ny] ARE HR GR Allies AN ABR A hath Have You "Ever Seen lL Sh F moon be sontinivally Gold Money poss these extremes Coming Back? A "Blue" Moon?" Shanging temperature. amily (bunselot ,* 'Is the day coming 'when All over the. "world the moon "Do you mean to tell me that , Britons will once more be able has become one of the biggest you - have lived here for i "to jingle gold soveréigns in their news stories of our times, And | Years and can't tell me Ihe : : pockets? every day scientists are learn- Quickest way to the station? Dear Anne Hirst: When we who only won your love to Probably, say some economic ing more about it. I've been a taxi driver all narried six years ago my wife nsisted we live with her mo- her, and I was so in love 1-fell 'or it. I have not had a real mar- . riage, and I am sick of it. My wife ook her mother everywhere, and hey entertained their friends in our house, but I have to take my pals to restaurants; they have aever been invited to have dinner vith us, "I got disgusted, and left. Then my wife promised me a home of ur own, and a family. We moved Into a furnished apartment -- where she continued to invite her mother and their friends, but again not mine. We have no chil- dren, and you will understand that I am glad of that, "Again I left, and this time I said it was for good. But last week I met my wife accidentally, and she admitted that she missed me . .. I just had an offer of a" position in another city, and this time I put my foot down. I told her if she would go with me we could try once more -- otherwise [ was through. "Even if she agrees, I am half afraid to trust her. I think she will always be her mother's little girl. BILL" * You are taking a chance, yes. But if you still love your wife, I think it is worth the risk; if it works out, you will have your reward. You two can build a good life together among new friends and sur- roundings, away from her mo- ther's influence. If your wife refuses to leave with you or is not contented there, you will know there is no happiness for either of you and you will be better off without her. If she does consent, be sure to devote your leisure hours to her in your new home, intro- ducing her to your friends and occupied to miss her mother. It will take time, but you are a patient man. * > ER see ee ge P rsd rT ee www ® - o . JILTED b "Dear Anne Hirst: 1 just don't want to live! I am still crazy about a man 1 dated for seven months. I don't know why I can't get over him, because he made me care for him and left me flat. "I've tried dating others, but I cannot forget him. Sometimes I'd Just like to run off -- where, 1 don't know . .. I guess my family think I'm a problem and I expect " [ am. But what can I do about jt? DESOLATED" Insteal of seeing yourself as *the romantic victim of a man seeing that she is too well, 7A aN ian era, although women are crows that are Row flying around . still- three times as, prone tn in increasing umbers. As for ( tears as men. Science says the March 1. I wouldn't say it came bes Guna Whee2r Such popular doilies -- their petite size enables you to use then here, there, everywhere! Dainty as a dresser-set or to spotlight bric-a-brac. gift any time, Pattern 905; direc- tions for 7 x 13 inch oval; round 10%; square 8% in No. 50. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot bé accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS, Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order; em- broidery, crochet, knitting, weav= ing, quilting, toys. In the book, a special surprise to make a little girl happy -= 'a cut-out dol, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book, ISSUE 12 -- 1959 © Welcome" LJ * leave you, try to understand * that no man makes a girl love * him. She is attracted, he is at- * tentive, so with nothing more * than that to go on she builds * all her hopes on him, only to * find out that one day he isn't ¢ there. * .It does not matter why the * lad changed his mind, You ma * have been too easily won (or ® too possessive) or maybe an- * other pretty face tempted him * more. Obviously, he is not * worth the affection you still * waste on his memory. Why not * charge it off to experience and * next time be more selective, ® less hasty to give your heart * away? * In these circumstances, your * best cure is an active social life, * Cultivate other interests that * demand concentration or en- * thusiasm, and you will have * less time to feel sorry for your- * self. What a chance to show * your family you can take the * blow like a lady! * Have faitH in yourself and * your future, and you'll come * out all right. ~~ A separation is often the ans- wer to an unhappy marriage. If you are given a second chance, take it with hope and a new loyalty . . . Anne Hirst's opinion will guide you wisely. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Booking Crooks It is said that the training of French detectives begins with-a course of reading. Selected works include Gaboriau's detec- tive books, and also Sherlock Holmes stories. Police departments all over the world collect text-books by famous criminologists and detec- tives for the professional educa- tion of officers, as distinct from - the other works of reference which are records of criminals and their methods. } These files are 'housed in the Criminal Record: Office of Scot- land Yard, the Berlin Kriminal Archiv, and the crime dossiers of the Paris Streté. These are simply Paris libraries contain- ing the biographies of men of note -- generally false note! . There is another standard re- ference, It was compiled follow- ing a private meeting of traders who. had lost a lot of money . through people who never