The Brussels Post, 1956-05-23, Page 6•
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WAITIN' FOR THE RAIN TO LIME IN—In downtown. Pittsburgh,
shoppers don't have to let a smile be their umbrella on those
rainy rainy days, A popular drugstore keeps about 40 umbrellas
on hand, free for anyone to borrow. In the first year of its
goodwill service, the store has not lost one umbrella as a result
of dishonesty. Taking advantage of the free-lending offer is
Virginia Barnett, a local shopper.
"Dear Anne Hirst: I am in a
chietnina worse then I've ever
before faced.. I have fallen in
love with a woman le years,
older, and, though she agreeS
the idea is crazy, she declares
she loves me tool She is an aunt
of a college chum, and we have
almost everything in common:
Love of art and sports, religion,
the same sense of humeri and
we even like the same people,
We both regard marriage as
something sacred and eternal; I
am certain. I can be true to her
for the rest of my life;
or know people will laugh at
me, but I hesitate only because
her friends may scorn her, and
I hpnor her too much, to expose
her to criticism. She says she
doesn't care, What do you say?
TED"
My readers know that I am
* on the side of lovers when-
* ever I can honestly be. I am t
* not on your side today.
* It seems to be nature's law
* that men marry women of
* approximately their age or
* younger, and to flaunt this
* fact is to invite trouble, I
* do not doubt this fine woman
* believes all she says, but. she
* cannot assume for long a
* youthfulness she will not feel.
* As for you, in a few years
* you will find yourself more
* at ease with girls of your
* generation and though you
* may hate yourself for it, there
* will be nothing you can do
* about it.
sentiment that Way leads
to heartache.
In the meantime. Partner has
his own guessing game, end a
little more work at the har4
a fresh cow and a *neW-hOrn
calf to contend with. And then
he comes to the house and we
get talking about the contrari-
ness 'of nature's laws. Many
tittles, when, we were shipping
milk to the dairy, we hoped for
heifer calves to replace old cows
going out. So what did we get?
ATere bull calves than we want-
ed, of course, One season we had
twelve 111111 calves and one hei-
fer. Another year two little hei-
fers and the rest bulls, Now with
the idea of raising veal calves,
we keep only two or three cows.
So now what do we get? Heifer
calves, no less. And last .year,
if you remember, the first cow
to freshen after we sold most
of our milking herd presented
us with twin calves — and hell,-
ers at that. Sometimes it looks
as if you can't win whatever
you plan. Nature is liable to
throw everything into reverse.
Which reminds me: A young
couple in Toronto have a very
nice housecat. They are also ex-
p e c tin g their first "blessed
event." Norma thinks it would
be unwise to keep 'a cat when
the baby arrives. So when she
was going home for a few days
last week she asked Ted to find
a new , home for the cat — with
some friends who had said they
would like her. Ted, of course,
delayed this little chore until
the weekend. Friday night he
came home from the office to
find Tabby proudly mothering
four kittens. Quite an unlooked
for event. Seems to me some city
folk need a little instruction
about the facts of life! Poor
Norma. She was worried about
one cat — and now she has five.
Week's
Sew-Thrifty UPS AND DOWNS
A pilot had to bail out of his
plane, when his engines conk-
ed out. Floating down through
space, he came upon an old
lady, who was floating up.
"Hey, lady!" he yelled. "Seen
anything of an airplane going
down?"
"Just passed it," she yelled.
"See anything of a gas stove go-
ing up?"
Two pretty ways she can 'wear
this style! A cool, cute pinafore
—a party dress with the addi-
tion of the separate little collar!
So versatile—sew-very-easy for
you!
Pattern 801: Children's Sizes 2,
4, 6, 8 included. Pattern, embroi-
dery transfer, directions.
Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
(stamps cannot be accepted, use
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pattern to Laura Wheeler, 123
Eighteenth St., New Toronto,
Ont. Print plainly PATTERN
NUMBER, your NAME and AD-
DRESS.
