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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. JULY 16, 1953 •Dear Anne Hirst. My problem is intimate and age-old; but I am either too dense or too easy- fiing to find a suitable solution, met a young man my own age, 25. We are both divorced. I have two children. He is more than kind to us, but insists that I don't date anyone else. I had been seeing another man, too, and both seemed so nice that I eouldn't decide between them. "This young man somehow swept me off my feet; I find no excuse for myself. Now he insists that I BELONG to him! I feel caught. I can't figure out, nor understand how things got like this. FRIGHTEN h.1 < "The man knows I value rny reputation; we belong to the same church. If I quit him, he might tell. I get scared to death when I think of it! "The other man, who has never asked anything ot me, hopes I'll stop seeing this one. I don't want to marry anybody, I am too upset ... I need your help. Anne Hirst. BEWILDERED' * The only way to break up a * situation so fraught with fear * is to end it--abruptly and fin- * ally. You may find yourself * married to this possessive, ar- * rogant young male, and that * would be a disastrous finale. * You would grow to despise * him, and to hate yourself.-- * What would that do to your * children? * Tell him you will not see * him again, in any circumstanc- * es. If he is actually such a * cad as to threaten to expose * you, remember that your repu- * tation and your word are as * good as his. He would find * himself despised among those * who know you both. * To avoid further complica- * tions, don't see the other man, * either, for a good long while * --until this decadent character * is convinced you are through * with him, and for good. You * can send word to the other * that you have broken off, but * you need a period of solitude I * to regain your piece oi mind. * I believe he will understand. * and not intrude until you can ! * think clearly again. * This is the only way to es- * cape from the degrading situ- * ation in which you find your- * self. Once you do. you can * brush the mud off your skirts * and feel cleansed again BEREFT MOTHER. MOURNS "Dear Anne Hirst: Why can't I take my son's death bravely, as so many other war-mothers ! do? He was killed some months ago. I still cannot orient myself kito any routine that helps. "His brother, thank God, is : eafely back home, and such a j comfort! t j "I have tried to show interest ki my friends and in my church | Easy-Sew, Iron Mom -- Pinafore! Sundress! Pop it on your sewing machine-- no fitting problems -- bow cinches waist! No ironing problems -- opens flat. Sew it new-Use remnants. Pattern 554: Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. 10. Embroidery transfer; tissue pattern. State size. Send X W E N T Y - FIV E CENTS Hi coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this oat'-vri (0 Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.. New Toronto, Ont. Print plainlv PATTERN NUMEFR and SIZE, your NAME and ADDRESS. EXCITING VALUE! Ten, yes TEN popular,-new designs to cro-ehet, sew, embroider, knit -- printed in the new 1953 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. Plus many more patterns to send lor --ideas for gifts, bazaar money-makers, fashions! Send 25 cents lor your copy! Keep Young Swimmers Out Of Danger a brilliant season ahead for Lawrence Sper Peau de soie," a rich all-acetate fabric. Th -nphasized by gathered fullness of the skirt am f rhinestone bultons. Can 3 * There is no solace like that * others. P * Why don't you consult the * nearest Red Cross center and * see where they can use you? * Or visit a veterans' hospital? * Sick lads need the motherly * touch that you can give, and * comforting them will relieve * your anguish. Maybe boys * from your own church are hos- * pitalized, too; how they.would * appreciate your coming! Ask * your minister about it. * Cheering up other mother's * sons will bring you more con- * solation than you know. And boy left: rejoice i hii 1 i vith : It you are caught in a dcplor-able situation, act quicklv and finally. Free yourself of entanglements and make a fresh start. . . . Anne Hirst sympathizes, and will bring you new courage. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Chronicles %in<3erFarm a little boy and his motner to look after Midget until we were out of sight, although Arthur would love to have brought the little dog home with hiim We left the park and travelled along gravel roads until we were on top of the escarpment, from there we had & magnificent view of the country for miles around. I wonder . . . is there anything more awe-inspiring than beautiful scenery? It sort of does something to you that vou cant explain. Yesterday I realized how this bountiful wooded district must have cheered the early settlers, trekking through Ontario in search of suitable sites for their future homes. This southern part of Nelson Township was the first part of Halton county to see white settler^. The Bates family, in 1800 were the first settlers, and Augustus Bates, the first white baby of Halton County, was born in Nelson Township It must have been a lonely ordeal for the Bates family as the township made little progress towards settlement unti 1807 when a tew more families moved in. However, by 1850 the population had increased to 3,277. The first Presbyterian Church was built in 1822 on a farm owned by Gilbert Bastedo. The