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~ -- aN 3 E A ANE A AN ) SSNS = 3 we ~ a, he a NN _-- DCE Ti (A rs Te Dama ---- ii Uhhh A .L,. PRE AER Ak 2) ¥ 'rl ie ¥ UA ed ERA SRY Daughter Of An Early Stampeder My father had wanted to name me Klondike. The big stampede was at its height in 1897, when I was born, and he insisted on calling me that for good luck. But my mother said that Klon- dike wasn't any name for a girl, 80 my father gave in and short- ened it to Klondy, For my mid- dle name he chose Esmeralda, the name of the gold claim in South . Dakota he was working at the time. .. . I was only two weeks old when my father left us and went off to the Klondike. I guess he'd been planning it in his mind a a long time, but he didn't tell my mother until after I was christened. They had been mar- ried a year and a half when he set out to join the endless file of prospectors over the Chilkoot Trail. , . It's hard to explain my father today. I've tried to tell my grandchildren about him -- I have six of them living here in Olympia, Washington -- but they can't understand a man who would leave his wife and baby daughter and run off like that. He must have been selfish and shiftless, they say, but it wasn't that. Dad was a stam- peder, and there were tens of thousands like him in those days. They would always leave a sure thing to follow rumor. It wasn't just the gold, be- cause when they found it they staked it all to look for more. Somewhere just over the next mountain there were nuggets as Week's Sew-thrifty PRINTED PATTERN The best way to start the new year is to sew this wonder ward- robe of blouses! All three styles are smart and easy to make in crisp, no-iron cottons. Printed Pattern 4965: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 168 top style 138 yards 35-inch. middle 1%; lower 1% yards, Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note 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. big as boulders, waiting for their picks to uncover, and no hard- ships could halt them. "l wanted the gold and 1 sought it," Robert Service wrote, "I scrabbled and mucked like a slave," My dad was always quot- ing Robert Service, the young bank clerk in Dawson who used to -make up poems to entertain the miners. I've always wonder- ed whether he might have had someone like Father in mind when he penned the lines: "There's gold, and it's haunt- ing and hauntinj; It's luring me on as of old; But it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold." Dad wrote regularly over the next four years. His letters were always full of glittering promise. He was going to strike it rich any day now, and come home. He hit pay dirt in the Klondike, but then he heard of a new stampede, and his next letter said he was joining the rush down the Yukon River to the big strike at Nome. I was going on five when Dad wrote, in the spring of 1902, that he was pulling up stakes in Nome and heading for the latest discovery at Council, eighty miles farther, Mother decided then and there the time had come to join him. Maybe she thought she could help him save some of that gold he was for- ever digging out of one hole and sinking in another. -- From "Daughter of the Gold Rush," by Klondy Nelson with Corey Ford. Mr. Hoover Still Gets The Shivers Isn't it paying a sort of com- pliment to the Communist Party in America to assert that with each loss of membership, the party becomes more menacing than ever? At its national con- vention last December, reports placed the hard-core member- ship of the party at between 6,000 and 10,000 persons -- as contrasted with a membership of 64,000 in 1945. Surely this is an indication that American Com- munists have been a miserable failure, and that even Mr. Khrushchev's visit has failed to pump new life Into a slavishly alien party. Yet a recent head- line proclaimed: "Hoover Sees Greater U.S: Red Peril." This Is a theme that J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director, has reiterated many times: the smaller the party, the greater the menace. . . . In his testimony to the House in 1958, the Associated Press re- ported, Mr. Hoover advised that "the scuttling of the Daily Worker, far from being a sign that the Communist™ Party in American is collapsing, indicates that it is firmly under control of the Soviet Union." And now, in 1960, Mr. Hoover warns the Senate Internal Security Sub- committee that, in the wake of Mr. Khrushchev's visit, the dwindling party is "more power- ful, more unified, and even more of a menace to our republic." To be sure, mere size does not