Our gift to you—taro wonder-
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And so easy with fast-rising
Fleischtnann's Active Dry
Yeast ...a treat that will
bring demands for "snore,
please!"
is Meantime, the woman will
have faced the censure of her
contemporaries, as you will
4. become the laughing stock of
• yours, and you can no more
* control that than you Can Stop
* the sun from rising tomorrow
* morning.
* Many a young man becomes
* enamored of an older Woman;
* psychologists sometimes blame
* the mother complex. Properly
* approached, it can mature and
* benefit the lad in some ways,
* but to contemplate marriage
is to go off the deep end.
* No matter hew eager this
* woman is to be your wife,
* will be doing her no kindness
* to encourage romance. I hope
* you will stop seeing her and
* at once, before you find your-
* Self committed.
* Seek friends among girls of
* your own age. You will be
* amazed to find how soon you
* will find another love and
another inspiration.
PHILANDERING HUSBAND
"Dear Anne Hirst: During the
three years we've been mar-
ried, I have put up with my
husband's affairs, though it was
disillusioning and paioful. I am
through.
"My baby is expected in two
months, and now my husband
says he's in love with a girl
he used to date. She has mar-
ried but intends to divorce her
husband — to marry mine! He
demands that I start proceed-
ings, also says her husband
doesn't know about him.
"What can I do? I can't' think
straight, and have no one else
to advise me,
WORRIED SICK"
• You have countenanced
* your husband's infidelities
* too long. Now, when you
* need his love and tenderness
.* as never before, he has let
* you down again. I advise you
to tell him that you are
* through with protecting him
* from his follies, You will take
* no action until the baby
* comes, then if he still wants
* a divorce he can have it, and
* good riddance.
* If he persists in this non-
* sense, let him go to face
* the retribution that will come
* when the girl's husband finds
*•out the truth. He will de-
* serve all he gets, and you will
* be better off without him.
* You know you can go home to
* your parents, and since your
* husband is well-to-do, your
* future and the baby's is se-
* cure,
• How foolish men can be!
* * *
It is foolhardy to defy the
laws of nature; not only you,
but also the other person in-
volved will pay the penalty.
Consult Anne Hirst, and know
you can trust her judgment.
Write her at Box 1, 123 Eigh-
teenth St., New Toronto, Ont.
(OM
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Prophet Of Doom
ROYAL• WALTZ — Sedate is the
word for it as Prince Rainier
and Princess Grace dance in
stately style on their Spanish
honeymoon. The occasion was
a reception for the newlyweds
on the island of Majorca, given
by the governor, Capt. Gen.
Juan Castejort.
China Celebrates
Start of Summer
1. In an 8-inds square cake
pan, melt
3 tablespoons butter
or margarine
Drizzle with
1/3 cup honey
and sprinkle with:
Y2 cup broken salted
nutmeats
2. Scald
Y3 cup milk
Remove from heat and stir in
'A cup honey
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
Cool to lukewarm.
3. In the meantime, measure
into a large bowl
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 teaspoon granulated
sugar
and stir until sugar is dissolved,
Sprinkle with contents of
1 enveloae
Fleischmann's
Active Dry Yeast
Let stand 10 minutes, THEN
stir well. Stir the lukewarm
milk mixture and
1 well-beaten egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
into the yeast mixture.
Sift together once
2 cups once-sifted
all-purpose flour
% teaspoon ground
cinnamon
Sift dry ingredients into yeast
mixture and stir until well
blended—about 1 minute,
4. Spoon mixture into pre,
pared cake pan. Cover. Let
rise in a warm place, free from
draft, until doubled in bulk—
about 1 1/4 hours. Bake in d
moderately hot oven, 375°,
about 35 minutes. Tern out of
pan immediately. Serve warm,
Here comes yet another pro-
phet of world doom! The end
will not come by hydrogen
bomb explosion but by gigantic
floods, says ."Modern Noah," 52-
year-old ex-lawyer Adam D.
Barber.
