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"Dear - Anne Hirst: two ways--between love for my _ preset husband and a rosier fu- "ture for my little girl .who wants 2to live with her father. After I divorced. him, I was restless and ° _ lonely "until I met this 'man I married. I love him dearly, he is so good and kind and loyal. But he has no.ambition! He does not mind the three of us living in a furnished twe=room. apartment surrounded by most undesirable neighbors; this makes things dit- ficult for my litle girl. Also, these. two are both jealous, each wanting my whole love and at- tention, I sympathize with the girl, she seems so neglected in important ways. "Her own father is ambitious, a good provider, really a fine and gentle man. I just never really . cared for him. My daughter vis- its him regularly and loves him dearly. "Last fall we both visited him. I haven't been happy since. He can give her all the things which are rightfully hers. I feel so by Cerna Whe Just TWO main pattern parts "to this gay, cool maternity top! Could anything be FASIER -- or prettier? Sew _{wo smart ver- sions "2 trim with colorful em- broidery: ' Pattern 882: : Mavdini Misses' Sizes 12, 14, vy 18, 20 Tissue pat-_ tern, transfers State size. Send TWENTY - FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER and SIZE: vour NAME and ADDRESS. ) INSPIRED IDEAS: pages of novel desi NEW Laura Wheeler Needlecraft "Catalog for 1955! Completely different and so thrilling! Send 25 cents for vour, copy now! You'll want to order many of the patterns shown pages gns in odr I am torn and : ~ tried any other. AN ANE HIRST | selfish a hE Wr here with the. , husband I love so much; while "she begs 'to go back to her father. We could return tor him any time, his door is always -opeh; but to close my present door behind me seems like glv- ing up part of my life. © "Must'I give up the man I love for the sake of my little girl's happiness? Or watch her grow. up here---and "perhaps comé to hate me later? I'm afraid I haven't the intelligence to do what is right. I shall appreciate your help. WONDERING" you think is right does not necessarily de- pend upon intelligence. Moral courage is the quality one needs, and to make this pain- ful decision will take all you have. If you acknowledge it is . what . * * - * » * the right thing to do, however, -. . * Ld » » - » * . Doing you will find the strength. You all suffer. under the strain of your 'husband's and daughter's jealousy. If this feeling could be overcome, your little girl might accustom herself to staying where she is, with regular visits to her father; as she grows older, it can readily" happen. The pres- ent situation which causes you ~ such distress will, I am afraid, deepen as the days pass. Shall you. and your husband give up your personal happiness for her sake? If you do. what will your future be? = You do not actively your child's fathe him. could be dislike r; living with agreeable and rewarding, «for you both are devoted to your little girl Knowing she has the material advantages which mean a great deal, and the dévotion of her father, would console you somewhat for the sacrifice vou make. It is a problem for a present- day Solomon. : - ne * . ONE WIFE'S WAY "Dear Anne Hirst: who signed herself 'Desperate' has my sympathy. [, too, lived with a jealous husband for near- ly a year before I learned how to handle him. Arguments, tears, nothing helped--until finally I not talking at all, some- times for-two or three days. "I believe men are more im- pressed by such treatment than At least it worked for PERE IE 2 BE EE TE SE SE SEE SR -The wife me. COLLEGE WIFE" * Jew altitudes baffle a be- + wildered man like complete * silence. He.cannot bear to be * ignored, and he finds no satis- * facfion in tirades addressed to * deaf ears. He talks himself * out, and ther if he is Tart * he starts thinking. * I am sure "Desperate" * appreciate the hint. It Anne Hirst has no solution for your situation, she will stress will - the advantages of either decision and so simplify your problem in your own mind, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, Toronto, Ont. ; - Beauty is something wonder- ful and strange that the artist fashions-out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. 