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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-2-27, Page 2"SA A!' TEA . BAG ANN€14 11 S T ami CottosheArt "Dear Anne Hirst: I certainly agree with your advice to 'Be- wildered Wife' about her mother- in-law, My husband's mother is almost an exact duplicate. Before marriage she accepted me, but on our very wedding day she chang- ed to a vicious animal, She sowed seeds of hate immediately and successfully, "She also is neurotic, and car- ries on until she gets her way. My husband admits she is wrong, but he never took my side, and excused everything with 'She's my mother.' I had put my heart and soul into my marriage. I worked and prayed hard for it to be a suc- cess, but to no avail. She created such ill will that I lost all res- pect for her and also for my bus - band I saw him as he was, a spineless jellyfish. She kept us at each others' throats when I was pregnant, and she, too, told me her son was too good for me. Her attacks gnawed. They left Four Snappy -Sews! 5-14-ic 4694 FOUR gay aprons in this one pattern! Sew them all, for birth- days, anniversaries, hostess gifts. And be sure to make one or two for you! They're thrifty—you can use scraps for the contrast parts Send for this pattern today! Pattern 4694: Misses' Sizes: small (14, 16); medium (18, 20); large (40, 42). Small with bib, all one fabric, takes 1(6 yds, 35 -inch. This pattern easy to use. sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (350 in coins. (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont. me a broken person, without faith in God or humanity. "Finally I realized it was fruit- less to try to please her. I broke with her before we were mar- ried two years. I have never re- gretted the step. "Soon we will have been mar- ried five years. The nightmare is slowly fading. My faith has been restored, and since I no longer hear her ugly lies and unkind words, I am growing normal again. "My husband continues to pay his respects to her, but our boy does not know his grandmother. I have borrowed her phrase, 'My son is too good for you.' I never dreamed it would end this way, but she brought it on herself. I am made of flesh, too, and there is a limit to my endurance. She is lucky she was not sued for alienation of affections, "God bless your good work, Anne Hirst, and your patience and . understanding of Iunnan spirits. - Without Regret." * It is not surprising that you * felt impelled to comment on * "Bewildered Wife's" problem. * You never thought, I expect, " that there could be two women • so alike, did you? -- If there " were only two! * Yes, there is a Iimit to hunt- ° an endurance. When you reach- * ed yours, you wasted no time * feeling sorry for yourself. You * made the clean break that took * courage and determination. for * you were risking your hus- * band's acceptance of it, too. * How lucky you are that he * understands and approves! * It is unfortunate that your " Iittle son cannot know his fath- * er's mother; children need * grandparents—but not those * who might exert a tainted infiu- * ence upon their young minds. * Those who read your letter * thoughtfully today will not cen- sure you for your stand. * TO "LONELY WIDOW": * You've had no luck with * men, have you? Can it be be- * cause you have accepted the * attentions of married ones? * In this present instance, you * risk an open scandal that could • ruin your good name. What w would that do to your growing * girls? No matter how you long * for male companionship, their * welfare must continue to be * be your first responsibility. * Contentment could he found * in worthwhile activities that * demand your highest mental * and social talents. I do not * know you, so it would he fool- " ish to suggest which fields will " appeal; but you know your * gifts,your temperament, your * limie4lons. Weigh them all " honestly, and I think you will * not be long in locating reward- * ing outlets that will relieve * your loneliness and bring you * deep satisfaction. Through * them, you may even meet de- " sirable, eligible men who are * worth your friendship. * * 4 - if If an in-law situation is grow- ing unbearable, find out what you can do about it, and act. If you cannot act forcefully to remove It, Anne Hirst may have ideas that will help you bear it. Write her at Box I, 133 Eighteenth St„ New Toronto, Ont, Pi Combine in a greased eassnrole (G -cup size) ;y c. corn syrup, 1 'tbs. grated lemon rind and el o. orange juice. Preheat oven to 375* (moderately hot). Mix and sift once, then sift into a howl. Ilei c, once -sifted pastrygttur (or V c. once -sifted all-purpose flour), 2% tsps. Magic Baking Powder, ;s tsp. salt and ;4'. e. fine granulated sugar. Mix in 94. c. corn fakes, slightly crushed, and 34 c. cut-up pitted dates. Combine 1 well -beaten ' ogg, le c. milk, r tsp. vanilla and S the. shortening, melted. Make a well 'ih dry ingredients and add liquids; mix lightly. rt'trrrr into prepared dish. Bake in preheated oven, about 40 minutes. Serve waren, with pouring cream. Yield --R servings. MAGIC