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Turited Bigam.ýt To Save Nurse Thbe attractive yol.ng Germnan nlurse looked with loving eyes aýt ,he wounded soldier. She had nurseci him a evotle.dly, but nowv rll was chaos. The Red Armiy had stormed into l1ier native city of Mecklenbut'g. t was a time of pillage, pluid- anid agoniz- ing rumours. Soon, as many feared, curt orders camne fromr the Russian commander, requiring il ingle womien betwý,een twe-nty-one and thirty to report bth eir locl labour offices, bringinig only personal belongings i n readiness fo)r their deportation to Siberia. It would be better to be killed the nurses whispered amiong, themseles But thore -was a ý way 0ut, at least for one l-ucky girl. A hospita] official told AugUst Sc-hroodoPr, the wounded S oldier: "You cal-,savý,e thait nurse if you rnarryhe' Auus urrowed hiîs browsvý for he hýd a wifo and children, in~ Upper Silosia. But be quickly subduedi his conscience, roflect- ing ilhat they would probaUly have bDeen killed as the Soviet panzers crashed trîum-phantiy into Germanýny. So, rlxdand smiling, hoe took the girl into) his armls. Af- ter al ijl t!or hor, devotion and caro, lhe told himself, hoe would rxot bco alivo. The pair quicklzy found a pr-iest who married them,- Thus, bgaxiýy spared the nur-seý the terrible fako that bofeil bo inany of ber ,collenguos. August movod Ibis new "ie westwards t(, tho safet'y side of the Iron CuArtain. For a time the- plair wer e yer y happy. Thoni August discovored that bis wif e and family wvere stiU- alivo. Hc sent them mnoney and food par- cels, but net oven a regulaýr supply 0of ifts eased i s troubý,I- ed conscience. At last hie sur- xenderod to the police and con- fessed to bhis "çrimne." T'he sequel came recentlyv, when he w,,as 'brouigbt for trial as a bigamî ist before a Cologn,-e court. The Ju-dg-e heard his case eYmPathetiCal'lyý remarking that' Slim anrd trim under your coat now-smnart onough te take youi 1:ight through spring. Curveid collar, wise seaing On boice help to uarrow youir xwaistlîine. Prinited Patternl 4956: Ral Sizes 12½, 143k,13k,18&½, 0, ~2%, 243k. -,Size L13k requires 2%3' -yards 5-irieb fabric, Printed directionis on each paýt- tera part. Easier, accurate. Sond FIFTY CENTS (500) i.stamps canniot be accepted, use, pos 1tal note for safoty) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, $NAME, ADRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 12". Eighteenth St., New Tor-onto, Ot.ý ÏSSUE <- it reveaied a '«refreshingo touch of romance and pathos." The court, comipelled to take a srosview of biJ' gam, senitenc- dAgutto egtmnrs m prisoniMent, but tris was sus- pended and h.e was relleased imi- mfediately on probation. Now lus advisers believe that bis wife wiil divorce hlmn. He ,,il, then be able to pt bis mrarriagce toý the nurse on a pro- por legal] footing. Conscience has a very strange power. Lapaother recent case,' a priest at Casale, a town inNot Italy, we nt tIo a wvorker anJ handed hlm a s il1vEr watch. "Wby, thait's mi-ine!"' said the wiorker, examnining tlie watcb carofully. "It belonged to me1c vwlen 1 was a boy. You don't moanl to Say youi'vo suddonly found it, Father, and by some trîraclo identified- it as beinig mline? " Trio priest sbiook bis head., "No mny son," 'he said, "tho mian who stolo it from ýyou ighlteeii yoars ago asked me to returhi- it to you. Apparontly, trie thiof could not slceei properly. Gradually,' over the years, bis dreamns came to) ho haunted by Watches. Hol awoke in a -cold sweat, a tickýitrg sound throbbing in biis brain. "So, r-eien a d e confessio-, brougrt thie watcb wilih bu, and hoped that by restorýing it wt my bclp, hoe would once again slceop quietly and at peace." To go oni "living a lie" proves la trie