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The Brussels Post, 1957-05-01, Page 2TV's TOP MONEY-WINNER—Robert Strom, 10, plays at seeking protection from bank guards James Corcoran (left) and. George Etique after becoming the biggest quiz show prize winner in television history. Robert jumped his earnings to $1 92,000 on "The $64,000 Question" in New York. re'ke HRONICLE 1NGERFARM Vvqr•••.. "Dear Anne Hirst: l tun afraid have lost my sweetheart, and. 't is all my fault. We dated 15 months and argued more often Alan we agreed. I am an opinion' eted girl and had to be kowe " ':Owed to, and I always put him M the wrong. Ile'd lose his tem- per, and I wouldn't hear from hire for maybe a week. It has 'aeen nearly a month now since he has called, and I am tend- 5ed that this time he isn't corn- hig back. "I let him think I was cold, end that I didn't care. Today, I 'ealize he meant everything to me, He often spoke of the day we'd get married; even though r was so stubborn, he still want- ed me. I thought I could say end do as I pleased since he was so in love. (Even my fam- ily wondered how long he'd stand for it, but I wouldn't be warned.) "He has his problems with his family and his job. I was never sympathetic; I always told him how wrong he Was. (How he must have missed the understanding I should have shown!) He was always affec- tionate and forgiving, though; and I never knew until this long absence and his silence how much a part of my life he was. "Must I forget my pride and call him? This I've never done and it would come hard, but I'll crawl in the dust to get him back. HEARTBROKEN" ANOTHER CHANCE? * Too late! Despairing words * to end a romance. A girl plays * with a man's love once too * often, and only when he * doesn't come back does she * know the value of what she * has lost. The light has gone * out of your life and you sit * alone in the dark, yearning * for the affection you belittled. * When one loves, what price * humility? If you had only * said, "I'm sorry," he would * still be at your side. But you * hugged your foolish vanity to * your bosom and were too vain * to be fair. * Don't try to patch up such * a misunderstanding by a tele- * phone call. Dignify your re- * morse with a loving, frank * apology. Write the lad saying * how ashamed you are to have * taken such repeated advant- * age of his love. Tell him that * you know now all he means * to you, and ask him to come * and let you say so. Perhaps, Four Gay Patches raw., me& Colors run riot in this quilt made of scraps the more, the merrier! It's just four patches, easy to piece. Or use one block alone, fora gay pillow cover! Quiltmaking is easy! Pattern 784: Chart, directions, pattern of patches; yardage requirements. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth. St. New Tor-, onto, Ont, Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Our gift to you — two: won- derful patterne ler yourself, your home — printed in out Laura Wheeler Veedlecraft took . Plus doeerle. Of other new designs to order — &O- dle, knitting, embroidery, iron= ems, novelties. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOW -- Witt tift patteths printed in ti ISSUE 18 1051 * he will. If not, you have * shown a, humility that puts 4' you in, a new light, and, per. e * haps later as he senses the 4' change he will relent. * If you must go alone, you * have learned a vital lesson: e The woman a man would * spend the rest el his We with * is one who respects him, who * believes the best of him and * who stands by in any trouble.. * Compare this attitude with * your own arrogance and con- * ceit, and realize how cruelly s * you failed one who loved you * sincerely. * DON'T PURSUE HERO "Dear Anne Hirst: For a long time I've been dating a nice boy at school, and we really love each other. But he has just be- come president of his class and popular in football so he is very much more popular with all the girls. "What am I to do? I'm not the aggressive type, but it looks like have to be unless I want to stand by and lose him, I am all mixed up! Will you help? THERESA" * It is always best for a girl * ih love to keep on being her * natural self with no new acts * thrown in. Don't try to imi- * tate the girls who pursue * this new hero, no matter how * strong the competition. * The lad may be a bit * dazzled by all this attention, * but if he is sincerely attach- * ed to you, he will not let it go * to his head. Give him time, * and meanwhile try not to be * too upset by this change of * events. * If you should shower corn- * Aliments on him or otherwise * build yourself up, he would * only smile at the effort. So, * relax, and know if he is worth * liking he will prove' it. * * * In any disagreement with the one you love, be the first to say "I'm sorry" whether the fault is yours or not. Pride has no place where love lives.... Anne Hirst'- counsel is helpful when- ever trouble comes. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Subs May Sink Bottle Blondes If it came to another war the percentage of blondes in the female population might decline rapidly. Nothing to do with H- bombs—there just might not be enough peroxide about to keep blonde hair blonde. For Admiralty scientists in Britain and America are exper- imenting • with peroxide as a submarine fuel. It has one great advantage over oil—no give- away bubbles rise to the sea sur-,. face. When peroxide is used as a fuel it finishes as water. During the Hitler war the Germans were supposed to have built several submarines pow- ered by peroxide, but none of them was used. Britain's latest- known experimental submarine is jointly powered by peroxide and diesel oil; it can run on either fuel at any time. Amer- ican Navy research has found peroxide useful also as a pro- pellent fuel for