HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-07-22, Page 6"Dear Anne Hirst: The young
man_., Ihn in love with was
hurt by a girl a long while ago.
He will not yet believe true
love exists anywhere; he con-
tends it's just a word! He dates
girls all the time, never going
regularly with anyone.
"I am 20, he is 26. We get
along wonderfully. I never
speak of love at all, of course,
but I know he likes me — and
the , other night he told me he
had gotten over the girl who
threw him over. Of course, that
gives me hope, but what course
should I take from here? Is
there a chance that I can help
him see how wonderful a thing
love is — if you give it a chance?
ON TIPTOES"
* Wise you are not to , advo-
cate love per se to this dis-
* illusioned lad; the word is
* still anathema to hiin At
* the first suspicion that you
* care for him he'd be out of
* your sight.
* .Play his game. When h e
* decries love, smile quietly and
* say you understand. Match his
* moods — gay or somber, talk-
* ative or not, always sympa-
* thetic. Keep the converse-
* tion limited to impersonal
* topics on your part, but lead
* him on to talk about himself
his opinions, his tastes
a his hopes, his career: lister
* intelligently, alert to praise
µ him, slow to disgrace. Play the
* part of a sincere friend (and
* mean it) so he feels free to
* talk as frankly as he would
* to another man.
* In. other words, make him
* feel at home with you Since
* he admits he has recovered
''1' from the past, he should soon
* be in the mood to concentrate
* on one of the girls he still
* knows. It might as well be you.
* If you do mean more to him
* than others, putting him off
• now and then will quicken
* his interest. So decline a date
• occassionally, and don't let
him think he can drop in any
* time he likes and find you ac-
* cessible. Let him wonder
* where his competition lies.
* It is a chance to take, of
* course. But it is the only..
* course that may bring him to
µ see, one day, that you are the
's most desirable girl of all
"Dear Anne Hirst: I am en -
aged to a grand boy,; andW' he
rants us to marry right away.
x ve known him for three years;
Ave love each other deeply, and
nay parents think he's wonder-
ful. But —
"I've had to work for my liv-
ing for years and when at
Can You "Tie" This? -• heated
n d decorated with tinseled
eeroliwork, the bow tie, a long-
time favourite among men,
fomes into its own as the latest
ashion -fad for the ladies. Bobbi
key designed this particular bit
of neckwear, but there are do -
%ens of other jeweled and bead-
ed styles to choose from.
home 1 was never taught any-
thing about housekeeping. I
can't even cook!
"I want to be the perfect wile
when I do get married. Don't
you think it would be wiser to
wait six months, at least, ' so
I'll have the chance to learn
and practice?
WONDERING"
* I am for your plan, Many
* a fine boy in love can see no
* fault in his fiancee, and rushes
* her into marriage before she
* is ready — taking it for grant-
* ed she will be a perfect home-
* maker in every detail.
* Men are orderly folk, They
* like their meals on time (and
* satisfying, delicious meals at
* that) and they want their
* home to be an orderly and re-
* laxing place. They seem to
* think all this happens by some
* magic. You and 1 know bet-
* ter,
* Take these months, and use
* them well. Make a game of it,
* and let the young man watch
* you progress. It would be fun.
* if he would learn along with
* you.
* Too many young husbands
* are inhabited by an ingrown
* ulcer before the first year is
* out. Yours will not be.
Love is a game of heads as well
as hearts. The girl who uses her
intelligence and wit stands a good
chance of landing the man she
wants. In time of confusion, ask
Anne Hirst's opinion. Address her
at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New
Toronto. Ont.
Hope To Salvage
ing Jo bii s Crown
Will King John's treasure, be-
lieved to have been lost in the
Wash nearly 740 years ago, be
discovered soon?
Hopes are high that it may be
located and salvaged when a
new plan to wrest 50,000 acres
from the Wash under a reclama-
tion scheme is put into effect.
Legend says that the king's
two-mile baggage train included
priceless jewels and his regalia.
