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EE HE pg REE EER MR RA A A A ET ud aa EESTI A Ba Th EES AT SARs A SAE SHRI IR EEN ERIN, EA LN SA FAN | AA TAINS R I Tr 1 \ out - "(ANNE HIRST | Crunselor ------------ "Déar Anne Hirst; I am sim- »ly distracted! I met this young "nan over a year ago and started lating him last summer, I fell 10 'in love, and I was sure he . iid, too . . . But now I haven't een him for, nearly two months! le is going with my best girl Tiend, and I am beside myself. Nhatever shall I do? . "I just cannot get him out of my mind, Everything I do, all [ hear or say reminds me of him, and when I pass the res- taurants and dance places we used to visit my heart nearly stops beating. "The strange part of it is, he was married and afraid to ell me earlier, because he thought he would lose me, But I only loved him more. His div- orce came through just a month before he stopped seeing me, Now he is leaving town soon to spend the winter in the South, Of course I shall wait for him, but how can I live until spring? MARIE" * You wrote your letter out of * the: depths of your loneliness - sand your hurt. You weren't thinking, you- were only feel- ing -- feeling how much you love the boy, not what a poor love he offered you. You are also very, very sorry for your- self, and had better face the truth. i This voung man deceived you from the beginning. He had a wife and he never said so. It is all very touching that he explained he was afraid he would lose you, but why didn't he play fair -and take - should? Instead of resenting his duplicity, you say you loved him more! Now that he's been beauing your girl friend about, you cry, "I intend to wait for him!" Wait for what? To let him throw you over next spring? Don't vou know when you are well off? I know what a bittle it takes -{o admit you have lost out, * but life is like that. As long as you live, you will aim for certain goals -- and often you will not even get near your desire. The wise folk do not continue. to mislead. them- selves; they 'learn from ex- "perience. They turn the lock on the "past and say, "Well, that is that" and go on to grapple with life as it comes to them. Living the past over again tears vour heart out, and it can wreck your health. It is not fair fo your family nor vour friends to grieve over © * x % a Fr oe Y x oxo. > ® BEEF REF aE Rr os Feedbag Fashions "Use .a 100-pound feedbag or colorful remnants -- make this handy apron to keep you neat and pretty on kitchen duty! See the diagram--sew-easy, thrifty. Non-slip straps, plenty of pro- tective cover -- be smarl, sew several! y Pattern 4880: Misses' Sizes Small (10, 12); Medium (14, 16); Large (18, 20). 100-pound feedbag or 1% yards 39-inch. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instruc- Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS ° (35¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern, Print lainly SIZE, NAME and AD- RESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123, Bighteenth St, New . Toronto, t. DRE SUE EN ECR ENP SP SE EE TT his chance, as an honest man = - arrest of 11 Sizes, - what you cannot change. You have year and years of life ahead, and they are too pre- hour. lost, and get back into your group again: Look up friends you've passed by since you met this boy. Keep your even- -ings busy. Let those who love you see how you take the shock. Know, as so many other girls have known, that time is on ,your-side, IF you play along with it, I am relieved that the young man has left town for a whole winter. That makes things easier for you than if you risked passing him on the street every day or two. » * » so SHALL THEY MARRY? "Dear Anne Hirst: I've been going with a fine man. regular- ly for almost a year and I am deeply in love, as he professes he is, He lives nearby, never dates anybody else and, of course,: shows in many other ways how much he cares for me. But he is 42 and I am 20, and everybody is trying to say he is too old for me. "I will not be convinced. I've gone for three years with a lot of boys my age, but I never did feel at home with This man and I seem utterly compatible, emotionally and in- tellectually, though I know the last is a lot to assume. He thinks I'm wonderful to get along with and would make any man a good wife. What do you say? WILHELMINA" * If the man has not pro- * posed, why the rush to decide * --unless you want fo stop see- * ing him now if you intend to * refuse him. His generalities * are all very flattering, but per- * haps you have become a habit * with him, and a convenient * one at that. gd As to your ages, I repeat * that a good marriage de- * pends largely on ideals, tem- * perments and habits. You are * obviously mature for your vears, he may be young for his. It is well to remember, though, that when you are in your prime, he will be slow- ing down ahd not so interest- you will be. I wish you had what your family thinks of him. To any girl in such a situation, that should -be high- Iv important. . told me * When grief strikes, what will you do? Many readers turn to | - Anne Hirst. She has not forgot- ten the pangs of her own teens, and problems then were much like those you face today. Ad- dress Anne Hirst, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ontario. 