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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-04-12, Page 6ANNE 14IRST I "Dear Anne Hirst: Ever since my wife and I married five years ago, we have read your column together. Now when I really need some good advice, I feel I will have it from. you. "About a month; ago, my wife took our three children and left our little farm for her parents' home in the city. I knew she had been lonely, we have no nearby neighbors and she seldom could leave the place. She lost touch with her friends, she grew melancholy, but I guess I didn't realize how hard it really was for her un- til the day she left. "I went right after lxer, of course, and I used every argu- ment I could think of. (I should remind you that we have loved each other perfectly.) After several visits I did persuade her to come back with me for two days, and they were the happiest I can remember. Now, a week later, she still refuses to come here to live — and she thinks she likes an old beau who looked her np. "My whole life is bound up in my family and our farm. The youngsters and '1 get along fine. and I miss them beyond words. How can I get her back? She agrees with all I say, but re- peats she just can't stand living there." ARTHUR" Be Patient * When a girl marries, she * feels she can cope with any * new pattern of living so long * as she shares it with the man * she loves. But sometimes the * reality overwhelms her. Your Week's Sew -Thrifty 4634 2-10 44 -Ann. -7446+411$ A Weapon for your daughter! Just sew two or three, Mother --• and RELAX for the season! As you see, it has FEW pattern parts, whips up in a jiffy, opens out to iron and a child can dress herself so easily! Make it of cotton in flower - fresh pastel colors: Pattern 4634: Children's Sizes 2, 4. 6, 8, 10. Size 8 takes 21.s yards 35 -inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, ie tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (35e) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME ADDRESS, STYLE I"UMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Si., New Toronto, Ont. * wife was' transplanted from * an active social life in town to * the bleak routine of an iso- * lated farm. The tedium of * unaccustomed chore 5, the * desperation of her aloneness, * and above all the thousands. * of tomorrows that stretched * ahead with no hope of change, * got her down. Something * snapped. She came, literally, * to the breaking point. * All this does not mean, to * my mind, that she has. stop- * ped loving you. Remember * those two days? After she * left, though, all she could re- * call was the monotony of the * years that preceded them. * She is in the mood of some e" husbands who, when the * thrills of marriage wear thin, * seek extramarital adventures. * It is a condition from which I * believe she will recover. * You will have to be patient, * Visit the children regularly * and often; they are missing * you, and through their pre- * sent confusion (which your * wife will sense) I think she * will see how cruel this sepa- * ation is. Her mother, you say, * is distressed by the situation, and you can be sure she is * exerting all her wholesome * influence. * Don't continue to beg your * wife to return; she is not yet * in the mood to listen. Promise, * though, when she does you * will see that you two have * an evening in town regularly, * and somehow you will man- * age it hi a little while she will begin to miss you more, * and realize where she be- * longs. * I should not worry about * the other man, It is the life * he represents, not he himself, .. that appeals to her. Y * * She Gave Up Love "Dear Anne Hirst: I give you my story for what it's worth, in the belief it may help some wife to stick to her job . For eight years my husband was an alcoholic, and he made life so dreadful for our little son end the that 1 lost any love I'd had : . "You gueseed it. I fell in love with an old friend, and I felt I e aid not live without him, W .et* my husband beard of it, he promised he would stop drink .g and take care of us. 1 cerfess I did not believe a sin_ie word he said, but I agreed partly for the boy's sake: he adores his dad. "My husband has not had a drink since, and that was three years ago. We have a closer friendship than we ever had; we attend church and have made wonderful friends. My husband's gratitude is touching, and every time I look at my son I thank the Lord I'm here I have not seen nor heard of the other man since; that is over and done with . You know, Anne Hirst, happiness comes only when we try to bring it to others. One can for- get herself if she plays fair, MARY" A woman of strong charac- e ter and will. like yourself, can e sacrifice personal happiness * for someone else's salce. I * hope your experience will * bring new strength to others * who face such a problem to- * day. * * Trouble comes to us all, and calls for understanding and pa- tience. Telling Anne Hirst about it will help. Write her at Box 1. 