HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-01-08, Page 6NEW YEAR'S BALES—Shapely Aquamaids churn up a spectacular
seasonal, grdeting 'in Cypress 'Gardens, Florida.
"'Pear Anne Hirst:
My clatIghter is already hav-
ing trouble with a grand bQV
she married a :few months ago,"
Writes a sorry mother, "and all
because we spoiled her so whoa
she was growing up. We never
limited her allowance, and she,
has no more idea what a dollar
buys than her 8-year-old sister.
I never taught her how to cook,
though I should have anticipated
these aervantless times. We were
so proud of her that all we want-
ed was a carefree girlhood for
her; well, she had it—arid both
she and I are paying for, it now.
'I have never been ao'ashamed
in all my life!"
NEVER TOO; LATE'
** A mother Cannot expect
*' her daugliterfllnOrriage vows
4' to change the girl overnight
* into the 1!)erfe6t housekeeper.
* Couples, usually start on a
• srnallScate,:'4:naltheobride of,
* ten has never made her own
* bed, Too many young men,
AC" fresh from their motherag well-
* run households, get the shock
* if their lives when they must
4- live in the disorder of their
• new homes. Driven to rest-
* aurants fer.• breakfast, they
• .1c'e441( .99pinig :te din-
* n er poured of cans or'
• delteateeSerit. makeshift.
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Week's
Sew-Thrifty
PRINTED PATTERN
Modern
Etiquette':.
by Roberto Lee
Q. What are the duties of Hu
bridegroom's family before is
Wedding?
A. Nothing special, outside oi
paying a call on the bride's par-
ents after the engagement hat
been announced, and to b.'
the bride as.nice a wedding gii
as possible, It's nice, too, foi
the man's family to invite th(
'girl and her family to a gather•
ing in their' home Sometime be'
fore the wedding,
Q. Lately T have hotieed per.
sons of apparent 1 relinemeni
using toothpicks at the table. Ii
this now 'considered acceptable/
A. Not at all, Toothpickt
should never be seen in use, al *
the table Or anywhere else,
Q. Is ,it correct to have
monogram engraved on the en.
velope of social stationery?
A. No; the monogram should
be engraved only on the note-
paper.
Q, What aie the occasions
when sending flowers is really
obligatory?
A. To the funeral of a friend,
or a member of a good friend's
family. To an intimate friend
who is — or has been, — seri-
ously ill. To neighbors who give
an anniversary party. To a guest
speaker, when we are the hos-
tess.
Q. What does • an usher at at
church wedding do if several
.women arrive together?
A. • He offers his arm to the
eldest. If no other ushers are
there to escort the other wom-
en, they follow pairs.
Walt Olsners
PilodOt Railroad
Same years.. Ago he (fa-
ther). sought relief from worry
by building A. model railroad •
big enough to ride on, Every
evening when he came home.
he would ga down to our lower
yard and tinker with his train.
— a model locomotive, several
flatcars, boxcars and a caboose
on narrow-gauge tracks,
;Father's train has enough cara
to 'aeaf a dozen friends, and 'be
likes •,t-pgiye his, guests a ride.,
He , bunt, the, engine himself,
copying ftill-sized locomotive
made in-1890. It's a perfect little
coat-burning ,model, scaled an
inch and a half to a foot, When'
Father fires it up; he wears his
engineer's cap, coveralls, and.
work gauntlets, He carries an •
oilcan with a long, slim nozzle.
• When. Mother and Father were
drawing p 1 a,n s for their new
house — the one they've lived
in for the past seven years --
Father decided to lay his tracks
all around over the grounds. We
thought he was crazy and said.
, )
"If I can't have a railroad •
around my house," he argued,
"what's the use of building
new house?",.
At ens point Father went to
his •attorney;'! Spence Olin, and
said, ,"Spence, I want you to
drew. ,,tup • a -.agreement between
mi?.e'rid'iny family. I want it to.
say that be allowed to own
a right of way through my place
for my railroad."
"You don't have to do that,
Walt," Olin said. "The house
will be in your name anyway,"
"Spence," Father said, "I've
been married longer than you
have and I know more about
women. There are a lot of
women in my family, and I need
this in writing.'
