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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-02-20, Page 6s 1h • 4,. r• r• ,c. t,: iR is t,. at' 31. Qu• p - v,. ki- ir^ M, ag- 714. it • its st4 mt we pre pe. Mr the.' ad; funk ANNE HIRST ram* coum6e.eat • "Dear Anne Hirst: Is 38 too old to try to find happiness_ again? My divorce was granted over a year ago. I have only one child who is de- pendent on me, the others mar- ried young and are happily on their own. "My husband gave me such a raw deal that I believed there were no good mem left— "But now I think I have found. one. I know I could love him. He says he has been searching for years for a woman like myself and I think he will soon pro- pose. We are thoroughly com- patible, and I believe we can help each other to find a more complete life together. I don't go around much, I just work and try to -make a home for my young son. He, by the way, thinks my friend is tops. "My other children know him; of course, and feel as -though he were already a member of the family. Do you think people would call me foolish at my age to accept him? 'Once while I was married you answered my appeal for guid- ince, and gave me the courage I eeded. May I have your opinion ow? WONDERING" ACCEPT GRATEFULLY • Where on earth did you. get * the idea that the 30's are too * for marriage? Some of the • happiest wives I know did not * marry at all until they were * your age. You are too wise to * be deceived a second time; you *.have learned this rnan's char- * atter, weighing all his qualities Color Beauty You'll be proud as a peacock of your exquisite, new towels, tablecloths, scarves ... all glam- orized with these graceful em- broidery motifs. Fun to do. Pattern• 622: transfer of 8 mo- tifs 5 x 61 to 6 x 113/4 inches. Embroidery you'll proudly show. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly the PATTERN NUMBER, and your NAME and ADDRESS. As a bonus, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our 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! * thoughfully, and everything • you tell me • favors your ac- * cepting him. • As for whet people will say, • those who love you will re- • joke in your, newfound happi- • nese, and the others do not • count. After all, your life is * yours to live, and it is your. * heart that will dictate your. • future. You have had your e share of tragedy. You deserve • a good partner who will take *.care of you, and provide the * companionship and affection • yoo have been missing. Con- • gratulation! • "I WAS A FOOL!" "Dear Anne Hirst: I hope no other man makes the stupid mistake I made; he might not be so lucky as to get the second chance I got,,, "When I married a girl of a different faith, the ceremony was performed in her church, and our children were all baptized there; I even attended services with her occasionally. But after awhile people jibed at me and poisoned,. my mind; I began to argue with her, and would not give ear to her reasoning. I got both of us in a desperate state , , . She left me. "God must have given her special grace, for she has finally listened to my pleas and we aro back together. We all attend her church regularly, and once again I am alive. I realized what a fool I was to let those interfering people influence me. But I feel I can never make up for all the heartache I caused her. ANOTHER FOOL" "What will people say?" some- times is a safeguard against has- ty action. Yet when it comes to marriage, it is one's heart and wisdom that supplies the an- swer. When any vital decision' confronts you, ask Anne Hirst's opinion; it will be honest and helpful. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toron- to, Ontario. Best Dressed Again, for the fifth year in a row, Mrs. William Paley, New York matron, has been dubbed "best dressed" by a group of self-appointed judges. And again we are forced to file a demurrer, principally because the term "best dressed" is too indefinite. Best dressed for what? For cook- ing a turkey, changing a baby's diaper, waiting on table, selling dry goods? What is best -dressed for, let us say, sitting up at night with a sick baby is not best dressed for eating at Toots Shor's. or Sherman Billingsley's place. And vice versa, of course. We have long labored to put some ,sense into these best -dress- ed contests by having them di- vided into categories, the least of which would be the purely orna- mental. One category might be "Best dressed on 40 bucks a week." Or another, "Best dress- ed with the stingiest husband." Or even; "Best dressed in your local supermarket." When you come right down to it, all these things are sub- jective, Probably William Paley agrees with the decision, but who else does? We don't, for the simple reason