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The Seaforth News, 1959-05-21, Page 6I4IPST (Wig Pa' rownoselat "Dear Anne Hirst: My family moved to this town just a year ago, and I was lucky enough to get a job as secretary in the la. 'est department store here, Everything went line until I fell in love with the son of the owei.r. We are planning to get me :'led, and my family and him sn her know it. •But he has nevi r told his father, nor given m. a ring. "We hardly ever go to places th=at his friends do; he says he do.an't want us seen around town together. In the office, he hardly speaks to me. Is he ashamed of me? My family are wonderful people; we belong to the largest church heremy fa- ther has an imsortant civic posi- tion and my mother belongs to the two nicest clubs. ' "I try not to feel hurt, but it is getting under my skin. What do you say? UNHAPPY 1IANCEE" ' If the lad's mother has ac- * cepted the fact of the engage- * merit, there seems no imme- * diate cause for alarm. That he * doesn't stop and chat during * office hours is not important, • but his not dating you publicly • and avoiding places where his * own friends go, is something * else again. Why doesn't he * want them to meet you? There * seems nothing to be ashamed * of; your letter was too long to * print, but your love seems * deep and fine. He should be * eager to show all his friends * what a lucky chap he is. Look! Jiffy -Cut PRINTED PATTERN 4784 SIZES 12-20 JIFFY -CUT blouses. Pin pat- tern to fabric — presto! Cut out complate blouse instantly. Top off all your separates smartly. Printed Pattern 4784: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 18 top style 11 yards 35 -inch; mid- dle 11 yards; lower 11/2 yards. Jiff' -cut in one piece. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Plea e print plainly SIZE, N A fl E, ADDRESS, STYLE NUTS"BER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Bo: 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tc: onto, Ont. ISSUE 21 — 1959 * As a matter of cause, his * rather should be told and that the lad apparently fears to do, Perhaps he thinks his father * has other plans for him, or * realizes he isn't earning * enough to marry now, or may- * be he is afraid of his parent * and puts things off until a • more auspicious time. But he * must know that the longer he * waits the more resentment his • father might feel, It Is difficult * to understand why his mother * permits this silence to con- e tinue; hasn't she welcomed you properly? * The young man is not being * fair to you, and you should * tell him so. Whatever his ma- * son, it isnot good enough; you * can't be a fiancee in private * and treated as a stranger pub- * licly. If his father suggests that * the announcement be post- * pond for a while, you will * wait; but it is only fair to be * acknowledged and received by * the head of the family. * This is your right. Your flan- * ces needs, I suspect, only a lit- * tle prodding to behave like a * man. * * * FAITH HEALED HIM "Dear Anne Hirst; The letter you printed about the husband who dranktoo much and led his family through anxious years of poverty, has impressed me tremendously. I had that .prob- lem, but I let mine go too. far befort I asked help from the Only One who could — and did — give me strength to conquer it. "Every city has its skid row of men and women because they did not follow the Bible's teach- ings. God is faithful and just, but He wants us to be led by Him every day, not just on Sun- days.... "I pray that this man• does not let his drinking get the best of him, as I did. I lost my wife and my two children for nearly a year before I found the way to be a man again. I can never be thankful enough that I was led back to God. K. L." * Behind your letter lie * months of heartbreaking temp- * tation that required all the * courage your new-found faith * provided. • Your experience will inspire * others, I hope, to strive more * earnestly for the help their * church stands ready to give. * There they can find the faith * that will sustain them (as it * sustained you) in their strug- * gle for the good life. * * * When any problem faces you, Anne Hirst stands by to offer her wisdom and experience in solv- ing it. Write her frankly at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Tor- onto, Ont. and be sure your con- fidence will not be betrayed. Bad Check Artists Of all U.S. criminals, the pro- fessional bad -check artist is probably the most dapper. Be- tween 25 and 40 years of age, he is apt to sport a lodge emblem or a respectable club's badge in the lapel of his conservative suit. He is also likely to be highly in- telligent. When 50 convicted check forgers were given IQ tests, 42 per cent scored higher than 110, which is the IQ of only 25 per cent of the general popula- tion. "But he is also likely to be a man driven by a "deep-seated feeling of insecurity." This portrait of the bogus - check passer was painted by Dr. John MacDonald at the Ameri- can Psychiatric Association meet- ing in Philadelphia. After a study of 300 check offenders in mental institutions and penitentiaries, the University of Colorado psy- chiatrist found that most of them wrote bad checks either "to pur- chase friends and demonstrate affluence" or to relieve repressed feelings of hostility. SIGHT UNSEEN - Head