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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-06-18, Page 6"Dear Anne Hirst: Can you tell me why women are so slow to;.forgive their own sex? Why do they keep on reviling a girl vest made a mistake which she Ira bitterly repented? She has iris t long and courageously to live a better life. mi one who has suffered like the After moving to this town and having a wonderful husband an.1 two fine children, I have m a good life for them and my ssl.f. — Or at least I did un- til a woman (a highly respected church member) somehow learn- ed my secret, In no time it was air,:d all over town! A family was almost wrecked, and the self-righteous one goes happily on her way with one more good deed done. "I believe I an a better Chris- tian than she is. I am praying desperately not to feel bitter to- ward her, I am only trying to hold the best of my Life together — my marriage, my husband and my children. NO SIGNATTJRE" WAGGING TONGUES * Some people have a wagging * tongue, and not all of them • are women. When they hear a * juicy bit of gossip, they earls * not wait to repeat it; I have * known a few, and they can- * not resist the temptation any * more than they can turn aside * a dessert when they're on a * diet. Forbidden delicacies are * their life blood, and being the o first to learn of a scandal gives * them a false sense of impor- * tance, Some of their listeners ° prove as avid, and the tale * spreads with an embroidering * that multiples with each re- * vital, * To be fair, congenital gos- * sippers do not always repeat * stories with deliberate malice; * they do not anticipate the * harm they cause, they only * feel a glow of satisfaction in * being in the know. Most of u3 delight in the dramatic; veter- * an gossipers often lead such * dreary personal lives that they * seize upon the slightest tattle * as a mouth-watering morsel. * One can only pity their empty * heads and hearts, and deplore * the vanity that causes such * destruction. * Like a true Christian, you * are making a brave effort to * forgive this woinan and you * aro to be commended. Neigh- * 1 . rs who have watched your * i e family life will not con- * c.: nn you now, but see you as * v, a are, a warm-hearted * ir'*nd with human frailties * 1,1;10 has overcome then and * tried to make amends for her • one mistake, * They will not forget the ad- * monition, "Let him that is o without sin cast the first Jif;y—opens Flat ,{�1 �M. dri'tott,W n^ 9- N so, iciest! A few simple piers= -- no fitting problems, it wraps ?lot ironing problems — opcu.; 11st. A darling pinafore with (,:tsv puppy embroidery. P;' ,rn •898: Pattern plec::s, trap: far, cutting guides. Child's sizcs. 2, 4, 6 included. 'Scott THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (slae1.1:; cannot be accepted, use ,postal not for safety) for this patt:c re to LAURA WHEELER, Boles'. 123 Eighteenth St., New Toran?n, Ont. Print plainly PAT, TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Send for a copy of 1059 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: em- broidarya sr oche t, knitting, weaving, quilting, toys, In the jbook, a special surprise to make e little girl happy — a cut-out ell, clothes to color, Send 25 cent lir i:!11:. book. * stone," and those, who stand * by you in your present need * will bring you comfort. 1VICITEIER OBJECTS "Dear Anne Hirst; I am still mer;,' much in love with a boy X dated last school term. He said he loved me too, but he has not asked for a date for two months — "Because his mother objorted to our going together! I don't know why, she doesn't know me well . . I can't enjoy myself with anyone else, I want so much to be with him! "I have always tried to do what is right. I work, though I'm still in high school, and my family are very nice people. "What do I do now? UNHAPPY" * When you have a son of your * own you will better undestand * why this bay's mother doesn't * want him to fall in love now. * He is just in college, and * must prepare himself for a * career; she is afraid that, so * much in love, he will not give * enough time to his studies. A * mother's fears have often been * justified, Since she does not * know you well she can't have * any personal objection to you, * so try not to feel so hurt. * You are industrious, ambi- * tions, a good student and ma- * ture for your age. Take the * situation objectively and relax. * (I think you can,) This en- * forced separation will prove a * test of your love and his. When * he nears graduation there * probably will be no objection * to his resuming the romance. * Meantime, be a good sport. * Have fun with other friends, * and you will if you keep on * dating them, and hold on to * your faith in the future. * * If you are the victim of an old scandal, don't be despondent. Those who know you as you are today will rally around, 'and the few who malign you show them- selves for what they are. Anne Hirst's understanding will cheer you. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Tore Down Houses To Find Ara Naso One of the world's most fam- ous echoes has vanished. For centuries this echo, on lovely Lake Balaton, in Central Hun- gary; has been a household word, but to -day it can no longer be heard. This is because down the years, as trees grew and new buildings went up, the echo, which rever- berated back five or six times from the walls of the mediaeval church that looks over the lake, has been growing fainter. And now it has finally disappeared. Sound engineers were sent there recently to try to restore the echo. They returned and re- ported that trees would have to be cut -down and houses demol- ished, but even then the elusive echo might still not return. Echoes have been called the radio stations of nature. Actual- ly, an echo is the throwing back of a sound wave. According to a Greek myth, Echo was a nymph who pined away for love until only her voice remained. Although echoes to -day retain a romantic qualtiy, sonics, the sci- ence of -sound waves, explains to us how they magnify sound, As curved mirrors play queer tricks with an image, sound mir- rors act similarly with sounds. They "bounce" sound waves from surface to surface, fre- quently altering their volume, pitch and number of repetitions. There is an echo near Bingen, in Germany, which will toss a sound to and fro no fewer than seventeen times, The tomb of the wife of Sulla, in the Roman Campagna, will repeat a line of poetry which takes two and a half seconds to utter. In a cave in the Partheon in Rome the visi- tor, by only flapping his coat, can create an echo like the re- port of a gun, It was after he had heard the famous bugle -echo at Killarney' that Tennyson wrote the lyric, "The Splendour Falls." "A bugle blast is echoed and re-echoed from the hills till It sounds as though a hundred bugles were blowing," he wrote to a friend, The effect produced in 'Whis- pering galleries," like the gal- lrey at St. Paul's Cathedral, Lon- don, is really a form of echo. A whisper there will creep across the dome to be picked up with astonishing clearness on the op- posite side, 102 feet away. When, many years ago, the T?,S, House of Representatives met in Statuary Hall, Washing- ton, it was said that the Speaker used to communicate privately with members by means of the dome's "whispering track." A fire later destroyed the dome. l,SSUE 22 - 1959 SUCH A DISPLAY Modelle Hegeler takes on the charm of a gargoyle. She's displaying jewelry by surrealist Salvador Dali. Fantastic pieces include a leaf -veined hand, "eye of time" • watch in three shades of enamel, ruby lips with pearls for teeth and a "corset" ring. How does important mail oc- casionally go astray? Don't you sometimes wonder? Well, I've found one of the .answers any- way. Saturday I was in Toronto all day. On my return I asked Partner if there had been any mail. "Nothing , much—just the morning paper and a mail-order catalogue," I had already seen a paper and as I was tired I didn't bother to open the catalogue. Next morning I thought I might as well see if there were any summer sale bargains. I found more than I expected. Tucked inside the paper wrapper were two letters — one personal, the other a -cheque — interest on a Canada Savings Bond! They could easily have slipped out un- noticed and thereby have caused a lot of embarrassment. I sup- pose the mailman had tucked them inside the wrapper for safety. It is a method I don't ap- prove of as there is now so much unsolicited advertising sent through the mails one doesn't always look it over too well. Guess I'll watch a bit more care- fully from now on. My, but last week was a busy week. Tuesday quilting al] day. Wednesday running people back and forth to visit a friend in hos- pital. Thursday making .ails and getting things ready for Partner to spend two days in Toronto to do a few odd carpen- try jobs for Daughter. While he was away I startedhouseclean- ing, also had 'a man come in to fix the television. I3e put in a new picture tube' thank goodness it came under the year's warranty. We are now getting a better picture than when the set was new. Friday night Art brought Part- ner home and took me back will him—to baby-sit all day Satur- day while Daughter took charge of her Girl Guide Company on "Cookie Day". It was quite a success. While I was away a young chap come along and wanted. Partner to go with him to look over a farm he was thinking of buying, Partner got lunch for them both and away they went somewhere up in Duf- TAPE TRICK Forehead orna- ment modeled, above, is actu- ally a pin, belonging to the oholk-white bead ensamble, It's taped in place as an cscceni mark for summer costumes. .erin county. They were late getting back and before Partner had a chance to get any supper a neighbour came in with a sur- prise request. (More about that later). It was after nine o'clock before Art brought me home. Partner was tired and so was I but of course we had to swap stories on what we each had been doing. Then he told me about "the request", said it was up to me and I had better make up my mind what I wanted to do and then phone neighbour Bert and tell him to come in again. and talk things over. The, situation was this. Berts another was coming over from England for four months and they hadn't a place to sleep her. Would we let her have a room in our house? Well, we have the room all right but at first I didn't much like the idea of committing myself to taking any- one. However, I knew - these people were in a fix and it seem- ed mean not to help them out. So we decided to try things on a trial basis. The lady has a key; she will come and go as she likes, sleep here and get meals at her son's home just two doors away. If we want to go away we shall go; if we want the guest room for family vis- itors she will take a room at a motel temporarily. We are also accepting a small remuneration so neither of us will feel under any obligation to the other. So today we were busy. Took down the baby crib, cleaned out drawers and clothes closet, gave the room the "once over" and it is now ready for the lady to move in — and that is tonight. It will be quite a new experience for us and the arrangement can be terminated by either party if it should prove unsatisfactory, Se that's that. Actually the lady could be ac- commodated quite well at' %er son's home except that he didn't want anyone to be inconveni- enced. Funny bow some people can make do and others have to have everything just so. Sunday we expected a quiet day but by mid-morning Bob. Joy