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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-12-07, Page 2'She TdkesHer.$. from. The.'fiottle.E STUFFED Who'S hungry? Not Fluffy, The kitten, who ' takes her groceries from a doll's Wire- ing bottle, m ekes a toe-stretch- ing picture contentment, bps low, after a self-administered meal, She's the pet of the Frank De Pasquales HRONICLES P19.1qM,1:1 Feedbag Fashions 100 1b. feed ba Ilse, a 100spound feedbag or Colorful remnants -se Make this handy apron to keep you neat and pretty on kitChen duty! See the diagraiti:esseVeseagy, thrifty. NOtteelip straps, plenty of pros teetiVe never- e— be smart, see, several! Pattern 4880:1 Misses' Sizes Sitiall 1.2ngedittiti. (14, 16); Large (18; Sizes, 100-pound , feedbag or 11/4 YardS 39-inch. This Pattern easy to use, suss= pie to sew,. is tested for -fit. Hes complete • illustrated inetrucs tiers... Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (350' in Caine (stamps cannot be•• addePted) lot this pattern.. Print kaltilidar`SIZE, NAME. and. AD- DRESS, STYLE NUMBER,. Send order to, Box 1, 1.28, Eighteenth Ste New TOrotitte (Mt, CRANBERRY APPLE PIE cuts grOnutated sugar 3 tablespoons' BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch teaspoon salt cup CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup Ve cup water 1 Ye eops.cranberries IY2 teaspoons grated orange rind 2 tablespoons butter cups chopped apples 1 recipe pastry . MIX sugar, BENSON'S or CANADA. torn'Sfarch and salt in saucepan. ADD CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup and water gradually; mix COOK elide inedium heat,; stirring totittonti;;;, thickens sliglet0ied comes to eft boil, Ab6-erat until . i6e"cn.ei'716,,s cook until 'skins are broken: REMOVOretitir hea ti 'add orange rind and butter. ' coo_rodd • ppeFlcipples, 14Lint!), 14;4: '•''Lltsiti4inCli7piei;an•viith Vs the ARRANGE lattice off liestry; our ,in SaetrY • etrips across fop: SEAL.-edges well; flutes lf BAKE in hot Oveti144159F3" s r or eduC'e.hear fci • hicieleriite."(1561.)and bake longer until-,4Oles are tender; For free folder of other delicieds recipes, write to: Jane Ashley, 1-leine ,tervide Department THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY P.O, Bo* 114, Montreal, 04.' • • e • "Dear Anne Hit*: 1 am Sim- * diatraetedi I met this young elan over a, year ago end started Wing him last summer, I fell so in love; and I was sure he lid, too , l3ut now I haven's 'een him for nearly two Months: re is going with my best girl "eieed,,and I am beside myself, Nhatever shall I do? "I just cannot get him out Of my mind- Everything I do, all I hear or say reminds me of him, and when I pass the res- taurants and dance Places we used to visit my heart nearly stops beating, "The strange part of it is, he was married and afraid to :ell me earlier, b ec a u s e he thought he would lose me. But I only loved him more. His div- orce came through just a month before he etopped seeing me, Now he is leaving town soon to spend the winter in the South. Of course I shall wait for him, but how can I live until spring? MARIE" • You wrote your letter out of * the depths of your loneliness * and your hurt. You, weren't * thinking, you were only feel- * ing — feeling how much you * love the boy, not what a poor * love lie offered you. You are also very, very sorry for your- * self, and had better face the *sleuth, * This young man deceived * you from the beginning. He * had a wife and he never said * so. It is all very touching that * he explained he was afraid he a would lose you, but why * didn't he play fair and take :s his chance, as an honest man * should? Instead, of resenting * his duplicity, you say you loved * him more! Now that he's been * beauing your girl friend * about, you cxy, "I intend to * wait for him!" Wait for what? * To let him throw you over * next spring? Don't you know when you are well off? * I know what a bittle it takes 4 • to admit you have lost out, '5 but life is like that. As long * as you live, you will aim for * certain goals — and often you * will not even get near. your * desire. The wise folk do not * continue to mislead them- * selves; they learn *;from ex- * perience. They turn the lock * on the past and say, "Well, * that is that" and. go. on to * grapple with life as it comes * to them. * Living the past over again * tears your heart out, and it * can wreck your health. It is * not fair to your family nor * your friends to grieve over * what you cannot change. YOU • have year and years of life * ahead, and they are tee pre, el0i.1$ to waste another single * heene. * Be brave, Confess you have * lost, and get beak into your * group again, Leek up friends * you've passed by since you * met this boy. Keep your even- * ings busy. Let those who love * you see how . you take the * shock. Know, as so many * ether girls have known, that * time is on your side, IF you * play along with it, * I am relieved that the young * man has, left town for a whole '4 winter, That makes things easier for you than if you * risked passing him on the