He forecasts that giant waves
75 feet high will shortly rush
over the earth at speeds reach-
ing 2,000 miles an hour, SWeep-
ing all before them and con-
v e r ting civilization and its
treasures into one mass of
swirling debris.
To overcome this appalling
prospect, he has petitioned the
U.S. Congress to prepare for
Flood Day by building vast
fleets of arks. His studies 'of
physics convince his that every
9,000 years the earth's axis "does
a flip" as the poles move, caus-
ing world floods:
4634 2-10
ty—Atn,,,, 44.4
A Wrapon for your daughter!
Just sew two or three, Mother
— and RELAX for the season!
As you see, it has FEW pattern
parts, whips up in a jiffy, opens
out to iron and a child can dress
herself so easily! Make it of
cotton in flower-fresh pastel
colors!
Pattern 4634: Children's Sizes
2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Size 6 takes 21/4
yarcia 35-inch fabric.
This pattern easy to Use, Sim-
ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has
complete illustrated instructions.
Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS
(350) (stamps cannot be accept-
ed, use Astal order for safety)
for •this pattern. Print plainly
SIZE,,NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE
NUMBER,•
Send order to ANNE ADAMS,
123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto,
Ont. Needs ho
refrigeration
'114,1,4 weeks ago spring flOW-
er,on awns were peeking through
tike ground. They are still peek-
ing, no more and np leas, for
spring still tarries while the
weatherman treats u* to frosty
flights and occasional snow flur-
ries. Daughter was. here Sunday
and she was reminding me that
on. April 17 last year she was
in hospital, and I had taken her
some f r es h .stewed rhubarb,
straight, from the garden. Ac-
cording to the date it is now
a week later and yet the rhu-
barb this year is' no more than
an inch above the ground. No-
body minds a late winter, or
fall, .or even summer. But a late
spring that is harder to take.
Everything within us and around
'us longs for the spring, for the
rebirth of flowers and trees and
shrubs. Those who are well and
active and busy about their
day's work welcome the spring.
Dut to those who afe not so well,
to the convalescents, to .those
who weary of the four walls of
a house, to all such persons
spring is doubly welcome. So
for those people in particular
we most sincerely hope that
good, health-giving days are not
too far away. And when they
come, make the most of them,
friends. You who are house-
weary, take time to be out-of-
doors. "Dust will wait but vio-
lets won't." Get out and enjoy
the sunshine — it is good for
whatever ails you.
We are certainly hoping for a
little warm weather because, as
soon as he can play outdoors,
our grandson is coming to visit
us -- all by himself. And it will
certainly take the great outdoors
to use up some of his surplus
energy. So here's hoping — for
his sake, and ours too.
In the meantime, whatever
the weather, we have plenty to
interests outside — and the in-
terest is likely to be maintained
for some time. Surveyors from
the Department of Highways,
are all over the farm, mapping
out a cloverleaf for. No. 401, half
of which will be on our farm.
I suppose they know what they
are doing but it is all a mystery
to us. One time we look out and
we see from one to three cars
and six or seven men. Half-an-
hour later the cars may be gone
and no sign of activity any-
where. Or maybe one car will
be at the road. No men in sight
but by Rusty's insistent barking
we know men are somewhere
around — here, there, anywhere
— we don't know. Sometimes
they arrive before eight a.m.,
sometimes they don't show up
at all, To keep track of them
would be one grand guessing
game. It is also necessary to for-
get sentiment once the survey-
ors get busy. First of all they
bring in a card which says that
surveyors will find it necessary
to enter your property and that
"a valuator will arrange to make
settlement in regard to any dam-
ages." That is fine — as far as
it goes. But can a valuator as-
sess the worth to you, real or
sentimental, of a tree or a group
of trees? We have evergreens
on our property that Were set out
the first year we came. From lit-
tle twelve - inch seedlings we
have watched them grow to
sturdy trees, twenty to thirty
feet high. When Partner saw
the surveyors working among
the evergreens he begged them
to save the trees. He was as-
sured the trees would not be
destroyed unless it became nec-
essary. With that he had to be
Satisfied. Those trees took over
thirty years to grow and could
not be replaced by a similar
growth for another thirty years.