tell the whole story. Party statistics do not include muddle- headed fellow travelers, and in some countries a handful of Communists have indeed been able to seize power: But in those instances notably in Russia in 1917 -- the whole social fabric was disintegrating and the Com- munists had a fertile field to exploit. The United States has never been more prosperous; the? dreary domestic Reds have never been more discredited. It would be refreshing if Mr. . Hoover for once were to hail the reduction of Communist mem- bership as proof of how a free society, in Jefferson's words, can successfully tolerate error "so long as reason is free to combat it" -- Washington Post and Times Herald. i COED ARRESTED AS WAYWARD MINOR -- Dorothy Lebohner, 18, a freshman at Alfred University, ond daughter of uni- versity treasurer Edward K. Lebohner, of Alfred N.Y., and Warren Sutton, 20, are shown in a New York police station after they were picked up in a theake. Dorothy was arrested as a wayward minor for trying to elope with Sutton, a basket ball star, The pretty blonde told Sutton, who was not held, "Listen, honey, | want you 10 go' homg and finish your educa- 08 you, - 7 ATR iF iv hon 10 ® can get moarried. I'm going to finish mine, and then ' 1 3 Bi, . . TOP MAN ON THE POLE -- Husky Cherokee Indian artist Le- looska has his, job cut out for him as he carves a totem pole, The 50-foot cedar log he's working on Is 750 years old..Lelooska says Northwest Indians began totem making when white men first introduced metal tools. pil Ladies, do you have trouble threading your sewing needles? Do you dodge this way and that, with the thread going anywhere but through the eye of the needle? When you are hemming a seam and your needle acci- dentally becomes unthreaded, do you spend precious minutes try- ing, with increasing frustration, to thread it again? If your ans- wer to all thede questions is "yes" then I have good news for you. There is a new type of needle- threader on the market that real- ly works and it costs only twenty-five cents. I say "really works" because I have tried others that were almost as much . trouble to use as threading a needle. This one is a little plastic stand with an upright slotted post in which you place the needle. Then you press a lever, pull up the needle -- and, presto, it is threaded. No eye strain, no time wasted, no nerves on edge. Isn't that wonderful? I don't think any particular store has the agency for this handy little gadget as the first one I saw came from a little village hard- ware shop. They didn't have any more so I made inquiries from a down-town store and had two delivered the very next day- I have every intention of buying more and giving them away. By that means I am sure of having a few grateful friends. Of course even this small gad- get isn't fool-proof. I found it didn't work when I put the needle in point downwards; or pressed the needle too far into the socket: or when I was over- anxious to show how it worked. But in everything you have to allow for a margin of human error -- or should 1 say stupidi- ty? And now we come to good news for farm folk. It is pre- dicted that eggs are likely to be 80 cents a dozen by fall. Many farmers have already refused shipment of chicks because they can't afford to raise them with eggs so low in price. They are just losing money paying out more for feed than they get back for the ezgs they sell. So, Mrs. Housewife, if vou want eggs for your family, better prepare yourself for paying a more feasonable-price for them. Farmers haVe<ih make a living too, you know." , _ And this should interest. dairy farmers, It has been found that milk makes bettor™ce for skat- ing than water! What next? 1 had visions of an arena flooded with milk and the freezing unit ceasing to function. It might get alittle high -- 'perhaps even turn~ | to cottag: cheese: Anyway 1 don't imagine milk-ice is likely to improve the farmers' future to any great extent. And then there's that report on what people 160k for now in the houses they buy. Bigger beds rooms and bathrooms: bigger lots; better ventilation and lower bedroom windows. Picture win- dows no 'longer in great demand INGER FARM Gwendoline P.Clarke -- drapes cost too much to cover them. (1 agree.) Kitchens were not even mentioned. Well, it is my opinion the per- fect house will never be on the market. How can it be when people's needs are so contrary. Anyway you just can't get everything you want in one packet. The thing to do is buy the house that has the least num- ber of disadvantages. Even at that you have to live