123 Eighteenth St., New To- ronto, Ont. KNEE-HIGH Andy High was one of the smallest infielders ever to play major-league ball. At one time he owned an electrical appliance shop in St. Louis, moving Charlie Grimm to observe that "Andy is the only electrician I know who has to use a ladder to put in a floor plug." °Ct Fudges a ;1 Sift into a bowl, 1 c. plus 2 lbs. once -sifted cake flour, 13,1 tsps. Magic Baking Powder, 3e tsp. salt, ?x c. fine granulated sugar; mix in ;i c. desiccated coconut. Make a well in dry ingredients and add in order given (do not stir mixture), ?;( c. corn (salad) oil. 2 unbeaten egg yolks, ;e1 c. plus 2 tbs. water, 1 tsp. vanilla, 2% ozs, unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled. Stir liquids a bit, then stir in dry ingredients; beat until batter is smooth. Measure into a large bowl ee c. egg whites (at room temperature) and sprinkle with ya tsp. cream of tartar; beat until whites are very stiff—much stiffer than for meringues, etc. Addem. flour mixture, about a quarter at a time, and ee,`"" fold after each addition until batter and egg whites are well combined. Turn batter into an ungreased 8" angel cake pan; bake in rather slow oven, 325°, about 1 hour. Immediately cake comes from oven, invert pan and suspend cake until cold. Always Dependable ell :,rtes:z Pretty Apron 894 tee 1'41144 w' A lifelike flower is this lovely serving apron sew -easy to make for hostess gifts and bazaars! Remnant of colorful fabric for,n its pretty petals! Pattern 894: Embroidery trans- fer, directions for making a "(tower" apron 16 inches long, Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins, (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 18th St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS, Our gift to you—two wonder- ful patterns for yourself, your home — printed in our Laura . Wheeler Needlecraft book for 1956! Dozens of other new de- signs to order — crochet, knit- ting, embroidery, iron -ons, novel- ties. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOW — with gift patterns printed in it! Sleepy People Imagine spending t w en t y hours of every twenty-four in bed, despite the fact that you are perfectly fit. That's what a well-to-do, middle - aged bache- lor living in Hungary has been doing for the past three years. Why', "Because," he explains, "I love bed. I have no relatives, no friends. Four hours' activity every day is enough for me. During that time I shop, eat, have a bath and take a short walk in the park. Then I hurry back to bed•" lle says he doesn't sleep all the time. He reads, listens to the radio as he lies in his com- fortable bed on the top floor of a modern block of flats. He has no telephone because he thinks that might tempt him to "alter the regular rhythm" of his life and spend less time in bed. This man's passion for bed is paralleled by that of M. Halloin, a Justice of the Peace in Caen, Normandy, who about 120 years ago included this strange in- struction in his will; "Bury me in my bed. Leave me just as you found me when I died, but tuck me in and see that my pil- low is comfortable and that the sheets are straight, And bury nee at night, please. I've loved my bed more than anything else in this life and I'd like to go to my everlasting rest in it." The villagers were not sur- prised when they heard of his request. They recalled that his love for his bed had sometimes led hint as a magistrate to pass sentence from it. His bedroom became his courtroom and of- fenders were brought before him there for trial. But when the authorities heard how jus - „tire was being dispensed — by a man sprawled deep in a fea- ther mattress, his head support- ed by pillows—they relieved him of his post. "I'm not worried," comment- ed the magistrate when he heard the news. "It will give me so much more tune to devote to my comfort," To carry out his dying wish, the villagers dug an enormous pit in the churchyard. Into it they lowered the bed with the dead man lying in the same posi- tion in which he had died. Then a ceiling of stout wood was built over the grave and cover- ed with earth. EXTRA PAIGE . The ageless Satchel Page was called on for a ninth-inning're- lief stint in Washington. Bill Veeck, the Browns' boss, told the pitcher that the team had to catch a train in less than an hour. Paige struck out the side on only ten pitches. "Sorry about that extra pitch", he apologized to Veeck as they boarded the train, "but the um- pire missed one." ISSUE 15 — 1956 II Ropi WWL S 45:6INGIER.FARN Cbadisix Every so often farmers have unexpected problems to. face; A few years ago is was toot and mouth disease, then came New- castle disease in poultry, and now it is rabies. Of the three rabies is the most dangerous because of its menace to chil- dren. However, it is 'comfort- ing to •know that it can be con- trolled to a certain extent -- .by vaccination of work dogs and household pets, That, however, does not protect children from stray dogs that may come around, or from foxes, if a fam- ily happens to live near a wood- ed area. As most people know, the dread disease is usually passed on to humans by the bite of an animal but we should. remember that the infection is in the saliva of the animal and may be transmitted quite inno- cently if a dog licks a child who may have a scratch or skin ab- rasion — that is, if the dog has already contracted the disease. Perhaps the most disquieting thing about the whole business is contained in the warning that "it is a situation we must learn to live with fox several years." Yes, there is reason for wor- ry and for every precaution to be taken — that is, by seeing to it that our dogs are vaccin- ated against the disease and by warning children not to pet strange dogs, And how thankful we should be that vaccination is possible — thanks to the dan- gerous and untiring research work carried out by Louis Pas- teur many years ago. Pasteur risked his own life a good many times in carrying out his ex- periments before the first in- oculation of a child bitten by a mad dog was possible. The ex- periment was successful and led to the formation of the Pas- teur Institute in 1888. Had it not been for Pasteur the dan- ger from the present outbreak 01 rabies would be far great- er. That people are aware of