street every day or two, * SHALL THEY MARRY? "Dear Anne Hirst; I've been going with a fine man. regular- ly for almost a year and I am deeply in loye, as he professes he is. He lives nearby, navel dates anybody else and, of course, shows in many other ways how much he cares for me. But he is 42 and I am 20, and everybody is trying to say he is too old for me. "I will not be convinced. I've gone for three years with a lot of boys my age, but I never did feel at home with them. This man and I seem utterly compatible, emotionally and in- tellectually, though I know the last is a lot to assume. He thinks I'm wonderful to get along with and would make any man a good wife, What do you say? WILHELMINA" * If the man has not pro- * posed, why the rush to decide * —unless you want to stop see- * ing him now if you intend to * refuse him. His generalities * are all very flattering, but per- * haps you have become a habit * with him, and a convenient * one at that. * As to your ages, I repeat * that a good marriage de- * pends largely on ideals, tem- * perments and habits. You are * obviously mature for your * years, he May be young for * his. It is well to remember, * though, that when you are in * your prime, he will be slow- * ing down and not so interest- * ed in an active social life as * you will be, wish you had told me * what your family thinks of * him. TO any girl in such a * situation, that should be high- * ly important, . e * When grief strikes, what will you do? Many readers turn to Anne Hirst. She has not forgot- ten the pangs of her own teens, and problems then were much like those you face today, Ad- dress Anne Hirst, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ontario. Short Skirts Make News and Trouble Skirts constantly make news. Because he disapproved of his fiancee's frock, a twenty-year- old Surrey soldier cut it with a razor. When charged with injuring the girl and damaging her frock, he said her skirt was much too short. He was bound over and ordered to pay for the damage. A new law prohibiting short skirts was introduced in Athens in 1926 and rigorously enforced. A pretty young girl was arrest- ed because her skirt was 15 in. from the ground. Police said it should not have been more than 14 in. from the ground, but the girl was allowed to go free af- ter twenty-four hours. Less than a week later the law was cancelled following the arrest of another girl, She "provid to Se the dainty, twen- ty - year - old daughter of a Greek judge. She had been jailed for a day for walking down the street in an "immod- est" skirt more than 14 in, from the ground. Lovely Spanish girls flatly • refused to obey a decree by the Mayor of AlrnendraIejo, a town in province of Badajoz, which forbade women to wear very ' short skirts in 1527, Instead, they paid' fines en- 'titling them, to wear a short skirt for one month. Police with tape-measures were empowered to measure in the street skirts of debatable length. Eventually that, decree was cancelled, too, Ott Can all foil? of the law for souse strange things in clife ferent parts of the World. An Indian girl was sentenced to a month's hard labour at New Delhi for kissing her sWeetheart in. a quiet alley. The youth wag' tined $25. Canada's Deputation reached as estimated 16,410,000 at the start Of beceinber last year, an increase Of 405,000 or 7% sifted Detember i963, the preys. bus 12 months the gain attiounted td 381,000 or 2A Va. This column is liable to be written in bits and pieces as we have company for a few days. Joy and Bob will also be here for dinner and it being nice and warm it wouldn't surprise me to see Art, Dee and Dave come out an hour or two this afternoon If they don't come ,then. I shall be going to Toronto tomorrow just to see ror myself how David is coming along. He is home from the hospital but very far from being a well boy, and of course just as cranky as he can he, pool' little chap. The lawn at 'the side of the house is strewn with a carpet of ,golden winter leaves . . . "win- ter" leaves because autumn fol- iage has long since fluttered from the trees. Popular leaves are more persistent, hanging tenac- iously to -their branches until shaken earthward by a combine. tion of wind, frost and natural gravity. And still there are flowers in the garden — petunias and 'mums and a few pansies that have survived the frost. As foi the vegetable garden, I am still using it as a storage • place tor carrots. That way keeps them fresh and sweet — much more so than if they were dug and stored. Well, here we are again - after dinner and a family gather- ing. And of course, as on all such occasions, plenty of conver- sation one way and another, Since it concerned our own county we naturally discussed the huge land deal that is reput- edly nearing completion in South Halton. Over 7,000 acres, total- ling some $3,000,000 Fantastic, Shades of the pioneers — what would they have said could they IsaVe foreseen the future in store for the land they had so labor- ously, cleared with axe and churnings" — virgin forest that for generations had been the happy hunting