Men have spent fortunes in
eoinantic attempts to recover the
treasure.
Fenland farmers tell of fre-
quent treasure hunts over some
of the 75,000 acres of tidal land
which have been reclaimed sinoe.
the middle of the nineteenth
century.
Would-be discoverers of the
thirteenth -century regalia in-
clude an American millionaire
who many years ago spent a
large sum on a fruitless plan.
Another treasure hunter used an
electric divinator which, it was
claimed, would d et e c t metals
and precious. stones at a great
depth.
Each time the hunt is on Fen -
people speculate about the
treasure which might be found
around their homesteads. But
always the hunters have gone
away empty-handed.
Now this new scheme of re-
clamation has stimulated fresh
interest. It seems that such a
large-scale plan cannot fail to
include the treasure spot.
Most of the treasure was
probably being carried, when it
sank, in a very big cart in the
middle of a column of vehicles—
all of which were lost when
huge breakers poured over the
royal train.
In school some s m a 11 boys
were being told about the ter-
rific speed at which light tra-
vels.
"Just think of light corning to
us from the sun at all those
thousands of miles a second !"
enthused the teacher. "isn't it
wonderful?"
"Not very," piped up one
small voice room the back of the
class. "It's downhill all the way."
Admir. Gift --- President and Mrs. Eisenhower admire a century-
old firep ace that was given to them as a 38th wedding anni-
" ersory present by members of the White House staff and in.
stoked in their farmhouse,
But What About The Chips? — Workers pre dwarfed by this huge frying pan made to order for
fish fry staged by fishermen in Camogli, Italy. The pan is 13 feet in diameter and has a 19-
foot„handle. About three ton of fish can be,cooked in the pan.
H
,; w Queen Mary
gide a Cari et
I like to think that, in her own
special way, Queen Mary has
also linked these countries, and
the wonderful gros point carpet
which became known to us all
as Queen Mary's Carpet is a
symbol of that achievement.. .
She originally intended it as a
gift for another member of the
royal family. But when, after
t h e war, Britain's economic
plight . became desperate, s h e
made up her mind to present the
carpet to the nation for sale as
a royal "dollar export," The
money would help to buy new
machines for Britain's factories
from North America, and she
hoped to set an example for her
people by stressing the sacrifices
we all must make to ensure the
success of the drive for dollars.
In 1948, six exquisite chair
seat covers which she had made
and given to a nursing organiza-
tion were sold in the United
States for $10,000; they are kept
now among the art treasures of
the Metropolitan Museum in
New York City.
Queen Mary started work on
the carpet in the early days of
the war when the German
bombers were droning over her
country. She chose the hundred
pastel colours with special care—
the soft beiges, the delicate
grays, the b 1 u e s, turquoises,
mauves and ambers for every
individual flower and leaf, bird
and blossom in the design.
I5. my memory I can see her
sitting,_ by the tall windows ,pf
Marlborough House; sewing bag
at hand, pursuing the intricate
tracery of patterns, as soon as
breakfast, letter writing and
Palace business was completed.
She was following a long tra-
dition where British Queens are
concerned, starting with Mar-
garet, Anglo-Saxon Queen of
Scotland in the tenth century,
down through the centuries to
Queen Victoria. In some ancient
English palaces and manor -
houses, one can still inspect the
work of Catherine of Aragon
and her daughter, Mary I. .
Our Queen Mary worked as
they must have done. The rows
of wools, four- hundred and
eighty different kinds by the
time the carpet was finished,
were ranged in parade -ground
order beside her chair. Seated
straight-backed and serene, she
would choose the color she want-
ed, snip off a length of it with
her silver -gilt scissors kept in a
worn leather case, swiftly thread•
a needle without the aid or
spectacles, and make another
stitch... .
