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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-01-21, Page 2TTP T VT TT T Y T7TTTYTTTTTYYVTYVTITTT TT4TTTTt VI VIV7VVYVVIVIFYITYVYTYMYYT 1 "Dear Anne Hirst: You told a 14 -year-old girl, in a resent ar• tide, that she would get over this puppy love she had for a bay 21. Maybe she won't, I didn't, "When I was 14 I loved a boy so much; some little misunder- standing made him quit dating me. It didn't week Out that way, and I got married. That was 13 years ago, and now I have three children. 'Tor a few years I thought I had gotten over my love for hien, But now he has moved nearby (he's married and has two chil- dren) and is a close friend of my husband. I find I love him as 1 always did. WHAT TO DOS "Can't tell him not to visit us without giving a reason, and that I cannot do, I have tried to con- quer this emotion, but I have failed , , . I know my first duty is to my family, but is it fair to my husband, or to me? I can't bear to hurt my husband or the children, but sometimes it seems I can't go on. Even though I can't have the man, it seems un- fair to be living in sin -which it Is, if only in my own mind. "What am I to do? E. C." * I urge you, first, to overcome * this conviction that you are * living in sin. You may not be * in love with your husband, but * your place is by his side; as * the mother of children, you * cannot entertain the thought Week's Sew - Thrifty! SEW -EASiEST ever. T w main pieces! Run several up in a jiffy for thrifty gifts! r.e sure to Make one for yourself, too - it's cud a sweet slumber number with those feminine drawstring "sows. A nightie you'll enjoy #taking and wearing! Pattern 4651: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 33A yards 39 -inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim. ple to sew, is tested for fit. Ilas mplete illustrated ins'ructians. Sera THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (35er) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern, Print plainly SIZE NAME, ADDRESS STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Sox 1, 123 Ei fl c 1th St., New Toronto, Ont. * of deserting thele. -• Even if * this old sweetheart still loves • you, which is certainly quos- * tionable, his life seems to be * happily established with his * wife and family. * You will have to clear your thoughts of this love, You will * have to see him as he is -a * pleasant friend of your hus- * band and children -and adapt * yourself to the role of hostess, . * You can be practical, though, * and absent yourself while he * is in your home as unobtrus- * ively as you can, and, of course, * never be alone with him. * Your duty is clear .- to re- " main the loyal wife of your * good husband, and be the cheer- * ful companion he expects. Once * you bury your secret in your * heart, and regard it as one of * those things which night have * been but cannot now be, you * will achieve a peace of mind * and a courage to accept your * fate and even find soul-satis- * faction in it, * To allow yourself to dwell on * the past is infantile in a worn- * an of your age and situation, * Attend church regularly, and * pray for peace, having faith * that it will come. * * * The power of one's will is stronger than many of us believe. It can wipe out the past, and substitute a calm, quiet strength that swings us through situations which cannot be changed . . Writing to Anne Hirst often un- burdens a troubled soul. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ontario. MAIL SERVICE BY REINDEER One day I was standing in the kitchen of a farmhouse in a Akaslompolo village, high in the mountains of Finnish Lapland. Snow was drifting by the win- dow. Sometimes a gust of wind would send the fine whle pow- der twirling straight upwards, so that I could see • nothing through the tiny.,panes. At other times there would be a lull, and then I could make out a human figure standing on the road I knew the little pian. It was Matti, the Lapp. He had his arms around the neck of a rein- deer and seemed to be talking to it• The animal was attached by leather traces to a pulkka, a low hollow sled that looks something like a canoe. and Matti held a rope from its halter in his free hand. The reindeer seemed content, Every now and then it would slowly shake its head and snow would slide off the antlers and drift away A girl came running out teem the house across the road, clutching the scarf wound round her head. She gave Matti a lit- tle packet, which he carefully buttoned inside his t'eind;_er- skin jacket, and then hur^ied back into shelter. What happened next woe al- most too quick for the eye to follow. Holding the end of the rope still in his hand, Matti re- leased the animal's neck and leaped with a single movement backwards and sideways onto a sack of straw in the bottom of the pulkka. At the same instant the reindeer shot forward. Snow had gathered high on the road, but the animal cleared the drift in a few bounding leaps and then settled down to :1 regu- lar if jerky gallop. In a matter of seconds the pulkka had ti!s— appeai'd. The scene I had vt[nr recd ens the mail leaving Akaaerapolt vil egg: according to schedule. -From Mail frr the 'World,' by Laurin Ziih.e's1', Licking A Problem -- Postmaster Henry G. Riecks tired of com- plaints about the taste of glue on postage