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"Dear Anne Hirst: I've, tried to solve this problem but got nowhere, so 1 turn to you . ., Since school days I've been good friends with another woman. Whefi she married, things were rough, "years 1 .pitched in and helped her clean house, "her children, etc. "Well, "time marches on, Her boys are grown and getting mar- ried. She has come into money, bought a new home cars, siderably these past few year the only times she's invited me were (shrewdly enough) when she and her husband were to entertain, and the visit would end with me right in the kitchen helping the servants, "Recently she visited me for the first time in ages. A son is to be married, and (with the air of a countess) she said: 'There will be 100 at the cocktail party and I need you; I'll .have no other help," and walked out be- tore I could answer! I could not sleep all night. I'd thought I would be a guest at the event, but no, I'm still to be Cinder- © 11: 1. "For a long time she hag 50 overbearing and given me such a feeling of inferiority! Now she is on the way up, and we are still struggling alone . | . [ shall be looking forward to your .good, sound advice, thank vou kindly for it.- C INDE RELLA." T wo COURSES * Your problem is not so un- © common as you think. Mahy a * childhood friend accepts grate- been * fully all the love, sympathy * and practical help another "woman gives her for vears on "end --- and' when she comes, * into money, changes her en- * tire nature. She believes her * new wealth entitles her to au- * thority, and she exercises it * with almost unbearable arro- * gance. Instead of using her © "* wood fortune to brighten the * lives of less fortunate friends, * she thinks they should be flat * tered by her recognizing their * existence. In other words, che * becomes a 'first-rate snob * You can take either of two © courses: keep on serving her » in your helner former capacity as a and getting a kick out and for' myself ° . baby-sat for . and two She has let me down i +: and 7 of it, smiling beneath your hurt, with the conclusion that she doesn't know any. better or you candecling the "honor" and end the friendship." The latter choice is the customary true companionship. left be- tween 'You. She is Not the grateful friend she used to be. Her ostentation should arouse 'only your pity, bécause she is life. We all know so "many peo- ple, who, notwithstanding any change in social position, treas- ure our friendship through the years. They value us for what we are ahd have been to them, and lose no opportunity to show their appreciation for long and beloved associations. I know how hurt you are, but you should not be. It is she who has failed you, and her better need your help now, but she would make a slave out of you notwithstanding, It is she who is inferior, of course. I think you owe it to~your per- sonal dignity and self-respect to take the strong stand; she will have' to respect it. You will suffer no loss in letting her go, for she is not the loyal, loving woman she once was. She is responsible for the end " of the friendship which today * is no friendship at all. : i "# CLERGYMAN PRAISES "Dear Anne Hirst: I read your column regularly, to satisfy my curiosity about the advice those In vour position give to peo- ple who write them. May I say that IT find it sensible and help- ful?" "I commend you on the fine" work you are doing and which ADR k Slelah cella Bb id Pot of Bet Eis your philosophy and knowledge accomplish. Through your in- timate contact with human na- ture €and without benefit of theological training) vou are able to unravel the skeinsd of poorly=knitted. lives, and vou remedy defects which negli- gence and ignorance have wrought. T expeet vou to reach those who "would never ap- proach .a, minister for advice, "I hope that your endeavor will itinue to bear fruit upon the vent ground of those who A BI OK 70 Spiritual Strength for Today - Reverend RB. Barclay Warren = Mr. Warren's column is syndice- _ated in seventy or more On- tario newspipers and in news- papers in Lexington Ky., Cin- cinnati Ohio, Kansas City Alo. Indiana --and New York S{ate This book will be published simultaneously by Thomas Nel- son and Sons, New York. "One day, some vears ago, the Reverend Barclay Warren kndlt in prayer and asked for a way in which he could further 'God's work. He started writing articles. The recognition of these ar- ticles was widespread and im- mediate. Even during the hectic war years, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. King, found time to write Mr. Warren "I have read with much interest the article from one of your weekly newspaper contributions. It reveals your leadership in the formation of a true public opinion." His words are echoed by countless thousands. This book is an excellent sa lection of these articles present- | | TREASURE ed with an introduction by