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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-11-21, Page 2AN NE I Modern. Etiquette Q. When, a, dinner course is thilelted, -should the Ittrstess' plate 'be removed, first, and if riot, 'whose plate? A, There is no rule governing the order of removing dinner plates, qt Which Woman s'hou'lil A .into, seat at a, dinner table, the one on his right or left' A. The woman on 110$ right. Q. Is it absolutely necessary to send a wedding present when one has declined an Idvit4tIOW to the reception? A, This would be expetted of you only if you were very intimate friends of the bride, the bridegroom, or their Otherwise, it is not neces- sary, Q.„HoW should one bandie the spoon when, partaking of soup? A, The spoon, of course, should be held in the right hand, dipped into the soup with an outward sweep, then taken from the side 'of the spoon, never from the ' Q. When Ayriting a letter 'to an acquaintance who calls you "Mrs. Bridges," how do you sign the letter? :. As "Mary Bridges.", Q. Do male members of a party at k p4blic dinner table rise 'when a man stops at the table for a few words with one of the diners? A. Not unless there is a great difference in age. All younger men rise for a really old gentle- man. Q. Is it proper for the bride, groom to help address the wed- ding invitations and announce- -molts? 1've heard this is "bad lucks." A. There's no reason in the world why he shouldn't help, if he wishes. Q. is it proper for a bridge player to lily down several re- maining cards in his hand 'with the remark, "The rest of the tricks are mine?" A, This can be 'very annoying to moderately skilled players, and it is quite often possible that he may be wrong. It is much better taste to play out all the teieks.,,,-;,..„ Q, I"haye`,been invited for a week4tid' visit: Would it be proper for:me to bring a gift to my,,hosiess?" A. This would be a very nice 'thing to do. The gift need, 'not valuable, but should. show crane' in selection. Rementher,, though, that this does not ,ew-, ewe you from writing that 'bread,and.butter't letter t4 aoor P. possible after your re,, turn home. Pretty Centrepiece 58.1 • te/ 4Cif,44.4 Whi2/24 Elegant centerpiece, for your dining table! A graceful sweat crocheted in pineapple design — fill it with fruit or flowers. Pattern 581: Crochet directions for swan centrepiece; body about 12 x 61/2 inches, Use heavy jiffy cotton — starch stiffly. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) 'for this. pattern to LAURA WEEELEH, 123 Eighteenth Street, 'New To- ronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT, TERN NUMBER, your .NAME and ADDRESS. Our gift to you—Iwo wonder- ful patterns foe yourself, your helm * -printed in our !Ante Wheeler Needlecraft Book — Plus dozens of other new designs to order —.crochet, knitting, em- broidery, iron-ens; novelties. Send 25' cents for your copy of this book NOW — with gift pet- terns printed in ill FASHION HINT 4%. IC. GER. AR FRENCH FAkiff -This is not an Indian fakir sitting on his bed of nails, bu't 'a Parisian painter touching up a giant-sized toothpaste tube while sitting on the business end of on equally big toothbrush. The outsized brush and tube will be used as part of a dental display at the Children's "Show 1i Faris. &wit\ doLit e, P. Clarke "Dear Anne Meet: r ant 15, end I've been going steady with a boy for seven months. I like him very reueN, and be says he loves. Me— but every week-end be has some excuse to be ont of town, "He says he visits relatives, I. get to see him Only once a Week. "Should I stay home and wait for him,' or go put with other boys? JEAN" * The high spot for most • couples is the Week-end. date * —there are few time .restrie- * lions on Saturday night, and * Sun day afternoons together * can be long, Without these epe- * 641 occasions to look forward * tee a girl's sectal life is pretty * empty and, I should say, thole • ougnly unsatisfactory. Yours is * especially so, .since you have * only one date a week with a * boy who declares he loves you. * Certainly date others over week-ends, if your mother ap- k proves (and she evidently '` wilt); put yourself in tion. * Even if you could see this young man around, the clock, " giving him all your dates is un- " sound. Yen are, getting chances " to compare "him with others " who might prove even more in- "' teresting, more 'fun to be with. " Nor are you being fair to your- , self when you are not learning F. more about others your own age-an experience that en- riches a girl's personality and " gives her dozens of new topics " to talk about other