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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-12-2, Page 6ils.o :.:''!,1'a, • rat •i..e tkr i " .,Pel •: .11 [ ANNIE ..R1RsT "Dear Anne Hirst; I just don't know what to do. I have been rttarriest 19 years ,and have two children, My husband plays poker, and sometimes hasn't a penny left to lacing home, We have so many bills to pay but he doesn't seem to care, "I would like to go out to work, but he is so jealousit would only make more trouble; he says I'm too friendly with people now. Anne Hirst, I almost never leave the house. 1 do washing and iron- ing for other people to make a few dollars. I always have his meals ready when he does come home, and his clothes laid out, and 3 do anything he asks me. But he treats me terribly, and I am turning against him, Even our little gird is afraid of him when he comet; in! Her teacher says she is a very nervous scholar and that is the reason. "The people he knows are nothing but 'trash; and hang onto him for the money he spends and his car. He will do anything for anyone who drinks ... Can you poesibiv telt me what to do? Mrs, A. G. C." NO VIRTUE IN HIM * It is distressing enough when * a man squanders money on * others which his family needs; * but when he mistreats his wife * and keeps his little girl in a * state of fear, there seems no * virtue in him. What you must * have endured for nearly 20 * years is enough to drive most * wives to the divorce courts, * If you are unwilling to eon- * sider that drastic step, why not * talk things over with a Dom- * estic Relations Court?Their ad- * vice would be helpful, I am * sure, and should at least relieve * your immediate economic situ- * ation. * It is net only your peace of * mind that is at stake, but the emotional development of your * children; one is already being * frightened by her father's be?- • ligerence, and the czher cannot 1t fram4Wkeesl, Knit a shrug to tori over everything, to keep you warm and cosy all winter! This is done in a fast 'n' easy pattern stitch trimmed with ribbing. Make it now. Pattern 503 has easy -to -follow knitting directions. Misses' Sizes 32-34; 30-38 included in pattern. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Boer 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. EXCITING VALUE! Ten, yes TEN popular, new designs to cro- chet, sew, embroider, knit ---print- ed right in the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book, Plus many more patterns to send for --ideas for gifts, bazaar money-makers, fashions! Send 25 cents fox your copy! * escape unscathed, Only your * sootbing presence mitigates in * some measure their apprehen- * sion, and more often than not * you must stand by helplessly, * Think bow this will affect them * later on. * Your husband needs to real- * ize that he cannot pursue his * callous way of living any long- * er and get away with it. TOO EAGER "Dear Anne Hirst: Six years ago my mother took a teacher to board. I didn't like him, but as the years passed be caused me to love him, Sometimes he took me to ball games and on picnics, but he never .told me ;he cared for me. "When he came home from school I always fixed him some- thing to eat and saw that his room was comfortable. At Christ- mas I gave him nice gifts, and he said I had gone too fan "Now he has gone to another school, and moved from aur home; he never calls except on invitation! Can you tell me what to do now? Kate Rebecca" * I hope you will do nothing— * except to try to remove this * young man from your thoughts * and :topes, as he has removed * himself from your house. * It is easy for a young girl to * lose her heart to an older man. * This one you respected for his * learning; he was more sophis- * ticated, too, than the boys you e knew, which set him apart. You * went all out, serving him at * home, even giving him presents * which must have embarrassed • him; he tried to warn you, but * you would not see he was just * being kind. I am afraid you * will have to realize he is in- * terested in more mature women. * and thinks of you as just a * nice little girl he used to know * See the truth as it is, and a * year from now you will smile * at the longings that bother you today. * * * It is sad indeed when a mother most protect her children from their father's neglect and anger. Yet her first duty is to their wel- fare. Ten your troubles to Anne Hirst, and !mow you can depend upon ber sympathy and her judgment Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. HERB GARDEN' There are many reasons why people turn to the soil. They may do so because of their ancestry, for most people have forebears who were farmers. Sometimes a youthful experience directs a person along the path he is to follow later in life. When we were children my parents took us to visit my maternal great- grandmother, who lived with he, daughter and son-in-law on a farm in Bavaria. There the prin- cipal objective was to coeditors cattle for the marker. . My great - grandmother. who w a s eighty. seldom went outdoor, and did