movement restricted because of a neck injury, Roland Volker, is still able to read a book at Vete eons Hospital in Minneapolis. Special prismatic lenses in his glasszs bring pages Into view, CAGNEY'S BOAT NOW KIDS' PLAYGROUND - Youngsters dive into the water from the "Swift", an lath century -design boat once owned by Jimmy Cagney. Jimmy's one voyage aboard her Can be summed up In "Sail, Pale, Rail," Shortly afterward, he 'sold her. HItONICLES ki1NGERFARM (iaaxWoLi�w.DClaeke Hullo, everybody, aro you still yawning after being robbed of that hour's sleep with the clocks changed to Daylight saving time? No good protesting now — the time to do -it was six months ago. But no one thinks of it then,.and so we go on year after year, some people liking the change, some dislike it, others just tolerate it. Oh, well , . , Well, it doesn't seem possible but we certainly need rain. Just imagine that, after all the snow, ice and near floods we experi- enced just a few short weeks ago. One night recently we had a thundershower but it didn't real- ly amount to anything—not even enough, rain •to lay the dust. Seems as if we ire never satis- fled with our weather, doesn't it? And yet I think even the weatherman will -admit we have reason for complaint. However, there isn't much we can do about it except be prepared. "Prepared —for what?" you ask. ,Well, 1 mean be prepared on a nice day to drop everything and get on with whatever job has been wait- ing for a warm, sunny day — whether it's washing blankets, putting in garden or cleaning windows. Fit the . day ' to the deed and you halve the work. Jobs in the house can wait -- many many of them can be done just as well in wet weather as in dry. That's what I'm telling you .. now just watch me getting caught doing the wrong thing on the wrong day. To err is human .. , and I'm human. Partner has been busy digging the vegetable garden and when he comes into the house I hear various grunts and groans. Mus- cles that have been practically inactive all winter are protesting vigorously. Sometimes I tell him to quit.. "What's the use of quit- ting?" is his answer. "I've got to get myself into working shape sometime." At that I give up ar- guing. As for me I am still trying to catch up on a back -log of cor- respondence — letters from fam- ily, friends and "fans." I am still answering inquiries about a hear- ing aid, Meantime nieces on both sides of our family seem to be producing babies wholesale — and all of them boys. Over in England nephew Desmond was the last surviving male member of our branch of the Fitz -Gerald clan. He was married and had two little girls — the younger five years old. And then last week I got word his wife had pre- sented him with a son — Roger Edward. I was thrilled . ,• a son to carry on the Fitz -Gerald name! And of course he had to be an Edward, although I imagine he. will be called Roger, His great- , greet -grandfather was Edward and strange to say for some time he lived in the same house, at Woodbridge, in England, at the same time as Edward Fitz -Ger- ald, poet and translator of Omar Irhayam. We know this because some of his memoirs the poet :' ys "My namesake is still in t,re room above me but so far has not yet tried to borrow any more money from Inc!" H 1,1 just got over that sur- prise — and it was a surprise -- ''hen we got an announcement r:rd from niece baba (Partner's =ide of the family) to say she also had a son — a brother for 'c,o previous girls. So again there was cause for rejoicing: And there was another heir born to the Clarke family just recently to nephew and his wife in Aus. trgilia. I'm telling you, we shall sr• � t' surfeited with boy be - hi•: '.hat's what 1 thought yester- ctr. ,when the whole tribe was he: c - and never a girl among then, Dave, Eddie and Jerry pr-ndly brought in a bunch of mayflowers for grandma, Then they played around for awhile. They had just nicely gone when Ross and Cedric came along — accompanied by their parents, I' might add. During the week when our own youngsters are not around a little two-year-old girl from next door comes along and keeps us from being too quiet. There's never a dull 'mo- ment around here. Sometimes it keepsThs busy to get in an oc- casional much needed snooze. The other day Iwas dead to the world when there came a thun- derous rapping at the front . , A little boy on the street couldn't find his mother and wanted to know if she were here! I wonder . , , do you ever look at your grand -children or the children in your neighbourhood and ponder what kind of a world they will be called- on to face? Think of that history -making event that has just taken place —the opening of the great St. Lawrence Seaway. Today's chil- dren will grow up and take it all for granted. And in ten years time people will zip along Bloor and University Avenue in no time at all. It will be taken very much for granted too and no one will remember the hullabaloo that tookplace over increased taxes. A lot more farm land will have disappeared and probably no one will know where To- ronto ends and Hamilton begins. We don't need a crystal ball to show us the future—only a lit- tle common-sense and imagina- tion to make us realise the kind of world all these new babies will grow up in. But even imagi- nation cannot forsee whether it will be a peaceful or a happier