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"Dear Anne Ellett loot three
years I've been going with this
sailor. Each time he is home we
plan to get married ---and each
time•he lets me down, saying it
is best to wait, always promis-
ing it will be 'some day' or
'next time'. I do believe he
he loves -me: he writes regular-
ly, he's always sending me gifts,
and he dates me every night
when he's on furlough.
"He is 22 and very handsome,
so lots of girls flirt with him.
but he never pays attention to
any except to me. I are 18, and
because I dated when young, I
am very settled; he 'seems to be,
Me, I would rather die than
give him up, for he is the only
man I'll ever want. 1 trust Itim
completely --but I don't want to
wait for ever for 'soma day'.
"I should add that he is re•
sponsible m every other way
Ie there any chance he may
jilt m7 I'm living in a dream -
world planning our future, yet
he still puts off marriage. . .
Each time we are together we
have to say to a quick good-
night because our emotion al-
most run away with us.... Ile -
will soon be here again, and as
usual I have -high hopes of wed-
ding bells, but I still dread be-
ing disappointed.
B. 1. -1k.''
11111 NEEDS PRODDING
• I wish you have told nee
* how your parents feel about
* this lad's repeated postpone.
* inent Of marriage, If they'ap-
e prove of hint as a husband,
• tell him this time that they
e are waiting to announce the
e engagement and the wedding
e date. It you have no parents,
* indicate to him that you want
to set the day—or else.
If you have.not started what
we old-timers called a hope
o chest, do it now. and have a
* Tittle exhibit to sho'.v him. This
will please him or shock him,
" and you had better find out
* which it is to be. Ordinarily 1
e would not suggest this, but
• you have waited se patiently
* that you deserve to know
where you stand. Many a
e young -than is cnut:ent with be-
" engaged, and does not realize
e what agonies a girl's pride and
e• heart suffer- through hie. re-
luetance to getting married.
e I n isle y c u w. nlci write we
* what happens. I shall be in-
' terested, -acid no matter what
:'ou report, p'^. haus t can help
e through.
IGNORANT YOUTH
„Deas' Anne Hirt. I had the
bad luck to fall in love seine
month: age with a boy I thought
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pointing, Ile never takes me out,
though he has bought a single
ticket occasionally for a tnovie
I heard about; he has never
gone with me. If t date anyone
else, he throws a scene—yet I
know he dates other girls.
'Three times I broke with
him, but I do love him, so I al-
ways welcome hint back. What
is your opinion of all this:
UNHAPPY'
What are you getting out of
• this friendship except the
* pleasure of being with the
* boy when he chooses to see
* you: Aren't you being fool-
* Hardy;
* No girl will content him for
* long, for he is self-centered
and has no conception of °our
s test' nor the social rules' most
,, of us live kir: If you keep on
* seeing him you will find your-
• self apologizing for his crude
manners to everyone who sees
* you together.
" Stop dating him, and you
* dont have to give a reason.
* Just say you'll be too busy
* front, now on to see him at all.
* You Must know plenty of
* other young men who know
what is due a nice girl and
* who will be more generous
e and obliging. This one is not
* for you, and your dissatisfac-
e lion will only increase and
• keep you miserable.
*
When a young man keeps his
fiancee dangling too long, it is
wise to act. Better to know the
truth than to undergo emotional
anxiety. In time of indecision,
'trust Anne Hirst for the best
solution. Address her at Box 1,
123 -18th St., New Toronto, Ont.
HRONICLES
INGER ARM
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hlut.her's Day, Blossom Sun-
day. and a comfortable fire in
the furnace--•allthree rolled in-
to one. And right now I am get-
ting more satisfaction out of the
furnace than the other two,
especially as I have an infected
arm, a raised temperature and
a feeling that someone with a
sprinkling can is pouring ice-
cld water up and down my
:Time There is really quite a
story to this bad arm of mine
which 1 May tell you about at a
later date- when the; sprinkling
can has ceased to function.
1 t tts relating my tale of woe
to Partner when he came into
breakfast this morning but I
stopped in a hurry when he said,
"Well, 1 have trouble at the
barn now . . serious trouble."
-For heaven's sake, what is
it - visions of a cow with colic,,
a still -born calf. or something
equally unpleasant floated be-
fore my eyes.
1me,gine toy disgust when
Partner said, "It's my radio .
not so much as a squeak out of
it. Now I won't be able to get
my Sunday sermon while I do
my chores."
But to return to this special
day. I have never been too keen
on this Mother's Day idea, nor
of cars cluttering up the high-
way on Blossom Sunday. Like
most farm people we have
plenty of blossom around here
—no peach bloom of course, but
plenty of cherry, apple, pear,
japonica and hawthorn. It was
very beautiful when I looked
out this morning — greening
trees, blossoms everywhere, and
beyond it all a gorgeous sunrise.