not rare fur flowers. Few country people did in those days. When my sister and I each brought her a bouquet of corn- flowers and poppies that we had gathered in the wheat fields, they did not appeal to her. Now I know she considered them to be weeds. But her daughter, my grandmother, had a garden plant- ed with iris and lilac bushes in her back yard on West Fifty- second Street, in New York City, just north of *here Rockefeller Center stands today. , , Herb gardening has been com- pared to chamber music. Both are best appreciated in small places, for they have an intimate quality Lost in a large hall or In a big garden. Gardening with herbs, which is becoming increas- ingly popular, is indulged in by those who like subtlety in their plantsin preference to brilliance. To me there 4a much that is en- dearing about herbs. They are individual; each plant differs from the next in the way it.hoids its leaves, in its shape, and ,par- ticularly in the fragrance it sends forth. I love to work among them and to smell their scent on my hands. As I weed ee prune them or gather them to infuse in soups or salads, or to perk up a vegetable, stories connected .FOR EFFECTIVE RELIEF... P1NEX )COUGH SYRUP Pleasant. tasting Pinex gives prolonged retiet--on your money back. Got ready -to -take Pinox Prepared or money- seeing Pinex Concentrate—mixed easily with honey or sugar syrup. Get fsat-acting PI NEX today! NEW! PINEX RUR A new product with a favourite Homo,,. Pim Medicated Vanishing Ruh eases con• gestion of chest colds, soothes muscular aches and pains. Buy Pinex Rub at any drug counter, 1,00$4•/ leatiser• . • . tOT Poato fa:us:'rr s 4.°n1 p..+ "e • e ,:. aI 1 I SPS This ho'.:sewife cleans refrigerator with new cl times aed deddotiza's. Hier that sani- BY EDNA IanUs ,G t1 r11VO, , the beano clean aim of Cve hhoueewite,tsUsu- glly, the, starting point ter the morplrig eelearntre le, the bath- room. Wet toWels, sgattered powder and spattered tile make t9g cemplete disorder.' pneef Me newest get* ting the bathroom slick and shiny In no time is a smooth; white cieenseo that terns gdlden when les „wet, ,., With ,this pudsing cleanser, the housewife can ban- ish bathtub rings and bacteria quickly and effectively, - ' When. she proceeds to • the kitchen, she'll find this, deo-Ser, rernoties grease faster, dispels feed; sedors that cling to the hands, skillets, sink and food propgretlon'surfaces, ' ., She, tan, in lace tea ft. by rubbing her hands with the cpt. enlace of an onion, shaking cleanser over,hands, rinsing and sniffing at hands. She'll end theodor gone, - • The housewife an a hurry will find that Milo cleanser worjts equally well in hot or cold wa- ter, in hard or soft water. It's easy .on the hands, has a fresh,. clean smell. For weekly cleanings, it care be used when you're eleantnp out the'refrlgerator. with them came to mind. When 1 touch holy basil and smell its strange Oriental scent„ I see a graceful Indian woman in her sari :.. , and when I come to the acanthus, I remember the Greek temples in Sicily resting in meadows filled with flowers. Ar- temisia filifolia calls to mind Am= erican Indian pueblos w i th bunches of peppers and dried herbs hangingfrom the roofs. . , . The.. outstanding quality o € herbs is their fragrance and it is particularly strong either in the morning, when there leas been a heavy dew, or late in the afternoon after a summer: shower. At any time of day, as one ape proaches the garden one inhales a scene composed of a blend in which can be detected' elemersts of spice,' fruit, rose, mint, anise' and sometimes balsore, • - The prevailing eolor of herbs fs gray. Moreover, one's interest in them does not center primarily on their brightly colored flowers but on the patterns made by their leaves. The flowers come in delicate tints, some Of them blue to purple, colors preferred ; by bees, who are constant visi- p tors. Then there are touches of ; pink in old-fashioned roses, red 1 in bee balms and yellow in ,a galium or broom, warm against the coolness of prevailing grays Iand blues. When a more vivid I color note is desired, it can be provided by calendulas and nos- , turtiums.—From "The Years in' t My Herb Garden." by Helen M. Fox. Sew 'n1 Save! 4605 V/1 i1 'I d't$- cg Ghia SIZES 6-14 For your smart little scholar, this smart little dress. There's style aplenty in that wing collar, those jaunty pockets. Add inter- est aplenty with plaid bow, pocks ets and bands on sleeves. Sen- sible for school and play, pretty enough for dress -up! Pattern 4005 in Girls' Sizes 0, 0, 10, 12, 14, Size 10 takes 3 yards 35 -inch; a(s yard contrast. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested far fit. Hae complete illustrated instructions. Send TfIRTX-VINE CENTS (350 in coins (stamps cannot be accepted for this pattern. Print STYLE SIZENUMRER, NAME, ADDRESS, Send order to Box 1, 123 .Eighteenth St„ New Toronto, Ont, 11EQ ICLES ki11 GE FAR?I Gvex iottm*. P Clarke 4Ve11, 'appeeently our little • winter is over = fdr the 'time being anyway. We have been given a reprieve by the, weatht erman, and I suppose everyone, has made good use pf it. At Ginger Farm we,put on storm windows,got' oucoats • out . of storage, Put • the cattle' in- the barn and prepared inargeneral way ,for a continuance of, stormy" weather. Now See have tq throw. 