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Se oe me 2 . SP, eS oof , 1 > oF 2 90H ] X es + 8.5 * #5 i ATER ¥ Ss A edi ANNE mings; the gay glass ornaments garéfully wrapped = and put away; strings of coloured lights, packed | ' bereft - of illumination, in 'their proper boxes. And. the -- meedle-dropping tree thrown 'en the woodpile or, in some eases, « out with the garbage. Poor little tree . .. such a short while ago we joyously brought you into the house; decked your green branches with" glittering baubles and then further "en- banced the glitter by tiny elec- @pic lights. You were very love- ly, little tree, and served a good purpose so I hope you are not 'feeling too badly because your Wa of brightness was so rief. Yours was a short life but a gay one. In every home you were the symbol of goodwill and laughter. But now, with the New Year we must discard you _as we pick up again the threads of: ordinary, everyday life, car- yying with us happy memories of family gatherings; stacks of greeting cards and perennial letters. At Ginger Farm our letters and cards included greetings from ypeaders of this column. I Jove to get your messages of cheer and encouragement. Writ- ing this column would be a Jonesome sort of job were it not Family It's all over now. The Christ- = mas free stripped of its trim-~ Easy to Knit! \) y i] y ¢ IN + ay Knit a shrug to toss. over everything, to keep you warm and cozy! It's done in a fast 'n' easy pattern stitch--so becom- ing with all your casual and dressy fashions | Pattern 508 has easy-to-follow knitting directions. Misses' Sizes 32-34; 36-38 included in pattern. "Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS jn 'coins stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth = St, New Toronto, Ont. Print PATTERN 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, _novéities--easy, fun to make! send 25 cents for -your copy of this book NOW ! You will want to order every new design in it. SR i plaiply' ST Hl ar for you, my. readers. So! your letters coming. friend love them, everyone. But duru.; a'special season-like this, I hope through_ this column. Answering a lot. of létters at. one time seems to be more than I' can manage. ' "Glencoe. Reader" advises me Thank you for the tip "Glencoe" ---- it sounds like a good one. "Kenora" = you will know by now our 'little grandson 1s greatly improved. There. were no cat-naps for him over Christ- mas. Sleep in the daytime? Not he --=-he might miss something! Thank you for all your kind inquiries and good wishes, We hope you will be feeling much better during the coming year, "Writer" -- that -was a grand letter, I have a feeling you 'have what it takes' and I am sure you always make a success of what- ever you set out to do -- writ- ing. or anything else. I don't think YOU need much advice from me, Once you are properly settled you should do well. I, too, subscribed to 'Donald French's magazine and found it ~ very helpful. "Mrs. F ..." So you are going 'to drive the family car. That seems like an excellent idea; you mention. Start driving now _ before you get any older and you will learn that much easier. "Irish" your the old family home, and your cats and dogs, seem to provide you with a full and satisfying life. I am sure you never know what it is to be bored. Why should you? Living as we all do, in the most interesting and progressive period history has rever known, I cannot see why anyone, at any time, should suf- fer from boredom. I am sure that your talents, your active 'mind and hands, help you to forget to some extent, the pain It was nice to hear from you again. Later on I will reply more fully. At the moment I am particularly busy. David ex- pects to go to hospital again soon. This time for the removal of tonsils and adenoids. The foregaing will,- I hope, for the time being. But in ad- dition to the _letters 1 would "also like to thank those who remembered us with greeting cards. It was so nice to get them and to know we have so many unseen friends. But I wonder what happened to our friend the mysterious "Mr. X."". I was certainly looking for a card with his classic signature! Among our family letters was an '"aerogramme'" from Part- ner's brother in Australia. He for Christmas as they were both in New Guinea. Last year-when we heard from him the oldest boy had just returned after two years in the Antarctic. These Clarkes seem to get around, don't they? How strange to spefpd Christmas in a country