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g % Mf MIAN WERE J AER CENT MPH IAT] since I married nine years ago. My husband drank heavily and onsistently, and he has gone ut with other women when- rer he liked . . . Last fall we ally separated -- and I am ore miserable every. day. I on't admit to myself that I want him back, but my life is so meaningless that I nearly die. J have a young son I am very yroud of, but I almost go crazy with loneliness, "I never had any real plea- sure. I married to escape from parents who were always quar- reling. My husband never took me anywhere affer the first two months of our marriage, There was never a more disillusioned bride! "I have tried to live a good Jife, but I am certainly stymied now. Whatever am I to do? ELAINE" LIVE FOR TODAY * If you had"allowed me '0 * print all your letter, it would * have shown many an unhappy * wife how lucky she is by com- parison with the harrowing years you have had with your husband. 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LAE IE JR IR I IE OE BE I EE EE EE EE IE IE SEE EEE EE EEE EE RS MLAS A SAA REA EE REE REE RIE I I I RR EE EE "Dear Anne Hirst: I have not treatment. When your spirit +. nown six months' happiness falters, remember those ter- he is safe with you now. My best prescription -- Live one day at a time. As evening comes on, say, "Well, I got through today all right. I'll not let tomorrow frighten me." Fill every waking hour with strenuous activities--your little son, your home, your church and your friends, And pray for strength to rise above these moods that attack you; they weaken your self-control and can make you physically ill. You have too much on your mind now to take that risk. haven't you? I wish I could honestly en- courage you to believe your husband will change, but such a miracle seems unlikely. He is as he is. Ever since you married he has mistreated you and betrayed you, and his family history does not hold out any hope that he will ever be a man you could rely on. Live in and for this fine boy you have, and console yourself with the assurance that as he 'grows up he will recompense you with increasing apprecia- tion and affection. You have my deep sym- pathy. * * * "MUST I KISS?" "Dear Anne Hirst: 1 am 15, and my problem is shyness, Other girls my age (particularly my best friend) are going out on dates and having good times. I am okay when I'm with a lot of kids, but just the idea of a single date (or even a double) scares me to death. "I don't mind the date too 'much, it is just the thought of kissing the boy that bothers me. Even if I like him, I'm still " frightened. "I want to overcome this. How can I? Cc" * Don't try to. You have some- * thing precious to offer your dates, and that is good, clean friendliness. If you knew how nice boys appreciate it!" Where did you get the idea 'that kissing is all there is to a date? Girls who kiss any boy promiscuously (especially on the first date) are legion. It is girls like you, who shrink from physical contact, that girls are really people, worth cultivating as good friends and not merely an outlet for thelr passion. They can get kisses anywhere -- but not from you, because you are DIFFERENT. So often boys write me thit they try out a new girl be- cause she gives them the idea that she expects them to, "It isn't 'that we're crazy in love, Anne Hirst, but they think we're a flat tire if we don't." -Stay as you are. You can establish a different pattern for dates. You treat a boy like a real person, so he relaxes with you and thinks you are swell. This is the foundation on which solid friendships are built. When all those other girls grow blase and boring, you will still be as fresh as a daisy, ready for your first romance. Live up to your inclinations, and let the female wolves cheapen themselves if they will, * * * "How can I live through an- other day?" If this fear tortures you, live just for today, and know that as you grow In spiri- tual grace the way will be easier « + + It helps to write Anne Hirst about it: Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. LOOKING FOR. THE BIRDIE? Maybe this cat never heard about to another of his breed, Pete Costas, who amerd shop, fook the candid picture of the in- what curiosity dic works In a quisifive feline, 3 rible scenes and be thankful , - dig himself out -- and then he keep the boys believing that . came aléng. An hour earlier he -Wednesday morning and return- -I almost stayed until Saturday "liner. 2 DECISIO NS, ALL THE TIME, DECISIONS--Judges selecting the winher of. the "Miss Photoflash® contest in Chicago have a tough but pleasant task confronting them. The 10 finalists in the contest, sponsored by the Chicago Press Photographers Association, are shown here. i FGINGERFARM endoli It came at last . .. our share of snow and winter storms. And it was our first experience of what snow can do to a residential district. And it was plenty. It . was a Saturday and apparently the week-end shopping still had to be done, One by one cars backed out of driveways on to the road, and in most cases that's where the fun began. Cars slew- ed across the road blocking through traffic. Our next-door neighbour was among them. It took him about forty minutes to drove the car Back into the garage. and left it there. The doctor was the first to work on his driveway -- naturally he had to make sure of getting out. After he got through two neigh- bour cars got stuck and he was out helping to dig-them out. And what did we. do? We stayed 'put. I took' stock of cupboards and. "frig" and decided we could. last Oui Jor iwor dr. thre Wane if we had to -- Partner isn't able to do too much digging. However, as soon -as the storm had died down a bit Partner was busy with the