1 ~W. Sontbrset Maugham. IRON CURTAIN RAISES UPON REDS' SPRING FASHION SHOW Fashions pictured above are being modeled in Moscow this spring for those with enough rubles to pay for them, xt reft, traditional Russion folk pattern is mbtif for blouse of two-tone silk summer ensemble. At right, two-iece suit features ocelot trim and lining for the jacket, which has tuxedo front, wide fur cuffs, Matching skirt and turtleneck jersey complete the outfit, Style information and pictures are from an official Soviet source, Write her at New 3 1 Lengthy Jobs You need patience to complete a task like that which Mr. Ger- | ald Paget, aged seventy, hopes. . to finish some time this year." For it hiis occupied nearly: all of |' his spare "time for fifty- seven years. Painstakingly he has made a genealogical study of all the rul- 'ing houses of Europe from the . time of Charlemagne to the pres- » it on 1-2-3 quick! ent day. And he has typed more than 5,000 sheets of foolscap with detailed: information on 600 fam- ilies. He undertook this vast job "because as a boy 'he acquired a taste for family trees. His task will be finishgd when he. has investigated fie more famil- ies. His work/filling nine volum+* es, will ultimately go to the Brit- ish Museum, where he has spent hundreds of hours consulting reference books and documents. Few people have the will- -power to undertake .such a co- lossal task as 'Mr Paget's and the persistence to see it through. In these days of rush you sel- dom find a man or a woman doing a job requiring years of exacting work. "But at the Lick University in California last year an astrono- mer completed the seven-year task of making a. huge mosaic photograph of - the night sky. It was patiently made up of 1,246 pictures each seventeen inches square, taken with a specially constructed twenty -inch lens camera, = Each" photog raph required an exposure of two hours. Combin- ed, the photographs cover about three- quarters of the entire sky, taking in some stars as far away as 100 million light years. Some men have spent large portions of their lives in perfect- ing a single piece of furniture, For instance, a Louis XIV cabinet nearly twenty feet long took its maker' seventeen years to con-- struct. ) The cabinet contained 687 drawers, 130 of which were sec- ret. A Rochdale man named Will- iam Pollit spent all his spare time for twenty-four years mak- ing a wooden model of Cologne Cathedral, All the carving was. 'done with a.pen-knife and there were over es in the model. For. the first eleven ycars Pol- lit had to rely on photographs of the cathedral. Then an architect, impressed by his patience, in- - dustry and skill, sent the model- ler and his wife to Cologne, pay- ing their expenses. 4523 Va-----24% 6 4 yt Pone Alors "Half-sizers! Look so smart in this bright and breezy style. It's sew-simple -- no side openingl Just unbutton shoulders -- slip Make several in a jiffy in tubbable cottons. Cut to fit the short, fuller figure -- no alteration problems with this pattern! Pattern 4523: Half sizes 14%, ¢ 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 24%. Size 16% takes 4% yards 35-inch. 1,000 miniature statu- - This pattern easy to use, sim- "ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions, "Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (35¢) in coins' (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE 'NUMBER. Bf Send order to Box 1, 123 Eightetnth St, New Toronto, Ont, The world but feels the pre- sent's spell, The poet feels the past as well; Whatever men have done, niight do, : - Whatever thought, niight think it too. 7° : ~Matthew Arnold. oy -- HE HAS A CRUST--Chipmunks being one of the most timid and elusive of the forest creatures, Askel Nohr, photographer, was pretty well stymied in his attempts to get a close-up photo, But ingenuity paid off when he 'got the idea of baiting his foot with . . a-piece of bread. Greed won over fear. The little fellow ap- proached and Nohr, holding camera at-arm's length, snapped i : : this picture. ( > a TGINGERFARM Gwendoline P Clarke - FEE. The 'week-end just one of the nicest we joyed for a long time. Not only was_it wonderful but at Ginger Farm it was also the occasion of a family birthday, an_anni- To and a week-end of glor- ious sunshine. Snowdrops bloom-' ing, daffodils peeking through the ground,' swamp frogs sing- ing and buds a-borning. Bob past was have en- » and Joy were here on Saturday and the rest of the family, in- "cluding Honey, arrived: on Sun- days Dave was the happiest thing on two feet. Except for an hour's a minute. His great joy was to get outside and he was ready to greet anything on four legs Tas a playmate. We visited for awhile at another farm where "there . were more four-footed creatures than we have--dogs, "puppies, cats, horses, goats, calves and cattle, and there wasn't a thing that Davey was . afraid of. For a little fellow eighteen months old he did so much "walking it was a wonder his legs continued to carry him. However, he has his own meth- od of dealing with tiring .situ- ations. He doesn't whimper or ask to be carried; he just stops wherever he happens to be-- and sits! This he decided to do vesterday in the pasture field. = The other Daughter had Dave with her on a downtown shopping jaunt. Dave had been Bn the go for quite awhile, interested in everything he saw. But the time