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NNE I-4tRSTj ?l. . . . . . . . . . 4'Dear Anme Hirst: Before we is sick?. Do you offer to lend married ine years ago rny hus- * the last 'book you enj'oyeýd? Do band and 1 were both popular. yon coriceal your own prob- We were barri and ra.ised la t-his lemns and aliments and listen *ity, but for somne reason 1 cari- sympathetically to those 0f riot fathCom,, few 0'i'our old * others? Per-chaps you are toa triends have kept up with us, 1 criticat, demnand týoo much of get s o lonesome I could scream! people; imany of us do, and mot W e are adequate hasts, but -when *itninly Or maybe yau I've had dinner gt-ýests -it neariy* are tou introspective; that can always ends there. *be borig, IlWe attend church, read good * Hasn't your husband business books, hiavec son of eight, a dog associates he5d lik11çe to birîng and a cat and a hobby'v.Whe.n we home to dtinner? If you rplay do go auit, it îs always together. the hostess role warmily, they Wffe don't go ta bars (4)r what- * should be anxious ta bing- ever they cali them n',ow) but if their wvives ta cail. the occasion calîs for a drink at *it is neyer ta late ta start homne were always ocabe. * aking furiends. Stir yourself "I'm, not the kind ta beg for * out of this legarthy, look about iriendship: I like ta please, but * you, and go on fromr there. if l'a not a yes-girl. Finm neyer the you are as lonely as you say, lufe of a party, neither arn 1 the * this is the first stop la the path dullest one, 1 don't call people fo fifnd thein. 'dearîe' an first acquaintance,* * * jior do 1 try to imnpress themn. I JIIJXED have neyer been too incependent "Dear Anne Hirst: 1 arn a very ta make the sacrifices which unhappjy girl, 119, and stîli friendships require. crazil-y in 1 love with a young mnan "Fancy cooking, kmtting, or l dated for tnearly a year. Hie paimting ail have their limnita- made mie love hirm, then left m1e tions. 1 ani really most unhappyl without excuse or reason. Why?, 1'm afraid l'Il be. getting eccen- I despise 4pyseif for stili caring; bric, rattling around ia this. and I1 don't know why 1 do. empty house. Where 'and how "I have trîed ta go out with cari 1 nalfe new. friends? 1 have othýer friands (and I1 have plenty) been. one. DISCÔNTEN1TED but ail the time I arn just wish- *If for some reason you have ing 1 were with himn instead. !' et your pre-marriage friends Somnetixties I thiink l'Il iust, rua Sdrife away, start ail over off! 1 guess mny family consider e again, There must be a dczen mne a problemn child and maybe *or su whom yau çan look- up, I an. Butwhaît çan 1 do? *and through them y ou will UNUAI>PY" *meet others who wvill appre- * nstead of picturiag yourseif * date your talents and per- * the victim of an aggressive *sonaiity. Perhaps you have 1 maie , who won yau only ta *have been ton buried under leave you, try ta, reaflze that *yout' family anid househoi4 no man «makes" a girl fail ;n *duties to go out of your way *lave. She is attractive, he is 'l to find themn?* apparently impressed, She * Do you and your husband * buildallai er hiope-s on hixw - *taçe -an intereat in your *only t find onc day he lsii't *Chureh activities? There are * there. sa many diversified ores * It daesr't matter nowv why *awaiting there, and your pStr hehagdismdPrhp can suggest where you can Db *ne fou-nd you too easilly wion *mast useful. Do you.