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"n _ PLAYING BY EAR AERA RARE ATI EF EN ADE a EINE Tumbling Walls in Tokyo Going out to buy carrots for dinner used to be an ordinary chore. 'How often, in America, I would run to the corner grocery, snatch up a bunch, and return home, undiverted from my thoughts, and so impartial to the trek that, stopping to re member, 1 could scarcely recall having gone. 'Except that the carrots lay like jackstraws in , the sink, 'waiting to be picked up and scraped. Since we have lived in Tokyo such short treks have become the most essential moments of my days, Stepping from our small yard into the alley-street, I am sur- rounded by walls and fences which line the narrow way. Some are formidable concrete or stone; some are thin wooden slats and others heavy, hand- some pigeces of wood. When I feel shut out by the walls I think of Frost's "Good fences make good neighbors." Or I translate them into symbols; the thick walls are the language " which even after eight months is still an enigma to me; the thin slats whimsically half hide the gentle beauty which one must learn to feel more than to see; the handsome wooden pieces are the substance of gen- erations of tradition gnd beliefs. . Sometimes I imagine that I, like those delicate tea roses which have scaled .one great concrete wall and bloom exqui- 'sitely along the top, can through Two-Parts Perfect PRINTED PATTERN If you're shorter, fuller -- sew this slenderizing version of fa- shion's favorite jacket dress. Printed Pattern is proportioned to fit you at shoulders, waist, hips -- no alteration problems. Printed Pattern 4773: Half Bizes 14%, 161%, 18%, 201%, 2214, 24%. Size 161% dress, 3: yards 35-inch; jacket, 2%: yards. Printed directions on each pat- tern part, Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal nofe for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, ' ISSUE 19 -- 1958 . come they ak smiles and compassion and pa- tience, scale or break through my three walls, But my short treks are filled with encounters with people and they open delightful doors through the walls. If Mrs, K... passes me on her way home from market (carrying vegeta- bles in small three-sided bags made qf newspapers) we - ex- change quick, shy. bows, Since she cannot speak English, nor 1 Japanese, we may never have a full, neighborly conversation. - Still there. is a quality in our self-conscious bowing which I cherish--a mutual consent to be respectfully curious about each other. It is similar with the goldfish geller, the fishmonger, or the wife of the Shinto priest. I am as much a novelty to them as they are to me, and each time we bow we cement this com- mon bond. But it is: the children I meet on my walks who make many of the walls tumble down. I am usually greeted at our gate by two intensities who are not yet learning to count in school (ichi, nichi, san, she, go) but spend their hours hanging on our gate or peering 'at me through the fence. The clippety- slock-slock of their getas has become part of the atmosphere for me. They are bursting ~~ proud of their English and hail me with a hopscotch of "hullo"; and when I smile "Hello, how are you?" they giggle and clasp each other and dart ahead of me down the alley, writes Nancy Nelson i e Christian Science Monitorf We pass. though groups of children playi bat-ball, roller skating. On some days their eager eyes in- vite me to play with them. Someone misses a ball, and I catch and toss it' back. "Sank you," he calls, blushing at his own daring to speak English, and - then warming my heart when he echoes my "You're welcome," or "That's okay." Some days I am ignored along with the other adults who pass by. And on some terrible days I am silently stared at for my whole -long walk down the street. Then I try to stare at myself too and see how strange I must look to them. I imagine them looking at a picture book and, finding an American, point- ing and commenting to a school friend, "We have _one on our street, just like that." I cherish most those two boys . who rose beside me down the alley one day testing English phrases from their schoolbooks. I was pushing the baby carriage and they pulled up beside me on their bicycles. "What time is it?" the taller one asked. I shook my head, "I don't know." The boy was disappoint- ed in me; it was not the time he wanted, but talk. "I am a boy," his friend said in meas- ured rhythm. Finally I under- stood. "Yes, and I am a girl. This is a boy too, a baby boy," and I pointed into the carriage. They grinned. Their English textbook was coming alive. "I go down street," the tall one went on. "You go down the street," I reminded him, *on a bicycle," and my friend laugh- ed. But the other boy was trou- bled. I' sensed he was searching for a word, mentally going over lists of vocabulary. Finally he burst out, "I am a boy; baby is boy. You" are not girl; you are a mother." He laughed, and his friend cuffed his shoulder, laughing. Then as abruptly as they had nodded "good-by mother," and peddlad off. Q. Our high school class is going to have a dance, and sever- al of us fellows would like to know whether we should ask our dates what kind of flowers they want to wear on their dresses. Can you answer this for us? A. The best plan is to ask your girls what color dresses they will wear, then you choose flowers to harmonize. gos 2. ~ This tiny violin and bow "It was made by Mrs. Harriet Babcock Neil, 68. She and many or older people showed the products of their