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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-02-02, Page 61s14IPST Family It's all over now. The Christ- mas tree stripped of its trim- mings; the gay glass ornaments carefully wrapped and put away; strings of coloured lights, bereft of illumination, packed in their proper boxes. And the needle -dropping tree thrown ' on the woodpile or, in some cases, out with the garbage. Poor little tree , .. such a short while ago we joyously brought you into the house; decked your green branches with glittering baubles and then further en- hanced the glitter by tiny elec- tric lights. You were very love- ly, little tree, and served a good purpose so I hope you are not feeling too badly because your period of brightness was so brief. Yours was a short life but a gay one. In every home you were the symbol of goodwill and laughter. But now, with the New Year we must discard you as we pick up again the threads of ordinary, everyday life, car- rying with us happy memories. of family gatherings, stacks of greeting cards and perennial letters. At Ginger Farm our letters. and cards included greetings from readers of this column I love to get your messages of cheer and encouragement. Writ- ing this column would be a lonesome sort of job were it not for you, my readers. So keep Easy to Knit! 503 l ' tee f<iZ'tG Vev t2? Knit a shrug to toss over everything, to keep you warm and cozy ! It's done in a fast 'n' easy pattern stitch—so becom- ing with all your casual and dressy fashions! Pattern 503 has easy -to -follow knitting directions. Misses' Sizes 32-34; 30-35 included in pattern, Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. LOOK for smart gift ideas in our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog. Crochet, knitting, em- broidery, lovely things to wear. Dolls, iron -ons, quilts, aprons, novelties—easy, fun to make ! Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOW 1 You will want to order every new design in it. your letters coming. friends. I love them, everyone. But during a special season like this, I hope you will forgive me if I reply through this column. Answering a lot of letters at one time seems to be more than I can manage. "Glencoe Reader" advises me to feed our cats a little flaxseed. Thank you for the tip "Glencoe" — it sounds like a good one. "Kenora" — you will know by now our little grandson is greatly improved. There were no cat -naps for him over Christ- mas. Sleep in the daytime? Not he — he might miss something! Thank you for all your kind inquiries and good wishes. We hope you will be feeling much better during the coming year. 'Writer" — that was a grand ° letter. I have a feeling you 'have what it takes' and I am sure you always make a success of what- ever you set out to do — writ- ing or anything else. I don't think YOU need much advice from me. Once you are properly settled you should do well. I, too, subscribed to Donald French's magazine and found it very helpful, "Mrs, F . , " So you are going to drive the family car. That seems like an excellent idea, especially it you make that visit you mention. Start driving now before you get any older and you will learn that much easier, "Irish" — your letter was most interesting. Your music, the old family home, and your cats and dogs, seem to provide you with a full and satisfying life. I am sure you never know what it is to be bored. Why should you? Living as we all do, in the most interesting and progressive period history has ever known, I cannot see wry anyone, at any time, should suf- fer from boredom. I am sure that your talents, your active mind and hands, help you to forget to some extent, the pain you suffer with those aching joints. "Illinois" — your letter and greetings were very welcome. It was nice to hear from you again. Later on I will reply more fully. At the moment I am particularly busy. David ex- pects to go to hospital again soon. This time for the removal of tonsils and adenoids. The foregoing will, I hope, take care of replies to letters for the time being. But in ad- dition to the letters I would also like to thank those who remembered us with greeting cards. It was so nice to get them and to know we have so many unseen friends. But I wonder v: hat happened to aur friend the mysterious "Mr. X". I was certainly looking for a card with his classic signature! Among our family letters was an "aerogramme" from Part- ner's brother in Australia. tie was not expecting his sons home for Christmas as they were both in New Guinea. Last year when we heard from him the oldest boy had just returned after two years in the Antarctic, These Clarke; seem to get around, don't they? Hnw strange to spend Christmas in a country like Australia with the thermo- meter around 100 degrees I must ask them how they cele- brate. Would you like a good sug- gestion for the New Year? That is if you have a lot of un -named and undated photographs as we had. One night I got out the whole collection and then sorted them and put them into enve- lopes labelled according to la- milies, with each photograph named and dated separately. HE'LL BE A GOOD SPORT—Marquis Grimaldi, left, pretender to the throne of Monaco, says he may send "the usurper," Prince Rainier III, his congratulations when the prince marries Grace Kelly. Grimaldi, shown above