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NY Pn <a WA nS oa py TG NER ne AND Co Pe CEE f= Cr i LE a) CY nd SE 5 v edad os 4 NJ " a RGus re Sat = "yr XP. YAR FE ae ------ [ANNE HIRST | Yourn tamily (ounselot. "Dear Anne Hirst: 1 have just welcomed my married daughter "into my 'home; she could not accept her mother-in-law's in- terference any longer. For over two years my girl has held a position and paid nearly all their Lousehold expenses to help her husband support his mother. She runs up bills in his name which their combined incomes cannot meet. ; "Her mother-in-law has two other married children, both of whom have lovely homes, but because this son is the youngest she demands everything from them. When he married my daughter he told her their hous> belonged to him; it turns out 10 be his mother's, and if anything happened he would have noth- ing. Yet he and my girl have been supporting her entirely, even lo her medical expenses, "My daughter loves her hus:- band, but she wants to live alone with him. He declares he will never leave his mother. So I told her not to go back to him while his mother lives there. 1 do hate to see her marriage go on the rocks, yet what other edvice can I offer? WORRIED MOTHER" * Your girl has my sympathy. Cross-Stitch Pets Love al first sight--that's the way lecnagers respond' to this cute and cuddly pair of pets. Easy -- all 8-to-the-inch cross- esl Make set of toss pillow, pic- tures to frame. Pattern 589: dog transfer 10%: %-12%, kitten 11% x 13% inches; color chart, key. 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 Needlecraft Book. Dozens of other designs you'll want to order--easy fas- cinating handwork for yourself, your home, gifts, bazaar items. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book today! gr She should, however, consult a lawyer to find whether she 'has grounds for legal separa- tion, it that is what she is considering. ' LE If her husband were a man boy, he would admit he is not providing a home for his wife in the real sense of the word. She 'is under his mother's thumb in more than one way, and she has none of 'the rights which, as his wife, she merits. She and 'her husband can- not get ahead financially un- der the strain his mother im- poses, not to mention her con- stant interference. Things can only go from bad to worse, unless he decides that his wife is more important to him than his mother. (Incidentally, he should also insist that the other children scare their mother's living cxpenses no matter what arrangements are made for the future.) Wouldn't it be better for your daughter and her hus- band to find a small gpartmenf for themselves? IL could be nearby, so he can visit his mother regularly. That would give your daughter a rea! home, and relieve her of the older woman's fmpositions. It dees seem up to her hus- band to choose between his mother and his wife, and a LE EE EE EE EE EE EE EE EE EE But if his love for his wife is equal to hers for him, there is no question where his loy- alty belongs. * * . WOULD DATE BOY "Dear- Anne Hirst: 1 like a boy very much who is in my English class. What excuse can I use to talk to him, and yet not appear too forward or too dumb? "Last year about this time be asked for a date, but 1 was going steady with somebody else so I couldn't accept. Now I'd give anything to go with him! STILL. HOPING" * Some day soon mention to * the lad that English is one of * your toughest subjects, and * you wonder if he would help you now and then? Choose a few timely questions, and LL EE IE EE EE EE I EE EE EE EE to swallow the bait. Yes, the girl usually speaks first when they pass in the hall. Good luck! - * i + * - * maybe he will feel flattered * *. ' * Many of the problems that marriage brings would never arise if wife and husband could live alone together. If this ques- tion worries you, ask Anno Hirst's opinion; perhaps she can find a solution. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. WHAT A CARD - Most of the patrons of Paul Waner's batting range in Pitts- burgh come out just to talk to him. It's reached a point where the old batting great has had a car printed, which he hands each visitor. It reads: "Paul, how are you? -- Fine, thank you." : z "How is your brother Lloyd?-- Fine, thank you." "What is he doing?--Nothing." "What are you doing?--Prac- tically nothing." "What do you think of the Pirates?--Practically nothing." "Any good hitters at your batting range?--One." "Why don't you sign him for the Pirates?--I am too old." instead of his mother's little - cruel choice it is for any man.