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'Dear Anne Bast: While in
high school two years ago our
daughter, '20, met a young man
10 years older whom she has
not been able to shake off. She
is training to be a nurse, and we
are much distressed about his-
• effect on her. Ile is a D.P., has
no education, and speaks broken
English. She promised a year
ago to give him up, but last
week she came home terribly
upset, When she tries to end
the friendship he goes to pieces.
and she weakens.
"Her closest girl friend thinks
- our girl is mentally ill. She takes
no interest in shows of dao •i..•,
or Sports. and 1 realize she is
far from well. She ties lost toe
much weight t utraining, though
she is doing well in it. - 1
'We have always been proud 1
of our three girls and we . are
net trying to dominate this one:
but we feel • she is most unwise -
to keep on with this friendship.
What do you suggest!'
WORRIED PARENTS"
• You two are wise to be die -
• tressed, Through h'r misplaced
sympathy. for this weakling
• e your daughter has become so
emotionally involved that her
s native intelh ;once reed coin-
" mon sense arc teeing inkier-
* mined. She need not he mem
tally ill to hale t'i t lit thio
w state. but ' la na e:ilowed tier
kindness to rnle her thinking,
'• For her own sake. site ,rust
° refuse to see hen again_ Now
* that she' hes ronfeeeed, it `
* shortie not be difficult ,to i•or,
* wince her aha' is only teeming •
tiered and dmn - be young
man nr, gee
Ile is 1'' 'td Ger aid, Like" the spineless , r;'aturc he is.
he has fastened hiteeeif to her
* like a leech. deeming her spirit
• and effac•irig her ttatiira!ly glee-
* gairious temper re.- r:t til :;it.,
r is practic:liy a tr•(1usi'. d,ur.
a log' herself no tr l friendships,
x If she cannot help het -Jt
" out ef this din mise. e sir .h,tuld
* warn his: personelle that 1.1'
* he Gttempts te s,e he.; angio
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WILL HE RETURN
"Dear Anne Hirst; For nearly
a year I have been going regu-
larly with a fine young pian. Re-
cently I celled the whole thing
off --and how sorry.I amt I find
I love him more than I knew.
and. T miss hum more than I can
bear.
''Twice- :ince then I've been
with him, but he says his love
for me is not the same. If it had
been teal love in the first place,
•couldn't he forget my silly act?
Wouldn't he forgive me and
come back?
NO NAME”
* Sometimes one who loves is
* so hurt by unkindness that it
`` is hard to be reconciled. Pee-
hap,e this young man is afraid -
'- you will repeat tate offense,
and he is in ua mood to risk it.
• All you can do is wait and
see • and hope.
• In your place, I should not
call him, nor write. Let him
• find out whether you are
more important in his life
than he thought; if you are.
he will soon. be with you.
Parents find that Anne Hirst's
opinions and sonnet are sens-
ible and workable. She does not
expect too much -and she keeps
her readers' confidence. Write
her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.,
New Toronto, Ont.
THE CHARM OF MUSIC
Meek 1 heard with yot was
more than music.
--Conray} Aiken.
118.
HRO V!CLES
iiNGE'sR FARM
'3t'andoLiree n Clarke
P.m old Tippy !Malty died.
Ih departed thie life last Mon-
day and the farm seems lone-
5ente without him According to
our "vet' a s-iros infection had
peeetrated the fiver and spleen
and was the main reason why
Tirs refused to eat. •When I told
tbt' vet Tip was eleven yeare old
he exclaimed. -Well, after all.
whet could you expect:"
And noe for some good news.
'Lest Thulsdar 1 beard geese
,vented. At least I thought I
dict, but I :wasn't sure fie I
eouldtl't 'see them-,. But the meet
da^ a neighbour told rile he
heard geese. too. So 1
v -os right. even though it does
• cr., rai1' Earle geese, early
that the old saying:
At,d who will grumble if it
preeee to be true:' Just for the
• record, the date ot: which I
beard the geese was March. i0.
