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tesa iY *~ oO "in the show, and "Dear Anne Hirst; My hus- band and I have been divorced "|: over three years, and we have two 'children nearly of school age. I am only in my early 20's now; and he is a few years older ... We never did get along, we fought over everything . . . The children were awarded to me at the time of divorce, and a short while afterward my husband was sent to a mental hospital. "Now he is back again, and is coming to his senses; we see each other often. He is wonder- ful with the children; we all get along fine and love each other very much, He has asked me to remarry him. We realize that we were too young to marry be- fore, and that he was sick be- sides. "Both our families oppose our having anything to do with each other, and the things my par- ents predict scare me. "I do want to make a real home for my husband and the children, and now I don't know what to do. Please help me de- cide. AJ" PROFESSIONAL ADVICE From all you tell mg, I find myself on the side of you and your husband. It seems to me that neither your family nor his with all their affection and good intentions, can judge his condition as well as his wife. Don't resent their attitude, however. They are acting in good faith according to what they feel .are the best- inter-. EINE TEE SE EE EE BE EE EE 3 Pes ous NOT TRUE--That's what Van- essa Brown, above, is saying about reports of backstage bickering on the set of TV's "My Favorite Husband." Van- essa cosiars with Barry Nelson they and . their spouses have been mak- ing a. gay foursome lately. Barry didn't get along so well with Vanessa's predecessor, Joan Caulfield. ests of you, your husband and the children, take your husband back, To make assure as you can that he is ready to assume respon- sibilities, 1 suggest that you both consult the physician who committed him to the hospital. - I am informed that such in- stitutions are usually over- crowded, and it could be your husband was released before he is sufficiently cured to make a succecss of remar- riage. His doctor, through ex- tensive examinations and analyses, will have an opinion which can guide you both. His conclusion may corroborate your own -- or he may ad- vise waiting for a longer per- before planning a second mar- riage. For all your sakes, 1 hope with you 'that remarriage is not far off. If you must wait for it, wait patiently and with faith, knowing that it is safer to accept a professional opin- ion on such a monumental problem. ERE ERE ER ERE EERE ED EERE REE BEET EERE L * * DOUBTING WIFE WORRIES Dear Anne Hirst: I am very much in love with my husband and have always trusted him. Lately, though, once a 'month 'he stays out late; he has joined a men's club and he says they all gamble, I know he gambles sometimes, but I believe now he is interested in some woman. "Several years ago I saw him with a girl, who turned out to -be a friend of his brother's. He explained things, but I didn't like it, so now I think he's see- ing somebody else. "Every time the club meets I' get . so uneasy I can hardly stand it! What do you think? o- WORRIED" * 1 think you are hunting for * trouble that does not exist. * You certainly have gone far * into the past in your search, * and dug up an incident which * was innocent of any meaning. * If you persist in such non- * sense your husband will rebel, * and who could blame him? * On the evenings his club * meets, why don't you and a * * * * * woman friend visit together - or- go to the movies? That is the practical answer 'to your problem, and I hope you are -smart enough t accept it. SI *® ie - In any crisis, tell Anne Hirst your situation and ask her opin- ion, If she cannot advise you herself, she will recommend a source of help which the situa- tion scems to require. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Foronto, Ont. He Added oe Hires Shape to Jet Planes RICHARD WHITCOMB AND "THE SHAPE: Also internal Longley Field -- Richard T Witcomb is the first inventor in history to give the aircraft in- dustry "Marilyn Monroe" sex appeal. But you'd never know it. : » When he leaves the roaring wind tunnels of the Langley Aergnautical Laboratory, Whit- comb enjoys nothing more than to go home to his workshop. There he experiments in another field of engineering -- internal combustion, He has even ap- plied for patents on several in- ventions as, a result of his hob: by. «This is one example of the ever inquisitive mind that be. longs to the 34-year-old scien- tist on the research staff of the for Aeronautics, And it also helps to explain why Whitcomb is hailed as one of America's brightest aircraft designers He is the man responsible for the recently announced disciv- ery of the new concept in air- craft "design leading to a great reduction of drag rise whith oc- curs at transonic speeds. It has already applied to two super- sonic -aireraft resulting in speed gains up to 25 per cent, "Marilyn Monroe" is the name' that has been given to the spec- ially designed fuselage Whit- comb has devised, It's also re- ferred to as "Coke bottle" and "wasp waist." Up until now the shape of the "Marilyn Monroe" fuselage has been kept under careful secur- ity' wraps, It was first made available to the aircraft indus- try in September, 1952, however, " You are, of course, eager to iod and further consultations ~ -_jobs to do -- pullets to house, * hundred and one jobs that have _ of _mustard pickles. In fact a i, children, of course, are back to school and mother must now do . or in many ways fetch and still carried on modern machin- , has progressed . by leaps and .as long as everythi De goes all - same job the old-fashioned way, MODEST MISS AMERICA--"There is nothing Seal about RAL pictures," says Sharon Kay Ritchie, Miss America of 1956. The Denver coed is shown, at left, in the. modest, one- piece bathing suit which she wore at Atlantic City, site of the annual beauty contest. At right, Sharon, who says that she'll not permit any more cheesecake pictures to be taken of her during her reign as the nation's beauty queen, poses in conventional street garb on the roof of a New York City hotel. NES HRONICLES FGINGER FARM Gwendoline P. Clarke The busy fall season i still with us. On most farms thresh- ing is over but there are other cattle to change from pasture to stubble, fall wheat to sow, apples to pick and the other to be done before the leaves turn crimson and gold. In the house canning and pickling is + still the order of the day; the _ aroma 'of pickling spices is wafted abroad and mother sur- veys -with. satisfaction rows of green nine-day pickles; rich red beets and the deep yellow row of pickles can be a pleasing study-. in colour contrast. The her own fetching and carrying . . . surprising the number of parental steps that can be saved when the children are around. On many farms the. above pic- ture holds true; on other farms, as with Partner and. . myself, children have grown up - and moved away. So now we do our own fetching and carrying -- carry for each other. But on a farm where active farming is ery has taken the place of will- ing hands. Taken the place, did I say? 1 wonder! A combine and a. hay baler speeds up threshing: and haying tremendously -- 'provid- ing there is no mechanical breakdown. Less manual work is now required for many other jobs but it seems to me the work involved is taking 'more out of the older farmer than it ever did. Not physically per- haps -- with a milking machine a man can milk fifteen cows as easily as he milked five years - ago. But the tension is greater; the output of nervous energy is inéreased tremendously from the days when Dad and the boys - loaded loose hay on the hayrack and milked the cows by hand. Agriculture science bounds during .the last .twenty- five years but I have yet fo be convinced that the average older farmer is leading an- easier life. Shorter hours, yes, daily chores lessened considerably -- right. But a breakdodtvn with the milking - machine, combine or baler -- or a power failure -- can take more out of a man in nervous tension. than would the physical energy used for the However, there is nothing that can be done about it -- manual farm labour being practically non-existent, As a result pro- gress and invention go hand in hand and it is probably only to , the older farmer that adjust- ment comes 'a little difficult, The younger generation natur- ally accepts modern methods of "spaces. farming in its stride just as it accepts jet planes and fast mov- ing automobiles. Mechanized farming is also an attraction to the middle-aged with a yen for the wide open To him farming with modern machinery appears de- ceptively easy. So he takes up farming as a sideline, or goes For. Half-Sizers : 4 ) K UYrym by-Hone Aelons Especially for the shorter, fuller figure --- this slimming step-in accented by a new and -dramatic collar detail. Picture this in. crepe faille, or cotton -- you'll - gather compliments galore wherever you go! Pro- portioned to fit -- you won't have a single alteration worry!- Pattern 4629: Half Sizes 14%, 161, 18%, 20%, 22%, 24%. Size 1612 takes '4 yards 39- inch fabric, This pattern. easy to use, sim. ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (38¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, . IILYE NUMBER. R Send order to Box 1, 128 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, 'Ont, . ISSUE 40 -- 195% businessman . take care of themselves, out of business altogether, buys a hundred acres in an unknown territory; spends several thous- and dollars: modernizing the house and barn, and another few thousand on pedigreed cat- tle. In a great many cases a few years: finds the business-man- farmer an older and a wiser man . . . as a result the farm is again on the market, the busi- nessman having - discovered by bitter experinece, that, to the uninitiated, modern farm ma- chinery merely substitutes one headache for another. Ironically eonugh if it were not for mod- ern machinery there would be fewer businessmen-farmers. - If the would-be farmer thought he = might have to milk cows by hand, clean out stables with a wheelbarrow and take hay and crop off the field the old- fashioned way he might not be quite so keen on buying a farm. But of course there are many successful 'businessmen-farmers. There is the executive type who can afford a farm manager-and other help and thus indulge his hobby. Such farms are the _show-windows of agriculture -- a very different proposition from the businessman who sets -out to run. a farm by himself, even if he has every piece of modern machinery he can get. Well, I guess this is where 1 turn grandmother and leave farmers and farming methods, good, bad and indifferent, to Dee, Arthur, David and Honey have just come in and I imagine I shall be required to do a spot of baby-sitting -- and dog-sit- ting -- while they go hunting tomatoes. Looks to me as if Dave has grown about two inches since we last saw him, and that was only about two weeks ago. How children vary. One wee niece, two and a half years old, weighs only 'about twenty-five pounds and yet is as healthy and active as a child could be. Excuse me, I must res- cue the cats and dogs. Dave has already made a bee-line in their direction. He is liable to love them to death. The so-called Silver eel is 'just a common Green eel with' a date! When they are six to eight years old, eels stop feeding and change to a silvery color for their long trip out into the ocean to spawn and die. In those days 100 cowries were "was of value. - consisted of smaller stone wheels .ger off, - os TRA EN a GIA PRG Cg, WR iY This Is Really "Solid"? Coinage In a fascinating survey of the amazing variety of forms .and shapes which money takes in different parts of the world, the National Geographic Society of ° America says that in 1955 cowrie shells rank. first as currency .