the danger is evident as last week, when I phoned our 'vet' about having our two dogs in- oculated I was told his supply of vaccine was exhausted but that more was on the way, On the other side of the pic- ture iature this rabies scare may have one good effect there will probably be fewer stray dogs around and those who do keep dogs will be more particular about having them under con- trol, or lose their pets. `Per- haps, too, fewer people will want to keep dogs at all. Rabies is a disease we have always had to c on t end with but I doubt if there was ever a time in history when the dog popu- lation was as great as it is to- day. Well, quite apart from the rabies scare, there has been plenty of excitement around here just lately. Three farms in our immediate vicinity have been sold, which sort of. leaves us sitting in the middle — from choice, not necessity. The way farms are selling these days makes a person almost dizzy. That is, when they ARE sold. In some cases speculators come along, take., an option on a fait and leave 'the farmer hopefully Sitting there. Then comes an- other f e 1 i o w, offers a better . price with a good down pay- ment, which the farmer cannot accept because he is already tied up with an option. There are so many snags in land deals that no one should accept the first offer that comes along, nor sign any agreement without the advice of a good lawyer. We also hear of farmers keep- ing their farms but selling their milk cows because of the short- age of help. We wonder where it is all going to encl. Well, spring is in the air, Last week I mentioned seeing one crow, now there are whole fam- ilies 01 crows flying around. And the redwoods in the swamp are getting a deeper colour and the roads ha v e started their usual break-up. Some of them are already in terrible condi- Hon. Here and there we hear people predicting an early spring — and I wouldn't be surprised if they are right. Al- ready many housewives have started 'spring - cleaning — trying to get done before the hot weather sets in, Rot weath- er : . what a thought! May we be delivered from the kind of heat we had last year. Strange, how even house- plants have a way of coming to life early in March. Our maid- enhair fern, has - a . few tiny flowers on one frond. Little wee flowers that look more like stars and are scarcely a quarter of an inch across. And I don't know what to do with .my Christmas cactus — it won't stop blooming. Almost as soon as the Christmas bloom had died off it started budding; again — and yet throwing out new leaves at the same time. The geranium slips are begin- ning to get spindley but most of them are in bud and a few in bloom. I shall be glad when it comes time to set them out. One needs to love flowers to work with them as they cer- tainly take a lot of time and patience. And it is all a labour of love — our only reward le the colour and brightness they bring into our lives. Can you imagine a world without flow- ers? I can't I am certain only of one thing — it would ben vent drab world indeed. Bake fas+y OKEESESRE#13 easily, speedily with new Active Dry Yeast! • New bread and bud, treats are a treat to make witletlie new form of Fleischmana's Yeast! Never a worry about yeast cakes that stale and lose strength ... new Fleischmann's Dry Yeast keeps fall strength and fast -acting right in your cupboard. Get a month's supply. CHEESEBREAD • Scald 3 c. milk, % c. granulated sugar, 14 tbs, salt and 4 tbs. shortening; cool to lukewarm. Meanwhile, measure into a large bowl 54 c. lukewarm water. 1 tsp. granulated sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle with -1 en- velope Fleischmann', Active Dry 'Yeast. Let stand 10 mins., THEN stir well. Stir in cooled milk mixture. Stir in 4 c. once -sifted bread flour; beat with a rotary beater until the batter is smooth. Cover and set in a warm place, free from draught. Let rise until doubled in bulk. Work in 2 c. lightly - packed finely -shredded old cheese and 5 c. (about) once - sifted bread flour. Knead on lightly -floured board until smooth and clastic. Place in greased bowl and grease top of dough. Cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough; turn out on lightly -floured board and divide into 4 equal portions. Cover lightly with a cloth and let rest for 15 mins. Divide each portion of dough into 3 parts; knead and phape into smooth balls. Place 3 balls in each of 4 greased loaf pans (44" x 84"). Grease tops and sprinkle each loaf with 14 c. shredded cheese, Cover and let rise until doubled in bultc. Bake in moderately hot oven, 375°, 45- 50 mins. ANN "Corn Starch Makes Tasty Casserole Dishes!" CHEESE ACD EGO CASSEROLE 3 tablespoons MAZOLA Salad Oa t/z teaspoon salt 11/2 tablespoons BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch. 1 IA cups milk Vs cup grated cheese 4 hard -cooked eggs, sliced 2 cups canned peas, drained COMBINE MAZOLA, salt and BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch in saucepan. ADD milk slowly; cook until thick, stirring constantly. ADD cheese; continue cooking until cheese melts. ARRANGE hard -cooked eggs and pear in layers In 1 -quart casserole. KE sauce over BAKE (350* l'.) 30 to 35 minutes. inn moderate oven YIELD, 4 servings. Cheese and Egg Plate: COMBINE first 5 ingredients as directed above in top of double boiler. COOK over boiling Water until cheese sets. 2D DD m sdeed, eggs and peas; continue heating stirring occasionally, SERVE hot on buttered toast; garnish with crisp bacon. „ For free folder of other delicious recipes, write to: Jane Ashley,. HomeServiceDepartment, THE; CANADA STARCH COMPANY LIMITED, P.O. Box 129, Mono •.' P.Q.