- beloag and tao possessive; perhapsq ! t ~y ohe grup? A1 *amother pretty face ternptedi *aroulid you are opportunities hiam more. Obviously, thoughI, *for service which should bring hie is not worth al the affec- *new%ý friends amoig' congenial tion youi waste an his memaory. *peûple, *Sa why not b. senisible? * Are you theê l f !w0o C harge thlr off ta experience, omani who exchanges recipel and eut !tne be less hasty ta *with neighbors? EÏo'tliey feel give your heart away. *free ta borrow a cup of sulgar,* The best course -for a jilted O r ealï yout in when their child girl is ta create lmrnedîately _______________________ *an active2 social life>. I'eep Brllat rdsyourself busy With dates BrifiantSir* among the boys you used ta * ikeý cultivate other interests *that require -concentration *anid enthusiasni, àad there wàIl *be îess timne ta dreani of yes- *Have faith la yourself and ryour future, aind yop will cone k *out ILrighlt. îý-1 No nice womnas. need be with- out friends. Al aýrowid you are lonely People who would Tes- pond ta your interest. Make the first Start, an~d yoU will find others welcoMing the gesture. If you need practical suggestions, write to pAnne Hrst at B~ox 1, 12,3 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Look lasely -- ail are 'el birîds! Lt ihem alighit on towvels. eîoths, scarves. pillaws. Blue jay, wren, tanagor, king- lot -- follow eharts for Nature's oiwn vivid colons. pattern 812: transfer four motifs abuot 7 x 2M/?, four motifs about 2 x4¼ Sead THIRTY-FWVE CENTS (stamps camnot be accepted; use postai mte for safety) for thisý pattoern ta LAURA WHÊELER, Box 1, 1 23 Eighteeatb St., N!ew Torota, Ont. Priat piaimly PAT- TERN NTJMBER, your NAME and ADDRE8S. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Whieeîer Neediecraft Book. it has îovely djesigas ta order, embrai- dery, crochet, k-nittimg, wveavlig, ~v qitrg, toys. 1In the book, a spe- dea surporIse ta make_ a littie girl hiappy - a ct-out 'dolh' clothlEs to cnIor. Serid 2ý cents for thîs OUT FOR A CRAWL -- "Hum phery" is ai familiar, if un- nerving, ight 1.a residenîs Of Winfoan, Englaad. HIUs owner, Mrs, Isob&l Col., states that the. 1%wo-ye-ar-old 'gator molces a fine pet. Humphrey .nourishesý his fiur-foot length on twco mcais of meat .eh week. PLAIN, OLD ROYALTY Queen Elizabeth Hl eft, Princess Margar&t, right ' cnd Princess Anne, centre, are.shown strictly "Off parade" as they d't*énded! a horse shovw at Windsor, Eng- land. Gawkers, backgrou.nd, are unicentified. eGaxdôi.trýe P. Ctôrke Las', week we hitd a bitter- sweet experierice. We were back ta Ginger Farm -- ta salvage a portable chick.eriper we had Ieft there untîl such time as wE, waated ta reinove ît. It wasn't for a chicken pea we warited if niow but for' the goad lumnber that ,was la. if. Sa Partner and Bob went ta work ta dismntle it board by board. Tfiie job isn't finished yet because it rairied and thon the faim trirnod ta snow. Imagine that--saow am the 17th of May, 1 was thero the llrst day and I could hardly believe the place had boom aur farrn aftd borne for thirty-four yoars. If was 'sa chariged. Treos, shrubs and evergreons had gone corn- pieteiy wild. And thle spring fo rigbuibs seemned as if they wore Just about done. Only a few were bioomning' here and there instead of the masses of daffodils and narcissi we used ta have. And the house . t.lbdoesn't seem passible that la two short yoars a house couid chang-e so comiple2tely. There were plenity of. broken windows, even the starn windows u p stai; s. Virg,iiaa creeper that w wre careful ta keep under contraI hiad spread ta the roof-tops. Sa much degener- atian in sucb a short time The houso had been rented for near- Iy two years but the tenanits had givon it'littlo care. Is there any- fbing more heartbreakIng, 1 won- don, thagn ta sec a place you have loved and cared for falling ixto ,a state of decay? And of course there 15 coni- struictian going onritoao, taking aven most of the north1-woý-st side o! the -farn. Bldzrgradocîrs, pwer shavels amd lheavy trucKs are at work on the cioverleaf. Haîf of the front llane hasdia pea,,red,, coveredl by a huge bn1k o!fCil,and a new lae hs bceen eut thnrou8h -One of thie frnt fi (,1dJs Seeing thie road wvork didin't bother