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~LANNE,HIRSI _ by C Send TWENTYâ€"FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be acâ€" cepted) for this pattern to Box 1. 123 Eighteenth St.. New Tor: onto,: Ont. Print plainly PATâ€" TERN NUMBER and SIZE, your NAME and ADDRESS. LOOK for smart gift ideas in our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog.. Crochet, knitting, emâ€" broidery, lovely things to wear. Dolls, ironâ€"ons, quilts, aprons, novelties â€" easy, fun to make! Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOW! You will want to order every new design in it. Base your new spring wardâ€" robe on this most flattering dress! Easy sewing â€" ironâ€"on flowers trim the neckline in Â¥ivid colors! Pattern 898: Misses‘ Sizes 12. 14. 16, 18, 20. Tissue pattern, washable ironâ€"on transfers in combination of pink, green. State size. During the first year 1 held en to my job while he wen!t to school. Even that he did not take seriously, didn‘t attend classes regularly and refused to study. He flunked. 1 was so disâ€" tressed 1 would have left him, but I thought my baby was scon due. 1 lost her. â€" They‘re "topping‘"‘ made with new Active Dry Yeast #narried 1 did not know what a thild my husband was. His famâ€" ily. had spoiled him thoroughâ€" ly; they supplied all his needs, including spending money. They have not helped us out since, mor did 1 want them to . . How in the world am 1 ever to help him accept his responâ€" sibilities? _ ICED HOT.CROSS BUNS A DESERTER "Dear Anne Hirst: I am in love with a man who told me he was getting a divorce beâ€" cause his wife is unfaithful, and when he is free he will marâ€" ry me. Now he has moved. He doesn‘t answer my letters, they are returned to me. 1 have no way of knowing what is hapâ€" pening, and 1 am lost without him. When a girl marries a spoiled child, her problems are many and complicated and the outâ€" come questionable. Anne Hirst can be useful in this situation, if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, * 1 wish 1 could ju * confidence in your * but actually 1 fear * a discouraging task * He has never grow * has never known th * of hard work the "He is 29, I‘m 10 years voungâ€" er . . . Please don‘t use my full name, as my family are nasty about these things, but tell me what you think. * 1 wish 1 could justify your * confidence in your husband, * but actually 1 fear you have * a discouraging task ahead. * He has never grown up. He * has never known the dignitv * of hard work, the satistacâ€" * tion of independence. _ With * such a background, it is not * his fault that he expects you * to shoulder all the problems * of marriage. 1 am sorry tor job! 1 make more than he does, and I‘d never have to worry about losing any position 1 took "We aren‘t youngsters â€" he hSllndl'mgfi.luillcmw much for him, and once we are established in a home | wan! more children . . . With this picture before you, what prosâ€" pect do you think lies ahcad for us? LOLA ® The man you love is play: ing safe. If his infidelity is discovered, the chances of his getting a divorce are practicâ€" ally nil. He has no intention of writing or receiving any word from you that might inâ€" criminate him. Can‘t you reâ€" alize _ his . promises . were worthless? 1 hope you will come to your senses before you waste any more time on such s cad, or you will let yourself in for a painful awakening. You are badly confused, my young friend, and 1 urge you to see this character as the worthless sort he is, not worth a single Be grateful that e has lett â€" and next time plsy straight. However duil that sounds, it is the only course to follow that is not fraught with bitter heartbreak. Don‘t hate your family for being "nasty." They would be shocked beyond words if they knew the truth. A WORRIED WIFE." But in time this correspondâ€" ent, like his other rLildhmd frignds at Harlech, came to love the old battlements and even its dungeons. The jackdaws which nested there were part of our games. And later in adolescence we acted pageants in the castle keep and came more than ever to think of it as a kindly place and not just ia battle setting. These pageants, together with national and international festiâ€" vals of music and poetry, are a big attraction of the holiday season in Wales. It has a place of narrow, twistâ€" ing ctreets, and sudden shadâ€" owed alleys. The streets dodge here and there up the steep hills, but they are overtaken