stamps --so he did something about it. The inventive Riecks devised a sign with a sponge tongue for wetting stamps. Double Mishap - When Jana Kay Vickers, 6, was crossing a street, carying her doll, a taxi hit her, breaking her legs. The attendants at the hospital found that the doll's leg was also broken, so it also was placed in a traction. iRO ICL S TOINGERFARM evex►doltne P Ctaxkut "It Pays to Advertise" - so wd are told, and so most of us believe. Chain stores, depart- ment stores and independent small-town merchants, all ad- vertise their wares. Candidates for election, all the way from local councils to the Federal government buy plenty of news- paper space. Santa Claus par- ades, Red Cross Drives, nomi- nation meetings, auction sales, bazaars - or what have you - nearly always run a display ad- vertisement where it will do the most good -- in their local paper. But when it comes to farm meetings, even to the annual meeting of various farm organi- zations, what do we get? Mere- ly an announcement listed under "Coming Events" along with dances, church bazaars and school concerts. Some farm tolk read the announcements, some don't. Women usually follow the social events but moat of them pass up annual farm meetings. But, if a meeting is advertised by what is known as "a display advertisement" it naturally at- tracts attention directly the paper is opened. Farmers see it, remember it, and if they are in- terested make a mental reser- vation to attend that meeting "But that sort of advertising runs into money," you sty Cer- tainly it dors - but hasn't every organization funds on hand for just that purpose? The Milk Producers, Cream Produ- cers. Fruit Growers, the Fed- eration of Agriculture, and so on, all receive ammo':! fees from their numbers, and 11is gentle ally understood that pert of the amount this collected shall t: allocated to edv'rtising. 't, there IS a certain amount of advertisinc, but what does it amount to compared with other trades or-indusl.ries? For in- stance there is the June "set aside" for milk producers •- primarily for adve'tieini, pur- pose:: _- but the request tor this June "est aside" le gi"en far more publicity than the subse- quent - ailvertisine of the ndlk itself. - In - fact any time funds are required most term organi- zations develop e 1 t :•sty gond publicity preerem its for in. stance. the currant appeal tc, farmer's to surfeori the Coopera- tive t\iit!c fleet. • l.ut when it conies Mee for an annual meet— ing an org':iti;'nttcn !:. satisfied with ebuut t1 dozen lin,; under "coming events!" The executive apparent le goers to a lot of trouble to secure gond spiaieere for there meetings •- spefiket;s 'who doubtless Neve lnforin"ton and- advice to pass on to the farmers, but., because tlae exe- cutive falls down en the adv,'`_ Using angle it otien happens that suet, meetin'-r are poorly attended. Fanners, of course are partly to Marne - trey should be watching toy annual meeting announcements, Bot 1 Venture to say that the onus is Chiefly on the executive of the farm organizations concerned, After all the importance of a meeting or a product -- i$ often assessed by the amount of advertising it is given, A farmer sees an fainual meeting adver- tised in a bold -typo display and he immediately thinks - "'Chis must be an important meeting ISSUE 4 -.- 1954 to rate that much advertising - guess I'd better go and find out the score." The chances are that without display he night not have known anything about"'the meeting at all until he sees it mentioned as a news item the following week. Farmers have a reputation for being sadly lacking in the busi- ness management of their farms. This probably stems from days gone by when farming was a way of living rather than a business. Now tinges have changed. To succeed a pian must run his farm on a businesslike basis. The same applies to Yarm organizations and, since the exe- cutive is presumably drawn from successful farmers, they must have necessity to be on . their toes if the organization is to stay alive. And one way is to advertise important meetings. The cost is little compared with the results obtained - and there are surely funds available for this purpose. • As members of the Milk Producers Association farmers pay 11/2 cents per 100 lbs of fluid milk; Cream pro- ducers 1,'10 per lb. butterfat; the Federation of Agriculture. in some districts, has an op- tional levy on farm assessments. Other farm organizations have similar levies commensurate with the amount of produce sold. Surely then farm organi- zations could afford prominent, eye-catching display advertise- ments, rather than a few lines under "Coming Events," which is the cheapest form of advertising: available. Or why not both .. a display plus a detailed an- nouncement under coming events? Maybe I am speaking out of turn but that is the way it ap- pears to me, especially as I so often hear farmers say - "I would have gone to such -an - such a meeting only I didn't notice the announcement " I might alto add this is not a plug for our local papers - they are quite well able to loon after their own advertising. H APPY THOUGRCr "Look here," stormed Brown to the estate agent. "About that riverside bungalow you sold me." "Anything wrong, sir:" "Wrong!" exclaimed Brown. "The other morning we woke up and found the thing had floated two miles