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The Brussels Post, 1957-03-27, Page 2"Peer Anne Hirst: If more wives Weida keep on practicing half the charm and wit they used to Jana their man, I prob- Phesy the divorce courts would he only half as popular. "Where is the vow `far better or for worse', today? Women. seem to see marriage as .a trial affair, something to send back If it doesn't suit them. It is of- ten a shock for a bride to learn how little she knows the man she married; after the honey- moon he sheds his cloak of self-righteousness and destroys the very dreams he created. That need not be, if he would use his common sense; practic- ing kindness, courtesy and un- selfishness and using his imag- ination, can perpetuate the il- lusion of happiness. "My husband was an only son' and as spoiled as Usual. I started catering to him, ,too, and I've never stopped. If I hadn't loved him so, I couldn't have done it; but he proved worth the trouble. "I am an outgoing peeson, he is not'. I played on his vanity and his ego, and soon he began getting a kick out of his suc- cess with friends, Today he's a grand host. 'MD TACT "When our children came along, he was violently jealous until I built him up so fast in his own estimation that jealousy died a natural death; he has never doubted since that be is -monarch in his own home. ',set the you.nsters `the example of respecting him, and it worked. As a result, we eare, a happy family and each one has sturdy character, yet is considerate and appreciative of all the others. "My husband is really grand- est person I ever knew: -When we married, I was a widow of 24 and had a wayward young- ster of five who was a handful.The man came to love us both, and he straightened out my boy through understanding and dis- cipline well spiced with love. How grateful I've always been! "What a pity a girl doesn't know the power she holds over the man who loves her! It in- volves forgetting herself, de- voting energy and wit to keep- Heirloom Treasure it4;CAIT V• Zi 0.11 i'.1. •; er• •r-r4 r a.•il • "' eaa aer I ML 41/ reaute4 W62(20. Treasure of a 'filet trochet de- sign one you'll be prOud,,toe display as an heirloom heetityle Make the lovely „scarf to deco- rate buffet; silt matching' Place mats. Pattern 525: Chart, crochet directions for scarf in 3 differ- ent lengths, matching piece. Mate: Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (statripa cannot be accepted, use postal not foe safety') for thie Pattern to Laura Wheeler, Sort I, Eighteenth St., New Tote Onto, Ont. print plainly PAT- TERN NtiViRER.,, your NAME' and ADD1tt8S, Otte gift to yott two won-, derttni patterna fee yourself, Void' &Mid, printed in our Laura Wheeler' Needlecraft Book e Pine &tent of othet nevi designs to order — ere, ehet, knitting, eitibrohlery, iron, Orts, novelties. Send 25 dents ler yolk copy of this book NOW With gift •eiatterile; Printed in its', 188tile 11-6 1937 NEW IDEAS IN BRITISH. BAGS'— Here is handbag,-.news for the male fashion world, At left is a "travel sling," designed, es-' pecially for men on vacation, or a weekend in the country, Whether this item will .replace the worn wallet ,s ,debatable, but men will have to admit that its capacious interior is a practical solution to storing their many accessories. For years women have been jamming incredible amounts inth*their, purses and now there is a bog, right, which will-hold practiCally "any. thing. For proof, English,film star Susan Beaumont smiles prettily from her position inside the six-by-two-and-one-half-foot leather purse. But her companion might not look so, gay if he had to carry it a distance. The items were shown' recently at the Leather Goods Industries' fair in London. HItONICLES '~GINGERFAitM %...ven.dolin,e P. ctozike Odd Happenings At Auction Sales "Going!" 'warned an 4UetiOn, eer for the second time, Then with, a final, "Cone," be brought down his hammer. vioTlheen t 1:eexspullotsilovnaswharcialzfill)ugn g the auctioneer back against the wall as flames licked up it, and the terrified onlookers tried'to strug- gle out of the building, ventual- ly thirty-three were taken to hospital, and treated for puts, burns, shock acid minor injuries, But it wasn't the auctioneer's hammer that detonated the ex- prosion. A man had thrown away a lighted cigarette end which landed in some inflam- mable paint m with explosive re- sults, That took plaee .in a Worces- tershire village, In. Dungannon, Ireland, there was an occurrence almost as remarkable, The auc- tioneering. ., wasgollg.,v busilyi ,.,.,nen his shouting"Go- assistant suddenly disappeared. So did practically the whole crowd of bidders, The floor had given way and they all tumbled into the cellar beneath, scream- ing and shouting. Luckily, al- though a hundredweight of nails and a pig-feed boiler dropped on top 'of them only one was badly hurt, Amazing things certainly hap- pen at sales. "Once," an auction- eer reports, "two men were bid- ding against each other for a bureau. It was a nice piece of work, but the price went up and up, far beyond its value. I found out the -reason later. Each bidder had been told 'confidentially' that the bureau was genuine Queen Anne and not a reproduc- es tion. My client did well out of that!" Humour is found at auctions, too. "I remember putting up a cage of tame rats," said one auctioneer. "A man accidentally ST etog: fano* Gt4,4,14.4, .Via, 4''' ,. 