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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-7-23, Page 2SA•LAft TEAu 17� ANNE HIRST 11-- *Wit Fafray Courra4acrt, "Dear Anae Hirst: My daughter is heartbroken over. her first love .atfa!r. She had gone with this nice boy for nearly a year, and they are both 17, A month ago, he told her they were too young to go steady. "He told his mother he loves my girl, but doesn't know what he wants to do. Recently lie's been going with a fast crowd, and he's changed so much. My 'daughter is a good girl; she doesn't Line Of Flattery n R4746 34-48 IS/Amt. -04/ansf Temperature going up—up—up but you're cool and 'comfortable! Ventiral seaming; .creates themost flattering line for you—gives you a taller, slimmer look! Remember, this dress is easy-to-cut—designed to fit your fuller figure! Pattern R4746; Women's Sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 36 requires 33/41 yards:35 inch fabric; 4 yard contrast. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Hasr) complete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY -FIVE CENTS (35c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send o r de r to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. smoke or drink which is rare now- adays. "I've reminded her she has plen- ty of time •t0 • meet someone else, but she says she caauot stop think- ing of Rini. I wish I knew how to comfort herl "The trouble is, while she kept steady company with him she lost contact with other friends. Please advise Inc. I wrote you once be- fore, and I thank you for your an- swer, It has been a great help. A Very Worried Mother" PANGS OF FIRST LOVE * Few of us would relive our * first love affair. The pangs that * mark its end strike too deep. * Susceptible young 'Hearts feel * their world has crashed .. , Don't * let your girl feel guilty that she * cannot forget this boy. That * wouldn't be natural. Time, and * other dates will dull the edge * of her grief. * It should not take long for her * to get back with her former * friends. Summer brings picnics, * excursions and • other informal * outings that attract group par- * ties, and the boys and girls she * knows in her church will not let * . her be lonely long. Yon can plan * some of these get-togethers with * her, and start a wider social life * for her again. " Incidentally, since this young * man is experimenting with a dif- * ferent crowd it is well that she * does not date him. Later," when * he learns to discriminate, he'll * probably appreciate her more * than ever. * I hope that other teenagers • who read this column will take * heed of your daughter's sad ex- * perience and distribute their * dates among all their friends. * Then, if one boy gets restless * (as young boys will) they will * not be left alone. * Your daughter is, as you say, * an intelligent girl, ands smart, * too, She will not make this mis- * take again. Your assurance that * her plight is not uncommon will * help reconcile her just now, and * guide her in the future. * • How fortunate you are that * she confides in you * * * , ,TO "UNHAPPY" Marriage be- tween cousins (I presume you mean first cousins) was long prac- ticed all over the world, including, this: country. Then came a period of disapproval, which still obtains in many communities. The objection lies, of course, in the children c' such a union. Sometimes both parents inherit the same unfortunate traits (physical or mental) which can be passed on to their offspring, though .I ant told this does not always occur. The present consensus seems to be that such parents take no more chances than others. It is safest that both these young `people consult a physician who knows the family history of each, andrtake hie advice, * * * ACT OF A CAD "Dear Anne Hirst: The most Snowball Fight In July? --Russel Green, 9, holds a placard adver- tlsing his unique summer treat—nice, cold snowballs, which he's been hoarding in the family's deep freezer. Russel only intended to sell them for cooling -off purposes, but the little boy at left thinks it's a fine time to revive a favorite winter sport, awful thing has happened to tate!. A boy I met recently asked me fpr. a date. I knew his reputation, and refused, Now 'ile's spreading a naso ty story about mel "Nolte of, nay friends will believe I'm sure. But what Of acquains. lances, and other people whose re- spect I want too? "Isn't this a pretty rotten thing fo do? It there any way he can be Stopped? FRIGHTENED" * Tell your father, or another *-male :relatitle. Ile will know how * to handle such a cad,"—That is,' * if you are so frightened you feel... * a stop must be put to, it. * "After years ofknowing that *''Some' people stoop to contemn- * tible lies' I've e concluded the beat' * way to handle the matter is to * ignore it * This revolting character' has * added one more item to his un- * savory' reputation. Don't worry,° * about it. Others 'know what he * is, and will only laugh hint down, * * Young girls who date oily one: boy 'are apt, some sad day, to find him gone. Make all the friends you can: handle'whtle you are young, It'•pays .