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"Dear Anne Hirst: What does p girl do who" still loves her husband but who is slowly go- ing crazy because he isn't. the man she thought he was? When we were dating, he was always so kind and indulgent that I thought he was perfect. But af- ter two years of living with 1m, he turns out to be a jeal- us fiend who ia slowly killing 'he perfect love I had. "l was a young widow with two small children "when we married. He as wonderful to tiem then, but now he is only jealous... \Ny elder boy, five, is ais pet hate; the child can't play in the same room without hav- 'ng my husband yell at him or punish him -- though the boy wever was any trouble before. "My husband is always cast- ng up to me a man I was en- jaged to before we met; he von't let me visit my mother be- :ause he says I'll meet the for- ner 'ance there! He frowns - anniversary' m card parties, relebrations, or anything else hat brings me in contact with "NEW PRINTED PATTERN EASIER-FASTER MORE ACCURATE Lach One Yard 35" MEDIUM PRINTED PATTERN Our newest Printed Pat- tern -- JIFFY-CUT Paper pat- tern is all one piece; just pin lo fabric, cut complete apron at once Each of these pretty little ityles takes just ONE yard 35- Inch! Prined Pattern 4855. includes all three styles: Misses' Medium Size only. Each apron takes 1 yard 35-inch fabric, Applique transfer. ~ Jiffy-cut pattern is easiest to cut and sew, All pattern parts are printed on ONE tissuse piece] Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUM- BER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. ERE IE ETE I IE IEE IE IR EE BE BE BE BE EE EE EEE EE EE IEE IE IE TEE EE TEE EE EE BE EE EE EE EE EE AE BE old friends. I belong at home, where he can keep ic on' me (he sa¥s). "He can be darn sweet to me and the boy when he 'wants something, but once he gets it, he is on the rampage again. I cannot please him in anything I do. He keeps me in a dither, and with two active children and a young baby to keep up with, I can't hop around as I did. I am tired all the time -- tired of houschold drudgery, tired of his excesses (he's worse when he drinks) and, Heaven help me, I'm even tired of the children, They--are sweet kids, but my. nerves are so shattered, I want to scream at them, One thing helps -- my husband makes a good income and is generous-- except he refuses to hire a baby- sitter. "What do you think? Can I ever make peace between my husband and my son? I want the friends I miss so much! I could never love anyone else as I still love my husband, but I'm afraid 1 will stop caring for him altogether. He is neither just nor kind, and I am at the end of my tether. EXHAUSTED WIFE" How a girl in love can be mistaken in her man! When you two were going together, he thought everything you did was so right, was kind to your children and your family. How could you believe that what showed then was not his true nature? It may be that jealousy alone accounts for . all his prohiti- tions. He is still bitter « the man you once loved. N he has projected that appr hension to all those who love you--your family, your friends, even your little boy. To jus- tify himself, he has to keep you on the defensive. Spiritu- ally and, alas, physically you are on the verge of a break- down. You had better face him with the truth. * # ¢ 0 © & 0 = founded jealousies and trusts you to enjoy a normal life, or you are through. Remind him that he has always had your love; if he hopes to keep it he must be fair to your chil- dren and not interfere with their training. He must be made to see you are over- worked and that if some help the respect, the freedom, and the affectionate faith you de- serve, then you married a man you did not know and you cannot keep on living with him. You have tried valiantly to live up (or down) to his de- mands. You find it impossible. It is he who can save your marriage. 'If he will not, you will have to escape through divorcee or, perhaps, a trial separation. I know this is not the solu- tion you wish, but' from all one that can move him. You have my sympathy. LJ - * Why worry alone? If a friendship or marriage has reached a crisis, tell Anne Hirst about it. Let her weigh the situation and help you relieve it. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New To- ronto, Ont, We don't mind so much that out local postmaster read all our mail, but when he started an- swering it, we thought he went, too far. . --Herb Shriner Either he conquers these un- is not provided, you risk your" health. If he will not give you ° you tell me, it seems the only' LOOK MA, ONE HAND -- The graceful statue in Rockefeller Center appears to have no trouble supporting a huge Christmas tree. The 64400t white spruce was being raised into position ' by crane when the photographer caught tree and statue in this Interesting angle. Now Music Helps Handicapped Kids By Frances Korson I arrived at my class for ment- ally and physically handicapped children one day to find the "youngsters terrified. ~ "We're to be inoculated with Salk-- polio vaccine," they told me. "We're scared." I allayed their fears in a simple way, I had themu act out in pantomime the motions of giving 'needles to one another. Then I had them do their play-acting in time to music on the piano. The whole event became a game. They calmly accepted the vac- cine when it came, This is one illustration of how I've used music therapy in the last six years to help over 100 Toronto mentally and physically handicapped youngsters aged five to -18. I'm a Cobalt, Ontario - born graduate of Toronto's Royal Con- servatory of Music, and associate therapist of the U.S. Association of Music Therapy. I'm also one of the few teachers. in Canada equipped to use music-- therapy in aiding either mentally retard- ed children (over 300,000 Cana- dian youngsters have an 1.Q. of less than 100) or physically han- dicapped tots. These youngsters are bedevil-. led by the feeling of "being dif- ferent." Music therapy helps "them feel self-confident. I have them begin in a musical group by clapping their hands, stamping their feet in simple rhythms. Then they may sing as a group; perform as part of a little orchestra. Without any previous training, they may play _ drums, bells, triangles. Acting as conductor of a minja- ture orchestra may do wonders in strengthening their bruised ego. 