Most people in the country have
all the beauty of the earth vis-
ible right from their own back
door, if they would but see it.
No need to drive for miles shut
up in a car.
Still on the subject of blos-
som 1 was amused at a remark
I heard yesterday. A friend was
telling me of a magnolia tree
near her home. It was full of
bloom. Then came the wind. The
branches were left completely
bare and the ground beneath
the tree carpeted with fallen
petals. "What a shame," 1 ex-
claimed, 'the magnolia is such
a beautiful tree."
"It deosn't appeal to me," my
friend replied. "I always think
it looks like a brazen wanton
woman, with too much make-up,
and almost naked!"
Well, 1 have heard the mag-
nolia described in various ways
but never exactly like that.
Good thing we don't all think
alike -about magnolias and a
lot of other things. For instance
we lcnow of some city people
who bought a cheap farm in a
hilly wooded section of Ontario.
They rented the land, fixed up
the house a bit and there they
retire for weekends. To insure
leaving business . cares behind
they had the telephone removed
and requested that there be no
IS?ITB 21 — 1955
VICTIMS OF WAR — Vietnamese citizens wearily plod through the streets in the Saigon-
Cholon area of Indo-China as they flee the fires that were started in the fierce fighting
between the National Army troops and Binh Xuyen rebels. At left, Government troops
move up.
rural mail delivery. I didn't in-
quire if they had- a radia or
television set. Probably not. So
for three days out of every sev-
en they are in the world and not
of it. And no doubt there are
numbers of other folk who go
rustic to the same extent. 1
wouldn't like it. It would do
something to me I am sure.
Surely one's neighbours, the
party line, the rural mail, the
party on the next place calling
the cows home at night, all are
an integral part of rural living.
Some people might toil you an
isolated life such as I have men-
tioned is the ideal setup for
people who write. Don't ever
believe it except in exceptional
cases. The average writer may
like the wide-open spaces but
he needs them peopled with
more .than birds, rabbits, mos-
quitoes and poison ivy. He needs
the sympathetic knowledge of
the comedy, pathos and tragedy
of neighbours to give him the
common touch.
The tractors and seed drills
have certainly been busy around
here this last week. Funny
thing, a week ago it looked as if
the land would never dry and
yet there is quite a lot of seed-
ing done. We always have a soft
spot in our hearts for the trials
of the prairie farmer, having
survived four years Of it our-
selves. Of course we have our
troubles down east but it is
rarely all our eggs are in one
basket. We have seen a weather-
beaten farmer out west looking
over his hail -flattened crops,
slow tears coursing unchecked
down his lined, sunburnt face.
We have seen his wife join him,
put - her hand gently on his
shoulder and say with amazing
simplicity, "Thomas—remember
--there is always next year."
No wonder the west is called
"a next year country". The pity
Nrici OL
LESSON
ate^
ft, Barclay Warren, B.A.. B.D.
lllezekiah Meets a Crisis
2 Chronicles 32:1-8, 32-33
Memory Selection: Our help
Is in the name of the Lord, who
made heaven and earth.' Psalm
124:8.
Assyria was the greatest em-
pire at this time. Israel, the nor-
thern kingdom, had fallen un -
of it is "next year" sometimes
comes too late.
But not this year, we hope.
We pray that springtime and
harvest will be better than the
prairie farmer dares to hope for
at present,
der its program or expansion.
Now, Sennacherib, the Assyrian
king, advanced against Judah,
the southern kingdom. As he
came to Jerusalem Hezekiah
strengthened the defences, He
built up the morale of the peo-
ple with such wards as, "Be
strong and couragous, be not
afraid nor dismayed for the
king of Assyria, nor for all the
multitude that is with hien, for
there be more with us than with
him: with him is an arm of
flesh; but with us is the Lord
our God to help us, and to fight
our battles." Sennacherib's mes-
sage was, "Who was there
among all the gods of those na-
tions that my fathers utterly
destroyed, that could deliver his
people out of mine hand, that
your God should be able to
deliver you of mine hand?" He
also wrote letters to rail on the
Lord God of Israel. Hezekiah
and the prophet, Issiah, cried to
heaven. In one night the angel
of the Lord smote in the camp'
of the Assyrians 185,000 men.
Sennacherib returned to Nine-
veh and when worshipping in
the heathen temple was slain by
his sons.
A little later Hezekiah was
sick unto death, He turned hist
face to the wall, not in despair
but in prayer. God heard his cry
and gave him a sign that he
would be granted another 15
years. The sign was that the sun
went back on the dial by 10 de-
grees. As so often happens,
Hezekiah instead of being hum-
bly thankful was lifted up in
pride. Trouble came and Heze-
kiah humbled himself and was
blessed of God the rest of his
days. He was a good king. He
had a Eying faith in God.
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