She worked regularly until
lunch and then again in the late
evening, six to seven hours a
day. Slowly but surely the
tapestry grew, four stitches a
minute in her ceaseless skill. The
first of the twelve panels was
completed in May, 1941, and she
added the finishing touch of a
true artist—her signature "Mary
R." and the date. Eight years
and one million stitches after she
commenced her womanly, queen
ly task, Queen Mary's Carpet
was ready to be shipped across
the 3,000 miles of ocean .
aboard the Cunard liner which
proudly bears her name, — From
"Mother and Queen." by Marion
Crawford.
HISS'1TSTPi i
A prizefighter and his lady
dined at a large restaurant in
the Titnes Square area. When
the waiter presented the check,
the prizefighter handed him a
five dollar bill and told him to
keep the change, The pug then
got up and suddenly gave the
waiter a black eye.
On the sidewalk, the fighter
lighted a cigar. Then the police
arrived,
"A fine waiter, that guy," the
pug explained to the judge. "I
expect to dine there again to-
morrow."
"If he's such a fine waiter,"
asked the judge, "why did you
slip him that black eye?" The
pug puffed on his cigar. "1 like
that guy for a waiter," he ex-
plained. "And when I go back
there tomorrow, /II have no
trouble pinking him out."
Set A Mousetrap
Caght A Thief
When the proprietor of a
Nantes (France) cafe went to
investigate a trap he'd set, he
found not a mouse, but a thief
That's how he caught a woman
who 'was dipping her hand in
the till.
Marauders are often trapped
when they least expect it. On
the Danish island of Mors a poul-
try thief on the run- hid in the
hen-house.`When he thought the
coast was clear, he peered out.
A sliding door dropped on to his
head. He screamed, and- the po-
lice came to his rescue.
Another criminal who was re-
lieved to see the police was the
burglar who, in 1936, jammed
himself 25 feet down a chimney
in Aldgate. He had -been there
for thirteen hours, having hoped
to pick up a hoard in a fire-
place which proved to be brick-
ed up,
Arrests are often made in the
oddest' circumstances. A man in
Hobart Tasmania, was nabbed
as he lay -sleeping on a display
bed in a shop window.
No place 'is safe for a wanted
man when the police are on his
trail. Detectives in Cleveland,
Ohio, . ; ,searching f o r Edward
Brow i,. noticed that one of the
beds .Hin his. house was sagging.
Looking underneath, they found
.Edward clinging to the springs
and clear of the floor, Weakly
= •- he said: "I 'was just resting.
Then there was the house-
breaker in Montreal attempting
to escape through the attic. He
fell through the ceiling into the
arms' of the police,
Perhaps even more astonished
was the Indiana woman soaking
in her bath. Police broke down
the door and carried her, still
dripping, to the police station. ..
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Did you ever see so much
baled hay in the fields as there
is this year? It just seems that
in passing through the country
wherever youlook there are
fields and fields of baled hay.
But apparently there is a reason
for it. According to one farm
specialist hay should be baled a
little on the tough side and the
bales left out in the field for a
day or two for the hay to cure—
which is just the opposite from
what farmers were doing: when
baling first became popular.
Then it was baled as dry as pos-
sible and hurried into the barn
before it had a chance to get wet.
If the hay got well cured it was
more by accident than good
management — generally through
lack of help to get it in. Besides
that unless a farmer had his own
baler he had to get his hay done
whenever the baler could • come.
This year it is a little different.
There are so many fellows doing
custom baling they are on the
run to get to each farmer ahead
of the other fellow.
Hay baling is fine when there
is such a definite shortage of
farm help but it seems a crime
there should be such a waste of
good wire and twine afterwards.
For the first year or two farmers
could save the'wire and sell it
for a cent a pound. Now you
can't even give it away. Some
of it can be used for fixing
fences and so on but the rest is
just a waste _product that nobody
wants.
