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"Dear Anne Hirst: I am adding
my Own confession to that of
the woman you wrote of re-
cently, who deliberately planned
to break up a romance. I'm a wi-
dew too, and I set my heart on
a man.
"He had left his wife to join
an old love who had come back
into his life. She was pretty and
smart, and both Oa them as fine
as God ever put breath into. I
set my plans • tO separate them --
and, to my undying regret, I did,
He held a public office; I spread
ugly tales about her until the
whole town rang with the scan-
dal.
"I pursued him without shame.
Had my hair dyed (I'm in the
early !iO's). Gave him money to
keep him interested -- and fin-
ally, I won him, Was I sitting
on top of the world!
"It didn't last, of course. He
got fed up, had himself trans-
ferred to another city, (I even
went to see him there, 1 was
dirt under his feet.) When he
came here for the holidays I
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thought he was corning back to
me. Instead, x saw the two Of
them Christmas shopping. Did
he give me the horse -laugh!
"Today I am an Outcast, None
of my family or old friends speak
to me ... 1 have grieved, and
I still do. But I have begun
praying to God to forgive me,
and give me another chance to
serve. Him. — instead• of trying
to serve another woman's lover,
IN THE DEPTHS"
* You have taken the first
* step toward peace of mind —
* confession — and already you
* are beginning to know iumil-
* ity. As you progress, and learn
* ho* to pray and exercise your
* faith, you will be given
* strength to bear the scorn of
* those who censure you. They
* will be watching, you know,
* and as they see the new wom-
* an emerge they will cease to
* scoff and grow to love you
* again.
•u Dr. Henry Milton Taylor
* wrote a book some time ago,
* "Faith Must Be Lived," which
* he calls a prescription in
* Christian psychology, "an old-
* fashioned medicine chest for
* the soul." It stresses the truth
* that emotional comfort and
* health a r e attained through
* religious good health. It has
both freshness and the feel-
* ing of permanence, and f be-
* lieve it can restore your spirit
* and bring real consolation to
* a woman of- your intelligence
* and determination.
* Stay with your church and
* practice your faith. You will
* come through.
N. N+ *
HIS MOTHER. OPPOSES
"Dear Anne Hirst: I am 21,
and for three years I've been a
widow. (My husband was kill-
ed in action.) I have two small
children. A year ago • I .net a
young man, and we have been
in love for at least six months,
He loves my babies, and he
wants to marry me,
"But his mother objects, be-
cause rve been married before.
His father recently died, so he
feels responsible for her.
"Shall -I keep on seeing him, or
try to forget? Thank you for
any advice.
ARGYLL"
* Let time have its way.
* Some mothers do object to
* their sons marrying a girl who
* has married before. In your
* instance, she May feel that the
* responsibility pf two .; babies;;wxs.,.
too lnuch fora young man' of
* 24. Also, since her widow's
* grief is still new, she may feel
* she cannot spare her son just
* yet.
* Why not suggest that he
* promise her he will not marry
* for a year? That may appeal
* to her, and mpke • her feel
* more kindly toward the idea,
* You have had a sad life of
* your own, and I hope that one
* day this happiness will come
*to you.
N ; Ni
If dark days are upon you, tell
Anne Hirst about it. Her experi-
ence in weighing human prob-
lems, and her sympathy and un-
derstanding can help ,y o, u
through. Write her at l3ox 1j 123
Eighteenth Street, New Toronto,
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Double Tragedy — At Flint, Mich feks. Elmer Price holds one of
her triplets, Anita Sue, who is expected to retain the vision she
now has in one eye. The other. babies, Deborah Lynn and Janet
Kay, are blind. Doctors have been unable to diagnose the ail-
ment which has robbed two of the children of their eyesight,
The triplets are eight months old.
We had a shower of rain this
morning, It lasted for exactly
five minutes, Had it lasted for
five hours we would have been
better pleased, It must be at least
a month since we had a real rain.
Everything is looking brown and
shrivelled—grass, shrubs, plants,
gardens = yes, even the weeds.
However, in spite of the dry
weather we had our first picking
of green peas today and they
were sweet and tender as could
be, How they managed to pod
and fill I'll never know. I notice
on many farms wheat has been
cut and stocked, which will,be
a great relief to the ownrs.