shovel -- digging out the driveway, just in case. He had just finished when -Bob would have been offered the business end of a shovel. Of course all I knew about the storm was what I could see from the windows. One thing I noticed -- you could almost tell who was friendly with whom along the road! For instance when A's car got stuck B. weht to his assistance but when C. was in a similar predicament he was left to dig himself outl' D. managed to get out without too much trouble but as séon as he was gone Mrs. D. was out_shov- elling the driveway for 'his re- turn. The. snowplough came . through about nine o'clock so by Sunday morning there was a good snow-cleared road, shov- elled driveways and, I don't doubt, a lot of aching muscles. I didn't notice many people people turning out to church Sunday morning. I was very .glad to be home before the storm came -- and I could quite easily not have been. 1 went to Peterborough' last ed Friday night, just as the weather was starting to change. es I found plenty to do helping Klemi straighten out my sister's effairs. He is giving up the house, storing most of his furni- ture and going into rooms for the present. For a musician that is quite a problem. So much sheet music and he had to have it where he could get at it. I stayed alone at the house the first night and got very little sleep. The furnace was so noisy 1 thought surely it would blow up. Times 'when it was quiet trains would rattle by on a track not more than a hundred feet from the back door. Every time it happened the house shook quite noticeably. And yet that house has just been pur- chased by a newly-wed couple. (My sister had it rented). Don't people pay any attention to loca- tion? By day I did not notice the noise -- 1 was far too busy. I turned down invitations to eat out so 1 could keep working. And then one good little soul brought me over a hot dinner Thursday night. Other friends helped by taking things away - some to sell and: some for rummage and others given away. And then they drove me to the station: to catch: the noon day- Without their help I couldn't have made it, Kindness everywhere, I shall always retain P.Clatke a very high regard for the Peter- botough folk. But I mustn't for- get our own family either. Art came to get me Wednesday morning quite early. He had an awful drive. A mixture of rain "and snow. It took an hour and a half each way to make the twenty-minute run. But now it is all behind us as I don't think I'will need to make another trip. 'But now, in lighter vein; I have. another matter to report. Ditto is back with us again, as of eight days ago. Remember 'what I said . . . was to be an omen -- if she came back the Liberals would win the next eléction. If she didn't . . ,- the" answer is obvious. Well, the issue is still in doubt. Ditto didn't COME back; she was BROUGHT back! So now what? I had asked the 'school children near here to watch for her -- _and they really went hunting. After three days away two little boys brought her home --eyes wild, coat rough and dirty, bones al- most sticking through: her skin. They found her in' a gully over at the golf course, It was several days before I had her anything like normal, Now she is as play- ful as ever. But I am still won- dering how many of her nine lives went overboard. Even at that we are lucky. Our nearest neighbour found.their little kit- ten drowned in the basement -- in the sump. pump drain. 'We, are thinking. of getting a piece - of wire netting to 'cover our: sump purop. It looks as it it were just inviting trouble." So- that's another week gone by. The snow has caused trouble out here -- but at least it's good: for the 'farmers. 'What Makes A Movie Fan? Who goes to the movies these days, and what isthe average '| movie fan like? A portrait of him_has emerged from a survey - made for the Motion Picture Association of America by Opin- 'fon Research Corp. It is not a particularly 'cheering sight to those executives in an industry which + is currently Jnvolved with box-office famine, critical plague, and payroll pestilence. Some of . the survey's pertinent points: Fifty-four of every 100 movie- goers now go to the movies less 'often than they did three years ago. Chief reasons they give: Satisfaction with TV and indif- ference to movies generally. What sounds like the death rattle of the Hollywood star system can be heard in the find- ing that only 18 per cent go to a movie because of the perform- er playing in it And 10 per cent of all those polled as to whether they were attracted by the actors or the story said they had no idea, Nearly three-quarters of the movie audience is less than 30 years old; 52 per ¢ent are teen- agers or younger. . Why do people go to one movie theater instead of another one? Thirty-four per cent make thé choicé on 'the basis of the comfort of the seats. Fully 20 per cent of all movie-. goers attend the local palace: without knowing = beforehand what picture is being shown, which suggests that no matter how bad a film might be, there will always be some pepole to see it.--From Newsweek. <i EPITAPH | Upon his grave Green grows the grass: Foot missed 'fhe' hrake And hit the gas, t How's That Again? When the Subliminal "Projec- tion Co., Inc, announced last fall that it had perfected a de- vice: for inserting unnoticeable 1/3,000-0f-a-second commercials in movies and TV shows, reac- tions ranged from cries of "foul and unfair" to chortles of "glee from parties who saw the end of intrusive TV commercials. The major U.S. TV networks piously declared they had no intention of using the devilish new inven. tion, ~ Last month, the first public test of subliminal communication wds broadcast'hy the staid Cana- dian Broadcasting .Co.'s essay- interview TV show "Close-Up." Viewers from coast to coast were told that a secret subliminal mes- sage would be flashed on .the screen 240 times in half an hour, They were asked to report their" impressions. This week, CBC revealed that the message had been: "Tele- phone now." They reported that a large number of people had telephoned in, but most of the 'callers just wanted to know what the- message was. Most of the callers thought the message had to do with thirst, One man said he got the message: '"Change-- channels." : James Vicary, inventor and president of Subliminal Projec- tion Co., Inc. 