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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-03-18, Page 6Is r• .3 :ft ee 4• ANNE I4IRST "Dear Anne Hirst: I just don't know what to do. I have been Married 10 years and have two children. My husband plays poker, and sometimes hasn't a penny left to bring home. We have so many bills to pay but he doesn't seem , to care, "I would like to go out to work, but he is so jealous it would only make more trouble; he says I'm too friendly with people now. Anne Hirst, I almost never leave the house. I do washing and iron- ing for other people to make a few 'dollars. I always have his meals ready when he does come home, and his clothes laid out, and I do anything he asks me. But he treats me terribly, and I am turning against him. Evenour little girl is afraid of him, when he comes in? Her teacher says she is a very nervous scholar and that is the reason. "The people he knows are nothing but `trash,' and hang onto him for the money he spends and his car. He will do anything for anyone who drinks ... Can you possibly tell me what to do? Mrs. A. G. C." NO VIRTUE IN HIM It is distressing enough when i"' a man squanders money on * others which his family needs; * but when he mistreats his wife and keeps, hislittle girl in a state of fear, there seems no * virtue in him. What you must have endured for nearly 20 years is enough to drive most wives to the divorce courts. If you are unwilling, to con- sider that drastic step, why not talk things over with a Dom- estic Relations Court? Their ad- vice would be helpful, I am sure, and should at least relieve your immediate economic situ- ation. It is not only your peace of mind that is at stake, but the emotional development of your children; one is already being frightened by her father's bel- ligerence, and the other cannot Jiftw Knit! tra 5Q3 Knit a shrug to toss over everything, to keep you warm • and cosy all winter! This is done in a fast 'n' -easy pattern stitch trimmed with ribbing, Make it now. Pattern 503 has easy -to -follow. knitting directions. Misses' Sizes , 32-34; 36-38 included in pattern. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot • be ac • - cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New; Toronto, Ont, Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your. ,NAME and AD- DRESS. EXCITING'. VALUE! Ten, yes TEN popular, new deeigns to cro- chet, sew, embroider, knit --print- ed -right in the . Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book, Plus . many more patterns to send for -ideas, for gifts, bazaar money-makers, fashions! Send 25 cents for your copy! * escape unscathed. Only your soothing presence mitigates in * some measure their apprehen- sion, and more often than not * you must stand by helplessly. * Think how this will affect them * later on. * Your husband needs to real- • ize that he cannot pursue his * callous way of living any long- .'" er and get away with it. * * * TOO EAGER "Dear Anne Hirst: Six years ago my mother took a teacher to board, I didn't like him, but as the years passed he caused me to love him. Sometimes he took me to ball games and on picnics, but he never told me he cared for me. "When he came home from school I always fixed him some- thing omething to eat and saw that his room was comfortable. At Christ- mas I gay.e him nice gifts, and he said I had gone too far. "Now he has gone to another school, .and moved from our home; he never calls except on invitation! Cal, you tell me what to do tow? Kate Rebecca" * I nope you will do nothing— * except to try to remove this • young man from your thoughts *• and .ropes, as he has removed * himself from your house, • It is easy for a young girl to * lose her heart to an older man. * This one you respected for his * learning; he was more sophis- * ticated, too, than the boys you * knew, which set him apart, You went all out, serving . him at * home, even giving hint presents * which must have embarrassed * him; he tried to warn you, but * you would not see he was just * being kind. I am afraid you * will have to realize he is in- "` terested in more mature women * and thinks of you as .just a * nice little girl he used to know. * See the truth as it is, and a * year from now you will smile * at the longings that bother you * today. * r * It is sad indeed when a mother must protect her children' from their father's neglect and anger.. Yet her first duty is to their wel- fare. Tell your troubles to tlnn'e Hirst, and know you can depend upon her • sympathy and her judgment. Write her at Box i, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. . ; HERB GARDENING There are many reasons why people turn to the soil. They may do so because of their ancestry, for most people have forebears who were farmers. Sometimes a youthful experience directs a person along the path he is to follow later in life. When we were children my parents took us to visit my maternal great- grandmother, who lived with hex daughter and ' son-in-law on a farm in Bavaria, There the prin- cipal. ,objective was to condition cattle for the market. . . . My great - grandmother, who w a s eighty, seldom went outdoors . and did not care for flowers. Few country people did in those days. When my sister and I each brought her a bouquet of corn- flowers and poppies that we had gathered in the wheat fields, they did not appeal to her. Now I know she considered them to be weeds. But her daughter, my grandmother, had a garden plant- • ed with iris and lilac bushes in her back . yard on West Fifty- second Street, in New York City, just north of where Rockefeller Center stands today. . Herb gardening has been com- pared to chamber music. Both are -best appreciated i'n small places, for they have an intimate quality lost in a large hall or in a big garden. Gardening with herbs, which is becoming increas- ingly popular, is indulged in by those who like subtlety in their plants' in 'preference to brilliance. To me there is much that is en- dearing about herbs. They are individual; each plant differs from the next in the way it holds its leaves, in its shape, and par- ticularly in the fragrance it sends forth. 