- SOUSTELLE AND JUNTA LEADERS -- Right-hand man of Gen. Charles Ds Gaulle, "and former Governor-General of Algiers, Jacques Soustelle is shown arriving al the war memorial for French dead in Algiers with members of the Public Safaty Committes, who hava assumed power in Algeria. A. Dry Cleaner Must Keep On Toes A dry cleaner must be, on his toes these days. New textile fibres, new -fabric blends, new ways o! treating the old familiar. fabrics, all mean the dry cleaner must constantly adapt his tech- 'niques to Keep up with the cloth- ing Canadians are wearing. That's why he so frequently sceks the expert advice of an organization in Ottawa called the Canadian Research Institute of Launderers and Dry. Clean- ers. Supported by its member- . ship of cleaners, launderers, tex- tile manufacturers and institu- tions which have their own launideries, its job is solving cleaning problems. When new clothing materials are introduced, the Institute's laboratory "works out the best cleaning method and reparts to members as quickly as possible. Monthly bulletins keep members up-to-date on all new develop- ments affecting their business. Articles damaged in cleaning are sent to the Institute and a full report on the cause of damage is returned. Usually it's not the cleaner's fault when garments are dam- aged, claim the people at the Institute. They regularly. re- ceive clothes with inferior dyes which have faded when in con- tact with cleaning solvent. Cold wave solution used in perman- ents also creates problems for . the dry cleaner... When this so- lution drops on clothing it isn't always noticeable. But as soon "as the cleaning solvent touches the spot, it immediately becomes evident. Frequent trouble - makers are window drapes which have been standing for a long time exposed to sunlight. They appear in good condition when sent to the clean-. ers but when the cleaning sol- vent is used on them the fibres, weakened by sun and dust, fi- nally break. This isn't the cleaner's fault bul he has often been blamed for it. } The Canadian Research Insti- tute has been operating almost - a quarter of a century now. It started as a separate lab at the National Rescarch Council in Ottawa to handle problems of cleaners and launderers. Before - long it became too big an un- dertaking to be conducted at the N.R.C, and in 1935 the. Ca- nadian Research Institute was formed to replace the lab: Solving problems is the busi- ness of the Institute. Through its efforts and the cooperation of members, better dry cleaning is being made possible. Do We Need More Letters? Does our English alphabet need more letters? Do we need an entirely new alphabet? Should we scrap some letters and sub- stitute strange but more useful ones? Questions like these are being asked by many students of words following the recent offer by the Public Trustee of a prize of $1,500 for a new alphabet on lines proposed in the late George Bernard Shaw's will. It must have at least 40 letters, preferably not making use of any from our present 26-letter alphabet. The competition will be open till the end of 1958 and three experts will assist in choosing the. $1,500 winner. It's calculated that there are about 620,448,401,733,239,439,360,- 000 ways of combining the letters of the present alphabet! It took centuries to "grow" our A B C, in which every letter has its own little romance. It grew from signs and symbols and came to us from Italy, where it can be traced back for more than 2,000 years. It was brought over by the Romans, who got it from the Greeks. Under Norman influence the alphabet was slightly amend- ed here, three letters, J, U and -W, being added. = h Today some word experts point out that our C is a superfluous letter. It has the sound either of S or K and it might well be dropped altogether, they say. And they also ask: "What's the use of the letter Q? K would serve equally well. 33 years ago, the editor of an American dictionary advocated a new alphabet of 96 letters. "You need as many as that for the correct expression of all the sounds in the English lang- uage,' he declared, : : A team of skilled writers were "once asked to enter a competi- tion in which they had to write. the shortest possible sentence' containing all the letters of the . alphabet, " The winning entry was: "Quick blowing. zephyrs vex daft Jim." STUMPED] When Vernon Lea; Tonahcat was convicted on a drink charge in 'Anadarko, Oklahoma, he ask- ed the judge for time to pay the fine. The police, he explained, were looking for his missing wooden leg in which he keeps his cash. Ly "the place. BRITAIN CLAIMS MILITARY PLANE EDGE--This is the Blackburn NA-39 bomber, Britain's newest military plane. British authorities say that the plane, capable of delivering nuclear weapons, represents a three-year lead "over every other country", Its makers say the twin-[et craft'is suitable for land or ship-based operations, : i S53 RO i by At last we've had some .rain -- a= good, warm rain. Now everything looks so green. New- ly planted shrubs, trees and * garden plants have lost 'their sad, wilted appearance. . Dis- couraged green peas and beets are showing more signs ol! life and we hope other garden stuff will soon be coming through. Field crops, too, will benefi from the rain -- spring grain certainly needed a good soaking, as did the wheat and forage crops. Partner and I find it hard to remember any year when the spring has been so dry. How- ever, even weather conditions don't seem quite so important compared with a situation we ran into' last week. You may remember I was at Guelph -- to a W.I. Conference. Partner came with me as far as Hespeler where he visited some friends living on a farm. So he was back again: with the cows, the hens, and all the .incidental farm * chores. Also plenty of