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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-08-06, Page 2ALTHEA WINS SECOND STRAIGHT — Althea Gibson of New York's Harlem, holds the Wimbledon trophy she won by,,defeat- ing Britain's. Angela Mortimer, 8-6, 6-2, Miss Gibs'on thus re- peated, her victory in the famous British tournament last year. • 64 "My darling's not worried gather. Me just put all hid rsoney ply Itairde," ti• 1111 ,11" ; • ri /-40,&•eapi TOP TEE TOT Little Jackie Debbs (teft) won first ptace in the three to five-year-old' clats in the National Pee Wee Golf con- test played srrictshing ci 6-4 on the two-hole course. Here the pint-sized pro gives d bit of iron-shot advice to his sister Virgnid, who'olayed in the girls' end of the tourneys SMALL Ole SENTINELS—Tr tit" to hitiitt ',kelt' little strides to the predig6 'pacing of a:Sentry, four Unidentified chillren Before the tomb Of the Unknown Soldiers- hi Arlington 'National ernetert,. The 'haft tart Off When the latistifttr( tried get. their names "Dear Anne Rirelt We all knots' the adage that the only perfect man, is A woman's first husband, I never thought it could happen to me Six years ago, At 52, I married a woman nine years younger, For the first year we were so happy that I foolishly dreamed it was a per, feet marriage. But in the past five years I have almost lost my health (and part of my income) and ever since she has had to spend some Of her own money (she has plenty) my 'wife has plagued me with stories about her first husband. How wonder- ful he was, how Much more he did for her than I can, etc, it is getting me down, "I know la ve disappointed her. Though I have some investments and plenty of insurance, I can- net provide for her as I had expected. I feel I am a burden, and had better get out. I'm sure elle doesn't love me at all now, but I still care for her; perhaps I'm just sorry for her because she is making us both so un- happy. "Do you think I should divorce her? Or what? I am very de- pressed and uncertain. MISERABLE" DESPERATE MAN * During these yeare when you * most need security and domes- * tic peace, you are depressed * by ill health and the know).- * edge that as a provider you * are inadequate. You have be- * come the victim of a nagging * woman who descends to a * cruel trick to keep you under * her thumb. You live )ri tur- • moil, and I am not surprised * that you want to walk out, * Divorce is, naturally, your * first thought; but divorce is • not easy to obtain, and costly * besides. A reliable lawyer can * advise you whether you have grounds, * What of your wife? Would * she rather you leave, or stay? * She is disappointed in her * marriage; she thought she *would be taken care of for the * rest of her life. Instead, she * must spend part of her own * indOme, and she resents it. She e may be deliberately driving • you to desperation so you * will go; on the other hand, she * may be one of, those women * who finds satisfaction in be- * rating you, and would be even * more unhappy living alone. * When you feel up to it, ask * her; say that her continuous * taunting is making you so mis- * enable you would be glad to * leave. I think she will tell the * truth. From all you write, it * does seem she has little af- inspiring Picture try rotte. mow: Embroider this beautiful pie- inn for your own home—or for a thoughtful A picture to be Cherished. Pat- tern 751: transfer- directions for picture, 16X19 inthee; colter. sug- ,rgestiott.a. Done in simple stitch- try that goes quickly, Sand THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (starnps cannot be acceptec4 use postal note. for ,safety) for this, pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, .123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. Frint plainly PATTERN NUMBER, and' your NA ME, and ADDRESS. bonus complete patterns, ate printed tight in Our' LAURA voirtIAR :Needlecraft Book. Dozens of 'othe.