1 love to work among them and to smell their scent en my hands, As .1 weed or prune them or gather them ter. infuse in soups or salads, or to perk up a vegetable, stories connected FOR EFFECTIVE RELIEF... 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At any _ time of day, as one ap- proaches the garden one inhales a scene composed of a blend in which can be detected elements of spice, . fruit, rose, mint, anise and sometimes balsom. The prevailing color of herbs is gray. Moreover, one's interest in them does not center primarily on their brightly colored flowers but on the patterns made by their leaves. The flowers -come in delicate tints, some of them blue to purple, colors, preferred by bees, who are constant visi- tors. Then there are touches of pink in old-fashioned roses, red in- bee balms and yellow. galium or broom, warm against the coolness 'bf prevailing grays and blues. When a more vivid color note is desired, it can be provided by calendulas and nes- turtiums.—From "The Years in My Herb Garden," by Helen M. Fox. Sew 'n' .S:s1ve! 4605 S!zES 6—!4 '4L4s, ii For your smart little scho r ' this smart little dress. Theis style aplenty in that wing colr, those jaunty pockets. Add in '"r- est aplenty with plaid bow, po; k- ets and bands on sleeves, Sen• sible for school and play, pretty enough for dress -up! Pattern 4605 in Girls' Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, Size 10 takes 3 yards 35 -inch; % yard contrast. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions, Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (350) in ooins (stamps cannot be accepted for this pattern, Print plainly SIZE, NAME, AD1MU1SS, STYLE NUMBER, Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. sani- BY EDNA MILES �"!ETTTNO the.; .house clean faster eaeh,=tziorning is the aim of every' housewife. Usu- ally, the "'stiarttrlg,, point for the morning 'eleanup is the bath- room. Wet towels, scattered powder and spattered tile make for complete disorder, One of the newest aids in get- ting the bathroom slick and shiny in no time is a smooth, white cleanser that turns golden when it's wet. With this sudsing cleanser, the housewife can ban- ish bathtub rings and bacteria quickly and effectively. • When she proceeds to the kitchen, she'll find this cleanser removes grease faster, dispels food odors that cling to the hands,' skillets, sink and food preparation surfaces, She can, in fact, test it. by rubbing her hands with the cut. surface of an onion, shaking cleanser over hands, rinsing and sniffing at hands. She'Il find the odor gone. The housewife in a hurry will find that this cleanser' works equally well in hot or cold wa- ter, in hard or soft water: It's, easy on the hands, has a• fresh; clean smell. For weekly cleanings, it cm be used when you're cleaning out the refrigerator Well, apparently our little winter is over — for the time being anyway. We have been given a reprieve by theweath- erman, and I suppose everyone has made good use of. lt, At Ginger Farm we put on storm windows, got our coats out of storage, put the cattle in the barn and prepared in a general - way for a continuance of stormy weather. Now we have to throw open the doors, hang the coats in the closet, turn the cows loose in the yard 'and check off. the fires. In a contest with the weatherman you just can't win. But who's grumbling? We didn't want winter yet, anyway. You know, I'm beginning to think 'a few people . must be reading this column! .Remember the hue and cry I raised about hunters roaming the farm with - .out permission. • , Well about ten days after that a hunter came along one night, asked permission to leave his car in the lane and to go hunting across the fields. Imagine that! I asked him if he intended setting any trap§.. "No," he said, "if we set straps we come and tell you." So one hunter at, least has the courtesy to observe the. rules of the game — and he is welcome on our farm any time. Since I wrote that little tirade about hunters we have read several times of young cattle be- ing shot by trespassers on farm property. This matter of hunt- ing is always a problem. Some 'people, as a 'matter of princi- ple, are opposed to hunting of any kind, with or without per- mission. But we have to take a realistic attitude, T think. If there were no hunting at all . country districts would soon be over -run with predatory birds and 'beasts. Foxes; for instance, can soon wipe out the profits of a poultry farmer; deer are a menace on the highway, and al- so to crops; beavers 'must be kept under control ortheir