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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-08-12, Page 6AN N I ST "Dear Anne Hirst: I am adding ray own confession to that of the woman you wrote of re- oently, who deliberately planned to break up a romance. I'm a wi- dow, too, and I set my heart on at man, "He had left his wife to join an old love who had come back into his life. She was pretty and smart, and both of them as fine as God ever put breath into. I set my plans to separate them — and to my undying regret, I did. He held a public office; I spread ugly tales about her until the whole town rang with the scan- dal. "X pursued him without shame. Had my hair dyed (I'm in the early 50's). Gave him money to keep him interested — and fin- ally, I won him. Was I sitting on top of the world! "It didn't last, of course. He got fed up, had himself trans- ferred to another city. (I even went to see him there, 1 was .dirt under his feet,) When he Dame here for the holidays I :Be right in fashion! 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But I have begun praying to God to forgive me, and give me another chance to serve Him instead of trying to serve another woman's lover, IN THE DEPTHS" * You have taken the first * step toward peace of mind — * confession — and already you * are beginning to know humil- * ity. As you progress, and learn * how to pray and exercise your * faith, you will be given * strength to bear the scorn of * those who censure you. They * will be watching, you tcnew, * and as they see the new won- * an emerge they will cease to * scoff and grow to love you * again, * Dr, Fleury Nlilton Taylor " wrote a book some time ago, * "Faith Must Be Lived," which * he calls a prescription in * Christian psychology, "an old- * fashioned medicine chest for * the soul." It stresses the truth * that emotional comfort and • health a r e attained through religious good health. It has * both freshness and the feel- * ing of permanence, and 1 be- * lieve it can restore your spirit * and bring real consolation to * a woman of your intelligence " and determination, ' * Stay with your church and * practice your faith. You will * conte through, * HIS MOTHER OPPOSES "Dear Anne Hirst: I am 21. and for three years I've been a widow. (My husband was kill- ed in action.) I have two small children. A year ago I met a young man, and we have been in love for at least six months, 1 -le loves my babies, and he wants to marry me. "But his mother objects, be- cause I've been married before. His father recently died, so he feels responsible for her. "Shall I keep on seeing him, or try to forget? Thank you for any advice.. ARGYLL" * Let time have its way. * Some mothers do object to * their sons marrying a girt who * has married before. In your * instance, she may feel that the * responsibility of two babies is * too much for a young man of * 24. Also, since her widow's * grief is still new, she may feel * she cannot spare her son just * yet. * Why not suggest that he * promise her he will not marry * for a year? That may appeal • to her, and make her feel * more kindly toward the idea. * You have had a sad life of " your own, and I hope that. one * day this happiness will come * to you. if dark days are upon you, tell Anne Hirst about it. Her experi- ence in weighing human prob- lems, and her sympathy and un- derstanding e ayt help ,y o u through, Write her at Rox I, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont, a FO OTL Yk Building (. l see how clear -span construction ...MAKES E.IIIE Y INCH OF SPACE USABLE! 3' •u don't pay for an inch of waste space' when you erect a Butte' s' . 11 building. Clear -span interiors and istraight sidewalle make all It .r space usable. No matter whether you use a Butler building as a `x•tary, warehouse, or store, there are no posts to limit arrange. meat of machinery or merchandise. 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HlIO A1C�."r yd,..�1eS»�rtS 'cry C7 1 auLalt. dC'1 kYe We had a shower of rain tris morning, It lasted for exactly five minutes. Had it lasted for five hours we would have been better pleased, It must be at least a month since we had a real rain. Everything is looking brown and shrivelled—grass, shrubs, plants, gardens — yes, even the weeds. However, in spite of the dry weather we had our first picking of green peas today and they were sweet and tender as could be. How they managed to pod and fill I'll never know.. I notice on many farms wheat has been cut and stooked, which will be a great relief to the owners, After a prolonged dry spell there is always that fear that a storm will blow up and flatten the wheat before it is cut, And there is nothing more discouraging to a farmer than a storm -flattened field of grain. Maybe we are wrong, but Partner and 1 have a feeling that