HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-10-13, Page 2qT HIRST
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"Dear Anne Hirst; My step -
nether Welt care Of me since I
Wee three, and she is the only
Mother I remember, When 1
was in service Overseas she sent
nne everything I wanted, YOU
ears see why I love her dearly
Three menthe before I was
discharged, 1 znarried; that was
two years ago, My father and
stepmother have been wender•
ful to my wife — but she has
net seen them for over a year,.
and refuses to go with me to
visit them,
'She says she doesn't like my
stepmother or her family be
cause they are not my people
She will -net let me include her
name when I send them gifts:
my stepmother sends my wife
wenderful presents, yet when
they come here she goes out the
back deer! I always go with
her to see her parents, for she
says I owe it them and I agree.
"Is there anything I can do or
say that will bring my wife to
her senses before it is too late?
Richard."
STRANGE REASONING
It seems to me that your
* wife is jealous of the strong
* ties between you and your
* family. Perhaps you have
* praised them so highly that
# she feels she comes second
* instead of first in your
* thoughts and plans. Of course
* this is not true, but a young
* wife is often quick to take
* Offenseand so whole•hearted
* in her own affection that she
* brooks no division of what
* she calls loyalty.
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ISSUE 42 — 1954
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• Your wife sheath realize
* that y our stepmother de-
• serves more than ordinary ap-
* preclatiOn of all she has done,
* and that appreciation should
* be active and articulate, Her
* attitude is really shOcking;
* your father *eat resent it.
* too. It has already engender.
• ed bad feelings, whish can
* but grew deeper as your wife
* pursues her narrow-minded
* philosophy.
* As your wife she should
* welcome as friends all who
were and are kind to you,
e and make them her friends,
* too; that is natural with a
* generous nature. Your wife
* behaving in a childish and
* ignorant manner, which only
* reflects upon yourself. We all
* need to be proud of those we
* love; you cannot. be proud of
* her as she is today, I know.
I hope she will read this
• opinion. If she would like to
* write me why she feels as
* she does, I hope she will; to
* talk it over with someone
* who does not know her may
* be a relief, and perhaps I
' can explain the situation in
* a way that will not offend her
* She cannot, I believe, real
* ize what a disturbing element
* she is in a serene and beau-
" tiful family group without
* wanting to correct her atti.
* tude and enjoy the affection
* and good will which await
• her,
Jealousy hurts the one who
feels it even more than it harms
its victims. If you are jealous,
let Anne Hirst help you toward
e richer, lovelier life. Address
her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St„
New Toronto, Ont.
They Get Married
The Hard Way
It is easy enough to get mar-
ried in Canada; but if you were
a Munda in Bengal, you
wouldn't get away with it so
easily. When two members of
that tribe decided to marry the
first thing they have to do is
strip. Then their friends paint
them all over with turnerie,
which turns them bright yellow.
Then the bridegroom is mar-
ried to a mango tree and the
bride to a manwa tree. They
have to fling their arms round
the trunk and kiss, it then stand
there while they are tied to it.
The bridegroom has to untie
himself and the bride before
he can take her into his arms.
Until comparatively recent
years bridegrooms in the Outer
Hebrides had to literally risk
their lives before they were al-
lowd to marry.
A man might pop the question
to his girl and be accepted. but
he was not much nearer mar-
rying her than before he'd even
met her. At that point the pros-
pective father-in-law stepped
in. Any father -in -law -to -be will
askhis daughter's prospective
husband if he can keep a wife;
but in the Hebrides they had to
prove it.
One of the main food supplies
was wild birds, so the boy had
to prove he was able to keep
a wife from 'starving by being
able to catch wild birds.
First he had to snake a rope
from Seethe's, Thep „ both fami-
lia metat the top: of a cliff.
The prospective bridegroom
shook hands with the girl's fa-
' titer, then his own father. Then
he lowered himself over the cliff
"by rope and took a bird from,
one of the eliffside nests. If the
',rope he had made was not per-
fect. well, there would be
no wedelns!. It he climbed back
safely, both ft, lilies walked to
the church and he ceremony
took plater
160 d CAKE
Si t 3 times, 2,1s e, once -sifted pastry 'flour t. or 2 c, once -
sifted all-purpose flour), 23e tsp. Meigkilikkhig Powder, 14
teeeerlt, 134 tips. einnareemeetelep. each of ground cloves,
ginger, allspice, nutmeg and mate' -mix in 34 c. seedless
Akits and 14 c. ehopped vilalrfutresCream ?fi c. butter or
serine and higridein„See,c. lightey-packed brown sugar;
beat in 3 well-heaferi egg and 31 tsp. vanilla. Add dry
iiIkristients to creamed mixthre'alternately with ?* c. Milk;
spread brqter inrreased 9" square pen lined
X eri
eel In the b ens et
n greased paper. Beat stiff,
r101 dry, 3 egg whites and a few grains salt;
gradually beat in 1 c. lightly -packed brown
see.
bliikialnaViiid over cake; sprinkle with 14
tivitv'' 1'1°4" ch.93711)041 welnete, Bake in rather slow
f, oven, 829', 114 to 1.14 hours; cover lightly
1.114314' vrith brovm paper for last half hour.