endl, too m-ucri forrmanly people. It proved too mucri for a Young natymnwol April, 1948, after servîingfoa yTear in Palostin-e, deserted frora_ afamrous regimlent. Later, hoý joined the Jewishi Army. Thon, ih, 1950, lho married an Israeli girl and worked on a_ collective ïarmn. Twelv-e montris lator, rie inherited by biis mar- niage a farm of bis own. Ho-l and bis pretty y7ounjg wifo, working, lo)ng hours, and fin all wýeathor, mnade ,it pay, too. But dleeply embedded in bis mmnd was the thougrit that lie bjad lt owin is coitryl. Finally bhis conscience troubi- ed bim so nmucrithat ho' could ignore it no longer, so, 'uch aganthe dve of bis new Jowish friends, ho brougbht bis yoiung w,,ife -with lhum to Engýland and surrondorod, Court -Mxartiailed, lho was se!iî- tenced to a year's detontion. Somiietimoýis a man's conscience speaks through a girl. A 21_ yeair-old Glasgow boy deserted from the Black Watcb. Thoughi hoe kept bis eliiethor'- sisted the idiea of surrondoring te treie olice, determined to koýqp bis new-found freedom. Ho now lhad a civiliap j ob1 bringing iin £8 a weeký, and wui bi father and mnother both soni- ously jiii, ho was able to send tbom £3 a week insteaid of trie 7s. he'd beeni able to spare themk froru bis nationail ser-vice pay-, But he'd won trie love of anl honest girl. She knew thýat, deep inside . hlmi, lie wsa vcy troubled rmani. Why don')iit ypu ma-ke a dleani breast of it?" saic wvards.- But. ho stili sbook Ibis head dourly. Without saying another wor(j to anyone, shie wont to th(-, p-ý lice and got bin arrested. He was cutatald and given, nine moni.itlis' detention. To-day bowever, ho- is very glad that bi girl 'had trie courage to act on lier own, and romove a great wýýeight from bhis immd. Amnong trie spate froorc -ow troubling trie police, mnean thefts occur almost daily. Oid people aa'd oven dîsabled ox- servicemen, are robbed of tlhw4r life savings. But sof1mte the thief is troubled by con-scie-nce an11- myakes amenlds, returninig aht of savingps certifîcates or a cash.1 ANYBODY GOY A YACHT? - Fredai Jones k cll set ta go yaicht- ing in Florida waters. Just on~e smali detail ks missing. ÀÇI P. We are buyving e.ggs now in- stead of' selling them aiýs 1w1e werc a fow years ago. Ev en se 1 wouldl mucb rathor oggs were sixty cents a dozen than) forty, wh'licb is what we are paying àt trie presont time.- At sixty cenits a farmer b-as a certain miargin of profit but at forty hoe bas none, E v o at sixty cents it should ho romnemheredý the onlyv tîmo a fariner gots top netail price for bhis eggs is wben hoe is seli1iia tf0privae customiers, goiag- fromni door f0 door with bis produce But for every far- mer who bas bis owni route there are scores whose odlAy markeý,t is to wjmlesale shippers. Colluc- tors pi ck uip the eggsunadd rturninig trie folloig week withi a choque and a gradin, slip showintie ,eggs have been can- c'led and grcadecd accord 'ing-te quality and size. Trio charg'e for this is four to five cents a1 dozen, irrespectivo of trie wb-olesalde and rotai] selling pnice. Natunally if, trie prico is low - say twenty- five cents to trie farmier - the charge ci fivo cenits aÀ dozen1 for grading Jis mrore noticeable ha if tr-ie Psi:ce is fifty c-ents. And trie fai-mer h entirely at trlie myercy of traiogiador. If ho is honost, well and good. If rie is not, the farmier bas no prýoîof that b--is eggs should have bcen given a higrier gra-de and consoquently a btter pnico. Evear Gord on Sini- clair is concerned over tIoepro. sent low price of eggs ta trie fan- mer aind quoted one 'farmer's wife wbo shipd a large quani- tity cf e g, g s and received anl averag-e of' 13:cnt a dozefi. Sincl1air mentioned trio cLost of feedin, risngand carin-gfor poufltny - and -ther îfarm ,stock -but rý ie