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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-04-30, Page 2ONE FOR ALL—Celebrating their first birthday, the Wendeborn triplets 'are a little short on table manners but happy anyway as they feast on a cake in their Dallas home. Left to right are Darlene, Marlene and Charlene. ,reeitleeleelle 598 4523 141/2-241/2 6/41 /441. -4c$44 HRONICLES 1NGERFAR pwetvlolin.e P. Cloxice / —..~ "li6.1 43:e Wie#1;774# • * • p I. • • • Tear Anne Hirst: Over two years ago. I met a girl and we'ye been ping Wetly ever since. At first she did not ,ove me, but in time she grew ;o care very much. But I' kept nailing marriage — because my ericiewed mother was against it. !The girl was always talking marriage and making plans, and. I did not know hew I was hurt- ing her.) I should add that I am 10 years Older, but we got Along wonderfully; we've never bad an argument, only a few minor differences. "I got engaged at Christmas. KY mother was very much up- :et, which resulted in my feel- fee that way too, so I made no eemediate plans, I was even pool to my fiance, "Meantime she grew more and more confused. We had a good talk, and she said she wasn't .sere she wanted to go through with it. I pleaded, and even eet a wedding date. She asked for tene— "And now she has decided not to marry me! She claims her love decreased some time before, but she had felt obliged. She siys there's no other man, and that she is fond of me, but 'that's not enough for marriage'. "I know now how much I do love her. I am trying desnerate- ly to get her back, promising anything. But her mind seems to be made up. "Do you think in time she will come to love me again? Or is there no hope? I certainly need your advice. HURT" MOTHER Vs. FIANCE * Why should the girl want * to marry a lukewarm lover * who has vacillated time and again between his two loyal- ties? She took you at your word, andplanned her wed- ding with all the faith in the world. Even after she accept- ed you, you did not set the date. That must have been the last straw. Now that she will have none of you, you suddenly admit that she is essential to your happiness. You are so des- perate you will "promise any- thing". Why would she be- lieve you? You are a little late, my friend. Since you ask, however, there are two courses open: Let her alone, and give her time to find out whether you • are necessary to her happiness. • Or, put on an active campaign. Chair,Set Or ,,Scarf ty Cedete.W6124 A handsome set for modern or traditional, homes. Simple filet crochet with K-stitch sets off the deer design. Pattern 598: crochet direc- tions, chart for chair back 12 31e x16 inches, armrest 6x8 — in No. 50 cotton. Make scarf ends, too, Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Beg 1, 123 Eighteenth St.,• New Toronto; Ont. Print filthily the PAK TERN NUMBER and your NAME and ADDRESS. As a bonus, TWO complete patterns ate printed right in Our LAURA WHEELER. Needle- craft Book. Dozens of other de- signs'. you'll want to Order — edgy fascinating handWork for yourself, yet/r home, gifts, ba- Zeal' items. Send 25 cents for Your copy of this book today! ISSUE IB — 055 * Don't let a day pass without * some. word, a call, a note, a • .boil et flowers, Maybe she * will be touched, maybe not, Your mother binds you with * the traditional silver cord, and * you have been weak enough * to let her pull the strings. She * believes her world will end * on the day you take a wife, * (Even now, will you be strong * enough to live your own life?) • "Too late" are sorrowful * words. you have lost the * girl, it is because she was play- * ing second fiddle and finally * woke up. That was not good * enough. So she declared her * love had cooled, and so saved * her pride. Perhaps she really 4^ has stopped loving you, per- * haps not. Only she knows. * My opinion is of no use. It * is hers that matters. * * * LITTLE GIRL COMPLAINS "Dear Anne Hirst:. I am nearly 14, and I am so madewith my mother I can hard- ly bear to speak to her. There is a boy my age who wants to take me out, but she won't hear of it, so he takes out other girls! "I have to go to bed at 9 o'clock even if girl friends are here. I've been embarrassed so often that now I won't see them "I don't want to go with just anybody, I just want a steady boy friend. All my friends have them, and I'm beginning to hate them, I cane talk with Mom about it. I don't know what words to say, but it's a relief to write to you. Will you help me? MAD AND MISERABLE" • Your mother knows you * better than anyone else, and * has good reasons for her rules. * 'In my opinion, she is right. * You will be smart to obey * them amiably, and with no * argument. * When a girl your age goes * with only one boy she usually * looks ridiculous. She is likely * to let her emotions run away * with her, and to think her * dates are the most important °* events in her life . That isn't * the way to become a smart, * interesting and att r a c t iv e * young woman whom, in a few e years, the nicest boys will want * to date. * I know that your bed-time * hour embarrasses you. If the * mothers of your friends are * not as careful, the day may * come when they wish they had * been . . . Take my word for * it, and when you are a few * years older you will be grate- * ful for these rules that you resent today. * Then you will smile at this * childish rebellion. * * * No self-respecting girl will marry a Mama's boy if she knows it, If you are in love, cherish your sweetheart. Otherwise, you do not deserve her . . . Anne Hirst will give her best thought to your problem. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ontario. FRESH START Exactly thirty minutes after. Hollywood song writer Buddy Cole's divorce decree became final he remarried - the same woman. To puzzled reporters he ex- plained: "We wanted to start all over again with a 'clean slate'." Their previous marriage lasted two years. GRACIE'S RETIRING — With the lost script of the Burns and Allen Gr acie show before her, Gracie Allen dreams Of the day this spring when she. Will retire from show buethets. Gracie Started her act ,wilh husband' George Burns in 1924. One of our former farm neigh- bours phoned me the other day and said — "You should be glad you are not on the farm right now — you would never have got out of your lane for the drifts. And, because of the wind, it has been so cold around here that Mary, (another neighbour) has even been borrowing blan- kets!" We can believe it. We can well remember what drifting snow could do to our long lane at Ginger Farm. And we know how impossible it was. to heat the house with a high wind blowing. We certainly do feel thankful we are living in a more sheltered area. But now the pattern of our family life has taken a strange twist. Ever since they have been married Bob and Joy have been living at Oakville — just ten miles from here. Sometimes Bob was working at Oakville, some- times at Cookeville, wherever he happened to be needed most. Now he won't be working at either plant — but at. Milton, only a shOrt distance frbrn Ginger Farm, and for a different company. Friends are now think- ing we shall regret having left the district. That is not so, but we are glad Bob is moving back, that will give us a better oppor- tunity of keeping in touch with the old familiar places, of which , wse have many fond memories. At Oakville we had no interest other than to visit Bob and Joy. At Milton we ban watch the progress of Highway 401 and see just what happens to the old farm. It will be wonderful for us and Bob will enjoy being back at his old haunts and with his friends and, schoolmates. Strangely enough he starts his new job on his son's first birth- day. There has also been excitement in daughter's family. Jerry, at 41/2 months, has cut his first tooth! They were all here on Saturday and I'm telling you the dust flies when Dave and Eddie start charging around. Dave was feeling quite proud — he had been to the dentist for the first time and was thrilled. Well, so much for our own little affairs — important to us but not -of world-shaking signi- ficance. But there was an item of news last week that may ee important to all of us at some time or other, directly or indi- rectly, And thank goodness it had nothing to do with atom bombs, guided missiles or other weapons capable of destroying mankind. No, this was just the opposite —a serum that may save the lives of millions of people. I am referring to the anti-clot eerum to be used in cases of brain haemorrhage or thrombosis. Used as an injec- tion it• gees to work immediately. dissolves the blood clot arid gives the patient a good chance to recover. It is a wonderful piece of newe; reassuring to the thou- sands of people suffering from high blood pressure --- incidentally includes myself. Of course We have to remember that in sortiecases en unfor- tunate person may be stricken quite suddenly Mid' be beyond help before a "'do'ctor ban even be celled, The serum cannot restore life, but if interpret its uses correctly it can save lives if' a doctor reaches a iii. tient before it is too late. What an age we live in. On the one hand destructive forces building up almost everywhere; on the other hand medical science continually making dis- coveries to relieve suffering and prolong, life. Discoveries that pertain to animal as well as human life. Years ago if a cow got milk-fever there .was little chance of her recovery.