BAK1N6 POWDER Always Dependable "Shine Up" Children For Safety's Sake It was twilight in Columbus, Ohio, Visibility is always bad for a motorist at twilight, and it was particularly bad en this night. Dr. Warren Wheeler hard- ly saw the dark -clothed boy be- fore he hit him: Jimmy Jordan was uncon- scious for weeks, but he recov- ered, thanks largely to Wheel- er's seeing to it that the boy had the best medical care. But out of a chance remark the mo- torist made to a reporter at the time of the accident,something. even more important than one boy has emerged, "Wby, why couldn't that child have been wearing some kind of clothes or identifibation that would stand out at nighti" he said. Eventually a campaign got under way to rut the rising toll of children run down by motor- ists because of poor visibility Its purpose is to ether strips of Nite-Ray, like the luminous red stuff one sees on motor -ear bumpers, to the outer clothing of all children under 14. The idea is that motor -car headlights will readily pick up` the luminous strips •- white in this case -- the child is wear- ing and reduce the toll , of traf• flc deaths, The big drive is 1.n continue through the four months of poor- est evening driving visibility A few months after Jimmy Jordan's accident, samples of cloth manufactured by a com- pany which makes red strips for bumpers arrived in Colum- bus. They had impregnated the cloth with the same light-rc- flectirg qualities po aesssd by the bumper strips. The blind people at Monnet liaise. Columbus. eager to help save the lives of children they could never see, went to work cutting, the luminous cloth into strips, and fixing the strips ' in sets of two to pieces of coloured cardboard bearing directions for their use and a traffic safety pledge to be signed by,,.the reci- pient, All of the local newspaper's carrier boys are wearing the Nite-Ray strips. usually sewn around the shoulder seams and sleeves of their coats, and other- wise voicing the campaign bat- tle cry, 'Be Safe - Be Seen." One woman made rosettes of the material and sewed them to the shoulders of her daughter's coat. Another made up floral ear -rings. A third tied her daughter's pigtails with ribbons made of the material. Iron -on Designs in 3 colors to sC4U A Y Y V►te2,4• IRON them right un - no em- broidery! Beautify linens with old-fashioned girls and nosegays in soft pink, sky blue and green) For bazaar best-sellers, your guest roam --iron on towels, sheets, pil- lowcases, se a r v e s. Add ready made eyelet edging for a gift pretty enough to delight a bride. Pattern 086 has 12 washable, iron -on designs. Two girls 41/2 x 10; two girls 43 x 41/2; four sprays 41 x lea, four sprays 1 x 2 inches. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS In coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth 5t„ New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS, EXCITING VAI,tl' I tan, yep TEN popular, new design:: to ere• chat, paw, embroider. knlle-yrinte ed right in the Laura Wheeler Needieeraft look, Plea marl mere patterns to seed force ideas for elite, bazaar McVey" makers, faehlonali dettd ik! eon* for your eopyl What's Next? — Women have been "fishing" for things in their crowded purses for so long that it comes as no great surprise that someone finally came up with the above purse design. Created by British designer Elizabeth James, the sequin -scaled, feather -fin bag's displayed by model Hazel Penman in London. l: O$ICLES. @NGEkFRM Owseceioltrea 4? Ct -cb;e A new addition' has been added to our tinnily. We have named her "Annie" because she was born on the eve of our wedding anniver- sary, Her mother's name is May and she is a direct descendant of Daisy Durham, who was one - of the first members to join our , family when we started fanning in Ontario just over 30 long years ago. The name of Annie's father is "Lord Nelson" and he lives at Maple, Ontario. Annie has a nice, Duffy white fur coat with a few reddish -brown patches here and there, and she is really very act- ive considering she is only two" days old. Actually Annie wasn't-. too anxious to- enter this .cold, snowy world and managed to postpone her arrival for two whole days, After that the forces of nature were too strong for her and she finally made her appear- ance, unaided and alone, .We thought perhaps she. might bring a brother or sister along with her for company. But ire; she Caine by herself and was quite proud of, her achievement,•in-feet it wasn't- - long before she was standing on her feet, ambling around her mother, gazing at her somewhat boastfully, saying just as plain as could be, "Hey Ma! I did it!" Boastfulness, however, soon gave way to the pangs of hunger, as in calf language she said to her mother, "Look, Ma, now I'm here, what's to eat, and where de I get it?" Well, that was one incident in connection with our anniversary. The other occurred when Bob and Joy walked in with a gorgeous bunch of daffodils. Why is it that spring flowers look so much love- lier in the middle of winter? Never have daffodils looked so. yellow and