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resonts it. She rateIy drivin.g ation se you th-er hiandi, she thoýse womenl faction in be- woul be eveni iing, aloile. ýI up ta it, )a3k ier coutinuOus [rxg you 50 is- i be glad tal le will 'tell the you write, lt has litie aï- yev one wouldi enmbering youri her, she could lernes inhl, -man -wýha huas ie (ouid. have a better ýgerlal farily? 2incar-ne left, be arranged. test, though; ,and end this BEREFT 'MOTHER (GRIEVES "Dear Aune Hirst: 1 arn a mao- ther wVose con was killed acci - deutaliy while serv7ing in Gel- rna ny. It~,happened s e ve r a imcnths ago, anid I still a~a believe it is true. "He was one ai two boys, and baith had ben sucin a comi art ta me. The othleraone, praise the Lord, is safely home. "I have tried ta show, somne interest in people and lu ideas, but thiere is sf111 that dread- fui ernptiness ta live with. I caunot iind any routine that heips. Caun yau? LONESOME" * Why don't you visit the 1nearesf lRed Crossý center and *sece where they ýan use you? *Or a veterans'. bosita'l" *Sick boys needciomypaniaon- ship, and there are many ways *o ta ive it. Tail< with your *minister, too; perhaps b oy s *frni n or onn ,4,nrcre s I'rurn f ering up .s son will co Sorne people are haunted by persistent dreams ail thnaoughi theirlilves. These dreams are -ýarnetines pleasant, sormetimes extreey ecrie. One dîsfinguished mail troub- led by a persistent' dream is Pro- fesscor FranIk Debenharn who, as - 9e01agist, accomipanied Captain Scot anhis Iast fatal expedifion' Va ~the Sô-,th Paite, Consitently, throughout the intervening forty-six ycars, the Professar hac continued o en- counter Scott and hiscocmpan- ions lu hic dreams,\ not as vic- tiras of -the rclentie2sscicefields, but as siilvn characters. IV speers, frorn his vivid recoilec- tionsoai thesýe drcam iencounrters, thaf ho burnps into Dr. Wîlceïmî andi Captain CaV,ýes luiccdnl Circus! The encounter, though saafiten) experieuccd, la încvitably an ecrie anc. For thie Proiessor aI- wayýs cccrs ta b(e sayiug, "I thoughtz you were dcad," as he faces hic aId campanions again Eut they deny they are dead. 'Perhaps one reasan for thece extraordinary dreamos lies in the belief that the Prof essor and everyone cisc taking part ln the Sxpedition thoughý1t that Scaftt was invincible; nof->hing seered strang enaugh ta dauint or detroy such a mnan. Q. Issued Invitations reeently ta an informai affair inu my horne, and now, because of iliness lu neor bni >u wlilget at a IRltr Haw different fields and gar- denc look now frorn what fhey did a wcek ago -- ail because we had a gooçi coaking ramn and, corne real warmn weather. Be,- member thase days -- 90 lu the chade and picnfy aif humoidity with if. Just what growing hings needcd. But not what 1I needed. Anyone -who wants if can have my chai-e of hot weather. Part- ner was away hayinu al the week and dldu'V feel the heat as long as he was ou" lu the open. Ho has cut over fifty acres ai hay and was reaily happy doing if. Ail the joy aif farm-iugý but littie afilis responsibilify. Of zaurce there were a i cw aching musýles but a gaod uighit'c i-ot iound hlm ready for work next day. Saturdays he tays home fa get hic own wark douie. Ant acre ai Iawni can't be licit o look ai- eri tseli Uni ortunatcly lie has a lazy wife - insofar as iawnr mnowiug ls canccruied. 1 used Va pusia the oid hand hower around but these power mnowers scare nie ta death. One type i-uns away with you, the ther type means work. Quess l'Il stay with my knittîng, which), at the marnent, happens ta he a cardigan Fwcat- er for- Partner, I started it just over fwo wéeks aga and I hope ta finish il, tonighit. 