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IMC CUlBUKNf EXPRESS. COl BORNE ONT APRIL 23, 1959 ! ANN£ HIRST I "Dear Anne Hirst: A year ago when I was a widow with two small children, I married a man who I thought was everything that wras good. Now we have a young baby and I'm still in love, but I am worried sick because I don't see how that can last. My husband has changed into a jealous, vindictive creature, an I he is so mean to us that I fear the worst. "When we were going together he was always pleasant to my family and friends, but since we got married he declares they are all 'no good.' I am not allowed to see my mother nor his, nor even my friends; I can't go to card parties or other little affairs. He declares 'Rou don't need other people, you have me! -- And what use is he ? He never takes me anywhere, he won't pay a baby-sitter, and I miss my people so much that some days I have to restrain myself physically from going to see them. "Our baby does not interest him except to show off; when he cries his father loses his temper. To my own children (whom he promised to raise as his own) he is impatient and mean, he hollers and often slaps them. I never had any trouble with them before, but now they cringe when he comes home and run to me. That makes him furious. "He is a good provider, but that isn't enough; we all must have love and understanding, and these he withholds. He nags me all the time; I can't do anything to please him, and he even calls me lazy! With two lively youngsters and a baby I can't snap into it every time he calls. I don t enjoy Party Pinafore A- m VU nil MM - ■ Two pretty ways she can wear this style! So cool and cute -- a pinafore or a party dress with the addition of the collar. So versatile -- sew-very-easy for you. Pattern 801: sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included. Pattern, embroidery transfer, directions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS^ (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly the PATTERN NUMBER, and your NAME and ADDRESS. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: embroidery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quiliing, toys. In the book, a special surprise to make a little girl happy--a cut-out doll, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. anything any more; I'm sick and tired of housework, and heaven help me, I'm tired of my children, and they are so sweet and good! "I think I'm the loneliest wife in the world. I don't know which way to turn. I still love my husband, but he is destroying that love . . . How can I restore peace between us and between him and the children? I don't want my marriage to fail, but I just can't go on like this. DEFEATED" * I wish I could have printed * all your letter ... It does * seem that you married a man" ♦-you did not know. He used * to be loving and thoughtful, * kind to you and your chil- * dren; how could you foresee * that would not last? Perhaps, * it is only jealousy thaf causes * his selfish prohibitions, and * he feels he must put you in * the wrong to justify himself. * Your life now has become * unbearable, and physically * and spiritually you are at the * end of your endurance. Since * he is getting more intolerant, * you had better announce your * ultimatum. * If your husband wants to * stay married to you, he must * be kind and fair to you all. • * He has separated you from * your family and your friends; * these he must restore. He * must realize you are over- * worked, and without the in- * centive of appreciation or af- * fection you cannot go on. If * he will not (or cannot) accord * you the respect and affection * and freedom you deserve, * then he is not the man he * Seemed to be. How can you * keep on living with a stran- * ger? * You have tried valiantly to *live up (or down) to his auto- * cratic demands, and you find * it increasingly impossible. It * is your husband who can * save your marriage if he will. * Otherwise (and for the chil- * dren's sake, too) you will * have to take steps to end it. * T am so sorry! TRIALS AT 15 "Dear Anne Hirst: I am just 15, and have gone with one boy since I was in the fourth grade. Now he-has grown so popular that he doesn't ask me for a date any more! I'm sure he thinks I don't like him. "But I do, more than ever . . I started going with another boy, and now the one I like hardly speaks to me ! What cna I do to win him back ? LONESOME' * Instead of inventing excuses * for this boy, why don't you * admit the truth? He doesn't * ask you for a date because * just now he doesn't want one. * Unflattering though that * sounds, don't despair. Boys * his age flit from one girl to * another, and often come back * to the first one they liked. * They are gaining experience * (which is natural and right) * and no one girl means much * to them at the moment. You * appealed to him once, and * you may again. * Meantime, though, amuse ♦yourself with other nice boys * and give the impression * you're having a fine time. * This is one of the most sue * cessftil ways to attract an in- * attentive lad, or even- new If you question Anne Hirst's opniions, or want further assurance of her whole-hearted interest in her readers, write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. She publishes criticisms as well as bouquets, as she can find the SWEET