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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-1-7, Page 2ANNf 14IRS" "Dear Anne Hiatt I ant broken- hearted. For. over a year I've gone with a boy who calls me every other night He comes over once a week, he's with me on weekends, and buys me beau- tiful gifts. But he never ha said he lovas met "He has ask- ed me to go steady; if I date anyone else he has a fat, and says he can't trust me. He will hurt my feelings if he can, and when I object he says ,he's just teasing. "Other girls have a ring, or a pin, or something to show they are going steady, but though he owns a class ring, I have nothing. The girls all wonder why. Also, he claims he would see me more often, but doesn't want me to fail in my studies. (I'm in my senior high school class). I love him very much .. Does he love me, or, what? I am so worried! DOT" YOUNG DICTATOR * So long as you submit to this * boy's domination, you are go- " ing to be miserable. When will you girls learn it is you ' who should make the rules:' • This conceited young man * tells you when he will see you, • and expects you to be waiting, * breathless, for that magic me- * ment, He demands that you " desert all other boy friends and " spend lonely evenings at Name " UNLESS he condescends to " come over—And he adds the e usual insult of claiming it is * for your own good: * What is he giving you in re - Look ! 7 Potholders Pattern -Ful of gifts ! The gayest, prettiest, most unusual potholders you ever saw. Fun .to make ! Easy ! Use scraps of fabric, rickrack, binding and em- broidery thread. Pattern 524: transfer motifs for 7—yes, 7 fun -to -make potholders, including mitts. Perfect gifts. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth. St„ New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. Such a colorful roundup of handiwork ideas! Send twenty- five cents now for our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog. Choose your patterns from our gaily illustrated toys, dolls, house- hold and. personal accessories'. A pattern for a handbag is printed right in the book. e turn for the doormat role? * Net even the satisfaction of hearing him say he loves you! * Not even the wearing of his * ring, which you long to show * of to your questioning friends! * —And do you know he is not e, dating •other girls too? * All he wants is for you to e be HISGIRL, wlth no assur- e ance that he will not change " his mind overnight and leave * you Aat, * To be sure, you love him. That is why you allow him to e run your life. All you want is * to know that HE belongs to you,as you undoubtedly belong e to ilm. I do not believe you * can be sure of that, so long as '" you crawl to his orders and * submit to his overwhelming e egotism. "' You will have to assert your- " self. Date any nice boy you e like whether you enjoy your- * self or not—if only to show him * you are popular with other "' men, are an individual in your * own right and will do what ▪ pleases you most. He needs to e be taught that he cannot com- e mand a nice girl as though she belonged to him, unless he * gives you the same loyalty he • demands. " No matter how much you e love, you could never be mar- e tied to him as he is today. He * must learn that he has to de - e serve your love if he would • keep it. You will not relish this e counsel; but if you hope to "' win him for your own, this is o the only way you may sue- t ceed. If you fail, you can be * sure he isn't worth having. If a girl spoils a lad, how can she ever win his respect—and that she must do if he is to be a worthy husband ... When you are troubled, tell Anne Hirst about its she knows most of your problems and can guide you. White her at Box' 1, 123 Eight- eenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Painting A Wall? Start At Bottom• When you wash or paint a wall, do you mount a stepladder and start at the top? If so, you'd better mend your ways. A tip from the U.S. General Services Administration coin- cides with advice from experi- enced wall painters. A wise house- wife will start at the bottom ! This is not so unreasonable as it sounds. When you wash a wall from the bottom up, you just easily and neatly clean up the muss as you go along, never add- ing muddy trickles to soiled sur- faces and never accumulating more dirt in streaks. If your lower surfaces are entirely clean as you operate on upper wall areas, dripping sponges will do less damage and any small trickles ran be wiped off at once, with no remaining stains. Similarly when you paint on an upward spiral,there is little danger that too much thinning will occur at the top in contrast with heavy paint surfaces due to accumulation of downward drip- ping. Don't be a doubting Thomas ! Try the improved method ! MILLIONS OF LIVES SAVED Dr. Edward F. Knipling, a leading specialist in the use of insecticides, estimated