every now and again by surprisâ€" ing, narrow flights of worn stone steps that lead more quickly from height to height. This is the ship they said could not be built. For the whole idea was to build a vessel of the same kind as the original in the same way as the original was built. And where was one going to find shipwrights with similar skills 335 years later? The answer. was Brixham. They have been building wooden ships down here in Devon ever since history can remember. They still do it in much the same way, with many of the same tools, as the first Elizabethans did. That is what I mean when I say Brixham has integrity. It also, has seagulls. And rolly men in blue jerseys and seaâ€" boots going about their everyday business in their everyday way. It has fishing boats, And it has yachts. The stout round forts on the hills were built as part of the preparations to repel a tyrant from overseas, Napoleon, who had also promised to land here for a somewhat different purâ€" pose. _ ' It was the good fortune of This particular correspondent to live during his childhood almost unâ€" der the shadow of perhaps the finest Of all Welsh castlesâ€"Harâ€" lech Castle in North Wales, writes Peter Lyne in The Chrisâ€" tian Science Monitor. When Edward I of. England built this magnifi¢ent fortificaâ€" tion in his quest to tame the wild Welsh, the last purpose he was llmlp( at was to give pleasâ€" ure to the eye of the visitors and joy to children in their games. ‘This summer the early attracâ€" tion here will be the new Mayâ€" flowerâ€"the exact copy of the 1620 Mayflower now nearing completion in the yard of Stuart Upham on the road to Berry Head. Today they are famed landâ€" marks drawing many tens of thousands of visitors from home and abroad. They blend with the scenery and set the imagination racing with speculation on how without modern constructional aids such massive and endufing fortifications were built. an integrity that 10,000 summer tourists could not spoil, even if they were all there at once. It is Brixham. It is not really a tourist town. In a small way it is a shipping port. And in a small way it is a shipbuilding port. In Wales, on the other hand, the castles have remained stark reminders of the civil wars for which they were built around the years 1270 to 1285. They Still Build Wooden Ships What‘s more, there is someâ€" thing â€" unusual < about _ Welsh castles. In England there are many castles, too, but one might describe some of them as tame castles. Through the ages they have "had their teeth drawn," so to speak. Some earl or duke softened the warlike original with lawns and deer parks or filled in a moat to provide himâ€" self with a kindlier setting. One thinks of Windsor Castle, for instance, as ane of the favoâ€" rite homes of Queen Elizabeth II and her family, with young Prince Charles and «. Princess Anne riding their ponies there. Walesâ€"The Land Of Many Castles Any traveler who likes mediâ€" eval castles should try to visit Wales. There are probably more castles to the square mile in Wales than in any other country in the world. GENUINE "MAMS" â€" "Casting directors" Mrs. Janet Tischbein, left, and Mrs. Ellen Dix "interview" two porky aspirants for charâ€" acter roles at experimental station. They were looking for a piglet to play a role in a little theater production of "January Thaw." The "hams" proved they could squeal on cueâ€"for dinner. Most visitors seem to expériâ€" But‘ Brixham â€" has â€" another port has "Oh, yes," replied Johnson, ‘"but now it takes half an hour longer." The house that was his stands in a magnificent position on the very edge of an almost Caliâ€" fornian seascape and the tides flow over and around the rocks just outside the eastern windows. claim to fame and probably a deeper one. It was here that the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, vicar of All Saints‘ Church, wrote the great hymn "Abide With Me." This is an 18thâ€"century manâ€" sion of much charm. It is now Berry Head House, a quiet hotel with a pleasant old â€" fashioned integrity of its own. Special feature of Welsh sheep which visitors will notice is that unlike the majority of sheep in England anu some other counâ€" tries they wear their tails long instead of short. And what a wild whirling of white tails there is when a big flock is scampering over the rocks and stone walls of Snowdonia at roundingâ€"up time. Jet black cattle are another feature of the Welsh