'I remember eight-yeat-old Johnny, an intelligent child. He suffered polio. He used to sit tied to his chair, his head droop- ing listlessly. He felt very much an "outsider." : "How would you like to con- "duct the band?" I asked him. "Do any tune," : His posture straightened. _His gloom changed to joy. Being ac- cepted as a leader made it easier for him to become part of "the gang." Soon he was ready to accept, too, the leadership of others: Then there was Josie, an alert seven - year - old. She suffered cerebral palsy. She could not make her hands meet. "Here," I said, offering her the cymbals. "Try clanging these to make a gay sound." Her face lit up the first time - she succeeded. She tried over and over, until she could accom- . plish the feat regularly. Her hands, now better co-ordinated, can also be used more ably: in doing daily things, like tying her shoe laces. Maladjustment was the prob- lem facing Alexandra. She was a chubby-faced nine-year-old, with laughing eyes. But she was tense and aggressive, scrapping with her playmates. Four years ago, her parents were: shocked to learn: "Alexandra is retarded and emotionally dis- turbed. She won't be able to cope with work on the public school level." There was only one interest in Alexandra's life then: music. Lj. suggested piano lessons. Once she began, the world seemed to change overnight for her. She'd sit for hours at the piano, com- posing pieces about her toys, her friends, her fears, her sad and happy thoughts about the rain and the wind. Through music, I tried 6 or- ganize her work better. To in- créase her attention span, I'de- vised rhythm exercises. She would concentrate on certain musical beats, and react with a happy swaying. As her work in music progres- sed, so, too, did her school work markedly improve. She seemed less tense. Her self-confidence buoyed up, she was able to re- spond in play with her pals. Today, . Alexandra is about to -eteter Grade IIIT work. So many' handicapped young- sters* have to forego spbrt and strenuous games, 'they need the substitute activity of music. I've found they all have an instinctive feeling for rhythm, an impulse to croon, a willingness to act out their sorrow with song. Partici- _pating in music can be a real source of courage as they face the frightening adjustments ahead of them. parent of a handicapped child, I suggest you let him: grow up with a love for music, and let music become a part of his life. -- Jrom Liberty Magazine MEOW ! Four very dear friends were lunching at Schrafft"s. "No des- sert for me," said one of the girls piously. "I have to watch my waistline." "Aren't you fortunate, darling," purred one of her cronies; "that it's right out there where you can?" __comfort; always -{ If you are the #3 WOODLAND MONARCH -- Two-year-old Ona Calne points ex- citedly to Washingtan's 65-foot Christmas: tree, quite a bit taller than she. Looming in background is Washington Monument, taller still. HRONICLES GiNGERFARM by Grendonne P. Clarke It would seem that early winter finally caught up with us -- and in no uncertain way. Gale force winds battered on the doors and windows last week, which, until the day before, had been necessary to keep the flies out, so suddenly does our weath- er change. One day you couldn't keep the furnace low enough for the next day it was inadequate against the cold winds. There was no serious damage done around here except "to knock our entire telephone line out" of commission. It was two days before it was working again -- which raises an inter- esting sidelight. The last two or three years there has been a lot of work done on telephone lines in this district. The old party lines disappeared. . We were_ changed over to a dial system which was a great improvement. New poles were erected and miles and miles of 'wires and cables strung. We noticed these cables were hung very loosely, not taut from pole to pole the way the old single wires had been. This was meantito be an improvement of course -- and apparently is -- until something goes wrong. When that happens the trouble takes longer to find and entails more work. As one man put it -- "it was easier to work on fifty miles of the old lines than five miles of this." There must be factors on favor, of this type of wiring but if it takes two days to fix one short line, what then? What will hap- pen in real bad weather -- in ice storms," for instance? How long will it take to fix the lines under such' conditions? Could it be that cables are not satis- factory for the wide open spaces? Naturally this is a matter that concerns everyone, telephones being such a vital necessity in this day and age. And here is another sidelight on present day problems. An old lady pensioner, living alone, needed new firebricks in her kit- chen stove. Four years ago she had a similar job done and it cost her $12. Last week, the same job, on the same stove, cost her $20! In other words, half of one month's pension gone to pay for one small job. And not a thing she could do about it. Tt wouldn't " have been safe not to have the stove fixed; she naturally couldn't do it herself and there was no hope of getting it done cheaper , elsewhere. Doesn't it make you \/ wonder how people with small incomes ever get along at all? Well, I suppose we all have our problems wherever we live. On some farms, for instance, it is lack of water. On our farm