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THE CO'.E^RNE FXPRFSS CO' BORNE, OMT. JAN. 15, 1959 I ANN£ HIRST I "Dear Anne Hirst: I expect my problem is not a common one, but if the experience I had helps other girls, then this letter will be worth writing. ... I'd known this young man a long time, but only last year did we realize we loved each other. He asked me to go steady and I consented, but soon I broke up with him. He was hurt. ... It was soon afterward that I realized how dearly I loved him, and I still do. "I think he still cares for me; every time I go to a party or a dance he is there, and watches me constantly. I think he's afraid of being hurt again, and I believe he would wait quite a while before dating me, if ever. "How can I make him understand that I would never, never hurt hirr. again? I do so want him back! EVELYN" HONEST CONFESSION * When one has done some- * thing she regrets, there is no * balm like confessing it; if she * does not, she harbors a con- * tinuous feeling of guilt that ••is destructive. Where the heart * is concerned, the need be- * comes imperative. I hope you * will not allow pride to delay * admitting how wrong you * Don't, however, believe tnat * the boy's watching you during * an evening means he is still * interested; he may be con- * gratulating himself that he * escaped from a girl who did * not keep her word. No matter * how he responds, though, your * mind should be relieved. You * have made the gracious gesture Easy-to-Sew ! PRINTED PATTERN 4592 sizes 10-20 Our Printed Pattern -- a new version of your 'favorite step-in dress. This tailored sheath is a wonderfully becoming style for every figure. Easy sewing too. Printed Pattern 4592: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3 yards 54-inch. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50*) (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. LOVELY - Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley, models a cotton satin short evening dress. Bows are of the same material. Gown has a scoop neckline, three-quarter sleeves and a large bow set vertically at the waist * and given him the opportunity * to be as generous. If he is not * inclined to be, that is his re- * sponsibility and you will have * to accept it as final. * One suggestion: You need not * grovel in your letter, and cer- * tainly say nothing of your hope * that he will want to date you * steady again. A DESERTER "Dear Anne Hirst: Some time ago my husband left mc and our two children, and I'm going to have another baby. Then he came back and said it was all a mistake and he still loved me--and and disappeared again for four "He is 26 years old. Isn't it time he settled down? "We've been married seven years, and got along well until he met another girl where he works. I went to her mother and told her what was going on--and she said her daughter was a Christian and wouldn't stoop to such a thing! . . . "Do you think he will come back and behave himself? I have never done anything to justify such cruelty, and I am nearly beside myself. WORN OUT" * This situation is a grave one, * and your family should handle * it for you. Your father (or * some other male member), * should try to bring this hus- * band of yours to his senses, * and also ascertain grounds you * may have for divorce if that * must come. I hope you will be * properly taken care of in the * meantime. If you have hurt someone, deliberately or not, lose no time in apoligizing. That is a mark of breeding which none of us can afford to overlook. ... In any time of indecision, ask Anne Hirst's opinion. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. How Britons Rule The Waves Passengers riding channel steamers between Dover and Calais endure many rough passages across the twenty storm-tossed-miles that separate England and France. However, installation of a pneumatic breakwater in Dover Harbour, designed to reduce wave heights in rough weather, makes ship handling easier and at least the ' start and conclusion of a trip more comfortable for both passengers and crew. The pneumatic breakwater is OOOPS-Mrs. Richard Vander Veer displays her design for a flag that incorporates a 49th star for Alaska. Unwittingly, sh« olso anticipated statehood for Hawaii. Count the number Of stars. a device which releases compressed air at the bottom of the sea from air distributors moulded from polythene. The compressed air rises to the surface intermittently in large bubbles, creating local turbulence in the water. This turbulence interrupts normal ws?ve action because the air bubbles distort the harmonic action of oncoming waves. Thus regular wave motion is converted into random turbulence. It has taken forty years to develop a satisfactory method of controlling waves. First attempts centred around creating a wall of air bubbles; however, the large amount of power required to generate a complete barrier proved prohibitively expensive. The breakwater