first Methodist church was built soon afterwards. The Reverend Egerton Rye of the ltry, with- What we saw lands. Whea -- in abunda standing tha and only a f 3 ha:! been cleared Spring crop - - lignt and patchy, some of it in head Corn nly a few inches above the gr uind. Gar- dens -- fair Trees, shrut-s and hedgfe - lu <uriant growth. The dav v fas hot and sultry til! lopes, but at the county park, at Low ville -- which we passed on out way -- "kiddies and grown-ups too" were having a grand time by the shady Twelve Mile creek. We bought ice-creum at the booth and Arthur gavr some of his to a little wee terrier that came arpund. That did it! The little dog promptly followed us wherever we went and we couldn't find out to whom it belonged. The only time it left us was when a big German Shepherd hove in sight. Size meant nothing to Midget -- he challenged the big dog with undis- ready to leave the park we asked lot too difficult to the life of the hardy immigrants who settled here, defying the Indians, making a Blearing at long Last, harvesting good crops from the fertile soil. On mail boxes along the road, one reads familiar names, direct descendants oi the early settlers Without a doubt many of these farmers treasure the Crown deed to their property -- as we do ours. Many of the industries, lumber and grist mills have disappeared but others have taken their place. One of the largest gravel pits in Ontario, along with all the bull-dozers, stone crushers, power shovels and all such equipment, is situated at Mount Nemo, Huge stockpiles of crushed stone replaces the wooded acres of days gone by Nearby Lowville is a favourite haunt of artists and authors, who find In the July issue of "Better Living" Andre Fontaine has an article entitled "Keep Swimmers Out Of Danger"--an article so timely and with such useful possibilities that we're reprinting it, in part, without waiting for permission from Mr. Fontaine, or the Dominion Stores who control the distribution of the makazine. After all, courtesy is one thing --but not so important as the possibility of preventing a few unnecessary tragedies. Every time your child swims in your local pool his life maybe endangered. Precisely how great the danger is, scientists do not know. Though polluted water often contains polio virus, test after test in the laboratory Jhas failed to prove--without a fraction of doubt--that children with polio were infected by swimming in unclean water. In fact there is room for the stispi-cian that swimming has nothing to do with the virus transference. Recent research by the American Public Health Association states that swimming pools are not a major public health menace, but that the danger in pools should be watched and curbed to an absolute minimum. For years ailments have been traced to bathing places--a very few cases of typhoid, many sinus infections, cases of the skin diseases, impetigo and athlete's foot. Doctors have also tracked to this source dysentery, occasional mastoid and bone infections and, in Wisconsin and Michigan, a local ailment called "swimmer's itch," caused by worm larvae. The effects of underwater swimming on human subjects were studied by the U.S. Public Health Service and a preparatory school in New England. The U.S.P.H.S. study centered in three test areas--Long Island Sound, Lake Michigan and the Ohio River, covering ocean, lake and river waters--places where people have bathed for many generations without a second thought. The conclusion reached was startling and simple. People who go in swimming are sick oftener than those who don't, regardless of the purity of the water. The New England study, conducted by Dr. Roswell Gallagher, showed that the boy wha swam in the school pool comes down with more of the virus i diseases, like mumps and measles, ' than the bov who stayed out of ' the water. I But try and keep any child in-• side the house when it's 102" in .; the shade. Swimming is a lot of ■ fun and wonderful exercise--it's the only exercise which calls all the muscles into play with-i out strain, and with coordination, j We've come to realize that a child ; is in danger from the time he gets out of bed in the morning: he might step on a marble, fall and break an arm. So the common-sense question is: What are the dangers and what will protect your child against them? No hazard is greater than pol-I luted water. Most swimming I pools take a precaution against bacteria in the water by adding ! germ-killing chlorine. Health de-j partments, which keep a safety eye on these pools, require that enough chemical chlorine be used to hold the bacteria count down to a count of 200 bacteria per milliliter of water. This, up until recently, has been thought of as a low danger point and is the figure specified by the American Public Health Association. Pool water is sampled every day or on a two-day frequency to make sure the count goes no higher. - The big "if" factor is the time this sample is taken. This test was tried on a pool in Hartford, Connecticut, by several scientists from the Yale School of Public Health. If, for example, the safety count was taken in the morning, the ratio at bacteria to water ranged around 200, meaning the water -was quite safe. If the plenty of inspirational material amid such beautiful surroundings. One of the loveliest home-owned gardens I have ever seen is at the residence adjoining the Lowville feed mill. To give an instance -- can you imagine anything more