'open 'the doors, hang the coati in the 'closet,: turn the ' cows loose in the yard 'and check off. the fires. In a' contest With the weatherman.,you just .can!:t win, But who's grumbling? We didn't want winter yet, anyway. +, You know, I'm beginning td think a few people 'must be reading this column! Remember the hue and cry I raised about hunters roaming the farm with- out permission. Well about ten days• after that a hunter came.- along one night, asked permission to leave his car in the lane and to go hunting across the fields. Imagine' that! "I asked him if he intended setting any traps. "No," he said, "if we set straps we• come and tell. you." So one hunter at least bas the courtesy to observe the rules of the game -- and he is welcome on our farm any time. Since I wrote that little tirade about hunters we• have read several times of young cattle be' ing shot by trespassers on farm property.' This matter of hunt- ing isalwaysa problem. Some people, as a matter of princi- ple, are opposed to hunting of any kind, with or without per- mission. But we have to take a realistic attitude, I think. If there were no hunting 'at all country districts would soon be over -run with predatory birds and beasts. Foxes, for instance, can soon wipe out the profits of a poultry farmer; deer are a menace on the highway, and al- so to crops; beavers • must be kept under control or their in- dustrious habits may cause flood- ing to the point of inconven- ience. And if the Indiana were ,prohibited from hunting their main source of income, would be gone — and what would women do then far their fox furs and- s mt skrat coats? It is also com- forting to know that unnecessary suffering of animals is not al- lowed. Humane practices in hunting and trapping must be followed, Another point to con- sider ... Wild life, reforestation and conservation go together, We need all the trees Wo can grow so more trees, better conservation, more wild life — and of course, more hunting. A logical sequence. isn't it? Incidentally, for those who want trees to plant next spring it isn't a bit too early to order there now. According to the Department of Lands and Forests the demand for delivery of young trees next spring has already • exceeded the available supply, so I suppose; the trees will be mare or less rationed out, The Department says seedlings grown in nurseries have a 'better chance of survival than natural or wild stock, transplanted from bush to garden. The nursery stock has a better developed root system and so withstands .;the shook of transplanting to your sail. Gene- rally speaking white pine Is for sandy soil; red pine anywhere at all. But look around in your own district, If most of the trees are elms, maples, birch's or oaks, yet eats he almost certain they will do better than ever- greens. Se says the Department --and: it' should know.. Last week we had still ano- ther courtesy, call. None other than a surveyor from the De- partment of Highways. His mis- sion wan to.In-form us that the De- partment was. making ' another survey through our farni tot the proposed new .highway. This survey ,is, 200 feet farther nprth than he other one. 'To us it is much more satisfactory because it is farther away front the barn —:400.feet in all. However, even this may not be the anal sur- ven the, ways .pf government departments being hard to fa- thom, But if it isn't "'final' there will 'be an, awful •lot of iron stakes to pullup a111 through the country:' The surveyor show- ed' us 'a snap of the 'district clearly indicating all flee farms, complete 'with buildings — . and all done •' from aerial • .photo- graphs, You never know what is, going, en overhead these days; what secrets are shared with those who fly tip yonder. Look- ing at the snap I wouldn't have been surprised had I -seen a Monday morning wash flapping in the breeze. Well, we have just come back from Toronto, after paying a visit to our grandson. Of course he is wonderful and looks more like a humanbeing every day. He also has a good pair of lungs and a yoracious appetite. Judg- ing by the number of presents that were sent to welcome his coming he is also a very lucky baby But I will spare you any further eulogies. He may be wonderful to us but to other folk 1 know he is just another baby, Canned Coronation In A.D. 2453 a student seeking a complete picture of the crown- ing of Queen Elizabeth 1I will have no need to hunt inhistory books, for a collection of Coro- nation films is now being added to a vast movie musem where 20,000,000 feet of film are already Preserved for posterity. Grow• ing steadily, this important cine- matic record of historical events includes Queen Victoria's Jubi- lee, and the Coronations of Ed- ward VII, George V and George VL In the fire -proof, tempera- ture controlled vaults in