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pa Anne Hirst: If you t help me, I shall divorce 4) husband. For some years hasghas run a shop that attracts girls and young women, They come in and flirt with him, and hold long conversations behind my back; 'and he'll never tell me what they talk about. It makes me feel like a fifth wheel, and I am getting plenty sick of. "We are both in our late 30's, but didn't marry till four years ago. He has never been one to confide in. anybody, but now it looks like he'd rather talk to these girls than to me. I have come to hate them alll I can't think how to end all this non- sense, but I don't intend to take gE UNHAPPY" FOOLISH FEARS * The very qualities that made you marry your hus- band attract other people to him. He likes people, and he shows it; he -is sympathetic, and a good listener, To these customers he is an older man interested in their little af-' fairs, and . they trust him. What is wrong with you? You married an attractive man, and now you are sorry. You picture every girl he talks to as a rival, He would not be a real man if he didn't enjoy these youngsters, But when it came to marrying, did he choose a teen-ager? He mar- ried you, one of his own age, old enough to have more com- * mon sense than you are show- ® ing now. ® You may regret that. your hus- En = SR NE BE NE CEE BEER EEE EEE IE EE ® bamd chose to run such a shop__ - * ag he owns, but it is a little * late to alter that. These girls * are the main source of his * income (and yours)-and, if he ¥ is 'not friendly with 'them, * they will: shop elsewhere, * Working with him, it is your * job to be interested in them ¥ too, and if you were they ® might confide in you instead. * As his wife, you have a fine * chance to win their good will * by taking a personal interest * in their clothes and guiding * them to flattering and practi- * cal models. Have you thought t of that?" Few situations are as exas- perating as living with a * jealous mate. One has no pro- % tection against suspicion; the honest husband is ashamed of his wife, and a dishonest man '® feels 'he might as well have % the game as the name. I | earnestly urge you to control these doubts. Instead of burn< % ing up with childish jealousy, ! you should be proud you mar- ried a man whom others ad- Simply Lovely PRINTED PATTERN 7) Only FOUR main pattern parts al 'to_this pretty summer dress --- | sew-easy, 'with our new PRINT- "ED Pattern! The cool V:neckline " is accented by rows of graceful : tucks; its' simple flare = skirt, g0-0-0 flattering to all figures! printed: Pattern 4551: Misses' 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 Size @ takes 4% yards 85-inch fabric, _ Printed directions on each ttern part. Easier, faster, ac- roel FORTY CENTS (40) (gta cannot be accepted, use for safety) for. this » ANNE... hteenth Sty 1 New a * mire; for their good will i" * the backbone of his success. You know your husband loves you; if he didn't, he would not put up with your Behavior, You must be making not change, I fear the conse- quences for your marriage; it might be he who could stand it no longer, Turn about.. You. axe not a silly adolescent fearing that another girl. You are a grown woman, experienced if not mature, Resolve you will act your age, believe in your hus- band's integrity, and work side by side with him to his further success and your own. * LIS > I MISS HIM!" BD Sor a a Sp - "Dear Anne Hirst: I am only y 16, and I need .your advice. I have gone wijth a boy since be- fore Christmas, but some time . ago I got a wild idea I liked another one better, so I refused --to go out with him any more, Now I wish I hadn't. « "He couldn't come to see me as often as I wanted him to, be- . * tause he lives in another town and hasn'tea. car, That's why I thought I'd rather see the one who is nearby. "I had no idea I would miss him so! ,How can I tell him without seeming too anxious? GRACIE" * Plan a small party at your * house With some other boys * and girls, and write him a * note asking him to come. You * can truthfully say you've * missed him, and hope he can * get in for that evening. - * We shall both hope he will * be free to come, and perhaps * it may be the beginning of 'the "* good friendship you wish to * renew. * * * The wife who Is jealous of her husband's clientele is head- ed for serious trouble. Instead of objecting, applaud his suc- cess, realizing it spells your own Anne Hirst can help, if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Official Check On Women's Figures It was rather nosy of Britain's staid Board of Trade. But, put- ting it as correctly as possible, - the board