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mE > Er RS a Sole -" EE a Co = Th ee [ANNE Hl ST Gounselat - "Dear Anne Hirst; Do other girls keep on waiting $0 marry a boy to whom they're engaged while he just makes one cuse after another on naming e day? I've never, heard of . &uch a trick, but maybe they are ust ashamed to admit it .., .° 've been going with this soldier r two years, and every time e gets home he says it's better to wait, or that next time it will O.K. -- always letting' me down. I-really believe he loves me; he writes twice a week and sends me nice gifts, and when he's on furloygh we date every night. ge "He's a handsome guy, and ' all the girls give him the eye, but he never takes a second glance, I am 18, but I've been going with boys four years and now I am ready to get married. He is 22, and I know for sure he is the only man I want for my husband. I do trust him to be loyal, but why does he shy at marriage? "I am dreaming on, planning our futuge, but underneath I am really scared. I know he is in love (he shows it) but we both keep our wits . . . Now he is due home next month and again my hopes run high--yet Cheer up kitchen chores with these gay songbirds--a different motif for each day. Easy in cross-stitch plus embroidery. Shower the bride with gay "show" towels. Pattern 842: transfer of 7 motifs about 53% x 7 inches, colour suggestions. 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 Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- ~ TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS, As a bonus, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our 1957 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 eopy of this book today! EB DEES EEN a I'm afraid it will be the same old story. What can I do? BARBARA" * You do not mention how * your parents feel abaut this * lad's procrastination, If they * approve your marrying him, * tell him when he arrives that * they are waiting to announce * the engagement and the wed- * ding day. If you have neither * parents nor guardian, then he * brave and say now is the time * to set the day, or else. * If you have not started what * we oldsters call your hope- * chest, start it now, and have * something tangible to show * him.. The exhibit will either * delight him or shock him, and * you will feel better tnfodi . * you will feel better to find out * which it is to be. Usually .I * would not suggest the idea, * but you have been so patient * that you deserve to know * where your future lies, Many * a lad is so content with being * engaged that he does not * realize how postponing the * marriage hurts the girl's pride * as well as her heart. * It is not fair. I think you * are justified in approaching * him, and I hope with you that * he arranges an early wedding. * * * "Dear Anne Hirst: I have recently become en- gaged to a young man who is the most charming person I've ever known, but I have just found out he drinks more than he should. Shall I go ahead with our plans to marry in February? "He actually seems proud that he seldom shows the effects ol his drinking. He enjoys even- ings in taverns with the friends he meets there. Well, I don't want then for mine, "Do you think I could make him see things my way after we get married? UNDECIDED" * Too many broken - hearted * wives have made this mistake. * If a man does not stop drink- * ing before he marries, he is not * likely to reform afterward. If this man enjoys his question- able friends now, he will con- tinue to later; but then you would be living with him, and have to accept them, too. What kind of life is that for a gentlewoman like you? If he will not give up drink- ing for your sake, he is not for you. I know you believe you can never love anyone else, but life, even lived alone, is happier than life spent with a drinking husband. Sometimes an engaged young man needs prodding, If your fiance puts off marriage, take your courage in hand and pre- sent the issue .. . . Anne Hirst understands, and 1s on your side. Write her at Box 1, 123 18th Street, New Toronto, Ontario. Ld SALLY'S SALLIES PARCEL POST N "I put two different addresses on it. If they're not at one, they're at the other" PB BIKINI BEAUTY -- Soaking up the sunshine, shapely British meciress Anne Heywood adds a.touch of Bikini beauty to the scenery near london, England. The lovely lass is under con- - fract to the J. Arthur Rank movie-making organization, i Mouse Plague Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie . . So wrote the poet Robert Burns about a mouse, but Burns was writing about a lone mouse. ' He wasn't