landscape. They feed on the lower slopes of the hills or in little pocketâ€" handkerchief fields of brilliant green and enclosed by charâ€" acteristic . loosely built stone walls. Harrison met Johnson after several years. "And is your wife as lovely as evey?" he asked him. ® Seen close up, the long, sad faces of ‘the Welsh sheep are less attractive than the round, pudgy faces of the English sheep. But the Welsh lambs are &s cute as any other Iambs. Sheep rearing is one of the most important industries of Wales. Grazing sheep are a speâ€" cial feature of the landscapeâ€" as countless little white dots all up the mountain sides. Welsh lamb and mautton afe particularâ€" ly highly rated and from the sheeps‘ wool and natural color dyes, Welsh cottage industries produce the same kind of lovely soft, romanticâ€"hued cloths which the Scots produce in their heathâ€" erâ€"clad mountain country. ence endless interest and wonâ€" derment touring the castles of Wales. Besides most of these ancient â€" monuments | are â€" set amid lovely scenery, peopled by a proud and highly individualâ€" istic race, older than the English and with their own language which many of them still use alternately with English. The Welsh also have their own culâ€" ture, architecture, and customs. Of these characteristics only the architecture is â€" seriously open to criticism. The Welsh small town or village is likely to be a rather dreary and formâ€" less conglomeration _ of â€" gray stone and slate roofs. In the hills and valleys, however, are scatâ€" tered simple little whitewashed farm cottages which add charm to the scenery, ; TIMES HAVE CHANGED â€" One British umbrella designer seems to think women‘s fears have changed since Little Miss Muffet was frightened by a spider. His "Black Widow" umbrella, modeled above by Eve Vitt at the First National Umbrella Fashâ€" ion Show in london, is ttimmed with chenille to form a web. The spider is of black velvet. And covering the frame is black net, which makes this umbrella of little use in the rain. I£8UE 12 â€" 1956 SLOWwâ€"DOwWN It was not to be expected that Rembrandt‘s own house in Amâ€" sterdam, which is already a delightfully contemporaneous storehouse ‘of memories of the master, would be forgotten for this birthday celebration. Situâ€" ated in the heart of the capital, it will display from May 17 to Oct. 20 original drawings, reâ€" productions and engravings of the city in which Rembrandt Typical of all absentâ€"minded scientists, Professor Pietro Vasâ€" sena constructed a midget subâ€" marine for depth experiments. But as soon as he dived, the vesâ€" sel capsized instantly. He had forgotten to close the conningâ€" tower hatch and water flooded the sub. At a banquét to present an award to a Washington atom scientist, everyone was there but the guest of honour. The banquet committee had neglect ed to invite him! Then there was the case of the seventyâ€"yearâ€"old Liverpool woman who jumped fully dresâ€" sed into the Mersey to rescue her fiveâ€"yearâ€"old grandson. As soon as she hit the water she screamed for help, having just remembered that she couldn‘t swim. Both were rescued. In Chicago recently another elderly woman applied for city relief. Her papers had been deâ€" stroyed in a boardingâ€"house fire. She had banked her life savings of $1500 with a mortâ€" gage society but couldn‘. reâ€" member where! Just an overâ€" sight. And Somerset House reâ€" cently had to supply a marriage ‘registration to a Birmingham man who wanted to sue for diâ€" vorce but had forgotten his wife‘s name! The Rembrandt Exhibition in the Boymans Museum in Rotterâ€" dam will concentrate on drawâ€" ings . and sketches, many of which have been garhered from private collections and never before been on rubllc show. These sketches will be so arâ€" ranged as not only to ilvo.