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A hospital official told August Schroeder, the wounded soldier: "You can save that nurse if you marry her," August furrowed his brows, for he had a wife and children in Upper Silesia. But he quickly subdued his conscience, reflect- ing that they would probably have been killed as the Soviet panzers crashed triumphantly into Germany. So, relaxed and smiling, he took the girl into his arms. Afl- ter all, but for her devotion and care, he told himself, he would not be alive. The pair quickly found a priest who married them. Thus, bigamy spared the nurse the terrible fate that befell so many of her colleagues. August moved his new "wife" westwards to the safety side of the Iron Curtain. For a time the pair were very happy. Then August discovered that his wife and family were still' alive. He sent them money and food par- cels, but not even a regular supply of gifts eased his troubl- ed conscience. At last he sur- rendered to the police and con- fessed to his "crime." The sequel came recently, when he was brought for trial as a bigamist before a Cologne court. The judge heard his case sympathetically, remarking that it revealed a "refreshing touch' of romance and pathos." The éourt, compelled to take a serious view of bigamy, sentenc- ed August to eight months' im- prisonment, but this was sus- pended and he was released im- mediately on probation. Now his advisers believe that his wife will divorce him. He will then be able to put his marriage to the nurse on a pro- per legal footing. Conscience has a very strange power. In another recent case, a priest at Casale, a town in North Italy, went to a worker and handed him a silver -watch. "Why, that's mine!" said the Cut A Slim Figure PRINTED PATTERN byt ne. AHoloms Slim and trim under your coat now--smart enough to take you right through spring. Curved collar, wise seaming on bodice help to narrow your waistline. Printed Pattern 4956: Half Sizes 12%, 1414, 16%, 18%, 2014, 221%, 24%. Size 16% requires 2% yards 54-inch fabric. : Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easler, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50¢) (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. - iain psi i si bringing only « "A greatly - splashed Ls HAPPY BIRTHDAY -- Princess Margaret Francisca of Holland is shown in an official portrait' for her 17th birthday. She's one of four daughters of Queen Ju- liana and Prince Bernhard. worker, examining the watch carefully. "It belonged to me when 1 was a boy. You don't mean to say you've suddenly' found it, Father, and by some miracle identified it as being mine?" The priest shook his head. "No my son," he said, "the man who "stole it from you eighteen years ago asked me to return it to you. Apparently, the thief could not sleep properly. Gradually, over the years, his dreams came to be haunted by watches. He awoke in a cold sweat, a ticking sound throbbing in his brain, "So, he ade confession, . brought the watch wih him, and hoped that by restoring it with my help, he would once again sleep quietly and at peace." To go on "living a lie" proves in the end, too much for many people. It proved too much for a young infantryman who in April, 1948, after serving for a year in Palestine, deserted from a famous regiment. Later, he joined the Jewish Army: Then, in 1950, he married an Israeli girl and worked on a collective farm. Twelve months later, he inherited by his mar- riage a farm of his own. He and his pretty young wife, working long hours, and in all weathers, made it pay, too. But deeply embedded in his mind was the thought that he had let down" his country. Finally, his conscience troubl- ed him so much that he could ignore it no longer. So, much against the advice of his new Jewish friends, he brought his young wife with him to England and surrendered. Court - martialled, he was sen- tenced to a year's detention. Sometimes a man's conscience speaks through a girl. A 21- year-old Glasgow boy deserted from the Black Watch. Though he kept his equipment, he re- sisted the idea of surrendering to the police, determined to kecp his new-found freedom, He now had a civilian job bringing in £8 a week, and with his father and mother both seri- ously ill, he was able to send them £3 a week instead of the 7s. he'd been able to spare them from his national service pay. But he'd won the love of an honest girl. She knew that, deep ingide him, he was a very troubled man. "Why don't you make a clean breast of it?" she wards." But he still shook his hcad dourly. Without saying another word to anyone, she went to the po- lice and got him arrested. He was courtmartialled, and given nine