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The Seaforth News, 1959-07-09, Page 6NN ratraq r. "Dear Anne Hirst! alefore we married nine years age my hus- band and I were both popular. We were born and raised in this city, but for some reason I can- not tathern, few of our old friends have kept up.with us, I get 'se lonesome I could scream! We are adequate hosts, but when I'vehad dinner guests it nearly always ends there. "We attend church, read good books, have son of eight, a dog and a cat and a hobby. When we do go out, it is always together. We don't go to bars (or what- ever they- call them now) but if the occasion calls for a drink at home we are always sociable. "I'm not the kind to beg for friendship; I like to please, but I'm not a yes -girl, I'm never the life of a party, neither am I the dullest one. I don't cal] people 'dearie' on first acquaintance, nor da I try to impress them. I have never been too independent to make the sacrifices which friendships require. "Fancy cooking, knitting, or painting all have their limita- tions. I am really most unhappy: I'm afraid I'll be getting eccen- tric, rattling around in this empty house. Where and how can I make new friends? 1 have been one. DISCONTENTED" * If for some reason you have * let your pre -marriage friends drife away, start all over * again. There must be a dozen * or so whom you can look up, * and through them you will * meet others who will appre- Brilliant Birds reavie.INtistaz Look closely — all are "real" birds! Let them alight on towels, cloths, scarves, pillows. Blue jay, wren, tanager, king- let — follow.charts for Nature's own vivid colors. Pattern 812: transfer four motifs abuot 7 x 9/; four motifs about 2 x 41/2, 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 NAME and ADDRESS. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: embroi- dery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quilting, toys. In the book, a spe- cial surprise to make a little girl happy — a cut-out doll, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. * elate your talents and per- * sonality, Perhaps you have * have been top buried under • your family and household * duties to go out of your way * to and them? * Do you and your husband * take an: interest in your * Church activities? There are * so - manydiversified ones * awaiting there, and your pastor * can suggest where you can be * most useful, Do you belong * to any other groups? All • around you are opportunities * for service which should bring * new friends among congenial * people. * Are you the kind of wo- * man who exchanges recipes *, with neighbors? Do they feel * free to borrow a.eup of sugar, * or call you.. in when their child * is sick? Do you offer to lend * the last book you enjoyed? Do * yon cgnceal your own prob- * lems and ailments and listen * sympathetically to those ' of * others? Perhaps you are too * critical, demand too much of * people; many of us do, and not * intentionally. Or maybe you * are too introspective; that can * be boring. * Hasn't your husband business * associates he5d like to bring * home to dinner? If your play * the hostess role warmly, they * should be anxious to bring * their wives to call, * It is never to late to start. * making friends. Stir yourself * out of this legarthy, look about * you, and go on from there, If * you are as lonely as you say, * this is the first step in the path * to find them, * JILTED "Dear Anne Hirst: I am a very unhappy girl, 19, and still crazily in love with a young man I dated for nearly a year. He made me love him, then left me without excuse or reason. Why? I despise myself for still caring, and I don't know why I do, "I have tried to go' out with. other friends (and I have plenty) but all the time I am just wish- ing I were with him instead. Sometimes I think I'll just run offl I guess my family consider me a problem child and maybe I am. But what can I do? UNHAPPY" * Instead of picturing yourself * the victim of an aggressive * male who won you only to * leave you, try to realize that * no man "makes" a girl fall in * love. She is attractive, he. is * apparently impressed, she * builds all her hopes on him — * only to find one clay he isn't * there, * It doesn't matter now why * he changed his mind. Perhaps * he found you too easily won * and too possessive; perhaps * another pretty face tempted * him more, Obviously, though, * he is not worth al] the affec- * tion you waste on his memory. * So why not be sensible? * Charge this off to experience, * and next time be less hasty to * give your heart away. * The best course for a jilted • girl is to create immediately * an active social life. Keep ▪ yourself busy with dates * among the boys you used to * like; cultivate other interests * that require concentration * and enthusiasm, and there will * be less time to dream of yes- * terdays. * Have faith in • yourself and * your future, and you will come * out all right. * w * No nice woman need be with- out friends, All around you are lonely people who would res- pond to your interest. Make the first start, and you will find others welcoming the gesture. If you need practical suggestions, write to Anne Hirst at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, MO OF A KIND "Little Miss Cotton" gets a queenly k ss from Melinda Berry, this year's Maid of Cotton, at conclusion of the diminutive beauty contest, c_. PLAIN, OLD ROYALTY — Queen Elizabeth II, left, Princess Margaret, right, and Princess Anne, centre, ere shown strictly "off parade" as they attended a horse show at Windsor, Eng. land. Gawkers, background, are unidentified. — HItONICLE 1NGERFAR eeQt,dol ne P. Cte,vke Last week we had a bitter- sweet experience. We were back to Ginger Farm — to salvage a portable chicken pen the had left there until' such time as we wanted to remove, it. It wasn't for a. chicken pan we wanted it now but for the good lumber: that was in it. So Partner•and' Bob. went to work- to •,dismantle it , board by • board.