like Australia with the thermo- meter around 100 degrees. I must ask 'them how they eele- brate. Would you like a good sug- is if you have a lot of un-named and undated photographs as we had. One night 1 got out the whole collection and then sorted them and put them into enve- lopes labelled according to fa- # 4 : HEIL BE A GOOD SPORT--Marquis Grimaldi, left, pretender to the throne of Monaco, says he may send "the usurper," Prince Rainier Ill, his congratulations when the prince marries Grace Kelly. Grimaldi, shown above in the tavern he owns in Ightham, England, says his grandfather spent most of the fortune establishing the lime of descent, which he says has been recognized by England's College of Arms, But the Mar: quis, who's known as "George," says it would take too much money fo press the claim for the throne. Shown with him are' his wife, the Marquise, known os "Kay", and an unidentified customer, you will forgive me if I reply. to feed our cats a little flaxseed. ' especially if you make that visit letter was | most interesting. Your music, yoy - suffer with those aching joints. "Illinois" -- your letter and greetings were very welcome. _take care of replies--to-letters was not expecting his sons home gestion for the New Year? That" IT'S A BOY -- It's hard to believe, but three-year-old Zbnigniew Skalinski is a boy, despite the curly locks and the doll. But easy to believe is his happiness at arriving here from Poland. milies, with each photograph named and dated separately. This -idea came to me while I was doing some. historical re- search and found families with stacks of photos whom no one could identify. Quite suddenly I realized the same thing could apply in our family once Part- ner and I were gone beyond re- call. And so I got busy. It takes only a little while. Try it your-. selves, and; if I'm not mistaken, you will get quite a lot of fun and enjoyment out of doing the - job. £0 A paint brush that is' gummy with hardened paint needn't end in the trash can, Soak it for a day or so in a liquid brush cleaner, working, the bristles occasionally to loosen the hard paint. Scrape or comb out as much paint as possible and soak the brush in hot, soapy water. Rinse away all the soap amd paint, dry, and the brush will be ready for the next painting job. Half-Size Fashion 2 sizes» 4654 140-241, bythe Alms Sew-easy jumper and. com- panion blouse -- fashions that double your winter wardrobe! hpscoe - These new styles are designed especially for. the shorter, fuller figure--with lovely, slimming lines. Proportioned to fit--no al- terations | " Pattern 4654 : Half Sizes 14% 16%, 181%, 20)%2, 22'2, 24%. Size 161% jumper takes 3 yards 39- inch fabric; blouse. takes 173. yards. This pattern easy 16 use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated in- structions. a , Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (35¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, AD- DRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, - : ISSUE Ff -- 1956 , ¥ Getting Married At Long Distance Although his dark-haired, slim bride-to-be was 5000 miles away in South- 'America, a wealthy young London business- man recently went to a Lon- don social club as a bachelor and returned - several hours later --"a married man. Soft lights shone in a private room at the club, a small orches- tra played wedding music. The bridegroom's parents toasted the bride and bridegroom in cham- pagne. The smiling groom was showered with congratulations from relatives and friends as they raised their wine _glasses to a portrait of the bride which hung on the wall. While all this was happening in London, the bride was sign ing documents in South America which made the couple man and .wifé by proxy. | - And while thet bridegroom slept in' his bachelor flat that. night with her portrait by his bedside, his bride was beginning - her long journey by air to Hol- land. More than thirty hours after their wedding, the couple met in Amsterdam for the first time as newlyweds and spent a joyful -- and official -- honey- moon. : That couple well knew that love laughs at distance. Scores of other couples who have, through force of circumstances, married by proxy .can testify that the temporary separation -only made their hearts fonder. An excited and happy twenty-_} year-old girl living in South- East London received a cable one spring day a few years ago informing her that she had just been married in Samarang, Java, about 9,000 