children. Now just read what had happened. Besides the regu- lar family on the farm there was a married daughter, her husband and four small children, They had arrived one night about ten o'clock. No clothes, no furniture, no personal pos sessions. All had been lost in.a fire that completely gutted their home -- the far side of Strat. ford. Contents were only partly covered by insurance. They lost a new.deep home-freezer, elec- tric stove, refrigerator and 'tele- vision set. Bad enough, but it could have been worse. The children were playing outside when the biggest boy noticed a bright light inside the house and ran in to look for the reason. - He soon found out and began screaming for his mother who was down in the cellar unaware of the tragedy. Had the child not gone in she would have been trapped as there was no exit from the cellar other than through the kitchen which was - soon a mass of flames. The cause of the fire was thought to be defective wiring. It is a familiar story--old house, original wiring, meant only for lighting purposes and minor equipment. . Added to the home. one by one were the heavy home appliances now in use in most homes. The wiring became overloaded and in time over- heated. An outbreak of fire was the inevitable result. Later in the week we called briefly on - some former neighbours near Ginger Farm who had recently installed similar new equipment but had taken the precaution of having their wiring inspected. The over-hauling and additions cost them well over two hun- dred dollars but that was cer- tainly cheaper and salet 'than risking a fire. 4 We made a quick visit to Ginger Farm that same day.~ Such changes -- we hardly knew Grading was «well underway; bulldozers and dump trucks continually at worl. By the time I came away I felt as . it I had eaten dust and' grit, From the garden we managed -to salvage a root of double lilac . which 'I had : always greatly treasured. Also some common lilac which had probably been there since the farm was home- steaded. After visiting the farm we always come away with a slight feeling of nostalgia, which, I suppose, is . understandable, . However, home is where you make it and every time we re- ' turn to where we: are now we find it bginning to 'look and feel * more' like our true home -- es- pecially now with everything so 'green and the birds (flitting back and forth. FA : CLES 1 INGERFARM Gwendoline D.Clarhke This week-end we did not expect any o! the family here ... » Bob, Joy and Ross had gone to. Elliott Lake for the week- end; Daughter and her family were off to Midland for the day so we took a ramble through the country along the back conces- sions, On one road in Trafalgar Township we saw a sign which read -- "Dog Cemetery around the Corner." That, of course, had to be investigated. We found the cemetery and there must have been four or five hundred little graves, complete with in- scribed tombstones -- some big, some small, Not all were dog- graves. There were a number of cats, two rabbits and a mon- key. Several dogs had been' 18 years old -and some of the tomb- stones told their own pathetic little story. As for instance "In memory of Trixie and Rex who were killed by an unknown motorist." And (wo German shepherds "who died defending their master's property during ° a robbery." And one of a "see- ing-eye" dog 'greatly missed by his master, There were quite. .a number of néw graves, minus tombstones, but with wreaths of flowers in loving memory. . 1 suppose the idea of a Pet Cemetery sounds somewhat ex- treme to materialistic people but there is little doubt the loss of a faithful pet can be a great grief to the owner and perhaps to have its grave mark- ed and cared for is some con- solation. I know we left several dog and cat graves at Ginger' Farm. Poor, high-strung Tippy was the last, our - faithful old collie who finally died of pneu- monia; wagging her tail feebly right to the very last in recog- nition of our loving care. Rusty, 1 am 'glad to say, is still alive and well. I paid him a visit last week. We do not forget the dogs we couldn't keep. Coronation Dress Such splendor I had never seen before and may never see ugain, The Abbey is wearing Coronation draperies of blue brocade. Along its aisle spreads a seamless carpet of cerulean blue, changing at the Theatre's steps to a warm shade of. pale honey. Clustered lights hang low at triforium level shedding a dulcet glow. The clamour of color in 'dress and uniform is already here, and from my priv- ileged seat in the Queen's Box I can see every hanpening and every arrival. Soon I shall be seeing the dress I have made, being worn by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second for her Crowning. My mind goes back to the dim and uncertain days. of 30 years ago when, on St. George's Day, the 23rd April in 1923, I resolved to establish myself in London. In June of that year I designed my ~first dress .for my first humble customer. I think of those years of struggle and disappointment and - +1 remember the three pounds a' week I used to earn. and how I lost that job one Christmas Eve; and I wonder irrelevantly # the Number 16 omnibus still "rumbles up the Edgware Road. I think, too, of all the kindness 1 have known and of all the women and craftsmen who have worked to prepare the dress tha Queen is now wearing. 