in a place six months to a year before you can make up your mind about what you like and don't. like. You may think a house with a one-floor plan is just exactly what you need, Live in it for awhile and you'll find it has its drawbacks. A young mother soon finds there are too many rooms toddlers can get into un- less doors are kept shut: In a one- and-a-half story house a gate can be placed at the foot of the stairs, thus confining toddlers to one floor. At Ginger Farm I used to keep our children within bounds by having a small hook -and eye up high on most of the doors. Afterwards they came in handy for the grandchildren. We brought the hooks along with us when we moved. This morning I used one to fasten the sliding cupboard doors in the den. Last Saturday we were looking after Ross while his parents went shopping. He found it was good hunting in the cupboard I just mentioned. It won't be next time. As for high bedroom windows, I wouldn't have them as a gift. Imagine not being able to look out of the window. Sick people get great pleasure out of watch- ing the birds, the wind in the trees, and passers-by. When we were house-hunting we turned down several nice houses because of high bedroom windows. We" also objected to small lots. So ' you see what I mean: There are more "ifs" and "buts" in buying a house -- or a farm -- than you realize. We decided that the most important thing was locality, And in that we guessed right each time. pif "Don't you think he's ignor! ant?" v "Ignorant Why, I've never met a man who knows less about more things." = Ea a i Uh i a i Is Handwriting A Health Guide ? Is good handwriting a sign of good health? Doctors and gra- phologists -- experts on hand- writing -- are beginning to be- lieve so, Some doctors can even diagnose illnesses through hand- writing. It's 'the irregularities in hand- writing that reveal most, so watch how you cross your "t" and how you form such letters as "dq," "pn and "h," say the experts. In writing most of the muscles of the body are brought into use, although most people don't realize it. Those of the neck, shoulders, left arm and hand keep on adapting themselves to the various changes of position made by the writer as he writes with his right hand. "It the writer is badly nour- ished, his blood becomes in poor condition and therefore his nerves and muscles are not kept in the pink of condition," de- clared one graphologist. "His handwriting will, in this case, lose the buoyancy which is found inthat o! a well-fed man." A London professor once said that penmanship was a health barometer, . "In my youth I was honoure by the friendship of a great Vic- torian woman whose handwrit- ing week by week. was a most sensitive barometer to her phy- sical and emotional ' condition," he revealed. A psychiatrist said recently that by studying a patient's writ- ing he could cut his work on the case by three months be- cause the writing disclosed clues to the patient's health, moods and basic attitude to life. Another student of how we write points out that the person who writes "with a large hand is often ambitious and generous but also has much pride and a fondness for generalizing when he converses." People who make very thick strokes are often very strong and courageous, but they tend to be gluttons, he adds. Handwriting is often inherited, according to other experts. R. H. Chandler devoted much time to the study and investigation of likenesses which exist in the writing ol! various members of the same family. So strong is this similarity in some cases that if it is often difficult for tife expert to dis- tinguish one member's hand from another's. Long, Lonely Courageous Trip Alone in his 32-ft. yawl Sheila II in the Mediterranean bound from England to New Zealand, Adrian Hayter noticed with alarm that the mast had become unstable, and that the deck was taking the strain of holding it upright in a gale. The solid for- ty-foot spar might tear the ship apart. Lashing the helm down he stripped off his oilskins, climbed on to the boom, gripped the mast with his legs and began to lever himself up. At his second attempt he mada the cross-trees and found that the slackness was caused by a missing two-inch wooden block - which had been fitted to take up the slack. It had been torn out. He fixed things as best he could, then took a hasty glance. below. "From that height," he says, "she looked tiny, almost hidden by sheets of spray; it was a scene of undaunted gallantry and brought a wild surge of exhilara- tion to my precarious perch. This exhilaration killed all fear." Changing