farmers have far more worries now than they had in years gone by. Far more dry weather, lack of help, more ex• pensive machinery, fertilizer to buy, regulations for this and that, and with it all the price of wheat so low in comparison with the cost of production. Small wonder that so many fanners sell out when a good offer comes along for their property, But have you noticed there are more young and middle-aged farmers selling out than oldei people? Those who are young enough to work out take a, chance but the older man hangs on to what he has got .. . if he can. Sometimes he has little choice—as for in- stance if his land is needed as part of a new road or the St. Lawrence Seaway. He may put up some opposition but the final result is always the same, It was the same when the railroads were being built. I was told one time of a man who said they would never lay track down across his farm . . no sir! Sure enough when the work gangs finally appeared this old fellow went after them with an axe! How the differences were settled 1 don't know, but I do know that the track was laid. Well, I really believe Partner feels like a schoolboy on holiday ---at least for a day or two. Our hay is all in the baro—and of course none of it got wet, How could it? Since we finished hay- ing two more cows have freshen- ed now if Partner has less work in one way he has more in another•. Arid that's the way it gees. But we certainly needed those cows In come in, Dry pas- tures do little to increase the milk flow. Hot, dry weather is also hard on the hens_ By the way, I dun't think 1 ever told you about our "little, small red hen." This is what. happened. One morning, about six weeks ago, I was looking out of the living -room window a.nd out in the front garden I saw something moving about among the shrubs. I kept watching and presently 1 saw it was a hen. "Well now. how did you get there?" 1 wondered, 1 asked Partner if he had left. the door open in the henpen or if there was a broken window anywhere. The answer was "no" and "why", Then I realized the herr I had. seen was red and our own were black and red, The mystery deepenedit couldn't be a stray from a neighbouring farm as none of our neighbours hue rod hens, There was only one MA LI tion. The hen trust have ;et:need frim a chicken dealer's tench and prime in from the road. Tee herr stayed in the shelter of the shrubs all day. At night we caught her and put her with the other biddies. She settled down quite happily in her new quar- ters until the time came for her to start laying again. Did she use a nest box like the other hens? Oh, no, nothing so com- mon for this hen. She gets over the top of a partition that separ- ates the heahpen from the granary. Once in the granary she shakes a nice cosy nest for herself, lays an egg and then gets back to the henpen the same way as she left lt, That has been going on now for several weeks. Sometimes she scratches around in the bain for a while and she could escape altogether if she wantdd to. But no, every day our little red hen goes back to the pea quite of her own accord. Quite a personality, our Biddy. Now I should tell you about Mitchie-White, Remember he had one leg almost severed by the mower .last year. We won- dered if the same thing would happen this year, as the long, standing hay was Mitchie's favourite )hunting ground. The first time Partner went out with the mower Mitchie couldn't be found. However, Partner was on the watch and on his first round he saw a white streak tear- ing down the field like _mad along by the fence. We didn't need to worry any more, Mitchie and the Mower were never again in the field at the sante time, But once the plower and tractor were back in the shed Mitchie came out of hiding and spent the whole evening hunting amid the new mown hay. Well. I hear the dogs barking. That means Bob and Joy have arrived for supper. Miens of 05� �adS For Sale r For Rent At the moment there are more than one million quite habitable islands for sale or rent in and around • the United States and Canada. You can buy some of them for as little as ten dollars an acre. You can lease others up to a thousand acres in area for twenty-five dollars a year. They lie scattered along the roasts Morning Glory Viennese bal., larina Helen Sedlak is a delight- ful sight along the beach In Ostia, Italy. She attributes her youthful beauty to early -morn- ing exercise; t•ndor hie,::Morro-- nerrn s:Jn,hiii.L and in lakes and rivers all the way from the Gulf of Mexio to Alaska. Some aro tame and eas- ily accessible. Others are as wild and remote as anyone with a mind to escape from civilization could want. Actually, one million plus is merely an estimate of the abso- lute minimum of habitable North American islands, There may be twice that many or more. No one has ever attempted to count them individually. Even the various state and provincial governments which retain ownership of most of them have Only the vaguest ideas of the numbers within their domains, , . . Neither the imaginary paradise nor the less appetizing . reality bears any resemblance to what You will find among North Am- erican islands, but even so the variety is enormous, One type is the sea island of the coast of New England and the Maritime Provinces, There are between four and five thousand of these, Most are now privately owned, but a few are always for sale at prices as low as three or tour hundred dollars, Usually covered with spruce, or fir, they often have rocky shores which make them difficult to approach. . , Near the opposite extreme are the low, sandy, semitropical is- lands of the Florida and Gulf coasts, Estimates of the number of these range as high as half a million, but the great majority of them are either too swampy or too dry to be habitable. Thous- ands, of course, hover on the bor- der line and can be hauled back across It if you have the pioneer- ing spirit. A few such can be leased from state governments. But most of the more desirable prices depend on the types of ones are privately owned, and houses which have been built on them. In most of the eastern part of the continent, lake and river is- lands are far more numerous than coastal ones. The Canadian prov- ince of Ontario in fact, may have all by itself more than a million habitable islands, probably the world's greatest concentration of small bodies of land surrounded by water. Most are Crown prop- erty, and the provincial govern- ment is glad to sell them to eith- er Canadians or United States citizens, The price is a flat forty- five dollars per acre with a limit of ten acres to a .family and a requirement that a e e f a i n amount of building be done on the property during the first year or two after purchase. - From "One Million Islands for Sale," by Robert Froman. Slot -Machines Air Really Big•. Business Nice. Ephraim Seeker opened her big mouth for a crisp slicer of pastry and suddenly gavo Ephraim an outsized idea. its Bath Mrs. George Weaver acct., dentally swallowed a penny she had been holding in her teeth -- That's how, simultaneously la England and the (3.5„ the ideti for slot -machines was born, Ephrt.im invented a slot ma- chine to dole out plugs of chew- ing tobacco, George. Weaver pil- ed up a $50,000 fortune with "automatic machines" that sold peppermints. Even then both were undoubtedly beatenby a man to lived in Alexandria 2,000 years ago and invented e slot-znacltine for the temple Of Venus. When the coin dropped it Sp- ed a balance which opened a valve, giving the pilgrim a gush of holy water. It's just oven 100 years since Eph and • George were rivals, NOw there are slot -machines that clean your shoes, wash your clothes, play gramophone ret - cords or sell insurance. The new- est railway station machine sells 30 different snacks to- hungry travellers, Nearby, a " gently thrumming sister inachine dis- penses orange juice. One machine murmurs "Thank you" when it sells a chocolate bar. In Utah the unhappily wed have merely to drop the required coins in a slot to get their div- orce papers which then have only to be signed and legally endorsed. New York department stores now leave order -taking machines at their doors after closing hours, A customer wanting an article displayed in the window pops in a coin anal speaks ' 'hto the machine, giving his order 'with name and address, The goods are delivered C.O.D. next day. Coin-operated typewriters — long in use in Germany—will soon be appearing in Britain in railway stations and hotels. For sixpence the machine unlocks, enabling the user to write a le -t• ter. Then there's the new telligence-testing device coming up at the seaside. The customer has to answer five questions flashed on a screen, The machine then automatically grades his intelligence rating Army style. In Canada and the United States slot machines are estim- ated good for an annual hilliort • dollar sale. h 51 11444-bmilitce/ evda L .J.......n.........stir. ...„ ..... .s .A. UTTE 4 cups milk 1 cup brown sugar cup butter 5 tablespoons BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch IA Teaspoon salt 1 egg yolk, slightly beaten 1 %x teaspoons vanilla SCALD 3%x cups milk, sugar end butter in top of double boiler. COMBINE BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch with salt and Va cup milk to •make a smooth paste; add slowly to milk mixture, COOK, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. COVER and continue cooking for 10 minutes, ADD egg yolk very slowly, mix well. COOK 2 minutes; remove from heat and add vanilla. POUR info dessert dishes; chill, serve with cream. YIELD; 4 to 6 servings. 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