1 think of the long road be- hind me, leading up to this honor and bringing me to Westminster Abbey. What 1_suffered, léarn ed and enjoyed on the way, fis , the story I presenily tell. r --From "Silver and Gold", by Norman Hartnell. : ISSUE 23 -- 1958 ') ing celebrities, "Fair Lady" Goes Big In England London Bridge could have been falling down last week and no fair lady would have noticed. The really big: noise in town was the opening at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane. "No show can possibly live up to the advance' raves of 'My Fair Lady'," wrote The Daily Herald critic next morning. He then went on to paraphrase a lyric. from the show: "But by George, they: did it. Yes, they did it!" Fellow critics were al- most unanimous in their salutes: "Rousing", "lilting", "exhilarat- - ing", "glittering". The sidewalk watchers. massed outside the theater an hour before curtain time to star-gaze at the attend- among them Ingrid Bergman, Sarah Church- ill, Kay Kendall, and U.S. Am- bassador John Hay Whitney. Applause exploded the mom- ent the curtain rose and rolled again and again for the entrances of Julie Andrews, Rex:Harrison, Stanley Holloway, and Robert Coote -- all of .the original Broadway company, At the end the audience stood and cheered "for four minutes and ten curtain calls, Only the orchestra's "God Save the Queen" could and did finally stop them, -This was the most impressive musical to hit town since "Chu- Chin-Chow"". in 1916, and London had never seen such an advance build-up. Despite the protection of copyright laws that forbade the pleying ef the show tunes and the sale of sheet music and records, "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "On 'theStreet Where You Live" were almost staples for dance bands at priv- -ate parties and in clubs. Com- mercially "bootlegged: show al- bums sold readily for $11.20 (as opposed to a legal $3.85 in the U.S). The press had long Leen ec- static. After all, though the show was 'an American production, everybody {felt 'it was Britons who made the thing go--Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Cecil Beaton, Stanley Holloway, Rob- ert Coote. The press was also full of "Fair Lady" odds and 'ends. Was it right for Eliza Doo- little to. step out of character _to belt out the bellicose "Show 'Me" song? Can one really see St. Paul's from Covent Garden, as the show suggests? (Answer: Yes, from the roof.) An actress named Frances Day reported to a gossip columnist that she had got in touch with George Bern- ard Shaw's ghost, and' he had been very announced with the whole project. Everybody read that the London version would have a bigger chorus than the New York preduction, and Cecil Beaton's costumes would not only be present in greater profusion "but with considerably wilder chie. | : The advance publicity had not been all good. Stanley Hollo- way, who plays Eliza's father, had something to say about Rex Harrison: "Two years we work- ed together and never once did he visit my dressing room . . . Of course, he's such a hit in the show because he's really playing himself -- an intolerant, slightly bounderish character with tre: mendous charm for women." Harrison commented "I think he was misquoted. I saw him yes- terday and he was awfully mis- erable about it all" : / As a result of all the publicity, / good and bad, the advance ticket sale, which began six months ago, soared beyond $400,000. Price for a bootlegged first-night pair $140. : It was sad that Shaw, who had such a great personal ad- miration for money, could not be on hand to use some of the new stuff himself. From the looks of it, he would be whirl- ing enviously in his grave for" a long time to come, . --From NEWSWEEK. HANKIE PANKIE Lefty Gomez once set a snare 'for Hank Greenberg. When he got two strikes on Hank, Bill Dickey was to step out of the catcher's box as if Gomez were going to throw a pitch-out. Then, as 'Hank relaxed, Dickey was to . jump back and Gomez was to fire one over the plate for the third strike, } / At this point, somebody wil always ask, "Well, how did it work out?" "I don't know," Gomez will ruefully answer. "I could never get two strikes on the guy!" Wardrobe Wonder PRINTED PATTERN b-Lhone lors Make a wonderful new ward- robe--from this Printed Pattern. Vary the neckline from man- darin collar to low squared ° beauty; sleeves in three versions Easy to sew, joy to wear--pure , flattery for your figure! Printed Pattern 4605: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 requires 3%. yards 35-inch. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Se ORTY CENTS (404) (st: ps annot be accepted; use poftal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS an STYLE NUMBER. : Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, 4 ry "BOATICOPTER?" " Trying a new version of the "look Ma, no hands" routine, aircraft designer Igor Bensen shows off his naw 'helicopter boat. Bensen says the rotor-tifted craft, towed by ® motorboat, is as sasy to handle as a bicycle. : ye. TT A ---- A ne IAL ~