we have our own choices and can back them up with as much stuff as the people who picked Mrs. Paley. Hartford Courant GRIEVANCE HAD AN AIRING Probably the most perturbed group of people in the world were Toronto parents who re- cently convened a .meeting to discuss the disciplining of chil- dren. When the meeting was over the parents discovered that the air had been let out of some twenty-four cars. The culprits: undisciplined children. LATE LATIN LOVER — Giving with that soulful look is a bust of the Roman Emperor Vitellius who reigned for only a few months in the year 69 A.D Famed as a pleasure -seeker, Vitel- Ilus would undoubtedly have been pleased by the caress given him by a pretty garlanded miss in Rome• 20 centuries after his death. CUTE COOKIE — This little angel' got her head stuck in an angel food, cake pan. Kathy West, 3, pulled the pan, with a removable bottom, over her head in the kitchen of her home. Unable to remove the pan, her mother called the rescue squad, who freed the little tot. Kathy didn't even cry. H RON ICLES �GINGERFARM One day, years and years ago, we had a little grey kitten. We hadn't an idea what to call it but, since we got it the day of a certain provincial election we said we would call it after who- ever was announced as the;win- ning candidate. And so our kit-' - ty-cat went to bed that night with the name of "Mitchie' It was a nicer name than "George anseway, And Mitchie was still with us long after Mitchell Hep- burn had gone back to growing onions. Last night, I would have you !snow, was the wind-up of the 1958 Liberal Convention, when, as you are aware, Lester B. Pearson was chosen as the.. new Party leader. Just after the tele- vised programme had started and we were waiting anxiously to hear the choice of the party, Ditto, our little tortoiseshell cat decided she wanted to go out. Withqut any misgiving I opened the front door and away she went. After the TV session was over I remembered Ditto and went to call her. But Ditto had vanished and we haven't seen a sign of her since. Never before had she been away for more than an hour at a time. So, in the future, whenever we think of the' Liberal Convention we shall remember it as the : night our little kitty -cat went away. Her name couldn't have had any significance anyway because we can't imagine the new leader ever being called "Ditto"—much as we admire him. So there it is —next time we have a at we'll make sure it doesn't get mixed up with politics, that way we may keep it around a bit long- er. Or shall we take Dittos an omen of what the future holds in store? Shall we say that if Ditto comes back Pearson may be assured of victory -or that if we never see her again he is doomed to defeat? This morning I drove 'here and there along the roads and onto the highway but never a sign of a cat could I see, 'either alive or dead. If we only knew what happened to her it would not be so. bad. I can only hope, since she was such a friendly little thing, that someone may have taken a fancy to her and taken her in. Or it could be she. had a date with a boy friend. Anything—just so long as she wasn't run over and killed. That is one disadvantage of living in a built-up area—do- mestic pets, either cats or dogs, are liable to have a short life. That is what our neighbours tell us anyway. Across the road' there have been three dogs and two kittens since we came here. Next door the people are trying to raise a kitten for the third time. Another family gave up and settled for goldfish and yet another has two little Budgie birds. Neither birds .nor fish ap- peal to me too much as pets but a puppy or a kitten I' can never resist. It seems so quiet today. without Ditto racing through the house, running of with my knitting wool or chasing a paper ball. However, I am+ still hoping she will come back—hoping but• not expecting. In any case we may be disappointed -consider- ing the political implications. On the farm when Mitchie • was missing we might find him up a tall tree, or on top of the roof from which he was afraid to come down. True to his name. he was always getting into dif- ficulties, One time Partnerfound him stranded on the cross -beam that held the hayfork track. Somehow or other Partner man- - .aged an-:,aged to rescue Mitchie-follish- lyr.perhaps—he might heve land- 4eiiiLon the barn floor. p„d then .would have had., .',•:ket and :+st{trybe lost a husba ' ut we •$ k.do foolish things if' means s'ayiiig a life—animal' or human. Well, there, seems to be stormy weather right across Canada but we have yet to have our first snowfall — although it looks threatening right now. However at the moment there is only a slight dusting :of snow on the roads. Maybe I shall know in a day or two what snow really