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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-05-21, Page 2Look! Jiffy-Cut PRINTED PATTERN 4784 SIZES 12-20 0'4 l'••• 10 • n ". • reaml w !mat. "Dear Anne Hirst: My family moved to this town just a yeet ego and I was lucky enough t ) get fr a job es secretary in " largest department store here Everything went fine until I ft II in love with the son of the owner. We are planning to •g married, and my family and el3 mother know it. But he I 'is never told his father, nor gi\ me a ring, "We hardly ever go to plac that his friends do;, he says he doesn't want us seen around town together. In the office, ho hardly speaks to me. Is he ashamed of me? My family are wonderful people; We belong to the largest church here, my fa- ther has an ineeertant civic posi- tion and my mother belongs to the two nicest clubs, "I try not to feel hurt, but it is getting under my skin. What do you say? NH 'U APPY FIANCEE" • If the lad's mother has ac- * cepted the fact of the engage- * event, there seems no imme- e diate cause for alarm. That he • doesn't stop and chat during * office hours is not important, * but his not dating you publicly • and avoiding places where his * own friends go, is something • else again. Why. doesn't he • want them to meet you? There • seems nothing to be ashamed * of ; your letter was too long to * print, but your love seems * deep and fine. He should be * eager to show all his friends • what a lucky chap he is. --44444 JIFFY-CUT blouses. Pin pat- tern to fabric — presto! Cut out complete blouse instantly, Top off all your separates smartly, Printed Pattern 4784: Misses' Sizes 12; 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 top style '11/2 yards 35-inch; mid- dle 11/4 yards; lower lee yards. Jiffy-cut in one piece. Printed directions on each 'pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, 1,7 A M E, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New 'Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 21 1959 * As a Matter of course, his * father should be told and that 4' the led apparently fears to do, * Perhaps he thinks his father • has other 'plans for' him, or *,reelizes he isn't earning • enough to marry now, or may- * be he is afraid of his parent * and puts things off until a • more auspicious time. But he • must know that the longer he waits the more resentment his e father might feel, It is difficult * to understand why his mother * permits this silenee to con- * tinue; hasn't she welcomed you * properly? The young man is not being * fair to you, and you should • tell him so. Whatever his rea- * son, it is not good enough: you * can't be a fiancee in private * and treated as a stranger pub- * licly, If his father suggests that e the announcement be post- * polled for a while, you will * wait; but it is only fair to be * acknowledged and received by * the head of the family. • This is your right. Your flan- * ces needs, I suspect, only a lit- * tle prodding to behave like a e man. * * * FAITH HEALED HIM "Dear Anne Hirst: The letter you printed about the husband who drank too much and led his family through anxious years of poverty, has impressed me tremendously. I had that prob- lem, but I let mine go too far befort I asked help from the Only One who could — and -,did — give me strength to conquer it. "Every city has its skid row of men and women because they did not follow the Bible's teach- ings. God is faithful and just, but He wants us to be led by Him every day, not just on Sun- days.... "I pray that this man does not let his drinking get the, best of him, as I did, I lost my wife and my two children for nearly a year before I 'found the way to be a man again. I can never be thankful enough that I was led back to God. A. L." * Behind your letter lie * months of heartbreaking temp-- * tation that required all the * courage your new-found faith * provided. * Your experience will inspire • others, I hope, to strive more * earnestly for the help their * church stands ready to give. * There they can find the faith * that will sustain them (as it * sustained you) in their strug- * gle for the good life. * When any problem faces you, Anne Hirst stands by to offer her wisdom and experience in solv- ing it. Write her frankly at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Tor- onto, Ont. and be sure your con- fidence will not be betrayed. Bad Check Artists Of all U,S. criminals, the pro- fessional bad-check artist is probably . the most' dapper. Be- tween 25 and 40 years of age, he is apt to sport a lodge emblem or a respectable club's badge in the lapel of his conservative suit. He is also likely to be highly in- telligent. When 