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DS EU, [ANNE (bunaselot "Pear Anne Hirst: When my sweetheart was ordered over- sess recently; he wanted us to get married immediately. We bought the rings, and made ar- rangements with our pastor A few days later he called up and sald to forget it; he wanted a real honeymoon and there wasn't time for it! "The other day he wrote and sald he wants to end our engage- ment. I couldn't believe it, and neither will his family. My par- ents have been so generous that I can't bear to tell them. I wrote, him and asked if there is another girl, and he denied it. "What am I to do? I simply cannot let him go, I love him too much. Without him, I don't want to live. I'll do anything to get him back! If I have to admit we : .are through, all my friends will make fun of me. And how can I tell my family? ' MADGE"" IT IS OVER : * The young man has broken * the engagement, and the bit- ® ter truth is you will have to ® accept it. Tell your parents im- * mediately, they have the right ® to know; they will be as ® shocked as his people are, but * at him, not at you. They, with ® your pastor, will help you * through these, sorry days. ®* Why admit you were jilted? ¢ Explain to your friends that * you have changed your mind, and would rather not talk about it. It is as simple as that. Whether another girl is in- volved really does not matter. There is no getting the boy back, and a girl who respects herself will not try. There is nothing so impressive as sil- ence, so don't write him again; it will only annoy him, The book is closed, and for good. You say you haven't looked at another boy since you met ee on him. Well, begin to look around. Your friends will spread the news, and other boys you've known will prob- ably ask for dates. Don't make the mistake of turning them down; going out will give you less time to mourn, and keep you in circulation. Unwelcome as the idea is, believe me it will lift your spirits after a. time, and soon you will realize that the world must go on and you must go with it. I am so sorry! Giving up your dreams of marrying the lad you love is the most pain- ful experience you have ever known. But if you make the adjustment bravely, and with your head high, you will prove what you really are -- a girl @ 0% © 0 0 00 00 0% 5 00 2B 00 oro 00 SE 00 0H Favorite Roses Dream gift .for the bride or bride-at-heart! Beautify a bed set, guest towels, scarf ends. Easy 8-to-inch crosses -- shaded effect in 6-strand cotton. Pattern 603: transfer of one 7 x 19% inch motif; two 53; x 12%; directions for crocheted edging. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto Ontario. Print plainly PATTERN NUM- BER, your NAME, & ADDRESS. As a bonus TWO complete patterns "are printed right "in our LAURA WHEELER Needle~ craft Book. Dozens of othef 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! use ¢ of character who shows all her * friends how a lady behaves * under stress, . L Ww "Dear Anne Hirst: I don't know why my parents forbid me the privileges other girls my age have. I'm a. high-school senior, and an only child. They won't let me go anywhere with my girl friends, and I have never had a date! I just attend school, come home and do some housework and go to bed. Is this any way to live? "Why are my parents like this? I've never given them any trouble. I know it isn't because they love me! I even thought of leaving home, but that isn't right and besides, it might get me into trouble. Please advise me. MARGY"" I think you should certain- ly. be given more privileges. A girl 17 and a senior who has never caused her family any concern should be able to con- duct herself socially. Whether you believe it or not, the discipline that parents practice is based on their love for their children. They want to protect a daughter, especial- ly, from making the wrong friends until she is old enough to have good judgment. Yet it AS 2 8 2 0 8 8B BH OS 8 OOS EN BE OE 00 eer will they exepct you to? If you have been frank with me, you should be allowed to visit your girl friends, go with them to movies and sports events, and have dates with nice boys your parents accept. Ask your parents to read Vv er would like to write me, I shall be glad to have her letter. w LJ * When you feel your heart is breaking, keep it to yourself. Go through the motions of living, and before long they will have a meaning of their own. A let- ter to Anne Hirst will bring you comfort and fresh courage. Ad- dress her at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St.,, New Toronto, Ont. -Did Painting On Torn Bedsheets Not every great painter starves in a garret. Bernard Buffet, a twenty-nine-year-old Parisian, lives in a beautiful villa, runs several motor cars and works only when he feels like it. He has been nicknamed by Ameri- can tourists, "The Painter With The Golden Arm." Yet Buffet began in squalor. Son of a bicycle dealer in a poor quarter of Paris, years his father's despair. He would never play with other children and refused work at school. "I don't know what he'll ever be capable of doing in life," .