di't mention, wbhat a lot of otheri people also forgot, that is, tie cost of veteriaary- services. Trie tril i cost cf dr"ugs bits therio faihe not oaly for nmembers o0f bis family if they are -sîck but aise for trio nmi.Trie last year triat ve were farning ,,we %woro down te five or six bead of cattle ini- cluding tLwo mîlk cows. One (A our grade cows bad trouýble calv- icig- and oun subsequLent vetorî-i1'i ary bil was $641, or abouit half trie value cltrie cow. But you know how tif 1, if an animal gefs sick, wbether sbe's a grade or registered beast, doesn't m-ake' any differenice., A farmer can't1 bear ta see an animial suIfer and rie certainly can't afflord te lose bier. Se hoý is frapped, bothi from aà uaitra and a fln- anicial point cf view. Traditionaiýly, t tri &frmner la supposed to be a bo1D rrUmnbier, and believe mie, a.ttrie present timo, rie bas somnetbmg ,to grumn- bic about. So, triose who have te buy faim produce, shouldn't bo ftoc happy wrien trio price et eggs draps fan below noirmai. A reduced farmin i-come naturally resuits in less purchasing 'power. You can't sp,,end what you baven'f got - eveni on treionl- stalment, plan tirieday of reck- orlang fînally Cornes. Or else... Well, in Our 'family trie first miontri of trie 'year brougrif a casualty. Eddie was piaying around a pile of cernent blocks in tirie yard next,,,to bis homne whien one of them fl] on top of bis foot, fracturing tbree tee-S. A cast wil ho necessary but must wait uiiiil trie swoiling bhas genie clown for trie doctor te set trie tocs. Poor littie crap, rie ries been soe geod, botri afhomne and at tieL hospîtal omnergency ward. In, facf, at trie momentl, I tbink ho is ratber onjoying ail trie attenition ho is3 gotting. Howý- evor, two of trie others are mfaký- ing,- a diaim te famne teo, David by cufting hris firsf permanent teotri and Cedric bis baby teetri. Yesterday tbey were al bore - ail five grandsons and thein par- ents. One family stayed for sup- per, trie others weat home. How colten if happons friat trie grand- parent.'s homne is trio halfway rieuse for ether mrembers cf trie faiiy. We ~are glad te bave it so, it s coeway' cf keeping -ytrie faily togethier. I remember it~ wsnover trfie same for my fa-' mily after my widowed 'mofrier dcied. We were protty well scat- tered Iby thon but îfiotheicr Àas treieçdium wrimo got u§ in touch with oceao notlier. Rigiht bore w-ar-e kept in iraining by' vneighIbounblood cbil- dren, eospecial l tree-year-old' Julie wbo liv'es next dloon. Trie other day trie front door bel! was ringing li-ke md Julie bad heaved tie mat ,If thé stop,, and diragged a box up totei doon. Triat was aIse shoved aside and a chair we beave for trie crat was brought into service. Later Julie's ruothor asked if ber daugriter fiad been ringing our bell. Pantner laughed - "Ring,- ing it --she jusf cabout fore tie place aýpart! Wb-y, - dcl ycu' se("rien?". "'No, but Julie said she push- ed a button at Mn-, Clarke's door an d t honeri e be a rd('jin3gIe bouls!'" Thr is nover a duIl mîomient with cbidrea around. Bless tbeir msbeoslti heant3. HOW Kimberley Gets Its Dicmonds The Rand is the bas of South African powver and prosperity; but Kimberley is the bsso fthe Rand, for its diamionds finanicod tho great gold mgaeboistor- edteebuillion-ce of Rhodes, andi bis peers, and onticed the first vî-vaciouis flood of adveriturors and fortunle hunters to South Mfrica. They find diamionds Ill many ther places, too. They even muanufiacture thiem nowa- days. The Culînan, greatest of them aIl, was dliscovered ini the Transvaal. la South-West Africa they pick themn up la handfu-ls f romi the beach. Ln TangaLnyika they guard tLhe deposits with radar miechanismns. But Kiimbe(r- loy i s the mroszt fam-ous, the mnost suggestive of al