At Father's suggestion, Olin .
dug up some' old railroad right'
Bulky-Knit Tweed
ONICL
1NGERFAR
Gwetviolin.e. P. Cla,rke
11,rociprIk Carnp$Ite...
Found an Canada
Mankind lived in .British ?o-
lumbig. 8,150 years ago, thou,-
sands of years Rarlier than pre,
viously known. This prehistoric
record has been established lay
radioactivity Analysis. of .varnpr.
fire ash found, .ip a deep railway
cutting 10 miles.- northeast. of
Yale, a little town 100 miles
from Vancouver.
Carbon ash .has been alalyaecl
in many places in America and
Mexico, but 'nowhere else„ have
such ancient remains .beer
covered, 1n British Columbia
some deposits. have been found
at Locarno Beach,, Vancouver,
which' are said to be 2,430. years
old, and the famous garpole.
Midden, perhaps the most exten-
sive one in America, is dater' as
having been formed at the be-
ginning of the Christian Era, .
The race of men who formed
the Marpole Midden has not yet ,
been identified,. but the omen--
'sus is that it preceded the an-
cestors of the present Canadian
Indians,
Dr. J. K. McCallum of the
University of Saskatchewan is
the chemist who assigns the age
to the carbon ash deposits. Var-
ious tests from different parts of
coastal British Columbia show
that man was active thereabouts
:from 1,580 to 2,450 years ago.
As far as can be judged, the
ancestors of the present Coast
Salish Indians came down from
the north about 650 years ago.
Other tribes came down 1,000
years earlier, then disappeared;„
At point 'Robert, a'little point
that juts out of British Colum"-,
bia, there was a settlement '
1,580 years ago, and it is be-
lieved that these people came
from the south, probably from
what is now California.
Dr. Charles E. Borden, archae-
ologist at the University of Brit-
ish Columbia, and his assistant,
Dr. atthews, are not
'disclosing the exact site of the
recent discoveries. They wish
to keep • tourists and amateur
colleclors away until a thorough.
survey has been made,.. writes
P. W. Luce in The. Christian
Science Monitor: -•'
The Yale site was • exposed:' •
during railway construction. It
has - several,.,..layers ,,separated
from one .another.,,,by'...,Senci; -.Of
various depths,and.Ahere.-is evi-
dence of: .nian%cliVihg
different'-.periods separated by'
centuries. The bed of the Fra-
ser River. is. -now -50 -feet-below •
what is was millenniums ago,
and thiiNikati!s treen: is
considered in estim1.31 1Vating.,..then..age
,s, 1.-•;.4 Of the deposits.
Many.. ,:stoneJescraPersf,oeknives,
hammers and,wirnitiFeoweapens
have been pieked up, but all in
a broken condition.. A further,
'exploration
pected to cost about $6,000.
Dr. Borden has been active for
years in preserving the. historic
Vancouver Marpole Midden,
Which was diScoVered :in the
early ;years of the. centitrY,
,
and
which is now almost entirely ab-
sorbed by modern- needs. A
small parklike area has been re-
served for archaeological re-
search, but the lack of capital
•haS' handicapped development.
reavt!.WhIcat
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you--she was just nicely over
,the flu ,and a real old family
visit, was just what she needed.
In fact it was good for all of
you. The next day you went to
work with a will and got the
washing and ironing all done on
the same clay. So far as I know
there is no law that says wo7,
men must wash on a Monday.
And yet sometimes you'd al-
inost think it was 'a matter of
life' or" death. How foolish can
we be?
But there, you don't really
need me to remind you of these
things. I am sure if you look
back over the past twelve
months, you can remember doz-
ens of instances when things
happened very differently from
what you had planned and yet
the final outcome often preyed
to be — as I said before' — a
blessing in disguise. There are
times when maybe we get a lit-
tle too 'determined and force an
issue over an affair that might
better be left to take its own
course. It is still true that "God
moves in a mysterious way."
And so, as we approach this
New Year, I would say to you—
as I so •often say. to myself—let
us be serious in our attitude to-
, wards life—but not too serious.