1 am glad I got down Vto kut- tint gaibecause aiften, at the end. ai the surnmer, I f ccl 1 have waste-d sa mucli spare irne, Dur- îng the summner, ino matter how hiot the wahr you naturaTly get doue What you have ta do but, tuiess you have cau objec- tive, or camre kiud i o pick-up work, spare tJime is liable fa geV xasttd. Who wac3 it said-"Show me whaýt a persan does with hic spare time and !'Il teUI youi what kind o! a persan Ïhe is.- ' Might lie as wlta remrembcr if - especially with Chnistmnas less than six m-ontias away. Perbaps if we imake up aur- mids fa it wec coiIlput cur Prescrnt spare time Va good advantage and thus heip ta lesýsen that ma' rush we ail sceem ta get into during the mo(-nth ai Decemnber. 1Here's hop- ing I can practîce what I prep-h! There was nuite a lot ai ex- citement araaind here a fcw nights ïi1o, We were listiiug ta the late news -when over and above th.- sound ai the TV camne a loud explosion. Then fine sirens starfed scrcamiug and cars rush- cd along the roaad ta the scne ai the tire. Prom a ur parch wc c.ould sec flanries leaping- high imta the air in th-e Port Credif ane-a. Laer we heard the expflo- sion wvas at one ai the ail refin- cries. We expced there would be o1t'ler explosions but forfun- ately the fire was prevcnted frorn spr-eaçling. Next mornilig we had a man here fixiing a screen door. 111 suppose yousa and hieard the fire last night'?" 1reaed "No," he ase " didn't know a thing about lLtI1 got ta wark this marning." 1 lookýed at hlm incredulous1y --But didn't you say you lived lu Part Credif?" "'les, but it fakes more than a fire ta wake me once I get ta sleep."' Ye gods, imagine. being able ta ceep like that! Weii, I mustn't loi-geV onc very nice fhing that happened lasf wcek. Severai reader-3 af this caluirn came Vo cal, ý. ,and how pleased I was ta scccthem. They werc str-angers to ime but appar-. ently ý,through fiais columu fhey feit I1'was nat a stranger ta thcm. That is whiat I like ta hear. 1 like ta ký.now vthaRt people i-calice1 that in mnany ways we share the same problcrns. Wc ail experi- i ence Lupc and downs, core ne uone way, some in another. M'4ost of us know the jay ai living and being loved, We raice aur fami- lies and thcy in turn have fan)- ilies af their ow,,n. Yet, hiowever muçia families increase, direccly or Jndirectly, fiacre is always enaughlo lve for them ail. Most aof us, fo, experience sorrow by the lasaf one or ma;e a i those who have shared aur lives. LaVe or soon if is as inievitabie as the sparks fiy up- ward. T'ncre le shock, and then adjustmcent as vie rernember ha-w aur lives have been cnriched by knawing and ioving, if only for a bni pe riod in time, thoce whomn we haýve losV. If if can be said that those we have laved arc ever iocst. 1I hardiy fbink it. We have sat many mnemories ta carry along with us, a'nd, as the vears go by, it is miuraly onlyv jt'ehn e mories tafsur- vive.Q Sa, whcn Iac1 ioaiymeet readers of this clmtaer the th1g find we share in canmmcn. Thase, and same tif the thingsç that belang ta thieIgte sidç ai[lii e. The funny things that a)Iten hanp-eu on a f arm;ý the places andc peaple we have bath kýnawýn; theý cats, dagý,s and bses we have loved and last- and those that stili smrVive. Like Ditta. She came and made her- self knwn a ur vi-itors but thev, didn't need to be introduý1ed they knew 'ail àboit lhe 1,and the- uwi1d drive 1 had whenI taok hier ta the "vet." It is reaii1y awfuily eas.y ta get acqutainted vwith peopie - that is if bath parties aie reacly ta go Ithe second tTle. MaIUy Vin- terests create a comman bond. Ail we need.is synpaLhy, tunder- standing and an awareýnesaf ail that goes on, arund us. "Thie Calon-el*s lanad Judy O'Gradry are sisters uniler their skin." Laughter To Order Wha ia-ughs 'mo,eQý men or warnen? The men ' in They make and listen ta mare jokes than women. Womneu usuaiiy prefer ta snile. Sorne rarely in- dulge in h-earty laughter because they say it encourages wvriinkles. And wýrinkiesý, as every womran knýow\ýs, are not a laughiing mat- ter. Sorne folk can't laughf. 