embarked six years ago on "the first scientific study of body measurements of im- portance in the construction of (British) 'women's clothing", In plain 'English, they wanted to know how Miss and Mrs. Britain fills out her frock. Reason for the board's nosiness was that British dressmakers didn't really know what the average British . woman looks like and, said some, that was why most English wo- men looked better in the winter when wearing woollen suits than in the summer when draped in limply fitting dresses. Board of Trade "surveyors" went after 5,000 volunteers with tape measures, anthropometers, wooden knitting needles (used as. guide rods in locating body "land- marks"), deilcate "skin pencils", and cards of fine elastic cord to "locate the waist line". Each woman was measured 37 different ways. It took computers several 'months to translate the results into a series of graphs and logarithms (e.g., Distribution of Hip Girth), published recently by. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Among the board's findings: --Like her American sister, the average British woman stands § feet 3 inches, but at 136° pounds, is 3 pounds heavier. Reading downward, she measures 37-28- 39, an inch trimmer in the waist than Miss and Mrs. America and 2.inches thicker than the Venus de Milo (37-26-38). « --Under - 29s averagé .35-25-37. America's ~young matrons are 84-27-38. --Women are 'tallest in their early, 20s, after which they lose height with age and child- bear ing. --Hips fof 44 inches or bigger and a 33-inch. waist are the burden of 1.7 million women. -- About 45,000 have Marilyn Monroe's curves (37-23-37). _ --from Newsweek ~ SAUY'S SALES Vhat you write in your diary 's reads like fiction, dearle,"/ i } "1 him very unshappy. If you do | tionally different your beau will look twice at' - for 'supremely smart, os vi I tg dy Ry How Long Should Your Skirts Be 7 Headlines from the Paris fa- shion shows, "blazoning chemise. frocks with knee-high hems, re- laxed or "fallen" waistlines, and wiglike head-hugging hats, have style circles in New York buz- zing, As usual, when vy sensa- fashion is launched, the big question is: will Americar women, most numerous and influential fashion consumers, take then? Already the pros and cons are "girding up their chemises." One leading stylist (a man), just returned from Paris, says: "There will be great accept- ance." Another (a' woman) af- firms. "Exhibitionists may wear these short skirts, sophisticated women never!" With the waning of the '20's, when ' these. styles were worn before. women ceased to follow unpromising fashions like so many silly sheep, and the era of the style dictator came to an end. Busy, active, modern wom- ° en learned by experience that there are three requisites for smart dressing: Clothes must be becoming, comfortable,*and suit- able; that is, suited to their own type and way of life. Apropros of comfort, Claire McCardell once told me that to be chic is to be well put to- gether, hence to: be comfortable, It a woman has. to keep pulling down her skirt, hitching up her- strapless bodice, or fussing with a belt, she makes everyone around her uncomfortable and certainly does not give an im- .pression of smartness, whatevér her clothes. "To aid her in deciding which new styles to. adopt, a woman. has one honest, infalible coun- selor:. her mirror. But she must . heed Dior's advice and see there "not the woman she would like to be, but the woman she really. | is" And she should look at: | herself in a triple, full-length mirror to watch herself re-'. treating. Many a nymph 'in a chemise frock resembles an old= © fashioned French "hotel bolster, ; rolled in the sheet. She will 'walk around the salon and sit. down; too, to see whether and. how she can. -A hem whch 'covers' the "knees when "the wearer 'is standing may be thigh-length- when: she's -sitting at 'a typewriter, even shorter in a sports car, 'writes Kathleen Cannell in The: Chris- tian Science Monitor. An attentive mirror-gazer will probably be struck by an anatomical fashion fact -- -that- "a waistless- dress 'makes the sil-- houette as wide as the woman's widest point. A mirror caused: the late Jean L Patou to reverse his "Paper Doll" trend. Not everyone today remembers that Patou and Chanel shared the responsibility for flattening women 'into. the: chemises of the 'Flaming 20's. In the summer of 1929 Patou was the guest o luncheon in a smart Paris res- taurant © walled by : mirrors. Upon entering, jhe got a view of the:ladies (may of whom-were mature, to p mirrors, the brief skirts of their skimpy frocks riding high, and resembling to his horrified eyes "a series of sausage rolls" more than anything else. «Hélas!" Patou cried out. "Is' this what I've 'done?"'