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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-04-17, Page 6rtovcrr,IIt>rrrvill.r,nlytrrnlvvrrvolvt It isn't only romantic young girls who have trouble finding new friends.,, Presentable young men sometimes find themselves with not a single nice girl on their list, and flounder hopeless- ly about wondering what's wrong with them. One who is old enough to know better has been lonesome for some months, and though blest with worldly goods end proper intentions, he finally begs for hints to the loveless. "I am 28, . and must confess that for the past several months I've had to go out alone," he explains, "I am my mother's only son, and at her insistence I have sought girl friends through our church. But either I don't appeal to them or for some other reason, they don't want to go out with rue. . "My mother insists that today's crop of sweet young things don't want to live Christian lives. They want men who will show them good times in vulgar ways, take them to suspicious places, and generally act the cut-up. "It looks like she is right. "I neither smoke nor drink, but I'm not a prude. I like live- ly girls, and try to keep up with them. Maybe I'm too hard to please, but I do have some ideals Left. I pal around with decent men, but they just laugh and say the right girl will come along. But how long must I wait? "I have read your interesting column often, but I don't find any letters from other lonely men * "Often you must have read * here of nice girls who are * disgusted with modern male * run-arounds that only want to * drink and pet and have no * time for girls who won't fol- * low suit. Their name is legion. * If the girls you meet frown * on wholesome recreations like a movies, the theatre, sports, * concerts, dances and country * hikes, then you are meeting. * the wrong kind. * I do not mean to disagree * with your mother, but my long * experience proves there are far * more lonely girls than lonely * men, who long for friendship * of decent chaps like yourself. t Strike out and find them. * Haven't your men friends sis- f ters or other relatives? Ask * them to double -date with you. is And talk with your minister; t he is more interested in pro- rooting romances than you j' think. #k I. take it for granted you are not a bore. I urge you, though, e to cultivate the light touch. * Read and remember amusing a stories and incidents, so you s Weeks Sew -Thrifty PRINTED PATTERN 4609 SIZES tire•" a t0—i8 ,lust two main pattern parts plus facings — what could be easier to sew than this Printed Pattern! We know this summer dress couldn't be more flattering — those slim lines are pure magic for your figure! Printed Pattern 4609: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14,-16, 18. Size 16 requires 3% yards 35 -inch. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, your NAME and ADDRESS and the ST/LE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toren to, Ont. • are fun to be with. Compli- * went a girl on her appear-' * ante, her dress, her .voice, her * sense of humor. Keep up on * the theatre, learn to dance * smoothly, play a good game * of'.. tennis or ` golf. And, of * courses never fail in "the little, * attentions, that please all girls. One comment: I suggest you * not flaunt your religious be- * liefs before others; intelligent * young women will sense your * convictions through your man- * ner and general behaviour. It * is easy for one of strong be- * liefs to appear smug, and I * am sure you avoid giving that imprenion, TO ALL READERS: Please do not request this man's name Or address. He did not give either. * * GRANDPARENTS' PROBLEM "Dear Anne Hirst: Several years ago my son-in- law deserted his wife and child- ren, and now he goes scot free, leaving my daughter with all the responsibility. He has never supported the children since. We have done all we could, but as they grow older (and our health is not so good) we find ourselves unable to continue. I know wd-ere he is, and the kind of work he does. (My daughter divorced hire lately.) "Where can I go for advice? We cannot afford much expense to force the issue, but if.I could Jet some action started my daughter would take over from there . , . Thank you, and God bless you for helping so many of us in distress. MRS. R. D." * I understand that there is * a branch of the Legal Aid * Society in your city, that fine * organization which is so help- ful to citizens who cannot af- * ford attorney's fees. If you * do ,not locate them promptly, * cal. the Bar Association for * their address. In smaller communities one * should consult the mayor or * judge in her town or county. * My best wishes for success * in forcing this heartless father * to take care of his own. * * "Your column contains more human interest than any news- paper's front page," wrote a male reader. It does pay to follow the problems wbich ap- pear here, and many an idle reader has found the answer to tier own. Write Anne Hirst at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ontario. Modern Etiquette .. by Roberta Lee Q. After spending a week-cnd visit at a girl friend's home, should I address my bread-and- butter letter to her or to her mother? A. To her mother. Q. At what age should I be- gin teaching my three-year-old son to rise in the presence of women guests? A. When he is about five or six. Q. Is It proper for the ;an to : cross in front of the woman while they are walking togeth- er? A. No. The woman should have the right-of-way whenever pos- sible and the man should cross behind her instead of in front of her. IN SPACE RACE?