months' detention. To-day bowever, he is very glad that his girl had the courage to act on her own, and remove a great weight from his mind. Among the 'spate of robberies now troubling the police, mean thefts occur almost daily, Old people. and even disabled ex- servicemen are robbed of their life savings. But sometimes 'the thief is troubled by * conscience and makes amends, returning a batch of savings certificates or a cash- box. Sometimes tragedy results be- cause someone allows a trifling matter to prey on the conscience until even health is undermined. respected nun had given the date of her birth as -1894 although she knew it was 1891. To her, this fairly common feminine deceit appeared as a heinous crime. She confessed it to her convent priest who told her not to worry. But she went on fretting, feeling that her whole religious life had been a lie. Finally, she went to one of her convent's outhouses where she coal-0il over her clothes and set light to them. It was her conscience that killed her. Posted Sentry To Guard Snowdrop Walking one day on one of her palace lawns, the Empress Cath- erine of Russia spied a little flower which was strange to her ---_a snowdrop. Charmed by its simplicity, the Empress called the officer of the guard and commanded a sentry to be posted - beside the lowly snowdrop to guard it from harm. For years the order continued to be carried out, long after the plant had perished, runs the story. At last a curious courtier asked why a sentry was always stationed on the particular lawn. No one could remember the rea- son. So the order was counter- manded. Another legend of the snow- drop, which -is sometimes seen as early as New Year's Day in parts of Britain, is that it was the first of all flowers. After the Fall of man, it snowed in Eden. This frightened Eve but she felt sure of better days in store when out of the snowflakes there sprang beautiful snowdrops. For centuries the snowdrop has been the emblem of maidenhood. A very old name for snowdrops: is "Fair Maids of February," for although they are often seen in January many more of their tiny white blossoms appear in Feb- ruary, reminding us that spring is on the way. A favourite drink among Eng- lishmen in the Middle Ages was "saloop" made from the bulb- ous roots of the snowdrop. Snow- bells is the name.given by the Germans to snowdrops. A Bavar- ian legend says that the peals of the flowers' tiny bells tinkle a nuptial chime whenever there is a white wedding in fairyland. In Sussex, to bring snowdrops into the house is regarded as unlucky and signifying death. If a girl gives them to her sweet- hearts it means that she prefers to remain single, ae § a WISTFUL -- Beauly queen Jean- nine' Descruel would rather be wearing a wedding vel than her crown. The 28-year-old Parisienne 'was elected "Miss Lonely Heart 1960" by. the bachelor boys and girls who make up her lonely hearts club. "Healthy Mind Can a person's thoughts cause him to die of cancer? That startling question is sug- gested by a recent statement from Dr. Eugene P, Pendergrass, president of the American Can- cer Society. He says it has been found that some persons successfully treat. ed for cancér are well for years,. but that some emotional : stress then comes along and their di- sease flares up and kills them, Cancer résearch, Dr. Pender- grass hopes, will be widened "to include the distant possibility that within one's mind is a pow- er capable of exerting forces which can either enhance or in- hibit the progress of this di- sease." Dr. Pendergrass' comments are in line with what appears to be a growing conviction in medical science that one's thoughts have a tremendous in- fluence on one's physical health, Perhaps some of the greatest medical advances of the future will consist not of new drugs or new surgical techniques, but rather of a better understanding' ol the mind's éffect on the body. -- Richmond Times-Dispatch. TOO TAXING Kristianstad, Sweden, officials admitted their error after four- year-old Sven Larrson received a notice that he had been named' district purchase tax collector. ANYBODY GOT A YACHT? -- FEE EAS Freda Jones is all set to go yacht- Ing in Florida waters, Just ane small detail is missing. h INGERFARM Gwendoline P, Clarke We. are buying eggs now 'in- stead of selling them as we were a few years ago. Even so I. would much. rather eggs were sixty cents a' dozen than forty, which is what we are paying at the present time, At sixty cents a farmer has a certain margin + of profit but at forty he has none. Even at sixty cents it should be remembered the only - time a farmer gets top retail price for 'his eggs is when he is 'selling to privae 'customers, going