dealing--as were the farmers inthe Pacific Northwest recently--with 10,000 mice per 'acre of farmland. He might have felt different. The way the farmers felt was desperate, In Oregon's Klamath Basin, the plague of meadow - mice (Microtus) had destroyed $25 million worth of grain; in northern California, $500,000 worth of potatoes have been ruined; - an estimated 15,000 acres of grazing land were dam- aged in one county alone. No one really knew the rea- son for the plague, though liv- ing conditions for the mice have been superb for the last few years -- weather warmer than usual and plenty of food. (Un- der conditions like this, a ma- ture pair of meadow mice can produce 50,000 descendants a year and--as one Oregon farm- er said--"most of them seem to have been shooting for a re- cord.") The situation was so serious that the Public Health Service 'became alarmed that it was a menace to public health, and sent experts jnto the field to trap specimens, No disease was found, and the mice in the meantime kept on multiplying. About all the farmers could do was pray for a freezing spell to kill the mice--nature's rem- edy for nature's plague--From NEWSWEEK. Bad-Tempered Star Talent or no, Brigitte Bardot has become the most sought- after movie actress in France. In the U.S, during the sixteen weeks that four of her movies have been shown, there have been signs that she might well be taking over from Marilyn Monroe. + As sex symbols go, Bardot Is not in the French tradition, . which calls for a sleek, rather than overstuffed figure, clothes that are not blatantly provoca- tive, and a face which suggests both an interesting past and an exciting future, Bardot has a tiny (19 inches) waist which, in combination with a 35%-inch bust, the French ordinarily find comic; her costumes. are affairs which hold few secrets; her hair is shaggy rather than chic; her wide-eyed urchin face suggests the girl next door, with a past involving perhaps spin-the-bot- tle with the boy next door. Sim- ple exhibitionism, however, has made her a national figure threatening to become an inter- national 'one.. Off-screen, she is hardly the popularity kid, nor is she totally admired on-screen, Her fellow moviemakers constantly com- plain of her mumbling, Religious groups complain of her wiggling. (Jehovah's Witnesses in France have announced that she is eter- nally damned.) Bardot on screen looks and acts like Peck's Bad Girl, and, according to her friends, she is. She has the naiveté and temper tantrums of a child. The daugh- ter of an industrialist and the directress of a fashion house, she has alway been pampered. She was educated in private schools and by tutors, started ballet lessons at 7, appeared in fahion - magazine while still of a tender age. When © she was 16, producer Marc Alle- gret spotted her on a cover and signed her for the movies, intro- duced her at 17, and made her a star at 19. One divorce and eighteen films separate her from child- hood, but her ingenuousness re- mains. "Is it really true," she once asked her husband, "that the earth is round? Well, why doesn't it look round." Another time, she cut short a weekend in the country when she heard a dog howling and demanded: "Take me back to Paris. I can't stand a place where people tor- ture their dogs." 1 Aware of the nature of her box-office appeal, she has a mor- bid fear of disfigurement. She goes into a state of collapse if the slightest blemish appears on her cheek. Her off-camera per- formances during filming opera- tions are awesome, She walks off sets on impulse. The veteran actor Jean Gabin, whose once- | legendary temper wore off a de- cade ago and who is now an actor of superb control, recently was, provoked by Brigitte Bar- dot into a public outburst, "That little woman," Gabin said, "has done what 30 years of getting along with people couldn't do to me: Finally disgust me with the movies."-~From Newsweek. Future supermarkets will have. walls of built-in vending ma- chines, These will provide cus- tomers with 24-hour service of ! many items, including ready-to- serve hot meals, 3 illustrations - ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY -- Comedian Red in ! Madness Pays Off Skelton, re- cuperating from a cardio-asthmatic attack, Is joined by his wife at St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica. as Red looks at the many get well cards he has received. ; a oh oe a - a NICLES YGINGERFARM There have been a few oc- casions in our lives when, had we reacted differently, we might have - been the ~victims of a racket. Glib salesmen, ds you probably know," often