paid their bills. The traders made a list of these "doubtful custom- ers" in self-protection. Crooks have their own refer:- ence books. Barthelemy Warzee, the Robin Hood of France, rob- bed mail trains and gave some of the proceeds to charity. He - had a book on astrology and re- gularly consulted his horoscope before doing a job. When the police caught him he said he knew he would be arrested -- his horoscope had warned him. He appeared before his com- manding officer charged with using insulting language to a sergeant, "Please, sir," he protested. "I was only answering a question." "What question?" snapped the officer. "Well, sir, the sergeant said 'Who do you think IT am?' and 1 told him." - NO CIGAR --~ Eden Hartford, a New York photographers' mod- el who has gone Hollywood, will be seen as a showgirl in a npw movie, "The Big Circus." Al - home, she's Mrs. Groucho Marx. experts, The last gold sovereigns - issued to the public bore the date 1917, but in 1958 as many as six million sovereigns were minted at the Royal Mint, a sign of Britain's steadily strengthening pound. Although these sovereigns were intended for circulation mainly in the Middle East and Continen- tal money exchanges, it is still possible to * buy sovereigns in London for sums varying from $12 to $15. } oe As long ago as 1949 it was an- nounced that the Royal Mint was striking a limited number of sovereigns to preserve the in- herited knowledge of gold coin- ing and that only a handful of the craftsmen employed on this undertaking had had any sub- stantial experience of working with gold. Thanks to the increasing num- ber of gold sovereigns now be- ing minted, more. craftsmen are doing this work and the output for 1959 seems. likely to be much larger than that for last year. The old custom of presenting babies with a gold sovereign at their christening is also being re- vived. Clive Christopher Roger, the son of Dr. Roger Bannister, - the first runner to break the four- minute mile, got a new sovereign at his christening. Some of the oil companies use sovereigns for making royalty payments to Arab sheikhs. Arabs call these golden coins "Flying Horsemen." IN HOT WATER -- Westerns are becoming more eastern as time goes on. Theres even cologne in the bath water when Connie Stevens, above, matches wits with Bret Maverick (James Garner) on the Maverick show. Connie outbluffs the poker ex- pert to get the bath, "Man of Iron" Was A Weeping-Willie In aclordance with a cen- turies - old wedding custom, a pretty, blue-eyed Czechoslovak- ian bride forced herself to cry immediately after her recent marriage to a young farmer. She wept into a "tear hand- kerchief" which will be pre- served for burial with her "so that she may take to the grave the tears she shed on the. hap- piest day of her life." Tears rarely get streaming headlines nowadays. Why are they so seldom in the news? One reason is that we're all crying less. People don't cry in 1959 as often as they did in the Victor- women who never cries i3 not normal. Research shows that laughter is now more than 400 times more prevaleht than tears. And there are still some people whn occasionally" ladgh' until the tears run down their cheeks. According to psychologists, some people are always. on the verge of tears - tears that count {or nothing, the Juxiirious teare of self-pity. © "It only needs a moving para- graph; the skilled. portrayal >! an emotional scene in a'novel, & , play or a film .and straightaway many people weep," says a psy- chologist. "Even tears of pity or re- morse are idle tears. Only tears of joy are truly tears of action. Th <e are tears of impulse satis- fied and hopes fulfilled" Very young children cry vo. cally long before they shed their first tears. Not until a baby. 1s three. or four months old: 'do tears flow, because untit then tear glands are undeve'cp.d BACK IN LONDON -- Waving to the crowd at london Airport, Prime' Minister Harold Macmillan arrives home from his 10: :day visit to the Soviet Union. r= ry Ari HRON ICLES GINGER FARM Gwendoline P .Clavhe Most people will remember the winter of 1958-59 and the thaw that followed the big snow. Frozen culverts, flooded roads and base- ments are the order of the day. But even they are minor troubles compared with the tragic loss of life caused by collapsed roofs at Huntsville and Listowel. It seems almost impossible that such acci- dents could happen without warning. And yet when you con- sider the weight of snow on many roof-tops has been estimated at seventy-two pounds to the square foot it is understandable, Mullti- ply seventy-two by the square foot area of any roof and you have a terrific lot of snow. Fortunately most of the snow in this district has been on the ground -- and we are inclined to think we have more than our share piled up on this one acre: of land. Partner 'has -a regular network of little ditches and 'canals at the back of the house -- plus: a sort of catch-basin where he can leave the water to fill up while he works on the ditches. But still the ditches over- flow as the water seeks ways and | means to find its own level. The only one who is happy -- and dirty -- is Taffy. He spends half his time paddling up and down the ditches, catching water with his mouth anywhere it happens to gurgle over little piles of fro- zen: snow. One day last week, it looked, like « .a> good day to go shopping so I" went to Cooksville in. the morning and Applewood in the afternoon. But alas, 'I hadn't realized how fast it could thaw once it got started. Along the service road I ran into floods every so often and there was no way of telling how deep the water was until I was in the middle of it. Fortanately the