us too miuch. Tlha t, after ail, is pnogress,ncesr ta the age in whiCh wo ive -W( kýn oWx that Wheii the job is fl- ished lb will Iook trin-l, natand efficient. Everyv daly wil hg one Step mnearer that gual. On1 the other hamd ceveýry vday will tin- trease the uncared for lot' of tbe bouse and its immiiiediaite sur- roundlings.,TfThat is what really hunts - and it mnust be even warse for desce-ndants o! bbcie MqacNab family who stili live ini the district anid whose anicestonsz homesteaded the property back ai 1822, thoir first dwelling be- ing, o! course, ac log cabin. -The presont fen-room-ed house was bultitnl 1854, o! hand-pressud brick with a field stone founîda- flan, la It were bornanmd rnispd seveft children .- five gilsnd tio boy s. One2 girl diecd yourig, the others married anid moved ta homes o! their awm. EventuallY the'father died but as neither of the boys wanted ta farn, the homnestead was sold and was in unloved harids for nearly four, Sears, The.n we cam~e alig, iilçe& 'thc place anid bought it -- with the help of Partner's brother. Partnp toak pride in bhis work, end g rid-ually the place, under praper cultivation, resuaied an1 appearanice of law amd 'order. The 01,d farai helped us ta weather thle stormi duri.ig the depressian o! the Thirties. There was rio noney for hired help but we ail pitclted in and dîÏd what we could ta assist Partner. The ebhlidrea ai-d I helped ta.c load and unload hay and grain ror the field ta the barn. Cows, pigsand cdilkens did thoir- part ta pravide us witb a living. WAhen we f ook over pigs1 bad played havoc with the Iawms and gardons but as bifie permnit- ted I set out reos, shnubs 'aad fio-wer borders. The 'years 'passed and aur hard wark paid off. We were abie tao put la a furnace, thon tho hydro, finally a -bath- roiand Pressure sy-sbem. We had city canvemiences conibined with country iving at its best. But thoen came, the time when aur famiily'ý, just like the MacNabs. did not vant ta stay on the fanai. Dec womt labo munitions, B3ob into the arnmy. AMer the war Dee maied dBob tayed home~ for a few years when Partner ,was sickz. Thon came the tirneè- wheni we wore approached by the DepartIment o! ighways ta) sel] tho farm ýfor toad construc- tion. Patner was past working. hard. There didin't sceni m-uci- poýint in evea keepimg an the hause just for ourselves. So we sold ouf, iock, -Iock and barre! at a good price. Now- we are settled in a dlifferent territory, in) a modlem bousýe, com!iortable and marc or leýss content-oxcept thal when wo robura ta the farm a feeling o! nostalgia cornes over us ta think o! how different it wouid have boom had we stàyed thiere. Rawever, the cloverIeaf wil-i corne very close to the bouse aId we rnight not hqve liked ho- ing 50o near ta a busy hligh)way- that is, the 401. Be that as 'il mnay, no one cari have their cake and eab if boa. We sold the place and ftbat's that. -But 1 guess other fanr folk vho have had a-«mi Iar experience wil understand aur feelings-, however ilogical thiey may secem ta others. Amy- aywe hiave done a lob bore 'ta imeIrave the place and no doubti as the -yearis ,go by wo sh.al o- joy nb ore Pmd Imore. ~SUE 241959 Itcbing Powder To Win A Wcir Hle'd hadi a brainwavo -. andi ho thoughb lb wouid salve the probleni of rusb-houu' rail traFÀ- file. w,ýays, woufld permnit two trai.ns ta use the samie lino simultan- eauisly! What wvas supposod !a happen wýýas that one train would climb 'r)On top of tho one in front laying its owr, tracks as it went alorig and descondirig ovor the eng-ime on to the lino again. But dIespite its craziness thîs schemne, along with many othcar strange- inventions, found iUs way mbi the vast files of the Brïtislh Patents Office, ila Lon- don's Chancery Lame. *The cartoons you ,sce about the Putents Office have somIe- times beoni remarkably