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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-09-26, Page 6so Cr: n. 11, 131 ANNE 1-110ST1 QO OTHER FIANCEES WORRY LIKE THIS? "Dear Anne Hirst: I want you to tell me whether other engaged girls get frightened as their wedding day draws near? I am to be married on Thanksgiving Day, and although 1 can't put any finger on any single thing to worry about, I do. "My fiance is 28, I'm 21. We attend the same church, we share a love of music and books and sports; and he is the most thoughtful person I've ever known. I can't find a single bad trait in him; he makes a good living and is very saving of his money, although generous to me. And I know he would never let ane clown. "Yet I have hours of wonder- ing whether I should marry him. I live a well-rounded life, be- long to two organizations, am a college graduate and have al- ways had plenty of confidence in myself. This feeling is utterly foreign to my nature. "My fiance only went through high school, and is shy around those he thinks are more intelli- gent. Yet when I compare Vs parents (who live just for each other and are so happy) with some professional people I know, I would choose their marriage as a model. I want to be a good Newest Crochet '41"1110nr lycoufte.Wheil& A handsome set for modern traditional homes! Simple t crochet with K -stitch sets Ie the deer design, Pattern 598: chair -set or scarf fends. Chart, directions for chair - back 121/2 x 16 inches, armrest is 6 x 8 in No. 50 cotton. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (Amps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety). for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New To- ronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME end ADDRESS. Two FREE Patterns as a gift eo our readers -printed right in Our 1957 Laura Wheeler Needle - Craft Book. Dozens of other de- signs you'll want to order -easy fascinating handwork for your- self, your home, gifts, bazaar items. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book' today! ISSUE 38 - 1957 • wife, have a family, and keep my man content. But I see some of my married friends so quar- relsome with each other that it scares me. "Once we stopped seeing each other because I felt unsure of myself. I was really sick over it, felt I had thrown away the most beautiful gift I have ever had. I asked him to crime back . . . But now that my wedding date is set I feel shaky. My par- ents laugh, and tell rne not to worry. Ani I normal, Anne Hirst? STILL WORRYING" * Most of the married people • you know would probably * confess (in a confidential * mood) that they were at- " tacked by the same unnamed • fears that worry you. Most • thoughtful girls wonder whe- • ther marriage is right for * them; they see couples who • get on each other's nerves and • melee their life a series of un- • pleasant scenes. And they be- o gin to wonder whether those • who appear happy are really • '.so. It makes a girl tremble. • From all you tell me (and • I wish I could have printed • your letter in full) you and • your fiance seem to have no • need to concern yourselves. o You will help him to overcome • his shyness; he will stand Iiki • a shield between you and any • trouble that 'may come. You • share the same ideals of mar- • riage; you enjoy the same • things, laugh at the same • stories. He will respect your • higher education and you will • never allow him to feel infer- ▪ ior. I picture you both prac- • ticing tolerance in any differ- * ence, being patient if misun- • derstandings arise, and living • serenely together with abso- • lute faith in one another. * Your thoughts are . natural, • yes. But you are intelligent • and you love deeply, two pro- * tections against any real un- • happiness. Keep in mind your * parents' satisfying marriage, * the sweet companionship that • your fiance's mother and fa- * ther find in theirs. There is it • 100 -to -1 chance that yours will • be like that. 0 * • DATE IIER AGAIN? "Dear Anne Hirst: Last spring I stopped seeing a girl I liked a lot. I asked her to go steady and she refused, so I just didn't go back. "A girl friend of hers tells me she'd like to date me again. But after the rotten way she treated me, do you think I should? I know I was possessive, and maybe jealous, but shall I take her back after al] this? JIM" • I don't agree at all that this • girl was unfair. She wanted to • go out with other boys too, • and was frank enough to say • so. Your pride got a jolt, and • you left. • Most girls like to date sev- • eral boys at once, for how • else can they learn about boys • in general and discriminate • among them? You would have • been smart to agree, accepted • competition and taken your • chance with her other friends. • Instead you behaved like a o spoiled child, you would have * all or nothing. • If you really like the girl • you will jump at the chance • to be friends again -and this • time be a little humble. That • will show you are more ma- * ture now, and can appreciate • a girl honest enough to tell * you the truth * When you don't know where to turn, turn to Anne Hirst. Her wide experience and in- nate sympathy for troubled readers will help you through almost any trouble. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. iiteeieleieeeetetseeleeeetteeeeteee ' • • , . •-' ..,,Weteieeeireei" . . JUST MEMORIES NOW -Famed as the "Sea Devil" during World War I, Germany's Count Felix von Luckner is taking things easier in his declining years. Shown with his wife in front of their trailer near Stuttgart, the veteran of many a sea battle, MOW 77 years old, Was attending a national camping rally, WESTERN ROMANCERS -Some romance is in store for a change 'for James Arness and Amanda Blake, stars of TV's "Gunsmoke". Wouldn't you know it ... Ex- hibition time and teaming rain the second day. The trouble is we needed that rain so badly1 but why couldn't it have come' two days earlier, then everyone would have been happy. Or would they? Partner and I went to the C.N.E. on Friday - the first time we had ever gone on "War- rior's Day". It was raining a lit- tle when we boarded the bus but the "Probs" called for "clearing by noon" so we took a chance. We got a splendid seat on the grandstand - after we had had lunch and taken a quick look at the new Queen Elizabeth Building. Kate Ait- ken's dream has finally come true. For years Mrs. A. tried to talk C.NE. officials into making plans for the construction of such a badly needed building. And for an equal. number of years her pleas and arguments were turned down. Now that the new Women's Division Is an ac- complished fact I wonder if any of the credit will go to Mrs. A. who was the first to point the way. The Military Parade began marching past the reviewing stand soon after two o'clock and continued for almost two hours. Other years we have read about it, heard about it and seen snatches of it on T.V., but that was very different from seeing the actual performance, There were bands, bands, and still more bands. Each band follow- ed by officiers and men of vari- ous regiments, mostly veterans of past wars, even as far back as the Boer War. Many of them stiff in the joints, some with a limp but all of them valiantly trying to keep step to the mar- tial music. Watching from a cen- tral spot on the Parade ground were about 25 wheel -chair vet- erans from Sunnybrook Hospi- tal, each under the care of a military nurse, while Red Gross nurses kept the men supplied with what appeared to be a packaged lunch. As might be ex- pected the men were obviously entering into the spirit of the occasion, living up to the old army slogan that "old soldiers never die." On the grandstand there •were many more old soldiers, some with their children and grand- children. Some were younger, veterans of World War II. and the Korean War. There were also war widows. 'One old age pensoner sitting hext to me said she came to the C.N.E. every year on Warrior's Day although her husband, a first war veteran, had been dead 26 years. She now lives alone in an apartment block tor Senior Citizens at Rexdale and is very well satis- fied with the care and accom- modation she receives Behind us a little girl was excitedly picking out Grandpa • from among the wheel -chair visitors In front of us, and a little to the left, sat a thin -faced man,lean- ing on his stick and wearing a Service button in his lapel. He • spoke very little but his eyes followed every movement of the • parade. Who knows what were his memories. Certainly his, at- tention was more than casual. Was he one of those who return- ed from Vimy Ridge? Was he gassed, shot down or wounded the field of battle? Or were his memories chiefly concerned with his buddies who didn't come back? Without asking there was no way of knowing. But of one thing we can always be cer- tain . . . behind every Service button there is a story. Knowing this makes Warrior's Day at the C.N.E. all the more meaningful. Thank goodness the heavy rain kept off for the duration of the parade although the bands were dispersed a little ahead of time to prevent damage to their in- struments from the drizzle. After we left the grandstand our problems began. Raining fast - and our bus didn't leave until 10:30! Partner was wear- ing a light windbreaker, I a plastic raincoat. 