'professed to -be encouraged by the equivocal re- résults. "The less it seems to work," he said, "the 'easier to market-it." -- From Newsweek. TENNIS, ANYONE?--Elsie Dicker- son, Poster 'Girl, plays her favorite 'game the year 'round ~ on the courts' of San Antonio. Our scouts tell us she wins most of her games too, as male op- onenis - have a tough time eeping their eyes on the ball. "| Discovering 'Old Palestine For a century now, American, : (English, French, and Germa fhe have Aon dig ing. In ithe Middle East, in i tata, Palestine and Egypt, In "Pilestine, places and towns 'that are frequently mentioned. in 'the. 'Bible are being brought back once more into the light of day, They look exactly as the 'Bible describes them and lie 'exactly. where the' Bible Jocates them. On 'ancient inscriptions and monuments 'scholars -en- counter more and more charac- Jters from Old' and New Testa- . 'ments. Contemporary reliefs de- pict people whom we have hith- 'erto known only by name, Their features, their clothes, their ar- _mor-take shape before our eyes. As they have done to Nineveh and. Nimrod--old.time ~Calah-- or to Ashur and Thebes, which the prophets called No-Amon, the scholars have also awakened from its ancient - slumber the notorious Babel of Biblical story with its'legendary tower, In the Nile Delta archaeologists have found the cities of Pithom: and Raamses," where . the resentful Hebrews toiled as slaves, They have laid bare strata that tell of the flames and destruction that accompanied the children of Israel. on their conquering march into Canaan. In" Gibeah they found Saul's mountain "strong- | hold, the walls of which once echoed to the strains of David's harp. At Megiddo 'they came upon' the vast 'stables of King Solomon, who had "12,000 horse- men." From the world of the New 'Testament reappeared the pala- tial edifices of King Herod. In the heart of Old" Jerusalem the Pavement was: discovered 'where Jesus stood before Pilate; as is mentioned in" St. John's. gospel. ¢ Assyriologists deciphered on the" astronomical tables of the Bab- ylonians . thé exact dates on which the 'Star of Bethlehem was observed. : ' These - breathtaking -discover- ies, whose significance it is im- possible to' grasp all 'at once, make it necessary for us to re: vise our'views about the Bible. Many events that previously passed for pious tales must now be judged to be historical, Often results of 'investigation corre- spond in detail with the Bibli- cal narratives. They not only confirm: but also illumine the historical Bitaations out of which the Old, Testament. and the gos- pels grew. ~~ © At the same time the chang- ing fortunes of the ancient peo- ple of Israel -are woven into a lively, colorful tapestry of daily life 'in the age.'in 'which they lived. They were also'caught up in the political, cultural, and -'economic disputes of the nations and' émpfrés that struggled for power "in - Mesopotamia 'and 'on . thé Nile, from which {the inhab- itants of the tiny buffer state of Palestine 'were never able com- pletely to detich themselves for 'over "two -thousahd years. - "The "opinion has been, .and: still is,. widely held that the - Bible ig nothing but the story of 'man's. salvation, a .guarantee of ~'the Validity ~of their faith for IChristians everywhere. 'At the "same time it is 'a' book "about: things .that 'gctually happened. 'Admittedly in this sense-it has 'limitations, in 'that the Jewish "people wrote their history in the light of their relationship to 'Yahweh, "which meant. writing . it from the point of view of their 'own guilt 'and expiation. Nevertheless, the events: them- selves are historical facts and have: been recorded with an ac- curacy that is nothing less than startling.--From The Bible as History," by Werner Keller, translated by William .Neil, esopo- - helping, . Bodke Ignores the Goddess of Love in favor' of a gander at Gina, of actress to Washington's National Gallery of 'Ark : uette . o. 0, | by Roberts Lee ou Q. Is'it really considered cox- rect to accept a second helping of food when your hostess offers. it to you, or is this a sign of greediness? A. One may certainly aceept 'a second helping if one wishes, It is a compliment to the hos- tess' cookery. to do so, However, it "you don't care for a second J, you may say, . "No, thank you". " Q.1s it considered really prop- er now for a woman to "repair" any of her makeup in public? ~ 'A. Sometimes at the end of a meal in .a public eating place this is necessary, and it is quite - all right for a woman to make light use of powder and lip- stick. ' Q. When a girl breaks an en- gagement which has already been announced, how can she inform those of her friends whe live out of town and might not otherwise learn of what has happened? A. She can write brief, infor- mal notes to them, =F - ~ - Cinch To Sew "PRINTED PATTERN 4873 = SE Juniors! Everyone's making " -- everyone's wearing it. A cinch 10 sew ~ no waist 'seams. Just cinch with a belt, and you're all set 'to go. Two. necklines, t sleeve versions included inthis Printed Pattern. i Printed Pattern 4873: Jr, Misa Sizes 9,11, 13, 15, 17. 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