•,-. Anne Hirst 'is here to adv:ee you. Address her at Box 3, 123 Eighteenth St. New 'Toronto, Ont. TV STUFF It was five minutes before the end of a tense Army-Navy football game. The score was 28-28; Army had worked the ball to the Navy three - yard line. The stands were in an uproar. Suddenly a man who had been following, the fray on his television set snapped off the current. "What's the idea?" cried his out- raged guests, "We'll miss the most exciting part." "I know," admitted the host, "but d0 you think I'm going toget caught in that mob ?" LIKE FATHER A prominent radio announcer took his young daughter to a church din- ner. The parson incited the young- ster to say grace. She bowed her Bead and said, "These victuals, good friends, are coning to you through the courtesy of Almighty God•" HowCan1? By Roberta Lee Q. What is the most efficient method of drying a sweater after washing, so that it will not get out of shape? A.• Make a hammock of a piece of mosquito netting or other thin material. Hang this hammock in the sun and lay the sweater on it, Be sure that the hammock is drawn out flat so the sweater is not doubled up. Q. How can I prevent the tar- nishing of brass articles such as candlesticks and fixtures? A. Try lacquering them. They will not tarnish and also will not require as much polishing, Q. How can I clean artificial flowers? A. Put them into a jar of clean., ing fluid, seat, and shake well. All soil will disappear. Q.• How can I dry a wet book? A. Do not dry near a lire, or it will warp. If water has been spilled on a cherished book, place some blotting paper on each side of the wet leaves and press with a moderately warns iron, treating each leaf separately. -, Thetithe leaves will neither, warp nor wrinkle. Q. How can I clean soiled candles? A. Wipe over the soiled candles with a cloth dampened with alco- hol. This will nor harm their luster. Q How can I treat scars that havebeen left on the face by pimples?' A. Bathe then regularly with a solution of boracic acid, followed by an application of z'nc oint- ment. ' Q. How can I relieve perspiring hands? A. Try applying two or three times a day, or at least nightly, an astringent lotion consisting of one part borsele acid to twenty' parts of water, and then dust with talcum. powder., Q. How can I remove auto. mobile grease stains from a gar- ment? A. Rub lard on the'psots, then wash in cold' water, followed by a washing in waren water. This will remove all stains. • Q. How can I mend a loose umbrella handle? A. Poor some melted resin or sulphur into the hole. Quickly force iu the umbrella and rod. and hold for a few minutes until the substance hardens, Q. How can I prepare cabbage sauce? A. A cabbage sauce is excellent when served with broiled fish in place of the usual tartar sauce. It can he made by shredding finely chopped green peppers, 1 cup diced -head cabbage and mixing with 2 celery, 3 tablespoons chopped nuts, 1 cup boiled dressing, and 4 table- spoons chili sauce, Chill for several hours before serving. ISSUE 30 — 1932 "You're Bigger, I'm Older," brag's two-year-old Lonnie Davis to his half-grown. great -done puppy, ten months old. "And !.know bet - •ter than you about getting cieaned up." Lonnie is trying to talk the pup into having his chin wiped before entering. a Small -Fry ° Puppy Show.._ J 7 r,� _- ,1 of tlJdk+ - ,-,,,,m,_....4.-.,,,,„uvee, ONiCL IE., Gwtzr -doL .r e P. CLet.1"1 e If there were a Society for.' the Prevention of Cruelty to Insects 1 should•certainly be in trouble. And no doubt I would have plenty .of company, It was this way. :I was looking at our shrubs, thinking it was time .the pruning shears .were put into operation, when. I noticed the flowering elders had most of their leaves chewed off. "Now what on, earth is doing that" I won- dered. Closer inspection gave the answer. Linder the leaves and al- ong the stalks were dozens—maybe hundred's—of light grey catered- , Transfer Designs in 3 colors Transfer 'Designs BRING the woods and garden indoors' with°these colorful motifst Dogwood pink; forget-me-not blue, green greenleaves—aod easy to dol Just iron them on table lin- ens, bathroon't .1 1 n e n s, blouses, skirt s, aprons! Quick_ I Easy l Washable! Three -color ntotifsl No embroi- dery1 Pattern 840; transfer of TWENTY Motifs 2x2% to 3/x13 inches. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins' (stanIps cannot be accep- ted) for this pattern to' Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Cant. Print plainly PATTERN 1'II M - BER, your N A M,E and AD. DRESS Such a colorful .l'oundup of handiwork ideas! Send twenty-five cents now for our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog, Ch Lose your patterns from our gaily illustrated toys, 'dolls, household and person-' al accessories, A pattern for a handbag is printed right is the book, lars, about an inch long. Different from, tent caterpillars but appar- ently just as restructive. • And I was destructive too! I put a large.. paper bag into a tin pail and into it I dropped every leaf I could hind that had a caterpillar on 'it.•After more than an .hour's work I put the bag into the kitchen stove and set a match to it without my con • - science troubling me at all. Where lies the difference, I won der? I couldn't be unkind to any sort of bird or beast -but yet I took. an unholy joy in cremating those horrible caterpillars. Iu fact while' I like animals I don't like insects at all—except ladybirds and spiders -spiders, because .of their fascinating web -spinning industry - •But now I think of it a • spider isn't' an, insect but belongs to a class of ' animals. called "Arach- nida"' which also includes scorp- ions, •mites and ticks. In Greek mythology Arachne and Minerva tried to outdo each other in the art of weaving. The goddess Ath- ena --or Minerva—was so jealous of Arachne that she turned ,the. poor girl into a spider as she work- ed—and so spiders have been spin- ning and weaving ever since. After doing my best on the elder- berry bushes I turned to a couple of mountain 'ash trees, which I have been nursing from. infancy. These I fotmd were beim attacked by another type of caterpillar - golden -brown . in . colour. I pro- ceeded'to give them the same treat- ment as the others. As I'did so 1 wondered why so many 'destruc- tive insects are allowedto plague our existence. Life .would be so much pleasanter without them, Mit still, bugs, notwithstanding, we'den't have to look far to find reasons for tejolciiig: We have all our first crop, hay safely' stowed away in the barn -and it is in first class condition. The weather has been uncomfortably warm, of late but it has certainly shortened the haying seasbn.' Now we shall have time for other work before the second cutting is "ready—which is just as well as we. -have quite a lot of extras in the offing—which have nothing Co' do with farming. - Otte of our little 'chores this past week has-been rescuing some of our. Livestock f r o In conditions brought on by their own folly. Out in the calf pasture at the back of the !louse two little heifers, Whitey and Iced, have been graz- ing all summer. Whitey is quiet , and contented and takes her feed where she finsIgit. But ,Red wants whatever is on the other sides of the fehce and is continually poking her head' through the wide wire mesh to get it. • Sometimes her head gets ,caught, sometimes. it doesn't; When it dges she never bothers twisting and turning to free herself bat waits patiently for someone to come along to disco..' tangle: her horns frau the wire —quite confident that she will be rescued. The other day as 1 die! exactly, as she expected, I fell to thinking what a resrmlilencc tltet'e is between "Red and Whitey to various types of people, We have human beings tike Whitey, Indus - Sentry In Uniform To Guar41 Snowdrop When the Queen' Mother first guard who, with frill traditional became Queen she found that a threat, took up his position in the • bottle of whisky and a glass were middle of the lawn outside the placed on her bedside table every -palate- ht. moved,:and each evening a fresh there, and 40 reason, so far as the n botigtle appEaeearltedm,orning it was re- There was nothing to guard • Tzar could see, for an additional Site inquired tlae reason, and it sentry, I -Ie made inquiries and was.4iseovered that, more Iban see- eveaitually unearthed the astound- enty years earlier Queen Vieloria iiIg truth. It seemed that, pate day, alsad a 'cold'dndhad ordered a glass the Empress Catherine III was of whisky at bcdtitne. FVor some crossing the lawn whets 5115 no- re550n the order was never can- lived a ''snowdrop just about to' celled and the whisky was placed bloom. there every. ei'ening. When she life was by no means a sentinie!t. died the {habit Arad become, tcadi- tal