I hoveir't seen or heard a robin
wet. but theta' was a blue jay
Writ for an anima this morning
esti; there ars• certainly plenty
of crowand starlings around•
and the cows eve sort of sniffing
the air why n thee tam turned
tin; to drink -the sway they do
when .•;Wring; i; in the air. The
tyala-,- are vsttrrt;l 'rellowv
look and the' meek it running
Last, wahine away a metier of
Dur (rout field dowc by the road,
dtu to a faulty cneiueering job
et the time the ia?htiay was
boat. As if thcrr:.wasn't enough
s,rit i•rn::inn ii'.• the. eel- ee al_
1?rn'ni nue tial, glory are
114. sieee, thiel; riid fact these
•1.14,•• 1;;,:1 three to be
pre t'1 tttr' 1:uo-•w:r,t. owners are
retalt ,x'• yuwt cr: neon have
p,�rchst-e d
the tarots, ins!) is
alt to the ee,00d. We hoer the
tread cuuunnes.
Viol l:i•'ou. tarn, ton; }rave a
1•,t of adjusting nowwadaps•-and
it
met alwaye easy. As every-
one iaiowr:, Saturday used to be
Ile shopping clay for farmers
and their families A,1' recently
to ten years ago almost every
small town etas crnwded on Sat-
urdays with country folk "intent
on weekend shoppierg. and of
cr;urs° visiting among themselves
• especially on Saturday nights.
The families et business people
were seldom seen in- any great
number down town on a Satur-
day. There was a sort of un-
written law that left that day to
the farmers. St made it easier
for shoppers and shopkeepers
ISSUE 14 - 1955
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MOSHER'S LITTLE HELPER -It's the toy vacuum cleaner -not the
little girl -that's going to be a big help to mother. Battery pow-
ered, the tank -type cleaner actually picks up crumbs and dust,
is designed to keep Sis busy while Mother gets on with the
cleaning, It's one of the many "grownup" toys manufacturers
arenow showing for the 1955 Christmas trade.
alike, Industrial workers were
working six days a week at that
time. When they did their shop -
Ping 1 don't know. But 0f course
there were fewer of Riekearound
as industrial plants were small-
er in size and number. But the
picture has changed. They have
the five-day week --so now it is
the industrial workers and their
families who store or less take
over the small town centres on
Saturdays. Pay envelopes pro-
vide tate means for the liuusa-
wives' shopping; Saturday mati-
nees a weekly treat for the c11i1-
dren and every available inch of
parking space is taken up.
Country children also want to
go to the Saturday mariner and
to be taken to town while moth.
er goes shopping. So a great
number of farm people must still
go down town Saturday after-
noon. Of course they used to
wait uettil Saturday night. but
that is practically a thing of the
past as now small town store-
keepers practise Saturday night
closing. The result ... farmers, -
faotory workers, meet. women
and children, from town and
country, all crowd into town at
approximately the same time.
Stores are jatntned. Ferm folk
who leave their snapping until
Saturday have trouble in get-
ting served. Older farmers. not
having children who look for-
ward to this Saturday treat, now
do then best to avoid Saturday
shopping. As for me. there t.e
only one thing that takes- me to
to town on a Saturday afternoon
• -.just to pick up tate weekend
edition of a certain newspaper
which 1 would hate -to miss. said
to get ti ffee' books from the
• library. -
hast Saturday 1 .round the
town particularly bit: y and 1
stood at the back of ane of the
stores --just watcnine. finally.
during a t1nnienlary slack pe-
riod, 1 said to the storekeeper,
"You must rletlee quite a differ-
ence in. trade these days" His
answer surprised me.
"Not as much as you might
think," he replied. "The extra
town trade we get doesn't begin
to st eles, un for the loss of coun
-
try trade which is becoming in-
creasingly evident with the re-
duction int farm incomes. We
have been aware of the change
for settle months now."
Naturtilly many country folk
know only too well that farm
ihcontes have $ttlfered a set-
back, but it was the first time 1
had heard it was being reflected
in snail town consumer buying.
In fart 1 had often wondered
how long It would take farmers
generally to realize they were
not as well off as they might
- think. Sometimes it takes a gar-
ment quite a while before it
actually burets at the seams. As
far as I can see Saturday night
closing only aggravates the situ-
ation. In fact I know of a few
families. accustomed to shop m
One particular town for years.
who are now shopping in an-
other district because it is the
only stownall ton where stores
remain open on Saturday night.
Pass Seventy -Five
Lige To A Hundred
Profeeeor Bogdanov, one 01
10 Russian doctors who recently
visited Britain, said that there
are people in Russia who are
more than 140 years old, who
were alive when Napoleon
marched -on Moscow. Some of
theirs lune grruidchildren f
over 70.