ground of the Indians, at one time' controlled by their great Mohawk Chief, Cap- tain Joseph Brant, Then we turned our thoughts to houses — old, new and teitod- elle& Partner and I listened While the test of the party theorieed on just how our own place 'could be remodelled. So often it helps to see things through other people's eyes. Not that we have any plaits for the inanecliatl futttee. No indeed — not until we know for certain When and where Highway 401 is, going through. The Department of BighWays is something like a cat — poised. but no one Can tell Which way it's going 'to^ jump, But at least we can dream'.. Changes would definitely include more light. Old hbilses never have enough wincloWe While rieW houses have gene to the Other extreme, Too many windows. And there seems to she a craze these days for high bedroom win- dows. I wouldn't have them as a gift. What's the good of a window if you can't see out of it sitting down — or lying down for that matter, More privacy, home- owners tell us, But imagine being sick in bed in a room with a window you couldn't see out of. I can't imagine anything more depressing. However,' everme to his or her taste. If We all thought alike it would be a very dull world. But sometimes, it would appear, history repeats itself, even in our thinking. Take this for instance. Dr. J. D. MacLachlan, president of the Ontario Agricultural C o 11 e g e, Guelph was addressing a Plough- man's Association banquet and expressed the belief that, to utils Lifelike Roses 6t/ Lifelike roses in color—spar- kle on this stunning oval dolly! 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You will Want• td order every new design in it, ize high-powered machinery ets- enhnically, in the future there- would be fewer farmers but big, ger farms and the cow would be regarded as just another machine; her intake and output compnted in Oilers and cents, In a sense. considering preseet, high production costs coupled with the shortage of farm labour this sounds like a logical cans elusion -- and the trend to big- ger farms is obvious• already, nut, are we going backwards or fersyeede? There is more than one way of looking at the situ, ation. Cast Your, mind back a hun- dred years or more, Remember the immigrants who came to Canada because here, they theugt, was a country where any man with 'brains, brawn and suf- ficient capital, could, if •he so de- sired, awn the ,farm upon which he lived. Remeinbee, too, that the in-migrant left his native land because there he could farm only udder 'the.' domination 'of the squire or the bailiff of an estate. There was no place, for a small landowner. But in Canada — a century ago — the immigrant either applied for Crown Land or bought a farm from a previous owner, He might' have little of this.world's-goods but his dreams were fulfilled. He had land of his own. Be had acquired inde- pendence. Now, if farms in the near future are controlled by big property owners how much difference will there be between Canadian; farmsof tomorrow and the farms of the English gentry a hundred years ago? Conditions have changed — the pendulum swings back and forth, now this way, now that, But only Father Time marks the hours„ uncon- cerned about which way the pendulum swings, knowing that eventually history repeats itself in one way or another, A New Agriculture For Old 'Egypt It is now seriously proposed to build "El Sadd el Aali," a high dam, on the upper reaches of the Nile in Egypt. What are the difficulties and objections to be faced in carrying out , this great project? The, dam as designed at the present, an immense composite work of concrete, rubble, corn:-' pressed sancl, etc., extending in the river 'bed on a length of one kilometer and nearly three. kilo- meters wide at its crest, having on each wing tunnels in the rock sufficiently large to pass up to 3,000 'm3 p.s. and provided with eights hydro - electrical units 'each- generating 125,000 h.p., will cost, according to the latest estimates, some $576,000,- 000. Financing the project, al- though it may take 10 years for completion, may •not be a simple matter. Although the dam and .the greater part of the 'reservoir which it creates lie in Egyptian territory, its Waters will pene- trate into the eeaorthern, Sudan up to ,the, Second. Cataract .and will inundate the town of Wadi Haifa. While financially this may not Prove excessively cost- ly in the way of" indemnities, politically it makes the project impossible ' of achievement un- less the'Sudan .gives its. accord. This opens up a field of bargain- ing over the future- distribution of the waters of the Nile with the best cards. in the, hands of the Sudanese. Egypts river Will be largely, if not entirely., deprived of •its "red' or silty water. This. means that the fertile alluvium of which cultivate Egypt has been formed through the centuries by Nile floods will no longer 'be thus replenished. To the old- fashioned fellah "'or cultivator this will sound like tragedy, a babe deprived of its mother, for, literally Egypt is the child of the Nile. Modern' agricitliurists, however, assert' that