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Port Perry Star (1907-), 13 Feb 1958, p. 2

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or SAYER % are Ne, oY oa SE : 5; 2% a oN EN rag A rs PINEAL , complete life together. pho five * v > a yelp ¥ ANNE HIRST | "Dear Anne Hirst: : Is 38 too old to try to find happiness again? My divorce was granted over a year ago, I have only one child who is de- pendent on me, the others mar- ried young and are happily on their own, "My husband gave me such a raw deal that I believed there were no good men left-- "But now I think I have found one. I know I could love him. He says he has been searching for years for a woman like myself and I think he will soon pro- pose. We are thoroughly com- patible, and I believe we can help each other to find a more go around much, I just work and try to make a home for my young son, He, by the way, thinks my friend is tops. : "My other children know Him, of course, and feel as though he were already a member of the family. Do you think people would call me foolish at my age to accept him? 'Once while I was married you answered my appeal for guid- ance, and gave me the courage I needed. May I have your opinion now? WONDERING" ACCEPT GRATEFULLY ® Where on earth did you get ¢ the idea that the 30's are too * for marriage? Some of the ' * happiest wives I know did not * marry "at all until they were * youf age. You are too wise to * be deceived a second time; you * have learned this man's char- ¢ acter, weighing all his qualities Color Beauty by Coane Whalen ) I don't' You'll be proud as a peacock - of your exquisite, new towels, tablecloths, scarves . . . all glam- orized with these' graceful em- broidery motifs. Fun to do. Pattern 622: transfer of 8 mo- tifs 5 x 6% to 8 x 11% inches. . Embroidery you'll proudly show. -Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly the PATTERN NUMBER, and your NAME and ADDRESS, As a bonus, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our LAURA WHEELER Needle- craft Book. Dozens of other de- signs you'll want to order--easy fascinating handwork for your- self, your home, gifts, bazaar items. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book today! ¢ thoughfully, and everything * you tell me favors your * cepting him. * As for what people will say, ¢ those who love you will re- * joice in your newfound happl- * ness, and the. others do not ® count, After all, your life is ours to live, and it is your eart that will dictate your ® future. You have. had your * 'share of tragedy. You deserve a good partner who will take care of you, and provide the companionship and affection oe woe gratulations! LJ LJ "I WAS A FOOLY "Dear Anne Hirst: I hope no othef man makes the stupid mistake I made; he might | not be so lucky as to get the [second chance I got... "When I married & girl of a different faith, the ceremony was performed in her church, and our children were all baptized there; I even attended services with her occasionally, But after awhile people jibed at me and poisoned my mind; I began to argue with her, and would not give ear to her reasoning. I got both of us in a desperate state . ... She left me. "God must have given her special grace, for she hag finally listened to my pleas and we are back together. We all attend her church regularly, and once again I am alive. I realized what a fool I was to let those interfering people influence me. But I feel I can never make up for all the heartache I caused her. ANOTHER FOOL" - . L] ) : "What will people say?" some- times is a safeguard agdinst has- ty action. Yet when it comes to marriage, it is one's heart and wisdom that supplies the an- swer. confronts you, ask. Anne Hirst's opinion; it will be honest and helpful. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toron- to, Ontario. Best Dressed Again, for the fifth year in a row, Mrs, William Paley, New - York matron, has been dubbed' "best dressed" by a group of self-appointed judges. And again we,are forced to file a demurrer, principally because the term "best dressed" is: too indefinite. "Best dressed for what? For cook- ing a turkey, changing a baby's diaper, waiting on table, selling dry goods? What is best-dressed for, let us say, sitting up at night with a sick 'baby is not best dressed for eating at Toots Shor's or Sherman Billingsley"s place. And vice versa, 'of course. We have long labored to put' some, sense into these best-dress- ed contests by having them di- vided into categories, the least of which would be the purely orna- mental. One