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Ta, Se Si ~ a > = NAN RN NC s Choa > hd ) I See AR PW | 3 - £1 SIZE, NA ME, "Dear Anne Hirst: I was a lonesome widow for over two years, and then I met a man who is almost as wonderful as my husband was. From the day we met we have been seeing each other. almost constantly, and care more all the time. We are so compatible that just being to- gether is enough. "So why don't ried? "There isn't money; enough. His. income can only support himself, and two years ago he became partially disabled though otherwise he is in good health. I can get along on my husband's pension, but in any emergency we get mar- we would be hard put to it for - cash. "Shall we take a chance? Or stop seeing each other entirely?" DISTRESSED" CAN YOU HELP? My first thought is to say go ahead, but one must be prac- tical. Have you ever worked? Had any business training? Many a young woman is hold- ing down a job today who never expected to. Can't you? Consult a few employment agencies and ask their advice; they may have suggestions you haven't considered. Also fol- low the help-wanted ads in this newspaper. Let all your friends know how anxious you are to aug- ment your income, and follow up any lead they offer. The more people that learn your need, the earlier it will be met, Are you a good cook? Per- haps there is a demand in your neighborhood for homemade cakes, desserts and other dish- es you can prepare at home. The Woman's Exchange or a similar group can tell you. Perhaps this man can find a part-time job that will not over-tax his strength. (A talk with his physician should be helpful.) Employers are grow- ing more agreeable to employ- ing the disabled, and oppor- tunities are, opening up for them to prove their worth. In these days of high prices, I am amazed to learn how many couples are getting along on incomes they would have thought a pittance some years ago. They have lowered their living standards, true; but they believe in themselves and each other, and have enough love and understanding to be content "just to be together." Attack the problem, both of you, with all your imagination and energy. Leave no field un- examined. With inspiration of your goal, you may be sur- prised how soon you will suc- ceed. I do hope so. It is a shame * 4 00 LJ] J [J LJ * J LJ [J] . LJ] ° ° L ° J Ld » LJ] LJ LJ ° LJ ° J ° J LJ ° LJ] LJ] ® LJ] LJ . [4 * [] ° J Smart Traveler PRINTED PATTERN Wonderful day -in, day - out dress -- easy to sew with a minis mum of seams, darfs and finish~ ing details. Crisp collar, smart bodice detail, figure-flattering skirt. Choose gay cotton, Printed Pattern 4643: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40, 42 Sizes 16 takes 43 yards 35-inch. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier,' accurads Send FIFTY CENTS (50¢) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. ' Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, * that two nice people so well * suited should have to live * apart. Good luck! . . v ADVICE TO THE AGED "Dear Anne Hirst: So many older people seem to be burdens to others these days that I feel impelled to suggest ways they can prepare earlier for their re- tiring years. "Living fully for today, and being thankful to God for it, is a safe motto. During your young years learn to do something that will bring you employment and when age comes upon you can be enjoyed then, too. Get a hob- by. If you can work, keep work- ing at something that will bring . you a sense of achievement now and later. Even if one's health declines, they will have a con- tented mind. Put yourself in God's hands, and never forget to exercise your faith. "Too many old people I know today never learned early enough how to get the most out of life. It they had, they could be won- derful assets to their family! PRACTISING" It is in the time of their youth that men and women should plan for their declining years, while they are still ac- tive enough to develop and pursue activities that will keep . LJ LJ LJ LJ * LJ ® them interested the rest of * their lives. Your advice puts it ® clearly before them as one's * duty to others. ® There are few burdens so LJ [ * LJ] [J LJ LJ * trying as having to live with - an aged person whose mind and heart have emptied them- selves of life's real values; and there is nothing so inspiring as older folks' who refuse to lose their enthusiasms for life. Thank you. LJ * * When two people love each other and have faith, there is almost no limit to what they can decomplish. If you are concerned about the future, ask Anne Hirst's opinion. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. Real Dog-Lovers When flames roared through the library of his Derbyshire mansion recently, Hugh Molson. the Minister of Works, dashed into the room in his pyjamas to save his tep-year-old golden La- brador, Caesar. He also saved valuable books, paintings and furniture from the blaze, but afterwards his wife Nancy declared: "I was more re- lieved when he brought out the dog." Heart-warming stories of peo- ple's consideration for their dogs are told almost every day. For instance, Wally Watts, of South- sea, has made a pair of rubber boots so that his seventeen-year- old mongrel Scruffy can keep his paws dry when it's raining. You don't count the cost of dogs in money, says Phillip Op- penheimer, the London diamond merchant. When he lost his dog, Poacher, on the way to the of- flce, he immediately put adver- tisements in newspapers offering £60 reward. Full of anxiety, Mr. Oppen- heimer waited. Then, three hours later, he had a telephone call from a police station: "We've found your dog." He had been found wandering in the road. But this devotion between dog and owner is not by any means a one-way f{raffic. Quite a few folk have recently been saved from peril by their pets. For instance, just before clos- ing time a man attacked Walter