7. ...7 .7::::,..,,, 4 ''''' 1 HANDY ART—Artist Poole Weiss -Shows h is painting at the first it.-iiari thlibitlelk of native surrealist art ift, Pattie, 114 Work displays d imos6 ".if female hand' tiiing- ,Iron''' Snaky table" 403t, son A DYED FOR ART — Here's Doro- thy Malone, back in Hollywood after six years' absence — blonde this time. Dorothy's career as d brunette skidded to a halt, but the same girl, this time with golden tresses, has won naughty girls parts in 4 3at- tle Cry,"- and "Written on the Wind." She has been nominat- ed for an 'Oscar as ,the year's best supporting actress- for the- latter filni". Dorothy seems to have provid her, contention that Hollywood prefers blondes. lug him physically and eMO- tienally satished, and centering her own life within the walls of her borne. My girl with a bead on her shoulders can use the talents the Lord gave her if she wants to, "I have always liked your column, and your counsel is Sane, You know human weak- nesses, and YOU don't advise the impossible, I get a real kick Out Of it regularly, perhaps because you so often agree with me. CONTENTED WIFE." * I wish I might have Printed * your letter in full; it has in- * sight and much wisdom, Yes. * the wife is largely respons- * able for the success of any * marriage, and as long as she * realizes her power, she can * keep her man at home and * liking to be there, I salute a reader who has practiced what I have tried for nearly 30 years to explain. * * WANTS DATING. PRIVILEGES "Dear Anne. Hirst: How can I get my mother to let me go out with boys? I've been asked out enough, but she thinks 16 is too young to date. I'm so un- happy I don't want to live! "I've no more privileges that if I were 12. I arnaallowed to visit girl friends in the after- noon, but have to get home be- fore six o'clock or there is a scene, and scenes make me so sick I can't eat supper . . . Can't you help me, Anne Hirst? MISERABLE." • If I were your age, I would turn over a new leaf and de- * velop what older people call * asense of responsibility; that * would impress my mother so much, she soon would trust * me entirely and ,anywhere. * This means acting your age. * Many a 16-year-old is mature; * she shows her parents that * she has good judgrrient and. is * worth confidence placed in her. You can, too. *. You are old enough now to * learn to• do the marketing, for ' * instance, take care of your * own room and your clothes. * Ask your mother to give you * some household duties, and * let her see how well you han- * die them. Soon she will be *-seeing you not as a child to * be watched and dsciplined, * but as young woman, who uses * her head. contributes pleas- * aptly to the family's life, and * stands shoulder - to - shoulder * with her parents in everything * affecting the whole family. * This system works! * Remember, a girl doesn't * "date" boys. They date you when they see you have * grown up enough to be in- * teresting. You'll be amazed * how soon you will grow up * once you assume responsibil- * ity and learn to be helpful to * your parents and sisters. Try * it. There is no wisdom like that born of experience. If you have solved a difficult situation, tell Anne Hirst how you did, and help other troubled folk who faces the same situation. Ad- dress her at Bpi' 1, 123 Xigh. teenth St., New Toronto, Ont. HAND LACINDRY—:— Yep, the drought's caused a, lot of head. aches out in Kantas. Lianti• COnStaritides; above; of Nicosia., Cyprus; IS -just one of 72 coed victikns tit' the College of titide Mid-October, the girls have had to. resort -to old- feOrifOrittt washtu b s and Scrub- bind boards, The dormitory's two inadern autorriatic•Washert are Shut clown for the duration of the' water' shortage., Modern Etiq uette By Anne Ashley 0, We lire With my wife's parents. When we entertain guests dinner, who sits at the head of the table, uty father', in-law or I? A, Correctly, your father-in- law, since the owner of the house never sits anywhere ether than at the head of the table, Q. A friend of mine has named her son Robert J. Smith, HI, after the baby's father and grandfather, although the grand- father is not living, Shouldn't she have named him simply "juniore" and net the third? A. You are correct, his grandfather is not living, then he should be "Junior." Q, Where does the ring bearer stand during the wedding