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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-01-01, Page 2MEMORIES OF HOME—Frances Walker of Sydney, Australia, employe of the Australian Chancery in Washington, examines a snow kangaroo built by her co-workers after nearly a foot of snow struck the nation's capital. HR NICL 1NGERFARM evJendolinz P. Clealke MATCHED SET—Having a little trouble with their deiri-Cdui Jennifer and Antoinette Perlictiodne have 'passers-by seeing' spots before their eyes. A playful breeze uncovered 'the red, and' white polka' del style that etiCli"of the' sisters' faVOrS, HELPING HANDS NEEDED—THee eMply gloves in the cab of a NeW YOH( "sulaWay ,Car 'can't run the train by themselves They needed hands in them, as, did the more than two hundred other empty pairs of motormen's 'gloves; WHAT CAUSED ITILA dattor, en. gin and psychologist are adding their etttil-fs to the flaky probe r& Occidebts like this 05 part of U.S. stu dy of the highway safety Dear Anne Hirst; I am the only child of my wide wed Mother, and I am 17, Four Months ago she married again. My stepfather has two young- sters and they run riot and, get their own way in everything, hut he has forbidden me to go out with boyfriends as I have done since I was 16. My mother let me have two dates without his permission, and when I got home he administered physical punish- atentl Now I am refusing all dates, and I haven't spoken to him since, "My own father and I were real pals, and when he was alive I was a high-school honor stud- ent. Now I can't take any in- terest in studying at all. As you can guess, I am miserable. and I can see only one answer-- "Last summer I met a nice boy. He wants me to run away and marry him. I'm afraid would, except I am sure my step- father would find a way to bring me back . I don't know which way to turn, but. I know I can't stand living like this. Please guide me. YOUNG READER" Your mother is your natural guardian, and she should not permit her new husband to lay down the law to you. His pun- ishing you was presumptuous, and you have the right to feel outraged. It is your mother's responsi- Wardrobe Wonder PRINTED PATTERN 4605 10-18 4Y-A 114 4444t$4rP Make a Versatile new ward- robe — from this Printed Pat- tern. 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To do her justice, I am sure she has no idea of the lengths to which you have been driv- en, Tell her frankly, Once she realizes the crisis you face, she will find courage to in- sist that from now on she be the sole arbiter of your be- haviour. Settle this issue now, before it breeds further had feeling all around, Running away from trouble never solves anything, par- ticularly in marriage. You perhaps do not know that in your state you cannot marry anybody without your mother's consent for another year, and I doubt she would give that; for one thing, it would reflect upon her. Besides, how dare you com- mit your future to a young man you hardly know? Look for- ward to marrying someone you love later on, when the marriage can be solemnized with proper dignity. "Dear Anne Hirst: I am in love with one of my teachers . He is married and has a baby, but I know he loves me. He lets me do little errands for him ,and never scolds me for low marks as he does the others. I am 15, and most of the kids call me teacher's pet. "I'm afraid to tell my mother, she'd only laugh. I have tried dating bbys I used to know but I always think of him, so I don't have a gobd time. I don't know what to do I WORRIED MARIE" • You are looking for t 'ouble. * For the next few years your * reputation and your social eo standing will depend on the * good will al your fellow stud- * ents and -their parents. Don't • risk alienating them now. • If you have read this column * as long as you say, you •know * I deplore any girl thinking * twice about a married man. * When she is as young as you, * the chance' of her emotions * running away with her are * multiplied and she is at the * mercy of the man concerned. If this one is encouraging you * to the degree you describe, he • shows a shocking lack el char- * acter; and if you allow this * to continue, you risk the * friendship of 'your classmates; * who are really laughing at you. Stop it! Concentrate on your studies, * if only to show all of them * how mature you are. Date nice 4 boys you know, and get back * with them and girls your age. -!