Page in his pub in Dulwich Vil- lage, London, throwing pepper in his face and coshing him with a bottle. Luckily, Mr. Page has a black and white mongrel called Smudge, who flew at the attack- er and chased him away. "If it hadn't been for Smudge, I'm sure the man would have taken the cask from the till," said Mr. Page's wife. Police dogs, of course, are well known for their intelligence and courage. One of the best is Dante, - seven-year-old Alsatian of the Metropolitan Police, who trapped a gang of safebreakers in his off-duty hours. SALLY'S SALUES i , "You're not only one in a mil Mon, Daddy, but you're a mik lion in one," AIMS TO PLEASE Sherry O'Shea practices with an old muzzle loader on the bluffs overlooking Huntington, W.Va., . for the Cabell County Sesqul- centennial. How To Cut Red - Tape -- Fast! Ever hear the one about the boy just in from the country who let a city slicker talk him into buying the Brooklyn Bridge? It got a lot of yuks back in. the days when granddaddy wore knickers, The boy went onto the bridge and started to collect tolls. Someone called the cops. Enter, cops. Exit, cops with boy, Curtain. Laughter. 2, That ancient wheeze came true in Washington last month -- but the laughs were on the govern- ment, The story began last Septem- ber, when Doug M. Smiley, 50, a busy and amiable real- estate man, signed the papers for the 17 acres of scrubland that lie adjacent to one of the na- tion's most heavily traveled ex- pressways (flve cars a second at peak load), the Baltmore-Wash- ington Highway, U.S. 1. Smiley intended to develop the land for industrial purposes. A title company, searching the ancient deeds through the Prince Georges County courthouse, found that the property includ- "ed a right-of-way -- 10 feet across and 215 feet long -- that gave access to a long-forgotten country road. The small right-of- way lay directly athwart the Washington-Baltimore Highway. Somehow, in the original con- demnation proceedings, the Fed- eral Bureau of Public Roads had missed the tiny plot on its sur- veys. 2 r= Unlike the boy who bought the Brooklyn Bridge, once Smiley found he had title to this bonanza, he had only one idea -- to get rid of it. "I knew it would just be a headache," he said last month. "I just wanted to clear the title." But, under the rules for stand- ard operating procedure in Washington bureaucracy, it took Smiley six months to get some- one to listen to him. He called the Bureau of Public Roads. They turned him over to the Department of the Interior. In- terior thought he ought to con- sult the National Park - Service. Parks sent him back to Public Roads. And so on. As the months went by, Smiley found-all this less amusing. Finally he tried a new tack. He called up the Interior De- partmeht and told them that, since the government didn't seem te care whether he owned the property or not, he Intended to turn 4 profit. He was going to put a toll gate straight across the highway, Smiley said. "Ot course, I had no such in- tention," he said. "But the man at the other 'end of the phone said "My God, you'll make a for- tunel! And, boy, did I get action." He did indeed. By the week- end, the Interfor Department's legal staff had already begun work to take his right-of-way oft his hands, The story was over. Exit Smiley, smiling. Curtain. Laugh- ter, -- From NEWSWEEK, A mother-In-law is a referee , With an interest in one of the fighters. i PETTICOAT MARINER -- Breaking all 'seafaring actress Joan O'Brien takes an excursion on a submarine In her new movie, "Operation Petticoat." i traditions, RON | 7GiNgER FARM ndoline P. We have another grandson . + « 8 pounds, 4 ounces -- -and pital! On March 12, at 2.44 am. to be exact. We are thankful he was born in the hospital and not before Joy got there. Appar- ently he is a fine, healthy boy. I haven't seen him yet but I heard a lusty pair of lungs-over the telephone. Naturally I would love to have a peek at him but at the moment I am fully occu- but very obedient. And believe me, that is about as big a help 'as grandparents can have. This is the first time away from home for Ross and there hasn't been a whimper out of him -- except when he fell outside and scraped his face, which makes him look like a young prize-fighter and - hasn't improved his appearance at all. ning we get along fine but at six o'clock in the morning I don't love him quite so much. He wakes, sees his slippers on the floor and immediately starts saying "Go walk." He laves to get outside and Grandpa 'and I take turns at taking him walking -- at which time who- ever is left at home gets a little work done. Young mothers manage to take babies and everyday work in their stride but a grandmother is inclined to be a litte over-anxious and leave her own work .to make sure her. grandchild is not get- ting into mischief or doing something harmful to himself. The bathroom is a great at- traction. "It is fun 'to throw :things into the toilet and then flush it. If only Grandma wouldn't be a spoilsport and stop it -- generally by locking the door. Then there's electric plugs LAMP THIS -- lamp shade- like hat of black straw with a the face is a new spring-and- summer offering in Paris. Saucy bow i¢ tied behind peak of the ¢ .vn. 1] he arrived fourteen minutes af- -| ter his mother reached the hos-. pled looking after his big bro-. ther Ross. He isn't very big at - that -- two years and two weeks old -- as active as they come Morning, afternoon and eve- ) purple rose-satin insert above | and outlets -- so easy to. put together. Sometimes when this is done a light comes on; the toaster gets hot or the tea-kettle sings. Or maybe by just turning a knob on a funny looking box vou get music. Best of ail is that glass-faced box in' the Uving- room. It has lots of knobs and by turning this one and 'that you" get music and funny pictures. It is generally Grandpa who says "no" to that little trick. Seems like a fellow can't have any fun at all. The dog and kitty-cat are fun too -- if 'only Grandma would * let me pull the kitty's tail and the dog's ears. And why can't-I play with their supper dishes? I'd like their dishes for 'my sup- per too. Talfy's is a nice bright red and the kitty-cat's is green, Sometimes when they've been washed Grandma lets me put one on for a hat, other times she says "No, no." I can't see -that it matters if the dish hap- pens to have a little supper -left in it. Sunday 'afternoon my Daddy came to see me. But why didn't Mummy come? Daddy says Mummy's got a baby. I've got a baby too. A doll. It hasn't got any clothes 'on and it cries I cried too yesterday when I fell 'and scraped my face. We have nice windows at Grand- ma's house and when I get tired of playing 1 watch the cars and trucks and doggies go by, and the little boys and girls going to school." Well, I am sure Ross would say all that it he could but at present his limit is two words at a time. Sometimes I think it s a\pity we are not all limited to two words then we would have less to say about.the wea- ther. At present we could say volumes -- but what good would it do? Looks as if we, in the go-called banana belt, have been subjected to more vagaries from the weather man than some dis- tricts farther north. Visitors from Guelph yesterday were amazed at the snow, ice and floods around here. And then while they were here the winds came, -One neighbour with an unfinished garage -- flat root and no doors -- was very busy, with the help of another man, loading all kinds of heavy stuff on top of the root to keep it from being carried away. Ap- parently he succeeded but as I watched I was afraid the man would go as well 'as the roof. At another house water was be- ing pumped out through the there .were plenty of shingles being basement window. And lifted in the breeze, including some of our own, This morning we are back to skating-rink con- dition again. And I'm not liking i one bit, Bad weather and baby sitting don't go well together. It seems useless picking up toys when ten minutes later they are scaftered all over the place again, I should be better organ- ized but as a temporary measure the line of least resistance seems the easiest way out -- 30 the ya Fine Fabrics From The Orient In the days of the old East India Company, among the many Oriental marvels hat delighted the hearts of exiled English- women were certain Indian silk . shawls, They "were so fine that al- though more than a yard square, they could -be pulled without ef- ;|> fort through a wedding ring. Women no longer wear silk shawls as they did in those days, but cashmere .still comes to us from another part of the Far East.. Its' history harks back to the earliest traders and the first great trade routes -- the rays , when Phoenician merchants grew rich from the treasures of anci- ent China. ; Nowadays caravans make a journey between Tientsin and Tibet. They carry tea, cloth, iron- ware, sugar and boots on thelr westward trek, They return with the coveted fleece .of the Tibetan goat -- the lovely material we ° know, after it has .undergone many processes, as cashmere, Along these routes are trading posts that were busy marts when Solomon lived, and they still do a good trade, ' The curious part about these soft fleeces is that they are not sheared from the Tibetan goats 'that roam the wild countryside. They are removed by large combs from the scrub brush. What makes the finest cash- mere is that part of the goat's coat next to its skin, behind the 'coarse "beard-hair." ' As summer wears on the goats begin to shed their coats. They do the shearing for themselves while their shepherds sit. and wait. They rub themselves all day against the rough scrub bush, as though from instinct. Later, the goatherd gathers this soft crop from the scrub bush. Each goat ylelds around twelve ounces of fleece, and the annual yield 'that flows out of China is around sixty thousand pounds a year. When it is taken from the bushes the fleece is a tangle of smelly wool. A camel caravan laden with Tibetan goat :fleeces can be smelt miles away. Yet from this unattractive raw 'product comes the prized mater- fal that js used in the making of ~ = toys stay where they are.until © nightfall. This I must tell you. It hap- pened this morning. Ross was awake at 5.30. I changed him and he settled down again. So did I And then it didn't seem . any time before Partner was saying -- "Aren't you going to get up this morning . ., . the coffees ready?" Ye gods -- he had made "a mistake 'in the time and got up- an hour too soon! That, } consider, should establish grounds for charges of mental cruelty! a wide range of cardigans, sweat- ers and overcoats, 4 Once, » woman who had heard how a ewhmere shawl could be drawn through a wedding r tried the same experiment wi a cashmere pullover, She found to her surprise that it passed through with very little persua- sion. Q. Is it all right to use the tele- phone to acknowledge the re- ceipt of a gift? A. This is better than no ack- nowldegement at all, But a { personally written note of thanks is in much better taste, Easy-Sew, Iron , oy Cool sundress with an embroi- dered birdie for its pockets. Easy -- no fitting problems -- bow cinches waist. No ironing prob- "lem -- opens flat. Pattern 554: embroidery trans- fer, pattern, directions for child's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, included. : '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 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 lit- tle girl happy -- a cut-out dol), clothes to color. Send 25 cents 'for this book. ISSUE 15 -- 1959 2... THAT STRETCHES AROUND THE WORLD For the most delightful way of enjoying the wonderful world in which we live, nothing surpasses the thrill of a CUNARD ocean voyage. 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