than "you * and me." • EVery girre•Secret desire is i` to be popular. How can you ex- * pact to be if you, have only * one beau? First thing you * know, you .will be thinking he. • is THE one and only—and you * surely would be bereft, if . he * suddenly changed girls. Teen- One-Yard Skirt NEW PRINTED PATTERN EASIER—FASTER MORE ACCURATE 0014 0.1,e 7; 5*' ql 4867 24 '- 30- PRINTED PATTERN It's a PRINTED PATTERN — saves sewing work and time! Directions are printed right on each pattern part of this flatter- ing sheath skirt — takes just ONE yard 54-inch fabric to make! Sew several .for yotre fall wardrobe! Printed Pattern 4867: Misses' Waists 24, 25, 26, 28, 30 inches. AM given sizes: 1 yard 54-inch. Directions printed on each tie- sue pattern part. Easy-to-use, accurate, asSeree perfect fit, Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, 123 Eighteenth St.. New Tdron- to, Ont. • * 'afore of both sexes' are famous * for this practice, and rightly so, * for it is wholesome end profit- " able. These are the years to. -* make lets of friends, some of * whom you will have for the * rest of . your lire. I hope you * will step wasting your time on. *. one .Mona. * t do not wish to arouse any Suspicion, The lad may indeed 4. be visiting relatives,' but it be -* is spending every week-end 4' WW1, them len% it obvious what * a low place you rate in his at- * fectionsF "Love," you must re- * member; is one of the most ▪ flexible words in teen-age lan- • guage. ** Play smarte.my young friend, * and •cultivate other nice boys. * In a few months' time you will wonder why OP earth you * thought any one lad was worth such concentration. • * I give Your problem much * space today because I do not * believe you realize how serious * it is, and I wanted to explain * why you are certainly "off on * the wrong foot.- * * GIRL IN A III/RAY .1Year Anne Hirst: I hope you will settle my problem for me, I have fallen in love with a boy six years younger than I. He loves me dearly and says that age doesn't mean a thing to him —but I think it may mean some- thing later on. "Please answer quickly as he wants to marry me soon and your counsel means a lot to me. PUZZLED" You do not tell me whether you are in your teens or your 20's, so it is not 'proper for me to give you a direct answer, You tell me little else to guide an opinion. The tone of your letter shows your impa- tience (and I should say your youth), so I only can warn you that your parents are the ones to consult. At any rate, don't he hasty. Marriage, even in these mo- dern days, is intended to last all your life, and a year or so getting better acquainted wise and safe. There not only is safety in •numbers for teen-agers; there is more excitement, new thrills and lots of fun. Give it a whirl, and see. Refer any problems to Anne Hirst, for she will understand and guide you safely through, Write 'her at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto. Ont. Saved Himself A Life Of Nagging • When • a • romantic young Italian decided to marry the prettiest girl in -the village where he worked, a friend who knew her well warned him that. she as very self-willed -and had a .fiery temper. "She's lovely, 'but you'd bet- ter' start taming her now, or she'll boss • you when you're married," he said. "Whatever you do, show her .you're not a 'Yes man,' other wise. she'll hen- peck you unmercifully." The young man hit on. a dras- tic plan to avoid being hen- peckeel. In the crowded church. r. on their wedding day he utter- ed a firm and loud "No" when he was ask'ed whether he took "this woman" to be his "lawful. wedded wife." His bride nearly swooned with surprise. He then strode from the church, Tearfully, the girl rail after him end caught him up, • "I love you," he said, quietly, "but I wanted to show you that I can say 'No! and that shall he the dominant •parteer in our marriage, You must always *bey me not you. Now Jere go back and finish the wedding ceremony." The girl meekly nodded hcr assent, Together they went bark to • the antis, That happened a year ago. "We've indescriliebly happy," confided the . young husband to his friend recently. "Youe advice certainly did the trick." Made Mincemeat Of Her Savings. When little Tim'cuuY Rigby • ate up his vegetables like a, good. boy. it proved an expensive. Meal. For three 4:1 ;eetee, left, on the kitehen table were ace Orientally cooked with the cab- bage and Timmy obediently swallowed the let, Yet this was a bargain bane quet compared with the mishap of a Leicester woman, Leaving the kitchen 'untended while she answered the .doorbell, she fail- ed to notice that her