50 convicted check forgers were given IQ tests, 42 per cent scored higher than 110, which is the IQ of only 25 per cent of the general papule- tion. But he is also likely to be a man driven by a "deep-seated feeling of insecurity," This portrait of the bogus- theck passer was painted by Dr, John MacDonald at the Ameri- can Psychiatric Association meet- ing in Philadelphia. After a study of 300 check offenders in mental institutions and penitentiaries, the University of Colerado psy- chiatrist found that most of them wrote, hateenecketither "to pur- "dhaeee friends and demonstrate affluence" or to relieve repressed feelings of hostility. Flowers Start New Civil War A rose is a rose is a carnation is a corn tassel,, or why does this geese smell so eweet, and how did those marigolds got in here? Something like this aroma of confusion arose from the U.S. Senate Office Bldg. in the wake Oe a mock hearing on a question which stirs many a gardener: What should be the United States national flower? Three senators and a House member took part in the de- bate. You never saw such furi- ous lobbying. Carnations were pinned on you when you enter- ed, whether you like it or not. Popcorn (a symbol of the corn tassel, see?) flowed like tax- peyers' money, Carnations are the most prac- tical for corsages, contended Representative William H. Ayres of Ohio, and besides the rose is often tied in with trouble. 'Tis frequent in a flower store, he said, that "a man comes in and says. 'Give me a dozen roses, quick, Mama's mad again.'" Then rose Senator Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, a diehard supporter of the corn tassel as the American _flower, "Distinctively American in origin," said the senator, sena- torially. As for the marigold, another ONE CAME RUNNING — Faye Ray makes like a pole vaulter. Only that's a beach umbrella she's wielding and she appears headed for a tumble from dock, umbrella, too. contender in the floral, derby: "It's a good-looking teeth sponge," conceded Senator Douglas, Senator Thruston B. Morton odd Kentucky, who is committed to just plain grass, preferably Kentucky grass, plowed under the corr. tassel: "A purely male plant , . What are we going to do — lose the women's vote?" Senator Hugh Scott of Pene- eylvania, who wouldn't hear a word against roses, stomped in turn on Senator Morton's re- veries of blue-grass. "I don't think he should be so cud-happy." Senator Stott complained. . And he fired back at Senator Douglas, who showered Capitol Hill With a virtual snov:storrn of popcorn all day; "I suggest that the amount of done on Capitol Hill is already sufficient." This' all came about because a garden club in suburban Falls Church, Va., heard about th national flower debate and got Into the act. It borrowed the Senate caucus room and invited the legislators to hold forth on the merits of their choices. Soinetitne the Congress will get around to declaring a ha- aortal flower Maybe. 0...When dririkhrg front a gbh, tio held the gob, lett goblet is held firmly' betWeen thumb and fingers the jetectete Of the top of the stem and the and of the flared part of the goblet, A.VOia spreading your whole hand arOttilit the 'hared top of the ,goblet. Hullo, everybody, are you still yawning after being robbed of that hour's sleep with the clocks changed to Daylight saving time? No good protesting, now 7-- the time to do it was six months ago. But'no 'one thinks of ifthen, and • so. we go on-year -after year,'some people liking the ,change, -some dislike it, others just tolerate it. Oh, well' . . Well,' ite doesn't; seem' possible but,we, certainly need rain: Just imagine that, efter all the snow, ice and near floods we experi- enced just a few short weeks ago. One night recently we had a • thundershewer but it dien't real- ly amount" o anything—not even enough rain to .lay the dust. Seems as if we are never satis- fied with our weather, doesn't it? , And „yet I 'think even • the weatherman will admit we have reaso' 61.7 complaint. However; there isn't much we carn'do about it except be prepared. 