category might be Best dressed on 40 bucks a week." Or another, "Best dress- ed with the stingiest husband." Or even: "Best dressed in your JTocal supermarket." When you come right down to it, all these things are. sub- jective. Probably William Paley agrees with the decision, but who else does? We don't, for the simple reason we have our own choices and can back them up with as much stuff as the people who picked Mrs. Paley. - --Hartford Courant GRIEVANCE HAD AN AIRING Probably the most perturbed group of people in the world were Toronto parents who re- cently convened a meeting to discuss the disciplining of chil- dren, When the meeting was over the parents discovered that the air had been let out of some twenty-four cars. The culprits: undisciplined children. LATE LATIN LOVER - Giving with that Sout look is a bust of the Roman Emperor Vitellius who reigned for only a few - months in the year 69 A.D. Famed as & pleasure-seeker, Vitel livs would undoubtedly have been pleased by the caress. given him by a pretty garlanded miss in Rome 20 centuries after his death. yoo have been missing. Con- * When any vital decision Beauty Mirrored On The Wall It was an old Ca Cape Cod house with a long low-ceilinged kitchen. On one side two large win- dows opened upon a stretch of green fields with a red maple swamp in the distance, But op- posite was blank wall, painted .a dull buff color. Against this wall 'was: the cooking area, the sink, the: set tubs and the hot and cold water faucets. Here the young bride would be spending much of her time working and facing this blank wall, How could she change it? That was the $64 question for which she found an answer' writes Geneva Eldridge in The' Chris- tian Science Monitor. At a second-hand shop in town she bought a large mirror that had graced an old-fashioned sideboard (price $1). When hung . on the wal over the sink opposite the windows, the green fields and red 'maple swamp were re- flected like a picture on its mir- rored surface, A deep ruffle of white print with cherry design across the top of the window and a cushion for the little kitchen rocker covered with the same material added attractiveness to the old kitchen, But the crowning touch was, the red and white checked table- cloth with a pot of white ge- raniums in the center that deco- rated the rough kitchen table, NICE WORK -- Italian young- ster Marieito appears taken aback by the tiptoeing loveli- ness of dancer Wera Tschecho- va as she arrives at Rome's Ciampino Airport. The two will become better acquainted as they are séon to appear to- gether in a movie called "Marietto' the Ballerina and the Almighty." Sinister Bridges It is perhaps understandable that suicides should choose to jump from a bridge as a quick way out of their troubles. But why should certain bridges alone have this fatal attraction, and why certain parts of 'such bridges? - The Colorado Street Bridge connecting Los Angeles with Pasadena in California has a reputation as a suicide bridge. Most of those who have hurtled from it have chosen the same spot from which to step off into , eternity. The place is marked by a metal plate. There is a story that when the bridge was built workmen found a pair of human hands protrud-' ing from the cement at this spot. A labourer js believed to have been accidentally covered up when the wet cement was poured into the moulds. Another sinister bridge was the cold Budapest Chain Bridge across . the Danube. 1ts approaches were guarded by the effigies of two huge stone lions. But the sculptor who carved the lions forgot to put tongues. into their open mouths, He was ribbed about this so unmercifully. by his "friends and rivals that he committed suicide . from the bridge on the ~ day beforé it was officially open- ed. Hé set the pattern and: has been "followed, generally by el- derly and artistic men. Strangely enough, women who choose to throw themselves down do not use this bridge. Women, particularly those who kill them= selves for love, prefer the Eliza beth Bridge, named after Hun- gary's tragic Queen Elizabeth "Who was assassinated. -Q How can I tighten the loose handle of an umbrella? ~ A. Fill the cavity with melted alum, press the stick into it quickly, then hold it firmly un til it sets. CUTE COOKIE -- This little angel got her head stuck in an angel food cake pan. Kathy West, 3, pulled the pan, with a removable bottom, over her head in the kitchen of her home. Unable to remove the pan, her mother called the rescue squad, who freed the little tot. Kathy didn't even cry. HRONICLES