-And with- out his lunch he rushed back to his studios, in the Rue St. Florentin, where he had been preparing a new collection fea- turing more of the same. Swift- ly he lengthened skirts with floating panels, - modified torsos with sashes, and draped up flat- tened. chests. The waistline was on the rise. Will we go to such extremes "before we réturn to normalcy once again? ¢ "Don't' be stampeded by the headlines" -- Mainbocher said to me long ago in the course of an ov Bev As-Mainbacher is 'the only American who ever was a top-flight , still enjoys 'a world reputatio ladylike, and timeless clothes, his advice is always valuable. On the location of ' the 'hem- line, even the Paris dressmaking houses are divided = against themselves. Dior, Balntain, Des- ' ¢es, Laroche, Griffe-and -- sig~ nificantly enough -- Chanel hold the line at a conservative mid- calf. Patou, Heim,- Lanvin-Cas= tillo, Cardin, and five others Larely cover the knees. Mainbocher has another wise dictum:: "I always let the skirt find its own level." Meaning that there is one point exactly right fin proportion to the dress and the figure, Naturally, no 'woman will be eccentric enough to wear day skirts ankle length if the trend is toward brevity, or vice versa. But one can "cheat" an. inch or 50 either way and still get the effect of following the mode. You can never tell what most women are going to do next, but neither can most women. --Cy N. Peace. honor at a, it kindly) seated at the tables, multiplied by the Paris eouturier, ang | eS --_-- BASEBALL HABIT--Sister Mary Michael fakes a : healthy cut 'at the ball under the admiring of The nun is one of the' school es of youngsters In Pulaski Park, sisters of Notre Dame on hand every day to supervise Catholic Youth: Organization activities inthe park, Catcher is Curfiss: Hughes while the Rey. William Mitchell. calls the pitch. INGER D.Clothe One day last. week 'we were crujsing * around near = Ginger Farm. Our first visit was. to Rusty -- and - of course to the people who now own him. We drove. in and a: Dalmatian came running ' to meet us. from somewhere ip the distance _ came: Rusty's: deep-throatéd bark. * But" he didn't come running: to, meet - us--he couldn't--he. was confined to his own special run, about 30 feet square, a 'wired in 'enclosure with plenty of: shade "trees. Mrs. K. 'let us into 'the run and Rusty's exuberant wel-, come almost knocked us 'down. Apparently = the' dogs 'have ta, be separated. -Spotty, the Dal- "matian, - gets frightfully jealous and 'picks a fight every time Rusty is loose. So now. Spotty is given his freedom in the day time and Rusty from supper time onwards. - 'Mitchie - White 'was also in semiZcontinement--partly '|<. for her own protection 'but -also because she was In disgrace -- being "the cat that swallowed the canary" -- only in this case the canary was a love-bird. Mitchie. never bothered much with birds 'when he lived with us, fiéld mice were more to his liking. But after all," when a 'cat and a bird 'are loose in the same house -- and alone: -- well, that's -asking for trouble.- Now since that little episode occurred both dogs take after Mitchie! I think I'can guess what happened. Mrs. K. talks to her pets as if they were children, so naturally when Mitchie got into trouble he would be audib- ly scolded, The dogs, sensing it, no doubt tried to be helpful to their mistress by chasing the cat. So now Mitchie must be protected from the dogs. Of course, cats, dogs and birds quite often live together in harmony . but usually only when they have been brought up together from their very young days. All the animals I 'have mentioned are very well looked after but hav- 'ing "to separate them certainly. 'makes more work for Mrs. K. Our next visit was to a farm where they were having ofl- flavor milk, 'Since sanitary con- ditions were beyond question the farmer was tramping the pasture in search of any obnoxious weed the: cows. might be getting. Shades of the past: +. how well we remember similar occasions) Too many .dandelions, for in stance, and the milk and cream would be too deep' in 'color and - a little strong in flavor. When milk comes to' the consumer in "bottles, uniform in flavor and butterfat content, it doesn't 'ar- rive: that 'way by accident. No, indeed. Little 'does the average consumer realize how much work, care "and inspection is . necessary to insure all dairy produce being "of first: 'class quality. -Because we know only too well we came away. from that A farm sorry for the farmer but: a little glad that we no longer "have the: same worrles. On yet another farm that same day we found a 'combine at work in the wheat-fleld and' the owner not at all happy. Apparently buyers in that dis- trict are quoting the followin prices to farmers--$1.25 a bushe when threshed by a 'threshin machine and 86 cents if delivere straight from the combine, The I began. calling" "Rusty +. . . Rusty" 'and, Tower price is because there Is. a" higher moisture content in combined wheat, When we got:-home we found 'a letter walting for us from a- business-man' farmer: who start= 'ed up a few years:ago.