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be ESE A Dear Anne Hirst: Like so many tine families, my husband's are 4 grand group who have kept' « very close to each other. We have Pays visited them regularly. tely they seem to have chang- ¢d toward me, and I don't under- stand it. ; "His mother confides ynpleas- -ant things about some éf them, and. repeats little digs 'they've made about me, I have no doubts she's discussed my faults (I've t many) and perhaps they are - etting even . . . I made the mis. take of telling my husband. Now he. doesn't ask me to go to see I know. he misses going; k he waiting for me to suggest t?. em. "If 1 again saw them often, do you suppose they might treat me -a5 kindly as they used to? . Or would you advise staying away? TROUBLED WIFE" HIS FOLKS ARE YOURS * . When a girl marries, she mar- ries her husband's whether she wants to or not. along with them--as, I hope, you have decided to do, When a man is as devoted to-his people as is your hus- band, his wife does not dare be unfriendly, in spite of .all temptation. She has to admire what virtures they have, and minimize their' faults. Now that this unhappy situation has obtained, you must do every- thing in your power to over- come it. Suggest to your husband customed visits; While you-are your mother-in-law said. You do not know her sources, so it is best to take it for granted that the others still feel kindly toward you. In this way you can win them back, which is essential to your husband's peace of mind. If any further unfortunate comment be made, overlook it, and let them sense your good will and kindness. 'You can do this, I know. Your letter (which I had to condense) reveals a sympathetic and 'understanding nature that will stand you in good stead. Take it for granted from now on that they still like you, and play up to the idea. I think they cannot help but respond. . * + * Lihue dnb 0 20 JAR BX J FL NSE MLE AE TE IN NN ER Ee Sp HER FIRST LIPSTICK "Dear Anne Hirst: My 15-year- d daughter and I are at sword's ints because I forbid her to use stick and powder. She claims at all the girls do -- but you ould see what they look like! Week's Sew Thrifty | 4705 : a 12-20 byte Aelows What to wear? Mom-to-be, don't worry! Whip up a new top or skirt in a day with this sew- qasy pattern! . For right now, dow the checked version with or ithotit the Peter Pan collar, For ol comfort on 90-degree days, $hooce the scooped-neck, cone- apcd top. Make it in a glam- r fabrie too; for evening! Send Wi Paar - Pattern 4705: Misses': Materni- Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 rt, 2 yards 35-inch; top with keis, 3 yards; V4 yard contrast. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS ¢) In coins (stamps cannot be pted) for this pattern. Print SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, E NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 213 Eight- eenth St, New Toronto, Ont, family It is one of her duties to get that you two resume your ac- in their home, try to forget all © filled before © are summoned to the table for | more "Don't you think she is $00 young? I don't mean to seem old. fashioned or obstinate, but neither do I want her to look like clown, TROUBLED," Since the girls your daugh: ter goes with 'use make-up, of course she wants to. Let her-- and help her choose and use it properly, Select a delicate pink shade of lipstick, and show her how to apply it lightly. A powder that blends with skin is easy to find, and a good hand lotion can serve as a base. : Impress upon her the impor- tance of being immaculate; no powder or lipstick can hide a neglected skin, Her hair should be washed regularly and kept shining by regular brush- ing. Hands and nails must show care, too, The next thing you know she will be demanding nail polish; steer her to the na- tural tones instead of the vipl- ent reds that attract too teen-agers. . She will love you for this' operation, As for you -- your child is growing up, and if you're the first to admit it, you two will be bound 'by the strong cord of understanding. * * * BRE EES NAD AAA A AAA One of a wife's initial responsi- bilities is to stay friendly with her in-laws, painful as it some- times can be. Overlook their un- pleasant traits, cultivate the happy ones, and so keep your husband, and all of them, con- scious of your good will . Anne Hirst will help you to achieve this. and other attitudes that" will enrich your marriage. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont, Etiquette. Q. What does a bride to with her engagment ring before the wedding ceremony? A. She can either leave it at home when she departs for the church, or wear-it on her right - hand. The wedding ring should not be put on above the engage- ment ring. 