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The Seaforth News, 1956-07-12, Page 6* t. , Fw q anzinthelot "Dears Anne Hirst: Can you rescue a friend of mine before !t is too late? We are classmates, and Ilove her like a sister. She has always read your column and perhaps she will listen to you; she won't listen to anyone else . . For seven months she has been running around with a young man who is utterly worthless; he has no ambition, has never held a job for long; he has an ugly temper and no self-control. He is horrid to his family, and he's even been ar- rested! I'm afraid he is dragging her down to his level, "She comes from fine people, Is talented and popular. Why she gave up- nice boys for this one, I'll never know, but she has ac- cepted his ways as her own, She resents her family not liking him; she stays out late at night with him and will brook no re- pritnand. Her mother is worried sick, but she is beyond caring. "Now I hear they plan to elope! How they'll live, I don't [snow, but I am really fright- ened. Can't something be done t0 wake her up before it is too late? CYNTHIA" TRAGEDY AHEAD * One fact your girl friend * should be told at once: in your * State she cannot marry with- " out her parents' consent until " she is 21. If she does, the par- * ents can have it annulled. That * may give her pause. • Time and again this girl has * read my counsel to other de - Cinch to Sew! 732 IRON -ON COLOR SIZES S-10-12 M-14-16 L-15-20 4,CAmte,Wheolg. Cincn to sew this pretty wrap- italter! No embroidery; IRON ON flower trim in glowing col- ors! Pattern 732: Tissue pattern, washable iron -on color transfers In combination of pink, blue and green. Small (10, 12); Medium (14. 151; Large (18.20-i. State size. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER and SIZE; your NAME and ADDRESS. 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Why doesn't she put * him on probation for a year? * She should tell him to get a * job and show he can do it; to * begin earning the respect of * his family, and other nice peo- * pie who know -him; to give up. * his dissolute companions, - and * begin cultivating worth -while * young men, making himself * one of a group that is pursu- • ing constructive activities. * Perhaps she is passionately in ▪ lave and if this idea occurred * to her, she would be afraid to * put him to the test for fear he * would laugh in her face. * You and I shudder to pie- * lure what her future with him * would be. Tied to a weakling * who defies morality, who 's thumbs his nose at the law, * and who has no means of sup- * porting her as his wife, she * will pay the price of her folly. * I believe she would find her- * self left alone, deserted and * tarnished, forced to creep back * home begging forgiveness. * I am sorry for her, but more • sorry for her family, for you * and others who love her and " who stand helplessly ' by, * watching - her plan her own * ruin. 0 * * GOOD MANNERS HELP "Dear Anne Hirst: I'm 16, and fell in love with a boy I went with for three months, Three weeks ago he stopped coming, and I've not heard anything from his since. "Three friends tell me he'd like to date me again, but he keeps silent. When I see him, I pass him by—is this right? IMPATIENT" * The young man will be more * apt to ask you for a date if * you greet him with your for- * mer cordiality. Passing him by • makes him feel guilty, and LOOK, MA, NO HANDS — It's "Oh, dear, who's gonna steer?" as a pyramid of 15 extended arms glides through Munich, Ger- many, The men are members of the Vespa Club, of Pisa, Italy. They demonstrated their acrobatics on wheels during an all - Europe Vespa meeting in the German city. * indicates that his absence * means the collapse of your * social life. That may be true, * but don't give such an impres- sion, for the sake- of your self- * respect. * Perhaps he sensed you fell * in love with him and he isn't * ready for that at the moment; * like most boys his age, he * went out with other girls and * was too embarrassed to ex- " plain, If he should call you, be * careful to give no hint of the * state of your heart, or you * may lose him for good. * Boys feel the initiative be- * longs to them, and they re- * sent any girl who tries to force * the issue. * * * Even loving parents and loyal friends cannot direct the lives of others. When we see them choosing the wrong path, we can only stand by to help later on when we are needed. Anne Hirst is here to give you the benefit of her understanding - and wisdom. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. Royal Princess Weds Commoner During the excitement and glamour of our Queen's Corona- tion Year, in fact only a month before the ceremony, her sister flew to Norway for the wedding of another princess. And in con- trast with the rich decking of Westminster Abbey. Princess Margaret found herself in a gay little church in the mountains. It had been adorned with wild cherry, lilac and narcissi, trans— forming it into a bower of love- liness for the wedding. Like Princess Margaret, the bride was a great-granddaughter of our King Edward VII, one of two sisters and close to a throne. Moreover, she was Princess Mar- garet's age. Gossiping matchmakers had paired her off with half the princes of Europe, and her name had been romantically linked- with inkedwith first one, then another of a string of young aristocrats 'about the court. Yet she was marrying a commoner. Love came to beautiful Prin- cess Ragnhild of Norway almost before she was aware -of it. And instantly her emotional crisis plunged her into acute contro- versy while lawyers explored all the blind alleyways of royal protocol. She was only fifteen when she first met stall, handsome Erling Lorentzen. "Who is he?" she asked. "He looks to be the nicest man I've seen •In the north." She was told he was the son of a well-known Norwegian shipowner, and had a tnost dis- • tinguished war record. - • He was, in fact, Norway's na- tional hero, the mysterious "Mr. CASE OF THE RUNAWAY YANKEES — It's Casey Stengel, plenty to wink about. His New York Yankees were leading the American League by a sizable margin, and appeared to be headed for their seventh pennant in eight years under Stengel's guidance, with Onion." who had headed a train of saboteurs in the resistance movement against the Nazis. He. had even sown bombs in their cabbage beds, planted death -dealing booby traps on their submarine gangplanks, dodging capture under a dozen disguises, a veritable Norwegian Scarlet Pimpernel. When the war began, Princess Ragnhild was sent to safety in New York. Erling escaped to Sweden. But, as a seventeen- year -old youngster, he was para- chuted back into Norway to join in the desperate underground struggle. Later, when the royal family returned from exile, Erling was chosen to be one of King Haa- kon's personal escorts. Then it fell to him to act as equerry to Crown Prince Olaf, Ragnhild's father, When Ragnhild and her sister, Astrid, went skiing in the moun- tains, Erling Lorentzen accom- panied them as a matter of course. In summer they went riding through the scented pine forests or sailing on Oslo Fiord. Rio de Janeiro, on the other side of the world. Yet nothing could cool the ar- dour of his love letters. He worked against the opposition to a possible marriage with all the steely courage he had shown in the war. And ultimately he was allowed to "stand his chance." By the King's decree he was per- mitted to visit Switzerland and woo the princess, just like any other young man courting a girl. Flying down the ski slopes, dancing and dining together, princess and commoner found their true springtime of happi- ness. They were desperately in love. "I would have married her if she had been a servant girl," Erling was to say later. And the princess declared: "From the first there was no other man so per- fect." She had decided that if need be she would earn her own liv- ing. Among other accomplish- ments she had learned millinery in New York and dressmaking in Switzerland. But the King now fully realized that this love match was fully in keeping with the democratic spirit of Norway. Erling bought the engagement ring in one of the smallest shops in Oslo. He was, after all, a son of the people and quite unable to afford fabulous prices. Yet Ragnhild's joy in that simple ring was radiant. It was decided that the wed- ding should be staged in the tiny parish church attached to the Crown Prince's country resi- dence, Yet this modest choice caused consternation. Nearly every country wished to send a representative, and the little church had room for only 500 guests. This number is small indeed far a royal wed- ding. Neatly, Ragnhild and Erl- ing got over the problem by giving a reception and ball for their own friends on their wed- ding eve. Princess Margaret at- tended the ball as a friend and -cousin of the bride, and the wed- ding as official representative of the Queen. Few cast a second glance at the little yacht with its blue sails, the laughing blonde girl, the deeply suntanned man at the helm. When Ragnhild was only fif- teen and Erling a man of twen- ty-three, a great gulf divided them. But when Ragnhild was twenty-one and twenty-nine- year;old Erling wore his Nor- wegian guards uniform at a hall, their two hearts beat faster. Yet no princess of the Nor- wegian royal house had married a commoner for 600 years. How was love possible? The two often met in business hours at the royal palace; then came -swift secret meetings in off-duty time. - Their favourite rendezvous was a smart and intimate little bar, with a gramophone. There sometimes they held hands, un- der pretence of choosing records. Confronted with her growing attachment, .Princess Ragnhild wisely asked her father if a mar- riage were possible. The Crown in Norway passes only through the male line, so Ragnhild faced no dynastic or religious difficul- ties. But the problem