this week that the use . of DDT had saved 5,000,000 lives and prevented more than 100,000,000 illnesses since 1942. The benefit of con- trolling diseases, he reported to the American " Association of Economic. Entomologists. must be balanced against the calculated risk of using any insecticide. Not one serious illness or death had been caused in people exposed to DDT during inst'ct-controt ef- forts, he said. loyal Rehearsal --Getting ready for the big day, British footguards and Household Cavalry go through the motions of Queen Eliza- beth's post -coronation return parade to Buckingham Palace offer being crowned. Seen above, turning into the Palace, is the State landau in which Elizabeth Il will ride. Modez'n'`Eti uetre Q, Who gots Arst down the aisle of a motion picture theater, the -man or the girl? A. The girl precedes: 'And on - less the man she is with is her husband, fiance, or someone she knows real well, she should turn to him and' ask, "Is this all right"? This gives him . a chance ---should he be near or far-sighted -- to suggest 'a seat that is closer or farther away. Q. 1f grapefruit is to be served as the fruit course for a luncheon, how should it be prepared? A. Cut across in half, cut the sections free and remove the dividing skin and seeds, then put sugar into it and allow to stand for an hour or so. Q. Is It proper to write notes of condolence on the typewrites.'? A. No. This type of note will express more thoughtfulness and sympathy if it is written by hand. Q. How does a house wedding differ from a church wedding? A. The bride and bridegroom do not take a single step tdgether. He meets her at the point where the service is to be read, and after the ceremony there !s no re- cessional. The clergyman with- draws, an usher removes the prayer bench, and the bride and bridegroom merely turn where they stand and reveive the con- gratulations of their guests, Q. Is it necessary for a hostess to provide new cards for her , guests at a bridge party? A. Usually, yes. She may use old cards only if thee• are spotless and shiny. Q. What is the tee a woman is , usually supposed to give the maid who helps her in a publie dres- sing room? A. Usually twenty -ave cents. Q. If a man has been invitedto dinner in someone's home; and suddenly finds it evil] be impos- sible for ]tiara to arrive at the ap- pointed hour, what is the best thing for him to do? A. Telepbone his host or hostess immediately, explain, and request that they do not wait for him. Q. What refreshments would be appropriate following a home wedding? A. This is more a matter of choice than of etiquette. Ginger ale, fruit juice, punch, or 'coffee, wedding cake, and a few sand- wiches would be all right. Q. If, there is no .host in the house at the time, and a hostess is seeing a couple off, should she help both of them 'with their coats, or just the woman? A. She doesn't assist either of them. The man first helps the woman with her coat, and then puts on his own, Half-size Fashion Twice as much iustuten cur your sewing -time! Jumper and blouse go everywhere --mix and match with the rest oiyour wardrobe: Your alteration prob- lems are salved! Pattern is per- fectly proportioned for short. 'AO. ler figures! Pattern 4357: halt Sizes 14':1, 1611,, 1814, 20 t e, 221e, 24',e, Size Hee, jumper, 3 yards Seeinch; blouse, 2 yards contrast. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Iias complete illustrated instructions, Send 't'Ifltt!' -FIVE CENTS (35e) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE.NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., Now 'Toronto, Ont. A man of Dumfries, Scotland, eating the geose his wife had roasted for dinner, bit something hard and discovered it was a small diamond, Sunny Thought for Winter Days—Joyce Johnson didn't do anything special -didn't win a trophy, isn't "Miss Something -or -Other." She's just a pretty girl, relaxingin the sun at a Las Vegas resort hotel. That seemed reason enough for the photographer to take a picture with which to cheer the folks who are chattering through another rough northern winter, H1 O ICLES / iiINGER M Ii this co1iio,u seems 0 little disconnected the reason is not ' far to seek. Yesterday we were a family of seven and here is what happened. About 7.30 am. Bob took our two visitors to the train as they were spending .the day, in. Toronto—that, of course, was after a mad scramble for early morning breakfast and g o in g away preparations. Then Bob came back, finished his own last minute packing, which consisted of piling all his possessions into Iris car, and then he was ready for a long trip North. While this was going on Daughter and Arthur came down hunting breakfast and Partner came in. from the barn where he had been wrestling with a fresh cow with a hard quarter. Almost im- mediately afterwards Bob set off on his tripe and it is quite pos- sible we may