'Q. Is it correct to say, "Mrs. Wilson, have you met Mrs, Johnson," if you are not certain that. the two persons are ac- quainted? A. Yes, 5 : Q. Should the water glasses be the ' guests are a luncheon? /"A. Yes, the glasses are filled {and the butter is placed on the plates. Q. How soon after receiving an invitation to a 'large dinner party should one send one's ceptance or regret? A, Immediately. No Ing is' inconsiderate oy ill-bred than to keep a hostfss waiting for a reply, since sh must have time to invite subftitute guests, Q. If a girl, wo is to be mar- ried, has no f#ther, brother or male relative fo give her away, would it be proper for her to ask her fiance's father to perform this rite? A. This--would--be--quite--all-- right" / / Q. How far under the 'table should the chairs be pushed, when placing them for dinner? A. The front edge of the chair should be on a perpendicular line with the edge of the table. Q. I served some homemade ~ apple pie and coffee after bridge one evening, and one of our women guests ate only the apple in the pie, leaving the crust, Don't you think this was rude of her? , A. Not at all. It might have "bén that she was dieting, or that She "fad some other perfectly good reason for refusing the crust : i y Q. Is a businessman privileged to tell his secretary that she overdresses and. use too-bright makeup? A. He may tell her that she is too distracting to other employees and that he would appreciate it if she would tone down her dress ahd makeup. ; Q. Is it proper for a girl to '-Rlve her fiance a rohe for hi birthday? be : A. Since he is her husband-to- be, this is entirely proper. Q. What would be appropriafe - gifts for a young man.on his 'graduation day? A. A watch, ring, fountain pen, cigarette case, lighter, wallet, traveling bag. HELPFUL "i "Been . standing here long!" asked the wealthy man from the ~ depths of his fur coat. "Hour, sir," replied the beg- gar, appealingly. : "Cold?" : "Frozen; sir." "Ah, iow," said the rich man, | "what you want to do is to jump . about a bit" Fires That Start By Themseives- There are many fires caused by materials that set themselves on fire -- a process known as spon- taneous combustion. - In order to set itself on fire, a. material must have a very low kindling point. In other words, it must burn at a very low temperature, In addition, the process of oxida- tion -- combining with the oxy- gen in the air -- must already: be going on. Olly rags that.are left around in closets or attics often start fires. The carbon and. hydro- gen, which ' are present in the oil, are always' ready to unite with the oxygen in the air. A certain amount of these elements in the oil on the rags is al- ways uniting with the air, al- though this process goes on very slowly and does not at. first produce any great amount of heat, Rags, ' however, are not good conductors of heat, and therefore they become hotter and hotter because the heat does: not pass off into the air. Final- ly they become so hot that the kindling point is reached, and they burst into flame. For this | reason, oily rags should never Spon- be left lying around. taneous combustion also oceurs at times in coal mines where great piles of coal are stacked. .. Farmers take great care to see that their hay is thoroughly dry before they stack it. If the hay is 'moist, a tiny microbe _ know as Bacillus subtilis, which grows in hay and partly gried grass, multiplies rapidly in the haystacks. This causes heat to be formed which may in time become so intense that the whole haystack will burst into flame. Farmers, therefore, try not to stack the hay too tightly, and to allow passages for the air to pass through in order to carry off some of the heat. 2 Some fires -are started in dried grass by bottles left on the ground by picnic parties. The curved glass is believed to act - like a burning-glass, and to con- centrate the sun's rays on the, dry grass, setting it on fire, This is, however, not real spon- taneous' combustion. The dried grass has not set itself on fire, but an outside means, the burn- ing or magnifying glass, has acted very much as a lighted match would, and raised the temperature of the grass to the kindling point. : WASTE OF TIME i) "Well, Dick, my boy," said his" uncle, "my congratulations! I hear you're engaged to one of the pretty Robins twins." . : "Rather," replied Dick, hear- tly. : "But," said his uncle, "how on earth do you manage to tell them apart?" - "Oh," said the young man, "I don't try!" lL iil Zoo Parade ! - il " im dy Hipp i ih See how - fast Baby makes : friends with: all these farm and circus pets! Before long, he'll. know each by name. Use scraps for gay, little animals -- fun to make! : Zoo parade quilt! pattern 654 embroidery transfers, applique pleces for quilt, 82 - 44 inches, Send TWENTY-FIVE OCENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 133 Eighteenth St, New Toronto," Ont. Print plainly PA 4 MBER, your NAME and AD- n't miss our Laura Whiglor i eadiacraft Catalog! 79 " , orochet, eolor-transfer nd em roidety patterns, 0 sand .~ plus 4 complete rns Fond Bo nied In book. oénts ke our copy today! Ideas for bazaar sellars, fashions, | Easy, Doc---Two-month-old Bob- by Murdock opens wide for den- tist Dr. J. M. Dollar as he pre- From Bo .seems he's not any happier about being in a dentist's chair than are many grownups, NOT SO FOOLISH £ rrr When the Earl of Bradford was questioned by the Lord Chancel- lor in a test of his sanity, he was asked, "How many legs has a sheep?" 