woman, but she was touched by bona! acid continued,, with •unfail- ttus first sign of spring and, so ing regularity, throughout' the that no unheeding foot should reigns of Quceu Alexandra and traiuple ft, alte ordered a guard Queen Mary, to stand near ft. Stranger things have ltappeneul as Ten days later the snowdrop had the result of habit, In the middle died, and Catherine had forgot- pf the eighteenth Century King ten, but no one tad the nerve. to George II was shrieked to hear of remind Iter of the sentry because a,riot at Drury Latte. Theatre, one she had such an uncertain temper. of his favorite places of entertain- So, one hundred, years later a guard was still being tnounited on the spot. ment, He immediately respatched a• contingent of soldiers to the theatre and the disturbance was quelled, The following evening troops were ordered to march to the theatre as, a precautionary measure, and' then the king forgot the mat--' ter. One hundred and thirty-five years later, in 1894, a contingent of troops still marched nightly. to Drury Lane. A. mistaken order - once resulted in' 500,000 candles,- ofall colours, being stored in Buckingham Pal- ace. _"Just after her accession, Queen Victoria gave a State ball at the Palace, and :orderer( two hundred coloured candles to be used as part: of the decoration. The official, to whom. the order was given, mistook the Queen's ' command -to mean' that site wanted two hundred candles every day, He never 'stopped to think that the queen could not use so many can- dles in twenty-four.hoifrs.. The result was that. for nine years two hundred candles -were de- livered daily at the'palace. It was only stopped when there was no more storage space left,: and some- one investigated the matter. In 1849 the Tzar Alexander 'II stood at a window of his palace and frowned at the sentry outside. For a logg;tiene:he had been phz zled bythe mounted and ,;armed triously earning their,;livisg, .going: • their own quiet ways, giving no trouble to anyone, nor getting into any kind of jam from which they expect -someone to come along and' extricate thein. There are also folks like Red discontentedly looking towards, what' is just beyond their reach; leaving feed that is close at hand and. straining for that which can only -,he .secured• by getting into difficulties themselves while giving other people the trouble of rescu- ing them from the result of their own folly. Then we have Alicat tvho stayed• on the beams of the barn for three, days and wouldn't come down. Finally rescued and brought to rile house he purred like a threshing' maehine. Now he gets on the kit then roof and is afraid to comet down. One day Partner tried to rescue hint andhad his thumb bit- ten as a result, In the night a storni cane up and Alicat chose the les- ser of two evils and came ,down. The sante thing happens every day. After being fed and fussed over the cat goes,bacle to :the roof and has tb be rescued alt over again, T am sure there nan5t be a paral- lel to'that 'in huniari behaviour— possibly in tiwse who lack the courage of their own Convictions -but eny spacb is' gone so I'll lerlve. you, to figure,;that one. out. GETTING EVEN On a crisp and clear summer night in Maine, there was an amaz- ing display+:pf the Northern Lights, and, x. grizzled old guide named Leo had a chance' to square ac- • counts with a' lady who-l;ad offend-' ed his, dignity by .showing greater interest ill the whereabouts of Louise Dickinson Rich (author 'of • We Took to the Woods) than in his tales of fabulous salmon runs or nights sunder the stars. When Leo spotted the Northern Lights he ran to the tent of his party to advise them to burry out and see the brilliant illumination. To the lady he added, "Don't forget yqur 'pocket flashlight." "Why?" she asked. "Help you see the Lights," he assured her, While the others exclaimed with ,proper awe at the spectacle, the lady concentrated on pointing her Eveready in the proper direction. Then she tried it without the flashlight. "Leo," she said, "you won't be- lieve it, but I can see those Lights every bit as well with this thing turned off 1" Austerity Smasher—The British may have ah austerity program, but they also helve pretty 18 - year -old Joon Collins to grace their cinema screens. .1 o a n, shown above in a London stu- dio, has her first big role in the film, "I Believe In You." Ouch! That Hurtsi-Pive.year=old Patricia Ann Burnett, daughter of o'd'ocfor,• winces cis` she gets an anti -polio injection from Dr. Byron T. York in Houston, Tex. Thousands: of school chlidren were i-tected in the city, which has been hard-hit by a polio epidemic.