'Prepared --erfor what?" you ask. Well, Mean be prepared on a nice day to drop everything and get on with whatever job' has been wait- ing for a. warin,,,sunny day -- whether it's washing ,blankets, putting' in 'garden or cleaning' windows, Fit the day to the deed and you, halve the work. Jobs in the house can wait — many of them cap be dope just as well in wet weather as in dry. That's what I'm telling you . . now just watch me getting caught doing the wrong thingeon. the wrong day. To err is ,human . and I'm human. Partner has been busy digging the vegetable garden and when he comes into the house hear Various grunts and groans. Mus- cles that have been practically inactive all winter are protesting vigorously. Sometimes I tell him to quit. "What's the use of quit- ting?" is his answer. "I've got to get myself into working shape sometime." At that I give up' ar- guing, As for me I am still trying to catch up on a back-log of cor- respondence — letters from fam- ily, friends and "fans." T am Still answering inquiries about a hear- ing aid. Meantime nieces on both sides of our eamily seem to be producing babies wholesale — and all of them boys, -Over in England nephew Desmond was the last surviving male member of ,our branch of 'the Fitz-Gerald clan. He was married and had two little girls — the younger five years old. And then last week- I got word his wife had pre- , sented him with a son — Roger Edward, I was thrilled . . . a son to carry on the Fitz-Gerald name! And of course he had to be an Edwerd, eltholigh I imagine:"he will be called Roger, His great-, great-grandfather was Edward and strange to sae for some time he lived in: the same bonsai Mee' Woodbridge, in Ereeland, at the' same time as Edward Fitz-Ger- aid, poet and translator of Omar Kheyarre We know this because in some of his memoirs' the "poet says "My namesake is. still in the room above me but so far has not yet tried to borrow any more money from mei" just got over that sur- prise — arid it was a surprise — when we got an Arinoundernerit card from niece Bibs (Partner's side Of the family) to say she ' also had a son -..a brother tor two previous girls. 86 again there WAS eatise'-for rejoicing. And there was Einether heir' befri the Clarke: eernily just redently to a nephew and his wife in Atis, tralia. Pia telling yoti, We shall soOn be surfeited with bey ha- heS, That'a: What I thodght Yeeteie day When the Whole tribe *AS hate and never a girl denting- there. Dave,. Eddie, and Jeri*, proudly brought In e btletif ' mayflowers fot grandma, 'Then they 'played around 'ler awhile.. They had. just nicely gone when Ross and: Cedric came along — accompeniecl by theie parents, I, might add. During the week when 'Our" own ,`youngsters are not around a little two-year-old girl from next door comes along and keeps us from being too quiet. There's never a dull mo- 'znent around here. Sometimes it keeps us busy to get in an oc- casional much needed snooze. The' other day I was dead to the world when there came a thun-, derous rapping at the front . . . A little boy on the street couldn't 'find his mother and wanted to know if she were here! I wonder , do 'you ever look at your .grand-children or the children in your'neighbourhood- -;and ponder what kind of a world they :will be called on to face?, Think of that history-making event that has just taken place —the opening' of the. great St. Lawrence Seaway. Today's chil- dren will grow up and take it all for granted. And in ten years time people will zip along Bloor and University Avenue in no time at all. It will be taken very much for granted too and no one will remember the hullabaloo that took place over increased taxes. A lot more farm land will have disappeared and probably no'. one. :will know where To- ronto ends and' Hamilton begins, 'We don't need a crystal ball to show us the future—only a lit- tle common-sense and imagina- tion to make us realise the kind of world all these 'new babies will grow up in. But even imagi- nation cannot forsee ,whether it will be a peaceful or a happier world. However) have a hunch that a"lot of our present troubles will eventually be straightened out. I still hang on to that- faith that I mentioned. last week. New King Of The Movie Box Office Glenn Ford, after- twenty years as an in-and-outer Among Holly- wood's stars, has, suddenly' be- come the biggest box-office draw -in the country at' the' age of 43. -Visited on the set of his .56th picture recently (a comedy, "It Started With a Kiss"), Ford was asked: "How come No, 1?" He quickly threw a monologue on the conversational fire. "I ;haven't the faintest idea,' the -still hoyish-loeking actor de- claret, "Things just began to happen to me when I came to M-Gelel' in 1954. 