Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-10-22, Page 6Trr f 141IZST clot HRONICLES 1NGERFAR euvadollne. P. CleizIke way wouldn't even know ed. When we got home again we found. Partner had Washed, all the dishes., put the furniture back where it belonged and gen- erally speaking had the house restored to a semblance of order, It was a wonderful help. Some- times I have a feeling I chose the right men for husband. Partner explains away his help- fulness by saying that because he can no longer do hard, phy§i. cal P.r9r1,k,tbratleaves him free to do what b'e'eala in other' ways, Incidentally I should mention I was out to another W.I. meet- ing the day before at which Mrs. Mary Fix, Reeve of Toronto Tcwnship was guest speaker. She gave us a very clear picture et her duties but unfortunately there was no time for a ques- tion period. That was just too bad as, being taxpayers, a neigh- bor and I, prompted, by our re- spected husbands, had gone fir- ed with a few questions to which we wanted answers. ' I brought back twenty chairs from the Wednesday meeting ready for my affair next day. Friday Partner and I took them back to the funeral parlour from 1.'4/hence we thought. they came. But ownership was denied. Stu- pid me I, forgot there was more than one funeral parlour, Finally we found the chairs came ,from Streetsville and so eventually they were duly re- turned to the proper owners, af- ter a little unnecessary travel- ling, around,. the' country. • Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. Should garage employees tipped? dpesdqvice station attendants be A. 'Only when some special service has been performed out- side of what is regularly charged for. Q. To settle a discussion we had recently, will you please tell me just what are the purposes of a dinner napkin? • A. To wipe the lips before drinking from the waterglass, so that the glass will not be smear- ed; and to wipe the fingers. Q. May an invitation ever be properlycard? written on a visiting A. Yes; a card may be used for an invitation to a tea, to meet a' guest, an informal dance, or a bridge party. Smart .Stop.40 PRINTED PATTERN 4572 141/2 -241/2 64.4.44.4 EVERYTHING you want in this. Printed Pattern—your fav- orite step-in style! Bodice of easy-sew tucks so slimming to half-size figures—graceful prin- cess silhouette in back! Printed Pattern 4572: Half Sizes 141/2 , 161/2, 281/2 , 201/2, 221/2 , 241/2 . Size 161/2 takes 5% yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50e) (use postal note for safety — stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Please print plain- ly SIZE, NAME AND AD- DRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 41.— 1958 EASTERN HEM310S‘HEItE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 70% (USA--62%) VEHICLE popoz /0 -o 0 "Dear Anne Hirst; I am so up- set I'M nearly out of my mind! Seven Months ago I met a young man from a nearby OW, and we've dated regularly ever since. He comes every week and stays over when he can; he takes Me to the nicest places, and. al- ways brings me lovely gifts. But as for a word love, there isn't any. "Front the first, he asked me not to see anybody else and the few times I did he lost his tem- per and declared he couldn't trust me. He hurts my feelings (sometimes deliberately, I think) and then laughs it off, Yet I am crazy about him, Anne Hirst! I don't know how much he cares, nor what his intentions are, if we any. He hasn't even given me his class ring to wear. He says he'd come over more often, but he thinks I should, spend my spare time studying. (I'm a high-school senior, and my grades are good.) "I can't stand this uncertainty any longer. Where do we go fro here? WORRIED TO DEATH" YOUNG DICTATOR * Why will you girls let a boy * make the rules, and obey him * like a slave? Haile you a mar- * tyr complex? This domineer- * youngster has the effrontery * to demand you give up all * your other friends and sit at * home alone until he happens * to drop in. He tries to make * you over, implies you are ig- * norant and lazy, and you sit * by and take it. "` If you think this proves how • much he loves you, you • couldn't be more wrong. He • is born dictator, and just now * you are his latest victim. The • boy is so in love with himself * that he has none left for any- * one else. You, being in love, * accept the miserable role. — * And for what? He has never * spoken a word of love. He * hasn't even offered his class * ring for you to show your * friends who ask what's going * on. And how do you know he * hasn't a girl in his own town? * You ask little enough — * only to be sure he belongs to * you as surely as you belong to * him, You can't be certain of * that so long as you crawl to * his beckoning finger. The' only * girl he will take seriously at ) this stage is one who asserts ) herself, and refuses to be • treated like a moronic child. * Date any nice boy you know, whether you want to * or not. It will show him that * other lads desire you, too. He • needs to be taught he cannot * command a girl as though she • belonged to him unless he * gives the same loyalty he de- • mands. * No matter how deeply you * love him, you could never be • happy with him as he is today. * To keep your love, he will • have to earn it. * You will not relish this * counsel, but if you ever hope * to win him it is the one way • you may succeed. If it does • not work, you can remind * yourself that he wasn't worth * having. Cold emnfort,`I know, • but you have asked for it. 