other than safe ty, -sucb as local politics or the do- sire to save a f ew dollai-s - are b--eing giv7en priority. The mnost important figure in rae choo! transportation la the maa wbo drives the bus. The National Sa! oty Counicil ikens hlm «f0 a sLip's captain or anr airlino pibot because proclous 1, uman lives depend on bis ex. perience, ski!] and judgmi-ent" Yet the sadi fact la that too o! ton the employment of thýý achool bus driver la mrade on à casual hasis. It's often a part- limie job takeni on by a person wbo works lan a garage, in a store, on a farn or on shift work. The healtb o! the driver iLs an important factor, yet only a few provinces, sucb as Alberta and Nova Scotia, inist on aninual medicai certificatos. A mature ag-e ls aiso important, tbat'a w'hy tihe National Sa!ety Couaicil sets 21 as the minimum age for a bius driver --advice that's foliowed by at ieast 18 Amrerican states. In most Canadian provinces, a foc 9-0 yeacs - co tasze a ln, intensive course in hnandling heavy vebiclea before taking rogular runs on the highway. For, the same. reason, Wallace N. Hlyde, director of mnotor vehicles, North Carolihia, says, "The per- son witb a good record drivîng an ordinary car w-i11 not nece- sarily makze a safe and efficient achool bus driver" For one tbing, there's quite à dI'ference between carrYing twf> or tbree young- passengors iii a family car and carrying several dozen liveiyv if not rowdy - youngsters wbo are temporarily free of any parental or teachecr discipline. Thore la aiso a whale o! a physEi- cal diffecence b-etween a 55 pasq- songer convoyance and tbe or- dinacy family car. For eape Ct 25 nipb a passýener car wiI stou) in 25 foot: a bIs. needs 4P feet. You need moremsace totalze a turn ,with a bus and you have t(, taqke it more slowlY A driver r'eed.s mnanyv hours beliiind he wbelof a big veh-icle to m'et the banc o! th' -transirn RnPe - cently ooeCoenqrfl'nn bus deîrr reeeived a ccmplaint f-oui ;% driver that the c-litch lwrIs ai- wavs waioout, 'Pie Teaier woInt for a ride witfi t1'e.- drivPr and was am'Ized to iind i Iat ht. was thorouchlv uvaiia ith the tasiso.H kiiFtfl or flotinu about 1bow to Il-(-the, six-speed gea-r i- i't w hWas7 intended toegive rPit(r c-îilrol going up <'r hwnbis ar Iýd Th e indqiffer-ý,e n f many -' qschoo-I barsoft-i a(c'k ,u- ta the ireffl'innc-v offtl)i bndriý'- ersý. A niarb-wn~~e o- ficiai toid me, "MIr-nv sli<<i bu drivefrs feeï, ht nIiqf viý 41. terestedb', wbat tbcv're die F', fhev bPCnm,, "'Wrppvv" W'