jibs one night a lit- tle later, he snagged the halyards aloft. To .avoid elimbing the - mast: again in the darkness. he played a torch on them from the deck, trying to trace the of- fending rope. But it was a diffi- cult job, holding the torch with one hand, freeing the rope with the other, while keeping his bal- ance on the plunging deck. A huge liner, coming up from astern, passed very close. An officer on the bridge, seeing his plight, trained a powerful searchlight on Sheila, lighting up mast and ropes. He kept it there BUTT RFLY ~ With an eye to summer beach fun, this miss medels a hat inspired by a butterfly, in Florence, Italy, 2 * as id in the fourteenth and fifteenth ting or stroking a cat. In re- + until Hayter had cleared the: mess. ; "l am grateful to that officer," he says in "Sheila in the Wind," a first-rate account of his long, lone, courageous voyage. "He had some strange experi- ences ashore. At Bone, a taxi- driver, misunderstanding his French, took him to a café in a dark, sordid quarter. It was frequented by Arabs and scanti- ly clad girls. He ordered a drink and left quickly. As he walked away five young Arab louts came out of the sha- dows and blocked the narrow alley before and behind him, One came close and asked for a cigarette, A refusal, he knew, would spark off an attack. A razor slash across the arm could delay him for weeks. He passed cigarettes around and made a disparaging crack about the women in the caté which delighted them. They all went back inside for a drink, and later the Arabs escorted him - through the maze of alleys and tunnels to the town, got him a taxi, and paid for it. That "crack" had made all-the differ- ence between a. deserted corpse and an honoured guest, Dick Whittington And His Cat Thousands of children have thrilled to the story of Dick Whittington and his Cat, but some may wonder why the fa- mous man is alway pictured with such an.animal. This cat has caused much dis- cussion among historians. Some say it originated through the confusion of the French word achat being translated into Eng- lish as "a cat." Achat (purchase) centuries signified buying and selling at a profit. Then there is also the sug- gestion that the word had some- thing to do with "cat," a Nor- wegian type of ship used for carrying coal. Dick Whittington is supposed to have owned such a craft, plying between London and Newcastle. But here is more concrete evi- dence. In the Mercers' Hall, at one time, a portrait of Richard was on view with a black and white cat at his side. A later sixteenth-century picture shows him in full Mayoral regalia, pat- - sponse to public request, the cat was substituted for a skull, ori- ginally shown, so that the legend" --}t legend it is -- must go back a very long way. Another curious thing. In Whittington's will he requested that Newgate Prison should be rebuilt and one of several carved figures, representing Liberty, had a cat resting at its feet -- a definite reference to Sir Richard, 'who is said to have made his first. step to his" good fortune by a cat." Coloured heraldic cats also appeared on some plate, owned by the Mercers' Company, in 1572. x One of the strongest pieces ol evidence comes from the home of the Whittington family Ia Gloucestershire, Centuries lates, during alterations to this hous a stone was unearthed in a cel- lar and on this stone was carved a cat being carried in the arms of a boy. ; From dates mentioned it Is quite clear that the Lord May- or's own family credited the ex- istence of the cat. Dick Whittington founded the . Church of St. Michael Paternos- ter Royal, where he was buried in 1423 at the age of sixty- five, and in a glass case in this church is a mummified cat die- covered there some time age, only a few feet from Whitting- ton's grave. BLACK MAGIC A tourist went into a bar ia Central Africa. To his amaze- ment, he saw on a stool beside him a perfectly formed humam being in military uniform ~-- only six inches high. Incredulous, the tourist stared until the bar-- tender spoke up. "Don't you know the Major sir?" he asked, réaching across the bar, picking the little féllow up and placing him on the coun. -- ter. The tourist shook his head. "Speak up, Major", the bar- tender said. "Tell this gentleman about the time you called the witch-doctor a damn fool." Prize Pair by Canna Wheel Vivid as oil paintings! Be an artist with a needle, and "paint® this handsome pair. Easy 8-to-inch cross stitch! Choose brown, green, orangs tones to bring glowing colour ts a room. 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