'Isn't that wonderful, darling. lie thinks you're his mother:" GIIII CONFV$E)) "Dear Anne Hirst: I am very mixed up on this, my loth birth day, Boys seem to like MP, but they won't accept my standards of how a lady should behave. "Why don't parents teach their children ( and warn them) how to behave? I am disgusted by how many nice girls and boys are reduced; to petting! They seem, to think that's the only reason for being friends, If they had been, told one decent thing by their mothers, they would heed it • , . No, I'm not an 'old- timer', but I do have common sense, Why don't boys who are otherwise nice learn they must keep hands off? "I love my friends, but how can I keep on loving them and still hold fast to my convictions? 1VIITZIE" * Boys of the age that attract * you are apt to set their own * standards of behavior, but * they do learn from the girls * they date. *. You, for one, will hold on .* to your 'standards, and prove • to them that mutual respect * is 'the .firsts= cornerstone of * friendship. They aren't stupid, .* they will get the idea; if they * don't want to be friends for your * own sake, they aren't fit to * see you at all. * I agree it is a pity that so * many parents are too self- * conscious to guide their chil- * dren in proper relationships * between the sexes, and warn * them of its dangers. * * * A girl should set the rules for the boys she dates. If he does not observe them she will know she is not important to him . . Anne Hirst knows the ins-and- out of courtship, Write her frankly, at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Cruelty Of Youth "Both Parents Work" Juvenile delinquency, all too often, ls thought of as a problem of the big cities, born of slums, poverty, and racial conflict. Ac- £ually, it infects all economic and social classes and areas. Associate Editor Jack Iams tells how youngsterseof a solid, semi- rural community reached a new low: The old men who used to limp — or wheel themselves — about the spacious, shaded lawns don't feel quite safe there any more. They prefer to stay close to the main building of the New Jersey Home for Disabled Sol- diers that covers /03 acres just outside of Menlo Park—a town best known nationally as the home of Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory. The vegetable garden where the old men used to putter is now overgrown. The greenhouse where they tended plants is gone. The flower beds around the proud flagpole have been rav- aged. The summerhouse where they used to read, or play check- ers, or just drowse on sunlit af- ternoons is a black circle of charred ruins. -The old men never know when they will be startled by the crack of an air rifle and the shattering of a window pane in one of the outbuildings. Or by the burst of a giant firecracker bitried in the grass. In the •machine shop, alone, 26 windows have been shot out. The greenhouse was the favorite target until the home got tired of replacing the glass and tore it down. But worst of all are the taunts. There was the veteran of the first world war sitting on a sunny bench one afternoon," trembling with Parkinson's disease, A youthful voice cried: "What are you shakin' for, Grandpop? It ain't cold out." Or there was the veteran in his 60s with a pecu- liar sort of sideWays limp He heard the jeer: "Look at that DOUBLE EXPOSURE—Alert pho- tographer caught double imago of a four-engined airliner tak- ing off from O'Hare Field. Air- line hostess Jean Boulay is the gal behind the sunglasses. old geezer; walks like he's afraid to sit down." Things like that hurt the old men most. After all, they haven't got much left except a fierce pride in the sacrifice they made - for their country—most of them in the war to make the world safe for democracy. (There are 83 veterans in the home alto- gether; a few are from the sec- ond world war and half a dozen, including one man of 93, from the Spanish-American War. The latter take pleasure in being known as "the Spaniards.") And who are the offenders against these old men? They are kids from the adjacent housing development of Menlo Park' Ter- race, one of many 'that eliaveeee mushroomed up in that ex110.0: ing part of New Jersey in recent;' years. But this is not the:3:kind of housing project that,7411es spawned delinquency in he big cities: This is a neat and attrac- tive community of split-level houses — about a thousand of ,them -- painted a variety of pastel colors,'set in small green plots, and costing around $15,000. The children who are everywhere —they average three to a home —are healthy, well-dressed, 'nice- looking kids. The parents are in the $5,000 to $7,500 income bracket, There are no racial problenls. And, as a final ironic touch, the huge, majority of the fathers—better than 90 per cent according to one of them—are former GI's, What brought the situation to light was a request by the insti- tution's superintendent, Jacob Hauleriheek himself a veteran of World War II--for an extra $20,000 in his budget to build a high wire fence between the soldiers' home and the housing cieveloptri-ent. His request, now pending before the State Legis- lature, cites "incidents of de- struction . . the setting on fire of a summerhouse-shooting out of 26 windows in the occupa- tional workshop , . . taunting and hazing , . a definite safety problem." "It's still going on," Stipetin- tendent Hatildribeek Said last Week. "The police have extra patrol data On duty now and that helps , .I don't know what's wrong with those kids, They come from good homes. One trouble is that in a let Of those familieS, both the Parenta work. Another' is that the PeOPle Who` bUitt the development Jan-i- vied the houses in Withetit entitigh Speee