not see him again for six menthe The zest of the day was comparatively quiet— Partner, Daughter, Arthur and myself just talking—family talk, over this thing and that. After supper Dee and Art set out for Toronto and then the whole house was very, very quiet. I sat down with my . thoughts and a needle and thread to mend a pair of pyjamas that Partner had fallen through. I wondered as I worked how soon Partner would be up from the barn and whether our friends would be late getting back from Toronto. And then the telephone rang. A friend that I thought was a hundred miles away asked if I would like a couple of tramps for the night! "But why ... where -are you?" I asked in surprise. My friend laughed—"Well, as a natter of fact we have taken a house down here --only just at present we are here and the furniture isn`t" Of course I said to come right along so inside of fifteen minutes Lillian and her daughter were on our doorstep, leaving the man of the house to wait for the furniture and look after things, • Of course we had to do a bit of hustling ... beds to make and the furnace given an extra stoking against the cold north winds. A nice hot cup of tea com- pleted our welcome. In the middle of things Partner came in front the barn, our other friends returned from Toronto, all of them wondering at the sudden flurry of activity and who the newest arrivals might be, Now it is the morning after and we are still busy getting ourselves sorted out—and of course attending to the baker, the dairy man, the egg - man and the vet -•--all of whom seemed to arrive one after an- other. It is really a great life if you don't weaken -Wand if your supply of sheets doesn't give out, and if you can keep awake- long enough to be properly polite. The trouble is what :am I going to do LOGY, LISTLESS OUT OF LOVE WITH LIFE? Then wake up your liver 1,11 ... jump out of bed torte' to go Lite bet worth thing') It may bethe lived It's a fedi If your liver bile is not nowise; free* your food nut), not ligtet .. , gun Monte up your stomach , .. you feel eon. atipated end all the fun and operkle go out of life, That's when you need mild, gentle Carton Little Llver fills. You see Ceders, help ntimnlata yout' Ever bite ilii once *gain it la pouring out at a sato ofup to two pints a day into your dtgnetive trent,oT7do should fir you right up, make you reci that happy days are bare again. tin don't slaty sunk got Parton had. Only are "from'Always ug to t6ant after everyone is, gone? Getting back to cooking for two after having been used to five — or seven—isn't going to be so easy, One new arrival I haven't men- tioned—and it has given us more fun than a picnic. This new arrival is in the form of a little clockwork bear. Wind it up and it ambles slowly across the floor, its head keeping pace with its heavy foot movements, Honey, Tip and Mitchie-White think it is a wonderful plaything, but their reactions are very different, Mitchie evidently thought it was some sort of kitten and was quite ready to play with, 11. But when its little motor ran down and it showed no more sign of move- ment ovement Mitchie lost interest' al- though he did try licking it back to life. Tippy wanted to grab it and shake it like a ground -hog 'and we had to rescue the poor little bear. It was Honey that caused the greatest fun. She whimpered at the noise of the motor. Then, greatly daring, she pawed the little bear with her foot and rolled it over. The legs .still kept moving and Honey sat back in surprise. Partner said, "Fetch it here !" Honey waggled her stufnp of a tail in delight, nosed the bear this way and• that, finally found that its tail was easier to grab than any part of its mechanical body, so she picked up the bear by its tail and bore it in tritunph to Partner. Later on, tired of playing, Honey sat down beside the bear on the rug. Presently Mitchie-•White came in; and Honey growled as loudly and fiercely as if she vete guarding a nice, fresh juicy bone. Maybe, come Tuesday, I shall be glad to have Honey and the . bear to amuse me, as after that day Partner and I will be all alone, that being the time when our friends tell leave us, as they are crossing the border over to the United States. On the other hand I may not have time for amusements — you know how sewing and mending has a way of piling up when one has company around. What with Christmas and everything 2 have got so that.I look the other way. whenever I pass my mending basket. Took The Chorus Girls Out Of Tights '-Put Them Into Skirts Instead Just a hundred years P30, ac- cording to the records, in Comber of 1862, was born the showman who had a bigger impact upon the British stage than anybody else. Genius is not too big a word for tants: Be was not a dramatist; he was not an actor; but he had a wonderful flair for knowing what audiences wanted, even it they did not know themselves!' As an instance of