consists of polythene air distributors mounted on strips of railroad track, forty - five feet long weighing ninety pounds a yard, which are stabilized on the sea-bed with two railroad ties. There are thirty-seven sections in the breakwater. Each air distributor is connected to a small underwater manifold on one of the ties with %" polythene pipe. The small, underwater manifolds are connected to a main manifold and six 500 c.f.m. air compressors, on shore, with IV2" polythene pipe. The system, installed on a trial basis in September 1956, aims to reduce wave height by fifty percent, which corresponds to a loss of three quarters of the waves' original energy. This fifty percent reduction permits safe entry into the harbour in rough weather and facilitates ship handling at the jetties. The installation has been under observation for two years, and in that time no adverse effects due to submersion or weather have been detected. The strength and durability of the installation is further attested to by the fact that over 1,500 ships have steamed over this installation at an average of eight knots, with only ten feet of clearance at low tide, and no damage has resulted.-- From "Plastics Sphere." Will The Duke Ride An Elephant? India is preparing a warm welcome for the Duke of Edinburgh when he goes there next year. He will arrive in New Delhi in January to attend the Indian science congress and will be received with State honours. Later the Duke will tour centres of scientific and industrial interest. One of the most spectacular of all royal visits to India was that made by the late King George V and Queen Mary. They went to meet the Princes of India at the Delhi Durbar of 1911. Queen Mary sat in a carriage beneath a great gold fan and gold and crimson umbrella held by Indian attendants. King George was on horseback, dressed in the uniform of a Field-Marshal. Many Indians expressed disappointment that the King did not ride on an elephant during the State procession that followed and hope that the Duke will amend matters. When the Princes came to pay homage to the royal visitors, some bowed over their swords, some threw earth cn their heads, some spread out shawls ever which to make obeisance. Drums crashed, guns were fired, the National Anthem was played and, wrote a reporter of 1911, "when the chief herald proclaimed the King-Emperor's greeting, the great assemblage rose, swayed for -a few moments like a wide garden of multicoloured flowers, then stiffened to attention. . . . The scene was most moving ar-d magnificent." Only A Mother? Mothers! You could he replaced by a block of wood covered with sponge rubber and heated by a light bulb. This revelation was made recently to the American Pyscho-logical Association by a psychologist named Harlow, of the University of Wisconsin Dr. Harlow set up two fake mothers; one as described, the other being made only from wire screen. Both were warmed, both contained a gadget that gave milk. Subjects were a group > of baby monkeys. One and all, the monkeys preferred the mother thev could cuddle up to, even when she didn't give milk and the wire mother did. Dr. Harlow takes this to indicate that a baby's love for his mother does not depend on the fact that she feeds him -- but rather because she supplies comfort and security by contact. Johnny had been caught telling a fib. "How do you expect to get to Heaven?" asked his mother. The boy thought for a moment and then said: "Well, I'll just run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door till they say, 'For goodness sake, come in or stay out.' Then I'll CUNARD TO EUROPE WINTER AND SPRING SAILINGS to British ports: At Thrift-Season Rates to french ports: First Class from $274 ONE-WAY FROM first Class from $284 Tourist Class from $179 $179 Tourist Class from $184 From HALIFAX m MONTREAL and QUESEC PART ■ ■ QUEEN ELI5 an (Tilbury) See your local agent -- i serve you belter CUNAfSD LINE Cor. Bay & Wellington Sts., Toronto, Ont. Tel: EMpire 2-2911 [ronicles ^SingerFabm For you it is all ovpr; for us there are three more days to go. To Christmas, I mean. And we hope to the end of the deep freeze. My, but it's' been a long cold spell. Ten below here for four consecutive mornings--and the furnace pumping oil all the time. That didn't worry us too much . . . we would have been more worried had it not been pumping. Sunday morning we saw a furnace repair truck at one of our neighbours. It was there quite a while and I hate to think of what th?t, or any other house would be like with the furnace off for a couple of hours. And it bothers us to think of old friends and neighbours on the various farms--at turkey-picking bees and how cold the pickers would be; of breaking ice on the creek and drawing water for stock; of having to go to town for supplies and finding the car wouldn't start?--and the nearest garage two or three miles away. And we remember other friends too who have a child in a hospital-school many miles away and they must make the long drive to get her all in one day so that she may spend the Christmas holidays with them. So it just seems impossible to sit back and be selfishly comfortable when we know ethers have so many problems to contend with--many of which we know about from personal experience in years gene by. But now would, you like to know something of our pre-holi-day arrangements, which naturally go back quite a few weeks. I was determined that somehow I would, avoid as faj. as possible that hectic "so-much-to-do" sort of feeling. So, early in December I made my Christmas puddings--five of them, plus a small extra for sampling. Then I went to work on our Christmas cards and had most of them out of the way by the end of the second week, including a number of letters. And do you knew, for the first time in years I enjoyed the job. I had time to look over the cards and pick out the ones I thought most suitable for those to whom they were sent. Daughter thought I was crazy sending them so scon but I still think it was a good idea especially as I put cur new address on most of the cards. Not because I wanted to make sure of getting cards back but to save those who wished to send the trouble of hunting or inquiring our exact whereabouts. Christmas decorations we left until a week before Christmas. We decided not to have a tree as we would be away on "the Big Day." Instead we put a gay wreath on the front door and decorated the big lry-ing-rcom window. This we did by using evergreens, Christmas trimmings and lights. For a table centre-piece I used a fairly large aluminum tray, spread with cotton batting, sprinkled with small-icicles, tiny coloured balls and fir cones. A bit of green here and there and a couple of reindeer nibbling at the shrubbery. At one corner of the tray I had a small Christmas tree in a red flowerpot trimmed with little coloured glass balls. It was really quite effective and being on a tray could be easily removed for table setting as it was too big for meal-time occasions. Even so, I was far from sa' tied with our decorations. They were pretty but a lot cf work and too much* of a fire haxard. Evergreens dry out so quickly. Next year, all being well, we have other plans. This is the conclusion we have come to. The Christmas tree is a tradition. Children look for it and we do too. But as our grandchildren mostly celebrate Christmas in their own homes we feel that all we now need is a symbol. So--no more evergreens in the house, dropping needles a week before and for two weeks afterwards, making a lot of unnecessary work. Next Christmas we'll have a Christmas tree outside, set into one of the planters in the front of the house and» trimmed with twinkley on-and-off lights. Indoors our decorations will be restricted to a gay centrepiece and a display of Christmas cards . . . those lovely, lovely cards! The result, we hope, will be just as effective but less tiring and far less hazardous. Or do I just think that because an outside tree will be Partner's job?! ! An inside tree, except for putting it up, I look upon as my job, just as we naturally di-vide our small chores in working for our grandchildren. I do the sewing and knitting but in December Partner spent hours and hours making a barn for Dave and Eddie to put their "animals" in. There was a division down the centre to avoid arguments and sliding doors on each side to let the animals in and out. It was quite a barn. Fut many were the exclamations I heard coming up from below stairs as Partner's stiff fingers worked with the tiny, headless, half-inch finishing nails? It was the firm's stag dance. The new cashier had chosen a very attractive partner. "By the way," he said, as they danced. "I'm glad our manager isn't here to-night. He's about the biggest ass I know." "Young man," snapped his partner angrily, "do you know who I am?" "Not the faintest idea." "Weil, I'm the manager's wife," she said. "Do you know who I am?" asked the young man. "No." "Thank goodness for that," he replied, as he hurried away. Jiffy Towels A pair of towels is allway* t welcome gift Get out odds- anc ends of embroidery floss.. The motifs in this patterm am done in a jiffy. Fewest o>f stitches -- so colorful, effective. Patten 658: transfer 6 motifs about 6?< x 8V2 inches. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS- (stamps cannot be accepted, us+ postal note for safety) for thi pattern to LAURA WHEELER Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAMI and ADDRESS. A NEW 1959 Laura Wheeta Needlecraft Book, JUST OUT. has lovely designs to order: en broidery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quilting, toys. In the book a special surprise to make a little girl happy -- a cut-out doll clothes to color. Send 25 cento for this book. ACTING CATTY-Striking a menacing pose, Collette Marchand puts feeling into her roll "leopard woman". She has returned to tha Pi long absence ta appear in a ballet called "C