BAIT In Kenora, Ont., Ice Fisherman Oscar Boivin had no luck with minnows, stuck a marshmallow on his hook and pulled in a 14-lb. lake trout. IOOK MA, NO WINGS ! - Full-scab model of a wingless airplane is shown with its designer. Dr. Alexander Lippisch. The "Aerodyne" can take off and land vertically and fly normally. Two contra-rotating propellers force air through the fuselage and out controllable vents in the belly. Cockpit will bt located oft under a canopy in the vertical stabilizer. THE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT - Both photos are ot the same scena in the forthcoming movie, "Solomon and Sheba," but two of the duelists are different. Top. it's the late Tyrone Power crossing swords with George Sanders. Bottom, Yul Brynner goes through the action with Sanders in a remake, it was during the filming of this scene that Power suffered a heart attack and died last November. RONICLES %ingerFarm This is surely one for the record. Sunday, March 22, was officially the second day of spring, yet at seven o'clock that morning it was two below zero. The windows here were all frosted over and our first job was to mop up the water on the hardwood floors as the sun quickly thawed the ice on the windows. And yet on the two preceding days ditches were running and water here and there flooding the highways. And well we knew it. Friday seemed such a lovely day--bright sun. crows flying, starlings chirping, so we thought we would make an early start and go to Milton to see cur new grandson, nevsr realising how bad the roads were. Of course we had to take Ross with us and so as not to upset his schedule we planned to be back soon after mid-day. But it turned out to be a case of "the best laid plans . . ." About fifteen minutes walk from Bob's home we had car trouble and were stranded. One of the fan blades had pierced the radiator and the anti-freeze w-as merrily boiling out all over the place. It may have picked something up in a flooded section of the highway and got it wedged in the fan. Be that as it may the damage was done. We called for a tow-truck and the driver first drove us to Bob's place before taking the car away for repairs. We were really in a quandary. The car would naturally take some time to fix and we didn't want to stay at Bob's too long for fear of upsetting Joy and the baby, home from the hospital just the day before. So we came home by taxicab. Of course the whole business upset our visit but at least we saw the baby. He doesn't look a bit like.Ross did at two weeks old. An entirely different shaped head and chubby little face. Ross was only mildly interested A GIU'S CURLS - The old-fashioned curling iron, heated on the kitchen stove, is still an exciting item to this little girl. Mrs. Norman Paukert touches up 9-year-old daughter Shwal's hangs in their home. in "Mummy and the baby" and came. away from home with never a'backward glance. 1 believe the infant is to be called "Cedric Davis." I like the name but I hope no one calls him "See-dric"! That pronounciation is so hard and ugly. Bob brought the car home for me on Saturday and went back by bus. Ross will be staying with us until Good Friday. Fortunately for all concerned he is now sleeping until nearly seven in the morning. He is also feeling more at home and getting into more mischief. But we survive. Since he came I have been wondering how many rhymes and games have come down to present-day children through the ages and when and where they first originated. As a means of amusing Ross I sometimes jiggle him up and down on my knees while I recite an old, old nursery rhyme. "Timothy Gay went out one day, into a field all covered with hay A lamb and a hog, and a fine speckled dog Frightened poor Timothy right into a bog." With the last four words I spread my knees, keep hold of Ross's hands and Let him fall down "into a bog." I played the same game with my children and I am sure my parents played it with me. But how much further back does it go? Does anyone know? Another game I remember is "Ride A-Cock Horse." My Daddy used to sit with crossed knees and then jumped me up and down astride his foot as he recited the old nursery rhyme-- "Ride a-cock horse to Banbury To see a fine lady upon a white And then there was the story of "The Conceited Chicken," presumably a rooster. I loved that. It started this way: "Good morning, my dear," said a chicken one day to a motherly hen who walked past her. "You really are looking so horribly scared, have you heard of some dreadful disaster?" And then the Motherly Hen explains that company is expected. She had heard the cook talking to her mistress and, she concluded dolefully -- "As likely as not you'll be put in a pot arid served up for dinner tomorrow!" But the Conceited Chicken "took her remarks with some laughter -- "For you know very well that a chick such as I knows very well what she is after." They were delightful stories, those rhymes of yesterday. Are they being remembered and retold to present-day grandchildren I wonder. If so will they in turn be told to our grandchildren's children? Or will the old stories with their homely but fanciful philosophy be forgotten in favour of stories of space ships . and men from Mars Folklore and many traditional dances are being preserved. I would like to see a collection of old nursery rhymes saved for