in the tavern he owns in Ightham, England, says his grandfather spent most of the fortune establishing the line of descent, which he says has been recognized by England's College of Arms. But the Mar- quis, who's known as "George," says it would take too much money to press the claim for the throne. Shown with him are his wife, the Marquise, known as "Kay", and an unidentified customer. IT'S A BOY — It's hard to believe, but three-year-old Zbnigniew Skalinski is a boy, despite the curly locksand the doll. But easy to believe is his happiness at arriving here from Poland, This idea calve to me while I was doing some historical re- search and found families with stacks of photos whom no one could identify. Quite suddenly I realized the same thing could apply in our family once Part- ner and I were gone beyond re- call. And so I got busy. It takes only a little while. Try it your- selves, and, if I'm not mistaken, you will get quite a lot of fun and enjoyment out of doing the job, HRONICLES GFLGINGERFARM e eeepa +d nLtne D Ctea!ka "Dear Anne Hirst! Practical- ly every letter in your column is from wives complaining about husbands. You know so,aetimes the shoe is on the other foot. I've been married for 10 years (a wartime marriage) and I knew almost immediately it shouldn't have happened. I tried to make the best of it, though being a good and, I believe, at- tentive husband, thinking it might ev:ntualIy work out. But I've about reached the end cf my rope."It's been nothing but fault- finding, nagging. humiliation and constant grumbling. I know I've never really loved her, but now I've reached t_hc' stage where I can't bear the sight of her. My family and even her people have never interfered, bet now they all say the same think, 'Ilow much can y take?' "I've left her now, and if site doesn't divorce me, I intend ter do it. I could- never st'tnd liv- ing with her again! Cer:tenly there must be some h'3,it mega left for me in this world. "I hope you print this, Anne Hirst, and perhaps it will show some wives that they, too, may be in the wrong before their husbands gat to the stare f am in TOI'l fP" GUILTY WIVES * Perhaps you recall hew * many times I suggest that a * complaining w if e examine * herself as though she were * somebody else and ask, "Can * 1 be at fault?" There are * women who, swept awn. by s emotion or delibcretelp luring * a man into matrimony, ap ° preach the future with the e idea, "Web, I11 change all * that," and proceed to nag * their man into a state of col- * lapse, usually over nonessen * tials, from the clothes he wears to the way he holds a fork * Having attained the dignity * of marriage, a wire like this ' reveals her mean nature and * demands a state of perfection * existing in no living male. " She ends fault with all he * says and does, she grumbles * because he doesn't melee more * money or doesn't cater to her " whims as he used to; any ex- * cuse is sufficient to prove her * superiority and her dissatis- faction with the , mate she * chose. * Most wives (and you and 1 * know so many) have only one * aim in marriage — to make * their man happier at home * than anywhere else. He is the * center of their thoughts and * plans; they . study his habits * and indulge his moods; the * household routine is governed' * by his wishes. Their patience * with his peculiarities is infin- ite, and their reward is his un- * swerving loyalty and .a grati- ISSUE. g — 1956 * tude for all her loving kind- * nese that lasts as long as he * lives. * You showed more patience t` than many a man would; for * 10 years you did your best. * this, plus the fact that even * your wife's family are sorry * for you, is proof enough *hat e escape is the only answer. A * man can stand so much; when * the point is reached, living " with the woman is actually * living in a hell of her de- * signing. « « A LAD IMPOSES "Dear Anne Hirst; Two of us girls live together, and we have a nice group of 'friends. A young man I've known for a long time has the habit of inviting himself to. dinner at the last moment, taking his welcome for granted. • I don't like the habit. "He is really a bore: He never helps wiith the dishes, just sits and listens to the radio, He hasn't talon me out for a long while, But he is the son of a friend of my family, and I don't dare be rude. Have you any ideas? SUSAN" This boy, like yourself, ' is living away from his people * and he turns to the, one link * he knows for companionship. * Many a lad is as thoughtless, * not realizing he makes a * nuisance of himself .and ac- * cepting hospitality without re- * turning it. * There is a limit, however, * to such imposition. * Next time he appears sud- * denly, tell him that you and * your girl friend have a double * date tonight, or you're tired * and going to bed early; Or x, you're having dinner Out and * going on to a movie, and would * he like to ocme along? When you write home * again, tell your mother how * things stand. If he is as super- ' sensitive as some boys and gives his family the idea you • are not being nice to him, * your people will know the Getting Married At Long Distance Although his ' dark-haired, slim bride-to-be was 5000 miles away in South. America, a wealthy young London business- man . recently went to a Lon- don social club as a bachelor and returned several hours later — a married