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Always Dependable
Hot() Can:
eleCia.nerlir calf. 1 make a hat
• r y using Wall:: mar
cleaner. A piece ,efthe cleaner
Is broken ell, kneaded until eOft,
• ancl then Tubbed Over the hat
until all the dirt has been Tub:.
bed off. A geed bruShing fol -i
'lows, and in, many casei,' the hat
is as clean 'as when
Q. Hew Orm I read bed se
'hat it Will net harm. the eyes?
A. Do not read when :1Ying
down unless prepped UP stiffi-
clently,'80 that the page is held
vaitrct angles to the line of
si
Q. 1100' ean 1 remove seoreit
•
A. Onion juice is very effec-•'•
tive in removing scorch 'stains
from white materials.
Q. T keep eraecintigcan eggs h.?"1
A. 7.ggs will not crack While
belling if one end of each egg
is ',pricked with a pin or needle
before placing in the water.
This makes an outlet for air and
prevents the shell from crack
ing.
Q. How can I prevent rust
marks from a bathtub?
A. If the porcelain bathtub
or sink has yellow rust marks
caused by constant dripping of
* eyater, remove them by rubbing
• with pumice stone.
Q. Row can I prevent shrink-
ing of blankets when launder-
ing?
A, Measure the wollen blan-
ket before washing it, then dry
on a curtain stretcher. It will
dry quickly and will not shrink,
Q. Row can I prevent tear-
ing of pockets of house dresses?
A. When sewing pockets on
the dresses or aprons, double
a small piece of the material and
place it underneath at the top
of the pockets. They will not
tear so easily when caught on
things.
Q. How Call I remove the
odor from a medicine bottle? '
A. yin it half full of cold
water and add one tablespoen
of dry inugtard. Shake thor-
oughly, let stand for half a day,
wanadt e then rinsed
carefully in col
Q. How eau 1 make good
baked apPles?
A. Baked apples will have
an added flavor if the centers
are filled' with raisins before
baking: e
Q. How . can 3 prevent the
smell of tobacco smoke in a
roma?'
A. The room 'Will not have
thisodor it a lump of crystal
ammonia is 'put into a, jar with
three or four drops of oil of
lavender. Add a few tablespoon-
fuls of boiling water and let the
jar stand uncovered in the room.
Q. How can 1 remove indef.,
ibie ink sisins?
A. They can usually he re-
moved by rubbing with equal
parts of ammonia and turpen-
tine.
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IMBIBING BEAR — A Teddy bear with an telchoholic flair fasci-
nates eight-year-old June Usher at the Autumn Antiques Fair
in London, England. Made in 1840, the bear has been pouring
glass stream of "beverage" for over a hundred years,
HRONICLES
,INAF,EWti
If we watched the birds more
closely we might get a little
warning of weather wise nature
Two weeks ago qur clothes -line
was just alive with twittering
barn swallows. The young birds
perched in a row while Mother
Swallow flew back and forth
with choice morsels to feed them.
Never a day passed but what
these pretty little birds were
there. and then — suddenly —
they were gone, Almost imme-
diatly came that long spell of
cold, wet weather we have just
experienced. Had the swallows
sensed its coming, And do they
sense the coming of spring in
just the same way? One day next
April or early May the swallows
will appear again as suddenly
as they left, and we that] know
it's spring.
The canaries have vanished
too. so now, instead of swallows
and canaries we have the noisy
handsome bluejay — his plum-
age so out. of keeping with his
unlovely voice.
And oh my, are the squirrels
ever busy! It is fun to Watch
them Perhaps you may 'have
noticed the gray squirrels defin-
itely boss it over the black and
the brown. At least it is always
the grey squirrel that does the
chasing. I have never yet seen
a black squirrel tura around and
chase his aggressive grey cousin.
Besides squirrels, up in the barn
we have bats, quite a few of
them, so Partner says. But I'm
not going up to'mee for the very
sight of a bat gives me the. jit-
ters. Horrible things! Last night
a hoot -awl, which I like, was in
a tree oufside our bedroom win-
dow and the first mouse of the
season has invaded the pantry.
So. one way and another it
looks as if summer may be on
the wane and the birds and
beasts preparing for the winter,
either by migration or by gath-
ering in a harvest of nuts —
and it takes an awful lot of nuts
to keep, the squirrels satisfied.
One farmer we know has quite
a big woodlot on his farm. One
year he was asked by the De
partment of Lands and Forests
to save acorns for them that fall.
lie agreed but he was unable to
fulfil his promise. It was not too
good a year for nuts and seeds
anyway but there still would
have been plenty had 11
been for the squireels, They
stripped every tree in the wood
tot In fact it was three years
before the acorn harvest Vas
more than enough to satisfy the
squirrels.
Another friend of mine has
had a mud. turtle for a pet ,for
the last three years. He lives in
a glass tank with a mound of
flat stones the top of which is
above the water. All 'summer the
turtle enjoys his feed, swim-
ming around 10 the wester and
slithering over the stones. Now
he has stopped eating, has climb-
ed on top of the biggest flattest
stone, and there he will stay un-
til spring, his life in a state of
suspended animation.
To our pullet pen we have just
imported sixty good, strong hy-
brid pullets — Plymouth and
New Hampshire crossed. They
are laying well. In another pen
we have our hens — same breed,
I suppose we should sell -them
but it seems a pity because they
are still laying well and haven't
even thought of moulting. But
of course they lay a dark -shelled'
egg and so many people have an
idea a white egg is the only kind
fit to eat. Quite a ridiculous no-
tion, of course. It is what is in-
side the shell, not the shell it-
self that counts, But we find
there Ls a difference between
the shells of hens and pullets.
The latter are always of a good
thickness, smooth and well -
formed. As hens get near 10
moulting, the occasional' egg it
rough shelled, porous, or has a
thick 'waist', and often cracks
when boiled. But there is a way
to fix that — drop a good tea-
spoonful of salt into the boiling,
water and, unless the egg is very"
badly cracked, the white will not
boil out. You can use your culls
that way for devilled eggs.
Well now, wouldn't you know
it? The foregoing was written
Saturday, the last day of a cold,
wet week. Summer seemed to
llave vanished for. good. Then
came Sunday'—' hot arid -humid. •
Today is pleasantly warm and
bright. What is our 'Canadian
climate coming to? It may even
puzzle the birds to keep their
weather-wise Wisdom. Maybe the
swallows are,trily in temporary .!
hiding. But not the they
are with us yet We haven't get
such an awful lot but what we
have stick closer than a brother.
We can be thankftllthe hottad-
fly doesn't bite. Yoh don't' be-
lieve that Well, it's true. The
housefly hasn't got the sort. of
anatomy to make biting possible,
It's his cousin from the barnyard
lieve that? Well, it's true. The
if you have biting flies they are
just visitors — probably come
into the house with the men, the
dogs, or the childree. By com-
parison the housefly is a nice,
sociable sort of creature, don't
you think?
ITAILD TO CONVINCE
Henry called to his wife wee
Mewling: -"Susie, come here."
When she arrived he told her;
"Darling, I'm dead, 1 died during
the night. 1 just want yet to
take care of the children. Never
mind about me, Just take care
of the children."
' 'What do you mean, you
died?" the wife demanded,
"What I said," Henry explain.
ed cerefully, "During the night,
I died, Make sure I have a nice
funeral, Susie. Forget al) about
me and marry some nice men."
"Yotere not dead," she told
him.
"What do you mean, len not
dead? I died during the night,
and now I'm dead, Perfectly na-
tural, Happens to everybody,"
Susie ran off hysterically and
came back with a (lector. "My ,
husband claims he died during
the night," she explained. "He's
gone crazy. Doctor, please see
what you can do."
al know just how to handle
him," the doctor said, Together
they went into the room. "Now
look," the doctor said. "You'll
admit that dead *lee" don't
bleed?"
The man thought a minute.
"Okay," he said.
The doctor pricked the man's
finger. A few drops of blood
welled out. "You see?" he said
triumphantly. "Blood."
The man nodded. "Doctor," he
said, "you're wrong. Dead men
do bleed."
LAST DIP — Though summer
gone, pfench starlet Noefle,
dier graves chilly weather fC*
her final swim of the year at
an outdoor pool in Paris, Prone*.
The fact that she is the only e
person In the. place does riot
deter her, proving she's
brrrave girrrl.
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