dianiond cities, and to the world at largýe its unme remyain-s More or less sy- onymous with the a1llure of pre- clous stones.... A plateau of bleak omn- land surrounds your m-inie at Kimberley. . .Within its fenices tho xihole process of diamor-nd production ïs coniducted. There are the min-shafts (for it is underground mning nowndays, down the deop iaodfru pipes);: and thore are the big crushers whc ound the rock wheiCn it cornes to the surf'ace, (so baDrd are the diam-onds thait they are liai-dly, ever broken in this brutal process) ; and there are the little trainis wi clankîing miidly, brýing- the cruîsbed rock to the washing plants; and there is thec series of pots and panis and ier nd screens that re- duce tHe crushed, washed, sort- PA rock to the smiallest concén- trates. Finally tbey extract thoe dia- mronds. In a long uni 'pretenLtis roomi, not unlike a printing shop,ý thore stand aq series of mai-ines liko linotypes. Five or six ed erly operators, of unspeakable integrity, tend these machines aad groot the visitor witb grave incorruptible smiles. Thie crush- ed rock arrives clown a chute and is pourod over a slopinig table iîned with petroleumi jellY; and if you watch th is operation Very closeIy, an scrupulously obey the inistrui-ctions of thie ma- chinemran, you May soc a p)etit- point of tiny speckles ornam-ent- inig the surface of the groase. 'l'le wincl runs away out of sigrt, to 1e returned to thie teartb again: but thr2 diamioncs, those unshakable cores of brul- liance, embed themseivos la the vaseline likec oysters, and sp1arkle away merrily when the operator, soizing a trowel, scrapes the greaso from bis table and de- posits it iia a nearby pot. Sc, thoy got their diamnonds. The greas e is boiled away and next door four imen and a girl, iii clinical wh-ite coats, pick up the gemsla rying-panis and sort tbem on a table, There are greenish diamnonds and yoilow ones, brow%,-n and witie and an occaslina L eavenly Iblue: there are littiefay unpretentious dIiamonds, and diam-onids thatI' seem tIo hav\en chipped wîthý a pen-ka-if e. and diamond1s 01 ulti- mate perfction ofsy et. They exaine these t-reasures with their eye-glasses, and they sor~t them by shape and colour: but at the end of the daiy, for il the, . shajking and tLhe crush- ingp and Ilhe greasi-ng and the boiing and the srting, mi>ytwo littie piles of stones, like mnagical1 molebilis, lie on that table comi- plaenty.-rom"South African Winter,*" by Jamies Morris. Child's Favourite 4£rame.W<Q Make a picture or a cushioîi'or eacb of these cuddly kittens. Just trie thing for trie nursery! Thie kittenls, entinely la cross- stitch, canrie clone la six-stnand cotton or ia wool. Lovely baby gif t. pattera 668: transfer of two 10¾,-incb squares. Send THIR.TY - FIVE CENTS (stamps caninot be acceptedl, use postal note for safety) for this pattera to Lauria Wbéeler, Boxz 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Ter- onto, Ont. Print plainiy PAT- T E R N NI'4MBER, your NAIME and ADDRESS. New! New,,! New! Our -1960 Laura 'Wheeler Neediecraft Book is neadly NOW! Cramm-ied with exciing, unusuial, popular de- sigris to crochet, kait, sow, em- broidor, quilt, weave -- fashions, home fuirnisingà,s, t oy s, gifts, bazaar bits. ILa the- bôolc FREER - 3 quit patterais. Hlunry, sond 25 cents for youir copy. FEAR BENEATH THE GAIETY?7 - Dr. Bernard F inch (left' <ad hîs wi', Barbara, are shown with ector tMark Steven'â - ail seeming to be having a fine Iimne - in this picture taker il a party Aug. 20, 1958. Eleveni mortths leter, on iu'ly 18, '19,J9, Mrs. Finch was found slcli in their homne and shartly r-Per- wd'rd, Dr. Finich arrested for ber murde- Stevens tti-i;r1edl Jan. 20 otf the trial thact Mrs. Finch conf'>s.-f ta hir , waà afraid of her husbandi.