cere- mony? A. He stands behind and to. the right of the bride. Q. Is it proper to send gifts to the mother of a newborn baby? A. Relatives and close friends will, sometimes send flowers or candy to the• new mother, but usually any gifts sent are for the baby. SHOP GIRL TO QUEEN—Modern- age Cinderella is 19-year-old Annie Douarin, just chosen Queen of the, Midinettes in a Paris contest. Midinettes ore shopgirls employed by Parisian couteriers, Bright New Comet Appears in April A new star the brightest comet of the century — is get- ting astromomers all a g o g. Named the Arend Rowland 1956 H, it is expected to appear to- wards the end of April and may dominate the sky. The comet first seen by astronomers last November, is believed to have been dragged from its normal or- bit by the planet Jupiter or by Uranus. If expert calculations prove correct, it should be brighter than Halley's comet, which could even be seen in day- light when,• it last appeared in 1010. Some astronomers think that Halley's comet may be breaking up. This comet, discovered by Edmund Halley who later be- came astronomer-royal, appears in our skies about every seventy- six years end is- due to Make its next appearance in 1986, But when this peculair wan- derer in space last passed near the earth it was diseppnintinly dim, suggesting that it may be breaking up. Aeeurious, fan-like sheet of light surrounded its head. Since then there have been many theories about the cornet and some have been revived by the celebration last November of the 300th anniversary Of Halley's birth. It has been suggested by Dr. It. S. Richardson, of Mount Wil- son Observatory, U.S., that Hal- ley's comet was the bright light which guided the Wise Men to Christ's birthplace, Comets have always been thought to exereAe a great in- fluence over human destiny. The excellence of wine in 1811 was attributed to a comet and so were the unusual number of twins born in that year, and the fact that a elioeitiaker's Wife in Efig,, land gave birth to four children, A sudden increase in eats in 1668 was said by the superstitious to have been due to t comet and the -plague' of 1665 Was also' thoUght to hale been tensed by the sudden appearance of a very bright totnet in the night tity, Raney scoffed at snail beliefs. This Serl of a soap-boiler largely reineeed the feet of carnets by demonstrating that they are of regular beetittetite. Perhaps he would haire, scoffed, too, at the. suggestion that his particular' data breaking: up, but We Must Wait another thirty years to test the truth of that theory, Things are happening again in the Clarke family! Yes, indeed. Last week we were presented with another grandson — this- time by Joy and Bob. Third grandson for us but the first- ad- dition• for them. We thought a, little girl might have 'been a good- idea but somehow when the baby arrived, boy or girl, it didn!te seem Aciernatter. Hoy/ can any- one be other than happy and thankful if both the mother and baby are all.,,eight?, The baby weighed 71/4 pounds, hei fuzzy fair hair, a nice head and looks like his father. His everyday name will be "Ross" — what his full name will be has not yet been decided. Last Sunday we were looking for them to come in. When they didn't appear I phoned Oakville about 8 p.m. and received the news that Joy had gone to hos- pital that morning. Bob, nat- urally, was very' much at home, tinkering over his' television set which had given up the ghost that very day. "Wouldn't you know it!" said Bob. Anyway it -gave him something to do — and plenty of time to do it in — as Ross did not arrive until 2 aim, Monday. By that time the TV had also come to life. Partner and, I stayed up' until 12.30 hoping to get a phone call. We didn't get it so we went to bed — uneasy but quite certain that Bob would phone about six. It wasn't six but 3 o'clock when he phoned. And apparently he woke or neighbours but not us! We must have been dead to the world. We shall be e long while living that one down. Neither of us will ever dare to say again we can't sleep at night. At six o'clock the phone did ring and I was out of bed and at the phone before I realised it was a neighbour's ring, not ours at all. Our call came through about half an hour later. So that's that. Another squirtn-; ing little bit of humanity to lay claim to the odds and ends ,of knitting and needlework that grandma has been working at during the last two months. You know, it is a great ege being a grandmother. At the hospital when we were permitted to look at the babies through glass windows another grand-' mother said to the nurse on duty — "Is it all right for grand= father to come along too?" "No, PM sorry, only -the grandmothers are allowed near the nursery." Poor grandpa ' ee, looks like ynti iiist daft count in the 'baby kingdanl, tint your turn will dente, Per instated I kilts* Parities had .a great time last Sunday taking