~ his father used to say. There was just one thing that the young and skinny Bernard terials were 'the trouble: His "canvases'--which to-day sell at thousand of pounds a time--were then the sheets he stole off his grandmother's bed. He had to paint, for there was never enough money to buy another. But for his mother who stood by him and encouraged him dur- ing all this time and who eventu- ally persuaded his father to let him go to evening classes in art, he 'would never have made the grade. Bernard eked out his existence on morsels of bread, given him at art school by companions whom he helped with their painting. Relief seemed to be at hand two hundred francs. Somehow his mother scraped up some more money, and Buffet was sent to the seaside for the first time ..was to find that his mother had died suddenly, He was more iso- lated than ever. He left home and went to live in an attic. There he had not even his grandmother's sheets to paint on. He managed to obtain strips of sheets which a neigh- bour sewed together for him, He worked in a freezing room with the sheets nailed to the wall, Hard though Buffet worked, his paintings. never seemed to satisfy him. He felt that he had not yet touched his best. When his pictures' were finish- ed, he either threw them away, or used them to stop up holes in the window. His first chance came in 1946 and was miserably lost. He ex- hibited a couple of pictures in a. so-called show by "Indepen- dents," ;which caught the eye of Michel - Brient, a Brient arranged an exhibition "of -Buffet's pictures in an art dealer's shop on the Left Bank. On the day of. the show Parisian transport was halted by a strike! Nobody came, neither patrons \ JE HIRST | iE) ; you haven't at your age, when . this piece today. If your moth- he was for . did enjoy doing--painting. Ma- save the dry grains when he came to the end of each tube of ~ 'when he won a scholarship worth in his life, When he returned, it bookseller. * nor critics, and Buffet went back to his attic. He stayed there till 1948, when luck at last took a hand. 'A Monsieur Girardin, who had made a great name for himself as an art connoisseur, was in- vited to sit on the. jury which awarded a "Young . Painter's Prize" each year. Buffet entered a pictyre, "The Seated Drinker," and Girardin liked it. He liked it so much, respite the indifference of the other judges, that he stalked out of the 'room in protest, slamming the door behind him. . His action created a minor sensation. "Who is this Buffet?" people asked. Another connoisseur called Em- manuel David was sufficiently interested to find out and has been Buffet's agent ever since. It is said that to-day he pays Buffet $3,000 a month in return for the rights to sell his paint- ings. His client is quite happy with the arrangement. Any work outside painting bores and ap- pals him. He would not dream of haggling over a price. Only when he finds himself before a blank canvas, his' white overall buttoned to the neck, does he become a dynamic force, painting without a break until the picture is finished." Proposed Marriage From The Pulpit If you find a proposal of mar- riage in your next package of cigarettes, don't get alarmed. Ci- garette manufacturers are taking steps to end "proposals by pack- age," the messages dropped into packs by cigarette factory girls who plead: "If you're a bachelor, please write!" : Yet there's more than one way of snaring a spouse. A worker in a cardboard box factory knew there were plenty of budding brides in a margarine factory seventeen miles away. So he dropped a note into one of his boxes: "Lonely bachelor would like pen friend." The pen pals later met and decided to wed--and ong of the wedding gifts margarine. In Montreal, ples always thahked the parson and little guessed he was yearn- ing to share their happinéss, Until one day he stood up in the pulpit and simply announced, "I'm lonesome, and I want to get married. If there's any willing lady present, will she please stand up?" The congregation stayed very quiet. No one rose. But there -~were three eligible lad~- in the vestry afterwards. A northern boy couldn't pro- pose to his girl because he found himself too shy to talk to her. He was better on the telephone, especially when he found a way of calling her long-distance without 'paying for the calls. After his seventh free call, po- lice were waiting outside the box. He was fined £10 for steal- ing electricity but had to admit that he thought the fine worth *it.