rockets, torpe- does, and assisted take-offs for aircraft. TEA-TOTAL! Claiming to be the world's champion tea drinker, is Mr. Jacobus Heemskerk, of Mel- hourne, Australia. He drinks a.eout 90 cups of tea a day, end his estimate for the past 25 years is 10,000 cups of the refreshing brew. CHASSIS LASS IE — Actress Debra Paget has been named "The Most GlamorOuS Chcissis Of 1954" an award usually giV-• en annually to one of the auto= motive body manufacturers by the Foundation,. "This ear the boardy voted' eet- porta bur thinkiii§° I could fill this whole column about the weather—but I won't. And if I did it would be out of• date by the time it got into print , . . it always is. Anyway stormy, weather has been more or less general — so --- no com- ment! Excepteto say this: we are glad Monday and Tuesday of last week were fine and bright because. Monday our twin hei- fers went to market and Tues- day I had a big washing to do and a dot of business and run- ning around to do after that. Wednesday "arid ThutS'day I wasn't thinking much about the weather because I had a real treasure to browse over. Like to know what it was? Nothing more or less than a doctor's daybook, dating from 1850 to 1857. In the' early part of the 19th century there were ,only three doctors •between Toronto and Hamilton. One of them was Dr. James Cobban, of Milton . . and this was his book. read it hour aftee hour, com- pletely fascinated — not only from a medical viewpoint but in other ways as well. It so defi- nitely reflected the Victorian age, Only the man of Cie family was recognised — he was the •head of the house — other mem- bers were described only ac- cording to their relation to the master. Thus under the heading "John Smith" I would find . . "To bleeding YOU; to vaccina- ting son; to obstetric visit; to opening abscess on daughter; to Mrs. S. and baby," and so on, John Smith's mother was given a little more recognition as age was respected in those days. Under a separate heading her account would read — "Old Mrs. Smith." Given names were not always used. If the patient had a fairly common name some other means of identification would be used. Perhaps a younger Smith might be de- scribed as "Smith . . (John's brother)", or "Walters . , . son of Peter", or "J. Campbell, car- penter". Very seldom was there any mention of any specific disease but it was fairly easy to hazard a guess as to their nature by the remedies prescribed. And those remedies , I'm glad this isn't the Victorian age! Almost everything seemed to call for emetie, "Blisters" 1 suppose would be for congestion, pneu- monia, influenza and no doubt for stomach ailments. "Bleed- ing" was often prescribed. That was a -Cheap remedy. A patient could lose a pint of blood for two shillings and .tieepenae. No doubt that would be for the relief of dizzy spells, high blood pressure and probably any di. sease that didn't respond to lee§ drastic treatment.. Seine of e the entries told• a story hi theme selves. Tinder the heading of Jaines McPlieteeti there is this entry— "Obstetries, twenty-five shillings,"• One might imagine it was Janes Who had had" the baby but before you start to laugh you notice in brackets "Too late". So instead of laugh- ing you wonder how much sore row and suffering lies behind that blunt ,statement—"too late". It is easy to imagine what happened in this case — "To dressing Joseph's finger, two' shillings." That- entry was re- peated three times. Finally there was this—"To amputating Joseph's finger . ." Two more entries for dressings • and that Was all. What did they do with- out penicillin or sulfa drugs? One entry mentioned Cholera, but never a word about appen- dicitis because appendicitis wasn't recognised as such. In most cases a patient with severe abdominal pain got better—or he died—through lack of medi- cal knowledge, not through ne- glect, for pioneer doctors .gave everything they had for their patients—except, of course, the quacks. Charge; for treatment were very little a century ago but a shilling then waS as much to the people of that period as $5 is to us now, They did their best to • honour their debts. If the man of the family couldn't raise the money he paid in produce or work, The doctor accepted grain, potatoes, apples, lambs, black- smith work, use of team, whis- key — yes, and even leeches! (Wonder how they raised leeches.) I wonder, too, would any of you like to be back in "the good old days"? Of course it did have certain advantages— you weren't likely to get killed on the highway. On the other hand you might get caught in a storm and freeze to death.. You didn't have to worry about power failure or frozen plumb- ing. Candlelight did very nicely until coal-oil lamps came in. The creek served as a bathroom in summer and a wooden tub in front of blazing pine logs for an occasional soaking in winter. We couldn't stand such condi- tions today—we have become soft with good living. To coun- teract, it takes all that modern medicine can offer in the way of surgery, antibioty and tran- quillizing drugs. Ah, well, back to the present. "NO 'said resistance' now, please;, after all, the holidaye ei'e the biggest Of threttWays.r Hunt Horrore- Onl lionOmoon A handsome Swiss me ein- taineee and his Swedish bride have started the world's most horrific honeymoon: looking for monsters in the mountains of British Columbia, Intrepid Hone Dahinden ori- &ally planned to investigate the elusive Abominable Snow- men of the 'Himalayas. But when he emigrated to Canada with his Young wife, Wanja, he found the Frasei.