came when he considered enough was enough so, in the middle of Yonge Street, with- out any warning; our Davey suddenly sat down on the side- walk! His mother picked him up and set him down on his feet, 'But Davey wasn't having any. - He immediately sat down again. So Daughter had to carry thirty pounds of solid weight around for awhile. It wasn't long before she felt like sitting on the, side- walk herself, Honey's reaction on' her dirst visit to her old home was quite surprising. We expected she would race around and be very excited, But she took things very calmly except that she thoroughly enjoyed a swim in the creek.,: At night when she saw Dee and Art getting their coats on she stood at the front door waiting to go with them. But when they opened the, door she looked up at me, saying just 'as plainly as her. big brown eyes 'could-say it -- "Is it all right it I go?" As soon as I said -- "Off you .go!" she was away. Once in the car she stretched herself out on the back seat .and prepared to sleep So it looks as if we. haye lost our "Honey for good. So long as she is contented .we are glad. On a farm a dog needs to be more than a pet. For a city home / Honey ia ideal. While Dave is in his playpen outside Honey sits 'on the veranda and never offers to go on the street unless she is taken. It has been said in our family that Dave and his grandpa are two of a kind. Upon occasion © they both look at a person and never say a word. Yesterday thev had a sort of contest -- er~h looking at the other, Of conse, although he didn't speak, Partner couldn't stop the sleep he was hardly still middle of a" day twinkle sently Dave's solemn little face was 'all smiles. When Partner was ready to go to the barn Dave came along with Grand- pa's rubber boots, waved his father, and then returned to his own important business, such as opening doors and cupboards and investigating the cat's dish. Well, after that little write-up I am sure those readers who wanted to hear more about our grandson will be quite satisfied. - Maybe others less sol Prior to the week-end it was quite an eventful week, as everyone knows. The resigna-- tion as prime minister of that great leader, Sir Winston Churchill; the appointment of Sir Anthony Eden as his succes- sor; the bringing down of the Federal Budget which makes little difference to farmers one way or the other, unless they happen to want to buy a new car. Of course there had to be a few atom bombs let off to:dis- turb our peace of mifd. But I suppose we have to accept these big fireworks now. Another farmer, a few miles Jrom here, sold his farm last week and is moving to town. Last. Wednesday 1 went to a neighbour's farm-furniture and antique' sale. 'buying' crowd I ever 'saw, fact there v In were times when the .bidders couldn't bid fast enough so anxious were they to gain possession of some pre- cious antique. A china duck 'homespun bedspread, $45; a pine . cradle, $13; a converted oil lamp with a bowl-shape shade and "Treservoir, $21; a milk-glass vase __with a flued edge $19; a conical candle lantern, $9; a buggy lamp, $8. Some of these things were rescued: from the attic and cellar, Remember that, friends, "if the -time. ever comes when you decide. to have an auction ~ sale. You may have a small fortune in your attic. What did I buy? A roasting pan for $1.25. I knew it was just the size for my oven as I borrowed it last - Christmas to cook the turkey! Short Visit Some years ago the Detroit Tigers had a pitcher named Kyle Graham, He was a ballplayer with a big - appetite. - Nothing could spoil his hearty appetite. One afternoon, with' the Tigers fighting a powerful Philadelphia Athletics team, Kyle Graham contentedly munching an after- noon snack. The game was going badly for Detroit, and the Ath- letics, then at their pennant- championship best, were giving the Tigers' starting pitcher a fancy shellacking., He seemed' doomed to be hammered out of _the box, in .,a hurry. K 3 Graham began to warm up emergency duty, but he also phi tinued "to 'eat. Suddenly he re- ceived the signal to go into the game to relieve his teammate. "What's the set-up?" . relief pitcher Kyle Graham asked as he started across the outfield to the box. : "Bases loadgd, with nobody out and Cochrane, Simmons and Jimmy Foxx coming up to bat." - "Nobody touch that sandwich 1 was eatin'" Kyle Graham warned, ute." Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual' basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful. : --Schiller. in his eyes, and pre- hand, said "Bye" to his grand- It was the. best - with red eyes sold for $42; a, sat out in the Tiger bull. pen, "Il be back in a min- and moral beauty which is the ? Snatched Friend - From Tiger's Jaws Some folk spend their lives saving others-- men like Jacques Fosse; d staid business man of . 