from door to door with his produce. But for every far- mer who has his own route there .are scores whose only market is to wholesale shippers. Collec- tors pick up the eggs ungraded, returning ' the 'following week with a cheque and a grading slip showing the eggs have been can- dled and graded according to quality and size, The charge for this is four to five cents a dozen, irrespective of the wholesale and retail selling price. Naturally if the price is low -- say twenty-i five cents to the farmer -- .the charge of five cents a dozen for grading is more .noticeable than "if the 'price' is fifty cents, And the farmer is entirely at' the mercy of the grader. If he is honest, well and good. If he is- not, the farmer has no proof that his eggs should have been given. a higher grade and consequently a better price. Even Gordon Sin- clair is concerned over. the pre- sent low price of eggs to the far- .mer and quoted - one 'farmer's wife who shipped a large quan- tity of 'eggs and received an average of 18% cents a dozen. Sinclair mentioned the cost of feeding, raising and caring for poultry -- and other farm stock -- but he didn't mention, what a lot of other people also forget, that is, the cost of veterinary services. The terribly high cost of drugs hits the farmer not only for members of -his family it they are sick but also for the - animals. The last year that we were farming wg were down to five or six head, of cattle :in- cluding {wo milk cows. One: of our grade cows had trouble caly-- ing and our sub¢equent veterin- ary bill was $64, or,about half the value of the cow. But you know how it is, if an. animal gets sick, whether she's a-grade or registered beast, doesn't make any difference. A farmer can't "Sugar Popsy has remarkable will power, He's willed every- thing te me." ; ah ER pe go Hr ty Bn 7 bear to see an. animal suffer and he certainly can't afford to "lose her. So. he is trapped, both from a humanitarian and a-fin- ancial point of view, . Traditionally, 'the 'farmer Is -supposed to be a born grumbler, and believe. me, at: the present: , time, ha has something to grum- ble about. So, those who .have" to buy' farm .produce, shouldn't be too happy when the price: of eggs drops far below normal. A reduced farm income naturally results in less purchasing power. You can't spend what you haven't got -- even on the in- stalment plan the day of reck- oning finally comes. Or else . . . . Well, in our family the- first month of the year brought a' casualty. Eddie was playing around a pile 'of .cément blocks in the yard next to his home when one of them fell on top of his foot, fracturing three toes. A cast will be necessary but must wait until the swelling- has gone down for the doctor to set the toes. Poor little chap, he has been so good, both at home and. at the hospital emergency ward. In fact, at the moment, 1 ~think he is rather enjoying all: the attention he is getting, How- ever, two of the others are mak- ing a claim to fame too. David 'by cutting - his first permanent teeth .and Cedric -his baby teeth, Yesterday they were all here -- all five grandsons and their par- ents, One family stayed for sup-' per, the others went home. How, often it happens that the grand- parent's - home is 'the: halfway. house for other members. of the family, We are glad to have it so, it is one way of keeping the' family together. I remember: it was never the same for my fa- mily after my 'widowed mother" died. We were pretty well scat- tered by then but mother was the medium who got us in touch ; with one another. Right here we are kept m training 'by neighbourhood chil- dren, - especially three-year-old Julie: who 'lives next door. The" other day the front door bell' 'was ringing like mad, Julie had heaved the mat off the steps, "| and dragged 'a box up to the door. That was also shoved aside _ and a chair we leave for the cat was brought into service. Later Julie's mother asked if her daughter had been ringing our bell.- Partner laughed -- *"Ring- ing it -- she just about tore the place apart! Why -- did you see her?" HA "No, but Julie said she push- ed a button at Mr. Clarke's door and theh she heard 'jingle bells!'" There is never a dull moment "with children around. Bless their mischievous little hearts. r ---- "I want a very careful chauf- feur, my man, one who takes no risks whatsover," said the pros- pective employer, ; "Then I'm just the chap you want for the job, sir, Can I have my wages in advance?" ' 'them on 'a .table, How Kimberley Gets Its Diamonds The Rand is the basis of South African power and prosperity; but Kimberley is the basis of the Rand, for its diamonds financed the great gold magnates, bolster- ed the 