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NA 0 2 wo ry vi By 28 5 fn fs Fe \; Js a WY es ~ Ty Sr ay T - v i) hr? = Na RA NF HMA THR a aft 1 TF pr \ 2h, . Is ita aay AR Da EY AR h3%, rd pi t Woetmgn de nbondilyy oh ERG Dla Rar Rg nates A Si hes i 13 | [ ANNE HIRST "Dear Anne Hirst: - When my wife died two years ago, "her parents took our'two youngsters to live with them . . . I have since fallen in love with a fine - girl, and I want to marry her' in a few months. My, wifé's par- ents have met her twice, and while they don't prominence a dislike for her they ,do object to the idea of my marrying. Un=, fortunately, they are trying to influence my children, too. Would you advise my taking them to live with us immedi- ately? = fag "Or must I give up this lovely. girl and try to find someone who thight be acceptable to my first wife's people? - WORRIED AND LONELY" Don't be hurt because these older people oppose your mar- v Ll * rying again. That frequently * happens, 'and it is no reflec * tion on the girl you have cho- * sen; they would resent anyone * taking their daughter's place. * Also, perhaps they are reluc- * tant to give up the-children. * The welfare of your chil- * dren is your first concern. * Your fiance will do all she * can to win them and when * that happens the grandparents * will, T expect, come to accept * her, too. Why not delay mar- * rying until the girl can get to * know the-children? Take them * {0 visit her on week-ends and ¢ spend afternoons tog ether Som' < 4606 14)2--242 Perfect twosom. for summer -- sundress with pretty yoke detail, and cover-up bolero! Per- fect for the shorter, fuller fig- ure -- its graceful lines make you look inches taller, sizes slimmer! Proportioned to fit -- no alterations! Pattern 4606: Half Sizes 1412, 161%, 181%, 201, 221%, 24%%. Size 1614 takes 333. yards 35-inch fabric; bolero, 17s yards. This pattern easy to use, sim- | ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instruc- tions. Send THIRTY-FIVE (35¢) in coins' (stamps he acceptéd) for this CENTS cannot pattern, Print plainly SIZE, NAME, AD . DRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St. New Toronto Ont, . - . * . - » * - - » i - | »* quent attention; she must not . - » . » - LJ . * » '* when possible; so they will * associate her with the good * times you all enjoy. } * Have you considered settl- *.ing in another part of town * when you marry? Then the * four of you will not be under * such close surveillance. You * will see that the children visit . * their grandparents frequently, * and include your wife. As they * see the youngsjers happy in "their new life they will more * fairly credit your! wife! with * her efforts. It usually works * out that way, and I hope it * will for you. * It is not always possible to * please the entire family in * any marrjage, particularly a * second one. -. . . "Pear Anne Hirst: 1 am very much in love with a young wo- man who expects to get a divorce soon. I see her s¢veral times a week and call her daily. Her family are fine people and I feel they approve of our marriage. I would like that to be soon, but as vet I am in no. position to take on the financial responsi- bility. : "There scems no doubt she will get her divorce without dif- ficulty, though she still worries about it. She sees her girl friends regularly, and 1 always call lo take her home ©. . If we had to part, it would be the end of everything for me! I do every-- thing [ can to keep her mind at ease, yet sometimes I fail. "What do vou think about us? : ROY" I'rom long letter (which 1 had to edit) I feel that once this fine girl is free, vou two tan enjoy a wonder- ful. friendship which can lead to marriage when you are both ready for it. * [ urge you to remember that while she is bringing suit against her husband she must conduct herself discreetly. You should not show her such fre- your be seen often with any one man, so don't embarrass her by urging more dates. She seems to know her way about, and I think you can safely. leave the initiative to her. Je just a good friend. That is. vour role now. The better vou play it, the better your: chances with her when she is . frec. - - LJ From teen-agers to grand- parents, folks of every age send their problems to Anne Hirst. She understands the situations which confront each generation, and her sympathy and guidance are at your service. Write to