David and his-,to, boggen to' all the best slidea On the faint Thati Of course, *as g Week ago, noW a grandfather, Wand. have to be a Magician. to find a snowslide at all. NO White .stuff left anywhere just bare ground and a idea' patches Of ice, Such drastic Changes in the weather. * Welt our old farin is dying it little' more every Week. YeSter- day hydro men came along and felled the willow tree at the gate. Quite a landniark. True, there wasn't much of it' 'eft as Hurei- cane Hazel took a whack' at, it when she was on the,;rampage. But Partner did not Want the remains , taken doWn then. as willows have a way of groviing again very quickly. It would- have been a nice, looking, tree this spring, new growth hiding the old scars. ,But apparently the hydro and department Of highways thought 'otherwise *and, so the tree has gone. There must have 'been quite a lot of wil- lows when this place was home- steaded by the pioneer McNabb family as they ealled the farm "Willowbrae", "Incidentally the Crown deed bears the date 1825, and that was several years after the McNabbs settled here.' No doubt the first -home was a log house but the house in which we are now living was built in 1854, of hand-pressed brick, the walls being four bricks deep, Left to itself I suppose this old house would still be standing long 'after sub-division houses have given up the ghost. The polished pine flooring is one and a half , inches thick and there is an oak beam in the kitchen 14 by 8 inches in width and depth. The two chimneys are six feet Wide. One has an open learth with the, original crane still there, on. Which the cooking cauldron used to hang. And of course many of the original trees 'are still here. The hydro men wanted 'to know if -they should take down the ancient poplar 'in front of the house. Cut it down, imagine that! A wonderful old shade tree that has sheltered four gen- erations of McNabbs, even be- fore we came along, "It isn't coming down while. I'm here," said Partner. To us a house without trees IS like a picture without a frathe, And 'where there are treee there are birds. Since the snow went all kinds of birds have been flitting, around. Yesterday Partner said`" a crow. This morning he ac- tually taw, and heard, , three, geese — flying low and makitig, , a terrific noise, evidently 'lost. No robins yet-but .our baker tee ports having seen, quite a eiv. Early spring? I hope so. 'Plerity. of sunshine,dry winds, phis road graders, `atid tlie'back One. cessions will seat be better tick travelling. When the day dawns bright and clear as has today' don't you feel like. singing "oh, what a beautiful meirning, Oh, what a h6aiitittil'daY": Per- - hap§ We tah“art'ci add "Every' thing'Sgoirtg,rnyrWayti. It helps, to think ses e." even if iteiete'te. Wayne WAS .skeet'liblii 'he 'bud`' geted. 44We11;.' "he said, "I spend. about 40 percent on food, 30 per cent on rent, 36- per tent en Clothing,. anti_ 20,pet 'cent on amusements, etc." "But that makes 120 per eeitti!I'' :replied friend: "Don't I kite* lti" refilled WaYrie., opened the door. The rats. sprang and there WO pandemon- ium.' Men. were shouting and, yelling, women shrieking and clambering on to chairs. And a Mongrel dog which hurl strolled in added to the-din and the ex, eiternentl" • Then there was the donkey Which en auctioareer was putting: under the. 'hammer, "My man. started 'to walk it up and down to show its points," be told the ruefully. "Then suddenly the animal gave him a sharp nip en the arm. With a curse he drop,. ped the head-rope ..and the donkey went berserk, He charg.- 4 dthrongh the crowd, scattered bidders in. all directions, They caught him later. But I flatly fused to have him in, any sale again," Rather different was the story of a rabbit. When. the fertnnate. purchaser came to take the ant-, mal away he found there were seven more rabbits in the lentelti Not a bad bargain, But there. have been others far better. In Ipswich three houses went for 485. Then there's the case Mrs. Hodgee„ of Worcester, She. went to an auetion,..saw a piano,. bit a shilling — and got it! "This is an all-time low," commented the auctioneer why,. Week's Sew Thrifty 4688 14 ,4--24Y1 Gy ,lb-14.4144n$ SEW-EASY! Look' at the dia.' gram — you can whip this up in jiffy time! Proportioned to fit the shorter, fuller figure — no alteration worries. It's a flatter- ing 'round-the-house dress; or summer sundress! No frills to fuss over — launders in a wink, looks so pretty! Pattern 4688: Half Sizes 141/2, 161/2 , 181/2, 201/2 , 221/2 . 24%. Size 161/2 takes 8 5/s yards 35-inch. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instruc- tions Send FORTY CENTS (stainps cannot be accepted, use postal note for.safety) for this pattern,. . Print plainly SIZE, NAME, Att., DRESS STYLE NUMBER. - Send order to Ann Adams, -Box 1, .123 .Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont.