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Q, Is there any 5peciat molting
customary on a crake to he weed
et en engagesuent party?
A, A traditionally favorite.
decoration Is the first names of
the bride-elect and her fiance_
enclosed in a heart,
Q. When a girl 35 with her
escort at a table in a nightclub,
and site wishes to leave to go
to the powder room, what is the
proper thing for her to sgy?
A. "Will you excuse me," is
sufficient,
Q. I know it .is not is "roost,"
but If a girl -wishes to give her
fiance an. engagement gift, what
should it be?
- A. Usually some piece of
jewellery — cuff links, key
chain, tie clasp, cigarette case,
or lighter,
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IT'S THE SAME SUN-.-Establishing their own beachheads, Kay
Kayse, left, and Pat Johnson indicate a difference of opinion
with regard to headgear at Cyprus Gardens. Kay, a Florida
girl, prefers a sweeping sombrero to keep the sun away. While
Pat, from California, wears practically no hat at all,
"Doe Anne West: I am a very
confused woman of 51, who for
three years has been a dicontent-
ed widow, feeling that life wee
ill behind are. Then I met a man
my own age, and. it is really like
a dream come true, We have
been seeing each other censtant-
ly for over a year, and our love
end compatibility increase all the
time. He never goes anywhere
without me, and we are so con-
tented just to be together that
that is all we ask ,
"So, you answer, why don't
you get married?
"No money,
"He is a bachelor, with a small
laconic that isn't enough to sup-
pert the two of us. For three
Years he hasn't been able to
continue his profession (a chem-
ist) because he cannot be on his
feet so constantly; otherwise his
health is perfect, as is mine, He
owns his mother's home, and is
reluctant to sell. (I have my own
house.) I can get along on the
pension my husband left, but if
ply emergency came along we
vniuld be in a bad spot.
"We are both church members
(that is where we met) and have
a lot, of good friends, but we
should not like to confide our
circumstances to anybody.
"Shall we chance getting mar-
ried? Or try to forget?
MISERABLE"
ALWAYS A WAY
* I prefer always to advise
* readers to do what they want
* to do — but one must be prac-
* tical, Have you ever worked?
" Had any business training?
* Many a woman your age is
Levey Centrepiece
People have .beetCpaying tent
.eheee time immeriffkial. But in.
the past $01ne tenants were.
lucky; they didn't have to pay ,
cash.
'Por 'example, the ancient
family of de la- 'tare received
an estate from the king on con-
dition that they _Supervised the
large hand of women camp fol-
lowers who always accompanied
the king's retainers when. the
court travelled about the coun-
tryside,
Even stranger was the French
knight who fought beside his
king in a battle against . the
Turks, The king was" unhorsed
and lay on the ground, help-
less in his heavy armour.
At that iminent, an .enemy
trooper aimed a spear at the
monarch. The knight saw the
danger. He gave the king a tre
mendous kick from behind which.
rolled him clear of the spear.
After the battle, the king re-
warded the knight with .a sum
of money and an estate in La
Vendee rent free. .Once a year,
the knight used to held a feast
at * which he solemnly went
through the motions of kicking,
to show his gratitude to the revel
landlord.
Actually, there are still some
strange rents paid, even in 1958.
Down in Cornwall, for example,
ene'old woman lives in a cottage
in return for cleaning her land-
lord's windows once.a week, The
agreement was formally drawn
up by a solicitor near Falmouth,
and the clauses included one
whereby the windows must be
cleaned after every south-east-
erly gale becaues then the spray
comes oven' the cliff. 1
In the same county, 'a retired
sailor occupies a one-roomed
shack in return for. a very
strange rent indeed. His job is
to awake his landlord — who
lives across the way by- ring-
ing the front door bell at five
o'clock every morning.
. No agreement was signed for
this deal which was made at the
village pub, in the presence of
witnesses.
They Go For Pins
in A Big Way
The Japanese are a highly
emotional people, they love to
take pills, and they like to
tate Western customs, Those
factors create a rich market for
tranquilizers, Last week Tolgo'a
Welfare lqinistry reported that
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111957tle Japanese wept . V0,tralicv,odcutyeti
the tune of $3,5 million for
meprobamate alone. They were
buying tranki without prescrip-
tion at any handy drugstore, and
swallowing them under the
nerve-racking prodding of a
hypertonic advertising campaign,.
The trahki rage struck Japan
with typhoon force in the fall of
1056, when the U.S 's Lederle
Laboratories j o i n e d Takeda
Pharmaceutical in a fifty-fifty
deal to set up Lederle Ltd. a5
an outlet for rneprobarnate (best
known in the U.S. by its orig.
inal brand name, Miltown). But
no patent claim had been filed,
and the vacuum was quickly
filled by ,Tapares highly competi-
tiye drugmakers — concentrated
on a narrow street called. Dosho-
machl in Osaka, around a shrine
of Yakuoshin (an ancient god of
drugs). By December, Daiichi
Seiyaku was on the market with
its own brand of meprobamate,
called Atraxin. Lederle Ltd. put
out Miltown. Takeda competed
with its owe corporate offshoot
by pushing Harmonin,
Daiichi Se.iyaku (meaning No,
1 drug company) ran half-page
ads showing men and women
with agonized faces, clutching
swollen heads and moaning for
Atraxin. Daiichi and competitors
put up billboards at Tokyo's
busiest intersections, where-stall-
ed motorists and scared-running
pedestrians were urged to help
themselves to "cope" by_ taking
a pill. There was even a sugges-
tion (eventually dropped) that
similar ads 'be placed at railroad
crossings, bridges and yokel-JO
craters, the meccas of the sui-
cide-minded, (Several attempts
to commit suicide with overdoses
of eranteuilizers have failed.)