unusual talents at a hobby show for older persons, A visitor to the show plays Wimiself a chearful lila earful with the alfin instrument. dodge ball," set is for real, | BE FIRST APPEARANCE--Prince R aint J FRA i er II and Princess Grace showed off the six-week-old heir to the throne of Monaco on his first appearance in public. Princess Grace is holding Prince Albert and Prince Rainier has Princess Caroline at a reception preceding the formal baptism of the Crown Prince in their tiny country. ' JGINGER HRONICLES Farm Gwendoline P.Clarke ------r-- gre mm I imagine a lot of mothers -- 'and maybe a few grandmothers too, including myself--were not too pleased with the weather during the Easter holidays. Wet weather and children at home 1s not a happy combination, We volunteered to have David here to help him recuperate after the measles. We thought fresh air and sunshine as well as the change would do him good--the swings were ready and waiting to encourage outdoor exercise, But as you know it was cold, wet and windy. But now, with the Easter vacation over the weather is grand so we are going to keep Dave for a few days longer. Daughter has no objection as the other two little fellows are still croupy and restless at night. David. is no trouble at all ex- cept for his meals. What is the matter with children nowadays? By the time I have tried t6 get a meal into Dave I feel too frus- "trated for words. We never had that sort of trouble with our two children. I gave them what I thought they should have and that was that. Anything that was left came up for the next meal. Dave doesn't . care whether he eats or not--preferably not. However, I am hoping he will improve as I got him some chem- ical food--a vitamin and miner- al tonic. I had it as a child, so did our daughter, and now here is our grandson having the same tonic. I imagine it must be good since it has been on the market all these years. Before David arrived I got in half a day at the National Home Show in Toronto. Actually I . wasn't too anxious to go but once there I found it paid off. There are various extras we still need around here and at the Home . Show I was able to compare one make with another, bring back a report to Partner and after that we decided on the best-type for our purpose. Not only that but I was able to get particulars about a few installations that were here when we took over the house, the mechanics of which we had never properly under- stood. Now that we do under- stand it will simplify the neces- sary cleaning and care tremend- ously. And then in my wanderings I © found myself right on the spot when C.B.C. was getting ready to televise "Open House" --one of my favourite TV programmes. It took over two hours to set up the: cameras and other equip- ment in the Model House before it went on the air. Fred Davis was very busy conferring with technicians and those taking part in the programme, including Frank Moritsugu, that genial Japanese artist in home decorat- ing who is also managing editor of Canadian Homes and Gardens I had an opportunity to ask his advice on a little home problem which wasn't quite in his line, Since he wasn't sure of the an- swers 'he promised 'to have a member/ot his staff send me the required information. This was done and told me exactly what I wanted to know. Of course Anna Cameron was on the set, looking very charm :ng in a tailored grey suit and a pink, close-fitting flowered hat, After the broadcast I had a few words with Anna. And you know I felt as if I knew her sb well it seémed almost strange to think that she shouldnt know, me! 'I found her just as natural and friendly as one would expect trom her broadcasts, At that same time, a short, dis- tance from the Model House the stage was being set .for Front Page: Challenge that same eve- ning.' 1 was tempted to stay and then decided I might just as' well get home in good time and see it on television at home. Partner was surprised to see me back so soon but I had seen about everything, found out a lot about a number of things -- all in a matter of hours. You can accomplish so much more it you start out with definite ideas about things you want to know about. Wandering around aim- lessly can be very tiring and not too rewarding. ' One thing amused me. 1 was having a light lunch at the cafe- teria. Sitting at the 'next table were two very fashionably dress- ed ladies--one of them loaded with diamond rings and double chins, She turned to her com- + panion and said -- "Don't they . have a bar around here at all?" The poor dears, wasn't it a shame they had to miss their cocktails? Well, so much for that ~~ now on with the work. Dave to go out. Ditto' needs feeding, one of the kittens needs an eye-wash--one eye gets stuck up and won't open. The sunshine is lovely . . . robins, orioles and song-spar- rows warbling with joy. Frogs are singing, grass is greening, in fact spying is busting out all over. Prine: is outside cleaning windows, Dave with him. Daugh- ter just phoned to say the little boy with whom Dave generally plays has chicken-pox. Poor mothers, what a time they have nursing their children through first one contagious disease and then another. 