After a prolonged dry spell there
is always that fear that a. storm
will blow up and flatten the
wheat before it is cut. And there
is nothing more discouraging to
a fanner than a storm -flattened
field of grain, Maybe we are
-wrong, but Partner and I ' have
a feeling that farmers have fad
more worrieeeleev ,tkram? they la
'il ydar"s gone>:by, i $''r:nriore d
weather, lack of help, more ex-
pensive machinery, fertiliser, to
buy, regulations for this and
that, and with it all the price of
wheat so low in comparison with
the cost of production, Small
wonder that so many farmers
sell out when a good offer comes
along for their property, But
have you noticed there are more.
young and middle-aged farmers
selling out than oldex people?
Those who are young enough to
work out take a chance but the
older man hangs on to what he
has got ... if he can. Sometimes
he has little choice—as for in-
stance if his land is needed as
part of a new road or the St.
Lawrence Seaway. He may put
up some opposition but the final
result is always the same. It was
the same when the railroads were
being built, I was told one time
of a roan who said they would
never lay track down across Iris
farm . `, no sir! Sure enough
when the work gangs finally
appeared this old fellow went
after them with, an axe! How
the differences were settled I
don't know, but I do know that
the track was laid,
Well, I really believe Partner
feels like a schoolboy on holiday
—at least for a day or two, Our
hay is all in the barn—and of
course none of it got wet. How
could it? Since we finished hay-
ing two more cows have freshen-
ed now if Partner has less work
in one way he has more in
another, And that's the way it
goes. But we certainly needed
those cows to come in. Dry pas-
tures do little to increase the milk
flow. Hot, dry weather l; also
hard on the hens.
By the way. I don't think 1
ever told you about our "little,
small red hen." This is what
happened. One morning, about
six weeks ago, I was looking out
of the living -room window and •
out in the front garden I saw
something moving about among
the shrubs. I kept watching and
presently I saw it was a hen,
"Well now, how did you get
there?" I wondered, I asked
Partner if he had left the door
open in the henpen or if there
was a broken window anywhere.
The answer was "no" and "why".
Then I realized the hen I had
seen was red and our own were
black and red. The mystery
deepened, It couldn't be a stray
Irons a neighbouring farm as
none of our neighbours has red
hens. There was only one solu-
tion, The hen must have escaped
from a chicken dealer's truck and
come in from the road. The hen
'stayed in the shelter of the
• shrubs all day. At night we
caught her and put her with the
other biddies. She .settled down
quite happily in her new quar-
ters until the time carne for her
to start laying again. Did she
'use a nest . box like the other
. hens? Oh, no, nothing so com-
anon for this hen, She gets over
the top of a partition that separ-
ates the henpen from the
,granary. Once in the granary
she makes a nice cosy nest for
herself, lays an egg and then
gets back to the henpen the same
:way as she left it. That has been
going on now for several weeks.
Sometimes she scratches around
in the barn for a while and she
could escape altogether if she
wanted to. But no, every day
our, little red hen goes back to
the pen quite of her own accord,
Quite a personality, our Biddy.
Now I should tell you about
Mitchie-White, Remember he
had one leg almost severed by
the mower last year. We won-
. dered if the same thing would
`° happen this year, as the long,
standing hay was Mitthie's
',favourite hunting ground. The
fast time Partner went out with
the mower Mitchie couldn't be
ound. However, Partner was
the watch and on his first'
edelier saw -a white. etr,eakk; tear
';"„ " a'?utirthe field Tike-neatf along
y tie,fence. We didn't need to
worry any more. Mitchie and
the mower were never again in
the field at the same time. But
once the mower and tractor were
back in the shed Mitchie came
out of hiding and spent the whole
evening hunting amid the new
mown hay;
Well, I hear the dogs barking.
That means Bob and Joy have
arrived for supper.
Milli :' ns Of islands
For. Sale Or For
Rent
At the moment there are more
than one million quite habitable
islands for sale or rent in and
around the United States and
Canada. You can buy some of
them for as little as ten dollars
an acre. You can lease others up
to a thousand acres in area for
twenty-five dollars ti year. They
lie scattered along the coasts
Morning Mary •- Viennese bal.
lerina Helen Sedial< is a delight-
ful sight along the beach in
Ostia, Italy. She attributes her
youthful beauty fo early -morn
ing exerci.es under Mediterra-
neen senshine.
and in lakes and rivers all the
way from the Gulf of 111exio to
Alaska, Some are tame and eas-
ily accessible, Others are as wild
and remote as anyone with a
mind to escape from civilization
coul d want.
