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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-12-08, Page 8( 'Vette Anne Husk Fd like to express my indignation toward a man who insists his ianeee continue malting after they marry, to help pay for their home. Any husband can sug- ta eat his wife help save for that, but to say she MUST --well, he's a cheapskate, that's what he is. "A anon marries the girl he loves to give her a home and take care of her; as you say, he should be proud to support her, not insist on taking money from her. It's all right for her to pay for some of her clothes, yes, but he should certainly provide her with seasonal eta - fits as she, needs them, "Wives Shouldn't Work!" , "My husband doesn't tlruilc any wife should work. He says a home isn't a home unlese it is beautiful and clean all the time; then if unexpected friends drop in, you don't have to ex- cuse the dust. You know as well as 1 do, Anne Hirst, you can- not keep your hogse looking as it should and have those h:me- made pies and cakes men love, if you've Out working all day! "A Friendly Reader" j k+ * * " Many a reader, than and * woman, will agree with you, i " Moat men take pride in sup- * porting a wife, and many I've * met feel that a working wife ' * is a reflection on her hus- * band's capabilities. They can both do without some luxuries and manage to get along on •' \ m';'i'.3 price. is * precious to him, and it Toaster Cover tit Protect your toaster with this pretty, new cover! Fun to make — shutters are snit ers are embroidered in easiest Iazy daisy stitches. Use cotton or felt, Bazaar find! Pattern 655' pat- tern pieces, embroidery trans- fer for novelty toaster cover. Easy/ Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Jnr coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. 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" In many cases today the * couple could not possibly live * on the man's income alone, * The girl is as anxious for ' marriage as the man, and she * is glad and proud to pay her ' share of their common ex- * penes. * 1 agree with your point that it is the man's attitude that * is vital. He may ask if she * prefers to go on working; but * to demand that she work to help pay for the house and * its upkeep, and buy her own clothes besides, is a very dif- * feront interpretation of the marriage partnership. Each couple must settle the * natter between them. I ' should add, however, that any * girl contemplating marriage * should have some profitable * talent to fall gack on, in case * of en're:emit:Ms. * * * if your husband disapproves of your holding a position, cut your budget to fit his Income— and do it cheerfully..... Anne Hirst is glad to discuss practical economic problems as well as emotional difficulties, Write her about either at Box 1, J23 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ontario. RON ,iR., i�i n"disc FW 'Unless a miracle happens it, the way of a long open fall, it looks as if quite a lot of fall ploughing will be left unfinish- ed this year — as a result of Hurricane Hazel. In driving through this district and in the neighbouring county of Peel we have seen many fields where ploughing has been started and then left, with water lying in the furrows. In some fields trac- tors are stuck, axle -deep in mud, On our farm there is one field where John wants to put I in spring crop again next year. So of course it must be plough- ed this fall. Last Monday he came along with his own big tractor and double -furrow plough. He had hardly started 1t before he found it was impos- , sible to make any headway so I t he discarded his big tractor for ' j our own which is much smaller I and lighter. But even it could 1not navigate in the water-logged field. In disgust Johnny quit early and went home. We thought that was the last we would see of him for a few days. i But no, Johnny isn't discour- aged that ease, The next meet- ! ing he showed up with a team ! of horses and a single furrow plough which he us••d all the i week until Saturday. That 1 morning there was quite a bit of frost in the grotutd se out came the tractor. £,v the after- I i' norm the frost had thawsd out and the teani was put to work I I again. So it looks as if the i i horse. come into .their own once I in at hile ansswass Iiowon'er. although the fields were wet underfoot it was cer- tainly lovely overhead — real Tndian cur::neer One more FATHER MAY BE ALIVtE—Suzon (left) and Sidnice Fecteau, four- year-old twins, of Lynn, Masa„ learned that their father, Richard Fscteau, believed dead, may be a prisoner of the Chinese Communists. 6"J'S FASHION RINGS THE BELLE --Whether it's in the Congo or for the Conga; rings make fashion news this year. At left, a member of the Bashi tribe in the Belgian Congo models the dozens of thin ,wire ankle rings considered high fashion by Congo belles, At right are shown shoes fashioned with jewelled rings and pendants. They're just the thing for evening wear, according to Italian stylist Fontalco, who is displaying his creations in' Rome, chance to get unfinished jobs cleaned up. I was glad of the nice weather as I was cenvoner for our W.I. meeting last 'Thursday and it was just one of those occasions when nothing seemed to go right. We were expecting a speaker from Galt. Two days before the meeting I did not know whether she was conning or not. You can imagine how happy I was feeling! So I phoned her and discovered she was to let me know if she could NOT cone. That I had forgot- ten. There was also lunch to arrange for the meeting but by the time I was ready to phone the rest of the committee the telephone was out of order! We eventually got that straightened out and then I set to ,work to fix up a contest — and almost for- got the prize. Then came the day of the meeting. Our speaker was to arrive on the 1:45 train. That was fine — just right for our two o'clock meeting. 