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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-06-04, Page 2• quick and efficient secretary, and her boss entrusted her with some ef his private business., Soon she discovered that 1:e. was being unfeithiolig his wife, se either out of greed for mw'e money or disappointed because of his lack of interest in her, she, turned blackmailer, On three oPeaSierla he left • money at a certain Spot, as an anonymous . latter, advised him to 40 if he wished to keep his. guilty secret dark. But when this became too costly he pluck, • - ed courage and. told the police. A trap was set. A package, with . 415 in 'marked notes,. was left. at the foot of an oak, and the Poliee kept watch. The _detective in hiding was. surprised when a pretty fifteen, year-old schoolgirl dismounted from her cycle, went straight to the spot where the package was. buried and retrieved it.. "What are you going to do with that?" asked the officer. "I can't tell you," replied. the child firmly, "Then perhaps you will tell me who you are. What; is your name, please?" She told the detective her name, and the coal merchant's blackmailer was revealed to be her elder sister. Fashion Page' Flash PRINTED PA1 4874 SIZES 10-18 ' Spring's must flattering shirt- waist features a dashing,• curved collar above a shapely waist and a skirt-ful of upressed pleats. Casual in cotton — dramatic for evening in fluid silk print, Printed Pattern 4874; Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 15 requires 51/2 yards 35-inch fab- ric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY 'CENTS (50e) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly 'S I Z E, NAME, ADDRESS,, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS„ Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 23 — 1959 PST Famkey tr "zettslAe-eart, "Dear .",4nn First:e. rst: Four years ago, when I Was 15, II Married a Men 10 years older; eny parents Objected violently, but I was one whoa knew everything. New we have a darling little girl, and it is chiefly for her sake that I seek your advice . Her father has been drinking all this time (which I did not know till I mar- ried), and he is getting worse. He mistreats me physically so that I am actually afraid of him. "So far I've been able to pre- vent our little girl's seeing him at such times, but I calla tell how long I can keep that up. Strangely enough, he is crazy about her and she loves. him with all her heart, Ile has to be away from home now and then, but when he is here, he drinks al- most all the time. Be tells neigh- bors that I am a spendthrift, and spreads tales that I see other men in his absence. He give me So little money that I am almost without decent clothes, and I have to count every dime. The pnly places I go are to church and an pccasional movie with my little girl. "I know you will tell me to leave my husband, but I haven't the heart itiee,keparate these two. I expect be w„iliedrink more as he grows older, yet how can I let her know what sort of father she has? I must act soon, and I'll do anything you say. DESOLATED" SLIM HOPE * Your husband must know * how miserably he has failed * as both man and father. To * spread tales of your loyalty is * monstrous. I am afraid that • your only appeal is through * his love for the child. There * lies your strength, Not for long * can he conceal his weakness. * You will have to make him un- * derstand that if he does not * transform himself into 'a de- * cent, right-living citizen you * will take her from him, be- * cause You refuse to allow his * influence to darken her life. * The time for him to change_ * is not next year, nor next • month, but today. If he Will * not consent you will have to * 'carry out your threat, and * promptly. * If he realizes this is a crisis, ,* and 1,v,ille clo, his part, you will * be as Patient .,.as you can to • help hire! •Win Out. Perhaps it * is not too late, It is up to him, SISTER STEPS IN "Dear Anne Hirst; I am 16, and must consult you,, on a serious problem:' My boy friend aelred• my sister to a dance, and though she is two years older I'm afraid . she likes him. (My mother for Entertpinin eeeSee-. • 65f reauta Meg& Dress up a luncheon table w :Xi this set — a large doily as centerpiece, smaller as place Wats, Sc, 'loped border enhances gracer'ul oval shape, Pattern 060: direcnuns for 20 x 304ribli doily; Malch.ng ones 12V2 x 20 and 7 x 12 inches in No. 30 cotton. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (Stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this patto a to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., ,New' To: on tO, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER)• your NA and ADDRESS. Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It Schd for a copy of 19591 Laura has lovely designs to order: gni- broidery, croehet,-knitting, weav- ing, quilting, toys, In the book) Special surprise to Make a little haPpY tut-hilt doll, clothes, to color, Sedn dents tor this book, "r:Atje. 141r to dateobirn as usual, but keep her out of the way.) "Ho tells rue he loves me, but friends say I'm, foolish to hang on to him, they call him. a flirt „ If be should ask me to marry him, shall accent? BROWN EYES" • If the lad has the reputation * of being flirtatious, why take * him seriously? Why believe * that he loves you when he * even invites your sister out? * He seems determined to play * the field; if:you can enjoy * facing such competition go * ahead, but I am afraid you will * only get hurt, Should he pro- pose (which I doubt) postpone • your answer until he has * proven it is only you he cares * for. * As for your sister, why don't * you and the young man go for * a walk or visit friends? It * isn't probable she wo eild * invite herself to accompany * you, and maybe she will * eventually get the idea she is intruding, * * Miracles do happen in this, world, and one can always pray the,t the love of a little child wills a strong man. Anne Hirst's long experience and concern for troubled read- ers have brought new hope to those who seek her counsel. Write her at Box, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Graham Goes Big Down Under Resting in his Sydney hotel, the Rev. Dr, Billy Graham open- ed his Bible, closed his right eye, and read with perfect ease the twentieth verse of Psalm 66: "Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer; nor his mercy from me." "You see," said the ebullient evangelist last month, "I am almost completely recovered." Actually, Dr. Graham says he regards as proyidential the eye trouble which afflicted ' him three months ago, impairing the vision in his left eye and delay- ing the start of his Down Under crusade, "I know the Lord meant it,', he :explains. "It creat- ed• a tension ,withoutwhich the Austrelian. - mission might not have been such a triumph." Rarely, indeed, had such crowds • turned out to hear Billy. One Sunday at the finale SydFi'. ney meeting, he broke his OWn record with an audience of150;44•St 000 spread 'over two stadiunis. The total attendance in friez__ weeks "iii' Sydriey Paine' 000,..''decisions for' Christ";fiuVil-,: ,.,b,ered '56;730' = rnere'°114, the sixteen-week.:16ruside Sin' New :York's vast Oppulatione• earea.ln 1957, In his nine weeks of Crusading 'in AuStralia and. New Zealand, the far-roving evangelist has faced more than 2 million persons. 'More impreisive to Dr. Gra- ham himself, however, was the geographical range. Aside from these two nations it included, through wireless and tape re- cordings, the islands as far north as Papua and as far east as Fiji. "I'm dizzy with the thought of what has happened in this area," he said. Next month, after short cru- sades in. Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, the evangelist will be he/Tie in Montreal, N,C. "Then," says Billy Graham, throwing up his arms, "I'm going to have two and a half months clear -- en- tirely with my kids." Next ma- jor domestic 'crusade target: In- dianapolis. —From NEWSWEEK. H R 6.1-1 A T HALO — Sister Mary Madonna VIeSciti d Civil rani. Defense helmet-. in her role cis *vat:nation director for St. Mary's Hospited, ctutirio db ex- *tits's. WW.Pr •8P.;,P.P4 They walk 'like drunks, talk like drunks, end act like drunks, but they don't drink anything except. water, This, London doc- • . tors said recently,. is the -"hydro- the compulsive water • drinker. Reporting on the eases. of seven female and. two male , hydrOlieS at St, Thornaa'S pital, the . physicians said, that when a water addict downs suf- ficient quantities of the stuff Oft to 30, pints a day) his. blood • becomes so diluted that ,alco- holic4ike symptoms set in, right down to the morning-alter hangover, .And it's usually much harder to kick the water habit, "After all," s.a.i.d one doctor, "we can lock up the whisky, but what can we do about the water? We can't actually nniz.-. zle the faucets to keep „hydrolics saber all the time." History's A Hit The Tin Pan Alley trend to- ward 'the folk ballad which pro- duced "Tom. Dooley" is hotter than ever. The fastest-selling record in the U;S. last month was "The Battle of. New Or- leans," based on an old 'fiddle tune which was written to honor Andrew Jackson's rout of the British at New Orleans on' Jan..