miles away. It was sent by her -Dutch bridegroom "immediately after he had gone through the wed- ding ceremony -- with a mar- ried woman at his side! Olive and.Johannes had fallen in love when they met in Lon- don two years' previously, but his business had tied him to _ Java since then. Their courtship flourished by post. ' } . At is was impossible for him to get back to London for the wedding, the pair agreed that it would be more convenient for Olive if she travelled out to "Java as a married woman. Their marriage-by-proxy was carried out under Dutch law following the signing by the bride of documents which were sent to the Consulate in London. She had also received the wed- ding ring by post; and the news that a lovely bungalow home was ready for her in Java. When, a month after "the proxy wedding, she reached Samarang, she and her husband went through the marriage ceremonv at the English church there. Then 'they had their * honeymoon. > During the two world wars there were a number of instan- ces of proxy 'marriages for men at the front. The German Gov- ernment in 1940 passed a law enabling soldiers on active serv- ice to wed their sweethearts at home by making a formal de- claration. to their commanding officers. . : At Home the bride registered the marriage officially within two months of the declaration -- even if her bridegroom had been killed in the meantime, A pretty girl serving in the ATS. was married by trans- atlantic "telephone over a 5000 mile hook-up to an ex-service- man in Pocatello, Idaho, in 1946. The bridegroom, who was twenty-three, sat (during the ceremony with his family in their home at Pocatello. The bride, who was nineteen, and her family were the guests of the landlord of a village inn. Said a witness at the inn: "We waited an hour and then the call came through from the tates, The bride sprang to the « phone and said: 'Is that you, George?' Reception was clear. "Then the bride heard the voice of the magistrate conduet-, ing the brief ceremony in the United States, The bride an- wered her name and then, in an atmosphere of great excitement, we heard her make 'the re- sponse, I will! : : "The parents of bride and bridegrbom exchanged = greet- ings over $he/ ne before the nine-minute 4&all ended. Then we all drank to the future hap- piness of bride and bridegroom." Lawyers stated that this un- usual wedding was quite valid in both countries, although there has never been a test case in the British courts on the point. "Dear Anne Hirst: Practical=- ly every letter in your column is fr wives complaining about husbfinds. You know "sometimes the fshoe is on the other foot. I'v been married for 10 years (a "wartime marriage) and I knew almost immediately it shouldn't have happened._I tried to make the best of it, though, being a good and, I believe, at- tentive husband, I've about reached the end of my rope. "It's been nothing but fault- finding, nagging, humiliation and constant grumbling: I know I've never really loved her, but now, I've reached the stage where I can't bear the sight of her. My family and even her people have never interfered, but now they all say the same think, 'How much: can you take?' "I've left her now, and if she doesn't divorce me, I intend to do it. ing with her again! Certainly there must be some happiness left for me in this- world. "I hope you print this, Anne Hirst, and perhaps it will show ~some wives that they, too, may be in the wrong before their husbands get to the stage I am in . TOM C" GUILTY WIVES * Perhaps. you. recall. how many times I suggest that a complaining wife examine herself as though she "were somebody else and ask, "Can I be at fault?" There are emotion or deliberately luring a man 'into matrimony, ap- proach the future with the idea, "Well,- I'll change all that," and proceed to nag their man into a state of col- IJ 2% * 8 BF 8 SERGI FOS Sraos tials, from the clothes he wears to the way he holds a fork. Having attained the dignity of marriage, a wife like this reveals her mean -nature and demands a state of perfection 'existing in no living male, : ~ . LJ * . . » * LJ . LJ * * " * * LJ LJ * household routine is governed * LJ Ml . * . * * * LJ LJ] LJ * LJ J LJ] * LJ * girls live together, and we ha a nice group of friends, A young man I've known for a long time has the habit of inviting himself to dinner at the last moment, taking his welcome for granted. I don't like the habit. * * thinking it might eventually work out. But I could