1 got to the station and was' informed the train would be twenty-five minutes late! No telephones at the station — I often wonder why --- so 1 went to the nearest house and phoned out president from there. At 2:30 we arrived. After the meeting I bought our speaker home for a snack -sup- per and then took her to catch the 6:30 train for hones.. Got into the car, heard something rattling„ like fury behind me. The tail -pipe and the muffler had, parted company, Inc former missing the ground by about TM garo,ont war.urobe for your little one's favorite dolly' Each item is sew -easy ._ fun to ' maize! Party Dress! Echool Dress! Suspender .1 um per! Bletee! Coat! Pixie Hat! Nigh- '; tie! Robe! Slip! Panties includ- ed in pattern. i Pattern 4526: in Doll Sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 inches, You cart use serape for many of theae garments. See pattern for yard- , ages. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions, Send THIRTY -FIVE CENTS (354) in coins (stamps, cannot -be accepted) 'for this pattern, Print plainly SIZE, NAME, AD- DRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 133 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 50 — 1954 is THE NAME'S ENOUGH TO SCARE 'EM—latest supersonic fighter plane, the F-101 Voodoo, shown in flight, 15 is designed to escort strategic air command bombers or deliver atomic weapons deep into enemy territory. The plane's specifications and performance figures are secret. four inches! Our roll -call for that meeting was "How to post- pone ofd age." Had T been there to answer it I think I would have said — "Avoid being con- vener Mr any special meeting!" However, looking back I realize it was all worthwhile for it was a great privilege and pleasure to hear Mrs. R. 'D: Hendry, our Area representatiye, on the Provincial Board. We g some very good advice on W:4 workand were given a fh'st- hand account of what Hurri- cane Hazel did at the Interna- tional Ploughing Match, parti- cularly to the W,I, tent, which of course was collapsed by the storm. How the ladies ever came through the ordeal I can't imagine. And then Mrs. Hendry gave us a delightful account of her trip over to England, Scot- land, Denmark, Sweden and Holland. She spoke particularly of the wonderful care given Canadian graves by the Dutch people. "If you have anyone buried over there;' said Mrs, Hendry, "then thank . God he is in a Dutch cemetery for his grave will never be neglected but be given tender and loving care. The people of Holland will never forget the Canadian boys who died in defence of their country." Well, to complete the week, Bob and Joy were here Friday night, Saturday night Daughter phoned , . . she and Art had taken Dave to see the Santa Claus Parade! They really thought he was too young but. decided to see what he would make of it anyway. Apparently he didn't miss a trice Perched on Daddy's shoulder the whole time, his eyes never left the passing scene, He is one up on ' his grandparents etthat, as neither of us has ever seen the Santa Claus Parade .. and how I would like to! I often think that the Parade, like so many books and shows arranged for children, actually l!ivee more pleasure, to grownens than to he children themselves Odd a and Ends Of Salesmanship � t There is no profession or trade in the world that offers more scope fur ingenuity than that of the salesman. There is the classic example of a salesman who bought up a whole con- signment about 20,000 tins— of jam. There was only one snag: none of the tins had a label. They had been salvaged from a ship- wreck and no dealer would buy them. So the salesman went to sev- eral leading bakeries as soon as he had the eonslgnment safely in his possession. "You make jam tarts don't you?" he asiced, On being assured that the bakeries made many thousands of jam tarts, the salesman said: "It me ccs no difference to you; I suppose., whether you make apple tarts one day or apricots ar whatever you have on hand?" This was indeed the ease, he MIS told; arid before the day wa,, esti' he had disposed of his consignment of jam at three times the price -he had paid for it. Each tin cost the bakers only half of what they would norm- ally have had to pay, Some thirty years ago when the old-fashioned horn -type of "hooter" for cars went out of fashion, a manufacturer found himself saddled with millions of these articles. He called in his salesmen and packed two off to China and another two to South Africa. Within a few months these salesmen had dis- posed of all the horns—to rick- shaw boys. For years after- wards Natal, South Africa, and various Chinese cities resound- ed to the furious honk -honk of the redundant car horns. A salesman was instructed to sell tomato sauce to the Far East when the British and Am- erican markets had a terrific glut of tomatoes. He went from place to place assuring people that this was the real "he-man's" drink in the Western World. He received his biggest f r e e advertisement when, at a banquet in Mongolia, the ruling class rose, each with a bottle of tomato sauce in hand, and solemnly chanted the king's health and then took a swig. Everyone was keen on tomato sauce after that' in the sleepy hills of North Georgia, gold is waiting to be mined, And there's nothing to stop any man going there and keeping all he finds. But he won't be alone. For