Also during our first year on the
farm we planted maples down
the lane. Only a few of them
lived. We treasure the survi-
vors. It may be that one or more
of them will topple under the
official axe. We shall be com-
pensated . . in cash, maybe.
But in other ways? Well, aS I
Said before we have to stifle
the Fairy of the Cassia Flower,
so small but so sweet. The ninth
sees the reign of the Chrysan-
themum Queen, the tenth the
Golden Lady of the Marigolds,
the eleventh the cold and vir-
ginal Camelia Fairy, and the
twelfth is in charge of the pale
Winter Blossom.
The .''birthday of flowers" in
general is on the twelfth (in
some places on the fifteenth) of
the second moon. . . .
Throughout China the fourth
moon begins the fashionable
season for garden parties, and
the great event everywhere is
the opening of the peonies, for
the peony in China is the King
of Flowers, and used to be call-
ed "the ornament of Empire."
When these favourites reach
perfection, the President of the
Republic himself sends to privi-
leged guests invitations for a
"peony-viewing." . . They are
conveyed to the audience hall,
across a lake of lapis-lazuli, in
one of those barges, with row-
ers standing to their oars, that
formerly transported Sover-
eigns,
When formal greetings are
over, guests are free to wander
through the Palace gardens
where the flowers appear as
beautiful pictures most beau-
tifully framed. We cross zigzag
bridges over ponds with shim-
` mering gold-fish, like streaks of
fire. We 'pause in open pavili-
ons whose roofs are draped
with wisteria. Here and there,
long purple-blue sprays hang as
a curtain, staining the sunlight
as it passes through. A mauve
carpet of fallen petals covers ,
the marble floor. Above our
heads the bees in the blossoms
Make' a sound like the drone of
the sea in a shell.
Slowly, stopping often to ad-
mire each new vista, we pro-
ceed to the throne of the King
of Flowers, the grey rock-gar-
dens where fantasy rune riot in
stone, the terraces faced With
yellow-glazed tiles splintering
into sunbeams, Here the plants
are set 'out , in stately 'rows
showing how well those Chinese
gardeners of long ago under-
stood the value of contrast: pink
against green, grey against
rose-colour, the grouping of
feathery barnboba as a back-
ground, the clerk note of twist-
ed pines, all 'arranged to en-
hance the perfect blooms, sun-
drenched through the trees, —
themselves sunfilled cups. —
From "The Moon Year," by
Juliet. Bretton and Igor Mitro-
pharloW.
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Summer in China begins in
the fourth moon. In Peking,
streethawkers sell little red
cherrries like children's rosy
cheeks, arid mauve roses, dewy
wet, from Which Chinese house-
keepers make a delicious jam.
Then every garden is at its
loveliest, wide awake at last.
Nature rewards the Chinese
love of flowers with a gift for
growing them, Bushes, shrubs,
even trees, forget to follow
their original intent and bend to
the will of the Oriental gar-
dener, yielding him an almost
Wifely submission. The gerani-
um in an old tomato tin bloorri0
generously for the poor boat-
woman who lovingly tends it.
The New Year narcissus unfolds
its star-petals from the crack-
ed cup' of the humblest coolie.
A clump of esters grows in the
stony ground beside his sentry-
bdx for the policeman who ure-
ters them in full uniform with
his tea-pot.
The calendar is marked With
flower-anniversaries, and every
Moon is hostessed by a flowern.
fairy presiding over a long
chain of flower-fetes. The nose
Fairy presides over the first
moon; Apricot Blossom over
the Second; Peach Bloom one'
the third; Mistress Clithbing
Rose over the fourth; the
Pomegranate Maiden over the
fifth; and the Saintly Lotus
Lady Over the sixth. the'
seventh combs the perfumed
Balsam Vairy;" and in the eighth
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