we now have too much. That is because we have one overflowing well without a pump, the water flowing by natural through a pipe to a tank in the stable and then to another tank in the barnyard and from thence in many cases protected only by screens, through an overflow pipe to the outside. When we had 25 head of cattle the odds were even. Now we have more water than our few head of cattle can use. However, Partner thinks he has thought of a way of dealing with the situation to prevent the formation of a lake at the back™ of the barn. Well do I remember what happened some years ago when the outlet pipe froze solid and Partner was crawling around until he had the pipe thawed out. One problem we didn't have last week was how to get tickets. for the Grey Cup game! You don't need tickets to follow the game on radio or television. But it was really funny. I was busy making pyjamas and Partner was putting on storm windows when I turned on the: TV. Partner would come in, go down cellar for a window, bring it up, set it against a 1-all and then sit down and watch the game until there was another score. That would keep him satisfied for a little while so away he would go, put on his window, come back and repeat the proceedings. I, too, was dodging back and forth from the sewing machine to the living room. That is, until the last quarter. Then we stayed with it. I don't understand a thing about football but it didn't take long to catch the spirit of the game. Bob and Joy got here in the middle on the ice on his hands and knees ~ of the play. No one said "Hullo, how are you?" The salutation was "Hullo, what's the score?" And in how many homes, stores, farms and offices was the same thing happening? To say nothing of thé 27,000 who actually at- tended the game. And now to close, 'here is a hint for those who do their own sewing. As I said I was making pyjamas -- for a man who falls through the jacket long before the rest of the garment is worn out! So here is what someone told me to do and I am passing the tip along to you. Make the back with dolible material from the neck to the waist. It makes a neat job and should surely prolong the life of the jacket. And much less work than patch- ing afterwards. Grandma Moses Starts Painting I always liked to paint, but only little pictures for Christ- mas gifts and things like that. I painted . for, pleasure, to keep busy and to pass the time away, but I thought of it no more than of doing fancy work. My husband Thomas never talked about my painting; he thought it was foolish. But one night, a few weeks before his death in January, 1927, he came in, it was after candlelight, and he asked, "Who did that paint- ing?" It was one I had just painted . "Oh," I said, "that isn't much." "No, that's real good," he sald. The last few weeks, when I started to do a litle painting, he was right there watching, and liked it so much. He never knew that he was going. And yet he made some very strange remarks that fall. Once he said, "I don't mind dying . . . but I can't bear the thought to go and leave you here, But if there is such a thing as coming back to this earth, I will come back and watch over you." When I had quite a few paint- ings on hand, someone suggested that I send them down to the old Thomas' drugstore in Hoosick Falls, so I tried that. One day a Mr. Louis J. Caldor of. New York City, an engineer and art collector passing through the town, saw and bought my paint- ings. He wanted to know who. had painted them, and they told him it was an old woman living down on the Cambridge Road by the name of Anna Mary Moses. He wanted me to paint more. He came back several times. He bought the pictures and paid for them. He took them down to New York to show in the gal- leries. Then, in October of 1940, I had' the first exhibit of my paintings. I-am not superstitious or any- thing like that, But there is something like an overruling power. I never know how I'm going to paint until I start in; something tells me what to go right on and do. It is just as though Thomas has had something to do about this painting business. I have Hough "I wonder if 'hé Has come back, I wonder if he is watching over me." -- (From Grandma Moses: My Life's History.) At college reunions you find that your classmates have gotten so stout and bald they "hardly recognize you. --General Features Corp. " ISSUE 52 -- 1956 SIMPLE METHOD A newly married accountant decided to set up am efficient, business-like household budget. "Here's a hundred dollars, dear," he said to his bride. "And here's an account book. Now it's really very simple. I want you to write down how much I've given you on one side of the page, and on the other side write down what you, do with the money. Then at the end of the month we'll be able to see where every cent has gone" On the last day of the month, the young britle proudly handed the ledger over to her eager spouse, Everything was done just as he had specified. On one side of the page was written: "Reiceived -- $100.00." On the opposite side of the page, carefully printed, were the words: "Spent, it -all." A charwoman was telling a friend of her prowess in.polish- ing floors. "When I started to work here the floors were in bad - + shapes, but since I've been doing them, she sald with quiet pride, "thres ladies have fallen down." --A.M.A, Journal Droll New Friends by Sauna Wheel Little children love cuddling these animal pillows -- big onei want them as a decoration. A wonderful new gift idea! The stitchery is so simple and takes little . time. 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On left card, a jet-black horse bears bears an Indian maiden garbed in jewel-bright robes. The other shows a trumpeting blue ele- phant with two youths in mas. querade clothes. Card at right, by artist Joseph Low. depicts Italian children in a gay donkey cart, en route to a fiesta. A