Is there a secret behind ex•
c'eptianally long lifetimes? Il:
so. the Russian doctors admitted
they didn't know it.
American research work has
been actively directed towards
the medical problems of old age
in recent Seats. Four New York
doctors recently told the Am-
erican Medical Association that
people who get past the 00 to
'75 period of life. have a good
chance of living to be a hlnt-
dted. They reached • this con
elusion after an intensive study
of 1.000 men and women be-
tween the ages of 80 and 100.
Between (30 and 75, various
processes in the booty undergo
sharpe changes. Blood pressure
may start rie,ing too speedily,
and fatty substances that in-
creasingly form in the blood
may harden arteries, 13th usu-
ally these dangerous changes do
not continue after about 70 --
sometimes they are actually
reversed,
The American doctors de-
scribed the 80 to 75 period as
a "threshold age." The secret of
living to a great age is to pass
through this period of life
safely. "Most of us die before
reaching that barrier or while
going through it,
But once we get through. our
chances of living to be 100 years
are goo'."
There seems little doubt that
increased study of old age will
improve malt's chances of get-
ting past 75. Certain new drugs
used in America are already
helping to make older living
more comfortable. People who
are between 40 and 50 today
hare lived through a , period
when the expectation of life
has risen by about ten years;
those who are under 20 may
see the average age of death
pushed forward into the late
80's or 00's.
It will, of course, bring many
problems. It could put pension
schemes very heavily in the red
and create severe problems of
world food supply.
Who wants to live to be a
hundred anyway? Most people
do -but with a reasonable re-
tention of normal faculties, not
as invalids propped up by
drugs. That is the real target of
modern medical research on
longer living -to make old age
both older and. fitter. It is one
of the certainties of the :future. -
LOST & FOUND
The other clay a woman
walked into the lost property
department of an omnibus com-
pany in Edinburgh, She asked
in a foreign accent: "Have you
a path of gloves 1 lost?" The
roan behind the counter search-
ed the shelves, but told her the
gloves had not turned up,
As he was turning away, the
woman peered into his face and
said: "You are Smith!" The
man was amazed. He is indeed
Mr. William Smith, of Penny -
well Place West, Edinburgh.
During the war, he was a
prisoner in East Prussia. lie
worked in a cheese factory
scrubbing the cheeses. T h e
woman, a German, also worked
there, upstairs in the packing
department,
Mr. Smith took a closer look
at the woman, and slowly he
began to remember who elle
was. She told Mr. Smith she
had married a Scots soldier and
was now living happily in
Edinburgh. .
Unfortunately the German
woman had to rush off to meet
her husband and in the midst
of all the excitement he did not
get her address.
Mr. Smith is wondering it
chance will make the lady lose
her handbag or umbrella before
he has the opportunity of see-
ing her again
and talking over
old times.
In the Spring a young man'u
fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of love. -Alfred Tenitilsos.
HE GOES FOR DOLLS -New diners at John Omizzolo's restaurant
in San Francisco, are somewhat surprised at his hobby -collecting
dolls. The six -foot -two Omizzolo has some 380 dolls he has
collected from 40 countries in the last 30 years. He is shown
standing in what was once a hat -check booth but which now
serves as his doll house. In his left hand he holds an 18 -inch
Marie Antoinette, bisque doll over 100 years old. The doll is
dressed in an exact replica of a costume worn by Marie An.
toinette, Omizzolo has it insured for $5000. For his entire col-
lection he has insurance policies totaling $25,000.
St Patrick's - Cathedral Spells Easter Parade
Faithful and frivolous mingle outside St. Patrick's in '1910 .
St. Patrick's Cathedral, seat of the Roman Catholic, archdioces
point of the nation's biggest Easter Parade, Located on New Y
thousands who jam the Avenue following religioes services o
cathedral was consecrated October 5, 1910, the year in whic
o parade on Fifth Avenue., as they stiff do each Easter Sunday.
e, has become familiar to Christians of all faiths as a Focal
ork's Fifth Avenue at 50th Street, its congregation joins the,
n Easter' morning, Begun in 1858 and dedicated in 1879, the
h picture at left was taken;cost an estimated $1,5,00,000