'Before that I'd ' been at Columbia with Rita Hay- worth .and. Bill Heiden. We all started ,out together. Patience was what I learned at Columbia. But when I did 'Blackboard Jungle' for Richard Brooks at. I was finally allowed to use a lot of theories I'd had stew- ing in the back of my head" for" years. "Like niyklf, Dibiellrboles be- lieves in" the ltrxu*- of impel,- AGENCY q 4,4 oito etr, yolk ,teea full beard for Cuba Or' gpaiiii but it nil& help," fection—using the little things that happen spontaneously when the camera is turning, A door sticking, for example, or when a match, doesn't light on the first stroke. Or, most of all, two peo- ple talking at the same time, A director with courage will say, 'Print it. That's the truth' It's this absence of the old artifici- ality that has matured both movies and movie •audiences. "You can't fool audiences any more. Before, an ideal movie star 'was one .who had the flawless face of a model in a collar adver- tisement. Fortunately the prem- ium now is no longer on beauty but on truth. I'm one of many actors in the business now who don't have to go to the 'correc- tive' make-up department early each morning. I wear no make- up. In that way the lines and flaws in- my face show on the screen. This is 'truth, and people want to see characters on the screen who, are real. "The medium has changed, and possibly that's . why my .career changed too. Hollywood is more and more a 'director's arid writer's medium. The picture with the big-name star is no longer an as- surance, of success., It's now a 'team effort, and as an actor I've been fortunate to find my place,' to fit better into the medium. My approach 'to making ',movies is - simple as falling off 'a dolly. I read a script, and if , I can believe in the character and the story line, I do it. If I can't,, I don't." Another big reason for Ford's current box-offic'e do/affiance 'is that he has appeared recently in several good comedies, and -there is no doubt that movie audiences hunger for fun these days. Glenn Ford comedies do particularly Why? 'Unlike the profes- sional gagman 'movies, Ford in- terpolatee .credible subjectivity in all he does, As he explained it: "I don't play it as comedy but as serious drania. Once an actor thinks he's funny, he's lost the audience. If you examine care- fully each cif the comedies I've been in—'Teahouse of the August Moon,' Don't Go Near the Water,' 'Imitation General'-you'll• find that though the monies aeerbilled as comedies, the leadieg charac- ter is always confronted with a very seefons siteeation.-MY nnew e . picture has the same sort of tech- nique. Maybe that's my- secret," .--Frone.NwswgEic., A woman getting off a bus was seen deliberately tepid:6e aliehkee age on- the seat. kfellow passerr- ger, alighting.at the same time, asked her why. "I do',it every day," was the reply. "RI litisband's lone i. He works in" the' buseLote Prop= erty Office.e ee How Carl I? By Anne Ashley Q. What would be a gond closing to a business letter when one wishes to be as 11t- formal as possible A, "Sincerely yours" is the ac- cepted form. Q, When two, men and two women attend a theatre Loge. titer, in what order should they enter the row In whieb their. ' seats are situated? A. fit is now customary and acceptable for the two women to be seated next to each other. So. one of the men enters the row first, followed by the two .women, and then the second ,man. Q. Just when it is proper for guests to smoke at the dinner table? A. Only when the hostess has made provisions for smoking-- matches, ashtrays, placed on th* table. Otherwise, it is bad man- ners to begin, smoking. Q. Should the dessert spools or fork be placed on the table at the beginning of the meal? A. No; these utensils are brought in with the dessert course. Sugar-Sweet AN NE 141 ST1 reonay cp-wiAgiat SIGHT UNSEEN -4 Head rticl)Veni I bettius* of 6 rack Injury, Roland Voilker, is, Still abler to read a book at 'Vele. ritismetic lenses In his g• iosS0s bring pager lota CAGNEY'S BOAT NOW KIDS' -PLAYGROUND — Youngsters dive into the water from the "Swift", an 18th 'century-design boat once owned by Jimmy Cagney. Jimmy's one voyage aboard her• earl be symmecl 'Op in Pale, Rail," S horny afterward, he sold her. - Daughter looks s-o-o pretty, in .this whirl-skirted pinafore, with colorful embroidery to trim the scoop neck. Button front — she can dress all by herself! Pattern 866: children's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included. Pattern, em- broidery transfer, directions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, - Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Printeelainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, c,your NAME and ADDRESS. , Send for a copy of 1959 Laura `Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It -has-lovely designs to order: em- -broidery, crochet, knitting, weav- ing, quilting, toys. In the book, a ,special surprise to make a lit- tle girl happy — a cut-out doll, &tithes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. FIUNbittoL,OF oteatioearilite retreats- clli Ph Oth ohnUal Wellesley College AO60"taii under Way On th40 Campus, The, race Wag Wan kiiislyd Kearse, who 'will bee Citto-t4 Trig ed local bd.rvic, the first of her dais to Welt, 4.1