Actually, one million plus is
merely an estimate of the abso-
lute minimum of habitable North
American islands, There may be
twice that many or more. No one
has ever attempted to count them
individually,., Even the various
state and provincial governments
which retain ownership of most
of them have only the vaguest
ideas of the numbers within their
domains... .
Neither the imaginary paradise
nor the less appetizing reality
bears any resemblance to what
you will find among North Am-
erican islands, but even so the
variety is enormous. One type
is the sea island of the coast of
New England and the Maritime
Provinces. There are between
four and five thousand of these.
Most are now privately owned,
but a few are always for sale at
prices as low as three or four
hundred dollars, Usually covered
with spruce, or lir, they often
have rocky shores which make
them difficult to approach. .
Near the opposite extreme are
the low, sandy, semitropical is-
lands of the Florida and Gulf
coasts. .Estimates of the number
of these range as high as half a
million, but the great majority
of them are either too swampy
or too dry to be habitable. Thous-
ands, of course, hover on the bor-
der line and can be hauled back
across it if you have the pioneer-
ing spirit. A few such can be
leased from state governments.
But most of the more desirable
prices depend on the types of
ones are privately owned, and
houses which have been built ,on
them.
In most of the eastern part of
the continent, lake and river is-
lands are far more numerous than
coastal ones. The Canadian prov-
ince of Ontario in fact, may have
all by itself more than a million
habitable islands, probably the
world's greatest concentration of
small bodies of land surrounded
by water. Most are Crown prop-
erty, and the provincial govern-
ment : is glad to sell them to eith-
er Canadians or United States
citizens. The price is a flat forty-
five dollars per acre with a limit
of ten acres to a family and a .
requirement that a cert a i n
amount of building be done on
the property during the first year
or two after purchase. — From
"One Million Islands for Sale,"
by Robert Froman;
Slot -Machines Are
Really Sig
usiness
Mrs, Ephraim Seeker opened
her big mouth for a crisp slice
of pastry and suddenly gave
Ephraim an outsized idea. he
Bath Mrs, George Weaver acct••
dentally swallowed a penny she
had been holding in her teeth --
That's how, simultaneously is
England and the 'U.S., the idea
for slot -machines was born.
Ephr:.irn invented a slot ma-
chine to dole out. plugs Of chew-
ing tobacco, George Weaver pill-
ed up a $50,000 fortune with.
"automatic machines" that sola
peppermints. Even then both
were undoubtedly beaten by A
man ho lived in Alexandria
2,000 years ago and invented a
slot -machine for the temple Of
Venus.
When the coin dropped it tip -
ed a balance which Opened a
valve, giving the pilgrim a gush.
of holy water.
It's just over 100 years since
Eph and George were rivals.
Now there are slot -machines
that clean your shoes, wash your
clothes, play gramophone re-
cords or sell insurance. The new-
est railway station machine sella
30 different snacks to hungry
travellers. Nearby, a . gently
thrumming sister machine dis-
penses orange juice,
One machine murmurs "Thank
you" when it .sells a chocolate
bar. In Utah the unhappily wed.
have merely to drop the required.
coins in a slot to get their div-
orce papers which then have
only to be signed and legally
endorsed.
New York department stores
now leave order -taking machines
at their doors after closing
hours. A customer wanting an
article displayed in the window
pops in a coin and speaks ,oto the
machine, giving his order with
name , and address. The goods
are delivered C.O.D. next day.
Coin-operated typewriters —
long in use in Germany—will
soon be appearing in Britain in
railway stations and hotels. For
sixpence the machine unlocks,
enabling the user to write a lets
ter. Then there's the new in-
telligence -testing device coming
up at the seaside. The customer
has to answer five questions
flashed on a screen. The machine
then automatically grades his
intelligence rating Army style.
In Canada and the United
States slot machines are estim-
ated good for an annual billing
dollar sale.
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1 egg yolk, slightly beaters
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