come around and offer you wonderful bargains on anything from books: and linoleum to dairy mineral rations. . Once, years ago, we did buy an encyclo- pedia. It wasn't too bad for gen- eral information except that the views expressed were entirely American, and from an histori- cal point of view that didn't go down too well. Wéll, last week I just about saw red. As you may know--if you follow this column, my sis- ter died just recently, and what ~I got in the mail yesterday made me feel that there must surely be a racket to capitalize on gl- most everything, even on, one's perscnal sorrow and bereave- ment- This was none other than a copy of my gister's obituary that appeared in the Peterbor- ough Examiner and was mount- ed between two sheets of plastic and offered as "a permanent re- cord" for the price of one dol- lar. An order form was en- closed for additional copies. There was also a cover letter in falsely sympathetic and semi- religious wording which, how- ever, did not forget to mention that one dollar for each copy of the obituary was required. And all this, if you please, was sent from Memphis, U.S.A. The more I thought of it the less I liked it. But then I began to wonder if I were unduly sensitive so I thought I would phone the Bet- ter Business Bureau and get their opinion, Was it a racket or wasn't it? I soon got my an- swer -- in the affirmative. I was advised that since no return postage was enclosed I was un- der no obligation to return the thing--just to -hold it for awhile and await results. Afterwards it could be destroyed if I so de-- sired. The Bureau was familiar' _with this racket but said they were powerless to prevent it; that it was entirely up to the Federal Postal Authorities to stop unsolicited appeals coming through thes mail. / So that's that. What annoyed me so much was the feeling of uncertainty it arouged. Here was this® obituary, well worded and sympathetically = written, just-as-it-was submitted by local reporters' to the Peterborough paper, and the plastic covers would - undoubtedly preserve it indefinitely. Wouldn't it be only natural- to - send --a- dollar and keep it? Wouldn't it appear cal- lous not to do so? But then I began to reason things out." Af- ter all it was only a clipping from a paper; I could get as many copies as I liked from the Peterborough paper---and cover them with plastic myself if I wanted to. That was a practical way of looking. at it but hat really decided me against tak-. ing "advantage" of the offer was the false tone of sympathy in the letter, which 'concluded "We extend sincere sympathy in your loss, May the grace of our . Heavenly, Father be with you and comfort you in your, time of sorrow." Sympathy--at a, dollar a copy! No thank you. Sympathy. from friends I am glad to ac- cept. A card which came to me Gwendoline P. Clarke from' the W.I. branch of which I am a life member was also greatly "appreciated. But sym-_] pathy with a commercial flavour 'is nothing more or less than im- pertinence to my way of think- ing; an infringement on person. al feelings during a time of stress and sorrow. No doubt other people have been approached in" this same way. The Better Business Bu- reau says it is a matter that can 'be dealt with only by the postal authorities, Then for goodness sake, why don't they stop it?» Why should ordinary Canadian citizens be subjected to this sort of indignity? -Sure- ly in a time of bereavement re- latives are entitled to a certain amount of privacy and respect. Of course there are dozens of other rackets ready to tfap the unwary but to me this is the worst I have come across, I might add, that in this, as with other unsolicited material, the Better Business Bureau is al- ways ready to advise. They are continually bringing to light ways and means by which the public is victimized. It is hard to be absolutely sure when we are dealing with honest people; A peddler may be an. honest man, unemployed and trying to. make' a living. If so he needs references. There are too many men taking pictures of children and charging more than they are worth, Or repair men giv- ing you absolute assurance they can fix your T.V. Don't ever let your set out of the house ex- cept to a reputable repair man. There is one or more in every district if you take the trouble to inquire. Generally they are far tod busy to solicit custom. You go to them. y Well, I am hoping this col- umn may be read at a few W.IL meetings. where it will do the most good. Generally speaking farm Jolk are so -honest and straight-forward themselves it doesn't occur to them to doubt the other fellow. But