mischiev- ous four-year. -old had .emptied $48 savings from her best tea- pot into. the mincer. So the cash was consumed with the hot-dogs' in New Jersey, widow Mar- garet Moretti baked- a lemon meringue pie in her oven, com- pletely forgetting that her life savings of $1800 in bank-notes and war bonds were lodged for safe keeping on an oven shelf, The ashes of her nest-egg litter- ed. the pie, but fortunately the bank was able to identify tine• currency numbers with infra- red rays and. Mrs. Moretti re, ceteed a refund on the bonds. The strangest money 'mishap of recent months -occurred when a London - housewife sent her husband's suit to. the clean-. ens. How was she to know that over $900 hi hills had been methodically layered into the• lining? • Aft ' the alarmed husband's request, the cleaners stopped their machinery and reeovereci the coat. Subsequently •Scotlan4 Yard investigators- were satis- fied when they discovered that this richly ' dressed customer was an antique dealer who had to make large cash-purchases itr the course of Ills business. Hay- Me twice had hies • pocket picked, he was taking no chances. Every yeal* the British. Post Office alone exchanges nearly 4;2,000,000 of notes damaged badly .enough to need .explane e lion forms. Chewed by • mice, sent to the , wash, accidentally • boiled in, the wash copper. "torn in a fight between wite and myself" are some of the haz- ards underlying these money tatters. Two Comedians In Far 'y ----- Whet's the secret of the ,non- stop success since 1021 of Lae- ceshive comedian George Form- by, the little ukele-playing man from Wigan who, earlier this pear, celebrated his fifty-second birthday? His homely voice? His Simple grin? His ukelele? All these? have eombined to make bier , noeuler• with mil- hone and hove helpod him to amass a fortune frem plays and films. • Modest Clecirge himself. would tell you, thet his wife Beryl's constant: heto :and encore-a:tee me.nt - -was' a 'hie faetne in theee early PAPS whe n he' Wes- LI nOWn. "•a711011 1 m-arled her it was the most ae nsihle thine. I ever ditt,!' he has They 'first me: at a tiny vari- -.ety theatre. She .v.ros the world's champion clog he wee part of a minetrel eel with his face blacked,- reefer, , it was •Beryl who nerstteded •a Ne.w- castle theatre Tartlet- .to give, shy George his fi rst trittf.;-.terrn conteaet. He might have kiten a - jorkey instead of a eseeige and fuee star. He actuelle we , e jockey when he was a boy and. rode in save oral itePeeOnt raver at the age of ten. His father, tomedran, frowned at the. irlfa n C;Pprge going on the .stage, Whenever. GeO: g Er 9>r eft (dello,- to the etgeke door at the theetee *here his father wee ',Maiming, he was politely hut freely puehrel nut. "One fool in the family enough' joksd his dad. But the, greet day • tame, in November, 1037, when George. Perrot -teed 0 of a Londoo theater= % Where hie fe e thee had seood tw'ce befo..e ,for, Itoytt Comerind performance-. father and son • achieving the same flte T114A110 A Seotem ,e-voinnOrffid his 7 t maid .oftee forty years' service end announced: "Yeti are. 'ton- " eidetoa-frotr, today' on as a Mein-, b e e .6r.11,0,,,•tiirnfly. in PALEN': no wkre..e4," • !' ' MERRY MENIA0ERIE It is a little difficult these days to keep one's thoughts concen- trated on ordinary, everyday affairs. Of their own violation. they go wandering off to the Middle East, to Hungary, to. Nova Scotia and to a little vil- lage not fee from here where striking truck drivers put on an active demonstration resulting in the loss of a leg to a police- man on duty. And all last week we had Mild, ' foggy weather, which was artethine but cheer- ful. And most Of the problems are with tie yet. As far as the Middle East is concerned no one can iorsee the entcome. The same applies. to Hungary. We can only hope that eventually action by the United. Notiene Assembly will justify its exietence. The Springhill di sae cr, , , how can we aseees the terrible anguish of the families ,beionging„to the, trapped men — er er the men themselves? Hie:Mile the num'oer of survivor greeter than any- one deveri to hope foe, The truer drivers' eerike if pro loneee, that is sernelltine that may touch ue'all quite Closely. And the weenier . ,rx,i, certainly- can't Mange •thet, Vie have to• ' take whet contras and, make the • best of it. The n e st, we cern do is. avoid untlece nay rieles along. the foe-slnottdrd roads.. Here. at Ginger Farm out' im mediate ,problems have ,hoot concern about the weather, and with emiehe end colds. Fog has kerie us more or less housebound. which is rather a nuisance 'as