± desigriS event to order-..easy fasP einating handWerk for ,yburseif, Your liOttid bazaar itettie. t:lnd 25 cents for your CODY el this book today! ISSUE 3l I58 fedi= f,:r you; yet one would * think that, remembering :your • first year together, she could * find some tenderness in, her * heart for a sick man who _has * done the best he could. * Wouldn't you have ' a better * life with a congenial family? • You have some income left, * and that might be arranged, * Put her to the test, thongh; * settle the future, and end this * wearing anxiety. * * BEREFT MOTHER, GRIEVES "Dear Anne Hirst: I am a mo ther whose son was killed acci- dentally while serving in Ger- m a s y. It happened several months ago, and I still cannot believe it is true. "He was one of two boys, and both had, been such a comfort to me. The other one, praise the Lord, is safely home. "I have tried to show some interest in people and in ideas, hut there is still that dread- ful emptiness to live with. I cannot find any routine that helps, Can you? LONES OME" * Why don't you visit the r nearest Red Cross center and * see where they can use you? * Or a veterans* hospital? * Sick boys need companion- '° ship, and there are many ways * to give it. Talk with your * minister, too; perhaps boys * from your own church are hos- • pitalized and ' would doubly * appreciate your attention. * There is no solace like that e which comes from helping * others. Cheering up some * other mother's son will comfort * you more than you think — * and rejoice that your other * boy is home again, You are * more fortunate than some mo- * thers I know. Marriage is for better or for worse, If you are disappointed in your husband, remember your vows and try to keep them. Then whatever happens, you need not reproach yourself . In time of indecision, write to. Anne Hirst at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Haunted By A Persistent Dream Some people are haunted by persistent dreams all through their lives, These dreams are sometimes pleasant, sometimes extremely eerie. One distinguished man troub- led by a persistent dream is Pro- fessor Frank Debenham who, as a geologist, accompanied Captain Scott on his last fatal expedition to the South. Pole, Consistently, throughout the intervening forty-six years, the Professor has continued to en- counter Scott and his compan- ions in his dreams, not as vic- tims of the relentless icefields, but as still-living characters. It seems, from his vivid recollec- tions of these dream encounters, that he bumps into Dr. Wilson and Captain Oates in Piccadilly Circus! The encounter, though so often experienced, is inevitably an eerie one. For the Professor al- ways seems to be saying, "I thought you were dead," as he faces his aid companions again, But they deny they are dead. Perhaps one reason for these extraordinary dreams lies in the belief that the Professor and everyone else taking part in the ecpeditioh thought that Scott was invincible; nothing seemed strong enough to daunt or destroy such' a man. WITCH'S SPECIAL A sour - faced, oddly dressed woman was poking among the brooms at a hardware Store when a salesman asked if he could help her. "Nothing here is worth buy- ing," she snapped. "Flimsy, cheap straw,poor handle, shoddy material," Seizing the broom in question she shook it Under his nose and said angrily: Not like the brooms they used to make. Give the floor a good sweep and they'd fall apart. What's it good for ?" "Well," said the salesman, after a pause, "you will find that it flies wonderfully," guilz Queen falls .At Last Even As mighty Caesar, strnek down in his glory hetwon the statue of Pompey in. home's Senate and the roaring citizens outside, recently one of the new breed of television heroes, Elfrida von Nardroff of the eorne flower-blue eyes and tiddledYboo haircut, was toppled between a plug for geritol, '`the high- potency tonic," and New Krerul Corrective, a vlscuous liquid for combating "hair decay.." Elfrida was dressed for her adoring audience in a yellow linen sheath, black pumps, and pink and red glass beads. She had dined heartily on steak, broccoli with hollandaise, mace- doine of fruit, and a cup of tore tee, two and a half hours be, fore entering her Spartan cub- icle, the site of the triumphs which have established her its the most enduring (21 weeks) and best endowed ($220,500) contestant on NBC's hero-rnalc- qniz show, "Twenty-One." While waiting, she had brood- ed ("I had a premonition that this might be the night"), read her fan mail (a North Carolina farmer wrote: "I don't want to advise you to quit, honey, but down here we're calling you Miss Pig"), and patiently sat through the. ordeal of being painted with pancake make-up, eye shadow:mascara, and a bit of rouge. At last, she was led into a studio packed with a giggling, goggling gaggle of convention- eers, young marrieds, old mar- rieds, press" agents, producers, as- sistant producers, and teen- agers. She took her place in the CARBON COPY — Gabel, whose resemblance to Sophia Loren, ,looth in face and figure, is startling, strikes a pose of her own in Rome. Miss Gabel, who has been Sophia's stand-in in several movies, hopes to start a film career of 'her own. isolation booth, gulped a glass of water, pursed her lips, rolled her eyes upward, and when her turn came to