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-- [ANN Your Family Gunrelor. "Dear Anne Hirst: I am a very confused woman of 51, who for three years has been a dicontent- ed widow, feeling that life was all behind me. Then I met a man my own age, and it is really like a cream come true, We have been seeing each other constant- ly for over a year, and our love and compatibility increase all the time. He never goes anywhere Withcut me, and we are so con- m'2d just to be together that is all we ask . "So, you answer, why don't yei: get married? "No money. "He is a bachelor, with a small income that isn't enough to sup- port the two of us. For three years he hasn't been able to continue his profession (a chem- isi) because he cannot be on his fe t so constantly; otherwise his health is perfect, as is mine. He Owns his mother's home, and is reluctant to sell. (I have my own house.) I can get along on the p*nsion my husband left, but tf th al smergency came along we w ~'! be in a bad spot. ' are both church members (t! is where we met) and have a lot of good friends, but we shoul not like to confide our circumstances to anybody. "Shall we chance getting mar- ried? Or try to forget? MISERABLE" ALWAYS A WAY * I prefer always to advise * readers to do what they want * to do -- but one must.be prac- * tical, Have you ever worked? Had any business training? s * Many a woman your age is Lovely Centrepiece by Cauna Wher Elegant centrepiece for a din- mer table! A graceful swan crocheted in pineapple design -- fill it with fruit or flowers. Pattern 581; Crochet directions for swan centrepiece; body about 12x64 inches. Use heavy jiffy cotton -- starch stiffly. 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 Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. As a bonus, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our LAURA WHEELER Needlecraft Book. Dozens of other designs you'll want to order -- easy, fas- cinating handwork for yourself, your home, gifts, bazaar items. Send 25 cents for your copy fo this book today! ISSUE 10 -- 1958 holding down a job today who never believed she could find one. Why don't you try? Visit a few employment agencies and ask their advice; they may have ideas that have not oc- curred to you. Also, follow the newspaper want ads daily. Are you a good cook? Is there a neighborhood demand for homemade cakes, desserts, and other ready-to-serve dishes you can prepare? Your Wo- man's Exchange, or a similar group, can tell you. Perhaps this good man can find a part-time job that will not overtax his strength. (A talk with his physician will be helpful.) More and more em- ployers nowadays are conscious of the needs of the partially disabled, and more willing to try them out. If you decide to marry, the sale of his home or yours would provide a nest- egg against the future. Don't be self-conscious about money. Let all your friends know you want to augment your income. (The lack of money is one of the most popu- lar conversation topics every- where today.) Many couples are living on an income they would have laughed at a dec- ade ago. They have lowered their standards, true; but they believe in themselves and each other and have enough love and understanding to be, as you two are, happy in just being together. Attack the problem with all your energies, and leave no field unexplored. With courage and your native intelligence, you may be amazed how soon you both succeed. I hope so. It is a shame that two nice people so well suited should not be together. Good luck! * * * eexe ene Me aie Wel th ea id os SO oh Oe RO ee GOSSIP HURTS "Dear Anne Hirst: For four years I've had two girl friends who I thought were as loyal as I've been. Now they are telling a cockeyed story of my dating a married man, and they have some other pupils believing it. As though I would stoop to such a thing! "TI am 16, and boys have always liked me, too. This is hurting me badly. Nothing I can say has any effect. "TI want and I need the friend- ship of my classmates. How can I regain it? Forget these false friends, and try to find others I can trust? NETTIE" It is usually wise to ignore jealous gossip and show by your discreet manner that you are above such conduct. But this tale could affect your. repu- tation among too many other girls. I think you should tell your parents. If the girls have no basis for the story, they should be made to admit it, and apologize to all those who have heard it. I suggest that your mother call on their parents and see that justice is done. * * Se eee Ree Ree When two compatible people have faith in each other, there is almost no limit to what they can accomplish together. If you are concerned about your future, ask Ann Hirst's oninion. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont. CELL OUT Three white men serving long- term sentences in the Bwana Mkubwa prison in Northern Rhodesia used the prison as a base for operations while they went out at night,-breaking into jewellery stores and other bus- iness premises. They were each sentenced to two years' additional imprison- ment after the judge was told that one forgot the key to the prison front door one night and so they were locked out and couldn't get back to their cells If it were not for this momentary lapse they might still have been at it, the court was told. re * IT'S THE SAME SUN---Establishing their own beachheads, Kay Kayse, left, and Pat Johnson indicate a difference of Opinion with regard to headgear at Cyprus Gardens. Kay, a Florida girl, prefers a sweeping sombrero to keep the sun away. While Pat, from California, wears practically no hat at all. "HRONICLES "GINGER FARM Gwendoline P. Clarke Whatever the weather in our particular locality -- yours and mine -- there is no reason tod assume it will be the same twenty miles away. Or even less. One day Partner and I went to see Johnny, whose farm is only ten miles from here. It might~ have been fifty. Far more snow and icy roads. We found Johnny very busy -- and very glad to be alive. He almost wasn't. It's the same old story. He had a registered Holstein bull. "No need to be afraid of him," John- ny used to say, "he'll never hurt anyone. He's so quiet I can clean out his stall and work around him like he was an old cow." Then came a day when it was necessary to let the bull out into the barnyard: Suddenly, without warning, the bull turn- ed on him. It was only because Johnny was able to get behind a huge post in the barnyard that the bull missed him on the first lunge. Fortunately an iron crowbar was within reach and Johnny used it to beat the bull over the head, and then, some- how or other, he managed to get back to the safety of the cow stable. Johnny is young and strong and by good luck was able to deal with the situation. But what chance would an older, less agile man have had under similar circumstances? Farmers have been warned time and timé again never to trust a bull. But in many cases the bull has been raised from a calf and the farmer and his son, or hired help, think they know all the animal's moods and fancies. The outcome isn't always as fortu- nate as it was in Johnny's case. Johnny, thanks be, is still alive --it's the bull that's dead. Al- though he was a registered, well-bred animal he was sent to the stockyards, - Well, I visited in quite a dif- ferent locality than this last week. I spent two days with friends in Newmarket. I went FOUR OF A KIND--Celebrating Gheth 15th birth their home in Zwolle, Holland. The quads; Pooch's name is Jacky. day, the Kiffers quadruplets are all smiles at from left, ares Rini, Dorothee, Elly and Hans by bus. It was fine when I left here, and in Toronto. But by the time the bus reached Rich- mond Hill it was storming "like a young blizzard. The same at Newmarket. Next motning there was a four-foot snowdrift cov- ering people's lawns and every- one was out shovelling a path for the postman.» My friends used to be farmers but now they have a small store and a nice little five-roomed house, cosy, compact and convenient. They used to hanker for a stone house - in the country, with a small acreage but now, being past middle life, they are content with a house and business that gives them maximum returns with a minimum of effort. That is their choice. Here is a horse of another colour. When I got home I found a letter for us from Dufferin county--Ontario's snowbelt. It told of huge drifts; of shovelling a path to the barn every morning--and then hav- ing the path fill in within an hour or two; of how glad they'll be when winter is over; how hard it was to keep the house warm without a furnace, and eqncluded by saying they were expecting baby chicks early in March! The roughest month of the winter in our estimation. In summer we know the air and scenery is lovely in Dufferin county and it is probably a good place to be in winter too--on farms where the owners are in their prime and possibly have every convenience, but we can- not see that it is a favourable location for a couple getting on in years. We certainly couldn't take it. 1 "Yesterday was quite a happy occasion for us. Our children and grandchildren had a dinner ' for us in honour of our 40th | Wedding Anniversary. Just a 'family affair but quite a cele- bration. Forty years ago we _ couldn't foresee that a day would come when we would » have the joy of celebrating our ' marriage with a married daugh- ter.and her husband and a mar- "ried son and his wife, plus four -small grandsons ... three walk- | ing and one only four months 'old. Dee had gone to a lot of ' trouble--there was a nice din- ' ner, anniversary cake and a bou- *quet of lovely red carnations '--cagnations like Partner gave me forty