—Foy Gargano looks like she's all set to get in the race into space as she dis- plays her new "Explorer" hair- do, inspired by the first U.S. satellite, She's modeling her towering top at the 38th Inter- national Beauty: Show in New York, where it was unveiled` as one of the new "celestial line" of hair styles, • How about Those upholstered eyebrows? A HAPPY TIME -Producer Mike Todd Is shown with his actress. wife Elizabeth Taylor and their baby daughter Elizabeth in a file photo taken in October, 1957. Todd was killed in a plane crash while en route to New York from Hollywood to be guest of honor at a testimonial dinner in his honor. St HIiONICLES ki1NGERFARM This morning we saw some- thing very beautiful—something we had not seen from here be- fore. From the living -room win- dow we saw a narrow strip of silver across the horizon to the south. It glistened and shim- mered like quick silver. For awhile we were mystified. And then we know. It was the bright sun gleaming on the waters of Lake Ontario. On clear days we can always see the lake but generally only as a mass of blue -gray merging with the sky. This was different. How often, I thought, we _ see beauty only as a fleeting image. Here for awhile and then gone complete- ly. For instance the sun is now higher in the heavens so that it is no longer reflected in the blue waters. In that same way we sometimes see the passing beau- ty of a rainbow, or the myriad colours of the Northern Lights, or an unusually gorgeous sun- rise or sunset. Probably in na- ture we miss more of its glory than we see—more's the pity. "The blue of heaven is greater than the cloud"—so we are told. If we fail to realize it, it may be through lack of opportunity —or lack of vision. The farmer tilling his fields sees more than the business man driving his car. But even the farmer sees less than he did at one time. A tractor requires more attention than a trusty team. And no man can look around while he is baling hay - not the way he could when he was coiling hay in the old days. We even miss a lot of beauty when we go driving through the country -at least the driver does. He can't drive safely and be watching the scenery too. And if he is a fast driver his passengers don't see much either. But there is still walking=the ideal way of seeing the country. Partner is doing quite a bit of walking these days—trying to keep down the extra pounds he seems to be accumulating. And he generally comes back with little odds and ends of what he has seen or heard, Today it was swamp -frogs — heard for the first time this year. And a robin that he heard but couldn't see. And after looking the garden over he told me I had better get some peas and beans next time I go shopping. Doesn't that sound wonderful? Of course a late frost might nip the beans but it's worth taking a chance. Already the spring flowering bulbs are showing their crowns through the soil. But if theysur- vive it will be a wonder be- cause our cat and the puppy next door seem to think that outside planters were just made for their convenience! Spring must certainly be stir- ring up quite a bit of activity. This week -end almost every man around here has been busy washing, his car. A few days ago we had ours washed at the . garage—now it is just as bad again. It never fails! The chil- dren around hereare busy .and, happy too—with marbles, skip- ping ropes and swings. Running out without coats—and being called back to put them on. Sleeping babies in carriages are put outside for an airing; dogs are visiting back and forth and pussy -cats are on the prowl. It seems as if spring is definitely on the way — and yet it can change overnight just as it did in the U.S. What we have al- ways dreaded could happen here — an ice -storm, breaking down hydro and telephone wires, leaving us minus heat, light and water—maybe for days. Not a happy thought, and I don't sup- pose it is likely to happen, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that it could. Well, we are just debating whether or not to get a set of gym swings for our back lawn —for the grandsons, of course. It will be something for them to look forward to when they come visiting. Daughter thinks it a grand idea — except for one thing. She says we shall have half the children in the . neigh- bourhood visiting our back yard. Maybe - but I can't say I'm too worried. They run around here pretty much as they like anyway — just because we let there. I don't like seeing little tots cooped up in a small space. Yesterday we had a young fellow come in with a petition for us to sign — for running water in this locality. Water to the east and west of us but we seem to be in a sort of blind spot. It hasn't worried us too much because we have plenty of water anyway but of course we were quite willing to sign the petition, even though it may add $29 to our taxes for the next ten years—if it goes through. We are gradually getting edu- cated in the ways of suburban living. Build a garage, fix up the basement, pave the drive- way or enclose the breezeway and you have about $30 clapped on to your taxes. On the farm we did pretty well as we liked and unless it was a new barn or an