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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-10-08, Page 6_NNE .14.1 liof44 F PONCHO BUILT FOR TWO — "Togetherness" has invaded the fashion world, Making its debut is a Siamese poncho, rust about the first garment designed to be worn by two people at the same time. Aimed at the college set, Sancho is the thing to take along to a football game an a windy Saturday afternoon„ its maker says. tsso re", ••••••biallho, /74exei•Atwo ONICLES INGE RM RFA GweadoLinz P. Clarke "Dear (Anne Iiitat: When. we bought our name five years. ago,. T. offered to ge to work to help pay for it if my husband. 'would take over the housework and ore' for .1",1,0: two youngsters. (Ho is a writer, and does it at home). lie promised, I could count the. times he's washed the windows or the kitchen floor, and the • whole. house is so neglected I am Ashamed of it. "My schedule is trying.• I sel- eheni finish at home before 11 01elocle, what with getting dinner, putting the children to bed, cleaning and ironing, etc. I . wouldn't mind it at all if he'd only suggest a night out now and then, when my mother would mind the children, But he just reeds the paper and falls asleep: (He is a moody person while I'm lively and love people, Our friends don't drop in any more, he is too unsociable.) "He is suspicious, too; he says I'm the kind that attracts men, but even if I wanted to haven't the time. I am very fond of him, but T am overwork- ed with little'hop,e, of relief and his lack of 'appreciation makes me feel like a 'housekeeper, What can you do with a" man like this? WORN OUT' * I think you should tell your * husband 'that unless he keeps * his part of the bargain you ▪ will give up your job and * manage on his income. That " would be a pity, for the chi)- " dren's expenses' will increase • with the years, and with less Teacher's Pet PRINTED PATTERN * 4747 zing ty.1 asti; The s'nirtdress — fall's top fashion for big and little girls, Daughter will love the convert- ible collar, roll-up sleeves and wide, wide skirt. Easy-to-sew and smart for school, Printed Pattern 4747: Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Size 6 takes 2.i yards 39-inch. Printed directions on each pat- tern part, Easier, accurate, Send FORTY CENTS (40e — stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER.. Send order to ANNeE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 EighteentheSe, New Toronto, Ont. te- * money coming brunt of * the burden would. stilt fall on "•rots„ • Yell:cannot continue burning the candle as you've been clo- y0 you know; .you say Y911 * are losing weight, 'find your a spirits sink as the months go. * by. You have no business do, ing heavy household tasks, for e instance, anti you needarecrea.- * Lion to balance your heavy * schedule. Something will give e way, and then what will hap- * pen? * At- his age, your husband * cannot change his tempera- * ment, but he can surely toss you a kind word now and, then and see that you take time out * for fun; it would cost him small effort, but it would re- * rive your spirits and help keep * you youne. You would be a * better wife and mother for it, too. allow little some men * know about women)! * I hope you will not have to • give up your position, but if * nothing else will move the man, make the threat and act upon * it. e "Dear Anne Hirst: I am 22, and I went steady for over a year with the most wonderful boy friend a girl could have, Then for no reason I ever understood, we broke up. I see him uptown and at dances, and he always brings me home and tells me how much he loves me „ "But he has never asked Me for another date! "I hear that once another girl jilted him. Could he still be in love with her though she's mar- ried now? I keep praying we will get back together, and though I have other dates sometimes. I just break down and cry! SICK WITH LOVE" * Wherever this young man'left * his heart, it is not with you. 4 If he really' cared, he would * not allow an earlier disappoint- * meat to keep him away. * See him as the weak and * selfish person he is, and keep busy with other friends. When • you see him be casual, and * don't let him bring you home * again; that only keeps you * emotionally upset, He 'enjoys • making flattering speeches, but * why suffer such frustrating ' grief. And for what? * * A woman can spoil her hus- band by taking too much res- ponsibility and working beyond her strength. If this is your pro- blem, write Anne Hirst about It and receive her sympathy and practical ideas. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. New Method Of Striking Oil Belgian peasant Auguste Mans thought he had struck oil. Har- vesting potatoes recently on his farm at Gozee, 35 miles south of Brussels, be noticed a' strong smell of fuel—and it wasn't coming from his tractor. Where the smell was strongest, Mans started digging. And 'there, buried 21e feet down, he found a small iron spigot—leaking high-test aviation gasoline. Al- ready it had seeped out into 2 acres of Mans' pasture, Called in to investigate, Belgi- an authorities gave a shamefaced explanation: The spigot had been honked onto an under- ground NATO pipeline which carries vital jet fuel from the pert of Antwerp to Belgium's Florenna: air baae. All told, some 25,000 gallons had been lost before Mans stumbled onto the leak. Was it sabotage? NATO offi- cials thought not. The best bet: SoMe .enterprising Belgian had tasseled the pietteline to try to get free fuel for his car. Old Spitfire Has: Its Final Fling She was only a weary old Spitfire - Number SI., 574— but they loved her just..the sam. After all, she was the lest of a long and glorious line of light- They called her "Sugar Love„ and no one — least of all the Air Vice Marshall who piloted