'Beaucaire, He taught himself fo 'swim and made his first sea ------ Eventually, sinking lower and ¢ lower, the v drpw alongside the dock and every passenger went safely ashore. Only then did the crew emerge, half dead. with fatigue, and the Tashmoo 'settled gently on the bottom. .. Another hero was a tiny Ne- gro lad named Plato, who, Vives rescue at the age of ten, and | in the Deep South of the U,S.A. ' , ftom that moment he seemed to, | When" a child fell down .an- 'be on the spot whenever anyone eighty-foot well, he volunteered in France was in danger of | {0 go down after the infant. 2 drowning. .| With a rope tied to his waist he At twerlty tre' saved two circus |, climbed down the jagged crew be hi: performers and their bear. While ey badly cutting himself on the ub a doing military service he saved : 2 ; ; 5 : tive artillerymen and two horses He made the rescue, but his : that- fell overboard During a ter- clothes were. in. tatters and his . 5 rible flood on the Mediterranean body was' covered in blood. coast he worked for eight days | Sharp pieces of rock nearly put and nights without sleep and, out his eyes. unaided, saved 860 drowning per- He was recommended to the "sons. Carnegie Hero Fund who sent a > "During his life he saved alto- sommjssion to Investigate his : gether 882 penple from .drown- |- case. They told him he would get 2 ing. Yet he would allow none | a phy He grinned broadly and to praise. him, He looked upon shook his head. nil it as just a job of work well "All ah wants," he said, "is a done--the way so manyy other pair of shoes." Needless to say unsung heroes do. he got them--and a lot more be- Twenty years ago Sam Brook sides. was driving his railway engine 'The acts of many heroes go Be in near Mirfield, Yorks, when a unrewarded. Jim Corbett, fam- | pl steam pipe burst; spraying him | ous big-game hunter of North ' with scalding water, He stagger- India, tells the story of two In- : 5 ed back over the feotplate. He dians who ventured into the jun- . could have jumped clear of the gle to gather wood. train; but his first thought was A tiger leapt suddenly on one for the passengers in "his care. and carried him off. His unarm- So he dashed back into the blis- ed friend pursued the snarling tering spray, applied the brakes tiger and ' dragged his friend and saved. their lives, burning from its jaws. Then, with the 3 La himself severely. When asked tiger growling behind him, he il how he forced himself to do so, carried the maimed man miles to he replied simply, "It was my the nearest village, put him on a ~ job." horse and took him to hospital. Every year fclk win medals He received neither reward; | £. for gallantry given by bodies like nor recognition, for the govern- ~ the Royal Humane Society and ment official to whom the case { 'the Carnegie Hero Fund. In war- was reported said, "There must ; 5 time their "deeds would com- be at least two unbiased witness- + - > : . mand glowing headlines, but in es before a reward can be times of peace they are usually | made." dismissed in a few lines in an It would have been a trifle insignificant paragraph. difficult to whistle up the re- : In June, 1936, the excursion quired witnesses on such an oc- ¥: steamer Tashmoo was making casion! ' her return journey down the ; - Et Hudson when she hit an obstruc- OPENED BANK: ~~ d tion that sliced a gaping hole in IN WALKED FISH . , her side. The water poured in. "We must take to the boats," Unlocking the front door of _ daid the engineer. "| his bank in Klerksdorp, South' "Boats?" spluttered the tap- Africa, the manager discovered tain. "We haven't _ enough. that his first customer for the There'll be a mad scramble and day was--an eleven-pound bar- most of my 1,400 passengers will bel. fish. The fish is a type of drown in the panic. Send every amphibian which can "crawl" man below to patch up the hole overland for distances up to a --and pump like the devil." '| - mile, and the bank where it was The passengers danced on the found it three-quarters of a mile moonlit deck and the band play- from the nearest stream. ed on as if nothing had happen- The fish had not been caught - : ed. Every hand who could be with a hook, but. had obviously 3 spared was ordered below. come "overland" and crawled . . They went. although they through between 'the door and knew that if the ship went down floor. It was still alive when they. would be trapped. found. SPRING'S HERE . . . ' et : i 'Spring is in the air and so is this black buck antelope at the St. Louis.z60. Balmy temperatures seem to affect his more sedate " Nn friend with feet on the ground. : + : 7 ed. . AND (ugh!) i HERE, 100. ® ( * .- Spting isn't treating this brown bors diy too well on Gloomys - looking and listless as can be, he's even too lazy to ploy with his. metal ring at the Paris, Frahce, 100, ve