triue t0 11f e. Men wvith long beards haveý waited withl weirdly shaper pr- cols clutchod la their arms. Sometimnes they are there evc'i to-,d.ay. Wiid-eyed inventars d'> in reality dash inta Rooni 21- ,where 'al patent in,--ri..ar dealt with -- and tell tail taies of tiriy gadgets worthillon cyl pounds, B3uithtey don't do it as o! ten now as la the past. la this tect- nilcal age. an invention has ta be sensible, souand and even pro- visianally filed. And thýe fact that 't costs 'at least $25 ta go through ail the fiimg processes may deter saine crackbrains! Another solution ta the prab- lemn of gettimg f rom Ome Place ta amnother speedily was pater"'t- ed by a wamnan inventar ln 1891. and irnvaived a f artastic idea. A vehicle was ta be drawn- along the railway tracks by a. buge balloon shaped like a bird. Kite salis wouid deai with econ- trary winds, and "1suitable birds" could, if required, be trairied ta help the balloon an its way. Every war bas brought a! spate, of strange inventions - and each time every one, (oe them hashall ta be corscieri- tlously lookcd over by War 'Of- fice experts. it is pleasant ta. picture th-e reactioris of a harassed an d over-warkeid Major-General at a serious suggestion that explo)- sive sihela were troo rnessy, and a f!ar botter inetha'd wouid be ta f111 theý shell-cases witb liýve poisonous sriakes which woud soon put the- enemy ta flight. Or that snipers could be dis- ladigod from irivinerabie po- sitions by sheiUnig them with itchimg pawder and "sticky Substances"! Another invoator approached the Navy with a, simple and foolpr -roof m.etJhod of spattirug eaepu.y subm-,arimes. Brit'sh suDsiý WaulId sheli the sea with gr-ain1, or. chopped--Up herrimg, or what- ever food it was found that gulis liked trie best. la btue the birds would Cami-e to associate suobs wt food, and woukl.d follow, the ene-my's ves- sels s0 that al we h1ad ta do was ta watch for flocks o! guI7 la suspiclous places! Thore ,Vas ai,,s(6 a man v7oa, having tried without success ta mrake a black sear-ch!ight, beam ta pDut out the mi-oon and fu mnooxlighýt bomber raids, on- self ishly passed on, his idea ta the War Office in the hope that they wouldl have. bettLer luack. FOSSILS IN ARGENTINA Onleof the world's greatest fossil beds bas been foumd in a remnote, uninhaqbited valiey ini Narthwestern Argentina between the Provinces of Sari Juan and La Rioja. The fossils, almoat perfectiy preserved, rneup ta the size of an ox. The two duellists had agreed ta meý,tatdan zla case i'm a littile,"s theý challengcer, a smnall, mneek.- loakinig mi, 'ta his hefty appa- rient, "don't wait - go alhead aridsho. For Half-Sizers PRllNTED PATTERN Start the day inrinlm ashioa ini this crisp and fresh casual styled ta slimr the shorter, f uler haif-sizer. Triai bodice with poe- ket ~inerest, easy skirt. Printed Patterni 4816: HaV Sizes 14½V, î6½ý, 181/z, 201/, 22y2, *24¼4. Size i6M½ tàkes 41/ yarrs 3-chfabric. -Prlnted directions an each pat- te-ra part. Easier, accurate. .Semd FORTY CENTS, (409D (stamps cammiot be accepted; use poystajilmte fLor safety) for thit pattera. Please priat plainly the SIZE, your NAME, ADDRESS, and STYLE NIJMBER. Seaid order ta ANNE, ADAMS. Box 1, 123 Eightoeemtl St. New Toronto, Ont. JAN. FES MR APR. MAY LUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC 'I WON'1 BE IN TODAY' - Main reasons that persans stayed awçiy f,.rm wrkast ye'j, are shawni in Newschart Vacýations accotrited for greatest time out, with a peak of neAyl six mniiion persans in' July Iliness was second w~ith a peak oaf 1 202,0('0 jr February. BAd weathei also kept c are oîd the job that mo ith than during 3ny othet -- 708,000 lndjstria'l dis- putes idlled 206,000 durn,-g the high monlh Df Octobe when many laoi contracts were up fa reiiewacl. B-ised on J S D*- r)artmert of Commerce fitý ýs