for',recreation. I don't lino* the anSWetv MI I know IS we Want these kids kept away fterie iieree"-4rcim NEWS- Well, that W.I. meeting sched- uled to take place at our home last week actually came off as anned. There were times when I wondered if it would — what with plumbers around a few clays before; drapes that I wasn't sure would be back from the cleaners; one or two hot, humid days when the floor wax wouldn't set and that awful, jittery "I'll - never - be-ready-in- time" sort of feeling that many of you may not know about but which. I do. However, I told myself that none of the things that could happen was likely to be a major disaster and Part- ner was working like a Trojan inside and out helping me to get ready, so I decided every- thing would probably turn out all right, And it did. Glorious in Color raw:4%1416(24 Picture 'this peacock spread in blues and greens, Or shades 9f - ohe color—beauty for a bed. Elegance made easy! brarria- tic peacock in cross-stitch-10 and 5 to inch. Pattern 688: transfer brit motif 15 -It 181/2 , two 51/4 x 14 irieheS; color chart, Send tintak-FIVE CEN'ES (stamps 'Cannot be accepted) tise postal nett for safety! for this pattern to Laura Wheeler., BOX 1, 123 Eighteenth. 8t., New Toronto, Ont. ritint,,oaiblyiiAtiERN" NthviCH, BEtto, your ' NAME 'and AD`, AS a botitiS, TWO complete patterns Ord printed right to oiir LAtitA WHEELER Needle- Craft Hoek., Dnierie, Of other de- signs you'll :Went to order-easy fascinating hatid*OrliYOtik. edit, !route,hazaat, genet 25 Cente . fat, your tat this'hook tetitiYI Joy and baby Ross came al- ong shortly before noon bring- ing with them an' octogenarian friend who had been looking for- ward to the meeting. Joy being here to receive people left me free to meet our guest speaker et Cooksville, 'who was none other than Miss Ethel Chapman, editor of that splendid little magazine ""Hone and Country". When we got back- we found nearly forty guests awaiting her arrival which did not surprise me at all. Miss Chapman is such a 'splendid speaker that she is always sure of an attentive and • appreciative audience wherevel she goes. Last Thursday was n,. exception. -Miss Chapman's theme was ed.', ucation — that is, in its widest scope.. Education as it applies to W.I. work in particular. She em- phasized 'the importance • of en- couraging and using local tal- ent, as "far as possible, in arrang- ing programmes but agreed that it was also necessary to invite outside speakers for specialized subjects. As, for 'instance, P member of the Library, ,Board to explain how, to make ,the best use of "library facilities; a rep- Iesentative of schools for the re: tarded, outlining 'their work' 'and the ways• in, which , the , WeIe.can, help; a .-speelterep. w n local conseryation,autheritY„ a Study of buymanship for home- purchasing needs. Miss Chapman was very strong on •thei,:laSt named subject, deploring the modern• trend -in advertising; the mass hysteria in buying; going t.;) a shopping centre with pOssibly /Meer: items on our shopping list and coming home with tWeri-A ty. In effect, she begged her toners not to be led astray glib advertising; to estimate the worth, and the necessity, of their purchasei and not to be overly concerned iri having all the up- to-date gadgets just beer use our neighbour has them, 'Don't be afraid to be different. Confor- mity has' its merits, she agreed, but we must be ,On guard lest it kill originality and initiative of purpose, These are just a few Of the' subjects touched on in Miss Chapman's address.' There Were Many others. Iri feet it WeS of suggestions that could well, be Made use of by any branch in planning its programmes. One very good idea Was for members to stibinit, anonymously, written .suggestions as to What subjects Li speakers they wonld• like to see ineltided in their monthly prograriThieS. And then, after the" meeting dids6c1; what a bitti of voices] It was 'more conspicuous bedatise 'Ot the quiet, rapt attention that had prevailed while Miss. Chapi=. Man Was speaking. The lunch Corninittee "did Itself proud" and, no one seemed in at hurry let away. 'Finally the last tiod, byes' Were said. Joy, ROSS' ,and our elderly guest, also tOck their leaVe So' the ort n 'Mdti ISS Chapman :Ind the` I tOOk. a ShVe etc:W.:id the' coUntrY as, I wag, anxious tot het to see a few of the lovely` residential" 'Spots in this district,, streets and toads that the av,, breed traveller along the high, FRAME-UP — Here's what went on to produce an appealing pic- ture of French, actress Mylene ,Dernongeot as shown elsewhere on 'this page. A battery of ,cameramen shoots away as she juggles the picture frame and' the seven chicks She "adopted.' SLICK CHICK Fee itth Otit apobcifiridistChttei ehe- hot by' Fie .1164'.0toreii frame.up ? HOT WORK — On location at the_beach In ,San biego for, the'filming of the' Billy Wilder farce, "Some 1.ilee it Hot," Marilyn Monroe, Paul Strasberg.,:and,Tony Curtis go oveHines in the'shade of a beach tent. Acting Coach Strasber9,.apporently doesn't like it so hot. Tony and Jack Lem- :non masquerade as• women in the film-Marihm, however (it's nice ,to know), just plays her natural self. MOTORIZED BIRTH RATE wOrrd-Wide Survey reveals d steady increase in the motor vehicle is'oulditrohi eepOett, the U.S, -p artment of `Commerce. The survey, by the filthiest arid De- fense Services Adriiiriistrcition, dttribi/let 'the liitredte lvigherr Ilvmg itdfiddrdS., World registrofrail totaled over 1.68 Million di of last ,Icirit1ary 1, up' 5.6 per .Ceni.Cluring, 1051 intreose4 ricissender are ekpected io tOritinue, eavAt,iv