- Love laughed at the coin boxes, for the seventh call was the time he managed to blurt out his proposal. Another bride was bagged during a high dive from the top board at a London swimming bath. Just as the athletic young man took off, a girl dived from a lower board. They crashed head on under water and were taken to hospital. Their friend- ship ripened during convale- scence and--a tiny diving board was built on the wedding cake, + BUNKERED No doubt golfing . professional Jock McKinnon of Vancouver. British Columbia thought him- .self well and truly in the rough when he learned from doctors that he was allergic to grass. "PEEK" OF FASHION=This straw - hat, which comes complete with « sunglasses, puts them all in the shade. The peekaboo eyes be: long to Mery Lou Rhodes, who's modeling 'the hat . was -a box of, newlywed cou- ~ NOT REVEALING PLANS--Pleading hands of ii ARES newsmen confront Princess Soraya as she prepares to board the liner Queen Elizabeth in New York to sail for Germany. The former Queen divorced by 'the Shah of Iran after seven years of childless marriage, said that she "enjoyed" her stay in the U.S, Asked if she would tll any of her future plans, she said simply, "Im very sorry. 7GINGERFARM endoline P.Clarke We certainly have: reason to be concerned about the present dry weather but at least we don't have to worry about grass- hoppers as farmers do in the prairie provinces. And. believe me that 'is something for which we should be truly thankful. Every few years grain growers and home gardeners out West are faced with this deadly men- acc to'their crops--and this year they are threatened again. No one, except those who have lived through such an experience -- as we did -- can possibly ima- gine what a grasshopper plague can do. Unless controlled they can clean off a field in a few days leaving it as bare as a reaper would do. Walk along the edge of a field of wheat or oats and a cloud of hoppers rise up ahead of you. It would seem that grasshop- 'pers have always menaced the - prairie districts even as far back as the pioneer days. In a history of the North-West Territory I came across this notation: "the summer was favourable and the flelds soon assumed a promising appearance, but on the 18th July, 1818, the sky suddenly became darkened 'by clouds of grasshop- pers, and as they descended on the earth in dense swarms they destroyed every green thing be- fore them. The settlers- managed to save a little grain, but not a vegetable was left in the gar- dens. The same thing hap- pened again the following year, and the settlers had to move to Pembina for the winter, other- wise they would have died. of starvation." Well, it was a hundred years later, 'almost to the very day, that Partner and I started farm- ing on the Saskatchewan prairie, I think it was the following year we were almost eaten out by grasshoppers. An appeal on be- half of the.farmers was made to the government and as a result * poison bait mixed with sawdust, bran and molasses was made available to the farmers. This had to be scattered over the fields before daylight. I sp well remember Partner loading the buggy with hundred-pound bags of bait and starting out for the fields by 3 o'clock in the morn- ing. But that was not all, In the afternoon he had to drive nine miles with wagon and team- to pick up his supply of bait from the Depot ready for broadcast- ing the following morning be- fore daybreak. We managed to save some of the crop but the " loss was. still quite considerable. And apart from the financial loss it was a miserable experience living among the hoppers. They were everywhere, Somehow they would find access 'to the house and even to the food ready for the table, And if you were walk- ing near a fleld--or even In the arden-the impact of thé crea- urés would sting your face as they flew up and around you. Fortunately science has now de- veloped a new technique for dealing. with the hoppers -- a DDT preparation mixed with water and sprayed on infested areas by weed sprayers from the ground or by means of heli- copters from the air. It is. sup- "we posed to kill the insects on con- tact--so here's hoping it works. And now for news nearer home. Quite close to where we are living is the home of a well- known -personality -- known to thousands of women across Can- ada through the medium of ra- dio, books and magazine articles. No less a person than the one and only Kate Aitken, Yester- day Mrs. A. entertained mem- bers of four women's organiza- tions to a tea at her home in the Credit Valley. I had been-past the place dozens of "times before but had never quite realized what a grand spot it Is. From. the road it appears just a nice house among the trees, But drive up to the house, explore the sur- roundings on foot and 'you 'im- mediately realise that Mrs. A, is first and foremost a woman of vision, Sometime or other she must surely have wandered along the banks of the Credit River and réalised what a wonderful spot it would be for a country residence. At that time there was one house on the property. Now there are