Some .machines operate with
twine, and that is almost as
great a problem as the wire. A
certain amount of it can be made
use of but the proportion is very
small as each bale contains 12 to
16 feet of twine. Multiply that
by a thousand bales and you
have a lot of twine. On many
farms during the spring the
twine is just gathered up and
burnt. And yet, during the de-
pression, I remember so well
that after a threshing Partner
used to rake through the straw
to salvage binder twine for tying
up his grain bags, rather than
cut new twine from a ball. Sure-
ly twine at least could be re -used
in some way, perhaps in the
manufacture of rope. Which re-
minds me . Partner wanted
a halter rope for a calf the other
day, Instead of buying one he
got several lengths of baler
twine and braided them to-
gether. 1t made an excellent
rope. I think twine might also
be used t0 make a braided mat
for the back porch, but that I
haven't tried yet.
Another waste product .. . all
the fine string that is used by
the various food -mixing plants
for fastening the top of jute
bags. Partner always saves the
string until he has a fair-sized
ball. And I save what -I get with
the groceries. I tie the ends in
a flat knot and use the string for
making crocheted dishcloths, done
in an open mesh pattern — two
chain, one treble. The; last
longer than any dishcloths 1
have ever bought. Not only that
you really have something solid
to work with.
Well, it seems that every gen-
eration has its problems with
waste products. When the early
settlers cleared the land they
burned the trees to get rid of
them! Think of the lumber we
could get f,3om that timber now!
Instead of trees to worry about
we have tin cans, glass bottles,
baling wire and dozens of other
things that we don't know what
to do with. And yet with all the
tin cans that are made today you
can hardly find one that has a
handle on it, Remember how
useful those little lard or honey
pails used to be for taking a
drink out to the field. or for the
children picking berries?
It just seems that what one
generation values another gen-
eration condemns, I'or instance
there is chicory! At one time ii
was regarded as a highly nutri-
tive feed for rattle — and not
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To be healthy, the body needs
fuel -foods, fats and carbohyd-
rates (sugars and starches), to
provide energy; proteins, such as
meat, to build new tissues for
growth or to replace those _worn
out; calcium, in milk, for the
strong bones and teeth; and
various minerals, including salt,
that help the body to maintain
its chemical balance and to carry
on its functions.
Vitamins are not foods, but
these "food -factors", as they are
called, are, essential. They help
the body to make use of the food
we eat. Vitamins already pre-
sent in food are usually enough
for a normal person if his diet is
otherwise well balanced.
Every day you should eat
some foods from each of these
groups: (1) milk or milk pro-
ducts,_ including cheese—at least
a pint of milk for an adult and
more for a child; (2) citrus fruits
(oranges, grapefruit), tomatoes,
or raw cabbage or salad greens
—at least one; (3) green or yel-
low vegetables, some raw, some
cooked—at least one big serving;
(4) other vegetables or fruits,
including, potatoes; (5) bread
and cereals; (6) meat, poultry
or fish; (7) eggs—three or four
a week at least; (8) butter or
another vitamin -rich spread.
without reason, Now chemical
sprays are used to kill it. Partner
always claims a good feed of
fresh chicory will increase the •
butter -fat content of the milk
quicker than anything. Cows
will even leave good alfalfa for
a patch, of chicory. I remember
reading a book—but•I have for-
gotten what book — that the
writer fully expected that the
day would come when chicory.
would be cultivated for its high
food value!
And just think what wealth
there is in common cattails.' We
used to call them bulrushes iu
England but I suppose they are
one and the same species.
According to research findings
at Syracuse University the cat-
tail is a goldmine. The root can
be eaten like a potato or ground
into flour. The flour can be used
for cookies or fermented to grow
molds for antibiotics. The fluff
can be used for stuffing for life-
jackets and cushions. Oil, sixni-
lar to linseed, can be extracted
from the seeds, also .ware What
remains can be used for cattle
or chicken feed. And don't think
it hasn't been done. The Rus-
sians, French and Roumanians
make good use of the cattails.
Now I wonder, is Canada
profiting by tills goldmine? If so
perhaps it might be a good idea
if some of us Look to cattail
farming, It might even be a little
less comolrca,ed than ordinary„
present cr . { ...� nit.
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