'Short Skirts Make News and Trouble Skirts constantly make news. Because he disapproved of his fiancee's frock, a twenty-year- "old Surrey soldier cut it with a razor. re When charged with injuring the girl and damaging her frock, he said her skirt was much too short. He was bound over and ordered 'to pay for the damage. A new law _prohibiting short skirts was introduced in Athens in 1926 and rigorously enforced. A pretty young girl was arrest- ed because her skirt was 15 in. from. the ground. Police said it should not have been more than 14 in. from the ground, but the " girl was allowed to go free af- ter "twenty-four hours. Less than a week later fhe law was cancelled following the another girl. She proved to be the dainty, twen- ty - year-old daughter of a Greek judge. She had been jailed for a day for walking down the street in an "immod- est" skirt more than 14 in. from the ground. Lovely Spanish girls flatly refused to obey a decree by the Mayor of Almendralejo, a town in province of Badajoz, which forbade women to wear very shoft skirts in 1927. Instead; they. paid. fines en- titling them to wear a short skirt for one month. Police with tape-measures were empowered to measure in the street skirts "of debatable length. Eventually that decree was cancelled," too. You can fall foul of the law for some strange things ih dif- ferent parts of the world. An Indian girl was sentenced to a month's hard labour at New Delhi for kissing her sweetheart in a quiet alley. The youth was fined $25. Canada's population reached as estimated 15,410,000 at the start of December last year, an increase of 405,000 or 27% since December -, 1953, In the previ. 'ous 12 months the gain amounted to 381,000 or 2.6%. cious .to waste another single Be brave. Confess you have them. * * "x + - * ed in an active sdcial' life as * -. - . * She Takes Hers From The Bottle "STUFFED -- Who's hungry? Not Fluffy. The kitten, who takes her groceries from a doll's nurs- ing bottle, makes a toe:stretch- ing picture of contentment, be+ after a self-administered the pet of the low, meal. She's Frank De Pasquales family, Yee ay Ta WY > -~ E22 al JPY I Cir NICLES GINGER FARM Gwendoline D Clarke This column is liable to be written In bits and pieces as we have company for a few days, Joy and Bob will also be here for. dinner and it being nice and warm it wouldn't surprise me to see Art, Dee and: Dave come out an hour or two this afternoon If they don't come then I shall be going to Toronto tomorrow just to see for myself how David is coming along. He is home from the hospital but very far from being a well boy, and of course just as cranky as he can be, poor little chap. } The lawn at the side of the house is strewn with a carpet of golden winter leaves . . . "win- +ter" leaves because autumn fol- iage has long since fluttered from the trees. Popular' leaves are more persistent, hanging tenac- iously to their branches shaken-earthward by a combina- tion of wind, frost and natural gravity. And still there are flowers in the garden -- petunias and 'mums and a few pansies that have survived the frost. As for the vegetable garden, I am -still using 1t as a storage place for carrots. That way keeps them fresh and sweet -- much more so than if they were dug and stored. Well, here we are again . . after dinner and a family gather- ing. And of course, as on all such occasions, plenty of conver- sation one way and another. Since it concerned our own county we naturally discussed the huge land deal that is reput- edly nearing completion in South Halton. Over 7,000 acres, total- ling some" $3,000,000 ! Fantastic. "Shades of the pioneers -= what would they have said could they . have foreseen the future in store for the land they had so labor- ously cleared with axe and "burnings" -- virgin forest that for generations had been the happy hunting ground of the Indians, at one time controlled by - their great Mohawk Chief, Cap- tain Joseph Brant. . Then we turned our thoughts to houses -- old, new and remod- elled. Partner and I listened while the rest of the party theorized on just how our own place could be remodelled. So often it helps to see things through other people's eyes, Not that we have any plans for the immediat> future. No indeed -- not until we kndw for certain when and where Highway 401 is going through, The Department: of Highways is something like a cat -- poised, but no one can tell which way it's going to jump. But at least we can dream, Changes would definitely include more light. Old houses never have enough windows while new ~ houses have gone to the other extreme, Too many windows. until . And there seems to be a craze these days for high bedroom win- dows. I wouldn't have them as a gift. What's the good of a window if you can't see out of it sitting down -- or lying down for that matter. More privacy, home- owners tell us. But imagine being