Let us plan ahead by all means
but with enough elasticity to
Make our plans adaptable to un-
foreseen circumstances. Let us
not treat everyday problems as
possible major disasters. Let us
also learn to laugh at ourselves
—but never at others. With
them, yes, but not at them,
Above all, in this troubled
world, let us remember the Mas-
ter of the Universe is still all-
powerful. Under His guidance
the Power for Good is,' and al-
ways will be, greater than the
Power for Evil.,
Have a little faith . . . things
will work out . . . you'll see.
Maybe 1958 will be otir.,best.
year yet. No harm done fkr hop
ing anyway.
Happy New Year everybody!
Sometimes I 'think if our fes-
tive seasons were reversed we.
might do better' — that is to say, „
in .regard to Christmas and New
Year's, If New Year's came first,
think of all the good resolutions
we could make about Christ-
mas!We would never, never get
caught in a last minute rush;
we would resolve never to get
over-tired or irritable; we would .
determine never to accept that
second helping and we would_
just take all the children's "noise' •
and excitement in our stride —
. bless their little hearts, it is
nothing more than high spirits.
And of course all our Christ-
mas cards would be away good
and early and no one would ever
be forgotten. Oh yes, I am quite
sure if New Year's came first
. we would all be models of per-
fection, But it doesn't — things
are just as they always have
been. To readers of this column
Christmas has conic' and gone so
now it is time to wish you all
a Very Happy New Year. And I
hope part of that happiness will
come from thoughts of the
Christmas that has just passed—
that it will be just another hap-
py memory to carry along for
the next 365 days.
I wonder . . 'when all the
excitement is over and we re-
turn once again to normal liv-
ing . . . I just wonder how many
take' time to look back over the
past twelve months — to more
or less, assess the past as it
were; to take a pod look at
what we thought were serious
problems or at the 'pleasures
we imagined were so important.
Remember the trip you planned
that didn't come off and that
turned out to be a blessing in
disguise. And there was that
December card party at the
school — the one you didn't get,
to because of the- weather. You
were sort of resentful, weren't
you? But that was also the night
the best cow in your stable ran
into unforeseen difficulties. Had
she been left alone you might
have come home to find a dead
cow, and calf. Bad weather saved
you a lot of trouble that night.
Arid there was that time when
car complications kept you at
home and while you were still
sort of nursing a grievance vis-
itors arrived unexpectedly whom
you hadn't seen for years, They
were just passing through on
their way to the coast and took
a chance on looking you up.
Remember how glad you were
--if the car had to act up—that
it should haye chosen that par-
ticular day to do it,
Sometimes things work the
other way round. bad has to
make a trip for tractor repairs
and suggest you and the chil-
dren come to visit your sister.
But it's Monday — you just
couldn't — not before you've
got. the washing done. "The
washing can wait until torpor"
row," says Father, "if we don't
go early you won't get a 'visit
at all." You allow yourself to
be persuaded and while you are
away a storm comes up.— rain
and wind — and if your wash-
ing had been on the line you
might have found it on the road
coming to meet you, Besides
that Nellie WAS so' glad to see
of-way papers to make sure of
the wording. 'Then Father
brought the document home.
won't'. agree to build a new '-
house," he said, "unless you sign
over a' right of way for my
tracks."
Mother gave in.
,That was all Father needed,•
He began to lay out a fine,
sweeping run for his train. The
layout required a deep exca-
vation in the front yard. Father
thought that it was a section of
lawn Mother wouldn't mind hav-
ing dug up, but she insisted she
wanted a geranium bed there
instead of "an old hole in the.
ground."
To keep peace, Father agreed
to tunnel under that spot, Then
he discovered that a tunnel
would cost a mint. The building-
code 'inspectors said it had. to
be made of concrete and steel
beams. Father was ready to give
up. Then, while he was driving
home from work one night, he
heard a song on his car radio.
It seemed a personal messal,
to him. "altijoy yourself," th .
refrain went, "ifs later than yo
think„"
us he reached limn.,
Tather phoned his eontractL.