his craving for perfection, take. his action, 'when one of his •shows had reach- ed dress -rehearsal stage and he suddenly took a dislike to' the "set" for the second 'act. Ile ordered the whole lot to be scrapped, and a new set to be, built and painted, The scenery was not finished until time came for the curtain to rise on the play, there was a small delay, resented, by the gallery, but George Edwardes had had his autocratic way. Walked Like Queers Ile brought glamour and a kick to the chorus, and created the famous "Gaitey Girl." Up to then, the chorus of a musical show had been the butt of every cheap wit; the "back row of the chorus" had been a synonym for knock-kneed inefficiency., Ed- wardes selected his chorus girls with the greatest care. Beautiful "creations" took the place. of the old -tyle cotton tights, and Ed- vardes was astute .enough to know that long skirts over frothy, frilly petticoats had in- finitely more allure than these. The girls walked like queens; their poise was wonderful. Ed- wardes saw to that. Before they were allowed t0 step upon the stage of the - Gaiety or Daly's they were taught deportment, dancing 'and singing'— every- thing, in fact, to make them more glamorous. Musical Comedy Arrives Edwardes is generally believ- ed to be the inventor of what we know as musical comedy, but that is quite wrong. The idea sprouted in the fertile brain of Frank Osmond Carr,. Garr was among the first of the current composers of light music, and already had "Morocco Bound" and "His Excellency". to his tuneful credit. (He was the com- poser whom D'Oyly Carte 'pick- ed to collaborate with Sir W. S. Gilbert when that temperamen- tal author had his'notorious gtlr- rel with Sullivan.) Carr saw that the old-fashioned burlesque or operetta was doom- ed; why not have a inusical piece in which everybody wore mod- ern 'clothes? Edwardes would have none of it. But Frank Carr believed in his idea, and kept Edwardes until the manager con- sented to give the mad 'thing a trial. "In Town" was produced at the Prince of Wales over which Edwardes then had control, and the public "ate it up"! Musical Comedy was horn. George Edwardes ran Daly'_ es well as the Gaiety, and was so successful that. he only put on eleven shows in fiften years. People said that if a Daly's piece RAeainatic PAIN Good news for those who long for relief from rheumatic pain, but feel hopelessl Thousands get speedy relief from rheu- matic and arthritic suffering by using , T-R-C'a, Doa'tlet dull, wearisome aches, and sharp stabbing pains handicap you any longer. Try Templeton's T -R -C's today- Only Ile. 51.35 at rfruggi&s. T -8l14 didnot run for two years be thought he had staged a, flop, The manager, unlike some' other theatrical magnates, had little idea of the value of money, Ile wanted .the very best, no mattes what it cost, 'Naturally, he wag sometimes hard up. One .of those times was ,just before he pro- duced "The Iderrj' Widow" at Daly's. All in the theatre knew that things were desperate and feared for -the beloved "Guv`nor." But the show ran for no fewes than 773 performances) Pram L,ehar, the composer; at first, objected to Joe Coyne being engaged, and was told that the comedian was " a very funny man." "I have riot written funny music," scowled the great mud - Clan, Money Didn't Matter Part of Edwardes' disregard for money was shown in hit ec- centric generosity. Seeing e chorus girllooking rather lugu- brious one day, and being told that she felt far from bright, he said: "What you want, my dear, is a breath of fresh air, There's half an hour before you are want- ed—so jump- into a. hansom and drive up and down the, Embank- , ment," And he 'promptly gave her two pounds for the, fare! He arranged 'Ith the proprie- tor of the famous Romano's res- taurant that Iris girls should -dins there tinder a special tariff. Hs paid for their hair -do's at the best places in the West -end, in • fact did all he could to exploit the loveliness of the Gaiety chorus; The result was that • R gained a reputation ,for glamour that no chorus had had before— or since. "Any man can find :work if he'll duly use his brains," said the 'efficiency expert, "provided, of course, he is ready to adapt himself to circumstances;' like s piano -tuner >I once met' on the Canadian prairie." ' "But even if he,wps.adabtable," protested o n e listener, "he couldn't make piano -tuning pay with pianos so few and far be- tween.' "Admitted;" , replied the ex- pert, "but he made quite • a decent living tightening up babed-wiry fences." Eczema -Skin 'Troubles Give your alio i real ,Juere to bot well. Os to bray good to and get as o bottM of MOONEMSRRALD OIL -11 o,ts Duet da bruuse is is d,igldy c,SLIar rated. The itebioa of feet a—Salt any other - moles inn and toot and, many `other skin tumbles — is quickly leoffins . 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