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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. "-.• • r ,"•.? •4 • =.9 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 QUEEN—Agneta Dyberg, 1 8, of Gaevle, Sweden, poses in Lon- don wearing a crown of lighted candles. Pretty Agoeta, in Bri- tain to study English, was chosen "Queen of the Light", by mem- bers of London's Swedish com- munity. The custom has been carried on in the home country for 700 years. The "Empire Princess" — this Printed Pattern fashions the loveliest lines for your figure: Graceful dress with scoop neck, high empire bodice, fitted, flar- ing silhouette; bolero. Printed Pattern 4792: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 dress and bolero require 4% yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pat- tern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. eoni040 MAW of y01,1; Salesmen can here every morns - :off v.. Fashion news! Knit a bulky jacket in tweed effect or solid color. Large needles and wor- sted make the inches grow, So easy, you can watch TV while you knit. Pattern 673: di- rections for sizes 12-14; 16-18 are •Ificluded. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., Nev: Toronto, Ont. Print plainly tho PATTERN NUMBER, and , your NAME and ADDRESS. As a banns, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our 1958 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. Dozens of other designs you'll want to order—easy fas- cinating handwork for yourselt, your home, gifts, bazaar items. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book today! ISSUE 2 — 1958 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.