sick in bed in a room with a window you couldn't see. out of. 1 can't imagine anything more depressing. However, everyone: to his or her taste. If we all thought alike it would be a very dull world. But would appear, history repeats itself, even in our thinking. Take this for instance. Dr. J. D. MacLachlan, president of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph was addressing a Plough- man's Association banquet and expressed the belief that, to util- Lifelike Roses Lifelike roses in color--spar- kle on this stunning oval dolly! Pattern 507: Color-crochet oval doily 32x15 inches, in No. 30 mercerized cotton; smaller in No. 50 cotton. Matching round doily is Pattern 603. A lovely twosome for gifts! Each pattern 25 cents, , Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for each pattern to Box 1. 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. - Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. : LOOK for smart gift ideas in our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog. Crochet, knitting, em- broidery, lovely things to wear, Dolls, iron-ons, quilts, aprons, novelties --'easy, fun to make! Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOW! You will want to order every new design in it, sometimes, it" ize high-powered machinery ee- onimically, in the future there would be fewer farmers but big- ger farms and the cow would be regarded as just another machine; her intake and output computed' in dollars and cents, © In a sense, considering present high production' costs coupled with the shortage of farm labour 'this "sounds - like - a logical 'con- clusion -- and the trend to big- ger farms is obvious already. But, are we forwards? There is more than one way of looking at the situ- ation. : " Cast your mind back a hun- dred years or more. Remember the immigrants who came to Canada because here, they thougt, was a country where any man with brains, brawn and suf- ficient capital could, if he so de- sired, own the farm upon which "he lived. Remember, too, that- 'the immigrant left his native land because there he could farm only under the domination of the: squire or the bailiff of an estate. There was no place for a small landowner. But in Canada -- a century ago -- the immigrant either applied for Crown Land or bought a farm from a previous owner. He might have little of this world's goods but his dreams were fulfilled. He had land of his own. He had acquired inde- pendence. Now, if farms in the near future are controlled by big property owners how much difference will there be between Canadian farms of tomorrow and the farms of the English gentry a hundred years ago? Conditions have changed -- the pendulum swings back and forth, now this way, now that. But only Father Time marks the hours, uncon- cerned about which way the pendulum swings, knowing that eventually history repeats 'itself in one way or another. A New Agriculture For Old Egypt It is now seriously proposed to build "El 'Sadd el Aali," a high dam, on the upper reaches. of the Nile in Egypt. What are the difficulties and objections to be faced in carrying out this great project? The dam as designed at the present, an immense composite work of concrete, rubble, com- pressed sand, etc, extending in the river bed on a length of one kilometer and nearly three kilo- meters wide at-its crest, having ~ on each wing tunnels in. .the rock sufficiently large up to 3,000 m3 p.s. and provided with eight hydro - electrical units each generating 125,000 h.p., will cost, according to the latest estimates, some $576,000,- 000. Financing the project, al- though it may take 10 years for . completion, may not be a simple matter. Although the dam and the greater part-of the reservoir which it creates lie in Egyptian territory, its waters will pene- trate "into the northern Sudan up to the Second Cataract and will inundate the town of Wadi Halfa. While financially . this may not prove excessively cost- ly in the way of indempities, politically it makes the project ~ impossible of achievement un- less the Sudan gives its accord. - This opens up a field of bargain- "ing over the future distribution of the waters of the Nile with the best cards in the hands of "the Sudanese. . . Egypts river will be largely, if not entirely, deprived of its "red' or silty water. This means that the fertile alluvium of which cultivate Egypt has been formed through the centuries by Nile floods will no longer be "thus replenished. To the old- fashioned .fellah or cultivator this will sound like tragedy, a babe deprived of its mother, for literally Egypt is the child of- the. Nile. Modern agriculturists, however, assert that the manu- rial benefits of the film of silt, deposited on the land during flood irrigations are negligible and that with today's fertilizers and cultivation methods better crop results are assured. Be that as it may, it is certain that the reclamation of pure desert land is much facilitated by using silty water instead of clear. Gradufllly the reservoir's ca- "pacity will be reduced by" silt deposits, but as the average silt . content of the Nile in Egypt is about 75 million cubic meters and as the reservoir's initial contents are calculated to be about 130,000 million, the effect would be" negligible for several IT MAY BE ~~ YOUR LIVER If life's not worth living. it may be your liver! [t's a fast] It takes up to two pints of liver bile a a, shape! 