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Port Perry Star (1907-), 28 Aug 1958, p. 2

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a i a Pt os oy AA Rta Di SRE TR . oo ad I pe Ra LF poe" J A - SR ey SRE 8 2% ih 178; RENE t We, SARA REAR A i ER a im a a hs a ' [ANNE HIRST | family (bunselot "Dear Anne Hirst: I know you will think me im- pulsive when I tell you I've been married three years and am on the verge of leaving my husband, Not until we came * back from our honeymoon did 1 learn what a dreadful temper * he had, nor dream he could even show physical cruelty. I soon learned I dare not disagree with him over the slightest thing; he shouts and curses, and he has struck me more than once. He 4s the most opinionated man I cver knew, always right. He makes me feel like a worm. Well, the worm is about to turn. "To give him his due, he is in some ways a good man. He loves our baby, and sometimes he seems proud of me, too He works hard, and provides well, but material comforts aren't all there is to marriage. For the baby's sake, I have felt I had to stay married, but I can no longer love a man who is cruel. If I thought he would. ever change, I'd take the chance; but now that I see his real nature, I am actually afraid to stay with him, "I am only 23, and in good health. If I had to, I could make a living for me and the baby. (My father would help.) Shall I leave now? Or try to recail the nice things he does for us, and let him {reat me as he pleases? ON THE VERGE" Favorite Roses by Cooma Whale Dream gift for the bride or bride-at-heart! Beautify a bed set, guest towels, scarf ends. Easy 8--to-inch crosses -- use shaded effect in 6-strand cotton. Pattern 603: transfer of one 7 x 19% inch motif; two 5% 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 St.,, New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER,. 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! BEER AEE IEEE IRE EE EE IEE EEE EE EE IR IE EE SE EEE EE SEE EEE NE NE SEAR BE RE ¢* Has your husband any idea "* how much you resent his con- * duct -- or have you accepted * it without protest? Does he ¢ know you are actually 'tempted* * to leave him? How your love and respect are being destroy- ed by his _double - edged cruelties? } I think you should explain, calmly and without anger, that you cannot go on like this. You will take the baby and go to your Aather (or else- where) and leave «your hus- band alone for a while to live his life without you both. When (or whether) you will come back is not to be decided now. Be sure to.tell him how much you appreciate his gen- erosity, but that without kind- ness and justice, it is not enough. If your only reason for stay- ing is for the baby's sake, ask yourself what sort of home life she will have as she grows up, living with a father whose ungovernable temper and phy- sical abuse of her mother poison her young mind. Re- mind him that she is just one of your reasons for leaving. Perhaps that is all you will have to say. He may be more shocked than you to learn the extent of your rebellion -- or he may not believe that you mean what you say, At any rate, he will have to think of himself as you see him, which is exactly what he needs to do. If you are as desperate as your letter implies, this seems your only course. * * + "Dear Anne Hirst: I am deeply in love with a nice girl 15 years old. I am 57, and never married. She loves me and wants to marry me. "Her father is dead, her mother has married again, and she is now staying in a home and in charge of the D.P.A.; she will have to stay there until she. is 18. At times I think I cannot live without her. I have good health, education, I am a good worker, a church member and of good habits. I live with a bro- ther, 70, also a bachelor. Please let me know what I should do. "I am worried. F.D." You are old enough to be a grandfather, and you want to marry a 15-year-old child, to live with you and your bro- ther, 70. Don't be "worried", as you say! Tell the pastor of your church that you erdave to wreck the life of a child. Jefferson David wrote, "Old fools are too dumb to teach mules". > Don't be a fool, unless on your pastor's advice. * * * LE EEE EE EE BE EE EE EE EE EE If you find yourself married to a man who concealed his real nature, do something about it. Often a frank talk will open his cyes . . . Anne Hirst's success in helping couples get along to- gether Is long established. Per- haps she can help you, too. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ontario. QUICK SERVICE Tg airline information clerk sat' at his desk and, when the 'phone rang, picked it up with a cheery "Hello." A woman's voice said: "lI am flying by jet airliner from Lon- don to South Africa--how long will the journey take?" "Just a minute," said the cour- -teous clerk, as he reached across the desk to get the time-table that would give the information. "Thank you," replied ,the wo- man, as she hung up. 7 LITTLE GIRL, BIG FLOWERShirley Redmond, 5, Is entranced by the beautiful iris which won her sister, Glenda, 11, a ribbon in a flower show. Re LT hae " MARGARET GETS WET -- Princess 'Margaret Bol a look at Niagara's famous Horseshoe Falls the hard way. She donned a slicker and went down to Table Rock where the huge cataract on the Canadian sidg can best be viewed. HRON ICLES Gwendoline P .Clarhe Is there anyone who reads this column thinking of buying a Louse? If so here is a tip I pick- ed up yesterday. In making an . offer to purchase have your lawyer include the {following condition. "I offer to purchase said property subject to satis factory reports following inspec- tion by plumbing and electrical inspectors". This suggestion was offered by a man who had been called in by frie of ours to see what was wrong with their septic bed. The