and the boys were here — taking plants from the garden heeled in last fall. For lunch we had fresh smelts from Parry Sound—gift of our next-door neighbour. Fresh smelts fried in butter ... Yum, yum! That goes for the weather too. Hours and hours of lovely ,sun- shine. Some rain and cool winds but little to grumble about. Some farmers have their seed- ing done and rain was just what was needed. Lawn mowers are in action, radishes and spring on- ions sprouting. In fact spring is "bustin' out all over"—aren't you glad to welcome it? I am-, I'm glad too that Arthur God- frey can enjoy it once again. We admire Godfrey—his cour- age, his fortitude and his wil- lingness to help lame clogs over stiles. The world is a better place because of men like him. Here's wishing you a complete recovery, A.G., and a quicic re- turn to a normal life, More than 13,000 wives and relatives of hospitalized veter- ans eter- a,ns were ovecnttahI' 011c815 *1 the eight lied Cross lodges 'est sear. Men More Jealous Than Women? Pilled with uticbntrollable rage when he found .his girl friend entertaining another titan in her apartment, Thornton, a forty -eight-year-old company executive, whippedout a revol- ver, "Now clip off all her hair," he ordered his rival. Geoffrey, the rival, picked up the scissors, Threatened from. point-blank range, he had no thought of disobeying, Snip by snip, he loped off the leeks of trembling Georgia until she re- sembled a female Yul Brynner. Madly jealous, Thornton then ordered Geoffrey to treat him- self to the shortest of crew-cuts. Apparently, this French MaquIs practice of dealing with girds Who collaborated with amorous Nazi soldiers seemed to Thorn- ton a proper way of taking vengeance against a woman he professed to love. And by forc- ing her new boy friend to do the job he gratified his somewhat mieabre sense of justice,_ But this outburst of jealousy led to arrest. Charge& with car- rying a pistol and threatening to take his life, he excused Himself by saying: "I came here to take her back and marry her. I didn't drive 1,000. miles' to find her car- rying on like that!" Are men more jealous than women? "Yes," says a survey conducted recently by two French sociologists, Claude Ibert and Jerome Charles. For their investigation they took a sample selection of peo- ple, aged sixteen to eighty-seven and questioned them in detail about their earliest flirtatious, first loves, engagements, mar- riages, clandestine affairs and divorces. And it soon appeared that men are more resentful and suspicious of their wives' male friends than vice -versa. But then Frenchmen are no- toriously s,assionate and posses- sive! This tempestuqus and danger- ous spirit is always sparking off domestic rows among the Latin races. And trouble, unfortun- ately, eftea goes far beyond mere wordy clashes. A Portugese husband, Jose, was shocked recently when, re- turning home, he found his wife clasped in another man's arms. But Jose evidently feared a dis- covery of that sort, for he car- ried a loaded pistol in his pocket. Bursting into the room, revol- ver at the ready, he didn't wait for explanations but blazed away at the pair of them as they fell out of each other's arms. Under this mad fusillade his wife's lover crumpled up, but she escaped with wounds. Brought for trial, Jose was ac- quitted both on killing and wounding charges. But the court fined him because he had no li- cence for his gun! In Western Germany, Franz was passionately devoted to his wife, Inge. Near Coblenz, they had a luxurious newly- built villa overlooking a glorious sweep of the Rhine. "I will love you for ever, Franz," Inge had told him, hug- ging him passionately, and he even wore a gold ring bearing the inscription "For Ever, Inge." Then came a tragic awakening. Returning home unexpectedly at 11 o'clock one morning, he found Inge with another man, Blind fury seized Franz. Rush- ing out into the kitchen, he grab- bed 'a meat chopper and felled the secret lover. He knocked Inge unconscious with the chopper's blunt end, then he bundled the pair into his car and dumped them in a near- by wood, But before he left, ice stripped then of all their cloth,. irag, Very different tactics were pursuedby Alf Watson of Auck- land, New Zealan:ci,when he sus, pected his wife, Miranda, of in- fidelity. Though of a highly jeal- ous character, be did not flare up the very instant he discover- ed her deception. • Ile bought himself a: false beard, and so disguised, tracked her to a shady park area, where he identified her lover, a twenty- four -year-old farmer. Watson then shadowed his wife to the other man's farm and, still wearing his beard, caught her sitting with' him in , a station wagon. That was too much for him, Roaring like a madman, he dash- ed up to the car, an automatic in his Band,and emptied it through the open window at the pair of terrified lovers. By a miracle, both escaped with minor wounds. The farmer was nicked twice in the leg, and Miranda had no more than a scratch as a bullet tore through her blouse. It took the collected efforts of two farmhands to restrain Wat- son. For this ferocious assault, the fiiealous husband was jailed for three years. Week's Sew -Thrifty PRINTED PATTERN Cool -top dress plus cover — ideal for days when the sun plays hide -and -go -seek. No waist seams, no fussy details — quick to sew 'n' iron. Choose crisp cot- ton, Printed Pattern 4506; Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, I0. Size 0 dress takes 1s/4 yards 35 -inch; button -on bolero 5/9 yard. Printed directions on each pat- • tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE,, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS* Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. 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