-n insight into the care taken by the master in preparing his maâ€" jor works but also to show how his style matured and mellowed during the years. So <Rembrandt Year in the Netherlands is being celebrated by five separate exhibitions of the artist‘s works. As a result of spontaneous cooperation of museums, galleries and collecâ€" tors all over the world, two of these exhibitions, one in Amâ€" sterdam and the other in Rotâ€" terdam, will be larger and more comprehensive than any Remâ€" brandt display ever held previâ€" ously anywhere in the world. Both will open in the middle of May and be on view until the beginning of August. They will then be exchanged: that is. the Amsterdam collection will move to Rotterdam, and that from Rotterdam be displayed in the Dutch capital. No attempt has been made to put a cash value on the Amsterâ€" dam exhibition, because Dutch experts consider it will be price« less. The most elaborate preâ€" cautions are being taken to safeâ€" guard the treasures. Born in Leyden 350 years ago. Rembrandt has always been the most popular and romantic of the great Dutch masters; but never before have such careful plans been made to ensure full honor. There were at first proposals to have a Rembrandt Pageant, a Rembrandt Opera and a Remâ€" brandt play. But the logical Dutch finally, decided that the greatest honor they could pay to their illustrious son would be to give as many people as possible the opportunity of seeâ€" ing as many of Rembrandt‘s works as could possibly be colâ€" lected and made available. One of the outstanding atâ€" tractions in Holland in 1956 will be the tribute the Dutch people will pay to one of their greatest sons. Rembrandt. Five Exhibits to Honor Rembrandt Absentâ€"Minded Toothâ€"brush Makes Good Cleaning Alid Other features of the Remâ€" brandt Year will be a special postage stamp, lecture courses for school children as well as foreigners living in Holland, and concerts devoted to music of the Rembrandt period. Lastly, in the Teyler‘s Muâ€" seum in Haarlem, the home of that other spectacular Dutch Master, Frans Hals, there is to be an exhibition of etchings and drawings of Rembrandt and his pupils. The demanas of the modern home call for a housewife to be a "Jack of fl,tradel." It‘s a trequently ard _ complaint, from the woman of the house, that the little irritating jobs are the greatest consumers of time and energy. lived and worked for so long. To give realit, to the display, upwing that thons Proged mck m trequented by ln-gnult look like today. Â¥Fortunately for the organizers of this Rembrandt Year, the Dutch artist was a prolific workâ€" er. As one Dutch pusinessman has &\:t it: "Rembrandt surely was plon:u of tod:iy'gtyoutfnh wnpd,n of productiv â€" crease." * One of these is to be in Remâ€" brandt‘s home town of Leyden, where the Municipal Museum will house a specially selected collection _ of paintings â€" and drawings loaned by enthusiasts who felt that his birthplace must not be ovenhadwoes by the exhibitions on view in the large cities. This will also conâ€" tain works by his contemporâ€" aries. One of the handiest helpers in the home is the family‘s old toothâ€"brushes. After their tenure of office in the bathâ€"room, toothâ€" brushes have a whole new life ahead of them as cleaning agents. Proof of this is a recent survey on the care and uses of toothâ€"brushes which lists 222 different jobs they can perform with ease and efficiency. One of the reasons is that the nylon bristles are so strong and longâ€" lasting. Four people questioned in the @@rvey complained that nylon _ bristle brushes _ just wouldn‘t wear out. The 222 uses were not confined to house cleaning, but many of them were ‘directed towards cleaning tasks around the home. So in addition to the large number of the artist‘s works being displayed in the three exâ€" hibitions _ already _ mentioned, um-:“ are t:ll.o others with a specia} appe One or these is to be in Remâ€" to toothâ€"brush care, as do the tricky corners of windows. Picâ€" ture frames are easily cleaned with a toothâ€"brush, while inâ€" tricateâ€"patterned silverware that defeats _ cleaning â€" with _ soft cloths, séems to respond to the toothâ€"brush method. When it comes to children‘s toys, the toothâ€"brush method again is helpful. Even the handle of the old toothâ€"brush can be a helped around the home. Spring cleaning would seem to be a good time to investigate the many uses which the family‘s old toothâ€"brushes can‘ serve in helping the housewife. The advantages of a toothâ€" brush for cleaning toasters or sewing machines is fairly well known. There are practically no electrical appliances around the home that don‘t have a spot or corner that‘s difficult to get at and to clean, Frequently a toothâ€" brush is the answer. The mortar between the tiles of a fireâ€"place is another cleanâ€" ing problem that lends itself Among the 34 jobs suggested in the survey for the handle, after slight alterations, were nonâ€"conducting screw â€" drivers, letter openers and holeâ€"makers for garden seeds. t Drive With Care Men who think of tomorrow