years ago. The little ' boys couldn't quite understand \ what the party was all about , but they were all well and en- _ joying it anyway. Eddie is the star performer when it comes to mischief but he has such a roguish way with him that ev- eryone loves him. Ross is run- ning a close second for getting into things. Dave, of course, is "quite a little man--after all he is four years old and goes to -nursery school! Jerry is the _"good" baby--laughs and coos "at everyone who comes around. It was a very cold day--zero around here--but the roads were good and the car warm s0 it "didn't seem to matter. We cer- tainly don't envy our friends in -- They Go For Pills | In A Big Way The Japanese are a _ highiy emotional people,.they love to take pills, and they like to imi- tate Western customs. These factors create a rich market for tranquilizers. Last week Tokyo's " Welfare Ministry reported that in 1957 the Japanese went wild for "tranki" poured out yen to the tune of $3.5 million for meprobamate alone. They were buying tranki without prescrip- tion at any handy drugstore, and swallowing them under the nerve-racking prodding of a lypertonic advertising campaign. The tranki rage struck Japan with typhoon force in the fall of 1956, when the U.S.'s Lederle Laboratories joined Takeda Pharmaceutical in a fifty-fifty deal to set up Lederle Ltd. as an outlet for meprobamate (best known in: the U.S. by its orig- inal' brand name, Miltown). But no patent claim had been filed, and the vacuum was quickly filled by Japan's highly competi- tive drugmakers -- concentrated on a narrow street called Dosho- machi in Osaka; around a shrine of Yakuoshin (an ancient god of drugs). By December, Daiichi Seiyaku was on the market with its own brand of meprobamate, called Atraxin. Lederle Ltd. put out Miltown. Takeda competed with its own corporate offshoot by pushing Harmonin. Daiichi Seiyaku (meaning No, 1 drug company) ran half-page ads showing men and women with agonized faces, clutching swollen heads and moaning for Atraxin. Daiichi and competitors put up billboards at Tokyo's busiest intersections, where stall- ed motorists and scared-running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a sugges- tion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the sui- cide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved espe- cially popular with students cramming to pass the tough ex- ams for government jobs. There are already 15 brand Mames under which meproba- mate is being sold, with appli- cations pending for 65 - more. Atraxin leads the field with 1957 sales of $1,230,000; next comes Harmonin, then Equanil; the old original Miltown is fourth. It is priced at ten tablets for 83c; most home-grown Japanese brands are twelve tablets for 56c, but they are only half as potent. Osaka manufacturers have tried to convince consumers that "because Japanese are smaller and weigh less than Westerners, they need only a half-size tranki." Then, working both sides of the street, they blandly urge buyers to take two tablets, three or four times a day. Some go so far as to say, "Take as many as you want, any time you have worries." --From Time. Florida. Some people have al- ready come home but we have neighbours who rented their house furnished for four months. They are really stuck, whether they like it or not. And Part- ner's brother flew to England last Sunday for a couple of weeks. He landed into rough weather too, with a mild earth- quake thrown in for good mea- sure. On the whole, home seems a pretty good place to us. What do you think? . Modern Etiquette... by Roberta Lee Q. What amount of tip is it customary to give to a bellboy who brings a telegram to one's hotel room? A. Not less than twenty-five cents. Q. Is there any special marking customary on a cake to be served at an engagement party? A. A traditionally favorite decoration is the first names of the bride-elect and her fiance enclosed in a heart. Q. When a girl is with her escort at a table in a nightclub, and she wishes to leave to go to the powder room, what is the proper thing for her to say? A. "Will you excuse me," is sufficient. Q. I know it is not a "must," but if a girl wishes to give her fiance an engagement gift, what should it be? A. Usually some piece of jewellery -- cuff links, key chain, tie clasp, cigarette case, or lighter. Four-Season Style PRINTED PATTERN Pep up your wardrobe and your spirits with this pretty, easy-sew style that has a sweet- heart neck in front, V-back. Choose a drip-dry cotton that doesn't need ironing--enjoy this Printed Pattern all year around. Printed Pattern 4730: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 5% yards 35-inch. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (40¢) (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. 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