« among non-metallic materials, Wanderers 'along Some of the lonely beaches of Britain's south-west coast sometimes pick up these inch-long shells , and marvel at their delicaté' beauty, little guessing that they are good - money in anda. You can buy a cow there for 2,300 cowrie shells. A native bride has sometimes been bought in 'Africa for only 2,000 cowrie shells and a 62-1b. 'ivory tusk for 1,000. Every summer it used to be the custom of a Hamburg firm to send fourteen vessels to Zan- zibar for cargoes of cowrié shells which were later used to buy palm oil and other produce along the west coast of Africa. In 1849 some «300 tons of cowries were brought to Liver- pool to be exported to Africa for bartering with the natives. a worth twopence. One could, for instance, 'build a house and pay the cost with ten million cowries, EE If you're interested in money -- and who isn't? -- it's fun studying some of the world's odd currencies. Wheel-money, for example. You can see on the island of Yap in the Pacific the largest coin ever made. It is twelve feet in diameter and has a thickness of eighteen inches. It-has a centre hole nearly two feet wide. This coinage: consist- ed of solid stone wheels made of a special kind of limestone, pro- perly chipped out and with a hole in the centre. No other stone, - however skilfully cut, What we call loose change varying in diameter from a foot . upwards. Perhaps this quaint money gave rise to the phrase "rolling in money !"" When a man wanted to pay a bill with this stone money, he would run a pole through the centre of the coins needed, hoist them on his shoulder and stag- Sperm - whale teeth, hard to come by nowadays, are still legal tender in the Fiji Islands, Dog's teeth have done service as money among the Bannock and Shoshone Indians in North America. And {fishhooks made of shells 'were once good cur- rency in the Pacitic Gilbert Islands. In emergencies men and wom- en use even stranger currencies. One freakish result of an ex- cessive drought in Central Aus- tralia in 1935 was that water was "widely used as a popular form |? of money in the gold-flelds. For 'example, for a carpentering job at Tennant's Creek eighty gal- lons of water was the "sum" given in payment after it had been brought miles from a deep and almost inaccessible well. When an economic crisis hit the little U.S. township of Ten- ino, it achieved world fame by using dollars cut from pine as: currency. MERRY MENAGERIE 'Oh, oh, rm afraid you're not colorfast, dear!" Shiny New Debt If you sometimes fleetingly/ wonder where all the money for all the new cars you see comes from, a recent Federal Reserve Board report will confirm your suspicions, To a spectacular ex- . tent, the money is yét to be earned; it's debt. : That people go: into hock to buy. cars is hardly remarkable; what is' remarkable is the de- gree to which. they are doing it this year. Auto debt increased by. $567 million in June, a re- cord rise and the sixth consecu- tive monthly record..For com- parison, the increase in June a year ago was $166 million. Alto- gether, auto debt at the end of this June came to nearly $12.6 billion. The previous high was $10.4 billion in November, 1953. It isn't just cars,' of course. Practically every kind of debt-- total - consumer debt, mortgage debt -- is shattering records, not to mention the swollen state of the public debt. And nothing is easier than to shrug it all off, so accustomed are we to the needs of gargantuan government and to the 'habit of buying on time. What if all debt is going up? Isn't it helping to make us all prosperous? Perhaps. But there comes =a point where the accumulation of debt ceases to be normal and becomes a menace to the econo- my. Where that point is nobody ever knows in advance, but once the pyramid's peak is scaled, look out below. Even now, if one thinks about it, there is perhaps something - disquieting in the spectacle of millions of people riding around in twelve and a halt billion dollars of bright- hued debt. -- Wall Street Jour- nal. F aces Are Pockets! by Launa Whedon Fun to wear! Perfect for back to school. Make this ver- satile jumper and blouse from remnants, Shell love the pock- ets -- they're smiling faces! Sew-easy, thrifty! Pattern 752: Child Sizes 2, 4, 8, 8, 10. Tissue pattern, face transfers, directions. State size. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. in 'coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto. Print plainly ' PATTERN NUMBER and SIZE; your NAME and ADDRESS. LOOK FOR smartest ideas in Needlecraft . in our Laura Wheeler Catalog for 1955. Cro- chet, knitting, embroidery and lovely things to wear. Iron-ons, quilts, aprons, novelties -- easy, fun to make! Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOWI You will want to order every new design in it. FORRESTAL TRIES AGAIN---Her sea trials post poned a amber of times by hurricanes, the USS Forrestal moves out to sea, « .