practice moderation today CThe House of Seagram | Factsâ€"Foolish AndOtherwisé Now for the girls Ann (or Anne) crowded out Mary for the No. 1 spot this year, 153 to 128, although Mary won in 1954. Then came Jane with 124, and Elizabeth with 91. After that: Caroline, Sarah, Susan, Marâ€" garet, Frances, and Clare. Mr. Leaver, who for some years past has kept account of children‘s names in this fashâ€" ion, informs us Alison and Nicâ€" ola are on the increase as girls‘ names, while Amanda, Helen, Louise, and Patricia appear to be in a slump, writes Henry S. Hayward in The Christian Science Monitor. Jolm, David, James, and Charles. That‘s the same order (using only The Times announcements as a standard, of course) ‘as in 1984. There were 159 Johns, 92 quently used Christian names of boys and girls carried in The Times birth and adoption anâ€" nouncements. The four most popular names for boys in 1955, according to Mr. J. W. Leaver, who keeps watch on such things here, are Davids, 91 Jameses, and 82 Charleses. Next in order came Richard, Michae!, Christopher, Peter, Andrew, and Anthony. The latter six showed variâ€" ations from the 1954 pattern. Andrew _ and _ Anthony, Mr. Leaver pointed out in The Times letter column, crowded out Nicholas, Robert, and Willâ€" iam. On the upgrade in popularâ€" ity, although not yet among the Big Ten, are Simon, Mark, and Jeremy. Coasting downhill in 1985 were Nicholas, Paul, and Edward. Mr. Leaver presumably reâ€" ceives no recompense‘ for his annual choreâ€"and the statisticsâ€" keeping _ involved _ throughout the yearâ€"other than the pleasure of keeping track of something most of the rest of us can‘t be bothered about. Yet I have heard numerous people here remark with interest on these particular nameâ€"statistics. The Hurrens analyzed 235 cards received from all over the world in 1955. They tell us a holly or snow motif led the field easily with 94â€"a big jump from 1954 when winter decoraâ€" tions rated only 34. Crests and badges accounted for 24, and nativity scenes 22. Buildings (whatever that means) also numbered 22. Nonie and Bernard Hurren, two other English shatisticsâ€" keepers from Maidenhead,speâ€" cialize in reports on Christmas cards received. They also proâ€" vide an annual list for The Times, a â€" newspaper | whose letter column likewise manages to keep score on such improbâ€" able items as the number of double overâ€"bumps scored in Thames boat racing throughout the years. (No don‘t tell me you don‘t know what a double overâ€" bump is; there‘s no time to go into that here! The British people are great Other topics mentioned. by "It also servemas an afterâ€"lunch breath eradicator, they say." SALLY‘$ SALUES A great soul prefers modération _© the Hurrens included dogs, airâ€" and 10 this year. . â€" thiue "‘The Christmas idea behing dogs, buildings, birds, ships; defeats our understanding," the Hurrens confess, They feel that the big increase in nativity scenes (from 2 to 22) may show a swing to religicin. _ But I keep coming back to Mr. Leaver. Where on his list, I wonder, do the Hurrens‘ names, _ Nonie and â€" Bernard, rate? They weren‘t in his Big Ten, that I know. And while Mr. Leaver may keep track of Christian names, what does he do with his Christmas cards? Just ignore them? Toss them on the hall table for the wife to sort out? Send ‘order to Box 1, 128 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. This pattern easy to use, simâ€" ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete _ illustrated _ instrucâ€" tions. (35¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly _ SIZE, NAME, ADâ€" DRESS, STYLE NUMBER. and especially colored pictures many, Tof | cosliy production) And, for that matter, I know it‘s prying, but I‘m interested in Mr. Leaver‘s own namé. What do the "J" and the "W* stand for? _ John (No. 1 in 1954 and 1985) and William (declining)?t _ _ Use a 100â€"pound feedbag or colorful remnants â€" make this handy apron to keep you neat und pretty on kitchen duty! See the diagramâ€"sewâ€"easy, thrifty. Nonâ€"slip straps, plenty of proâ€" tective cover â€" be smart, sew several! Pattern 4880: Misses‘ Sizes Small (10, 12); ‘Medium (14, 16); Large (18, 20). All Sizes, 100â€"pound feedbag or 1%4 yards 39â€"inch. Or James (No. 3 in 1984 and 1955) andâ€"what other "W" is there, anyhow? Walter, Wilfred, Walsingham (all unlisted)? C 4 B.C.â€" A.D. 65 ) Send THIRTYâ€"FIVE CENTS 61 Abine Abdams ! Week‘s Sewâ€"Thrifty!