man. Soft lights shone in a private room at the club, a small orches- tra played wedding music. The bridegroom's parents toasted the bride and bridegroom in cham- pagne. The smiling Froom was showered with congratulations from relatives and friends as they raised their wine glasses to a portrait of the bride which hung on the wall. While all this was happening in London, the bride was sign ing documents in South America which made the couple man and wife by proxy. And while the bridegroom slept in his bachelor flat that night with her portrait by his bedside, his bride was beginning her long journey by air to Hol- land. More than thirty hours after their wedding, the couple met in Amsterdam for the first time as newlyweds and spent a joyful — and official honey- moon. That couple web knew that love laughs at distance. Scores of other couples who have, through force of circumstances, married by proxy can testify that the temporary separation only made their hearts fonder. An excited and happy twenty- year -old girl living in South - East London received a cable one spring day a few years ago informing her that she had just been married in Semarang, Java. about 9,000 miles away. It was sent by her Dutch bridegroom immediately after he had gone through the wed- ding ceremony — with a mar- ried woman at his side! Olive and Johannes had fallen in love when they met in Lon- don two years previously, but his business had tied him to Java since then. Their courtship flourished by post, * true circumstances. Marriage failure is never the fault of one alone. If you are unhappy, question yourself as to the cause, for the cure may lie in your own hands, Anne Hirst will help you know yourself, if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto At is was impossible for him to get back to London for the wedding, the pair agreed that it would be more .convenient for Olive if she travelled out to Java as a married woman. Their marriage -by -proxy was carried out under Dutch law following the signing by the bride of documents which were sent to the Consulate in London, She had also received the wed- ding ring by post; and the news that a lovelybungalow home was ready for her in Java, When, a month after the proxy wedding, she reached Samarang, she and her husband went through the marriage ceremony at the English church there. Then they had their honeymdon. During the two world wars there were a number of instan- ces of proxymarriages for men at the front. The German Gov- ernment in 1940 passed a law enabling soldiers on active serv- ice to wed their sweethearts at home by making a formal de- claration to their commanding officers. At home the bride registered the marriage officially within two months of the declaration — even if her bridegroom had been killed in the meantime. A pretty girl serving in the A.T.S. was married by trans- atlantic telephone over a 5,000 mile hook-up to an ex -service- man in Pocatello. Idaho, in 1946. The bridegroom, who was two"ty-three, sat during the ceremony with his family in their home at Pocatello The bride, who was nineteen, and her family were the guests of the landlord of a village inn. Said a witness as the ton: "We waited an hour and then the call came through Prone time States. The bride sprang to the 'phone and said: Fs that your, George?' Reception was clean. "Then the bride heard the voice of the magistrate conduct- ing the brief ceremony in the United States. The bride ans- wered her name and then, is an, atmosphere of great excitemeffl we heard her mance the re- sponse, I will.' "The parents of bride and bridegroom exchanged greet- ings over the line before the nine -minute call ended, Then we all drank to the future hap- piness of bride and bridegroom." Lawyers stated that this un- usual wedding was quite valid in both countries, although there has never been a test case in the British courts on the point. ,;1e-d%'ortce Combine 1 tbs. soft butter or margarine, % c. thick jam, 1 tbs, lemon juice and, if desired, 1/a c. broken nutmeats and divide between 6 greased individual baking dishes. Mix and sift twice, then sift into abowl, l % c. once -sifted pastry flour (or 11/3c. once -sifted all-purpose flour), 3 tsps. Magic Baking Powder, % tsp. salt, tsp. grated nut- meg and % c. fine granulated sugar. Cut in finely 5 tbs. chilled shortening. Combine 1 well -beaten egg, 34 c. milk and % tsp. vanilla. Make a well in dry ingredients and add liquids; mix lightly. Two-thirds fill prepared dishes with batter. Bake in a moderately hot oven, 375°, about 20 minutes. Turn out and serve hot with sauce or cream. Yield —6 servings. t+[AGI� tilkiCtO Fro I V �1�" ac.....x .;.W.�x..:.�.. .. ,r,:x�."tar n.^Zlrc'x'zs?�:•:'.ii:�S'r�?i`.�."3�� �•�/'6/l Always Dependable FILMING APPEAL — Singer Mario Lanza and four-year-old Mary Blankenship get acquainted in Hollywood before filming the 1956 Easter Seal motion pic- ture appeal to help crippled chil- dren. The two will star in the filrn, to be shown throughout the country during the Easter Seal campaign, March 10 to April 10. ROCK 'N' ROLL IN RUSSIA - These youngsters in Leningrad enjoy a ride on a rocking pig. It's Russia's counterpart of the rocking horse, so popular with children in the West. Pigs or horses, the idea is to have fun, no matter which side of the (rots Curtain you happen to be rocking on.