FGiNGerFARM 4" Guondoline D . Clarke One day, years and years ago, we had a little grey kitten. We hadn't an idea what to call it but, since we got it the day of a certain provincial election we said we would call it after who- ever was announced as the win- .ning candidate. And so our kit- ty-cat went to bed that night with the name of "Mitchie". It was a nicer name than "George" any way. And Mitchie was still with us long after Mitchell Hep-- burn had, gone back L. growing onions. Last night, I would have you know, was the wind-up of the 1058 Liberal Convention, when, as you are aware, Lester B. Pearson was chosen as the new. Party leader, Just after the tele- vised programme - had - started and we were waiting anxiously -to hear the choice of the party," Ditto, our little tortoiseshell cat decided she wanted to 'go out. Without any misgiving I opened 'the front door. and away she went. After the TV session was over I remembered Ditto and went to call her. But Ditto had vanished and. we haven't seen a sign of her since. Never before had she been away for are than an hour at a -time. So, the future, whenever we- think = of the Liberal Convention we shall remember it as the night our little kitty-cat went away, Her name 'couldn't have had any significance anyway because we can't imagine the new leader ever being called "Ditto"--much as we admire him. So there it is --next time we have a cat we'll make sure it doesn't get mixed" up with politics, that way we may keep it around a bit long- er. Or shall we take Ditto as an omen of what the fulure holds in store? Shall we say that if Ditto comes back Pearson may be assured of victory--or that if we never see her again he is doomed to defeat? - This morning I drove here and there along the roads and onto the highway but never a sign of a cat could I see, either alive or dead. If we only knew what happened to her it would not be so bad. I can only hope, since she was such a friendly little thing, that someone may have taken a fancy to her and -taken"her in. Or it could be she had a date with a boy friend. Anything--just so long as. she wasn't run over and killed. That is one disadvantage of living in a built-up area--do- mestic pets, either cats of dogs, . are. liable to have a short life. That is what our neighbours tell us anyway. Across the road there have been three dogs and two kittens since we came' here. Next door the people. are trying to raise a kitten for the third time, Another - family gave up and settled for goldfish and yet another has two 'little Budgie birds. Neither birds nor fish ap- peal to me too much as pets but a puppy. or a kitten I can never resist. Jt seems so quiet today without . Ditto. racing throug the house, running off with my -knitting- wool -or chasing a paper ball. However, I am still hoping she will come back--hoping but not expecting. In any case we may be - disappointed-consider- ing the po'itical implications. On the farm when Mitchie was missing we might find him up a tall tree, or-on top of the roof from, which he_was afraid to come down. True to his name he was always getting into dif- ficulties, One time Partner found him stranded on the cross-beam that held the hayfork track. Somehow or other Partner man- 'aged to rescue Mitchie--follish- ly perhaps--he might have land- ed on the barn floor. And then I would have had a cat and maybe lost a husband. But we all do foolish things if it means saving a life--animal or human. Well, there seems to be stormy weather right across Canada but we have yet to have our first snowfall -- although it looks threatening right now. However atthe moment there is only a. slight dusting of snow on the roads, Maybe I shall know in a day or two what snow really looks like as I am expecting to make a trip to Peterborough to help Klemi sort "out 'things so he knows what to 'put in stor- age. For a time he will be get- ting a room with friends. I may get a car ride up on Sunday or I may go on the *"Day-Liner" early in. the week. That. Day- Liner is really wonderful--To- ronfo to Peterborough in an | ay postscripts; ~when neces: * | - sary. 1t is better, though, to take hour and twenty minutes. That's what I call travelling in com- fort. Last trip I took my knit- ting with me and had time to do only two inches of ribbing on the sock I was making. Partly, perhaps; because I was too busy watching the sgenery. From what I could see there was plenty of reforestation but very little ordinary farming, due, no doubt, to the hills and hollows. I did notice one farm in particu-. lar where