not so sleepy, are the publicity boys of old Georgia who want to pep up the tourist trade. Their "Anders keepers" campaign has lured tourists from as many as fifteen different States in a single week -end. They pay about a dollar or so per head, and the mine owners of Dahlonege — the North Georgia community known as "The Gold City" take them out to the mines and show them how to pan for ore. Dahlonega, the site of the first gold rush ever' in the United States, some twenty years fie - fore the big strike in Califor- nia, gets its name from the Cheroke Indian word "Tau-lan- ne-ka," in earring ""Yellow Money," Hardly any tourist goes away without finding some gold. One man, not long ago, filled a quart jar with about $7,500 worth of ore, -But for the majority of visitors to -day, the prize is un- likely to exceed a little dust, although occasionally nuggets are found worth as much as $150. So the hopeful tourists do not begrudge the small sums they pay in "digging fees." What puzzles some visitors is why the mine owners operate only on a very small scale. If there is so much gold lying Omit, they reason, why don't they dig mare earnestly and keep It all for themselves? The high cost of labour and machin- ery, the owners say, prohibits full-scale operations. The actual value of the gold found would #totngbtoalafl: nce the expense of get - Souvenir limiters Do Crazy Things Souvenir hunters. are busy again. They have been raiding airport snack bars and restaur- ants in search of souvenirs,, in, eluding ashtrays and spoons. Air- dyrh wod landpOrismarksthese thaats asomaesucvisualrls collect cutlery as they might do seaside rock. The queer thing about souven- ir seekers is that they're often people who would scorn to steal 'money. Yet they think it quite legitimate to "collect" souvenirs worth pbunds at airports, hotels and elsewhere. And they stop at nothing. Af- ter one Test match at the Oval excited spectators invaded the pitch, dug up small pieces of the turf with their hands and went off with their "souvenirs" One woman was seen stuffing some turf into her handbag, The novelist Hall Caine ' was one of many writers who have been plagued by souvenir bunt- ers. They used to invade his Isle of Man garden and even steal his scribbled notes which said: "This garden Is private — I•Ial1 Caine," Finally' he had a board painted with a similar no. tice. Then somebody stole that, also as a souvenir] A souvenir -crazy woman dur- ing the war was actually found trying to grapple with a small mine which had floated ashore and which she afterwards de- clared would "have looked fine" in her garden. A beach official dragged her away just before the mine exploded. Three youths who visited Cheddar Caves in Somerset pocketed pieces of stalactite ten Inches long after breaking them off. Their "keepsakes" were later produced in court and it was ex- plained that the damage they had done was irreparable, for stalactites increase in length at the rate of only an inch in 4,000 years. When a warship visited an American port, the public were allowed aboard to inspect it. One pretty girl, an inveterate souven- ir hunter, was caught cutting the buttons from a uniform hang- ing in a naval officer's cabin into which she had sneaked unob- served. When the Royal Scot was ex- hibited in Canada and the U.S. in 1933, three million people vis- ited it. Almost ei'Ary .'movable fitting except .table. lamps were taken by souvenir hunters; Scorer of ashtrays anal 500 electric bulbs were among thousands of ar- ticles missing. Souvenir seekers nearly pre- vented' the French airmen, Capt. Costes and Lieut. Bellonte, from winning a prize of $25,000 in 1930. Wisen their biplane landed in New York after its then amaz, ing non-stop flight from Faris, a souvenfr•hunting eotiple ripped off pieces of the fuselage, For some, time it was thought that the repairs would t'alce so long that the airmen could not leave within the soothed seventy-two hours to fly non-stop to Pallas, Texas, to win the $25,000 offered by a millionaire. Luckily, the airmen got away on time, MICE ATE THE EVIDENCE Mrs, .Mary W, IIesky, of National City, Calif., was charg- ed with stealing a small quan- tity of cheese from a grocery shop. Evidence, verbal and material, was supplied to the police. Came the day of her appear- ance at court, but Mrs, Kesky was acquitted, The police were unable to produce the piece of stolen cheese; mice had eaten 111 DWARFED — Giant chrysanthe- mums tower over Alan Craw- ford, 3, who is happy that he's taller than one of the flowers. More than 3500 plants, in every size and color, were on display at` the chrysanthemum show. -rft, ,b0,thftit b.& Tub" SHORTBREAD COOKIES /14 cup BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch %x cup icing sugar 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour 1 cup butter SIFT together BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch, icing sugar and flour Into bowl, (Have butter at room temperature} BLEND butter into dry ingredients with a spoon until a soft dough is formed. SHAPE Into balls about 1 inch in diameter. - PLACE on ungreased cookie sheet about 1-% inches apart. FLATTEN dough with lightly floured fork. BAKE to slow oven (3000,1) 20 to 25 minutes, or until edges of cookies are Tightly browned. YIELD, 3 to 4 dozen. NOTE: if using unsalted butter, add %s teaspoon salt to ingredients, If dough is too soft to handle, cover and chill for %2 hour. For free folder of other delicious recipes, write tot Jane Ashley, Home, Servke Department, THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY LIMITED,,,, 15.0. Box 1'29, Montreal, P.Q.