Mr. James Gregory, M.A, D.D., (Professor of Philosophy, Rob- erts Wesleyan College, North Chile, N.Y.). Mr. Warren's ap- proach is forthright and direct, his writing simple and clear. His remarkable skill, readability and his candid and {Horoughly realistic ap- proach to religious and ethical problems, makes this book much more than a collegtion of ar-- ticles. : This book herence and can day to day guide to religious living or one can turn to it in moments of hesitation: and doubt. The author govers not only the great festivals of Christmas and Easter but also Mother's Day. Juvenile (and adult) delinquency, being prob- lems of day to day living do not and inspiration and co- be used as a has unity escape his attention. Indeed, nothing escapes the. author's attention because to him "Re- ligion is not a special compart- ment of our activitics. Religion is life taken up into _the fel- lowship of God." REVEREND R. BARCLAY WARREN -- author of "Spiritual Strength for Today" which is reviewed 'in these columns. ; ~ + og Rag p) PREY one; for there can be little missing a fine e¥patisnse in self. She does not' | i « lowing "trinaline skirt. ee 3 THIS MODERN" AGE-- As school lets out across the nation for the summer, a "new" fashion fad makes its appearance at school. * Nola Marie Beals, left, and-Inez Bateman are the subjects for this photographic-study ofthe. return ofthe pantaloon and bil- This photograph won $300 and first prize in a national photography contest for 18-year-old Phillip = Bateman," who attends high school. take your words to heart. (You may print my létter if you wish.) I. T. L." * It may please you to know * that I regularly consult re- * ligious: leaders of all * and have found them eager to * advise and co-operate, Various * organizations contribute infor- * mation, too, all of which help * me do a better job. I shall wel- * come any criticism or advice * you may-feel inclined to send * me. = * = When our friendship is taken advantage of, the hurt may per- sist but our conscience is clear. We should only pity the small mind that prompts the act. Turn | to Anne Hirst when you need understanding and. sympathetic counsel, addressing her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New {o. Ont. Rice Growing the a cycle of seedbeds, green on The whole process of growing of rice is beauty, from the greener than any carth, to the last harvested golden sheaf. T was charmed always by every change, and cs- pecially by the "transplanting, when the dry fields were filled with water and the farm family rolled up the legs of their blue cotton trousers and waded into the water and planted the sced- lings neatly and exactly spaced over the fields. - Cut To Fit! 4523 14v2--24% by une a Half-sizers! Look so smart in this bright and breezy style, It's sew-simple -- no side opening! Just unbutton shoulders -- slip it on. 1-2-2 quick! Make sever- al in a jiffy in tubbable cottons. Cut to fi, the shorter, fuller figure -- no alteration problems with this pattern! Pattern 4523: Half, Sizes: 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 24%. Size 1674 takes 4% yards 35-inch, This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit, Has complete illustrated instrtue- tions. : Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (384) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern, Print plainly SIZE, NAME, DRESS, STYLE NUMBER, Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St, New Toronto, Ont, faiths, | Toron- AD. all clear sheaves of rice, The rice grew swiftly while we were gone during the sum- mer and when we came back in late September the fields were ° ry again and the grain stood igh and yellow. Then came the Harvesting when once more the farm family sallied forth and with hand sickles: cut the sheaves, and tied them and stacked them and carried them to the threshing floors in front of the farmhouse. There the sheaves were spread and men and women lifted the swinging bamboo flails and beat out the grain. Women swept up the grain and spread it in winnow- ing baskets and men tossed it up for the wind to clean. When at last the rice was harvested it was piled into vats made of clean rice straw woven into matting and shaped and tied into containers. There was poet- ry in every movement of the blue-clad peasants, and I see it in"my mind today, a series of exquisite and symbBolie pictures, ' memorized through «half my lifetime. Only in Java, years later, did I see the process whole and simultaneous, for there upon the richest soil and with the finest rice climate in the world, plant- ing and harvesting went on in adjacent fields, the earth in con- tinual production so -that while some farmers transplanted seed- lings into the water others bore home the sheaves. When I think of Java, I see handsome brown men carrying on their shoulders heavy-headed 'and cut as exactly even as "strands of yellow silk. -- From © "My Several Worlds," by Pearl 1954, by S. Buck. Copyright, Pearl S. Buck. "Modern Cans Safe Even When Open Did you know that a: "tin can" isn't made of tin? It is actually sheet steel with only a fine coating of tin plated on both ~ sides. And did you know that food left in an open tin can today is just as safe as it would be in a glass jar or any other con- tainer? In the early days of canning housewives were warned to empty the food from the can as soon at it was opened because - of the danger of contamination. Many people are still faithfully following those 'instructions, in spite of the fact that modern cans are perfectly safe as food containers! : Years ago paint chemists de- veloped corrosion-resistant en- ~amels for coating over the tin. Now you can open up a can of" - salmon or any other food and leave the left-over portion right in the can. But it's hard to break a- habit and Grandma probably never will be convinced! - Commercial .food canning in Cdnada has grown into a multi- million dollar 'industry since Tristram Halliday in 1839 open- ed the first salmon cannery on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Sco- "tia. Thirty years later a fruit canning enterprise was launched at Grimsby, Ontario, in the heart of the famous Niagara fruit belt, Today, in British Columbia 90 percent of the salmon catch is canned and represents an annual _market value of 50 million dol- lars. 3 17 The yearly value of Canadian canned fruits, vegetables, meats and other foods is about 250 mil- lions, The industry employs thousands of workers and di= rectly supports more thousands of farmers and. fishermen. The tin can is big business! EE aan Ol "girl had found a husband. Miner's S.0.S. Brings. Boatload of Girls : What happens when a village has an acute shortage of pretty, marrigeable girls? Well, when this occurred in a certain Swedish village some time ago, its bachelors: began to "migrate" to other and- « bigger townships in large numbers. The men had grown tired of going without sweethearts and dancing partners. - The' lovers' lane had become desert "ed. : Finally, so many young men had abandoned their jobs in lo- . cal factories and gone to work and live elsewhere that the local council were galvanized into 'ac- tion. They hit-on the idea of "im- porting" scores of pretty girls each Saturday night from neigh- bouring townships and villages so that they could attend' the village's weekly ball -- and meet the remaining bachelors. Free transport in buses was provided between the girls' homes and the village. The scheme worked magically and love and joy quickly. returned to the village. Back, too, came many of the young men who had stayed away. And so many have been "announced recently that there is now a crop of local weddings imminent. In fact, the local council will soon be faced with a new problem, that of finding homes in the village for the young couples. When a' big' gold rush was at its height in British Columbia in 1862, the miners so longed for feminine companionship that potential brides were shipped to them from London. Twenty attractive girls were seit from orphanages. Young miners wore their "Sunday best" clothes as they waited on the quay to welcome this cargo of beauty. Within a week, Another sixty young women followed within a few weeks. . Some were. rather shy, but the gold miners had winning ways and all the girls-were wives before the end of the year. Serapag F un 4 ana Whe Make a hit with the children! Use these appliqué animals on a. quilt, on linens, curtains, clothing, or faced as pockets. There ~are loads of bedtime- story ideas here. Use scraps for these darling little animals. * Pattern 659 has appliqué pattern and directions, Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tgron- to,»Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. ~~ INSPIRED IDEAS--pages and pages. of novel designs in our NEW Laura. Wheeler Needle- craft Catalog for 1955" Com- pletely "different and so thrill- ing! Send 25 cents for your copy now! You'll want to order many of the patterns shown. Frequently the question is ask-. ed: "Are potatoes fdttening!" According "to a leading nutri- tionist, the answer is: "There is no such - thing as a fattening food." Overweight is a problem __of improper calorie intake, Food habits are strong and it is diffi- cult to overcome prejudices, fads -and food-lore which probably have existed in certain house- holds for generations, To single ° out potatoes as a fattening food is simply a prejudice passed on, probably by a food faddist -- one who is not familiar with hu- man nutritional requirements; it acts to the nutritional detri- ment of those who choose to ac- Sh such information.' local engagements each LEARM Clarke . 2: Seems to me I have quite a ' lot of catching up to do in this column -- some o it good, some "bad. 