Tranki pills "have proved espe-
cially popular with students
cramming to pass the tough ex-
ams for government jobs.
There are already 15 brand
names under which meproba-
mate is being sold, ,with appli-
cations pending for 65 more.
Atraxin, leads the field with 1957
sales of $1,230,000; next comes
Harmonin, then Equanil;' the old
original Miltown is 'fourth. It
is priced at ten tablets for 83c:,
most home-grown Japanese
brands are twelve tablets for
56c, but they are only half as
potent. Osaka manufacturers
have tried to convince consumers
that "because Japanese a r e
entailer and weigh less than
Westerners, they need only a
half-size traelei.e. Then, working
both sides el, the street, they
bland, urge buyets to take two
tabletS, three or fi3tir 'times -a'
day. Some-go so" fares to say,
"Take' as many 'as you, want, any
time. you .haveeworriee."
—FrOtn Time,
Give a woman an inch and
she'll immediately start re-
ducing.
'0 holding down a job to who
* never believed :she could find
• one, Why don't you try? Visit
* a few employment agencies'
* and ask their advice; they may
* have ideas that have not Oc-
* curved to you. Also, follow the
4' newspaper want acts daily.
* Are you a good cook? Is
* there a neighborhood demand
* for homemade cakes, desserts,
* and other ready-to-serve dishes
* you can prepare? Your Wo-
* Man's Exchange, or a similar
* group, can tell you.
* Perhaps this good man can
* find a part-time job that will
* not overtax his strength, (A
* talk with his physician will be
* helpful.) More and more ern-
* players nowadays are conscious
* of the needs of the partially
* disabled, and more willing to
* try them out. If you decide'
* to marry, the sale of his home
* or yours would provide a nest-
* egg against the future.
* Don't be'self-conscious about
* money. Let all your friends
* know you want to augment
* your income. (The lack of
* money is one of the most popu-
* lac conversation topics every-
* where today.) Many couples
* are living on an income they
* would have laughed at a dec-
* ade ago, They have lowered
* their standards, true; but they
* believe in themselves and
* each other and have enough
* love and understanding to be,
* as you two .are, happy in just
* being together,
* Attack the problem with all
* your energies, and leave no
* field unexplored. With courage
* and your, native intelligence,
* you' may' be amazed how soon
* you both succeed. I hope so. It
* is a shame that two nice people
* so well suited should not be
* together. Good luck! *
GOSSIP HURTS
"Dear Anne Hirst: For four
years I've had two girl friends
who kthought were as loyal as
I've been. Now they are telling a
cockeyed story pf my dating a
married man, and they have
some other pupils believing it,
As though I would stoop to such
a thing!
"I am 16, and boys have always
liked me, too. This is hurting
me badly. Nothing I can say has
any effect.
"I want and I need the friend-
ship of my classmates. How can I
regain it? Forget these false
friends, and try to find others I
can trust? NETTIE"
* It is usually wise to ignore
* jealous gossip and show by
* your discreet manner that you
* are above such conduct. But
* this tale could affect your repu-
* tation among too many other
* girls. I think you should tell
* your parents.
* If the girls have no basis for
* the story, they should be made
* to admit it, and apologize to
* all those who have heard it.
* I suggest that your mother
* call on their parents and see
* that justice is done.
When two compatible people
have faith in each other, there is
almost no limit to what they can
accomplish together. If you are
concerned about Your future, ask
Ann Hirst's oeinion. Address her
at Box 1, le3 Eiehteenth St. New
Toronto, Ont,
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PAPER MATE
In Columbus, Ohio, Gertrude
Hill asked the Citizen and the
Dispatch to withhold, listing of
her filing for divorce, because
she was eeheduled to deliver a
lecture to a church group on
"Family 'Life." •
weather too, with a mild earth-
quake thrown in for geed mea-
sure. On 'gee whole, heme seems
a pretty good place° to' us,What
do you thilikf
hard it Was' to keep the house
warm 'without a ,furnace, and
concluded by saying they were
expecting baby chicks early in
March! The roughest month of
the winter in our estimation. In
summer - we know the air and
scenery is lovely in Dufferin
county and it is probably a good
place 'to be` in •winter too—on
farms where the owners are in
their prime and possibly have
every convenience, but we can-
not see that it is a favourable
location for a couple getting on
in years. We certainly couldn't
take it.