- Now the "vet" comes along, gives Bossie a shot of "penicillin and before you know it she's up on' her feet again. The same goes for a calf . with "the 'scours". In years gone by many a poor little calf died if home remedies failed to bring about a cure. Now there ,are anti-biotics for 'this and that and a calf has little option ex- cept to grow and thrive. Thank goodness, in.the case of a male, he doesn't know that he may later appear as veal cutlets on somebody's dinner table. The female has a better time. She is often allowed to mature and produce her off-spring year after year. She *lay know the joys of motherhood by having her calf stay with her. On the other hand she may never see her baby as the calf may be taken away from her directly it is born and fed by hand. At Ginger Farm it was sometimes done one way, sometimes'the other, depending upon how badly we needed the extra milk. It was always a great grief to me when Bossie was not allowed to keep her calf. And the poor little calf — never to feel the caressing mother-tongue licking her head and ears. How I wish — as it once must have been — farming followed only nature's laws . . . cows raising their own calves; foals running with the mares; hens roaming the orchard, each with a clutch of chicks; ewes with their lambs and a sow with a dozen piglets. It can't be, of course, farming is now a husi- ness — and I am a sentimental idealist when it comes to country living. So I guess it is just as well we are no longer actively engaged in farming. The com- mercial side of it never did ap- peal to me. If we had farmed my way we would certainly have gone broke! Basuto Boy Finds Monster Diamond A Basuto boy, Thobi Rampeng, is now dreaming of owning f, huge herd of cattle — all bee cause of his honesty when dig- ging in diamond-bearing strata in the mine at Jagersfontein, South Africa. For Thobi had the luck to spot a pure blue-white stone, Weigh- mg 350 carts, in the underground workings. Mafiy might have been temiat, ed to try to smuggle out so fabulous a gem and sell it, but lie immediately reported hit find. AsAsa reward the ecireepeny has paid hitt the record sum of $2,500. Previtetiely, the iiigheet reward for "pick ups" WAS $500. Thobi certainly thinks himself lucky. His teWtitd Meer Strike others as gm-lent:de, especially girt view of the meagre aniettriti some People in thiS country re- telve when they find large stints of money and hand there US the Whet cut and POlished this fine diamond may realize as much as $1000 a carat, or a total of $350,000. Hitherto, many hundreds of boys working in the Jagers- fontein mines have picked up tiny stones, but none within measureable distance of this blue monster. Sometimes, smuggling attempts are made. But, legend alone ac- counts for the belief that Basuto boys, yielding to secret persua- sion from their chiefs, traffic il- licitly under tribal orders. The chiefs, it was said, buried such hoards in the Maluti moun- tains. But mining officials dis- miss this story as sheer moon- shine. What ues, for one thing, would diamonds be if tucked away " in mountainsides? We've yet to hear of secret-diamond worshipping rites or ceremonies. Illicit diamond buyers—none of them Basuto chieftains — have tried to work their magic on boys deemed exploitable, but with scant success. The company's new scale of rewards, based on a stone's value, instead of on mere weight, en- courages honesty. Also, safe- guards against traffickers are much, stricter and more scien- tifically fool-proof than they once were. At Dutoitspan, for example, highly mobile X-ray apparatus , is used for frequent spot checks. Fabulous The story goes that three men were going to produce a movie involving Indians, cowboys and horses. They considered Flag- staff, Ariz., for their studio' but finally chose an old barn, sur- rounded by an acre of field, in Hollywood, Cal. 'It was there that the' historic "Squaw Man," starring Dustin Farnum, was produced and it, was thus that Hollywood, rather than Flagstaff, became t h e world's movie capital. The three men, whose names, became familiar to generations of movie-goers, were: a glove salesman named Samuel Gold- wyn, an actor named Cecil B. DeMille and a cornet player named Jesse L. Lasky . . . From the Hollywood barn and with Adoph Zukor joining forces this partnership became Famous Players-Lasky and, later, Para, mount Pictures. From the silent shadows they produced emerged such play- acting notables as Blanche Sweet, Wallace Reid, Geraldine FIarrar, Clara Bow, Gloria Swan- son, Harold Lloyd and Pala Ne- gri, most of them long since dead or retired from active work at the studios. The plain, factual story of the creation of this vast amusement industry plays a• prominent part in the legend of America. 