Buck- inghamshire which house Bri- tain's National Film Library there is room for a further 6,000 miles of film! Backed by a Govermnent grant, Britaints library of ,7,000 picked films is one of the largest and most valuable in existence, And British technicians have taken the lead he 'the science of film preservation, Recent pro- gress makes it possible to pre- serve a film for 50, 100, or 500 years, Moreover, this life can be extended indefinitely by experts. Taking a small sample of film, they artificially "Age" it in an electric oven. This tells them how long the reel . from which the sample, is taken is likely to last, and enables duplicates • to be made in gbod time, Nonconformists. In slsite of Christian Dior, 'the skirt lengths of two of the world's most fam- ous women are remaining un- changed, Norman Hartnell, dress designer to Queen Elizabeth, said Her Majesty Wbuld 'not shorten her skirts, And Jane MOCeffree, secretary to Mamie Eisenhower, said that not only would the First Lady keep her hemlines her usual 13 inches from the ground, but for the most part she would get Along with last year's ward- robe, having purchased only a "few things" for the fall season. ISSUE le — 1953 Took a Drunk of Phot'o4oitolopor When J; 1' , Williams, who wrote the popular "Elephant Bill," was Burma, a eollgague calledp !tamper went heavily on the drink and began losing interest in jungle life and his job. Williams racked his brains for something to cure him—and found it in his camera. etasher, who'd never done any photography, became absorbed in Williams' photographs of game - tracks and Wanted to try his hand, so the latter' ordered him a complete outfit. The change that oa;ne oyer 'h3rn WS wonderful He set about photographing 'ele- phants, cut down the drinking because it hindered' his hobby. One evening 'they did `` some flashlight printing in a tent rigged up as dark -room, with red developing' lamp. ellasher•started stone cold sober, but fixed him- self a large whisky -and -soda and placed it on the table, He work- ed with a boy's enthusiasm, then said, "Wait a minute, picked up his drink and drained it in one. Then he sprang up, knocking over• glasses, staggered to the tent -flaps -and collapsed. 'He'd drunk tree -developing solution! For a week he didn't smoke or drink whisky. And his passion for `photography vanished and lie went"back'to thb bottle. In, due time he took his . home leave; 'and " that' was the last Bui {la.saw of hire He had £15,- 000, his life's savings, and three years, he reckoned,, in which .to spend't. It was said that he spent six months each year in a nurs- ing home for repairs aftersix months oh the' binge. When be died at the end of the three years his whole estate, £1511; went to the R.S.P,C.A, Ir. Williams tells other human stories in his second elephant saga, "Bandoola",, tie knew a timber -overseer, Gerry Dawson who was passionately in love witteefeie young -Shah' eisteri• kh0'. worshipped him. .Therfirst,went; • ed her sister to share him because be no children, whereas'. if 's'he'' sisters were shared there would be no children, whereas- if she were his sole mistress there would' be, and that would'mean separation ,and perhaps loss of his love. When Geri), died from injuries • incurred freeing a jell); of logs .they were grief-stricken. At Patala, an isolated village of intermarried Chins and .Buse mans, the headman invited Wil- liams to a` -rice -festival, the big- gest iggest drunk he'd ever attended. Dancing round their zoo pots of rice -liquor, the Patalans grew drunker and drunker, the wome en even worse ,than the men. Mr, William's plain story is of. Bandoola, the 'big banker, and -his rider, Po Toke, who trained him, hid him from the Jap invaders when the war came, and after the elephant's death — shot by Po Toke himself, so that no one else should havecharge of him — started a band of deceits. It is a gripping tale, Now The Perfect Burglar Alarm Bad news for burglars! It's IA burglar alas -hi which' has recent- ' ly been tried out inetTottin'gham, where the police were pioneere of radio and forensic science, It's so effective that since it was installed nothing has been lost from many of the peetected • buildings and there has ;tot been a single illegal entry ',into ons without an arrest. At the Chief Constable's head- quarters is a control panel which warns, of a "contact" at any of the fifty premises which have al- ready had the ;alarm, fitted, The circuit is errant against .wire -cut ting of the cutting -off of current, It has ,beeri,;:palled the perfect bugler'e1apm, ' This remarkable , device, wilt also indicate fire, give the code number of the buildip:g concern- ed, and record automatically the time. At 12,05, one morning not long ago an alarm sounded. A man jumped from a window of the premises five minutes later — straight into the arms of police! ".,a ' to oil +lot ori opa� • • And the RELIEF is LASTING Here's relief from rheumatic and arthritic pain such, as you never thought possible ... 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