the manu- rial benefits of the film of silt deposited on the land during flood irrigations are negligible and that with today's fertilizers and cultivation methods better crop results are assured, Be that as it may, it is certain that the reclaneation of pure desert land is inside facilitated *13Y using silty water instead of clear. Gradually the• reservoir's ca- pacity will be reduced by silt deposits. but as the average silt content of the Nile in Egypt is about 75 million cubic' meters and as the reservoir's initial contents are calculated to be about 130,000 million, the. of feet would be rien.licible for several IT MAY BE YOUR LIVER' If lite's not worth liOng it maybe yeittt Ws a fact! It takes up to two pinte of liver bile a clay to keep your digestive tract in LOP Shatiel It your liver Nile is not flowing freely your toed may not ingest ...gas bloats up your stomach. , . von feel constipated and all the fun and sparkle go:out of tiff, 'chat's' when you need mild gentle carter'. temp These faindue'vegifable pills help stimulate the flow of,liver bile. SODA SC31:1 cligeation starts ftinctioning Properly end son feel that happy days are hero again , Diuo•t• ever' stay Sunk. Afray.4 se re 1,1rife LiVer Pills on fmul. ISSUE 49 --el113.5 hundred yegs. Thereafter there would be a tendency for less mud to be deposited- and more to, pass the dam, a condition which, while extending the life of the reservoir, \Maid upset gradually the regimen of the Canalized river in Egypt, seeing that it will be designed to carry clear rather than silty water, The novel design of the pro- posed dam, while assuring great stability, necessitates enormous expenditure, In eomparison, a concrete dam of the well-known curved design which is to be built at the. Kariba. Gorge on the Zambesi River having . almost identical features in respect to height (400 feet), water-power (1,200,000 k,w.) and reservoir storage (115,000,000 foot acres) is estimated to cost $13,000,000 or less than a quarter of its. Egyptian counterpart. As Sir Alexander Gibbs & Partners, the designers •of the great Zam- besi Dam, have recently been appointed consulting engineers for the "Sadd el Aali," econom- ies on the original estimates may be expected. And what of the present As- wan Dam, in its day the wonder of the• engineering world? It will remain as hitherto but its functions will change. Instead of creating a reservoir, it will act as a weir for the "Sadd el Aali" some 7 miles upstream, reducing the maximum head there from 89 meters to 67. In- stead of its having variations in discharge (from 22 „meters to 10) and in discharge `(from 600 m3 p.s. to 10,000) it will have a permanent head of 22 meters and a regular discharge of about 2,900 m3 per second, thus great- ly facilitating the economic pro- duction of water power. How- ever, beautiful little Philae, the temple of the later Pharaohs, will be permanently submerged. While so many millions are to be spent on these hydraulic works, it is not unreasonable to hope that funds may be 'avail- able for transferring at to a per- manently site above se ater level. It is estimated that the "Sadd el Aali" will take 10 years to construct—against five years at Kariba Gorge—and -that it will require another 10 years to fill the reservoir to capacity. Al- though the whole project is still. under study, preliminary works have already been started. Fin- ancing still is to be decided. For months the Egyptian Govern- ment, has been negotiating, so far with an apparent success, a loan from the World Bank. Of sgreat disturbance to the West is the fact that • the Soviet Union, Hungary, and' East Germany al- ready have pffered tb aid'in the dam's construction. He Gets The Bird When He Talks Mr, Thomas Wright, of Russel ,S 1i et, Falltielc, Scotland, bought ebird called the "Indian 404,ter Ilia Mynah." It was not Ssehpensive. The Wrights Partied Sammy, and fed him, on, biscuits, raw meat, and fralk. One day, when Mr. Wright was working in his aVitarY, hue heard a dog barking in the street, Be went out to have a leak There was no dog in sight. But the barking started again—this time only a few feet from where Mr. Wright was standing,. It was Sammy. And that was just the heitiii- ning of Sammy's impersonations. And he has a sense of htnnourt If you say "Cat" to. Sammy, he barks furiously, Say "Dog" and. Sammy miaows. Another day Mr. Wright went into the aviaryand swung round when he heard the sound of a squeaking door being pulled to and the click of a lock. It wait Sammy. Mr. Wright's grandson and granddaughter are often neat the aviary, but sometimes when they are not there Mr. Wright hears a childish voice saying "Grandpa." Yes—Sammy againl • Mr. Wright often lectures on birds. Sometimes he takes Sam- my, with him. When Sammy s thinks the lecture has lasted long enough, he says loudly; "Coma awa" — in a Falkirk accent you could not mistake. TOOTHSOME MORSEL — Mush rooms go well with any dish- including "cheesecake". Bonnii Jones poses to prove it. Thatii her 'job. She's been chosen "Mie eMushroom of 1955". 4.