• Vallei regions of the west coast alive with iegends of hairy giants just as strange. Only recently' a hard-headed land surveyor spotted the mon- sters while clgying on the Trans- Canada highway. "They were the dapple grey of a horse," he says, "arid about seven feet high.. They waddled along the road, then fled into the bush as approached., Extraordinary footprints —or maybe snowshoe tracks—of the mountain wild men have been found in the snow, up to twenty:: two inches long and eight inches wide. Weaponless, without even bows and arrows, they are said to trap deer and birds with hyp- notic powers. The wild men are nothing new in Canada. In fact, references to ,the "wild giants of the moun- tains" are found in Hudson's Bay Company reports over 100 years old. . Okanagan Indian tribesmen ,recall a girl who was kidnapped by the monsters. Later she re- turned, and her child—astonish- ingly tall, with hair of a rusty camel colour—was raised with the tribe. But eventually he answered the call of the wild and ran away to seek out his brethren. • Probing the evidence, Rene Dahinden is convinced of the continued existence of the wild men. Beyond the treacherous ice peaks of a 7,825-foot mountain, he believes, lies a plateau where the wild men still stage tribal meetings every summer. Rene is aware of the TV novelty value of such an adventure and, after preliminary investigation, will organize a full-scale expedition. Smart 'Fish But SMarter Fishermen Among saltwater fishermen, it is a well known fact that no fish can clean your hook more often and get Caught less than the sheepshead: This is because the sheepshead has a - mouthful of strong teeth that can crack clams like you crunch peanuts. Imagine, then, the mortality of live bait when yo6 try catch- ing sheepshead with its favor- ite tidbit, a lively, tender shrimp. One snap of those .powerful teeth and you've lost another shrimp. Yet, according to Walt Will- men, dean of Heddon's research staff, he ran across an old fish- erman in. Gulfport, Miss., who proved the axiom — wherever there is a smart fish, there will conic a smarter fisherman. This old codger would stroll into a live bait store, buy one lonely, lively shrimp and return hours later with a string of sheepshead. He would let no one see him fishing, It was driv- ing the bait store owner crazy, We had all three grandsOns here -yesterday. Dave begged grand- pa to go for a walk—"I won't cry this time and I won't want to go in the creek, I promise!" So they went and Dave was as good as gold. After supper he was still in fine shape but when they were getting ready to go home Eddie was' raising the roof in the kitchen, while Ross, in the living room, was tuning up for his next feeding. One, ten months old, the other five weeks, It was a tuneful duet. not to .mention other fishermen who never bought less than two .or three dozen shrimp to catch only- a few fish. • • • Now that old codger has gone where all old fishermen go, Willman, who. knew his secret but had promised never to- -nip it, reveals the method which, in turn, reveals, the in- genuity of man, especially a lishin' man., The old feller took an olive bottle, wired three treble hooks around the bottom, placed a lively shrimp inside, and tied a piece of cheesecloth over the. top. This he lowered down where the sheepshead live, us7 Mg simply a handline. The bottle being clear, as soon as a sheepshead saw that his" cious looking shrimp wiggling inside it would bump its nose against the bottle 'trying to get • at the shrimp. When the old. codger felt, 1,40.. sheepshead nudging the bottle he would jerk hard .and snag the. sheepshead under the chin with the treble hoohs wired therefor that purpose, Then he would pull up the rig, take off the fish. and lower away for the lleXt If anyone. approached. he would just quit fishing until they went away. By that time the sheephead down below- were crosseyed from staring into that bottle and fishing would be ex, tra good for awhile! A young woman, newly en- gaged, tools her fiance to be "in- tpectecl u by a fearsome aunt who had the uncomfortable habit of saying exactly what she thought. As the young couple were leave ing, the aunt said to her niece, "My deer, I'd rather have him for lunch than for life!" Lovely Martha flyer -Models Printed Pattern 4613 s s 4Z: Look who is modeling our Printed Pattern 4613 with her own smart monogram on the collar. She is lovely motion picture actress Martha Hyer now starring in Universal-International's hie film "Battle Hymn." Like millions of other smart young women, this talented Hollywood star loves to sew and finds it a wonderful way to have really distinctive clothes with her own personal touch. For cool spring days and summer evenings, Martha's fine black and white woven cotton has accents of white pique for wide boat collar, yoke •and hip band. Making this smart dress was * quick and easy 'job, with the use of our Anne Adams pattern with sewing directions printed right on tissue pattern parts, Sewing time was further minimized 'by the use of sewing machine attachments recommended by local sewing center ex- perts. The handy button-holer was used to make the five button- holes in less than half an hour. - The decorative zigzag attachment made it easy to applique the neat "M H" monogram. To duplicate Martha's fresh, crisp fashion, start right away by ordering Anne Adams Printed Pattern 4613. It comes 11‘ Misses' Sizes 10,• 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size 16 requires 3% yards a- 39-inch fabric and Vs yard contrasting, material. Just send FORTY CENTS (stamps eminot be accepted; us postal note for eafety) for this Printed Pattern 4613. Send Silo Anne Adams, Box 1,,123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. OH, SING TO ME, Etitit--An hysterical Elvis Presley'' fan is restrained by tWo policemen all she attempted to approach the tingei**6ti a Philadelhia bandstand. Perhaps she Wat oVeti. Wrought Letbase the singers tour was labeled at' hit "farewell 4 before entering the ken*.