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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-07-16, Page 6ANNE 14IRST 4'1?ear Anne Hirst: If I talk again with my mother about this site will stop my going with MY boy friend altogether, so I've pot to ask your advice.... I am only 16, but he and I have dated over a year and we are very much in love. We get a kick out of just being together, and Pm so at home with hint that I can talk about anything without feeling self-conscious. I went with three others before I met him, so I think know myself now. "We want to plan our marriage when I am 18, and Mom and Dad won't hear of it. (For modern parents, they are very old- fashioned.) They like the boy and his fancily, but they object to 'my wearing his ring, He is sensible and insists I finish school, but he does want to be engaged right away. "Shall I wear his ring or not? My sister, who got married when she, was my age, says I' can always give it back. I just want everybody to know we belong to each other, but my family think I am going too young to give that impresssion, What do you say? CONTUSED" PARENTS KNOW BEST • If you wear. the ring it an- * nounces to your friends that * you two have promised to mar- * ry some day; that is its only * significance. If you do not wear • it you will still feel the same * toward him, won't you? Since • your mother opposes the idea, • why not be agreeable? • I do no doubt that you Iove * the lad. What I do doubt is Read The Stars Stars tell all. Every fact that family and friends want to know and remember about baby! Easy embroidery! Delight mom with this sampler she'll hang in baby's room for all to admire. Pattern 574: transfer 12 x 16 inch panel; 60 names; chart, 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. * how long you would be happy * with him if you marry him * even two years from now. Teen years are crucial years a in one's development. Today * you and he are entirely con, • genial; but who can predict • that in four' or five years you • will be the same person with * the same ideals, opinions and •. ambitions? If you develop nor- * anally, you will mature and * change in many ways. The boy * isolder, and may remain as he * is now, In that ease, you might * find yourself married to. a • stranger --- and how you would * wish you had waited longer! • The fact that your sister * married so young may be one * reason why your mother ob- o jeets to your being engaged ° now. It is not that she doubts * you love the boy, but she ° knows that marriage is for * grownups, and she wants you * to be a much wiser girl before o you set your heart on any boy. * You say that if you do * change your mind you can al- * ways give the ring back. Too o many girls marry with the * same reservation; "If anything * happens I can always •get a * divorce." Your mother wants * your marriage to last for. the o rest of your life, and I am sure * you do too. Why not do as * she asks, and play safe? *Planning it all now will tie * you to this lad and set your ° mind in a plaster cast, so to o speak, which precludes any * possibility that one day you * will change it. I urge you to * swing along with your moth- * er's opinon. You will not be * sorry. • * * HIS JEALOUSY HURTS "Dear Anne Hirst: Our mar- riage is being spoiled by my hus- band's crazy jealousy, That causes our only differences, but the quarrels it arouses are bitter and they end in horrible accusa- tions which he knows are base- less. "When he is upset he tells me to leave. But I have worked hard for our home, and I don't intend to leave it nor our little son. It does look to me as though he is searching for a reason to divorce me and can't find one. I suppose I do love him, but sometimes I despise him. "Our boy is beginning to feel the effect of these scenes, I hope you can help me, for I am real- ly— DISTRESSED" * A jealous man is a miserable * creature. Obsessed by an in- * feriority feeling, he cannot be- • lieve that any woman can stay * faithful to him. It is almost im- * possible to cure such a man — * unless he is threatened with * his wife's leaving him. * When these scenes occur, "'there is one thing you can do; * Walk out of the room or out " of the house; he will get lit- * tle satisfaction screaming at * four walls. If he resumes when * you return, don't answer; go * about your work as though he * were not there. * Can you appeal to him * through his love for his son? * Exposing him to these quar * rels is sheer cruelty, his nature * is being warped; for his sake, * your husband should control * himself. Every child deserves * a home life based on security * of love and faith, and when • parents deny him this, they are * not fit to be parents. * *, * Mothers understand first love better than their teen-agers think; they also know their daughters better than the girls know themselves. When it comes to love affairs, it is safe to accept your parents' opinion. , ..If