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Fun to make! . Pattern 601: It's made of two ~ round, stuffed transfers. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins {(gtamps.cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box.1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Tor- Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS, INSPIRED IDEAS-pages and pages of novel designs in our NEW Laura Wheeler Needle- craft Catalog for 1955! Complete- ly different and so thrilling, you'll want to order your favor- ite patterns. Send 26 cents for your copy of this new, new cata log ROW! Pa | | | FEE TE SE I EE EE EE IE BE EE EE POET TE RE TE ER or sports, and I realize she is far from well. She has lost too much weight in training, though she is doing well in it. "We have always been proud ~of our three girls- and we are not trying to dominate this one; but we feel she is most unwise to keep on with this friendship. What do you suggest? . WORRIED PARENTS" You two are wise to be dis- tressed. Through her misplaced sympathy for this -weakling your daughter has.become so emotionally involved that her native intelligence and com- mon sense ave being under- mined. She need not be men- tally ill to have got in this state, but she hgs allowed her kindness to rule her: thinking. For her own sake, she must refuse to see him again. Now that she has confessed, it should not be difficult to con- vince her she is only harming herself and doing the- young man no good. ) He is beyond her aid. Like the. spineless creature he is, he has fastened himself to her like a leech, draining her spirit and effacing her naturally gre- gavious temperament until she, is practically 'a recluse;-deny- ing herself normal-friendships. If she cannot help "herself out of this dilemma, you should warn him personally that if he attempts to sce her again vou will take steps to prevent (if. . WILL HE RETURN "Near Anne Hirst: For nearly a year I have been going regu- larly with a fine young man. Re- cently I called the whole thing off --and how sorry I am! IT find I love him more than I knew, and I miss him more than 1 can bear. ) "Twice with him, but he says his love for mie is not the same. If it had been real love in the first place, couldn't--he-forget-my silly act? -- Wouldn't- he forgive me and come back? ' . NO NAME" «Sometimes one who loves is ~* so hurt by unkindness that -it is hard to be reconciled. Per- - » than he thought; if you are, he will soon 'be with you. Parents find that Anne Hirst's opinions and counsel are sens- ible and workable. She does' not expect foo much--and she keeps her readers' confidence. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New 'Toronto, Ont. THE CHARM OF MUSIC Music -1 heard with was more than music. --Conrad Aiken. you Sige ' _ TRANSPARENT ADVANTAGES Af eye ge, WREREL 5 ~ br 2 ful in or out of the ham= "mock is Joan Brown, who is testing o new plastic at Cypress Gardens. The iransparent hamribek is only 10/1000 of an inch mack is that Joan can "+ thick, yet it's strong enough fo hold both Joan and Betty Bland, who looks goed just standing thers. Best thing about the ham- see everybody on the beach-ond avery: body can sée her. i . Fathi since then ve been no interest in shows or dancing Fang ARM Clarke Gwendolf SEER > Vy : 3 : Poor<-old Tippy finally died. He departed this -life last Mon- day and the farm seems lone- some without him. According te. our "yet a virus infection had penetrated the liver and spleerf': and was the main reasgn why Tip refused to eat. When I told the vet Tip was eleven yéars old he exclaimed, "Well, after all,' what could you expect?" And now for some good news. Last Thursday I heard geese overhead. At least I thought I did, but 'I wasn't sure as I couldn't see them. But the next day a neighbour told me he heard geese, too. So I guess 1 was right, even though it does seem early. Early geese, early spring---isn't that the old saying? And who will grumble if it proves to be true? Just for the record, the date on which 1 heard the geese was March 10. I haven't seen or heard a robin yet, but there was a blue jay out for an airing this morning "and there are certainly plenty" ~of crows and: starlings around and the cows are sort of sniffing the air when they are turned out to drink--the way they do .when spring is in the air. The willows are' getting a yellowy look .and the creek is running fast, washing away a corneg, of our front field down ly the road, due to a faulty engineering job at the time the highway -was. built. As if there wasn't enough soil erosion in the 'country al- ready. ) Farm auction sales are com- ing along* thick and 'fast these days. In the last three to be posted the present owners are . retiring .and younger men have purchased the farms. Which is all* to the good. We hope the- trend continues. You