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"Dear Anne 1-Lirst i ye elwaye
had to figure thiege out for my-
self, and I'll admit i--zfniven't
done too well'sontefirfiosee . At
1$, I married a man much older,
We had four wonderful children
—but he and I never got along.
We separated. For nine years,
1 declared I would never marry
again.
Two years ago I met a young
man, and from the first I knew
T loved him dearly. We mar -
lied seven months ago. No one
approved, because he was slight-
ly younger; but that, and my
having children, never seemed
to matter. We have had our
ups and downs, mostly downs.
"He is not a bad person, and
1 do believe he loves me. But
when some little thing turns up
that he thinks I wouldn't til:e,
rte lies about it, Wlien I ask
thn why, he says he was afraid
wouldn't understand. But he
knows my first marriage was
mostly lies!
"When he finds how these
things hurt me, he says he was
only kidding. But he is doing
something awful to my love for
him. I never know when to be-
lieve him!
"I am hoping that in some way
your answer will make him un-
derstand, before I lost all my
trust in him. I'll sign the nick-
name he gave me—
* It is the philosophy of some
* retarded minds that a woman
* should not be told the truth,
* if she cannot take it. On the
* contrary, a woman's whole
* faith in the one she loves is
* sustained by the conviction
* that he never shades the truth.
* Unwelcome it may be, but if
* she knows he is speaking the
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truLit, lurf courage rise; with
I
* necessity and she can sur-
* mount any ill nevi's or eircutn,
* stances,
* If •this is something your
* husband fails to comprehend,
n' he should accept it anyhow, as
* the gospel you live by. 1 -le
" knows how your first mar-
riage was wrecked by lying.
* In withholding or coloring
* the truth (even in inconsequen-
* tial matters) he is being un-
* just and unkind, treating you
"' as he would a child too frail
* to face reality. • Instead, you
* are a mature woman of broad
* experience, able to meet and
* conquer anything that comes,
* Even among their friends,
• human beings must rely on
each other's integrity — rn
4' how keep faith? Surely in
* marriage, that most intimate
* and delicate of all relation-
* ships, truth becomes the para-
* mount requirement for endue-
* ing love and trust.
* Seneca, that wise Roman
* philosopher, said, "Time dis-
* covers truth." Your husband
* has found out that the truth
* is always finally revealed. So
* why not tell it in the first place
— and perpetuate this fine
'n love and faith you have in
* him? To do less is to court
* disaster.
* Once he realizes how this
* offense is undermining your
* trust, he would be a stupid
* man indeed to continue the
" habit.
SPOILED HUSBAND
"Dear Anne Hirst: - In many
ways -my hu;baed ie. a fine per-
son. But he was an only child.
and never had any responsibil-
ities at home. Now my grand-
mother, who lives in another
city, and who raised me. is in her
last illness, and she needs me,
My husband objects to my going,
"We have no children, so I am
free in that way; also, I have
my own income, He just thinks
she's a sentimental hypochondri- '
ac. which she is not. If I let her
down, I would never have any
peace. What shall I do?
WORRIED"
* I think you should go to
your grandmother. She gave
"' you a home when you needed
* one, and she is missing you
* sadly now.
• 'Your husband may still ob-
' ject, but surely he will under-
* stand later on. If it were his
' mother that was ill, he would
* want to be with her. Remind
* him that you feel obligated to
* comfort your grandmother by
* your presence in these, her
* last days,
* In a matter of this kind. one
* must do what -she think: !s
' right.
Truth between husband and
wife is the foundation of all faith
and love. If you would keep
both, never color or try to con-
ceal it. Ante Hirst's sense of
true values has helped many a
couple toward better understand-
ing. Write her at Box 1, 123
Eighteenth St., New Toronto,
Ont.
They Take it Easy
And Live Long
In this age of bustle we can
!earn a lesson from the tortoise.
In 1922 the Natural History
Museum worked out the age of
one of those Giant Tortoises from
the South Pacific as 300 years.