never stand liv- seers ecressosenowe She finds fault with all he says and does, she grumbles because he doesn't make more money or doesn't cater to her whims as he used to; any ex- cuse is sufficient to prove her superiority and her dissatis- faction with the mate she chose. Most wives (and you and | know so many) have only one: aim in marriage -- to mall their man happier at home. than anywhere else. He is the center of. théir thoughts and' plans; they study his habits and indulge his 'moods; the by his wishes: Their patience with his peculiarities is infin ite, and their reward is his nn-- swerving loyalty and a grati- tude for all her loving kind- néss that lasts as long as he lives. ; You showed. more patience than many a man would; for 10 years you. did your best. this, plus the fact that. even your wife's family are sorry for you, is proof enough that escape is the only answer. A man can stand so much; when the point is reached, living with the woman is actually living in a hell of her de- signing. * * - A LAD IMPOSES "Dear Anne Hirst: Two ors e "He is really a bore. He never helps wiith the dishes, just sits 'and listens to the radio. hasn't taken me out for a long while. friend of my family, and I don't dare be rude. ideas? He - But he is the son of a Have you any SUSAN" and he turns to the one link he! knows for companionship. Many a lad is.as thoughtless, ndt realizing he makes a nuisance of himself and ac- cepting' hospitality without re- turning it. There is a limit, however, to such imposition, Next time he appears sud- denly, tell him that you and your girl friend have a double date - tonight, or you're tired and going to bed early; -or you're having dinner out and going on to a movie, and would he like to ocme along? This boy, like yourself, -.| - * is living away from his people WMINK'S MINE" -- Film bomb- _ducer, - wants everything buck because When you 'write home again, tell your mother how: s stand. If he is as super- sensitive as SDI boys; and gives his family the idea you are @ot being nice to him, your people will know the * true citcumstances. re § . * * Marriag: failure is never the fault of ene alone. If you are unhappy, question yourself as to the cause, for the cure may le in your own hands. Anne Hirst will help you know yourself, if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto Ont. - -. : LE OE BEE I SATANIC ¢ * . "You promised you wouldn't buy another new dress," moaned 'the husband. "What on earth made you do' it?" "Dear," - replied : the modern Eve, "the devil tempted me." "You should have said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan." «I did," she replied sweetly, "and then I heard him say, It = fits you just beautifully at the back!" " 27 1} ---- % shell Silvana Pampanini has given a Rome, Italy, court rea- sons why she shouldn't return $50,000 in jewels, minks and other gifts to her movie pro- . "Morris Ergas. Ergas he says Silvana got the gifts under false promise of mar- riage. But she says it ain't so, because: She never loved Ergas, and never said she did; she never asked for them anyway. women who, swept away by . lapse, usually' over nonessen-- pI % id » Combine 1 tbs. soft butter or margarine, 3 c. thick jam, 1 ths. lemon juice and, if desired, 15 c. broken nutmeats and divide between 6 greased individual baking dishes. Mix and sift twice, thensift into a bowl, 114 c. once-sifted pastry flour (or1¥;c.once-sifted all-purpose flour), 3 tsps. Magic Baking Powder, 15 tsp. salt, 14 tsp. grated nut- meg and 14 c. fine granulated sugar. Cut in finely 5 tbs. chilled shortening. Combine 1 well-beaten egg, 15 c. milk and 14 tsp. vanilla. Make a well in dry ingredients and add liquids; mix lightly. Two-thirds fill prepared dishes with batter. 'Bake in a moderately hot oven, 375° about 20 minutes. Turn out and serve hot with sauce or cream. Yield - --6 servings. FILMING APPEAL -- Singer Mario Lanza and' four-year-old Mary Blankenship get acquainted in Hollywood before filming the » 1956 Easter Seal motion pic. ture appeal to help crippled chil- dren. The two will star in the film, to be shown throughout the country during the Easter Seal campaign, March 10 to April 10, ROCK 'N' ROLL IN RUSSIA -- These youngsters in Leningrad enjoy a ride-on a rocking pig. Is Russia's counterpart of the rocking horse, so_popular with children in the West. Pigs or horses, the idea is 1o have fun, no matter which side of the Iron Curtain you happen to be rocking on.