in- dustrious habits may cause flood- ing to the. point of inconven- ience. And if the Indians were prohibited from hunting their main source of income would' be gone — and what would women do..then for their fox furs and niuskrat coats? It is also com- forting to know that unnecessary suffering of animals is not al- lowed: Humane practices in Minting and trapping must be followed. Another point to con- sider :. '. Wild life, reforestation andconservation ge together. We need all the trees we can , grow so more trees, better conservation, more wild life — and of course, more hunting. A logical' sequence, isn't it? Incidentally, for those who ee plant next spring tr S to p a p g • it' isn't a bit too early to order them now. According to the rt e tLandsand Foresth Department of mo n d n a is the demand for delivery of young trees next spring ' has already exceeded the •available supply, so I suppose the trees will be more or less rationed out. The Department says seedlings grown in nurseries have a better chance of survival than natural or wild stock, transplanted from bush to garden. The nursery stock hag a better developed root system and so withstands -the shock of! transplanting to your soil. Gene- rally. speaking white pine Is icor sandy soil; red pine anywhere at all. But look.. around in your own district, If most of the ' trees are elms, maples, birch or oaks, you can be almost certain they will do better than ever- greens. • So says the Department --and it should know.. Last week we had still ano- ther courtesy call. None other than a surveyor from the De'- ' partrnent of Highways. His mis- sion was to inform us that the De- partment was making another survey through our farm for the • proposed new highway. This survey is 200 feet. farther north than the other one. To us it is much more satisfactoi;y because it is farther away from the barn — 400 feet in all. However, even this may not. be the final sur- vey — the ways of government departments being hard to fa- thom. But if it isn't final there will be an awful lot of iron stakes to pull up all through the country. The surveyor show- ed us a map of the . district clearly indicating all the farms, complete with buildings — and all . done from aerial photo- graphs. You never. know what - is going on overhead these days; what secrets are shared with those who fly up -yonder. Look- ing at the map I wouldn't have been surprised had I seen a Monday morning wash flapping in the breeze. Well, we have just come back from Toronto, after paying a visit to .our grandson. Of course he is wonderful and looks more like a human being every day. He also has a good pair of lungs and a voracious appetite. ,Iudg•- ing by the number of presents that were sent to welcome his, coming he is also a 'very lucky baby. But I will spare you any further eulogies. He may be wonderful to us- but to other folk I know he is just another baby. ISSUE 49 -- 1953 Now The Perfect Burglar Alarm Bad news for burglars! It's o burglar 4iarrn which has recent- ly been tried out in Nottingham, where the police were pioneers of ralib and forensic science. . It's so effective that since it was installed,nething'has been lost from n -any of ,,the protected buildings and there has not been a single' illegal. entry into one without an arrest. ' • At the Chief Constable's . head- quarters is a control panel which warns. of a "contapt", at any of the fifty premises which have al- ready had the alaim fitted. The circuit is proof against wire -cut- ting or the cutting -off of current. It has been called the perfect bugler alarm. , This remarkable device will ,also indicate fire, give the code nufnber• of the building concern- ed, and record automatically the time. • At 12.55 one morning not long ago an" alarm sounded. A man jumped from •a window of the premises five minutes later --- straight-into the arms of police! 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WHOLE ;WHEAT BREAD • Combine 3 c, boiling water, c. granulated sugar, 4 tsps. salt and 1 tbs. shortening; stir until sugar and salt are dissolved and shorten- ing melted; cool to lukewarm. ,Meanwhile,measure into a' large bowl 1 c. ukewarnn water, 1 tbs, granulated. sugar ; stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle with 3 en- velopes Fleischrann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast. Let stand 10' minutes, THEN stir well. Stir in cooled sugar -shortening mixture. Coinbitne 5 c, once -sifted bread flour and S c. whole wheat or graham flour. Stir about half' of the flours into yeast mixture; beat until smooth. Work . in re- maining flours and edd addition- al bread flour, if necessary, to Make a soft dough. Knead on lightly -floured board until smooth and. elastic. Place in greased. bowl and grease top of dough., Cover and set in a warm ,place' free from draught. Let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough, grease top and again let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough; turnout on•lightly- floured board and. divide into 4 equal portions form into, smooth balls. C6ver lightly with cloth and let rest for 15 !nips. Shape into loaves; place in greased loaf pans (4%" x SW). Grease tops, cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Bake in hot pyen, 400', for 20 mins., then reduce oven heat to moderate, 350', and bake about 20 minutes longer.