her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., "New Toronto, Ont. CANADA FOURTH IN BUTTER CONSUMPTION Among, the nine buttér pro- ducing_ countries of "the world Canada ranked fourth in domes- tic disappearance in 1953 with a per capita figure of 21 pounds. ai = ' SALLY'S SALLIES a -- -- ar EA ar a ---- HE he "I don't care if you are my hus- band 1 can report you for opening my mail!" $32,000 KISS -- Mrs. Catherine Kreitzer, Bible-quoting grand- ¢ mother, kisses her husband, James, as she displays the $32,000 check, which she won on a television program. "The $64,000 Question." Mrs. Kreitzer had choice of either trying for $64,000 cr keeping $32,000 she had won in previous appearances. Quoting the Bible, Mrs. Kreitzer accepted her earlier winnings by saying, "Moderation should bs known to all men." EL Sas bi is 5 BELGIAN WEAVE -- This huge tapestry, a woven copy of 'a painting by Belgian, Painter Exudit, was part of the Belgian textile industry's display at the second International Textile Exhibition in Brussels. Some 700 entries representing 18 countries were shown. Sm-- he Ss ~~ ~ 7 ; 3 $e gr » ) Sisk ED SI Xr ees Rr SN 1 Tt) Nr" Ba GS da era hen S CLLIEES fa, IGM lg? RONICLES INGERFARM | by - Gwendoline P. Clarke From The South of England Now I am really seeing Eng- land! Not the England of big cities and busy traffic but Eng- land with its white cliffs, irreg- ular rugged shoreline washed by the incoming tide. England with its hills and downs and ancient little villages with nar- row winding country roads. I travelled by motor-coach from London to Bournemouth and the drive was unbelievably beautiful. Very few straight line - fences, instead miles and miles of hedgerows, very often a solid mass of rhododendrons, of a most beautiful shade of mauve. In parks and in the grounds of large estates the rhododendrons are cultivated and the colours are then more varied--red, old rose and different shades of mauve. Russell lupins are everywhere and the roses are out of this world. In the fields there is plenty of Queen Anne's lace, mustard, and to my delight, occasionally a patch of red pop- pies. But of course, not a bit of chicory! Birds . . \ there are plenty of blackbirds and magpies. I stayed overnight at Bourne- mouth with my sister-in-law. A longer stay was not possible as she was going to Norway the following morning. Bourne- mouth, is a fashionable seaside summer resort on: the South coast. It is very beautiful but you can't go in or out of it with- out climbing terrific hills. The residential district covers a wide area--of hills, of course. We went on a sight-seeing bus to nearby Boscombe and the driver went for at least one and a half miles in. low gear through a residential area with several hairpin turns on steep hills. Certainly Bourne- mouth is a beautiful place but I wouldn't live here for anything --not with those hills! On my journey from London to Bournemouth by motor-coach we came through New where there wasn't a fence of any description. Cattle and for- est ponies wandered at will along the bylaws and highways. It was nothing to see a picnic party joined by a few eager for tidbits and a petting. .On the other hand . some of the ponies are decidedly wild. "New Forest".is a heavily wooded area set aside by Wil- liam the Conqueror as a conser- . vation project. It was larger at ond time but it still covers an area of 92,000 acres, or about twenty miles by fourteen! . My next journey was to Swan- age -- a beautiful little seaside town, completely different from any place I have seen so far, There are many quarries in Dor- set so naturally a good deal of the building in years gone by was' with stone. Not only are many of the houses and other buildings made with stone but the roofs are too, Great big stone shingles--if one can call them that e-- and how they wer . I am too late for ciickoos and nightingales but. |-- singing Forest ponies | little ever made to stay on the root I can't imagine. Of course, there are modern buildings too: of necessity -- as Swan- age suffered considerably from bomb damage during the war. Fortunately many historic build- ings are still left. For in- stance, at the back of the Town Hall there is "The Old Lock- Up," built entirely of stone. It is about the size of an. average 'bathroom. There is a thick oak door, reinforced with iron bars, no windows, just a small oblong opening high up on the wall for ventilation, - and a heavy oak plank along one wall, presuma- bly for a bed. Over the door there is the following inscription --"For the Prevention of Vice and Immorality \By the Friends of Religion and 'AD. 1803." 