- Thinking to cut costs he had purchased a second-hand mower 'and hay- "loader: 'He was 'going. to get his haying done the old-fashion- 'ed way, which he thought would - .be much cheaper in 'the long run. . ' 'So what happened? The 'mower broke down and 'was not worth : the cost of repairing.' "Without a mower the, 'hayloader' was use- less so our. "friend finished up by hiring a man to cut his hay and a baler to' take it off. the field. "Looks as'if farmers can't win :anyway--at least not with- out capital to take them over the hump. And yet in spite of it all, isn't ~ farm "life a - wonderful "liter Sometimes'I watch' men: at con- struction "work, or. going. back - and * forth 'to 'industrial - plants, or to office jobs, and I wonder why they choose such a way of living when they could be on a farm 'and' working in the fresh air. 'Except, of course, some men are not physically able nor men- tally inclined. As for the women "and children. -- what a life for them. : Sure, I know there are certain: disadvantages but to my _way of thinking there is-no place like the farm. to raise a family. "Later, when the family is grown 'up and married, and hard work . on a farm 'day after 'day, no longer appeals to a man and his wife, then, as we are now, they may be quite content to be away from the worry 'and wear that is inescapable if a comfortable living is to be maintained. We loved the farm -- we shall al- ways love: going back -and: visit- ing among farm folk, "but. we. - are now well-content with our" acre-lot and freedom'to come and go as we please without hurrying. back 'to feed chickens and 'milk cows, : There is a time and a place for all 1 things. "OURS NOT TO REAS : only one who can see any seems blissfully unaware of Etiquette. . . by Roberta Lee Q Is it necessary. to acknow- niversary cards? -- A. If you mean by this, a note of acknowledgment, no. : However, when: you meet the _sender of the card, it is always 'good manners to mention that the .card was received and ap- preciated. Q.' How long should one stay . when making a call of condol- ence at a friend's home? A. This call. should be pecially brief -- usually not longer than about ten or fifteen minutes -- unless; of course, the bereaved friend asks you to stay. "longer, © Q If XI receive a telephone call while entertaining a guest, should XI éxplain at once to the "person calling that I have a guest and cannot talk? A. If the call is unimportant, "you can explain and- offer to 'call is important, it takes prece- 'dence over the entertainment of your: guést. fer Q. If itso happens that f bride-elect has already had' the- opportunity 'to thank a donor . verbally for a gift received, Is it still necessary. for. her to write 'a note of thanks? A. Yes, and. as soon as -pos- -sible, Q. Is it correct to eat straw- shortcake with the fork, "or 'should a spoon be used? "AJ The fork should be used to 'send. a wedding gift, and to whom is 'it sent .if- the bride Is a shanger? 'As soon as the wedding in- ol is recelved, and the gift should 'always be sent to the only' the bridegroom. food in one's. mouth? 1A. This, is considered bad sof 'water, condoned. card party? wishes. shower. a i ISSUE 35 -- 1957 WHY-Undoubtedly- abstract arfist Enzo p resemblance 'betw een his painting ledge receipt of birthday or an- ' "call back later. If, however, the" Q. When is the proper time -. _ bride, 'even .though you know Q.' Is it permissible to sip" 'water at the table while one has 'manners. Only when one has taken 'a bite of food Into the "mouth thats too hot is. a sip "Qs 'Should a woman' Koon: her hat on when at an afternoon A. She should remove it if the - party isdn a private home. If:in a public' place,-she may either remove it or keep it on, as she Q. Is one obligdted to bring a gift to an engagement. party? A. Not unless the party: is a CERRALIRE Us. I in i counting i) RT tae and Fg : Tot, coinopersied Be For these pols Lind items Fa, hl cigarettes and fresh et bs, rob ful Bankes mi fe » meals. Kitty-cats. make quick work or chores! 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