looks like as I am expecting to make a trip to Peterborough to help Klemi sort out things so he knows what to put in stor- age. For a time he will be get- ting a"room with friends. I may get a car ride up on Sunday or I may go on the "Day -Liner" early in the week. That Day - Liner is really wonderful—To- ronto to Peterborough in an hour and twenty minutes. That's what I call travelling in corn - fort, Last trip I took my knit- ting with me and had time to do only two inches of ribbing on the ksock I was making. Partly, perhaps, because I was too busy watching the scenery. From what I could see there was plenty of reforestation but very little ordinary farming, ,due, no doubt, to the hills and hollows. I did notice one farm in particu- lar where hilly fields had been ploughed. The need for contour ploughing was obvious. But no, the hills had been ploughed up and down as usual. It made me dizzy to even imagine a man on a tractor going down that awful slope. And just think of all that has been written and demon- strated in favour of contour ploughing. There must ' two classes of farmers stubborn and progressive! ENVIOUS An Indian in New Mexico was smoke -signalling love messages to his Indian girl friend a few miles 'away. Suddenly an atom bomb test was made covering the the sky with smoke for several miles. "Gee!" exclaimed the Indian, "I wish I'd said that." SALLY'S SALIRS "Split personality, you say$ His, I assure you, is too small for that!" 'Alarming With the arrival of the darker mornings, more and more alarm clocks are used, especially in France where they have always. been more popular than in any other European country, One ,Frenchman who was a notorious late:riser...qan always rise' promptly iiowad'ays because he has invented bus own novel alarm clock. When its bell rings a light flashes on and the bedclothes are whirled off. Another home-made alarm clock lights a spirit lamp to boil the water in a kettle, pours out a cup of tea and ex- tinguishes the flames as the ket- tle tilts. When a Frenchwoman was ar- rested by a shop detective and charged with stealing, some jewellery, she denied the theft indignantly but — unluckily for her an alarm clock which she had stolen with the jewellery suddenly sounded. She was searched. Three tiny alarm clocks and the jewellery were found in a specially -made pocket inside her capacious skirt. Police in Yorkshire were baf- fled some years back by the activities of a specialist thief who broke into houses and stole only alarm clocks, ignoring more valuable loot, One of the stolen clocks played the American an- them, "The Star-Spangled Ban- ner," after striking the hour. As a result, every city policeman spent hours whileon duty listen- ing for that tune, but neither the thief nor the clocks were ever traced. Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. Is there any rule as to who should make the introductions at an informal home gathering, thehost or the hostess? A. No. Either may do this, Q. When a dinner course h finished, should the hostess' plate be removed first, and if not, whose plate? A. There is no rule governing the order of removing dinner plates. Q. Is it necessary that a wo- man traveler wear a hat to the dining car of 4 -,.trails? A, This is en Febr.optional. Q. When a SAes,maq enters an office , where-syotneii are em- ployed, should %lie' always re- move his hat? A. Ile should remove his hat even if there are no women employees present! Q. I noticed at an airport re- cently that the men boarding the plane didn't allow the wo- men to- enter first, but took their turns as they fell into line. Was this proper? A. In order to load a plane's. most efficiently, and in the hurry and bustle of travel, it usually isn't practicable for the men to stand aside to wait for the women to go first. Q. I have heard that post- scripts to letters are in poor taste. Is this so? A. There is nothing wrong with postscripts, when neces- sary. It is better, though, to take pains while composing your let- ter to include everything you wish to say. Postcripts tend to Indicate haste and carelessness in the original composition. Q. When selecting monogram- coed handkerchiefs for a moa or woman, which initial should be selected, that of the first os the last name? A. 'For.. a man it is always the last. For a woman, the last is customary t tike first is per missible. ., Q. Is a bride obligated to give gifts to her attendants? A. This is not so much a ques- tion of "obligation." It is a long- standing custom, and therefore accepted as good form. Q. Is it proper for a salesman to. say "good -by" to the recep tion'girl when leaving a business office? A. This is not only courteous, but also tactful. 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