'Bye -- I can smell my roast -- maybe [ forgot to turn the heat down! Sober In a Hurry In the bar of an Ivy 'League university club in Boston one wintry . night in 1956, a young man gulped down eighteen dry Martinis in five hours, then slumped to the carpet. He was dead drunk=--in a state that doe- tors call anesthesia. When the call "Is there a doec- tor- in the house?" went up, a club guest, Dr. Henry J. Koch Jr., tried to help the youth. He recalled from his studies that people with thyroid deficiencies were extremely susceptible to alcohol and sometimes" died of anesthesia because of this pecu. liarity. Dipping into his medical bag, Dr. Koch took out a 100- microgram tablet of a thyroid compound -- triiodothyronine or T-3 -- and popped it into the pa- tient's mouth. In five minutes the youth roused and opened his eyés, Dr. Koch gave him. another T-3 pill. A half hour later the youth was' sober, - Since _that dramatic remedy, Koch, an-internist specializing in thyroid cancer control, has been studying the remarkable effects of T-3 on alcohol addicts who .range in 'social status from oil , millionaires to Skid Row bums. Recently hé reported that hard.' ened . guzzlers suffering from acute alcoholism fall into a deep restful sleep for six to eight houts after taking T-3 .and awoke calm and refreshed with- out a trace of'a hangover. In his laboratories at the Uni- - versity of "Arizona - and . the Southwestern Research Institute at Tucson, Dr, Koch and his as- ~ sociates: have learned that T-3 cranks up the body's chemistry, which has been stalled by alco- hol, to shake. off liquor stupor. T And by giving large doses of T-3 to patients suffering from cirrhosis of the liver (a disease frequently found in alcoholics), Koch told a group of science edi- tors in Los Angeles last week, the cirrhosis victims showed a marked improvement. To physicians who would give the thyroid hormone to alcoholics and cirrhosis patients, however, Dr, Koch offered xi word of cau- tion!" "In some men there is a temporary loss of sex potency during treatment. T-3 is no over- all cure for alcoholism. It is a simple, inexpensive for its more serious periods.""-- From NEWSWEEK. .Q. My husband and I have been invited to a wedding, but I shall be unable to attend, Would it be proper for my hus- band to go alone, or must we both decline the invitation? "A. There is no reason in the " world why a husband should not, attend a wedding alone, it hjs wife finds it impossible to ac- 'company him. 100-YEAR CLOCK-Llondon's Big Ben, perhaps the most famous clock in the world, has ticked off just about 100 years. It was on April 10,1858, at'8 o'clock at night, that workmen poured 17 tons of metal Into a giant mold. It took two weeks for the metal of the huge bell to cool and It wasn't until November 18, 1858, that Big Ben tolled the - hours for the first time. LN treatment "get married, but I di | LAE ZR JB BE 2 BE BE JE BE JE IE JE BE BE BE BE BX JE BE BR BE ER IE EE OE EE EE BE IE NE IE EE BE NE EE IE AE IE OF IE IE IR JEUE NR NE AF SP SEE EE EE [ZTE JST | ' "Dear. Anne Hirst: 1 am a woman 19, and have been mar- ried four years, Wa have two lovely children. whom I love dearly, 1 was very young fe 't know what love was -- Fi "But now I think I.am in love, and with my husband's brother! He is not. married; he likes me, I expect, just as a sister-in. "law, - prey ; "My husband is building us a lovely home, and gets us"every- thing we want. He doesn't know about his brother, of course . , . Once my husband said that If anything like this happened, he would not-let me have the chil- dren! : ; "Shall I stay with the husband I don't love -- or tell his brother how I feel? Help me, pleasel ; MRS. C. D." HOW CAN YOU? * If you.want to. toss brothers ° at each other's throats, break up your home, and lose these children of yours, tell your husband, but first go to your room and see what the future holds. Where is your eonscience? band, you are about to 'move into a finer home, your chil. mother, (How could you go on without them?) Your ly be so horrjtied by your news that he would clear out fast, and that would be that. Your husband's faith in you would be destroyed, and for the rest of his life he would despise you, Put yourself in his place. What " would he. do without you, how bring up the children -- and where would you go Disgraced in your husband's' 'eyes, scorned by his brother, bereft of your children, what place on earth is left for you to hide? It is sometimes' hard for a woman who married so young to stay to the course. She has lost the first thrills of mar- riage. She sees her husband as a stodgy, hard - working provider of all the good things in this life she has without even asking. : You wrote me under stress. You think you have found ré- sinful and destructive. Empty your heart of such wicked notions, and be thankful there is still time to be the good wife you intended to be when you took your marriage vows. Go back to your church and pray for the strength to thrust -this infatuation out of your heart. Count your blessings -- and resolve from now on to keep your husband so content- ed that he will never: guess * how close you came to de- ¢ gerting all those you promised * to cherish. * * * BOY INTIMIDATES HER "Dear Anne Hirst: Once you wrote that boys take their social cues from the girls they date. One boy I dated just twice surely must have gone with the wrong girls. He said things with double meaning, and trying to be pleasant; I just laughed at . them ..., . "I soon: sent him off -- and You have an indulgent hus-. dren look to you to.be a model : brother-in-law would probab- ° man, and forgets he is the mance, but what you feel is _ now he threatens to tell stories about ' me! Unfortunately, be knows a lot of the other SE at school. 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