- 8, 1815., Originally titled ""Jack- son's itibi"ni'ye" it was rater. re- named "The Eighth of January!' Now, in a pseudo-folksy martial' version sung by 20-year-old Johnny Horton' who accom- panies himself on the kuitar,- the Columbia record has,solei three- quarters of a million records in less than a month. Asked to speculate about the success of his new d i s k, the. Texas singer remarked: 'Teeple, are just more history-conscious now. Maybe because .they're so scared about the future that they'd rather think about the past." lcid matter what the 'weather The baby crop. • Come-4wind or there is;,,one crop that never;fails. ,rain,, heat wave or, blizzard, it makes no difference, they come -= anyway, 'those little bundles of joy, We have a new arrival right next door to us. Last Wednesday, I took the,4riother •to. our local hospital for' a 'blood' test j 'while Partner took charge of.' her small datighter, Next morning the mother,. went to the hospital again."hat time it was.a hurry- , up call. The.baby was born three weeks • ahead' of time. It was a, boy and mother and son are do- ing fine so everybody is,happy. Another day we. were over to a farm ten ,. miles from here where 'the nucleus of another crop' was .being 'seeded. The. fields looked , awfully dry and we hayen't, had a rain since sO' I an sure .most farmers are getting quite anxious. -However,' -there •have been dry" spring seasons befere-at which time the farmers- were 'sure the 'seed would be blOwn away. And then a life- saving' rain would saturate the fields, -the oats, • barley and .pas- ture fields would come to life and the farmers forget their past worries.' The age-old saying still holds good — springtime and AT CANNES—The annual film harvest never fail.- One year can festival at Cannes, France; at- be better than another; isolated tracts many of the movies'• top sections may be hailed, dried or names.. Relaxing at 'the Riviera •eaten out, but there has never resort is actress Dawn Addams. yet been a crop failure from one end of Canada to 'the other. True, there may be regional failures. It so often happens one part of the country may be dry and the other wet, But nature has a way of maintaining a balance, al- though to the individual it often doesn't look that way. On yet another day I was at our local W.I. meeting at which the District President was speak- ing. It was an enjoyable, infor. anal but very worthwhile Meet- ing.• The President did not give an address as is usually the cus- tom but discussed with us prob- lems in. Institute work, Actually our branch president had writ, ten to her ahead of time,' asking a number of questions to which she hoped the answers might, be O given from the platform. thought that was really an ex- cellent idea. One question was how and where money should be spent. This is soften quite a weighty problem as the secre- tary receives so mare,. sir-eats from outside organizations. The District President con- tended that our own branch ex- penses should be looked after first. Delegates to the. District Annual, Officers' Conference and Area Convention should have their exherises paid by their branch. She thought that if dele- gates give their time it is tit much as we should expect• from there, They should hot also Out of pocket. She also stressed, as so Many Provincial Officers have done in the past, that Money-making project should not be the main Objective in W.I. work. We should be setts-, fled, if we raise sufficient funds to look after branch expenses' and local appeals — such as tome froth regional hospitals, old age. homes, school for retardedi chil- dren and the Children'S Aid So, Iliovincial and Federal W.I. expenses- are covered by the amount 'deducted by Head Office 'from our annual membership fees except in the case of spe- cial 'appeals. I couldn't have agreed more with the District President's re- marks. I have seen more' than one WI, branch lose members and finally disband because too many demands, were made upon its members, mostly for fund- raising activities. At one time keeping pace with local organizations was easy. Most women' found time to work for their church and the W.I. But now there are so many organi- zations a public - spirited club- woman could be away from home every day of the week. More than one person has had a nervous breakdown through trying to keep pace with, home 'responsibilities and too many outside activities. There is a club for this, a society'for.that, auxi- liaries for hospitals, schools, vet- erans and masons, In fact most men's clubs have women's ,auxin liaries. Before she realizes what is happening the average house- wife, urban and rural, finds her- self so involved she doesn't.know which way to. turn. We need to take' an interest in community activties but not to the point .of exhaustion. The same principle applies ,to children. .,I am 'thinking now of one eleven-year old girl, in parti- cular. A bright, intelligent child who learns easily. Yet she Makes little progress at school and 'may not be promoted next fall. Why? She is out every night of the week — to dancing classes, music lessons, Girl Guides or dramatic school. And every week some one' is having a birthday party. The child is high strung and pro- bably tired out before the day begins. How can any child keep up with her school work with so much after-school activity? The responsibility 'obviously be- longs to the parents, No child's health 'and education should be sacrificed for the sake of Over- arribitions parents. And yet it is 'often done although a, happy, carefree growing tip period is a child's natural heritage. At least, it should be. Little Tommy had been fas2 ciliated by his first trip to the ballet. On the way home he said to his mother: "I don't know why all the girls had te stand on their toes, Why can't they just get taller girls?" 