striking than crimson ramblers against a back ground of blue spruce? There are some wonderful houses loo -- houses over a hundred years old, and, by contrast, there also fine, modern dwellings amid landscaped grounds. One doesn't need to go into these houses to know they are equipped and styled like magazine models of what interior decorators think a home should he. But back to Ginger Farm . . the smell of new mown hay is being wafted to me through the open window. It is thick and heavy with sap and Partner is worrying over the problem ol getting it dry, particularly if the weather remains as catchy as it has been for weeks on qnd. Mitchie-Wnite is walking back and forth over my typewriter -- which makes it a good time to say goodbye until we meet again samples were taken in the afternoon, when the largest number of people attended the pool, the count hit 2,000 or over--water so clear you could see bottom, with all the dangers of a murky polluted pond. Here was an above average pool, meeting every requirement of the health department, that admitted to a soaring bacteria count when most swimmers were in the water. Unfortunately this has been the common and unquestioned danger of every swimming pool. Nothing could be done abort this health danger signal New Cleansing Process A pioneering group of scientists from Yale, headed by Professor Eric Mood, have worked out a new process of water purification which puts us one step further along the road toward stopping disease before it starts. Called in science journals "high-free residual ehlorination," it means to those who enjoy the swimming sport that pool water can be made free of germs--and kept that way. This is done by putting ten to twenty times more chlorine into the water than is used currently; despite the quantity the water is less irritating to the eyes and skin of swimmers than under the old method. Mood's new process had its trial dip at the Hartford pool. Measuring the average bacteria of samples of water taken during the afternoon's peak, the count which once had totaled 2.000, High-free residual ehlorination. the newly discovered Yale purification process, is so new that it was announced to Mood's fellow .scientists only a few months ago. Experimental tests conducted over a period of two years at the Smith College pool never revealed any drawbacks. Swim-, ming pools across the country probably will adopt this new if yours hash't, urge it. Other Dangers. Other defenses But aside from water pollution, there are other dangers in swimming that you ought to know about. Several of these were summed up by Dr. H. Marshall Taylor in the Journal of the American Medical Association when he pointed out that "man is not normally a water animal." He's not equipped with adequate protection for keeping water out of eyes, nose, ears and sinuses; nor has he inherited a satisfactory system for maintaining normal body temperatures in cold water. Consequently, says Dr.. Taylor, "unless he takes cognizance of the limitations nature has placed on him, he subjects himself to the likelihood of contracting the infections that frequently beset swimmers." All experts agree that the number one thing to avoid is chilling. When your child becomes chilled, his resistance is lowered and he's fair game for any bacteria or virus. This means you shouldn't let him wear his suit in the pool and home again; he should change as soon as he comes out of the water. Also it's better if he doesn't stay in too long. Whether "too long" is fifteen minutes Or three hours depends on the child. Some youngsters have an insulating layer of fat that protects them for hours; others have none and may get chilled in a few minutes Guarding Against Eye and Ear Trouble Protection of eyes, eais. no.se and sinuses again varies from case to case. If your child has frequent sinus infections, it would probably be wisest if he stayed away from diving or jumping into the water--one of the quickest ways of forcing water into the sinuses. A nose clip might be a safeguard. If he has had ear infections, he probably should wear ear plugs. Watch your child's eyes for signs of inflammation because water washes away the protective fluid that normally guards the eyes. Don't permit him to swim if he or anybody else at a pool has highly contagious pink eye. There are other ailments that stage their attack at pools, notably athlete's foot and impetigo. "Impetigo is transmitted most frequently," says Professor Mood, "by use of the common towel." Be sure your child has his own towel and that he isn't generously sharing it with his pals. ISSUE 29 1953 4767 2_,o Jg. % Four-Way Wardrobe! Keep her well-dressed all summer, Mother! Midriff-top, shorts, skirt-- and a shirt that doubles as a jacket! All easy sewing for you' Choose sturdy cotton for hard playing, quick washing, easy ironing! Pattern 47G7: Children's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Size 6 bra, skirt, 1% yards 35-inch; shirt, 1V« yards; shorts, T's yard. This pattern easy to use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions-Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (35c) in coins (stamps cannot be accpted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Giving the Bride Away -Pretty polio victim', Ltcilie Rugg.es, was literally carried away at her wedding. Seen above in the arms of her father, William Ruggles, she was carried down the aist<3 of the church. Her bridf.g ccm, Robe-t Spat, gh, swept her up and