cheerful as the ones that adorn our house today. We also had a disappointment. Dee, Art and David were to have come out for the clay and then' at the last minute they had to cancel their plans, so as a sort of con- solation prize we got a lovely card and a picture of our grand- son. Apparently the young tinker is growing out of all recognition so we are getting quite impatient to see him, We" are still not very happy about the weather, pot knowing quite what to expect from day to day, Big trucks and little trucks have been getting throuigh the lane but when I fried to get out with the car, oh, that was quite a different story.I got about a quarter of the way out and there I sat, 'wheels digging and spin - ring like fury. Presently Partner came to the rescue, thought if he dug here and dug there I could get out all right. But all the dig- ging 1 would let hitt• da was to dig a path for me beck to the. garage, And there the car will stay until I can got out in com- fort. I am getting lots of exercise as a result. Down to the mail -box with letters to post. Down agaiir to get the day's mail. Down again for the evening paper—and quite Often down again for something or other that has been left in our mail -box. I wouldn't like to live on c sideroad and have to walk halfesenile for our mail That would .be just toe much, There was a time when we would have thought nothing of it—but not now. Come to think of it, time is very 'aonaiderate and suits our »ands t0 our years,. Out west, vrinen:w, were lint tnarried, wt nerd to get our. Mel Mice a week, and than only if we drove mina tepee aOrtisti the opefr prairlt to yet it, W. didn't think it any great hardship, That, and' a good many other things—cold, short- age of fuel, and only, the bare necessities of life. I remember that sometimes I used to wear. mitts in the house to keep my hands warm. If we had td live under the same conditions today we could not do it. To those days belonged, hard work, many pri- vations, but a greater peace of mind, We had no car, no radio, very few neighbours, our only means of communication was the telephone and aur only news- paper the gond old Family Her- ald and Weekly Star. Disasters in other parts of the world did not affect us at all—somethnes we didn't even hear of them until they had ceased io be news. Our worries were purely local — the weather, the price of wheat and oats, harvesting our crops and the health of our families. Today we have the swine worries, plus the pressure of modern living. News comes to us bot off the wires, To keep pace with it we need a brain as agile as a cricket. Whether we live in the city -or country makes little difference. For this reason don't you think we should make an effort to get a little morequietness into our lives, quietness , that isn't pos- sible if radio sob stories fill our, minds hour after hour, day after eday? Quietness has become almost' an unknownquantity--we need - to treasure what little of it re- mains, How Can. I? Q. Ilow can I clean suede shoes without injuring the suede? A. An ordinary. rubber sponge, such as can be bought at any ten - cent store, the tight sort that has a good resistance, is excellent for keeping the suede shoes clean. It willl remove all the dust and soil without harming the fabric, as so many of the very stiff brushes are inclined to do. Q. What can Disse as a sub- stitute for olive oil? A. When your supply of olive oil is running low, when making salad dressing, melt butter and add it teethe oil. It makes a good substitute, Q. How can I prepare some" thing different. in , the way of dessert? A, Try a combination of chocolate ice cream and orange sherbet, It makes a very colorful dessert, and a. delicious one. Q. How can I nuke an at- tractive garnish with cranberry jelly? A. Slice the cranberry jelly and cut into fenny shapes with a cookie cutter or a knife, and you will have. all unusual and attrac- tive garnish for salads and cles- serts, Q. How can 1 relieve a head- ache? A, A home remedy that oftenn brings relief is to place a pinch of salt' on the otongue and allow it to dissolve. Ire about ten min- utes, take a drink of cold water. Q. clow den I avoid the un- pleasanty'moke that sometimes arises when cooking hotcakcs? A. 'By tying some salt in a bag and rubbing the griddle with this instead of greasing it. It is quite satisfactory, Q. How can I prevent cracks le the enamel of a starve? A. Never try to wipe off the. enamelled range with a wet cloth while' it is still hat. The fine enamel surface tray become marred by unsightly cracks, Q, How can I protect the wall paper over the couch front porn Ade that mets use ott'their heads" A. By placing a tapestry over this place. This is much easier to clean than the greasy spots on wall paper. Her Knees Creak, So She Stays Single You must possess many friends who, although in their late twenties, thirties or even forties, haven't married, Do you asetmte, in the case of a man,,: that he's been turned down, and in the ease of A woman that she hasn't been asked? 