her in her final Battle of Brie Win fly-past — expeeted, her to. crash on the Oxo cricket pitch, But Sugar Love, 'making de- finitely her last appearance in the Skies over London on a $nn- day afternoon of remembrance for "the few," did just that. Wearing wartime colours, she had flown at low altitudes past the saluting base at the Horse Guards. Parade, Below her wings stood the Prime Minister and the. Leader of the Opposition, hats off in tribute. Moments later, the statue of another proud British fighter of the past, Admiral Horatio Nel- son, slid past beneath in Trafal- gar Square as Sugar Love, ac- ' companied by a vintage Hurri- cane, streaked for home base. Then today's jet fighter plans swooshed past much faster — new planes that ..have not yet proved themselves in all - out' combat. Translated into railroading terms., these were the new Die- sel locomotives of the air. And Sugar Love was just ,a lovable; trustworthy, wheezing old steam engine, lumbering along. Yet 'hi her day, like old 999, nothing could touch her for speed and punch. • Sugar Love was "one of the last flyable remnants. of the 20,- 000. Spitfires and 14;000 ,Hueri- cenes which took .on. elle hard job of bestingetlee'v'aunt6d'Lult- weefe in World-War II days. But, alaS,'eier Crystal Palace, Sugar Loves s"'ancient. piston . . MISS. MISS — Lynda Lee Mead, former Miss Mississippi, was crowned Miss America in At- lantic City, engine grew weary of whirling that big propeller. It coughed and stuttered, Despite the ef- forts of skillful Air Vice Mar- shal Harold Maguire, who with a handful of Britain's best flew the Spits and Hurricanes in the crucial autumn d a y s of 1940, Sugar Love nosed down, writes Henry S. Howard in The Chris- tian Science Monitor, Over Bromley, Maguire and Sugar found what they were lookIng for — a sports field in which to pancake down, Fortuns ately, it was teatime, and the players were walking off the field. It was the last game of the season and Oxo was ahead 120 for 9 against the old 1-101. lingtonians when Sugar Love dropped in unexpectedly. - It was Sugar Love's last mis- sion, of course. She broke pro- peller, undercarriage, and one wing. But pilot Maguire was ve- tla maged. So, fortunately, was the playing surface. Typically, everyone finished tea, including 'Marshal Maguire, who apologized, for upsetting the game. Then they pushed Sugar Love gently beyond the playing field's boundary, Sugar would understand that. After all, the game had to go on. P.S, Sugar Love will recover gild spend the pest of her days in a museum hangar with other famous wartime fighter planes, But she and her surviving bre, thren now are banned from fly- ing over the heavily -populated areas they 'once se gallantly de- {fended. Anticipated in the Market thli year is ati ultrasonic dishwasher. sound -Stetted. SO high it calm riot be heard agitates' the waft. IMO Millions of tiny bulablet Whith blast dirt Off dishes in half the time of toriitoltionat 4.4Stit it 1056 From tropical heat to killing frost — that was quite a record for the first week of September, wasn't it? Inside of twenty-four hours people were saying — "My, isn't it cold?" But not 1 . . • no sir, I had no complaints at all,, except that I didn't like to see the garden and market produce nipped by the frost. It was quite a blow ter-those hav- ing garden stuff to sell, It didn't make much afference to us because we had very little of anything' left in the garden any- way, and what was there the frost wouldn't hurt — like beets and turnips. Remember the meeting I mentioned last week? Well, we won out against the Planning Board. Against them, or with them — we are not sure which' way they really wanted the vote to go. Anyway, all the property owners in this imme- diate district rose up in a body to protest the construction and operation of a store or stores in this locality. So we remain as we were — 11.1 Residential. So that little worry is over. It stirred up quite a lot of intereet in the district, only about two families were without represen- tation at the meeting, The de- cision restored our, confidence in the power of the people. We pro- tested and our protests were given courteous consideration. Incidentally this meeting coin- cided with the first public ap- pearance in the 'United States of Nikita Khrushchev. In fact I rather think his visit had some influence at our meeting. The Planning Board were anxious to prove our rights as citizens of a free Democracy so we 'were given every opportunity to ex- press our views, individually and collee Next day I took a friend al- ong With me and we went to a very different meeting — our ,first W.I. get-together since early summer, It was a large meetingg maybe partly because it vs e held in a very lovely country home. Actually it was' a • farM but several years ago the own- ers found it inipracticel, ito op- erate as a farm, it being almost impossible to get reliable hired help. So they turned all the acre- age into forage crops, tore &Am the rambling old farm liaise, Cleared out enough bush to :snake a scenic setting and built them- selves a beautiful raridh house Overlooking ravine,' That IS what I call country living et its best — for those who eat afford to do It, And 'sometimes it is not to Muth a Matter of money es of Wise planning; setif being alive the petentialitieS of farm property Without the 'burden of farming: A certain amount revenue can nattrally 'be obtain-, ed from grazing, renting PaS., ture or selling hey. In this cash' I imagine the man' Of the family lied some ratans of livelihood Other 'than ferreting Sunday' we visited farm friends. in Dufilerin County — getting on in years, only them- selves to keep and yet working far beyond their strength, al. though they only have a fifty- acre farm, They have even stopped taking a daily paper be- cause half the time they don't have time to read it. It is an- other case of most of the work and cash returns going back to the farm to support the ani- mals that, properly speaking, should be supporting the peo- ple themselves. We think their main trouble is over-anxiety to make good. They have had big- ger "vet" bills in their few- years of operation than we had all the time we were farming Nearly every cow that freshens has milk eever, probably through Over-feeding before calving. We feel sorry to see the poor dears working so hard, especially as they seem t ()think it unavoid- able. It is another case of not seeing the woods for the trees, Less work end more planning would help considerably. And what do you think they had to show us — nothing more or less, than an "imbecile calf". 