weeper-tile area i3 always swampy, as the surface water doesn't get away properly. - The plumber said it was due to the heavy clay soil not providing proper drainage. He added that if a man is building his own house and knows the soil is heavy he would be well advised to have the tile trenches filled in with sand. Never knowing what we might run into ourselves we were very interested in finding out all we could. So far we haven't had any trouble. Well, there is a nice breeze this morning and I am sitting cn our back patio enjoying it. It has been a hot week and the lawns- and gardens are looking very thirtsy again. Playing under the trees is a wee black squirrel --the first I have seen. Hope he stays around as squirrels are fascinating little creatures to watch -- a change from cats, dogs and rabbits. Probably 1 shall have a few bird stories to tell later on as I have discovered there is a bird sanctuary near here that I didn't know abou! until yesterday. That 1 must visit. I am also wondering 'I there is a secluded spot near the lake within easy driving distance where we could picnic. I suppose the only way to find out is to go exploring. I have been disap- pointed in the Port Credit area. There it is, right on the lake shore and no place to enjoy it. That is, as far as we know at present, We are not looking for a beach -- just a shady spot with cool breezes off the lake -- but without a long hot drive to get to it. From where I am sitting I can see the cars whizzing by along the Dundas -- so many cars -- apparently , there are . many people who don't mind hot drives. Yes, so many shining, streamlined cars. We very rarely gee a jalopy any more. And such pretty colors, making a never- ending spiash brightness against the Te Anais of trees: along the highway. In the immediate foreground Partner is out digging in the garden, He wants a bigger gar- den next year -- more space be- {ween the rows, And iris on the edge, the full length of the vege- table garden. That is in re- sponse to an urgent request, Partner doesn't "like iris. Nor does Bob. They say it takes up too much room and lasts such a short while, And collects weeds. . But I like iris s0 Partner con- ceded -- "All right, you can have your iris if you want them but instead of cluttering up the slower beds we'll have a whole row along the edge of the vege- table garden," That suits me fine. I don't care where they are just so long as I have them. The perennials are giving us lcts of bloom just now and the perfume after sundown is just grand -- mostly from petunias, ricotines and stocks. And yet we never see a humming. bird. They were flitting around quite often at Ginger Farm. Our Toronto family came in last night and the three boys were in great form. It was lale when they arrived -- ~ too dark to rlay outside. But that didn't worry them. They made a bee- line for the hall closet where we keep a small wagon and the. test of their toys. They pila them all on to the livingroom is time to go home. They never ask to take any of the toys away with them. Somehow their little minds must reason things out, know the toys are. meant to stay here and will beé waiting for them next time they come. The above was written on Sat- urday. They came Sunday and cur Toronto family packed us, the boys, a lunch and Honey into their car and we went for a drive to Eugenia Lake, away the other side of Flesherton. At one point between Flesherton and Shelburne we saw a sign which read "1700 feet above sea level". No wonder the air 1s so fresh and cool in that di-trict. I be- lieve it is supposed to be the _ highest point in this part of Ontario. Dee and Art are be- ginnig to feel the need of a lake shore cottage that we could all 'share in turns. But it is hard to find the ideal spot -- not too isolated, nor too far away and yet fairly secluded with a beach suitable for children, We are going on the hunt again tomor- row -- where, I don't know -- floor and play happily until it Happiness Is Where You Find It It was the day the British 'red berets" had flown into Amman at young King Hussein's urgent request. The Americans were al- ready in Beirut. No one knew what the Russians would do. I cbided myself for coming away without my portable radio, but one would not have supposed so much 'could happen in five days. The sound of 'a radio came to me through the trees, I got up from the ground-sheet spread' beside my car, and made my . way through a clearing. There was a very small Ford, not in its first flush, An' elderly couple were having *a picnic lunch -- the woman on the back seat of the car, the man on a low chair beside the open door. The port- able radio lay on the grass be- side him. The one o'clock news, it announced, would begin in half a minute, I1.greeted the woman silently, raised my eyebrows question- ingly, and she nodded kindly. I sat down onthe grass at a little distance, reluctant to intrude up- on . their meal. 