3 "Does your lordship refer to a live sheep or a dead sheep?" "It's the same thing," respond- ed the Chancellor, "Oh, no," insisted the earl. "A dead sheep has only two legs. The two forelegs are shoulders, "and there are only two legs .of mutton." + strawberries as some people are pares fo clean a tooth which ar- rived, 3 ahead of schedule. . by's expression, It IRONICLES ager amy I am quite sure most of the farmers in almost every district across Ontario are feeling very cheerful today. How could they be otherwise after the grand rain we had last Saturday, which, from all accounts was not just a local rain. Even within twenty-four hours every kind 'of vegetation seemed to grow a couple of inch- es, It will make a wonderful dif- ference to "thé pastures -- and the gardens, and the strawber- ries. Strawberries . , , are you not hungry for a taste of good, homegrown Ontario strawber- ries? Imagine being allergic to } 1 4 . mustn't it be awful? What queer credtures we are -- some of us can't stand this or that while | 'it makes no difference at all to our neighbour across the road. Take poison ivy for instance -- few people are immune to its effects and yet none of our fa- mily has ever been allergic to it. Which is fortunate because I walked right tlirough a patch of it the other day, But just let me meet up with a bee, a wasp or a mosquito and it is a different story. That is particularly an- noying to me because I love to tramp through the woods but if I do, even though I smother my- 'self with citronella, I certainly pay for my pleasure. Why in- clination and result should be so diametrically opposed I'll never know, Our 'little humming-bird stay- ed with us most of last week but Je now it has gone ---- probably be- .cause the chestnut blossom is withered and brown. But the lovely little canaries, the chick- adees and wrens are with us yet. | «Also a few flies -- but not too many, so far. I keep a fly-homb handy and that discourages them | quite a bit the way I use it. No doubt most of you have discov-* ered that flies no longer succumb . to the effect of DDT. But I have - found a way of getting around that little problem. If, for" in- stance, fio become- troublesome * fchen it is p good id Rise with the fly-bomb, Just a light spraying -- not enough to kill the flies but sufficient to make them stupid. Then before they have recovered from the tempor- ary effects of the DDT you can .go fly-hunting with a fly swatter. No fly ever yet built up a resis- tance to a well-aimed fly-swatter. This method is considerably cheaper that spraying to kill and it also does away with the naus- eating necessity of living in a fly-poison atmosphere for an un- desirable length of time. For out- side use there is that foul-smell- ing glass jar fly trap that really does a job. If any contraption ever lived 'up to its name, that one does. x Si And while we are on the sub- ject of hot weather devices have you ever discovered the many uses to which insulating mater- ial' can be used, especially' for families lacking a refrigerator or ice-box. I mean the kind of in- sulating material 'that comes in batts. If you have any odd pieces . around the house, don't throw it' away. If you haven't any, it might pay you to buy some. Here is what you do. Get an empty carton -- the kind the grocer uses to pack your weekly order. Line it wit several layers of newspaper. Now take pleces from your Insulating "batt, lay them flat inside brown paper bags. You will need six or more of these pads, one for each side of the box, and one or two for the top and bottom -- the' more you use the better the job. Now you have a homemade refrigerator in which' you cant put your butter, preferably on a - brick, quart jars of milk, ice- cream bricks, or anything else that needs to be kept cold -- and that; has been previously chilled, otherwise it is useless. While you are at it you might as well make two of these coniraptions -- a smaller one to take to town to take care of that i "rick you intend bringing home for supper and a larger one for permanent use at home, ir for taking on a picnic, as the insula- tion is just sx good for keeping - things hot as for keeping them cold. No need to have Jukipwarm tea or half-melted -ice-reamn at your picnic if you have a couple of these insulated containers along with you. But don% fprget insulating batts are dirty things to handle. If you care to take the time it would be far better to do a good job while you are at it and use old pieces of cotton - to cover the batting. That way your pads will last indefinitely. So now we have the family looked after, how about the dogs? Short-haired dogs are easily looked -after by ordinary groom- ing. But a long haired dog . . . surely nothing could please him better than to have some of his fur clipped away.