'Years aga there was greaýt rivalry be- tween a, group of cornedians ap- pearing at a famaous theatre au, Broadwa-y, New York. The pro- prietar icashed lu an their papu- larity by exhibiting onth stage at every performance an attrac- tive wornan nickuansed "Sober Sue," offering $1008 tai anyone Who could make her liaugh just Once. Each comedian accepted the challenge, confident that hýis wisecracks would mnake her shake with Iaughter, But "Sober Sue" neyver eveu ild She re- mnained as solernn as an owl,ý7, for fourteen weeks. Only after she had lef t, hav- i ng, appeara bef are record ho uses, was the truth reveaied- "Sober Suejp" was physicaily in- capable ai laugchter. FHer facial muscles had been paraiysed for twenty years. Eight y-ears aga, an eiderly mnan was arresten for laugh-ug fo laudiy in a Las Angeles cafe, where hie was said ta have dis- turbed the peacm Hic laugh was described ln evidenice as being- "sornewhere between a howl like thait af a hyena and the braying of a jack- ass," bujt a judIge finally ruled that laughter was net .a public offeuce and dismnissed the case. One of the righfiest laughs an record was heard in Britain dur- iug the Haudel FestivalIofI 189 "My darling'a not worried, Mother. He Ji put ail hls - mnouey ln xmy name."l when, in 1honocur of Queen Vic- toria, w1hu was peiýcent, the audi- ence jained with the chorus in singing the National Anthemi. The conduct 'or wanted ta in- trod'Cuce this byT a roll on the big drum and, failing f0 make the drummecr 1hear ~h h said, tried to(Vonanvyth,- message by ixitating the rail with his voice, ati sh amie ti*me beating ani imiaginary drirn with his batCrn. "Tjhis sa amused tlhe chorus and orchestra," said a man whlo was present, "that, they ail roar- ed wjlh latighter. Andi the siglht and saund of 5,000 people lpugh- ing so ticklied the 27,000 iri the audience that they also began laughing. "I had neyer heard 32,000 pea- pie iaugh simjultanteously before. It was a kind of ehaotic shrië, flot humnan in 'the least, but wrhhearing for once," (.If, a mian is sitting down in soute publicý place and a strange woman stops and addresses a question to hlm, is it necessary for hilm to rise? .A. If he w,,Ishes ta show, any degree of goad manners, he willl rise. Week's Sew4h,-tlrifty PRINTED PATTERN' (I 4-020 SIZES 14-43 Sew twa pretty versions ai this graceful dress. Choose a Iow.-neckIiue for surnmer; thq hïgh neek with sleeves for yeai 'roun-d. Scwing is so very easy with aur Printed Patterru, Priuted Pattern 4620. Misses Sizes 14, 16, 118, 20; 40, 42, 44, 46, 43. Size 16 requires .35/e yards 3g-iuch fabnic. Piuted diirections an each cat- jeru pa.rt. Eacier, acqurate. Scnd FIFTY CENTS (500) (staxnipc cannat be accepf cd; use postal note for safety> for timi pattern. Please print piainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE NLJMBER. Scud order fa ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighfeenth Street New Toranto, Ont. SMALL FRY SENTINELS-Trying ta malch their littie strides ta the precise p.-cirig ai aCiy four unidantifi-ed chiltren nairch before the Tomb of the Iinknown Soldiers in 6,rlington Ntoa Cemeterff The tata ran off when the lensman tried ta gel their nomes. cd her. tments I can- AI.THEA WINS SECOND STRAIGKT - Aliheu Gibson of New York's Hatrlem, holds the Wimbledon trophy she,.W'n by defect- ing Britaîn's Angela Mortimer, 8-.6, 6-2. Miss Gibson thuâ rê- pecited her victory in the, famnous British tournàment Icist yecir. ~1NGn~AR ïn to