inevitably had to be taken to old King Haakon for his sanction ... and soon all Norway knew that the King sternly frowned en the situation. Ragnhild was packed off to Switzerland, ostensibly t0 study domestic economy and child welfare. Erling Lorentzen's fa- ther was summoned- to the pal- ace to meet the King, with thea. result that Erling found himself working in a shipping office in The couple were to leave for a honeymoon at romantic Santa Margarita, near Majorca, in the Mediterranean. But the young husband had a special card up his sleeve, fie whisked his wife away to his summer log cabin in the hills, There was nothing palatial about it, The rough wood floor was covered by simple mats. And here the royal daughter spent her wedding night as the wife of a man of the people. With her husband she began a new life in Buenos Aires. Their shipping business prospered — and a young son was born, Typi- cal of their democratic outlook, the baby was brought to Norway to be christened as a commoner's son—though in the Lacy chris- tening robe worn previously by those destined to be kings. rothers' Lives Ran Parallel Within a few minutes of the sod• den death recently of her eighty- yettr-oltl peasant husband, his wife Who found hhn dying in their Italian village home herself died,. It was -then revealed that the eonple had led amazing parallel lives. They had been Gore within a few hours of each outer In rhe sante village, had played together as Imbies and had attended the same school. They have now been hurled. In the same grave, "Even iu death," said the village priest, "they were not divided." • This ermines parallel in lives is nut unique. There's the remarkable instance of two brothers, Richard and John Webber, of Swansea, who started working on the shine clay for the same firm at twelve. They married on •the sumo stay, lived neat door to one another — and each had ten children. I;oth brothers were members of the sante church and choir for more than half a cen- tury. Looking Where The Stream -egcns Tens of millions of people will drive thousands of millions of utiles behind billions of developed horse - *power this summer without seeing what two Peet, two eyes, two ears, and one quiet outlook rats discover by the side of n hillside brook. From tip there beyond that screen of sou -dappled maple leaves comes a laughing, chattering sound. It is lite thelhteessant, unwitting praise that children pour out in endless eotnttulnt on the ail -so -now world around then;. I1 gurgles about while clouds overhead. It chortles at 'he flight of a jay bluer than the sky. Ent it subsides a moment under the silky soothing of a warm breeze. And here where the round- ed bank•wtts primordially designed speeinlly to couch the reclining hu- man forst, with cool niches In the soil for elbows and grassy hum- mocks for head -rests, the quieter moment lets the thought ehauge direction and expand. Farther downstream a foothill village predicts even greater cities on the prospering valley shores of this stream. mit they are 50 miles from here, with their hard pave ment and noisy traffic, with their polities, conflict, and achievement. Somewhere down there this lit. fie stream, which now hardly whis- pens, goes roaring over n great dam, swirls powerfully through u rapids. 11 becomes as different ,ts tate busy world is different from this tranquil spot. And that in one retteon tilts someone will ellntb In- to the hills hereabouts and lie by a brook - he calls It "getting awtu,1 from thugs," lint it turns out to be rather n getting back nearer to the begin- ning of things. ile still Sods penes here for 1111 his awareness id' what lies farther down the slope. And he reflects that a htuntut caret:; or the curse of world tleveloputents runs somewhat litre this rivulet, from a sort of sondeoi prehending joyous✓ ness over the l'isiblli world to a grim awareness of ititlden reefs of conlidence. Sometime in the future, amid a bustle of things, his recol- lections of where the river began may bring a needed quietude. — Prom The ('hrist.inn Seienc•e Meta. 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SOUR CREAM SALAD DRESSiHG Vs cup MAZOLA Salad 011 2 tablespoons v:nsgar 1 egg yolk, unbeaten 1 tablespoon sugar t/2 teospoon salt V2 teaspoon dry mustard 1/s teaspoon paprika (optional) 1/2 cup water or CANADA 2 tablespoons BENSON'S Corn Starch 1/2 cup thick, sour cream PUT MAZOLA, vinegar, egg yolk, sugar and season- ings in a bowl. an by slowly adding water PREPARE N'S or CANAsauceDA Corn Starch; mix well. C BENSON'S COOK over low heal until mixture thickens and boils; stir constantly. BOIL 2 minutes; stir constantly. mlxtur* quickly. REMOVE from beat; add to egg BEAT with rotary beater r untiltil well blended. ADD sour cream; beat YIELD; 11/4 cups. For free folder of other delicious recipes, write tot Jane Ashley, Home Service Department, THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY LIMITED, P.O. Box 129, Montreal, P.O.