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The novel design of the pro- posed dam, while assuring great stability, necessitates ' enormous expenditure. : In comparison, a concrete dam of the well-known curved design which is to be .built at the Kariba Gorge on the Zambesi River having almost identical features in .respect to height (400 feet), water-power (1,200,000 k.w.) and reservoir storage (115,000,000 foot acres) is estimated to cost $13,000,000 or less than a quarter of its Egyptian counterpart. As Sir Alexander Gibbs & Partners, the 'designers of the great Zam- besi Dam, have recently been appointed consulting engineers for the "Sadd el Aali," econom- jes on the original estimates may 'be expected, And what of the present As- wan Dam, in its day the wonder of the engineering world? It will remain as hitherto but its functions will change. Instead of creating a reservoir, it will act as a weir for the "Sadd el Aali" some 7 miles. upstream, reducing the maximum head there from 89 meters to 67. In- stead of its having variations in discharge (from 22 meters to 10) and in discharge (from 600 m3 p.s. to 10,000) it will have a permanent head of 22 meters and a regular discharge of about 2,000 m3 per second, thus great- ° ly facilitating the economic pro- duction of water power. How- ever, beautiful little Philae, the temple of the later Pharaohs, will be permanently submerged, Whife so many millions are to be spent on these hydraulic works, it is not unreasonable to hope that funds may be avail- able for transferring it to a per- manently site above water level. It is estimated that the "Sadd to | el Aali" will take 10 years construct--against five years at Kariba Gorge--and that it will require another 10 years to fill the reservoir to capacity. Al- though the whole project is still under study, preliminary works have already been started. Fin- ancing still is to be decided. For months the Egyptian Govern- ment has been negotiating, so far with an apparent success, a ° loan from the World Bank. Of great disturbance to the West is the fact that the Soviet Union, Hungary, arid East Germany al- ready have offered to aid in the dam's construction. ~ He Gets The Bird When He Talks Mr. Thomas Wright, of Russell Street, Falkirk, Scotland, a bird called the .*" Greater Hill Mynah." It was net expensive, The Wrights named him Sammy, and fed him om biscuits, raw meat, and fruit. One day, 'when Mr. Wright was working in his aviary, he ' heard a dog barking in the street. He went out to have a look. There was no dog in sight. Buk _the barking started ag time only a few feet frdmm where Mr. Wright was standing. It was Sammy, And that was just the begim- ning of Sammy's impersonations. And he has a sense of humour If you say "Cat" to Sammy, it barks furiously. Say "Dog" Sammy miagws. Another day Mr. Wright wea into the aviary and swung when, he heard the sound of a and the click of a lock. It wes © Sammy. a iy Mr. Wright's grandson and granddaughter are often neax 'the aviary, but sometimes whem they are not there Mr. Wrighd hears a childish voice saying "Grandpa." Yes--Sammy again! Mr. Wright often lectures om birds. Sometimes he takes Sam- my with him. When Sammy thinks the lecture has lasted long enough, he says loudly: "Coma awa" -- in a Falkirk accent you could not mistake. TOOTHSOME MORSEL -- Mush rooms go well with any dish- including "cheesecake". Bonni( her job. She's been chosen "Mix " "Mushroom of 1955". % cup granulated sugar 4 3 tablespoons BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch -Y teaspoon salt * Y cup water 1% cups cranberries 2 tablespoons butter 1% cups chopped apples I. recipe pastry MIX sugar, BENS salt in saucepan. ADD CROWN B gradually; mix wel Cook over medium heal, : mixture thickens slightly and ADD cranberries and cook *. REMOVE from heat; add o LINE 9-inch pie pan with Ya ARRANGE lattice of pastry BAKE in hot oven (450°F) 10 "to moderate (350°) and ba or until apples are tender, % cup CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup ol : 1% teaspoons grated orange rind ON'S or CANADA Corn Starch and RAND Corn Syrup and water Stirring constantly, unt comes to a boil, ¥ until skins are broken, range rind CooL; add chopped apples. and butter, PREPARE pastry; roll Y4-inch thick. he Pastry; pour in filling. sinps across top, SEAL edges well; flute, iF desired, ith minutes; reduce heat ke 40 minutes longer [ ey CRANBERRY-APPLE | PIE \ For free folder of other delicious racipes, write to; Jans Ashley, BE S | : Home Service Department CORN IZ "THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY: H LIMITED, » P.O. Box 129, Montreal, P.Q. 1) squeaking door being pulled $e Jones poses to prove it. That a s > % ! - " - A v 1 4 J RK LY