'My raincoat kept the rain out and the per- spiration in so I was almost as wet inside as out. We took shel- ter in one or two of the build- ings. So did hundreds of others. We tried to get a taxi. So did scores of others. We waited ages to get into a phone booth to call Art. No answer! Obviously they were at .the Ex. and hadn't got home yet. We put in time at the Motor Show hoping to find a seat. There_ were none vacant. We thought then how much the C.N.E. might be improved by the addition of more seats everywhere -many, many more seats. At long last we got Art on the phone. Then we wended our weary way over to the Dufferin street cars, my shoes squelching as I walked. We elbowed our way on to a street -car and at the end of our trip Art was waiting with his car. At Dee's place we got more or less dried out, enjoyed a hot chicken din- ner, and then the whole family brought us home. We enjoyed the Parade; we think Warrior's Day,is something one should go to at least once .ina lifetime, but more than anything we appre- ciated having someone to fall back on, someone to bring us home - and at the end of the day a warm, dry, comfortable home to come back to. That was one day at the CN E and there may be another. A fine one, we hope! Light Fingered Lady! • Obviously she was a lady, poised and patrician. She lived with a girl she introduced as her niece, a fetching and bright young blonde. At one time or another she had five new cars, including a pink Lincoln. She had two avocations: She work- ed, though she really didn't need to, and she raised cocker spaniels. ( (She owned 50 cock- ers, including Rise and Shine, the 1954 "Best in Show" dog at the nation's snazziest dog show, the Westminster Kennel Club's.) She called herself Mrs. Janet R. Gray. Mrs. Gray was office manager for a group of doctors' who operate a private clinic. One day, one of the doctors decided that he was short in his office checking account. • When investigators went look - 1 or Mrs. Gray, she had fled. She had left town, said witnesses, leading a spectacular - four - vehicle caravan in the pink Lin- coln, and with her went ihost of her furnishings (in two fur- niture vans), all the cockers, and her niece driving another car. It wasn't hard to trace this caravan as Mrs. Gray moved across the South, but she be- gan to drop off her more con- spicuous items - like the vans - as she went and finally, in Oklahoma, she vanished. By then, investigators learned she had taken $100,000 from the doctors, and the FBI was called in. If Mrs. Gray had seemed to have an extravagant life in Atlanta, the true story of her life, as the FBI disclosed it, was extravagant beyond the imag- ination of most mortals. . She was born in Tientsin, China, in 1906, the daughter of British parents, and her real name was Margaret McGlashan. By 1935, she was in the Pana- ma Canal Zone, working for a Chinese rug company. There she met and married a man named Jasper W. Burton, and had a daughter by him. This daugh- ter - Sheila Joy Burton - was her "niece." Mrs. McGlashan-Burton-Gray (she accumulated 22 known aliases) first came to the atten- tion of authorities as one of the world's great swindlers in Honolulu in 1939. She had been transferred there by her com- pany and she achieved a tri- umph that most crime experts said was impossible: She suc- ceeded in defrauding a Chinese rug merchant. Mrs. Burton had taken the precaution of leaving Honolulu exactly eleven days before the indictment was handed down. The FBI record from then on speaks for itself: Mrs. Burton was arrested by Los Angeles police in July 1939 tor the Honolulu rap, but extra- dition was denied. In February 1950, a warrant was issued for her arrest in Los Angeles on six counts of theft, but she had disappeared. Vancouver police charged her with the theft of $5,000 in May of 1950, but by the time the charge was made she had again reeved on. In 1953, she moved out of San TRAGIC FOOTNOTE -- Though' little Ralph J ' acobs 31/2, doesn't know it, the elephant foot in which he's standing was chief instrument in a gruesome tragedy. With it, "Bosco," for- mer star performer with the Krone Circus, trampled his two trainers to death. The foot is on display in Berlin, Germany. Antonio, Texas, hours ahead of a Federal warrant for the inter- st..te tranpottation of stolen property. The FBI next picked up her trail in Norfolk, Va. "At the time of her sudden de- parture in November 1954," said the official FBI report, "a war- rant was filed by the doctor who was her employer charging her with the larceny of $2,000 in connection with cash she had not deposited to the doctor's bank account." • Last month the FBI arrested Mrs. Burton and daughter in Tulsa -- where Mrs. Burton was back in her old stand working in a doctor's Office. The recep- tionist recognized her from a newspaper picture. Both moth- er and daughter were held hs bonds totaling $40,000. - From NEWSWEEK. • Princess Ensemble PRINTED PATTERN 0 e 4580 141/2-241/2 17-741444-ttef - 1 An ensemble in the loveliest "princess" silhouette - so be- coming to phorter, fuller figures! Easy to sew with our PRINTED PATTERN! • Printed Pattern 4580: Half Sizes 141/2, 16%, 181/2, 201/2, 221/2, 241/2. Size 161/2 .sundress, 51/4 yards 35 -inch; jacket 11/2 yards. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50#),..._... 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