‘ Be one of the crowd again, since this is the quickest way * to obliterate the unfortunate • impression others now have of * you. Teen-agers are encouraged to confide their troubles to Anne Hirst. She is on their side when she honestly can be, and has guided thousands of them through adolescent pitfalls. Write your problems to Anne Hirst; Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ontario. SMOOTH WORK ' "What sort of a person is Mrs. Foster, Colonel?" asked a lady of her dinner partner. "Oh, you know," replied the Colonel, "the sort of person who calls a table-napkin a serviette." "But I always call it a servi- ette," said the lady. "Then," said the Colonel, blandly, "you know exactly the kind of person she is." It doesn't seem possible but it actually is .. time to once again wish all the readers of this column a very Happy Christmas. I do hope the fact of Christmas coming in 'the Middle of 'the week will not make ic impossible for sons and daugh- ters living away from home to get back for Yuletide celebra- tions. For what would Christmas be without a family? Greeting cards, presents, festive fare, par- ties and fun are just-the Christ- SNACK TIME—Bashful miss eyes the cameraman during mid- morning snack time at a kinder- garten in Kabul, Afghanisi:m. Protein-rich milk supplied by the United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF) is distributed to schools and health centres throughout the country and is a factor in safeguat'cling ch:Id- ren from deficiency disec!es. UNICEF also supplies vitc min tablets, cli n i ca I equiprr-inl, drugs and soap. mas trimmings; the outward ex- pression of a deep abiding lo‘vy that is the basis of all 11%1pp, family gatherings, None of us 1.4 perfect; we may irritate each other upon occasion but it Makes little difference to our affec- tions, dogs it? We love, and are , loved, not for any of our odd little ways but in spite of them, tingle Bill may be terrific one to argue arid Cousin Emma top fussy for words„ but, bless their hearts, we know they ate as loyal and kind as anyone could be. If you haV.e an UnCle or a dottaiti Emma in your family sure you will agree. ChriSt, hies wouldn't be the tame with= snit them, would' it? Christine's, most of us think, has. beeoine -altogether fed cotri ,, thercial. That, Unfortunately, is true. Especially ter children. There is too much Santa Claus and too little attcntion given to the Christ-child's birth, And yet, however little we recognize it, the Christian influence ,is still there: Can you imagine living in a country where the miracle of the Saviour's birth is no longer recognized? It wonld be a very pointless existence, wouldn't it .= at any .time, but- more especially at Christmas. ' And do you know, I always think the farm is.a grand place to be at Christmas. The story of the Nativity has a special significance, for those who tend the cattle in the stall." Remember Nina Moore Jamie- son's lovely lines — "With fork and pail and stable broom, as evening shadows fall, In common tasks I tend for Him the cattle in the stall," I wonder — when you think of Christmas, do you just think of this very Christmas we are now celebrating? I don't. I think of all the Christmases that led up to it — that made this ires- ent Christmas • possible. I look back to Christmases in England; to holly, mistletbe— and paper chain decorations; to homemade gifts and stockings well padded with oranges, nuts and "sweets", To a golden broirli chicken (the most we could afford) Christmas plum pudding, enveloped by tins blde flames, dancing upwards to the sprig of holly at the top of the pudding. remember lying inibed the night before Chtist- mas, litening to the waites and the carol singers going from street to street . . and the church bells ringing their spe- cial message . . "Joy to the world, ',the Lord is come; Let earth receive het-King." In that way, with music and song, the birthday of the Christ-Child was ushered in before we, as chil- dren, became excited with the fantasy of Santa Claus — of "Father Christmas" — as we called him in England. And then I think of our :first Christmas' on the prairie. Mail was delayed. The thought of Christmas without a word from home was hard to face, And then, on the twenty-fourth, the letters carne, Partner phoned roe from the village . 1, there was a money order from home — what should he do with it? "Coal bring horde some coal -- let tia be warm for Christmas!' lie brought the coal and some balloons for the baby. We hung them from a string above' her cot. It was a wonderful Christ- mas, We forgot about the last "season's 'crop failure and we could not feresee the ones to come. We were happy, warm and optimistic. Three years later carne Our first Christmas in Ontario — Ginger Patin. ft,WAS a happy day.