'Remember 1 was- telling you~ about Mac, the dog we got from the Humane Society. Well, after giving him a five weeks' trial we decided there was only one thing to do--take him back to the ken- nels. We hated to do it--he was a friendly and affectionate dog-- but he had bad habits which seemed impossible to cure. Not only that but he would not eat properly and sometimes his eyes looked as if he were suffering. Who knows--he may have been. hurt or ill-treated as a puppy? After our experience with Mac , we gave up the idea of getting another dog--for the time being anyway. And then I saw a Wélsh Corgi advertised for sale. Re- member? ... I have been want- ing a Corgi for years. Now I have one, Long body, short legs, fox- 'red hair and a pedigree almost as long as himself. He is nearly two years old, quiet, well-man- nered and friendly. But to peo- ple who don't know the breed "he looks odd. One farmer, who 1 had not approved ot Mac, looked - at our Corgi and exclaimed-- "Well, things are getting worse, aren't they?" His registered name is Prince Robert of "Green- sleeves and we call him '"Rob- bie" for short. i! It was Tuesday when we got Robbie. Thursday I was baby- sitting in Toronto as Dee and Art were moving. Dave was either sleeping, playing on the veranda, or out walking with me. Dee got home about 5.15. Dave was on the veranda and I 16oked at him every few minutes to make sure he was all right. The last time was at 5.45. I looked and I looked --but there wasn't a sign of Dave. I called to Dee -- "Dave isn't here!" Then I ran down the steps thinking he might have taken a Reader over the veranda railing. Not a chance. But a young fel- low, rooming next door heard' what I said and called, out--*T know where he is--I'll get himl|" And off he went. He had seen , Dave on the run, going down the street, crossing the road, round- ing the corner and heading u Queen 'Street! Why he wasn run over was a miracle. We car- ried him home, set him down on the veranda, and waited, t no notice of him as we with the neighbour next door. Presently what we were wal for happened. Dave pushed way under the folding ate was ready to go again. short- lived freedom grided / with a spanking. It was certainly a telgiatoning experience and made one realize ~how easy it is for children to get and how killed on city streets . . . impossible" to guess what a youngster's 'next move will be. I was glad it didn't %) pen while |. I was alone as Grandma would have earned a poor reputation as a baby-sitter. Maybe Dave inher- its his desire to see the world from his mother as, until she was five years old, she was the world's worst for running away. But we didn't live in the city. The wide open prairie, and later our Ontario farm fields limited the area of Daughter's escapadies. Barring a tumble into the creek or a mix-up with the cows she was comparatively safe. And the weather around here just lately .... just about every- thing, including that grand rain we were needing so badly, Things were looking much better but now the weather has turned cold again. Tornadoes in the States . and in Ontario . . . we are just wondering. Late "Saturday night, just as I was dropping oft -- - i A 5 stop calling me your 'Ané-feathered Srieng'e? to sleep I heard -a newscaster mention bad storms at Welland and St. Catharines, Power off and the lift bridge halfway down for forty minutes with a long line of cars waiting on either side. It sounded quite serious and yet on Sunday it. wasn't even mentioned on the main radio sta- tions at all. Had it been a hor- rible murder or a' bank robbery it would have been mentioned on every broadcast. Naturally any- . ene with friends in that locality would want to know more about ¢ that storm if he had once heard it mentioned. = Freak storms are sometimes heard of only in the most casual way. For instance, all Saturday afternoon the sky had been very black in this district but we got only a few rumbles of thunder. Then a young fellow came in the drugstore while I was there, said there had been a bad storm ten miles farther north but yet when he got to Milton there was no sign of a storm at all. So we are - wondering 'about that one too. Seems as if the weéatherman is determined not to let his left hand know what his right hand is doing. We are particularly in- terested in the weather just now - as we have a niece on her way ' over to Europe and this will be her first voyage across the At- lantic. I imagine it is an educa- tional project as she is one of a group, all of whom are in their second year at University. That's what I call getting education the painless way. Or is it? I suppose someone is having to foot the bill, Monday morning cold,' . windy and overcast--and yet a little humming bird' is flitting - _around: the sweet rocket in the garden. Dear, optimistic little bird, we will take a leaf from your book and hope for brighter Jaze to come. 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