car did not stall'and I found a way of getting home that was mostly along the highway. I was wish- ing 1 had wings to keep me away from' the water like' the in either like a lion or a lamb. I would say it was more like a scal. But.at any rate it's March . only a few more weeks and it will be Juné, with Easter and Whitsuntide sandwiched in be- tween. Can you believe it? Just imagine some day all this ice, snow and water will have dis- appeared. Maybe even be water in some of the dry wells. But that I wouldn't bank on. The frozen ground prevents the excess moisture seeping into the ground, and thus to the wells the way it should. In some homes it is "water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink." Of course there has been more than weather to worry about this week. The partial shut-down at Avro still has people worried -- and promises to make a good political "football. . What will be the final outcome it is hard to .say. Seme of .the men around .here have already got other Jobs, One or two are talking about: retiring 'no Fngland, others are going to toe United States. And' there might * are the doctors ever busy. In our family, Ross managed to choke on a toy metal bell. It was touch and go for a little while. He was blue in the face when Joy and Bob rushed him to the local hos- pital. By the time they got there he had managed to swallow the bell. X-ray pictures revealed its whereabouts and it eventually passed through him. -His throat was raw and bleeding but apart from that he apparently suffered no ill affects. -- - In Dee's family, Art is in bed with the flu; Jerry is still up to his eyes in mischief. One day he pulled the pop-up toaster on the floor, breaking the mica and one element. And they are having dog 'troubles too. It would seem their back yard is a rendezvous for all the dogs in the neighbour- hood, although their own little dog is kept in the house. One morning there were no less than ten in the yard at one time, all the way from toy terriers to German shepherds. Dee phoned the police and the Humane Socie- ty with little result. One of the cheeriest people around here is our egg-man -- a Dutchman. He comes every Fri- day night. At least he drives the car and a little boy delivers the eggs. Last Friday the father came to the house himself with the eggs. "My little boy -- he's sick with flu; other boy, he fell at school and broke shoulder. But I have lots of boys, One sick or gets hurt, others work. One, two, three, four boys. Lots of boys 1 «+. I'm lucky." Well,.I don't know any place where boys can be more useful -- and have more fun--than on a farm. The farmer is lucky -- and so are the boys. In the light of present-day knowledge, it's odd to reflect that the Greek philosopher Arls- totle believed that the moon was a perféctly smooth and round 'body and that its markings were the continents of the world re- flected as in a mirror. Now we know that there are craters on the moon probably caused by meteoric bombard- ment, that the mass of the moon is about one-eighth that of the earth and that its diameter is a quarter that of the earth. A startling theory that the moon will one day collide with , the earth was advanced by Pro- fessor Hoerbigar, but he has- tened to. explain that this won't happen for a few million years, although every year the mooon moves nearer -the earth "A day on the moon is equai- to about fourteen days on earth -- that means about a 2,000-hour working week! There is no rain or cloud on the moon and when men ultimately reach the moon they will gaze up at a sky which appears black. A man could jump six times higher on the moon than on earth. Sometimes we say "Once in a blue moon." Has there ever been a blue moon? Yes. It was seen during the 1902 eelipse. The moon's surface, though cut uff from sunlight by the passing of the earth shadow, reflected light from the earth's atmos- phere and was noticeab!y blue. Some courting couples: marry when the moon is new because they say it's a symbol 'of all happy beginnings and 4 sign that they will never quarrel True or false? Only new_moon honeymooners can answer that with any certainty! We don't yet know whether the moon has any effec! on the weather, although manv peopie still believe that a halo round the moon indicates rain and that the bigger the circle the nearer the moisture: Weather men say that the old saying "There's always a change after the new moon" is not borne out by weather records. Astronomers calculate today. that the temperature of the moon may be as high as 214 deg. Fahrenheit by day and as iow-as-minus-243 deg. Fahren- heit by night. Some believe it possible that the surface of the \ that time, air." Wonder Topper PRINTED PATTERN, . P Ea - byt... ri Easy, easy Printed Pattern, See the diagram -- you can sew this terrific topper' in so little time. Have it in wool or cotton tweed for every day -- velveteen for evening. ' Printed Pattern 4841: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40, 42. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54-inch. Printed directions 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, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. IT FLIES? -- Thats what Ivs designed to do. Al Wilson con- * structed this machine from varlous oddments, including a 72 h.p. engine. The machine welghs but 225 pounds. oo THEY'LL BE DIS-TRESSED* DAMSELS - "The six Falbor sisters smile ed up for a mass hair bob, Left to right. are, front, Patty, 8; Freda, 6, and Marg- They showe bravely in a beauty shop. aret, 11; rear, Delia, 18; Gertrude, 15, and Thersa, 13. Thelr mother, Mrs. Anthony Talbot, says, "Long hair Is pretty, but it's just too much trouble,"