'Put that tunnoI in fast," he
taid, -heron! I change my. mind.'.
rather has never., told anyone
what that innriel .t-ei4 him. tIc.
justifies it by saying that it
v (Add m:41“, a perfect bomb shot- •
ter, Mother doesn't have to jus-
tify it. She has her geranium
bed. — Prom "The Story of
Walt Disney." by Diane . Disney
Miller, as told to Pete Martin,
01D-TYM1, STYLE - --
"The Ty broke down last
night, to we had a real old-
fashioned evening."
"Songs round the piano and
that sort Of thing?"
"No, We listened to the radio."
THE ENb—Grim' humorous is the location of this "Dead End"
gri on a Street beside et'cemetery. indeed, for some it will be
e lost" §lopir.
JUNE 1ts1 JANUARYI—No wockliq bells are ringing, but there are plenty of brides in evidence
In the windows of these shops in Manhattan. Althcugh the street—Grand Street down hoar
the Bowery—is in one of the most run-clown se coons of New York, almost ari.entire block
Wean up by Stores' featuring bridal furnithril g4.
' ' •
•
4792
10-20 4Ateic.4-40.$
* Money does net grow On
* trees, nor drop as manna from
heaven, Why shouldn't a
young husband expect hi$
4` bride to know how to spend
* hit salary economically? Long
before her wedding day a girl
4. should have learned that dol.-
4' lam are hard to, come by, yet
* how can a girl realize that
"' when her parents handed over
greenbacks as .though they
were dimes?
"Children will be your
." greatest blessing," one wise
moth,er*told her girls, "but you
• aren't good enough to deserve
them unless you have learned
* discipline yourself. Live by
• the standards I. have, taught
4' you, and never do anythin,
you would, bp ashamed to tell
4 me." Is there any safer rule
• for a girl to live by?
Unpreparedness for marriage
'A is too common ,a.inOng today's
* girls. If one starts marriage
equipped with .the i Practical
* knowledge of homemaking,
'anti 'Morally -e;stipported by
* the ideals that a conscientious
44 mother has instilled, she has
* won half the battle and will
• really. deserve the husband she
iskgetting, •
To "ItEPENTENT monl
Take your-,g41,,,tin,, hand ihi -
ti mediatelY. Spend Your morn-
* dngsy teaching her (the furida,
* mentals of cooking and good
* housekeeping. You failed her
once, but now she will look to
* you, since -she realizes that,
*• with your help, she can be-
* come the , practical helpmeet
* her young husband believed '
* he was marrying.
* 0 4.,
THE WRONG TRACK
"Dear Anne Hirst: :
I am over 16, and been dating
a boy two months. He'd make
dates and not show up and never
explain why. I realized other
faults, too, but when I was with
him I didn't care.
"A week ago he said goodnight
and that he wouldn't be back.
I don't know why—
"Unless it's because we were
just sweethearts, not real friends.
We petted a lot, but now I be-
lieve we had nothing else in
common. I
even
miss him but he.
doesn't even speak now.
"Two girl friends have told
me what to do to get him back,
but you are older than they are,
so please help me.
4" The boy is gone, and let it
* be for good, He has taught
you a lesson you should have
* known —
1' You cannot hold a boy's
* interest by petting. There are
* too many other girls who are
* as generous, and unless they
* have other attractions the boy
* is off 'to new conquests . Kisses
* should be saved for real
';.‘ friends, not casual acquaint-
* antes, and when a girl your
• age is se ardent it indicates
* she has nothing else to offer.
* Similar ideals and tastes,
* and respect for one another,
4, are essential to real friend-
* ship. Aim first for these, and
* don't stoop to petting until
* you are old enough to realize
* its place. Almost any attract-
* ive lad can give you the same
* physical reactions, but the
girl who depends only on
4' thrills is cheapened in the
* opinion of any smart lad and
* soon finds herself alone—and
* talked about.
is
Brides who fail as wives are
not always to 'blame. Often it is
the mother who has indulged her
instead of fitting her to be a
real helpmeet . .. Turn to Anne
Hirst when problems beset you,
and receive the help which she
can give. 1Vtite her at. Box 1,
123 Eighteenth Street, New
Toronto, Ontario.