There have been many claims
from people having tortoises up
to 200 years old.
One Giant Tortoise lived in cap-
tivity for 140 years and another
for 127 years, but there is no
telling how old they were be-
fore capture
The most authenticated case is
that of ':Snappy," who hails from
Rhode Island. On his back was
found the carving "E.B.K., 1844,"
and experts from the Bronx Zoo
have just investigated the genii.
ineness of this "birth certificate."
They found that the inscription
bad been carved round about that
date, and that "Snappy" had then
reached maturity, a process which
takes over 20 years. That makes
him at least 129 yers old.
Incidentally, tortoises don't
have teeth, but their jaws are
cased with horn to form a very
hard cutting beak.
MURDER — W1'fll WHISKERS
One of the strangest ways of
commit]ng murder ever devised
is mentioned In a despatch from
a South African correspondent.
The weapon? Tigers whiskers!
Natives have been known to
stalk a tiger, kill it, and then
egut off its whiskers. The while
kers, after being cut into tiny
pieces, are put into an enemy's
food. The victim eats the eon-
coetlon unsuspectingly and dies
a terrible death—with agonizing
stomach pains which no doctor
can relieve es cure.
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Well; what do you know?
Here I have been leaning over
backwards in anxiety not to
bore readers of this column with
too Much detail aboni our
grandson. And now 1 find I have
made a mistake, To my surprlse
quite a number of readers want
to know a tot more about him,
Some say, "Tell us about the
baby -- you have hardly men
honed him at a11." Well, you
asked for it, se here goes
right up -to -the minute news, as
I was into see the young fellow
two days ago, And believe roe,
a trip to Toronto is .a lot more
interesting now that I bave a
grandson to visit.
I opened the front door of the
house where Dee and Arthur
live and from •the bedroom I
heard Daughter's voice —"Listen
now, here comes Grandma .
going to be a good boy while
Grandma is here_"
I walked in. There was David
John, squirming around on the
tray of his bath6nette, thorough-
ly enjoying the process of being
i2 --f0 oiled and powdered, and, while
4777 40 lying on his tummy he actually
lifted his little wee head and
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BRAVE MATADORS!
Modern matadors are avoid-
ing death in the bull -ring, and
courting scorn, by the use of
drugs — on the bull
Starved for two or three days,
the bull is then pampered with
as much oats and water as he
will take, loaded upside down
into strong wooden crates, and
delivered to the precincts of the
ring, The effect so far is to ren-
der him heavy in the stomach
and weak in the legs,
Finally, a shot of morphine
makes hie light in the head as
he strolls airily into the arena
to face the music.
The faint-hearted matador can
put up a `brave front — the
only bravery now needed.
The bull -fighters' magazine,
"La Corrida, reports that two
assistants of a famous matador
gave one bull so much morphine
that it fell down 16 times be-
fore the kill.
MYSTERY SOLVED
A bottle message gnct solved
a sea mystery. In 1902 the "Hu
ronian," a solidly built and per-
fectly seaworthy ship, sank with
all hands hi a calm sea. There
was no explanation for the dis-
aster. It had become another un-
explained mystery of the sea.
But five years later a bottle was
picked up on the Castlernck
coast of Northern Ireland. In
it was this message: "'Huronian'
sinking. Top heavy. One side
awash. Good-bye, mother and
sisters. — Charlie M'Fell,
greaser."
The message was then taken
to M'Fells family, and his moth-
er and sisters recognised the
writing of the man they mourn-
ed
LIKED THE FLAVOR
From Toronto comes a story
of the day when a big minister's
convention and a pow -wove of
automobile salesmen were held
simultaneously in the same hotel.
The salesmen were topping off
a big dinner with "spiked water-
melon" for dessert, but the hard-
pressed waiters served it to the
ministers by mistake. The maitre
d'hotel was frantic when he
heard of the mix-up. "That water-
melon is soaked in alcohol," he
moaned. "Get it away from those
ministers before they run me out
Of town."