this problem Is yours today, write Anne Hirst about it at — Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont. HORSE OF A DIFFERENT POWER — They might ride mudders, but jockeys no longer have to plod through mud at the Detroit race course. Horsepower of another sort pulp them to the paddock in the de luxe trailer. Saddles and tackle stow In tr•'`,,,'s midsection. INFORMAL PORTRAIT — Standing by an ancient cannon on the East Terrace of • Windsor Castle, the Royal Family poses for qn informal portrait. We have survived the first heatwave of the summer and we hope it will be some time before we have another like it. A vain hope probably, Isn't it strange how the weather can go to such extremes? Last night we were glad to have the furnace on — after suffering nights and nights ofsweltering heat and humidity. It just doesn't make sense. Dur- ing the hot spell I spent most of the time in the basement —,on a clean-up job. It needed doing and it was a good time to do it: Last Thursday, of course, was a hot day in more ways than one. Ontario went to the polls to elect a new government. If one can call it a .new government with so few overall changes. However the people had a chance to.elect the men of their choice 'and that's what really counts. We ,phoned Art early in the evening to express our "sympathy" as his man was one of those when went down to defeat. Art had been worrying hard for two weeks electioneering. Saturday he got away from it all by taking' his family — and Partner up to the cottage. I hope they don't all freeze to death or sit up all night stoking fires. I don't sup- pose they would have gone had they known it was going to turn so cold ... and windy! I didn't want to go anyway. A premon- ition, perhaps. Well, to get on to another sub- ject, fashion changes, even in fences. It used to be a well- known saying that poor fences make bad neighbours, We should know! During our early farming days we had one neighbour in particular who made no attempt to keep his half of the line fence in repair. So we periodi- cally had his horses in our wheat field; his Holstein cows in our pasture and pigs and geese in our oats. And most of the ani- mals seemed to be of a belliger- ent nature. One time Bob was chasing an old sow out of our oats and it ended up with the sow chasing Bob. He just got over the fence in time. And there was one morning I went to get the cows and found a huge bull pawing and bellowing in our barnyard. Partner used to get as mad as a hornet but it did lit- tle good, Generally he finished up by fixing our neighbour's fence himself — especially after one of our Ayrshire heifers gave birth to a Holstein calf. 'As the years went by many fences alongside the road disap- peared. Traffic increased and farmers preferred keeping their livestock at the hack of the farm away from the highway. If they did not need a fence to keep their cattle in the law did not require them to build a fence to keep their neighbors' cattle out and so there are now many open fields along the highway. Fences have changed too. The old pic- turesque stump fence has almost disappeared, along with the snake -rail fences. Now it is woven wire or two strands of wire carrying an electric charge. Either gives a cleaner, more ef- ficient appearance to farm fields but provide little shelter for birds, squirrels and chipmunks. There are also certain laws in connection with fences in sub- divisions and •built up areas. It is just as well for home -owners to find out what is permitted in their locality before putting up any kind of fence on their prop- erty. All districts don't follow the same pattern. Sometimes fence laws are written into an agreement betweensubdividers and purchasers. Sometimes not. One district had agreed that no fences should be allowed — that gardens and yards be left open like parkland. But apparently it was just "a gentleman's agree- ment". This was discovered when one property owner fenced his gar- den at the back with cedar posts and woven wire — to keep dogs, rabbits and children off his property. Inquiries by irate neighbours revealed the fact that it was permissible to build any kind of a fence other than barb- ed wire or a six-foot board fence. In the subdivision where Bob lives fences are many and var- ied. Bob has a link fence all around his backyard to keep Ross off the road and away from the deep pools contractors have made over on the next road. Af- ter all the safety of children has to be considered before the ap- pearance of the property — al- though one can often be combin- ed with the other. All this has come to mind because our next- door neighbour is at the moment fencing his property. We don't mind but some the neighbours are not taking too kindly to the idea, it being the only fence in the community. Monday: Partner got home about eleven o'clock last night — tired out after two days' work at the cottage. His ideas about summer cottages for re- laxation