'It is best characterized by a word dear to the hearts of the movie producers -- "Fabulous." — Bir- - mingham (Ala.) Post Herald. WILD AND WIDE Hassa.nein VIetwali of Alex- andria ' Egypt, blew his top when his fiancee cOntintied 'chiding " him about his near-sightedness. Whipping out a revolver he fired two shots at her at a. range of about two feet—and missed' both times. sAttioi WAS "That will , eakeially delight: Dad, and Mother; toeil" Modern Young Man. Most Unromantic Where did you propose to yew wife? We one chance in four that you were sitting in a car when you popped •the question. At least, that is what Dr. Paul Popenoe*thinks following a study Ofili5Ver-1‘,000 marrilige proposals. The •modern young man is most unromantic. In the olden days he would fall on his knee, look rapturously into his girl's eyes and implore her to lie his bride, Today, according to Dr. Popen- oe, he wanders window-shopping with her and while they stare at furniture in a showroom window he is as likely as net to say. "How's about you and me fixing up a little love nest?" Dr. Popenoe, as head of the Los Angeles Institute of Family Relations, studied 1,1,81 marriage proposals and found that 25 per cent were made in motor cars while the couple were parked somewhere. Proposals made in the girl's home came close to motor car proposals with a total of 23 per cent, while proposals on the street, in restaurants, parks, and in other public places accounted for 20 per cent of the total. Holiday time is not quite so dangerous for the bachelor as some people believe for only 13 per cent of the proposals ana- lysed by Dr. Popenoe were made while on holiday. Parties, dinners and dances* may be places where romantic attachments are made but cer- tainly they are not conducive to marital ties, for' only 10 per cent of all marriage proposals were made at such events. Did you send your proposal by wire or letter? If you did you fall into a class by yourself for, the modern male is too bash- ful to write or wire—only 6 per cent of the total proposed in this way. The odd-man-out who proposes while descending by parachute or while prodding a lion in a cage is a rarity, for only 3 per cent of the total number of pro- posals analysed were unusual, like the couple who met recently and went roller skating. The young man, holding the girl's hand and rapturously looking into her eyes, gave her an en- - gagement ring is they skated. To cap that, they were married as they skated around,,an arena with a parson on rollers skating alongside them. Those Filter Tips Few postwar products have puffed up their popularity with greater success than the filter'- tip cigarette. In six short years, its share of the market soared from almost nothing to 40 per, cent in 1957. Chief reason, of course, was widespread belief that filters cut down' on tars and nicotine suspected as causative agents of lung cancer and other ills. Last month, in a report adop- ted unanimously, the House Government Operations Com- mittee baldly charged that the public had been "brainwashed" and "deceived." Slapping at the Federal Trade Commission for being "weak and tardy" in po- licing filter claims, the report s aid that advertisers used "phrases implying health pro- tection, when actually most fil- ter-tip cigarettes produce as much nicotine and tar as cigar- ettes without filters . . . The American public' has paid pre- 'mime prices of- 2 to 6 cents• per pack for filter cigarettes for 'protection' they did not receive. —From NEWSWEEK. Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY Modern Etiquette . by Roberta Lee Q. if friends haYe called at the home of parents of a new- horn child and have brought, it a gift, is it necessary for the Mother to write a note of thanks to these friends in addition to the thanks she has already ex- pressed verbally? A, Certainly this is not out of place, and it does indicate a sincere appreciation of -the friends' thoughtfulness. Q, Is it correct to write a nett wishing a girl happiness Late' you have read the announce, meat of her engagement in flu newspaper? A, Yes; a brief, but sincere, • note is in very good taste. Q. When one is dining in self-service cafeteria, is it neces nary to tip the waitress who car rice one's tray from the counter to the table? A. While not considered ex, actly necessary, many people do Q. In what way should a di• vorced woman distinguish her. self from the second Mrs. James L. Gardner? A. By prefixing her maiden name to her former husband's surname, as, "Mrs. Helen Sel- lers Gardner," Sew-Simple PRINTED PATTERN ' A jiffy Printed Pattern. Half- Size.rs — look so smart in this bright, breezy style, Sew-easy —no side opening Just unbut- ton shoulders, slip it on quick! Cut to fit the shorter, fuller fi- gure, Printed Pattern 4523:, Hall Sizes 141/2 , 161/2 , 181/2 , 201/2 , 221/2, 241/2. Size 16% requires 4% yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (400 (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern, Please print plainly SIZE, NAME and ADDRESS, , and STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., Neel Toronto, Ont. I_ AN NE 141IRST ouig, Fanav au44.4eArt, BEST' SLOGAN Displaying foe- work and: the Medal it won for`` • her; Donhrlµ Aiitatinita .06Set, .0toudiy, after ittuenpfilt4 in ilia- NeW'. Yotk Athletic Brotherhood :PCiStee Contest. Donna as CtWarded the Medal for the best slogan at World' 6rothotliood' a •