The waiters returned to say it
was too late: the ministers were
busy chewing away at the prized
watermelon. "What did they
say?" asked the harassed maitre
d'hotel, "How do they like it?"
One waiter answered, "1 don'ts
know haw they liked it, bass,
but they're all putting the seeds
in their pockets,"
at six weeks! Babies certainly
develop quickly these days,
much quicker than when our
two were infants. David seemed to
follow the with his eyes, and
he definitely smiled at his moth-
er, He has a lovely pink and
write complexion -- for which
I am very glad, sallow. babies
get rete worried. His hair is red-
dlsh'brown and he has a nice
shaped head, That milling be
looked so sweet in the little out-
fit I had made ' hint white
nightie with yellow smocking,
yeilnw jacket with white rib-
bon ties end white bootees
edged with yellow: Afteibeing
fed -- and falling asleep in the
process, he was tucked up in his
blue baby -bunting bag, placed
in his carriage and out on the
veranda to sleep. Later, Dough-
ter and I wanted to go shop-'
ping so here is what we did, but
it is oils' possible with a eer-
tain type of a baby carriage —
I suppose you might call it a
"convertible." We called, a taxi
anti when it arrived we lilted
the body of the carriage off the
chassis end carried it out to the
waiting taxi, baby and alL A
friend of Daughter's had prom-
ised to look after'David while
we shopped so when we ar-
rived at her house we carried
the baby in the same way and
just set the carriage on the
chesterfield — no handling, no
disturbing the baby. It was won-
derful, and he slept through it
all,
However, from all accounts
David doesn't spend his entire
time sleeping! He likes a little
attention at night, and cries
lustily until he gets it. Poem
.father can't stand hearing him
cry and so he picks hire up. Now
Daughter really has a problem
on her - hands — and rt isn't
what to do with the baby, but
what to do with Fattier! But
part of David's restlessness has
been hunger, so now he is get-
ting supplementary feeding and
seems more contented,
Before we left the house that
morning tate mail arrived and
Daughter received - her first
baby -bonus cheque, 1 looped at
it and thought to myself, what
a cheque like that would have
meant to us when our babies
were small. At the time when
Bob was only a few nnonths old
Partner was working for the
summer season dor another' fare
trier at $35 a month. The baby
was a poor, weakly little mortal,
on a special formula of course,
and it cost us $20 a month to
feed ]brei, $15 na month to keep
the rest of us meant pretty slim •
pickings. Of course we didn't
mind, just so long as we could
keep the baby alive, But it kept
us busy at that because up to
the time he was nine months
old he weighed only ten pounds:
After that, he went right ahead.
Now as we look back we often
wonder how we survived those
lean years, followed so soon by
the "hungry thirties." And yet
we don't really regret those
hard times. We realise we would
" have made a lot more mistakes
than we did had we had more
honey to spend during our days
of inexperience, At the same
time a baby bonus would have
been a wonderful thing and
would have relieved a great
deal of qur worry in dealing
with a delicate baby. Daughter
at that time was three years old,
a bright, happy, healthy little
girl, with never a care in the
world just so long as she had her
kitty, little dog Patch and a
whole farm for her playground.
Well, having done my stint
for this column I am going back .
to a mosttntriguing book —
"Ink On My Finger" by the late
H, Cranston, lie had u tttogt
interesting newspaper career,
and; at the time he severed hts
connection with tate Toronto $tar
Weekly he was on the point of
malting arrangements to have
the Chronicles of Ginger Far'rrf
as a regular feature of that
paper.
Neat Feet — Al;cia Markova, on*
of the greatest ballerinas of our
time, appears graceful as a
swan at this point of a new bal-
let, "Pas de Quatre." She is cur-
rently with the Marquis de Cue-
vas company in Paris.
r:here is no ztran9er in the land e . d 4r
Christmas comes again with its golden memories arra gracious
magic...lighting every 'shadow, cheering every path,
. bidding us behold, all is well —and ,and there is no stranger
yn the land—for Christmas is in every heart.
the jiouse o f . 5ea9 ram