'She called' out: "Dont 'keep away; come right clo8e." We listened quietly to the an- nouncer, At the end I"éxpressed 'an opinion, "That's just what my husband was saying, wasn't it, love?" said the woman. It gave one a warm feeling of being cabinet material. "If things get any worse," I 'said, "I shall go back to London." "Are you on holiday?" asked the woman. "Yes and no," I replied, "not my real holiday. But I've just packed up without a word to anyone, at a moment's notice, and come away for five days. We spend too much time. on everything under the sun. Some- times' we need to spend time getting to know ourselves." "That's right," said the man, WELL-TRAVELED-- A towel, dec- orated like a well-traveled piece of luggage, is displayed by shapely Penny Donne, "Miss Western Linens and Domestics." Department siore buyers from all over the west will see Miss Donne modeling at a San Fancisco hotel. Rs that is up to Dee and Art to decide. Incidentally, we stopped at the Horning's Mills farm on the way home and found our friends very disturbed over the fact that a neighbor had killed a rabid fox, fortunately before it had a chance to attack him. There is quite a dense bush bordering their property, clgse to where the cows pasture, so they are decidedly uneasy. X "we di. Only some's afraid te, They're all caught up with things and people." "Shall we tell you what we've done?" said the woman, "We. had a lovely house, our own freehold, near Bristol. We'd furnished it beautifully. There wére carpets right up to the walls on all the floors, and a Welsh dresser, and all. My hus- band's retired on a Sd pen: ying to do better than one's - nelgnbors: you know. So we sold it, and we've bought a resi- dential . caravan, and that's where we live now. We've never been so happy, have we, love?" "That's a fact," said the man "It was. a big adventure--we're over seventy, you know. But my wife--she's made it a real home." "He's handy about the place for the odd jobs," broke in his wife with a laugh. "We have rare times, and there's televi- sion and all. It's so easy to man- .age. Money's just easy enough too, what with what we got for the 'house, and his pension, and "both our old-age pensions, We don't need. a lot of money. All. we need is happiness; and we've got that." - "I've got friends who are fabu- lously rich," I said, "and others who have scarcely & penny to' bless themselves with, and it has shown me that happiness has ab- solutely nothing to do . with either wealth or the lack of it." "Or things," said the woman, "or even people. I think really," she continued, puzzling it out as she went along, "it's more what you can give that makes you happy. Like in:a marriage, if you can give something really worth,while, . like patience -and understanding and sympathy -- - comfort perhaps. Well, that makes you happy. Not just what salary he can bring back to you. D'you know what I mean?" "I know fine," I. said. "Not only in marriage, either." "That's right," said "the man comfortably, "we're all differ- ent." "You know," said his wife, "I used to 'want to have-everything better than anyone else. Now it doesn't seem at all important. I . don't want things any more. 1 just want to be-happy, .and it's so easy. Oh, dear]" she branched off, suddenly self - conscious, "what a funny conversation we're having." "Well, it's a funny time," 1 said, "what with -the Middle East and all. It's the sort of time when it's nice to talk about real things. Happiness is very real; and so are you. Thank you tor letting me listen to your radio." "What a lot of nice people there are about," said the wo- man, smiling broadly. "It's a fact," said her hus- band, "we must remember it." --By Rosemary Cobham in The Christian Science Monitor. WHAT'S IN A NAME? The Lord Mayor of Bristel, England, Fitzroy W.G. Chamber- lain, arrived in New York with ,a new explanation of how ~ America got its name: When ex- plorer John Cabot, sailing out of Bristol, discovered Newfound- land in '1498, he said, Richard Ameryck, a British® customs of- "ficial, arranged for him: to get a pension from Henry VII. In gratitude, Cabot named America after him.- Lined up against Chamberlain are history profes- sors and experts of the Encyclo- redia Britannica. They' re stick- ing to the standard opinion that America is named after the Italian merchant- jrader Amerige © Vespucci. 2 STRUCK HOME A newspaper editor with some space to fill set up the Ten Commancdments and ran them without editorial comment. 'The next day he got a letter from a subscriber 'which said:. "Cancel my subscription; you're getting too personal." Modern Etiquette. . . by Roberta Lee Q. Is it proper, when checks have been received as wedding file, to display them with the other gifts? - A, Ordinarily it is in very bad taste to display gifts of money. . However, if there are a number of checks received, you may properly display them with the" amounts concealed. This can be done- by laying them under a , pane of, glass, one above 'the other, so that only-the signatures are revealed -- using an enve!l- ope to cover the amount of the top check. Q. When a woman drops some article on the street and a stranger picks it up for her, what should she say? A. A pleasant "thank you", ac companied by a smile, is sufti- clent. ~ Q. Should the used silverware be gathered up before removing the plates from the dinner table? 'A. No; the silver should be left on the plates,' 'and all removed from the table together. Q. When are "informals" prop- erly used in correspondence? A. The "informal" is a fold- over card, and may -be used for any 'short note--for sending and replying to invitations, for en. ~ closing with a gift, and so on. This type of card. is not proper, however, as a letter- of con- dolence. Week's Sew-Thrifty PRINTED PATTERN Cut for coolness, flattery -- and jiffy sewing! Note breezy- but-modest scoop neckline, grace- - ful skirt and - suggestion of sleeves. A Printed Pattern de- signed to fit without' alterations. Printed Pattern 4666: Half Sizes 124,144, 16%, 181%, 20%, 22%, 24%. Size 16% requires 3% yards 39-inch fabric. Printed direétions on each pat- tern part, Easier, accurate, Send FIFTY .CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLER NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 35 -- 1958 Al of a sudden, the movies have discovered, adie os' slips, A / At ne across the screen In them. From left to right, Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on a Hot "A Certain Smile" and Tina Louise in "The Trap", . a rade. thelr feminine stars Roof", Christine Carere In ree ome--

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