11 so, you might be doing them an injustice, Some font remain single because their standards are high. What about Yvonne de Carlo?.. No one could be more glatnorous, so why is she still a bachelor,,. girl? Because her ideal ;nail must have the voice of Laurence Olivier, the looks of Robert Taylor, the humour of Aly Khan and the physique of. Rock Hudson! Another attractive unmarried actress, Dora Bryan, who joined the "Much Binding" programme with Richard 'Murdoch and Ken- neth Horne, and is now in the revue "At The Lyric," declared, "I'm too busy, and I don't want to marry anyone in show. busi- ness." A,ild then Dora changed her mind for it ..was recently announced that she is to marry her boyhood friend Bill Lawton, the Lancashire League profes- sional cricketer, Gloria Nord, who starred in the ice show "Chu Chin Chow!' at the .Empire Pool, Wembley, holds a somewhat similar point of view. She likes skating too much and feels it's impossible to pursue a career ,and run a home at the same time, Then there's Sophie, said to be the only woman dress de- signer in Egypt. She has just heldher first showing of --clothes' made front Egyptian textiles. Twenty-seven years old and very pleasing in appearance, she says her career means that she will probably never 'marry. "An Egyptian husband," she sighs, "would never allow me to continue with it. It would be considered unsuitable." When it comes to people whose names don't hit the head- lines, their reasons Inc remain- ing unmarried are often the last you'd imagine. One girl wrote to the papers not very long ago to say that every time she knelt down, her - knees creaked and she'd feel such a fool in church. She doesn't seem to have considered a register office ceremony, A most down-to-earth ex- planation was given bya bache- lor in Northern Ireland — e farmer. He was, he said, far too busy looking after his pigs. Besides, theib upkeep 'was cheaper than that of a wile and when a pig grew -fat •you could sell it. Unless you know where he hails from, you'll never guess why Dan Covington ' is still without a wife. It's because he doesn't think polygamy is prac- tical nowadys. Last July it was said that Dan was the only bachelor in Short Creek, Arizo- na, the Mormon settlement which was raided and broken up by the police. Thitry-six men there possessed eighty-six wives. Are you single? Maybe the married state doesn't appeal to you. But suppose you've been hankering secretly after it, then take a trip abroad this summer. A little town in southern Hole land has thought up a wonder. fel aeheme, Last year the town staged 'a Lonely Heart's. Gon- gress, attended by 800 bachelors and spinsters from five coun- tries. Some of the guests announced quite frankly that they hoped to find someone to their taste. A Belgian labourer said he'd saved $460 as a preparation for marriage, but had so far been. too shy to ask anyone at home: SLIMMING DOWN "Reduce while you work" is the idea behind the plastic "slim- ming suit" demonstrated below by Adrienne Germaine, in ton - don, Engl*nd. Doing household chores" in theqir-tight garment Induces -t heavy perspiration, which is supposed to take off the pounds. Use the plastic slim suit and . . off comes excess weight. 404/Chelsea Bim I.' c A. treat You can make`easily with new fast DRY Yeast Now you have Fleischmann's Fast Dry Yeast, forget about the oldtime hazards of yeast baking! Always at hand — always full-strength and fast rising! Keep a month's supply in your cupboard! Make this delicious Chelsea Bun Loaf cut in slices for buttering, or separate the buns. CHELSEA BUN LOAF Make 3 parrs of burs from this one recifrr—donee will keep in refrigerator for a teak. Scald 11 c. milk, i< c, granulated sugar, 1% tsps. salt and :'S c. shortening; cool to lukewarm. Meanwhile, measure into a large bowl 31 c. lukewarm water, 1 tsp. granulated sugar; stir until sugar as dissolved. Sprinkle with 1 en- velope F1eischmann's last Rising Ary Yeast. I•et stand 10 mins.. THEN stir well, Add cooled milk `",ixttue and stir in 1 welbbeaten egg. Stir in 2 e, once.silted bread flour; beat until smooth, (Work in 21/2 e. once• sifted bread flour. mesad on lightir. floured board until aninnth and elastic. Cetaft;S of dough, kneae; into a smooth ,11011, place in greased bow, arcane tog of slough, cover and aturc':in refrigerator until wanted, Shap* retnaitdng 1g, of dutngb into a smooth baht place in src,, "I a•1 and grease top. Cover and set to Warm place, tree front draught, 1 -et rise' until doubled in bulk, Cream .a tips, butter or Margarine and blond in 1/2 c. Brunn Wear (lightly pressed down), 1t/z fops. ground cinnamon and 3 tbs, cord syrup; Teed about t t of this mtxtwr: iu 1*ntinnt ',II tinkle with pectin halves. Punch down risen dough and roll out into an s" square; loosen dough. Spread, with re. ua ting stirrer mixture and sprinkle with 1/2 c. raisins. Loosely ton *, liken Letts roll. Cut roll into 6 slices. Place in pre. pared flan Grease tops. •Corer 3{531 lei' rise: until doubled in bulk. Dalin in moiler. a e oven 25.30 0304. T,et aiaad p n. for 41 thins. hereto Loctite out.' /101074 /N . �?carts