hilly fields had been 'ploughed. The need for contour ploughing was obvious, But no, the hills had been ploughed up and down as usual, It made me dizzy to even imaging a man orr a tractor going down that awful slope. And" just think of all that - has been written and demon- strated in . favour of contour ploughing. There must + two classes of- farmers -- stubborn "and progressive! "ENVIOUS -An Indian in New Mexico was smoke-signalling love messages to his Indian girl friend a few miles away. Suddenly an atom bomb test was made covering the the sky with smoke for several . miles. "Gee!" exclaimed the Indian, wf ; "I wish I'd said that. oo : "Spit personality, you raed f His, I assure you, is too small ' s for that!" | Alarming With the arrival of the darker mornings, more and more alarm clocks aré used, France where they have always been more popular than in any other European country, One Frenchman who was & "notorious Re toriar can always rise promptly nowadays because he has invented his own novel alarm clock. . When its bell rings -a--light flashes on and the bedclothes are whirled off. Another home-made alarm clock lights a spirit lamp to boil the water in a kettle, pours' out a cup of tea and ex- tinguishes the flames as the ket- tle tilts. When a Frenchwoman was ar- rested by a shop detective and charged with stealing some jewellery, she denied the theft indignantly but -- unluckily for her -- an alarm clock which she had stolen with the jewellery suddenly sounded. She was searched. Three tiny alarm clocks and the jewellery were found in a specially-made pocket inside her capacious skirt. Police in Yorkshire were baf- fled some years back by the activities of a specialist thief who broke into houses and stole, only alarm clocks, ignoring more valuable loot. One of the stolen. clocks played the American an- them, "The Star-Spangled Ban- ner," after striking the hour. As a result, every city policeman spent hours while on duty listen- ing for that: tune, but neither the thief nor the clocks were ever traced. Modern Etiquette . . . by Roberta Lee \ Q. Is there any rule as to who should make the . introductions at an informal home gathering, the host or the hostess? A. No. Either may do this Q. When a dinner course is finished, should the hostess' plate "be removed. first, and it not, whose plate? . A, There is no rule governing the order of removing dinner plates, Q Is it necessary that a 'wo- man traveler wear a hat to the dining car of a train A. This is entirely optional. Q. When a salésman enters an office where women are em- ployed,, should he always re: move his hat? -A. He should remove -his even if there are no w employees present! -Q.-I-noticed at_an airport. re- ~ cently that the men boarding --the plane didn't allow the wo- - men to -enter first, but took their turns as they fell into line. 'Was this proper? A. In order to load a plane most efficiently, and in the hurry and bustle of travel, it usually .isn't practicable for the men to stand aside to wait for the women to go first. Q. I have heard that post- scripts to letters are in poor taste. Is this so? A. There is nothing wrong pains while composing your let- - ter. to include everything you wish to say. Postcripts tend. to 'especially in but also tactful. A the last name? pl re always the v 'last. For bey the' ihe. - I customary, u e 1Nrst Is missible, pu Q. Is Buide 0 obligated to A bride o sp. A. This Mien 50 much: 'a tion of "obligation." It is a Sue ad therefore. _ itis to he i tion girl be leaving a business office? A. This is not only nly coutsom, 3 like this is often remem the Dex: time the salesman pays k : s Jumper Or Dress PRINTED PATTERN 4533 10-18 You'll 'look 5 it you stepped right out of the fashion pages im smart outfit! It's a jumper and blouse, or dress, depending . on the occasion. Sew-easy with our Printed Pattern. - Printed Pattern 4533; Misses' Sizes 10,12, '14, 16, 18. Size 18 jumper takes 2% yards' 54- inch; blouse, 1% yards, Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50¢) (stamps cannot be accepted; use _ postal .note for safety) for this - pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE NUMBER, Send order to' ANNE ADAMS, 'Box 1, 123 Eighteénth St.,- New Toronto, Ont. ° : ISSUE 7 -- 1958 pa cad PUTTING ON AN ACT -- The long a and short tof a oirey « these two buckaroos tea ent © is just knee-high his ha a arls, 8lx yoanon seven feet, Dressed as characters feom pil ogi B their act is part of a German elreus Np mueidn roid : co

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