world. However I have a hunch that a lot of our present troubles will eventually be straightened out. I still hang on to that faith that I mentioned last week. New King Of The !movie Box Office -- Glenn Ford, after twenty years as an in -and -outer among Holly- wood's stars, has suddenly be- come the biggest box -.office draw in the country at the age of 43. Visited on the set of his 56th picture recently (a comedy, "It Started With a Kiss"), Ford was asked: "How come No, I?" He quickly threw a monologue on the conversational fire. "I haven't the faintest idea," the still boyish -looking actor de- clared. "Things just began to happen to me when I came to M -G -M in 1954. Before that I'd been at Columbia with Rita Hay- worth and Bill Holden. We all started out together.... Patience was what I learned at Columbia. But when I did 'Blackboard Jungle' for Richard Brooks at M -G -M, I was finally allowed to use a lot of theories I'd had stew- ing in the back of my head for years, "Like myself, Dick Brooks be- lieves in the luxury of imper- "No sit', you don't need a fuj beard for Cuba or Spain, but it might help." fection—using the little things that happen spontaneously when the camera is turning. A door sticking, for example, or when a match doesn't light on the first stroke. Or, most of all, two peo- ple talking at the same time, A director with courage will say, 'Print it. That's the truth,' It's this absence of the old artifici- ality that has matured both movies and movie audiences. "You can't fool audiences any more. Before, an ideal movie star was one who had the flawless face of a model in a collar adver- tisement. Fortunately the prem- ium now is no longer on beauty but on truth. I'm one of many actors in the business now who don't have to go to the 'correc- tive' make-up department early each morning. I wear no make- up. In that way the lines and flaws in my face show on the screen. This is truth, and people want to see characters on the screen who are real, "The medium has changed, and possibly that's why my career changed. too. Hollywood is more and more a director's and writer's medium. The picture with the big -name star is no longer an as- surance of success. It's now a team effort, and as, an actor I've been fortunate to find my place, to fit better into the medium. My approach to making' movies' is simple as failing off a dolly. I read a script and if I can believe. in the _character and the story• line, I do it. If I"can't, I don't." Another big reason for Ford's current box-office dominance is that he has appeared recently in several good comedies, and there is no doubt that movie audiences hunger for fun these days. Glenn Ford comedies do particularly well. Why? Unlike the profes- sional gagman movies, Ford in- terpolates credible subjectivity in all he does. As he explained it: "I don't play it as comedy but as serious drama. Once an actor thinks he's funny, he's lost the audience. If you examine care- fully each of the comedies I've been in—Teahouse of the August Moon' 'Don't Go Near the Water,' 'Imitation General'—you'll' find that though the movies are billed -as comedies, the leading charac- ter is always confronted with a very serious situation, My new picture has the same sort of tech- nique. Maybe that's my secret." -From NEWSWEEK. A woman getting off a bus was seen deliberately to place a pack- age on the seat. A fellow passen- ger, alighting at the same time, asked her why, "I do it every day," was the reply. • "It's my husband's lunch. He works in the bus Lost Prop- erty Office."• HOW Can ?. BY Anne dsbley Q. What would be A good closing toa business letter when one wishes to be as In- formal OS possible? .A. "Sincerely yours" is the iso-- cepted fern. Q. When two men and two women attend a theatre toge- ther, In what order should they enter the row in which their seats are situated? A, It is now customary and acceptable for the two women to be seated next to each other. So, one of the men enters the ,row first, followed' by the two women, and then the second span. Q. Just when It is proper for guests to smoke at the dinner table? A. Only when the hostess has ,made provisions for smoking ,matches, ashtrays, placed on the table. Otherwise, it is bad man- ners to begin smoking. Q. Should the dessert spoon or fork be placed on the table at the beginning of the meal? A. No; these utensils are brought in with the dessert course, Sugar' Sweet 11f/ roMIA I�IV��At Daughter looks s -o -o -pretty in. this whirl -skirted pinafore, with colorful embroidery to trim the scoop neck. Button front — she can dress all by herself! Pattern 866: children's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included. Pattern, em- -broidery transfer, directions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern ' to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAN'S and ADDRESS. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: em- broidery, crochet, knitting, weav- ing, quilting, toys. In the book, a special surprise to make a lit- tle girl happy — a cut-out doll* clothes to. color. Send 25 cents for this book. HUNDREDS OF HOOPS — A photographer retreats as she 65th unnual Wellesley College hoop roll gets under way on the campus. The race was won by Amalya Kearse, who will bop according to local belief the first of her class to wed.