1 am staying with a friend of long standing in Swanage and she has been a marvellous guide and companion to many of the outstanding historic sites in Dor- set. One day we took a bus trip through "The Hardy Country". The scene of Thomas Hardy's "Tees of the D'urbeiville's". On the way we passed the little country churchyard where Law- rence of Arabia lies buried. More interesting still is the town of Warcham where there is a stone church--St. Martin's--with a seating accommodation for eighteen! It is said to have been built in 705 by St. Adhelm, first Bishop of Sherborne. After 1762 it was used very little and had fallen into a state of neglect. For two centuries 'it was little more han a landmark. Then came Lawrence of Arabia. By his" influence and interest the church was preserved, and nec- essary repairs completed with- out destroying any of its archi- tectural features. For instance at the side of the altar there is he "Devil's Door"; a relic of . early superstition Its only pur- pose was to stand open when ihe church bells were* rung to allow the Devil to escape. Why be in the House of God I don't khow. The stone front bears the inscription 1607 so the church was 'evidentyl added to through the centuries. Inside the church there is a recumbent effigy 'in stone of Lawrence of Arabia in Arabian costume. So whatever his failings this well-known au- and Good Ordef." probate. " J thor certainly has to his credit the restoration of this ancient yiflage church. : 'Anoher interesting historic site is that of Todpuddle which com- memorates the six farm labour- ers who, in 1833 appealed for better living and working con- ditions for agricultural workers. At that time wages were about eight shillings a week--although a loaf of wheaten bread was one shilling a 4-pound loaf. The six men were deported to Australia for daring to attempt to form a union against their employees. At Todpuddle there is a seat un- der an ancient oak tree where the men held their secret meet- ings. -There is also a row of six houses erected in memory of the men, the houses being named one for cach of the men. An- other: landmark. we passed was the ruins of the famous Corfe Castle, of which I may tell you more later. In fact there is much, much more I could tell you about Dorset-- even though I have been here such a short time. But tomorrow I must bé.on my way to Bath. Maybe I shall drink of the. famous waters and get omse of the travelling aches. "and pains out of my bones! The weather has been quite chilly. Wrote His Will On Postage Stamp A will written on a restaurant table mat has been filed for pro- bate in a Chicago court. It dis- posed of aabout $30,000 and was witnessed by the restaurant own- er, who said: "This is surely the most remarkable will ever made." : y _ He apparently had never heard of the wills that have been made out on pieces of furniture, peb- bles, oyster and other shells or of the eccentric and wealthy American who had his will tat- tooed on his back. A North Country solicitor actually wrote his will on ice. While skating on Windermere he fell through the. ice, but managed to support himself for a time. Then, despairing of be- ing rescued, he used his pen- knife to scrawl a few words on the ice disposing of his fortune. Luckily he was rescued. One of the most pathetic of all. odd wills was written on a package of cigarettes found in- the clothing of a Hampshire man who,_was found'lying face down- wards in a river. On the cig- arette packet - were also "the words: "I can stand the strain no longer." . About the smallest will on re- cord was written on the gummed back of an ordinary postage they should expect 'the devil toy" S®mp. The writing, though very tiny, was with the aid of magnifying glass. As this will was properly signed and witnessed, there was no dif- ficulty about admitting it to ISSUE 30 -- 1955 initiative. 