- The jllb isn't finished yet because it rained and then,' the rain turned to snow. Imagine that—snow on the 17th of May. I was there the first day and I could hardly believe the place had been our farm , and home for thirty-four years. It was so changed. Trees, shrubs and evergreens had gone com- pletely wild. Ahd the spring flowering bulbs seemed as if they were just about done. Only a few were blooming here and there instead of the masses of daffodils and narcissi we used to have. And the house . . . it doesn't seem possible that in two short years a house could change so completely. There were plenty of broken wnidows, even the storm windows upstairs. Virginia creeper that we were careful to keep under control had spread to the roof -tops. So much degener- ation in such a short time The house had been rented for near- ly two years but the tenants had given it little care. Is there any- thing more heartbreaking, I won- der, than to see a place you have loved and cared for falling into a state of decay? And of course there • is con- struction going on too,. taking over most of the north-west side of the farm. Bulldozers, graders, power shovels and heavy trucks are at work on the cloverleaf. Half of the front lane has disap- peared, covered by a huge bank of fill, and a new lane has been cut through one of the front fields. Seeing the road work didn't bother us too much. That, after all, is progress, necessary to the age in which we live We know that when the job is fin- ished it will look trim, neat and efficient. Every day will be nne step nearer that goal. On the other hand every day will in- crease the unearcd for look of the house and its immediate sur- roundings. That ,is .what really hurts — and it must be even worse for descendants of the, MacNab family who still live in the district and whose ancestors homesteaded She property back ni 1822, their first dwelling be. ing, of course, a log cabin. The present Jen -roomed 'house was built in 1854, of hand -pressed 'prick with a field stone founda- tion. In it were born and raised seven children — live girls and two boys. One girl died young, the others married and moved to homes of their own. Eventually the father died but as neither of the boys wanted to farm the homestead was sold and was in unloved hands for nearly four years. Then we came aleng, liked the place and bought It — with the help of Partner's brother, Partner took pride in his work and gradually the place, under proper' cultivation, resumed an appearance 0£ law and order. The old farm helped tats to weather the storm during the depression of the Thirties. There was no money for hired help but we all pitched in and did what we could to assist Partner. The children and I helped to load and unload hay and grain from the field to •the barn. Cows, pigs and:ehickens did their part to provide us with a living. When we took over pigs had played havoc with the lawns and gardens but as time. permit- ted I set out trees,shrubs and flower borders. The years passed and our hard work paid off, We were able to put in a furnace, then the hydro, finally a• bath- room and pressure 'system. We had city conveniences combined with country living at its best. But then came the time when our family, just like the MaoNabs, did not want to stay on the farm. Dee went into munitions, Bob into the army. After the war Dee married and Bob stayed home for a few years when Partner was sick. Then came the time when we were approached by the Department of Highways to sell the farm for road construc- tion, Partner was past working hard. There didn't seem much point in even keeping on the house just for ourselves. So we sold out, lock, stock and barrel at a good price. Now we are settled in a different territory, in a modern house, comfortable and more or less content -except that when we return to the farm a feeling of nostalgia comes over us to think of how different it would have been had we stayed. there, However, the cloverleaf • will come very close to the house and we might not have liked be- ing so near to a busy highway— that is, the 401. Be that as it may, no one can have their cake and eat it too. We sold the place and that's that, But I guess other farm folk who have had a simi- lar experience will understand our feelings, however illogical they may seem to others. Any. way we have done a lot here to improve the place and' no doubt as the years go by we shall en- joy it more and more, .FOSSILS IN ARG-ENTINA One of the world's greatest fossil beds has been found in a remote, uninhabited valley in Northwestern Argentina between 'the Provinces of San 'Juan and La Rioja. The fossils, almost perfectly preserved, range up to the size of an ox. SALLY'S SALLIES 'You're so excited, honey, you carried me in turd—outl" The Queen And, The Flying Saucers "In the past," grumbled Ams- terdam's De Volkskrant, "the