'take' ill's had:, please, and Ind a pink one; rtit re- ddebtetting the mate" Girls Who Lend Double Lives By day she was a perfect se- cretary in a shipping office honest, respectable, reliable. Sy night she was .a young wildcat wile went out robbing shops and houses with a gang of reckless Yottnger Qintalsi Returning ier lodgings at_ ter a day's work, she discarded her well-tailored business cos- t u e, donned a sweater and tight-fitting red jeans, and tied up her hair in pony-tail fashion. Then she went off to a cafe in. London's East End, where she 'joined her gang. This double life lasted for several months, Then, a short time ago, Janet, the 24-year-old Scots girl, blundered. Acting as look- .out for the gang which was car-ramming a tobacconist's shop, she screamed a warning as corner. But policema n rner . it was too late: • her, boy rounded the street friends had already crashed in- to the shop, •The policeman grab- bed her wrist. She bit him and with her free hand punched him in the face, but he held on. When Janet was put op trial and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, h e r employers were astounded, It couldn't he she; insisted jhe shipping office's chief clerk. She always seemed to him, and to all her business colleagues, such a quiet, consci- entious girl. 'Like certain other' people, Janet suffered from• a split per- sonalitY, a Jekyll and Hyde complex. Sometimes this com- plex plays havoc with a per- son's romantic life. A beautiful 28-year-old South African girl, Sonia, goes through agonies because of her dual personality. She finds her- self quite unable to love one. person wholeheartedly. She craves for the affections of twu 'entirely different types of men. One is a lad of eighteen just starting a career, the other a mature man of the world in his late forties. An orphan, Sonia recently consulted a psychiatrist about her' problem. She seemed to be .suffering, he ,said from repres- sion at pot having a brother or tether. Her nearest approach to hap- ' piness sees her shuttling be- tween her two loves. This leads to curious complications. A few weeks ago her older man friend, a mining:engineer, met with .a serious accident, break- ing his leg and three ribs. 'He expected her to visit him the next day, but she said she couldn't because that day she had a -date 'with her younger boy 'friend! A more piquant if more read- ily understandable double' life. is being lived by Yvonne, a 23-year-old dancer, a girl of .French parentage, but since na- -turalized in this 'country. Her father died 'because he was, too fond of 'the wine bottle. This' has made the .girl a strict tee- totaler who hates wines as' a drink, yet it has an irresistible and , secret fascination for her. For, according to a close friend, she saves all her spare mbrtey and spends it on good, quality white wine. Then, when she• has accumulated sufficient stock, she pours it all into her bath and• wallows 'in it! "She seems enormously re vived in vitality whenever she's had one of her white wine baths," says her friend. Angela, a twenty-six-year-old Midland girl, werked in a coal merchant's office. She was a AtittilAta,fithitb tfahley .Y;ankus- With.h farm.* on their Way to life the. tebel.. fct rtner N. :leaving the toUntry beedUSi tedOral Str,44ibria., 'holdS daughter' Karen, gelaW him` our' sons berifilii kfti. oriel 'Ituiseff, Q. Is it proper to repeat a person's name when • yen are acknowledging an introduc- tion? A. This is not only proper, but practical, too — because too many people fail to remember the names of 'persons to wham they are introduced. Repeating the naine, as, "How do you do, Mrs. Vance," helps to imprint the name in your memory. Q. Seine of my friends, when they Catch my eye in church, Smile, bow, or etiave their hands - at me, even though the service Is going on. Is this Proper? A. Ordinarily, in church, you they smile at a friend — but never actually bow, To wave the hand is exceedingly wrot g. Q. When a man is the guest of another man in a restaurant or other eating place, is he sun- posed to there the tip for the Waiter? A. No. The tip is one oft he obligations of his host. When eating grapes et the table, how does one feineve the seeds Mini the Mouth? A. These should be removed as tutobstrusively as ,possible with the fingers. Nev&i under any" ciretimstaiiceS- be guilty of dropping them' directly froth the mouth •Onto the plate! -4. May the bride *eat her engagernent ring to her Wedding', end have her bridegroom put the Wedding ring :above A, Nci, Cr! her wedding day, s bride tither 'IeaVes her engage- Meta king at liorne, or wears it on her right hand, Modern Etiquette In Roberta Lee HONEYMOONERS — As they arrived In New York from the • West Coast, newlyweds:Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie.Fisler were weary but happy. They were married in Las Vegas and• were planning to go on to'.Spain.