'What manners) dour shoes. off and we're only engaged II" Should A Doctor Tell The Truth? 01 all the difficult decisions a physician must face, none is, more tormenting than this; Should a hopelessly ill patient be told that he is going to die? The problem is ,as old as mech., eine itself; and now, with the number of deaths from Paneer `and ether ehronio-.ailments lag as the life don increases. the issue has become even mote acute, In Britain recently, Dr. Harley Williams, editor of. The Chest and Heart Bulletin, determined "to bring this matter into the, open forum of serious public discussion," He invited several eminent British physicians and clergymen to write a series of signed Articles entitled " Should the Dying Be Told?" Se far, three issues of the bulletin have carried the articles and by last week Dr. Williams' project bad aroused considerable dis- cussion all over Britain. "On the whole," Dr. Williams explaine d, "physicians have fought shy of telling patients that they are suffering from an incurable disease like cancer be- cause in nine eases out of ten the patients will lose the great- est tranquilizer of all—hope," Yet of the six authors who have presented their views so far, only one — Dr, John C. Roberts, a consultant at Harefield Hos- pital in Middlesex — argued that the truth can kill. The other authors all main- tain that a patient who asks a doctor for the facts should he told the truth — if only to give him time to put into order his affairs, his will, and his soul. Among ,the arguments: . "When a patient asks for a statement of the exact state of affair's," said Dr. Maurice Da- vidson, a retired consulting Phy- sician, "the doctor must at all costs answer. To evade this obligation . . . is, in my subnlis- sion, a breach of medical ethics . . . Of course, there are no hard and fast rules as to how the truth should be told, A doctor's fundamental knowledge of human nature and his voca- tional training should have edu- cated him to this end," "I scarcely think it is possible to conceal from a patient for any length of time the serious- ness of his condition," the Rev. Alphonsus. Bonner, a Catholic priest of East Bergholt in Essex, suggested. "He soon begins to suspect, and the suspicion with its accompanying worry can have quite as deleterious an effect as a definite pronounce, meat • of the fatal character or the disease." "Many of my patients are We had never heard of such an animal so I asked to- see it. It was a queer creature without a doubt. About three months old — undersized, pot-bellied, running eyes, ears back and showing little activity. Laet week the vet was the,re to see a sick cow so they asked him ;to look at 'the calf-4=- which, by the way, was ,,tavo weeks, prematUre at birth andadenied normal care by its ,thotheri.''Ao.C1,, that 1)as what the, vet told themee— it Was an imbecile calf, Has any other farmer had a similar expericade? We had a _lovely cross-country drive — with Bob, Joy and the two little fellows. And Bole had a surprising bit of news for use Apparently a reader Of" thfi cet: tunn — from the Sarnia district. — was trying to locate us. Couldn't 'find us but tracked down. Bob instead. According to this reader he acid: Adiatily.,s. had followed the clOingi 'at ,ger Farm for, years and. practi- cally watched our family gratV up. Bob-. dialxf.taawrite, down,..,, his , name and has somehow forgot- ten it. So7thi?.11 toy" say "thanlc„, you" to .`'SarniaIteadee ,fori your interest and we, hope, we, shall be seeing you soon:' children," Dr, M, G. Walkitlsoi , orthopedic surgeon,, at Rink Holley liospitel in Essex, re- marked, have found that they clo not look to us for but they do expect coin Plate integrity„ It they stria pea that they are being de- ceived, they become miserable. I. think that sick and frightened adults have fundamentally the 'same sort of feelings!' Modern Etiquette :fatficlorne4ryl,":danif tosorleih"nntriVy site best produce this scent? kept. Q. Roberta tieP box in which the stationery is the best way to do this is to put a sachet bag in the drawer or This is quite all right, and Q. _Is really considered prop Q. have' recently noticed some women twearing rings over their gloved fingers. Is this cor- "vAt.?No, it isn't. It's all right to wear bracelets over the gloves, but not rings. Q. My husband and I are the godparents of a frie'nd's Now that we are expecting a child of our own, is it necessary that we ask these friends to be godparents of our baby? A, This is not at all necessary, Q. Would it be proper to iaL; vite both men. and women to a bridal shower? A. Usually, when men are in- cluded, they are asked to corn* in later after the bride has open- e;a1 her gifts, However, if tho affair is to be. a ehousehold shower," instead of a; personal one, the men could be asked. Modern Wall Drama Slim, long, elegant panels — newest approach to decorative drama. Use narrow *ernes. 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