know. farm folk have a . lot of adjusting nowadays--and it isn't always easy. As every- one knows Saturday used to be the shopping day for farmers and their families. As recently- as ten years ago almost. every small town was crowded on Sat- urdays with country folk intent on- weekend shopping, and of course visiting among themselves --especially on Saturday nights. The families of business people "were seldom seen in any great * 'haps this young man i% afraid * vou avill repeat the offense, - * and he is in no mood to risk it. * All you can do is wait and * see and hope, * In your place, IT should not--i-- * call him, nor write. Let him * find out whether you are * more important .in~ his life »* - number._down town on a Satur- day. There was a sort' of un- written law that left that day to the farmeys. It made: it easier for* shoppers and shopkeepers dr. Glamour! 4 You're lovely to look at, Jr, Miss, in your new glamour (rock! Halter neckline. above a whirl- ing skirt line divine for a young figure! Match pretty scal- loped jacket to the dress; con- trast. with a sheer insert on the dress bodice. : Pattern 4797 Jr. Miss Sizes 11, 13, 15,\17.. Sizé 13 dress takes "3% yards 36-inch fabric, % yard contrast; jacket, 1 yard. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to few, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions, Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (35¢) in coing' (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern, Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. " . Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth 8t, New Toronto, Ont. a a ISSUE 14 -- 1955 . > HEE sp HAS Aaa MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER--IVs the toy vacuum vi) cleaner--not the little girl--that's going to be a big help to mother. Battery pow- ered, the tank-type cleaner 'actually picks up crumbs and ust, is designed to keep Sis busy while Mother gets on with the cleaning. I's one of the many "grownup" toys manufacturers are now showing for the 1955 Christmas trade. alike. Industrial workers were working six days a week at that. time. When they did their shop-' ping I don't know. But of course there were fewer of them around as industrial plants were small- er in size and number. But the picture has changed. They have the five:day week--so now it is "the industrial workers and their families who more or less take - over the small town centres on Saturdays. Pay envelopes pro- vide the means for the house- 7 wives' shopping; Saturday mati- neces a weekly treat for the chil- dren and every available inch of - parking space is takeh up. - Country children also want to go to the Saturday matinee and to be taken to town while moth- er - goes shopping. So a great number of farm people must still go down town Saturday after- noon. Of course they used to wait until Saturday night, but that is practically a thing of the past as now -small town' store- keepers practise Saturday night closing. The vesult .. . farmers, factory. workers, [es women and children, from town country, all crowd into town at approximately the same time, Stores are jammed. Farm folk who leave their shopping until Saturday have trouble. in get- ting served. Older farmers, not having children who look for- . ward to this Saturday treat, now do their best 10 avoid Saturday shopping. As for me, there 1s only one thing that takes ifie .to . "know only tod and | "were try trade which is becoming in- creasingly evident with the re- ° duction in - farm incomes. We + have been aware of the change _ for some months.now." Naturally many country' folk well that farm ingpies, have suffered a set- _ back, but it was the first time 1 had heard it' was being reflected in small town consumer buying. In fact I had often wondered how long it would take farmers generally to realize /they- were not as well off as they might think. Sometimes it takes a gar- ment quite a while . before it actually bursts at the seams. As far as I can see Saturday night | closing only aggravates-the situ- ation.. In fact I know of a few -- families, accustomed to shop in one. particular town {for years, who are pow shopping in an- "other . district because it is the 'only small town where stores remain open on Saturday night. : Pass Seventy-Five LiveTo A Hundred Professor Bogdanov, one of; 10 Russian doctors who recently visited Britain, said that there are people in Russia' who are more than 140 years old, who ~ 'alive when Napoleon . marched on Moscow. Some-- of them have grandchildren of oyer 70: Is there a secret behind ex- ceptionally long' lifetimes? It * and' fatty substances that in- creasingly form in the blood may, harden arteries. But usu-' ally these dangerous chan do not continue after about 7 + sometimes they are actually reversed. thy [3 Lita *Thé American doctors des