— two chilren now% But the next day, sadness. A cable froth England my mother had passed away — on Christrhas Day which was also her Wed- ding anniversary, For yeats aftor that, for Me Christmas was al- Tragedies Caused By Jealousy The gay, fastidiously dressed husband living in a Hamburg luxury flat with his somewhat dowdy wife, could hardly con- ceal his delight when she au, nounced, at tea-timer, "I ,shan't he, back tonight, e Herman, ,so don't Wait -up Jor me. Mother's not well; se stay the night with her," She waved him goodby and within minutes he was on the Phone, fixing up.a.drinking spree 'With en office, paI and, two at- tractive fraillems, They arrived 'at his flat later that evening and for nearly three-guarters an hour the four made merry—edancing, sip- ping wine, "kissing aneletighing —until the,wife snddenly stepped out of a cupboard, her face red With jealous Wry, "I've oyerheard everything," she shouted, swiping the as- toimded husband with a stick after driving' out' the others. "I've Suspected ' you for a long time and felt sure I'd catch you by inventing that story about visiting my mother." When a woman gives 'way to „jealousy, sparks usually fly. , There was the strange case of a pretty Italian girl named Maria who fell madly in love with a dashing young Italian bank, clerk. But Maria had an- equally pretty twin sister, so like her„ that even their parents had dif- ficulty in telling them apart. One evening the bank clerk called at the house for the girl of his choice and, stepping into the sitting-room, threw his arms round the girl and kissed her ardently — without realizing he was embracing Stephanie, his sweetheart's sister. Still holding her in his arms, he was whispering words of love when in came 'Maria. Her eyes flashed at what she saw. Then she sprang at them, struck her lover a blow between the eyes and smacked her flust- ered sister's face. "But darling, it was all a mis- take," protested the young man, taking the right girl into his arms this time. thought Steph- , anie was you. "By the way, I suppose you are Maria?" - His joke caused the jealous girl to become calm and he was soon kissing away all her doubts. But she made him promise never again to start enibracing a girl in that house Until he had checked up on her identity! Most of the great lovers of history have been very, jealous, including the French author, Vic- tor Hugo. He loved beautiful Juliette Douret so much that at one time he jealously. .refused to' let her walk through the streets of Paris alone. Some experts on love declare ways a mixture of sorrow and gladness. Another year I specially re- member.. . , the children were asleep, a,stocking hanging at the head of each bed, About ten o'clock I heard Dee crying — pitiful., heart-breaking sobs. I rushed upstairs — "What is it, pet . . why are you crying? Have you got a pain?" Between sobs came the answer — "Santa Claus hasn't put anything in my stocking!" (remember — it was only ten o'clock). And now that same little girl, who thought Santa had forgotten hel-, has stockings to fill for her own three children. And Bob and his wife will have their first Christmas with a baby in the house. A wonderful thrill. And so the yeas go by and we measure time by what hap- pened at Christmas time, ten, or twenty years ago, which makes Christmas a cumulative occasion. Looking back we treasure °the joystrwhile time Mercifully dims the sorrows. This, I am sure, is a common experience. ,And so once again let me finish this column with best wishes to you all and "God. Bless us, everyone." an t that a alniVeadjdesalortssty to isathestimaf: fairs al the heart, whilb others ss jagyn t ho; t jetoalosolsioyw oatolie bfeat;te flataslt to married happiness, There's no peed tp look for tragedies which have arisen out Of jealousy It has been called the "green-eyed Monster" and most sensible yotAng lovers do their, best tp tame it,, realizing that, a very jealous husband or wife may wreck home. A slim and petite 26-year-old wife, told a judge in New Jersey, U,S., not long ago, that her hus- band branded her "like' a slave", Mso k e that lov too her, other man would She said that in a fit of jeal- ousy he threw her on to a couch and burned his initials into her skin with "a metallic substance" heated on the gas stove and then threatened to kill her if she told anyone. A jealous woman once inter- rupted a wedding cermony by accusing the bride of "stealing" her man. She then tore off the bride's veil, ripped her wedding dress and blacked both her eyes. Jealous husbands have been known to go to elaborate lengths to spy on their wives. On his seventh wedding anniversary a man bought a cap, spectacles and moustache and started a little amateur detective work on his wife, it was revealed in a divorce case. He, followed her from her place of employment to a cafe where he saw her with a man. The judge commented that the mhuisnd” husband had "an ultra-suspicioss "Nine times out of 10 jealousy is based upon some little and utterly ridiculous theme, some- thing unworthy of notice," a mar- riage guidance expert told me. "People say that jealousy is the greatest symbol of love, but they' are wrong. Jealousy shows a selfish, spirit and shoiks doubt and uncertainty. Perfect love is never petty. It rises above little doubts and relies,upon trust as its greatest asset." 'te RINGING THE CHANGES A woman in Sydney suffered from dermatitis for five years while doctors sought to discover why she had this skin disease. 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