posterity in just that same way. And I believe children tocLy would enjoy them just as much as they ever did. LUCK WAS HARD In Milwaukee, Robert D. Sullivan lost a primary election for a civil judgeship by 2,954 Votes, two days later fulfiilled a previously made commitment to lecture the West Allis Kiwanis Club on "The Luck of the Irish." I He Proposed To The Wrong Girl Sudden shyness had prevented the sensitive, young fair-haired Swiss from proposing to the girl of his choice, although I he had purposely taken her out to a quiet little restaurant to lunch in order to do so. Certainly he had known her for only a couple of months, he reflected, as he strode back to his office an hour later, but that was no excuse for his silly shyness. He loved the girl. He suddenly realized just how foolish he had been in not popping the question as he had planned. He entered a telephone box, determined to propose to her there and then over the line. His firm was sending him off to Geneva for a fortnight on the following day and he wanted to hear his Maria say "Yes" before he left. He got through quickly to the. big city office where the girl he loved was a member of a typists pool. The operator at the switch: board was busy, but a moment later, after asking for Maria, the young man, still feeling very shy, blurted out: "Darling, I know I shouldn't ring you up while you're working, "but there's something I've got to say -- something I should have said earlier. I love you. Will you marry me?" "Yes . . . but . . ." said the surprised girl at the other end of the line. "Say no more, sweetheart,' he interrupted joyfully. "That's all I wanted to hear. I know how awkward it is for you to talk with the other girls around you listening. I'll write directly I get to Geneva." And he rang off -- blissfully unconscious that he had been speaking to the wrong girl and had proposed to a stranger. - Yes, the switchboard .operator had plugged him through lo another department. The astonished girl he'd proposed to was already engaged and when she had first heard his voice had thought it was her own fiance. You can imagine Maria's astonishment when the young man wrote her a passionate love letter from Geneva, beginning: "Darling little wife-to-be . . and discussing their forthcom-inf wedding. The mix-up was soon sorted out in later letters. When he returned, abashed and shyer than ever, from Geneva, the young man proposed to Maria personally, blurting out his apologies for the mistake.' She smilingly accepted him. We all make mistakes or become involved in amusing misunderstandings at times. Look what happened to a New York broadcasting official a few weeks ago. He was very much in love with his beautiful young wife and nev ■ failed to take-home a dozen or so roses for her each evening. He caught a suburban train a. Grand Central Station at about 6 p.m. and, on this occasion, absent-mindedly left the roses on a platform bookstall while buying newspapers. On the following evening the bookstall man insisted on paying for the roses. "When 1 found them 1 sud denly realized that owing to my mistaking the date I had overlooked that yesterday was my wedding anniversary," he explained. "It was too late to buy flowers for my wife. She was delighted at my thoughfulness. I was a hero in my own home." Obey the traffic signs - they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. How does one properly signal the waiter in a hotel or club dining room that he is ready to have his plate removed from the table? A. The knife and fork, placed side by side on the plate, indicates that one has finished that particular course. Q. When the bride is being married in a travelling dress, what should the bridegroom A. An ordinary business suit, or one that is appropriate for travelling, with perhaps a littls white flower from the bride's corsage in his lapel. Q. Are desserts always eaten with the fork? A. This depends upon the dessert. Some are just too soft to be handled with the fork. A good rule to follow is to use your fork whenever possible-- but use good judgment, too. Q. If a man and woman are walking together during a rain, and both have umbrellas, does each one use his own umbrella? A. This usually proves awkward. It is much better if both walk under the man's larger umbrella. Q. Is a bereaved person supposed to return all calls of condolence? A. No; this is neither required nor expected. Half-Size Playsuit PRINTED PATTERN Modesty plus figure flattery in a playsuit deftly designed for you who are shorter, fuller. Note bra-concealing straps, built-up bodice. Easy-sew design. Printed Pattern 4776: Half Sizes Hi/2, 16%, 18%, 20.%, 22%, 24%. Size 16% requires 2% yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate Send FORTY CENTS (40<f) (stamps cannot be aecepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly the SIZE, your NAME, ADDRESS, and the STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS. Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. 4 BEDROOMS - 44'7" x 24' - 1028 SQ. FT. OWN THIS HOME! Halliday's unique co-operative home building program enables you to share In the actual home erection and finishing -- save many dollars! Full information and catalog, lot, NO DOWN PAYMtMT ! If you own a lot If you can hammer a nail if If you qualify for a N.H.A. mortgage DEPT. K.H. - BURLINGTON, ONTARIO