addition to the house there wasn't too much said about it, But in a suburban dis- trict there is the planning board, zoning bylaws, building per- mits and other red -tape. It seems an awful nuisance at times but without it the coun- tryside would look like a crazy patchwork quilt. Right the Second Time. In Mil- waukee, Mrs. Marion Murphy, 32, outraged when a cop stopped her for doing 40 in a 30m.p,h, zone, jumped behind the wheel again, took off so fast that tire -sprayed gravel broke a squad car head- light, accelerated to 50 in a 25- M.P.H. zone, told the officer when stopped again: "Now you have something to arrest me for." ISSUE 15 ]hilt Separating The Sexes In School Coeducation was taking a pummeling again. The Vatican, no believer in the practice of mixing boys and girls in secon dary schools, swung a heavy fist ' last month. The Vatican's Sacred Congre- gation of the Affairs of Religious ruled no, member of a religious order can become head of a co- educational secondary school "except in case of dire necessi- ty," and even then ecessi-ty,""and.eventhen there should be "scrupulous separationof the sexes" for lessons on the Sixth Commandment (which, forbids adultery) and in biology and psychology. In no case, the Congregation said, should boys and girls join in sports, and in every case they. should use separate school doors. Religious orders run most Catho- lic schools throughout the world. Sociologist David ("The Lone- ly Crowd") Riesman got in an- other punch at a University of Chicago symposium when he suggested segregation of the. sexes at the college level. "What we need," said Ries - man, "is some form of adult protection for our young people who, at the moment, do not want to pursue each other." Riesman said coeducation tends to bend students into the ac- cepted masculine and feminine patterns and that girl students influence their boy friends away from such fields as medicine and science — which require long preparation - and into domesti- city. — Newsweek. Vaccine For Measles In Sight A vaccine against measles is at. last in sight. This momentous news was announced last month to a Manhattan conference of virus experts by Harvard's famed Virologist John Franklin Enders, winner of a Nobel Prize for de- veloping the tissue -culture foun- dation on which the Salk polio vaccine was built. Measles has been around so long and is so nearly universal among dense populations that it is widely regarded as an unavoid- able childhood disease. But measles is a severe illness, defin- itely dangerous for children un- der three and for adults; it can lead to pneumonia and 'severe middle -ear infections (though in well -doctored areas these are now contained by antibiotics). It can also cause brain inflam- mation with high (10%) mortal- ity and a higher rate of perman- ent damages there is a fulmin- ating (fortunately rare) form called hemorrhagic or black measles that swiftly causes death. What has held up the men of medicine in developing a vaccine against measles is the finicky nature of the virus. Man alone seems to be its natural host. The only lower species that can be Infected with it are monkeys. For years, researchers reported growing measles virus in other animals or fertilized eggs, only to have the submicroscopic par- ticles vanish. This line of attack proved so disappointing that Dr. Enders gave it up 20 years ago. With tissue culture (1949) the picture changed. Last month Enders spelled out the many im- mensely detailed steps that be- gan with growing the virus (from patients' throats or blood) in human kidney cells. Along the way it was found that the virus caused sharply defined changes in the growth pattern of the cells on which it battened. This led to a valuable and simple test for showing the presence of lira virus and also measuring imams. ity. For the live test in monkeys, Dr. Enders found, he had to gal the animals by air, hot from the Philippine jungle, to make sure they had not been' accidentally infected. Finally,' Researcher Enders picked a virus strain that had gone through 24 crops in human kidney cells and 28 in cells froaa the amniotic sac ("bag of waters"). By then, it would grow in eggs. He grew six crops that way and 14 in chick -cell cultures. With this end product he inocu- lated fresh, measles -free mon- keys. The weakened virus lived a while in their throats but never multiplied in their blood: The monkeys developed antibodies which, months later, still gave protection. One major problem remained: to show that the weak- ened virus, which might be used as a vaccine, cannot cause en- cephalitis. Enders' research teams at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Children's Hospital are in the midst of that task, with re- sults to date encouraging. Even with the aid of the pub- lic-address system, soft-spoken! Researcher Enders was scarcely audible at last month's meeting. But when he had finished, Cin- cinnati's Dr, Albert Sabin yelled:, "John, you've done it again!" The assembled virologists b r o ko' ranks, stood and cheered him.— From TIME. Color' Adds Glamor you. /wC W n 01. Dramatize your bedroom with the brilliant splendor et this peacock design. Combine vivil blues, greens, bronze; accent with glittering metallic threads. Fascinating, fun to embroider, Pattern 893: transfer of motifs, 3a/z x 15 and 15 x 18 inches. 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