- Honey, our little cocker spaniel, is of the bread that has lots of 'feathers' around his feet and legs -- which - is exactly 'right for a show dog. But we consider comfort before looks for Honey, so yesterday I went to work with the scissors and gave her a real brush-cut ap- pearance. -I-am sure she is much happier as a result." Tippy has to be satisfied with grooming, which is about all she needs any- way. -- except for her. bushy tail. During the war in the Pacific, an American cruiser went into frantic action as a large Japan- ese air armada began to hurtle towards--it. Radar had failed to pick up the aircraft; and ack- ack fire had no effect as the were convinced they were face to face with a new and secret air weapon that made 'planes invulnerable to fire . . . when the bombers suddenly vanished. It was a mirage -- a -reflec- tion of a Japanese air fleet many hundreds of miles away! . While. British troops were fighting the Turks in Mesopo- tamia during: World War I, the enemy broke and fled across the shimmering desert. On the Bri- tish gun-boat on the River Ti- -- gris," the captain saw the: panic- stricken Turks and ordered his men to fire, y "The Turks are finished!" he exulted. "Our artillery will mas- sacre them!" He waited for the thundering roar of the British guns. None came, we fire?" cried the captain, des- pairingly. "We've got them!" , The British artillery never, fired and the Turks were later able to' regroup. A great chance of victory had been lost. Was it - --a case of military ineptitude? - No . . . for the British gunners had seen nothing of the enemy. The Turks had retreated and disappeared. into- a mirage ---- that layer of heated air in desert countries which - distorts light and makes it look like a lake or an inland sea. : The British' had been robbed of their victory by. refraction. Below their eye level had been a" layer of hot air which had ' reflected the lower part of the sky. Heat waves or the -wind had - completed the f{rickery by making the image ripple. Extreme heat and cold do strange thingg to light. During the Crimean 'War soldiers were astonished one hot day to see the whole British Fleet in the sky. As. though that wasn't enough -- the ships were up- side down, and so were the un- mistakable shapes of sailors in the rigging. . In the polar regions, explorers have frequently been fooled by seeing what they thought was another ship, smoke pouring from its funnels, apparently only a few miles away, When they have approached the phantom vessel, it vanishes. It is the re- miles away. . When Sir James Ross, in the last century, 'sought the. north- west passage through the wastes bo the north of Canada, he was turned back by what he thought was a vast land area with tow- ing mountains, Later Admiral ~ geary saw the same mountains and recorded them on his chart. A later expedition sent by the erican Museum - of * Natural ory found. the sama. moun- . n when the sun dipped below the 'horizon ahd the "mountains" . > Don't Believe Everything You See -- Strange Tricks Played By Refraction "went back to the same spot giant Japanese bombers came 3 steadily and swiftly on. The startled - cruiser's crew " His mountain range was situated --watched the sun set, come up - again, "Why don't . ing about in them. A Thomas _R. Henry, in his book, | "were easily deceived, _ flection of a ship, hundreds "of : s and was charting them | vanished. All the explorers saw. then was ice tloes -- long miles of them. Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole in 1920 and photo- graphed a mountain range. 'He twenty - years. later and found" a mirage had fooled his camera. 200 miles away. The polar regions are- a vast hall of mirrors, Explorers have seen the sun apparently rise.: twice and even three times in one day -- and put up the same fantastic performance In the evening. « Eeiray Sir Ernest Shackleton, the po- lar explorer, recorded in his diary during his 1914 expedition to the Antarctic: "I had taken the sun for the last time and- said we would not see it again for ninety days. Then after eight days it got up again. It had gone away 'and risen by refraction. On other days, we and -set over and over 'until we got tired of it." © Polar explorers have also re- ported seeing phantom cities awaiting them on the horizon --with beautiful buildings, trees, gardens, and even people walk- "The White Continent," tells of one recent instance: "Crew mem- bers of a coastguard icebreaker-' pushing southward throughly the ice pack on New Year's Eve, 1946, saw. on the southern "hori- zon what appeared to be a green shore, . close-mown lawns, bor- dered by hedges, sloped gently upwards -into eiderdown clouds. It was a reflection of an Am- : erican city freakishly photo- graphed on the clouds from thousands of miles south. Nowadays explorers and sail- ors "are rightly sceptical when they see phantom cities "and ships in the sky. But it is little wonder that in the pasty when the world was. less well-known, sailors, unaware of mirages, Such fantasies probably gave rise to the legend of the "Flying Dutchman," the ghost ship that is said to sail forever round the world, and to the belief in the fairy city of the enchantress Morgan La. Fay. ; For hundreds of years this city appeared to sailors in the Strait' of Messina, between Italy and Sicily, floating in the air with fairy towers and building, and luring sailors to their doom. 