are likely to receive a little revision! Later on when things are fixed up for the sum- mer it will be different but at the moment there is plenty of work to be done. How Can I Q. flow On 1 remedy some shallow scratches on my furni- ture? A, You can remove shallow Scratches or hairline moles by softening the finish so it runs to- gether, Flow on some turpentine (for varnish) or denatured oleo - bol (for shellac), Let this dry fox' 48 hours, then rule smooth with rottenstorte, clean, and wax, Q. How can I wash an electric blanket? ' A. The best and safest way of doing this is to wash them by hand in detergents or soap, be., cause dry-cleaning fluids damage the insulating materials on the fine electric wires in the blanket. Q. How can I soften shoe polish that has dried and hardened in its container? A. Try adding a few drops of turpentine to the polish. Q. What is an easy way of adding life to my window screens? A. Equal parts of spar varnish and turpentine, well mixed, will give protection to the screens. that'll often outlast paint, Apply this with a well -cleaned old blackboard eraser. Q. How can I make a glass cement? A, Just melt some common alum in a glass spoon — and you'll have a very efficient ce- ment for mending glass, china, or metal objects. Q. How can I improvise a "magnetic" hammer for driving carpet tacks? A. Rub the striking face of your hammer over a cake of bar ' soap, and your tacks will cling to it as they do to the regular magnetic hammers. Q. How can I eliminate some ant hills in my yard and garden? A. One good way is to place a flower pot over the ant hill, and then pour in about a tea- spoonful of carbon tetrachloride. The fumes from this liquid will sink to the ground and cut off the insects' oxygen. Q. What Is an easy way to re- wind the spring inside a window shade roller? A. Stick the flat end of the roller into a keyhole and give it a few turns. Then replace the roller on its window •brackets. Q. How can I clean some soil- ed spots on any wallpaper? A. Dip a cloth into powdered borax, and rub this over the soil- ed areas. Q. Hew c an I remove some mildew stains from books which have been stored away for some time? A. These stains can be removed (and prevented in the future) by sponging with some denatured alcohol and placing the books in the sunlight. SALESMANSHIP The cub salesman asked his ' boss if he could refund the money to an irate customer who discovered that the lot he had bought was under water. "What kind of a salesman are you?" demanded the boss. "Go out there and sell him a motor boat." SALLY'S SALLIES 41 If they want a college man for the job, dear, you must look the part." ISSUE 27 — 1959 Craft Thcit Takes Long To Learn Just about the thinnest thing itt the world today is — have a guess! It's gold leaf, the stuff that glistens from the great cross Oft the dorne of St. Paul's Cathedral and brightens the railings of Buckingham Palace. This mere film of precious metal, hammered out until it is almost invisible and only one 280,000th of an inch thick, is the work of experts who aremeni- bers of a never -changing craft. The gold -beaters of Britain. who hammer the film of gold through sheets of skin are the finest in the world. One silvery haired craftman who retired 're. eently spent more than seventy years handling the precious metal and beating gold from large bars to little squares of tissue thickness. Pure gold. leaf is practically unaffected by the atmosphere and, every' shower washes it more or less clean. Between the gold leaf• that decorated the tomb of the Egyp. tian king, Tutankhamen and the leaf that is beaten to -day there are only minor differences. For economy, the gold leaf" of to- day is beaten thinner and mod- ern craftsmen use steel hammers (some weighing 20 lb.) for the beating instead of the bronze of the ancients. The delicacy required in mani- pulating the gold -beating ham- mers comes- only after years of practice, A boy who starts to learn the craft at the age of fourteen will be twenty-six be- fore he can be trusted to beat properly. Smart Exit Line PRIN 1" ILO L'ATTERN 4692 SIZES 12-") dy.,.s Turn your back to show the surprise plunge of the neckline— fashion's most glamorous way to keep cool. High seaming in front shapes a slender midriff. Choose cotton, shantung, linen. • Printed Pattern 4692: Misses' Sizes 12, . 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3'yards 35 -inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50¢) (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. THE END OF ABLE, — Holding the limp form of a space monkey "Able" on a table at the Fort Knox, Ky , Environmental Medicine Laboratory, Dr. Thomas R. A. Davis is about to breath air into the monkey's stilled lungs. All efforts failed and the tiny animal, who zoomed into space and back again in the nose cone of a Jupiter missil. died Now space pioneer"Able" will be stuffed and displayed in thti Smithsonian Institution.