'ebullience of Rhodes and his peers, and enticed the first vivacious flood of adventurers and fortune hunters to South Africa, They find diamonds in many other places, too. They even manufacture them nowa- days. The Cullnan, greatest of them all, was discovered in the Transvaal. In South-West Africa they pick them up in handfuls from the beach. In Tanganyika they guard the deposits with radar mechanisms. But Kimber. ley is the most famous, the most suggestive of all diamond cities, and to the world at large its name remains more or less syn- onymous with the allure of pre- clous stones, . . . A plateau of bleak no-man's- land surrounds your mine at Kimberley. . . . Within its fences the whole process of diamond production is conducted. There are the mine-shafts (for it is "underground mining nowadays, down- the deep diamondiferous pipes); and there -are the big - crushers which pound the rock when it comes to the. surface (so hard are the diamonds that: they. are hardly ever broken in this brutal process); and there are the little trains 'which, clanking mildly, bring the 'crushed rock to the washing plants; and there is the series of- pots and pans and weirs and. screens that re- duce the crushed, washed, sort- ed rock:to the smallest concen- trates. ) Finally they extract the dia- monds. 'In a long unpretentious room, not unlike a printing shop, there stand a series of machines like linotypes. Five. or six eld- erly operators, oi tuspeakable integrity, tend these machines and greet the visitor with grave incorruptible smiles. The crush- ed rock 'arrives down a chute and is poured over a sloping table lined with petroleum jelly; and if you watch this. operation 'very closely, and scrupulously obey 'the instructions of the ma- chineman, you may see" a- petit- point. of tiny speckles ornament- ing the surface of the "grease. The muck runs away out of sight, to be returned to the - earth again: but the diamonds, those unshakable cores of bril- liance, embed themselves in the . 'vaseline like oysters, and sparkle away merrily when the operator, seizing a trowel, scrapes the grease from his table and de- posits.it, in a nearby pot. 'So. they get their diamonds. The grease is boiled away and next door four men and a girl, in clinical white .coats, pick up the gems in frying-pans and sort There are greenish diamonds and yellow ones, 'brown and white and an occasional heavenly blue: there are - little flaky unpretentious diamonds, and diamonds that seem to have been chipped with 'a penknife, and diamonds of ulti- mate perfection of symmetry. They examine these treasures with their eye-glasses, and they sort: them by shape and colour; but at the end of the day, for all ISSUE ¢ -- 1960 the , . . shaking and the crush- s and the greasing and the boiling and the sorting, only two little piles of stones, like magical molehills, lie on that table com- 'placently.--From "South African Winter," by James Morris. e. oh p | 4 on n. Seilh 15| Q. Is it considered excusable 'now to "reach" at the table? A: While the old "boarding- house reach" is still considered the sign of a chowhound, we can properly reach for things that we can get as easily as 'our neigh- bor can -- instead of being over- genteel and bothering him need- lessly to pass them. Q. When there is to be a sup- per for the bridal party after the rehearsal at the church, is it nécessary to invite the clergy-- man -- and, if so, his wife? A. If you know: the clergyman well (in which case you would probably know his wife well," too), they would both be invited. * Otherwise, no, Child's Favourite rN by Make a pict a cushion of each of thése cuddly' kittens, 'Just, the .thing for the nursery! 'The kittens, entirely in cross- stitch, can-be done in six:strand cotton or in 'wool. Lovely baby -gift. Pattern 668: transfer of two 10%-inch squares. Send THIRTY - FIVE . CENTS (stamps cannot be 'accepted, lise postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. New! New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular de- signs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave -- fashions, home furnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. In 'the: book FREE -- 3 quilt patterns. Hurry, send 25 cents: for your. copy. FEAR BENEATH THE GAIETY ? -- Dr. bernard Finch (left) and his wife, Barbara, are shown with actor Mark Stevens -- all seeming to be having a fine time -- In this picture taken at a party Aug. 20, 1958. Eleven months later, on July 18, 1959, Mrs. Finch was found slain in their home and shbrtly after- wards Dr. Finch arrested for her murder, Stevesss testified Jan. 20 at the trial that Mrs. Finch confided te him she was "afraid of her husband. >