'The enchantress was' said to lift her city from the waves when she wanted more people for it. Sailors occasionally still see her "city" -- the "Fata Mor- gana." But now they know it is a reflection of one of the cities on the African coast thrown on the sky -- just as at certain times the eastern shore of Liaké . Michigari has been thrown into the sky above: Chicago, many - miles away on the lake's west- ern shore, oS Sa Sage: A man who knows his onions, THe : / York "writes Harold - Hobso their: names. talk of team spirit and coopera~ Two Stars Don't Make An Entire Company - Sir Laurence = Oliver and Vivien Leigh are to join the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeare Company next spring and sum- mer. i No definitelchoice of plays has been made, and it is not known ~ whether Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier will accompany the Stratford company 'to America when the season is over. But plans for an American visit of the Stratford company have long been in the air. It had been intended that Sir . John Gielgud should head the Stratford players in a visit to New York at the end of this year, but that plan has fallen through. Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier would be a welcome, in fact a more than welcome sub- stitute, If it should happen that the Oliviers visit the United States "with the Stratford players, one hopes profoundly that the mis- takes of the Old Vic .visit of the 1940's will not be repeated. Mr, Olivier and 'Sir Ralph Rich- ardson were in _ that Old - Vie company, which presented "Un- cle Vanya," the two parts of "Henry IV," and "Oedipus Rex." I have been looking through the complete New York press cut- tings of that visit, and 1 find that, of those four productions, the only one to be heartily" ap- preciated by the leading New critics was "Oedipus," in The Christian Science. Monitor. "Uncle Vanya" in particular came in for very severe com- ment. It was said to be very badly directed and 'ill played. The boredom of its characters: spread over to "the audience. That, at least, was what most of the critics asserted. i In: many ways that Old Vie visit was a great success, how- ever. Thousands had to be re- fused admission to the perfor- mances, which were more than - fully booked up. Mr. Olivier's performance in "Oedipus" was enormously - praised. So was Joyce Redman's as Doll Tear- sheet in "Henry IV." But it is impossible to go ~ through-all the New York criti- cisms without feeling that Ame- rica was disappointed in the Old "| Vic. : The fact is that the Old Vie had had the wrong kind of pub- licity beforehand. Britain had at- the time a Labor Ideas of equality were popular. "These ideas spread to the Old Vic. : os The Old Vic company was then appearing at the; New Theater in the West End, On the boards outside the . playhouse the names of the company were listed alphabetically. There was no star billing. Mr. Olivier and . Sir Ralph came very low -on the list, because of the accident of There was great tion and repertory work, as though all the players were of equal merit; dis 4 This sort of publicity -preceded the Old Vie company to the" United States. Some of the Ama- . government. | rican papers believed this publi- city, and declared the company to be the finest repertory troupe ever seen. But most of the lead-- ing critics were not deceived. They said, what was perfectly _true, that many better reper--- tory companies had been seen, - and even raised, in the United States. The fact of the matter is that the Old Vie company which visited the United States con- - tained. 'many, very, mediocre players. The real strength of the company was that it had two stars of the first ' ma<nititude. But this was ignc-ed i the com- pany's publicity, a ~~ so. the company cam: to seriously misjudged. : isd As I say, I h~pe this mistake will not be repeated. The Strat- ford troupe is not a good reper- . tory company, if by a good re- - pertory company one means a company itt" which every part is well played. All Stratford com- panies contain some, . even sev- eral, actors and actresses of heart-chastening ineptitude. But if the Oliviers go to America, the company will have two great stars, It is as a star..company that it ought to be judged. It is the performances of its principles on which its reputa- -tion will rest. Unless this is realized, Injustice will' be done, and much pleasure will be lost through looking for virtues the company. does not have and so missing those .virtues which it has. ; i DISILLUSIONED He "lifted his elbow" rather ~ frequently, and in consequence suffered somewhat from his wife's reproofs. Once she followed him to a bar and found him sitting in front of a whisky, gazing into _ '"space. i : Before she could start harang- uing him he offered her a sip, but she sphuttered at the first mouth-. ful. "How can you drink that hor- rible stuff?" 'she demanded. "There you are," said her hus- band, reproachfully, "and all.the time you thought I was enjoying myself." . Clost Sabot-French fashion de- . signers are tapping out a new fashion note with the adapta- tion of wooden shoes--sabots-- * for Use as handbags. A leather strap and cover is all that is" needed to transform the tradi tional peasant footwear,