two. Mrs. Aitken lives in one house, a married daugh- ter and her family in the other --in what used to be "The Spa." Mrs. Aitken"s beautiful house is~home and office combined. But such an office! She calls it "the Green Room." One wall is en- tirely of glass overlooking an expanse of trees, lawn and ower beds. A recessed area is obviously strictly for the busi- ness of typing, dictating and composing. Another recess is a sort of reading-room with a log- burning fireplace. And of course, there are all kinds of books and bookshelves. I can't begin to de- scribe the other rooms--all very lovely, furnished with. charm and functional simpHcity. From every window there is a magni- ficent view. From the patio, steps lead down to a restful spot among the trees; more steps to - a rustic bridge overlooking the Credit River, with great oaks, and elms towering overhead. There are many equally beauti- ful spots along the Valley of. the Credit hut it took a woman with Kate Aitken's imagination to realise what a home could be amid such surroundings. It would also require what it takes to run such a place! But the vision . came first. That is what really counts. / Modern Etiquette. . . by Roberta Lee Q. Is it considered in good taste to mail out handwritten announcements of a marriage? A. This is' quite all right if the bride or her mother wish to take the time and trouble to write them, However, it the mailing list is large, it would seem that the stereotyped en- graved announcements would be . . preferable. : Q. Is it all right for a casual dinner guest to follow the host- ess out to the kitchen while the latter is preparing the meal? A. Not unless invitd 'o do so. How The Queen Selects Dresses When the Queen chooses new dresses, wha! colours does she ~ favour? If is well: known that 'have 'always attracted * her, but she-is also fond of so- phisticated new colours, a Court -fashlon correspondent states. The Queen likes, for instance, : orange, coral, lilac, sapphire blue and mimosa yellow, Yellow has long been her colour: for sunshine fashion. On her Commonwealth 'tour in 1953, six of the twénty or more outfits she wore were in yellow. They var- ied from a sharp, aéid yellow to a deep buttercup and the lovely pale shade of an organza party Blue is another dress colour - which clearly fascinates the Queen. On her visit to Nigeria in 1956 she chose clear colours, including many blues and pinks and a lot of white because of the bright sunshine. When it comes to choosing clothes, the Queen, it is believed, has always been influenced by her mother. Back in her child- hood days as Princess Elizabeth, she was hailed in the United, States as "the 'world's most at- tractively dressed girl." Details of her latest frocks were cabled to America' to be mass - produced. Everywhere, from New York to San Francisco, small girls wore short puff-shoul- dered frocks of the type favoured by the little Princess. . One New York store, I remem- ber, came out with a prominent. advertisement: "Princess Eliza- beth frocks, inspired: by the sweethedrt of'the BritisH Empire. Every mother will want her lit- tle girl to look as appealing and as cute as the little Princess -- style arbiter in her own right." The dresses worn by the Queen during her. early spring trip to Holland this year were a tre- mendous success with the Neth-: ,erlands .queen 'and her two - daughters. Dress experts prais- ed the Queen's exquisitely groomed appearance and - mar- velled at the smartness of her gowns. : It has always been a tradition in the Royal Family to' avoid the ultra-fashionable, the extra- vagant and the exotic in dress. SRR ASKS DIVORCE -- British-born _ actress Deborah Kerr has filed suit for divorce from her hus- band, film and TV producer Anthony C. Bartley. Miss Kerr, 36, has charged Bartley, 38, with extreme cruelty and asked the Hollywood court for custody The Queen does not like wear- extravagantly large hats, either, and there is a good reason for this. The all Slasegsling hats she prefers leave her face Bats be Pree from all angles --a fact that women spectal at royal functions are alw-ys quick to appreciate, Her dresses at such highspots "of fashion as Ascot are always "just the thing for the occasion, "and bring forth admiration trom everyone who sees her. such events she must be ever more than usual, for not only must she be fashionable'but -once again also has to cater for. the public. . 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ISSUE 26 -- 1958 oF LEAP INTO MARRIAGE--Showing what the well-dressed bride and 'groom will wear--in one case--Alberto de Cristoforo ad- lusts the parachute harness of his fiancee Bianca Cappone, 19, in Turin, Italy. The couple will wed In an unusual manner this month when they and paratroop Chaplain Lino Basso jump from a plone. Bianca and Alberto hope to be man and wife by the time they reach the ground. ; spe B70 a, Seve Wi