you know, it takes all kinds to make a 'world. Better be safe than SOITY. d : i + horror films : cheap, In Berkeley, 'had inspired a demonstration by In Television "Frankenstein" with Boris Kar- loff was playing a late show in Grand Rapids last week; "The Son of Frankenstein" was in Buffalo and Indianopolis. In At- lanta it was "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi; in Tacoma, 'The Son of Dracula," From coast to coast, the midnight air was filled with everything - from "Dead Man's Eyes" and "Weird Woman" to "Night Monster," All together they added up to one new fact' 'of television life -- horror is hot. Perhaps thegmost remarkable ° thing 'about the trend was that it had not happened: before. The movies, after all, have long found profitable fare; radio had its "Light Out," "Suspense," and "Dr. Fu Man- chu." But since 1952, when the TV version of "Lights-Out" fell victim to "the bouncy "I Love Lucy," horror for. horror's sake had raised no hackles on: TV ratings, Last season, -television execu- tives awoke when they noted that a New York showing of the old movie "King Kong" was watched In an estimated 90 per cent of the TV homes -- an all- time record. Screen Gems; the proud possessor of TV rights for old Universal-International films, suddenly realized 'that among their 600 movies there were doz: ens that fell into the' mad- scien- tist, zombi, weird-story category. Hurriedly, they selected 52 of the very goriest, wrapped them into 'a package called "Shock," ° and began peddling them for showing this fall. "Shock" went on-sthe air in October with big publicity cam- paigns in five leading markets. (Preview parties were held in abandoned TV studios, ~with masked waiters serving buckets of "blood"; models in fright wigs delivered shrunken heads and "Do-It-Yourself Nightmare Kits" to newspaper offices.) By last week "Shock" was playing to ceiling-high ratings in 90 cities. Calif,, "Dracula" 1,200 white-sheeted students. In Philadelphia, 100 fan clubs had sprung up for Roland, the an- nouncer, who, with ghoulish 'make-up and props Introduced the films, Threats that the shows miight be "investigated" by the National Association of Radio and Tele- vision Broadcasters, the National _ Association for Better Radio and TV, and various civic groups drew from the producers defen- sive protests that the horror films were strictly for laughs. Psy- chologists got into the act with sober analyses of the appeal of this horror fare. According to motivational , researcher Ernest Ditchter's dicta, the Frankenstein monster represents "the power of the Creator," the Invisible -Man represents "the "power of omnipotence," King Kong "the power of brutishness," and Dracula "the power of resurree- tion." Whatever subconscious it may be anwsering last ness horror TV seemed to be a pro- gram staple. Screen Gems was already wrapping up 52 more scare films for a second "Shock" package, and had signed a con. tract to deliver a 39-part series to ABC called "Tales of Franken- stein." In the planning stages: A - new series based on "The In. visible Mah," Madame Tussaud's : 'waxworks, and France's macabre Grand Guignol theater. -- From NEWSWEEK, , =: : Ea (ISSUE 4 ~ 1958" 'Halt-Size Duo' RINTED PATTERN bynes Mix-match fashions -- an exs cellent way .to increase your wardrobe, Classic blouse and 6- gore skirt are designed for shorter, fuller figures--easy sew. Printed Pattern 4712: Half Sizes 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, - 221%, 24%. Size 161% blouse re- quires 1% yards 39-inch fabric; skirt requires 23% yards. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (40¢) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print - plainly SIZE; NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. ' Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. ¢ ii. 2 OLD CRAB -- The Exhibit Museum at the University of Michi- SAL Coy Re ENS ANY, ud gan says this crab on display there is 80 million years old, The crab, believed to be the most perfect specimen of its kind ever _ found, was discovered by Museum Director Irving Reimann in Cook Creek, Tenn. GUNPOINT EVICTION--Alfrtd Shuster (left), a Kansas on Ray Benzonl in the latter's home: after Benzoni a bureau drawer. In background Mrs. Flossie Benzoni Habert after she had been disarmed, The trouble sta City, Mo., deputy empted to sieze a loaded revolver from \weeps on the shoulder of Sgt. Wayne. * rted when the couple attempted to sheriff, holds a gun '2 resist an 'enforced eviction fram thelr home which will be demolished 'to make way for a ' road, ory ~ 5 ---- PP -- i pir 48 Nw