Yesterday was quite a happy
occasion for us. Our children
and grandchildren had a dinner
for us in honour of our 40th
Wedding Anniversary. Just a
family affair but quite a cele-
bration. Forty years ago we
couldn't foresee that a day
would come when we would
have the joy of celebrating our
marriage with a married daugh-
ter and her lensband and a mar-
ried son and his wife, plus four
small grandsons . . . three walk-
ing and one only four months
old. Dee had gone to a lot of
trouble—there was a nice din-
ner, anniversary cake and a bou-
quet of lovely red carnations
—carnations like Partner gave
me forty years ago, The little
boys couldn't quite understand
what the party was all about
but they were all well and en-
joying it anyway. Eddie is the
star performer when it comes
to mischief but he has such a
roguish way with him that ev-
eryone loves him. Ross is run-
ning a close second for getting
into things. Dave, of course, it
quite a little man—after all he
is four years- old ,and goes to
nursery school! Jerry is the
"good" baby---laughs and coos
at everyone who comes around,
It was a.very cold day—zero
arouhd here—but the roads were
good and the car warm so it
didn't seehi to matter. We cer-
tainly don't envy our friends in
Florida. Some people have al-.
ready borne home but we haere
neighbours who rented their
house furnished fee four months,
They are really stud', whether
they like it Or not. And Parte
ner's brother flew to England
last Sunday for' a couple of
weeks. He' landed into rough
Whatever the weather in our
particular locality — yours and
mine — there is no reason to
assume it will be the same
twenty miles away. Or even less.
One day Partner and I went to
see Johnny, whose farm is only
ten miles from here, It might
have been fifty. Far more snow
and icy roads. We found Johnny
very busy — and very glad to
be alive. He almost wasn't. It's
the same old story. He had a
registered Holstein bull. "No
need to be afraid of him," John-
ny used to say, "he'll never hurt
anyone. He's,:eo quiet I can clean
out his stale and work around
him like he was an old cow."
Than came a day when it was
necessary to let the bull out
into the barnyard, Suddenly,
without warning, the bull turn-
ed on him. It was only because
Johnny . was able to get behind
a huge post in the • barnyard
that the bull missed .him on the,
first lunge, Fortunately an iron
crowbar was within reach and
Johnny used it to beat the bull
over the head, and then, some-
how or other, he managed to
get back to the safety of the
cow stable.
Johnny.. is young and strong
and by good luck was able to
deal with the situation. But
what chance would an older,
less agile man have had under
similar circumstances? Farmers
have been warned time and
time again never to trust a bull.
But in many cases the bull has
been raised from a calf and the
farmer and his son, or hired
help, think they know all the
animal's moods and fancies. The
outcome isn't always as fortu-
nate ,as it was in Johnny's ease.
Johnny, thanks be, is still alive
—it's the bull that's dead. Al-
though he was a registered,
well-bred animal he was sent to
the stockyards,
Well, I visited in quite a dif-
ferent locality than this last
week. I spent two days with
friends in Newmarket. I went
by bus, It was fine when I left
here, and in Toronto. *But by
the time the bus reached Rich-
mond Hill it was storming like
a young blizzard, The same at
Newmarket. Next morning there
was a four-foot snowdrift cov-
ering people's lawns and every-
one was out shovelling a path
for the postman. My friends
used to be farmers but now they
have a small' store and a nice
little five-roomed house, cosy,•
compact and convenient, They
used to hanker for a Stone house
in the country, with a small
acreage but now, being past
middle life, they are -content
with a house and busi4ess that
givee them niaXiinuen rettune
With a minimum of effort, That
is their choice, Here le a horse
Of another 'dolour. When I got
home I found a letter foe tie
from, Deffethe county—Otitetio't
snowbelt It told of huge delete;
of shcieellirig h path, to the barn
every enorninge-and then haV-
ing the path 1111 in within an
hour of two; of how glad they'll
be When winter is over; he*
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ISSUE 10 1958.
CELL OUT
Three white men serving long-
term sentences in the 13wana
Mkubwa prison in Northern
Rhodesia used the prison as a
base for operations while they
went out at night, breaking into
jewellery stores and other bus-
iness premises.
They were each sentenced to
two years' additional imprison-
ment after the judge was told
that one forgot the key to the
prison front door one night and
so they were locked out and
couldn't get back to their cells
If it were not for this momentary
lapse they might still have been
at it, the court was told.
AMBITIOUS-Rita Hayworth, for
many years the most glamoroui
of Hollywood's glamor queens,
is hoping to start a whole new
career as a serious dramatic
actress. The "Love Goddess" of
the 1 9 40's takes off for the
new stardom in a highly emo-
tional role in the forthcoming
screen version of the stage hit
"Separate Tables", Photo shows
her as "Salome" in 1953,
tt-.1tM OF A kif46,--Ceteloratirig their 1 Sth hirt:hday, the -KIffers quadruplets ate till eitillee at
Mei, 'heeled Zwolle„ Holland. The qyads, from lefto, ctre Rini, Dorothee, Elly arid Hence
Pooch's 'hafted', is Jacky. •
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ly past as rritieli a part of the
the way -Abbe Lune 'and Pahl
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facial expr'ess'ions are cippardel'1,
fcloiWork, lud.jind
ValentIne go at it. They were
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