down the river." "Rini," said the agent, "That's a stroke of luck. The taxes are much lower down there." ,axed in Darkness For Thirty Years Strange case of a man who lived in a cellar for thirty years was investigated recently by health authorities in South Africa, Bearded and with ragged clothes, the man was apparently content to live in the cellar, 12 ft, long, 10 11.. wide, under a large Warehouse, never speaking to any of the egtployees who occa- sionally encountered him when he wandered up to the ground floor. The sail floor of the cellar was covered with newspapers, some many years old, The man bathed in a near -by stream at night when nobody was about and did his primitive cooking on a small stove in the cellar. Nobody knows where he got his food, for he had no money when the authorities found him, Ile refused to move at first, but eventually was talcctn to an insti- tution. The cellar was always in darkness, for he had neither gas nor electricity and the only ventilation came from a few holes bored in the small door of the cellar, The man seemed to know noth• ing about what has been hap- pening in the world during the past thirty years. Said one offi- cial: "l -ie was a modern Hermit." This Coll Travels Coast to Coast All the dolls that Santa pack- ed in his bottomless bag weren't destined for the waiting arms of little girls. Many that just sit and show off their finery aren't 'toys at all. Those garbed in native costumes from around the world are usually collectors' items. Others are so beautifully dressed they look like presept- dayr versions of 17th century couturier dolls from which ladies of fashion once ordered their wardrobes, Both are purely de- corative and won't take much tossing about by grubby little hands. A direct descendant of these French-z..ade couturier wax dolls is a pert, 27 -inch puppet who travels from Newfoundland to Victoria telling Canadian fami- lies about modern -living fabrics. She is Nancy Nylon, the doll w' the largest wardrobe in the world. Like the overage Canadian woman she represents, Nancy is more a follower than, a setter of styles. Every article in her extensive wardrobe from her three-inch ski boots to her new gold and black striped nylon evening gown in painstakingly made to scale by leading Cana- dian designers and artisans, Us- ually these men and women spend just as many hours cutting, fitting and stitching the minia- ture models to Nancy's measure- ments as they do producing full- scale designs for their flesh - and -blood customers. All seem to enjoy making Lilliputian articles for their tiniest client, who never gets tired during fittings or indignant when accidently pricked with a pin. Since Nancy's figure is a 'slight exaggeration of the human form rather than that of a toy doll. her dressmakers insist on the usual three fittings. Like women everywhere, Nancy has a clothing budget which, though large enough to provide her with the varied wardrobe her . ninny trips and personal require, doesn't allow Tor many extravagances. Last June she had a fall hat designed by one of the Queen's! milliners - Aagc Thaorup •-- the mail who eroatod the hats Her Majesty wore during her Royal Tour of Canada. Con- sequently, the only other hat :Taney added to her wardrobe this season was a tiny velvet pill box, All Nancy's clothes are design- ed to demonstrate to the ave- rage woman what the qualities ° nylon can mean to her in everyday life, Cana" -ti nylon is the fibre behind almost every article the red-headed puppet wears. Among her most recent purchases are a magenta satin evening gown, a green velvet coat, black velet high heel shoes, a snowy white evening jacket of nylon fleece lined with red sa- tin and the tinest water -proof umbrella in the world, Everything must he washable, wrinkle -shedding and easy to pack. And when Nancy sets out on a tell to a distant Canadian point, she packs her latest Can- adian fashions and then jumps into the wardrobe trunk to make the journey with them. Unlucky Friday? Friday, according to the an- cients, was always an unlucky - day, They declared that on a Fri- day Adam sinned, Cain killed Abel, the Flood began, Egypt's plagues started and tongues were confused at the Tower of Babel, Yes, they maintained, Friday in- evitably brings misfortune. What nonsense! Fewer acci- dents and crimes of violence oc- cur on a Friday. It was on Fri- day, July 29, 1588, that the Span- ish Armada was defeated, Columbus sailed on a Friday, discovered America on a Friday, returned on a Friday, George Washington was born on a Friday. Gladstone and Dis- raeli were both born on a Friday. Eggs laid on a Friday, says an old country superstition, will never decay and they are said to cure the colic. It was calculated by a statis- "9"Ir tician that nine -tenths of the marriages in Scotland were cel- ebrated on a Friday. And who- ever heard of a Scot who was really' unlucky? CLOSE SHAVE Umpire Billy Evans called a close decision against the Chicago White Sox one flay and the Sox were beaten. Next morning, Ev- ans sauntered into a barber shop for a shave: The barber began sharpening his razor. As he prepared to shave the umpire, he squawked, "Wish I had the ump who called that play in my chair. I'd cut his throat!" Evans jumped up, grabbed his coat and hat and was gone! 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