scribed the 60 to 75 period as a "threshold age." The secret of living to a great age is to pass through this _ period of life safely, "Most of us die before ' 'reaching that barrier or while going through it. But, once we get through, our chances of living to be 100 years 'are. good." . There seems little doubt that increased study -of old age will improve man's chances of get: ting past 75. Certain new drugs used in America are already helping to make older living more comfortable. People who are between 40 and 50 today hare lived through a period when the expectation of life has risen by about ten years; those who are under 20 may see the average age of death pushed forward into the late 80's or 90's. ite It will, of course, bring many problems. It could put pension schemes very heavily in the red "and create severe problems of world food supply. Who wants to live to be a hundred anyway? Most people do--but with a reasonable re- tention of normal faculties, not as invalids propped up by drugs. That is the real target: of modern medical 'research on longer living--to make old age both older and fitter. It is one of the certainties of the future..~ LOST & FOUND The other "day a walked into the lost property 'department of an omnibus com- pany in Edinburgh, She asked "in a foreigi accent: "Have you - a pair of gloves I lost?" The 'man behind the counter search- ed the shelves, but told her the gloves had not turned. up. . <As he was turning away, man was amazed. He is indeed _ Mr. Williem Smith, of Penny- well Place West, Edinburgh. _* 'During the. war, he 'was a' prisoner in East Prussia. He worked ing cheese faetory scrubbing the cheeses. The woman, a German, also wor there, upstairs in the packing i department, ! Mr. Smith took a closer look at the woman, and slowly he began to remember who she was. She told Mr. Smith she had married a Scots soldier and was now living happily im Edinburgh. Unfortunately thé . German woman had to rush off to meet her husband and .in_the midst of all the excitement he did not get her address. y Mr. Smith. is wondering: i chance will make the lady lose her handbag or umbrella before he has the opportunity of see- ing her again and taking over old times. TF » In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. RN "to town an a Saturday afternoon --just to pick up the weekend edition of a certdin newspaper + which I would hate to miss, and to get a few books from the library. : } Last Saturday I. found the fown particularly busy and 1 stood at the back of one of the stores--just during a momentary slack pe- riod, .I said to the storekeeper, "You must notice quite a differ- ence in trade .these days." His "answer surprised me. - "Not as much as you might think," he replied. "The extra fown trade we get doesn't begin th make up: for the loss of coun- watching. = Finally, - so, the Russian doctors admitted they didn't know it, American research work. has: been actively directed towards the medical problems of old age in recent years. Four New York doctors recently told the Am- erican Medical Association that people who get past the 60 to 75 period 'of life have a good chance of living to be a hun- "dred. They reached -this con- clusion after an intensive study . of 1,000 men and women be- tween the ages of 80 and 100. ~ Between 60 and 175, various processes in the body undergo sharpe changes. Blood pressure may- start rising too 'speedily, EA HE GOES FOR DOLLS--New diners at John Omizzolo's restaurant in San Francisco, are somewhat surprised at his hobby--collecting _ dolls. The six-foot-two .Omizzolo has some 380 dolls he has collected" from 40 countries in the last 30 years. He is shown standing in "what was once a hat-check booth. but which now. serves as his doll house. In his left hand he holds an 18-inch Marie Antoinette, bisque doll over 100 years old. The doll is dressed in an exact replica of a costume worn by Marie An- _toinetfe. Omizzolo has it insured for $5000. For his entire col- a lection he_ has insurance. policies totaling $25,000. £L "A Faithful and trivolous.mingle outside St, Patricks in 1910... 81 Patrick's Cathedral, seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, has beco 7 + es Si. Patrick 's Cathedral Spells Easter Parade | to parade on Fifth Avenue, as they still do each Easter Sunday, familiar fo Christians of all faiths as a focal Vv point of the nation's biggest Easter Parade, Located on New Y ork's Fifth Avegue at 50th Street, its congregation joins the thousands who jam the Avenue follo cathedral was consecrated October 5, 1 3" J wing religious services on Easter morning. Begun in. 1858 and dedicated in 1879, the 910, the year in which picture .at left was taken; cost an estimated $2,500,000 v4 : : : . : * WOoImaR the woman peered into his face and said: "You "are : Smith!" The --Alfred Tennysom.