respond to her first question, she answered wrong. (Elfrida said Goebbels was 'the top Nazi who had committed suicide after the Nuremberg trials instead of Goring). There was a flicker of blue- rnascaraed blue eyes, a hand raised to smooth the straight black hair, but she was under control. Removing het sponge- tubber earphones she stepped out, shook the hand *of the new champion, a cheery, wouldn't- hurt-a-flea school teacher mined Robert Leicester, and even toler- eted a fatherly kiss from umpire Jack Barry before she walked but of camera range for the last, time. "I don't agree with people who say that quiz shows are a de- basement of American cultural life. They are just one side of of it and a lively one at that," said Weida later. A former per. tonne] Manager, she is planning to use some of her winnings (about $43,000 after taxes) to get a Columbia University Ph4D, in experimental psychology to pre- pare her fee a teaching ,and re- search career, To the senti- mentalists who thought the endlessly erudite Elfrida had thrown the contest out of het' oWri sense of justice to a worthy underpaid member of her future profession, she answered• with an emphatic "Gawd, no!" —From NeWsweek. I issued invitations recently to ail informal affair it my **obit;, and tioW, because of illnegs my fathily, find it impossible to- gVe ffil§ can t cat IA* iniritationS? A.--Either by telephone or brief explaining the cireurn. stances and informing your in+ tended'guests that. you will get in touch With them at a later date. How different fields and gar- dens look now from what they did a week ago — all because we had a good soaking rain and some real warm weather, Re- member those days — 90 in the shade and plenty of humidity With it, Just what growing things needed., But not what I needed. Anyone who wants it can have my 'share of hot weather. Part- ner was away haying all the week and didn't feel the heat as long •as he Was out in the open. He haS cut over fifty acres of hay and was really happy doing it. All the joy of farming but' little of its responsibility. Of course there were a few aching muscles but a good night's rest found him ready for work next day. Saturdays he stays home to get his own work done. An acre of lawn 'can't be left to look af- ter itself, Unfortunately he has a lazy wife — insofar as lawn mowing is concerned. I used to push the old hand mower around but these power mowers scare me to death. One type runs away with. you, the other type means work. Guess I'll stay with my knitting, which, at the moment, happens to be a cardigan sweat- er for Partner. I started it just over two weeks ago and I. hope to finish it tonight. I am glad I got down to knit- ting again because often, at the end•of the summer, I feel I ,have wasted so much spare time. Dur- ing the summer, no matter how hot the eweather, you naturally get done what you have to do but, unless you have an objec- tive. or some kind of pick-up work, spare time is liable to get wasted. Who was it said—"Show me what a person does with his spare time and I'll tell,you what kind of a person he is." Might be as well to remember it — especially with Christmas less than six months away. Perhaps if we make up our minds to it we Could put our present spare time to good advantage •and thus help to lessen that ma' rush we all seem to get into during the month of December. Here's hop- ing I can practice what I preach! There was quite a lot of ex- citement around here a few nights ago. We were_ listening to the late news whorl over and above the sound of the TV came a loud explesion. Then fire sirens started screaming arid cars rush- ed along the road to the scene of the fire. From ottr porch we could see flames leaping high into the air in the Port Credit area. Later We heard the explo- sion was at one of the oil refin- eries. We expected there would be other explosions, but fortun- ately the fire was prevented from spreading, Next Morning We had a Man here fixing a screen door, suppose you saw end heard the fire last night?" I reinarked, "No," he answered, "I didn't know a thing about it Until. I got to work this morning," I looked at him incredulously —"Eat didn't you Say you lived in Port reditl" "Yes, but it takes More than a fire to Wake inc oiled I got to goo." gods, imagine being Able tO steep like that! Well, mustn't forget one Very nice thing that happened last Week. Several' readett this column ante to call' arid to* pleased I was to see them. They were strangers to me but appar- ently through this column they felt I was not' a 'stranger to them. That is what of like to hear. I like to know that people ;realise , that in many ways we share the same problems. We all experi- ence ups and downs, some in one way, some in. another. Most of us know the joy of living and • being loved. We raise our fami- lies and they in turn have fam- ilies of their own. Yet, however much families increase, directly or indirectly, there is always enough love for them all. • Most of us, too, experience sorrow by the loss of one or more of those who have shared our lives. Late or soon it is as inevitable as the sparks fly up- ward. There is shock, and then adjustment as we rememberlow our lives have been enriched by knowing and loving, if, only for a brief period in time, those whom we have lost. If it can be said that those ,we have loved are ever' lost. I hardly think it. We have so many memories to carry along with us, and, as the years go by, it is usually only the happy memories that sur- vive. So, when I occasionally meet readers of this column, those are the things I find we shere in common. Those, and some of the things that belong to the lighter side of life. The funny things that often happen on a farm; the places and people we have both known; the cats, dogs and horses we have loved and lost— and those that still survive. Like Ditto. She came and made her- self known to our visitors but they didn't need to be introduced . they knew all about her and the wild drive I had when I took her to the "vet." It is really awfully easy to get acquainted with people — that is if both parties are ready to go the second mile. Many in- terests create' a common bond, All we need is sympathy, under- standing and an awareness of all that goes oh around us. "The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters 'under their Skin." Laughter To Order Who laughs mere — men or women? The Men win., They make and listen to more jo.kes than women, Women usually prefer to smile, Some rarely In, dulge in hearty laughter because theyn say it lees! encourages every uragew wluokrnlaesn, ,.And in kilo" are -net.a Iaughittg mat- , ter. Some folk can't laugh, Years ago there was great rivalry be- tween 4 group of comedians ap- pearing at a famous theatre on I3roadway, New York, The pro- prietor cashed in on their popu- oal ant r cietevery y b y pexe na'go coen a tnb ea tttraagee- five woman nicknamed "Sober Sue," offering $1000 to anyone who could make her laugh just. Each' comedian accepted the 'challenge, confident that hiS wisecracks would make her shake with laughter, But "Sober Sue" never even smiled. She re- mained as solemn as an owl, for fourteen weeks, Only after she had left, hav- ing appeared before record houses, was the truth revealed. "Sober Sue" was physically in- capable of laughter. Her facial muscles had been paralysed for twenty years. Eight years ago, an elderly man was arrested for laughing too loudly in a Los Angeles cafe, where he was said to have dis- turbed the peace, His laugh was described in evidence as being "somewhere between a howl like that of a hyena and the braying of a jack- ass," but a judge finally ruled that laughter was not a public offence and dismissed the case, One of the mightiest laughs on record was heard in Britain dur- ing the Handel Festival of 1859 when, in honour of Queen Vic- toria, who was present, the audi- ence joined with the chorus in singing the National Anthem, The conductor waited to in- troduce this by a roll on the big elrum and, failing to make the drummer hear what he said, tried to convey the message by imitating the roil with his voice, at the same time beating an imaginary &um with his baton. "This so amused the chorus and orchestra," said a man who was present, "that they all roar- ed with laughter. And the sight and sound of 5,000.people laugh- ing so tickled the 27,000 in the audience that they also began laughing. "I had never heard 32,000 peo- ple laugh simultaneously before, It was a kind of chaotic shriek, not human' in the least, but worth hearing' for once." U . *mall fs sitting 41PW,t1 oleic ;public place and is. strange atti,tia and attdraaaea a. .question to Wm, is it ,necessary ftir to :oseT he Wishes to shPW any degree of good manners, he rise, Week's Sew-thrifty PUNTED PATTERN Sew two pretty versions of this graceful dress. Choose a low-neckline for summer; the high neck with sleeves for year 'round. Sewing is so very easy with our Printed Pattern. Printed Pattern 4620: Misses' Sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 16 requires 1% yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send' EIFTY CENTS (500 (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. 1,,tts.1. E 11.1 R j. •-eeee N'oe HRON1CLE GIMPleFATel