Dutch press was blamed—and not entirely without reason --for too long concealing the fact that there swarmed about the court people whose heads were too muchin the clouds." The Dutch. press could hardly be accused of .concealing the faets last month. Once again, Qu len Juliana's weakness for the preternatural had landed her back in the head- lines:. she liad invited to the pa- lace a crackpot from California who numbered among his friends men from Mars, Venus and other solar -system suburbs, Bothcourt and Cabinet pleaded, but the Queen would not be budged. "A hostess," said she in refusing to cancel the audience, "cannot slam the door in the face of her guests." The guest in question was Polish -born George Adamslci, 68, who until several years ago ran a humble hamburger stand at the foot of California's Palomar inountain, Then one day he hap- pened to meet a courteous' and high -domed gentleman, and the gentleman was from the planet Venus, One thing led to another, and some time later a man from Mars and another from Saturn asked him in a hotel lobby if he would like to. take a spin in space, The trip aloft included refreshments ("a small glass of colorless liqud") with an "in- credibly' lovely" blonde named Keine and an equally lovely brunette named Ilmuth. It end- ed with a reassuring lecture up there from a great teacher ("No, my son, your world is not the lowest in development in the universe"). Thereafter, space - traveling George styled himself • "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher." Unhappily, he "took no other earthling along on his subse- quent space jaunts, and his photographs invariably turned out a bit murky because of at- mospheric interference, natural- ly. • But his first book (Flying Saucers Have Landed) sold near- ly 100,000 copies, and this year he went on a worldwide lecture tour. In England last month, he' got. a .letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Fly- ing Objects Society, saying that she had received a call from the palace "that the Queen would like to receive you." Without wasting a minute. George tipped off a London newspaper. When the news hit The Hague, the court hit the ceiling: the whole thing was too reminiscent of the Queen's strange attachment for Greet Hofmans, the faith healer who became a sort of nuisance in the palace. Unable to dissuade the Queen from granting the audience, her advisers hit upon a scheme tlPat at least might assure the nation that she would not succumb to any spell again. It surrounded her with a protective guard of some of the nation's top air force and scientific men. On the appointed day last - week, a royal limousine called for Adamski and whisked him to the palace. For the , benefit of the Queen, he repeated some of his adventures, told of a Cali- fornia girl he knew who eloped with a Venusian and was never seen again. Each distinguished gentleman present had his own version of the visitor's reception. "The man's a pathological case," said the Air Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Heye Schaper, Said President Cornelis Kolff of the Dutch Aeronautical Associa- tion: "The Queen showed an ex- traordinary interest in the whale subject." "The Queen," said Pre- lessor Maarten Rooy of the untr versity of Amsterdam, "sat intµ passive ---a hostess who does not want to offend a guest," But all the Queen's men could not make the audience seem any the more palatable. "A shame Cor our country;" erIed Amster- dam's Het Vrije Volk. In London, Buckingham Paµ • lace moved with the speed of light to scotch rumors that .the Duke of Edinburgh might invite Adamski around to see his Queen: "The royal family has de- cided that it cannot entertain Mr. Adamski or his ideas In any way." —From TIME The two duellists bad agreed to meet at dawn. "In case I'm a little late," said the challenger, a small, meek - looking man, to his hefty oppo- nent, "don't wait — go ahead and shoot" Q. 11 a man who does not have a oar goes out with a, girl who does, is he supposedto pay for the gasoline? A, His first suggestion of the evening should be to stop at a service station for some gaso- line for the girl's car. For Half -Sizers RINTED PATTERN 441h+t¢* 441414 Start the day in fine fashion in this crisp and fresh casual styled to slim the shorter, fuller half -sizer. Trim bodice with poc- ket interest, easy skirt. Printed Pattern 4816: Half Sizes 141/2, 18'/2, 181/a, 201/2, 223/4, 24%. Size 16312 takes 4114 Yards 35 -inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (40a) (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note_for safety) for this pattern, Please print plainly the SIZE,' your NAME, ADDRESS, and STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 24 — 1959 1,751IN TH::,::5:::::::,:S.ii,.•;: .FIGURES IN 1'HOUSANDS::!:;3 ,,I..;;i.iiri,...:,.::a ,250 LABOR DISPUTES tangoe JAN, FEB, MAR, APR. MAY JUNG JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV, 010. 1 WON'T BE IN TODAY''— Main' reasons than persons stayed away from work last'yeni are shown in Newsohart Vacations accounted for greatest time out, with a peak of ne.,rly six million persons in July Illness was second with a peak of 1,202,000 in February. Bad Weather also kept more orf the job that month than during any other -- 708,000 Industrial dis- putes idled 206,000 during the high month of Octobe,,, when many labor contracts were up for renewal, Based on U.S De- partment of Commerce figures.