54 Front Street East Our Sales Proposition offers you distinct advantages. detailed information write to: STONE & WELLINGTON, LTD. "The Fonthill Nurseries" Nursery Salesman Wanted: : Sell Hardy Canadian Grown Nursery Stock. We offer full: or part time Sales Position and need man with drive and Extensive territory--commissions paid weekly, For Established 1837 ~ Toronto, Canada . pondent easily decipherable Their Double Beds newspaper = corres- Noél Barber makes strange discoveries on his trav- els. In Saigon he found that in- come tax collectors were hav- ing trouble on the China-Indo- China border, which was mark- Roving ed with great boulders. When the Viet Nam.collectors arrived, _all "the locals moved the boulders and. became. Chinese residents. When the Chinese collectors appeared, the Chinese pushed the boulders the other way and became tem- porary Vietnamese. At Vallftiris in the South of France, where the painter Picas- so lives and works, Barber saw the flat whose walls he had painted with masterpieces as a wedding present to one of his. workers, Jean Ramier. One in the living-room . depicted the * wedding procession. of Jean and his bride Suzanne. On the tiny bedroom wall was a nude; in the kitchen were two pictures, one of food for the fat years, one of.food for the lean -- a very bony fish -- and ivy leaf garlands over the fireplace. But, alas, the flat proved to.- be very damp. One child ar- rived . . . a second , . . afid the flat was too small, But how could they leave such a treas- ure-house of modernist art? Only after three years could they bring themselves to move. Barber found the place empty, deserted, with damp oozing from the precious. walls, 'One of his; most remarkable accounts in "Strangers in the - Sun",is of the village of Rurbol, for one side ofe the main street is in. Denmark, the other in Germany, and none. but 4 privi- leged few may cross. "When boundaries were being revised in 1920 after Germany's defeat, a plebiscite was held along . the "border. Rudbol couldn't make up its mind, so the boundary was fixed along the middle of the street. . It actually passed through the middle of the corner house of : Mr. and Mrs. Nielson, so that while she ate in Denmark, her husband, the opposite side of the table, was in Germany; and even as they lay in bed in the room above, her half was in Denmark, his in Germany. A small "V" was nicked in the boundary to correct this, but half the garden: still. remained in Germany, behind barbed wire, so it is never cultivated, for to reach it she would have to go nine miles to the nearest frontier post and nine miles back. So would her son Anton, to visit the village inn only ten - yards from his door, One Dane, Herr Porken, drove the eigh- teen miles in order to attend a cabaret-dance at the inn, which was opposite his home. Afterwards he actually had to % back his car partly into his own: farmyard in order to turn f{t round and return the eighteen miles home via the official fron- tier post! Only a very few villagers with close . relatives who have married across the border, are given special permits to cross. Mrs. Conck, whose daughter Are Nationa Apart married a German opposite her, couldn't resist seeing the new home when her daughter called acros§' that the furniture had ar- rived, ~ . Guilty, she slipped over, though she hadn't had time yet to 'procure ,a permit. A frontier policeman spotted her, and it took nine days 'to get her out of prison! When pretty Grete Kofoed, the postmaster's daughter, fell in love with a German farmer they couldn't touch or kiss, only . talk across the street. But final- ly it was agreed that they could. meet in the only piece of neut- ral territory, a six-foot square hut used on alternate nights for shelter in bad weather. : Here they duly became en- - gaged by exchanging rings. Her parents stood beaming on one side of the hut with a large dish of Danish food and bottles of lager; his relations stood on the other _ side with platters of sauerkraut and pilsener. "Somehow or other," said a policeman, "everybody got mix- ed up, and so did the food. And I must say everybody was very happy. But that was an excep- tlon for, after all, we have te keep the law, even in Rudbol." 4] by Sauna When Doity or centrepiece in pretty tulip pattern--a fascinating com- bination of filet crochet and reg- ular crochet. Fun, easy to dol Crochet Pattern 506% Direc- tions for 22-inch design in No. 30 mercerized cotton; smaller in No. 50; larger in bedspread cot- ton. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box' 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Tor- onto Ont, os CANADIAN rm AUG. 26TH; SEPT. 10TH. 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