there are several visits we in- tended to make — bee why take a chance -travelling the highways unesee you have to? However, coOditione are improving; I heard planes going oven last night and this morniree A welcome sound to niece :Bribe es' her .husband is living in from Sudbury next . Wednesday, f hope be, ,then all the colds wilt have Cleared up. Talk about e coughing chores. We certainly have it .here„ Dut- hie the day it has unexpected comnlicalions, :Because of the colds none of us can hear 'too w,,11 and tee all speak —indie ,. tinc1.1,v with a sort' of a croak' so' that we have ..trouble In making each. other underetand. We do a. lot of guessing—and, We ,don't always guess right. If the Sore throats centintle ire shall ' have' to take to lip-readingt But of course our worst troubles are at night, last night being beyond everage. , In between, ,my , own eestlessnese, the children crying and Babe and ,Partner Coughieg, something happened itha, t added instill' to injure, wee two o'clock in the morrilng,Ithe telee phone rang JeCtd With my hearkineenehmerirth and nothing on my feet I ran to answer it,' What had happened it must be something deastit f‘rir anyone to :ring in the rnrddle of the night. The king diStapte operator called our ,nufliber and' 1. Waited in aMzienseltspense, Then a voice said -- ilulto=fs naty,Lou there?"' Betty-Lou. indeed! lit ,diclett take hie long to interne the Peety that Betty Loue wasn't here, never had ,been• here, and I didn't knees,. any Baty eleou anyway! Then I Went ShiVerifig bacrlb MY bed. The night was Wedent se I suppose the r' shivering ,was kriereiyr the result apPreheriSiork , krie lawhife all WAS quiet arid then Nancy started trying again' — hitiO teeihitit troubles, Alt hi a.11 ft.Wai quite e• a night. Now as I write it is ae- ternoOn and everything is re- markably. quiet — the children's alter-dinner nap has Meted-for - • over two hours. Hero's- hoping it isn't the lull before the storm." Saturday we had an interest- Mg little outing.. Partner took care . of. Nancy while Baba and with Carol in 'tow, visited a nearby -Exhibition and sale of AVIS' and Crafts. It is an. enroll event taking place .the first week.. in November. For.the.laet three years I have worn a "laIr, coat for • the event, This year I was too, warm even in a lightweight suit • —one more instance .which points to the extraordinary weather we , 'are having, „ As usual there was an out- standing display' handicrafts. of cIt kind~ exquisite • costume' jewellry, handwoven articles—including the loveliest fineewoct stoles ,IhaVe. seen any- where. One .of these times I am ening to he really extravagant treat myself to one—might have .done it this time but light was one eolour. they •didn't hive, There was also a lovely ,collectio:ri ,of.,pottery -and a fine -, • displey of Theseete iet pereelarkable Yeesatile :.son, • Wee 'demonstrating. old Er)g- :Jich'leftesr'it'ig,which, to the aver: a.g4 on would be as difficult to do es an oil painting, I- won- eer how it is some people are sa, gifted? leff,st be that for most of us the 'eight genes were not around: before ;We , ',were bare. Pureee. that subject ettly 'futther and we would. soon .find our- selvesinvolvede-in,, the old eon-, troverital topic of heredity ..vere sus environment To 'My know- ledge; which is responsible' for WI-lat.:has never yet -been satis- factorily explained-It is. en- ex-.• treerdinary age we are living in butt 'evert yet we don't know all the arre-Were, And maybe that' is :just as avelleorrietittiee'"it little • learning is a.dangereus thing." ow Can I? HOW can I prevent iliotits? A, Sprinkle a little turpette tine; or benzine, around the, crevices Of closets, drawers, end boxes, 'Wrap garments to be put away in newspapers; -teethe dislike' the 'oder Ai:Oink. Q.; How' Can I ,fetnove plaster — A, the .one }putt ,of vinegeratti t' one gallon of hot Water. Scrub Well, then rinse with_ clear water and dry, and lime stains ItOtri Wood- work', anti Roth*? ' Q., can I detect; a leek in. a' gas pipe? A, At the point .where the leak is suspected; apply a paste of soap erect Water, If Atiere ,le' a leak, .babbles w.ili altifjear,` ' Never use thatches .or a Ilene in lookitigefee a gee: leak. 4.. How •'Oan. I relieve the pinch' Of iiint shoes? A, Wring a Cloth • from hot water' and lay It across the -tight .epet while the shoe en the Met,. changing es it tools. This Witt make' the Mettler shape td 'the loot. How can It remove yarn sit' geode? 'A. .01i . the- spot With ttlepene tine Or benzine, :then Windt the '. goods thOrotteil:K t. 'Necks.; Plecitilt "Not both .at the ham, %Me.