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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-05-19, Page 6Cufcadte*Tea IALADA" IPME ANNE I4IPST "Dear Anne Hirst: While in high school two years ago our daughter, 20, met a young man 10 years older whom she has not been able to shake off. She is training to be a nurse, and we are much distressed about his effect on her. He is a D.F., has no education, and speaks broken English. She promised a year ago to give him up, but last week she came home terribly upset. When she tries to end the friendship he goes to pieces, and she weakens. "Her closest girl friend thinks our girl is mentally ill. She takes no interest in shows or dancing or sports, and I realize she is far from well. She has lost too much weight in training, though she is doing well in it. "We have always been proud of our three girls and we are not trying to dominate this one; but we feel she is most unwise to keep on with this friendship. What do you suggest? WORRIED PARENTS" • You two are wise to be dis- * tressed. Through her misplaced * sympathy for this weakling * your daughter has become so * emotionally involved that her native intelligence and coin- * mon sense are being under- * mined, She need not be men- * tally ill to have got in...this * state, but she has allowed her * kindness to rule her thinking. * For her own sake, she must * refuse to see him again. Now * that she has confessed, it * should. not be difficult to con- * vince her she is only harming * herself and doing the young * man no good. * He is beyond her aid. Like * the spineless creature he is, * he has fastened himself to her * like a leech, draining her spirit * and effacing her naturally gre_ * garious temperament until she * is practically a recluse, deny- ing herself normal friendships. * If she cannot help herself * Out of this dilemma, you. should * warn him personally that if * he attempts to see her again P.1Sunny Bag `Tot's get reacLy tor bed fast when they can pull. P.,7's out of Ronald Rabbit. Mornings, they push night togs neatly through the opening in bunny's tummse run to make! „ Pattern 601: It's made of two flat pieces plus round, stuffed head .-. so easel Pattern pieces, transfers, SendTWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ,ac- cepted I for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eightepntb Street, New: Tor - 011t0, Ont. Print plainl' PAT- TERN NUMBER, yarn- NAME and. ADDRESS, INSPIP, D MelASM•pages and Magee of nevele designs in our N}iW Laura Wheeler Needle- eraft Catalog fot''106.6i Complete. ly different and so thrilling, you'll, want to order your favor- ite; patterns. Send 2e cetste for your copy of this new, new eaia log NOW! * you will take. steps to prevent * it. 4, 4 WILL RE RETURN 'Dear Anne Hirst; For nearly a year I have been• going regu- larly with a fine young man. Re- cently I called the whole thing off—and how sorry I am! I find I love • him more than I knew, and I miss him more than I can bear. "Twice since then I've been with him, but he says his love .for me is not the same. If it had been real love in the first place, couldn't he forget my silly act? Wouldn't he forgive me and come back? NO NAME" * Sometimes one who loves is * so hurt by unkindness that it * is hard to be reconciled, Per- * haps this young man is afraid * you will repeat the offense,, * and he is in no mood to risk it. * All you can do is wait and * see—and hope. * In your place, I should not * call him, nor write. Let him * find out whether you are * more important in his life i< than he thought; if you are, * he will soon be with you. Parents find that Anne Hirst's opinions and counsel are sens- ible and workable. She does not expect too much—and she keeps her readers' confidence. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. THE CHARM OF MUSIC Music I heard with yot was more than music. —Conrad Aiken. • HRONICLES l'19,REM,t4 Poor old Tippy finally died. He departed this life last Mon- day and the farm seems lone- some without him. According to our "vet" a virus infection had penetrated the liver and spleen and was the main reason why Tip refused to eat. When I told the vet Tip was eleven years old he exclaimed, "Well, after all, what could you expect?" And now for some good news. Last Thursday I heard geese overhead. At least 1 thought I did, but I wasn't sure as I couldn't see them.' But the next day a neighbour told me he heard geese, too. So I guess 1 was right, even though it does seem early. Early geese, early spring --isn't that the old saying? And who will grumble if it proves to be true? Just for the record, the date on which 1 heard the geese was March 10. I haven't seen or heard a robin yet, but there was a blue jay out for an airing this morning and there are certainly plenty of crows and starlings around and the cows are sort of sniffing the air when they are turned out to drink—the way they do when spring is in the air. The willows are getting a yellowy look and the creek is running fast, washing away a corner oi' our front field down by the road, clue to a faulty engineering job at the time the highway was built, As if there wasn't enough soil erosion in the. country al- ready. Vann auction sales are com- ing along thick and fast these days. In the .last three to be posted the present owners are retiring and younger men. have purchased the farms, Which i$ all to the good. We hope the trend continues. You know, farm folk have a lot of adjusting nowadays ---and it isn't always• easy. As every. one knows Saturday used to be the shopping day for farmers and their fannilie:s. As recently as tell years ago almost ever small town was crowded on Sat. urdays with cotiatry fells intent on weekend shopping, and of course visiting among themselves - 'especially on Saturday nights, The' fainilies o C business people were seldotn seen in any great number down town on a Satur- day. Where was .a • sort of uno written law that left that day to the farmers, It made it easier for shoppers and shopkeepers Isstrg 14 — isles MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER—It's the toy vacuum cleaner—not the little girl—that's going to be a big help to mother„ Battery pow- ered, the tank -type cleaner actually picks up crumbs and dust, is designed to keep Sis busy while Mother gets on with the cleaning. It's one of the many "grownup" toys manufacturers are now showing for the 1955 Christmas trade. alike. Industrial workers were, working six days a week at that time. When they did their shop- ping I don't know. But of course there were fewer of them around as industrial plants were small- er in size and number. But the picture has changed. They have the five-day week—so now it is the industrial workers and their families who more or less take over the small town centres . on Saturdays. Pay envelopes pro- vide• the means for the house- wives' shopping; Saturday mati- nees a weekly treat for the chil- dren and every available inch of parking space is taken up. Country children}so want to go to the Saturday hiatinee and to be taken to town while moth- er goes shopping. So a great number of farm people must still go down town Saturday after- noon. Of course they used to wait until Saturday night, but that is practically a thing of the past as now small town store- keepers pracatise Saturday nigh! closing. The result . , . 'f'armers, factory workers, men, women and children, from town and country, all crowd into town at approximately the same time. Stores are jammed. Farm Polls who Leave their shopping until Saturday have trouble in get- ting served.' Older farmers, not having children who took for- ward to this Saturday treat, pow do their best to avoid Saturday ellopping. As for me, there is only one thing that takes me to to town on a Saturday afternoon —just to pick up the weekend edition of a certain newspaper which I would hate to miss, and to get a few books from the library. Last Saturday I found the town particularly busy and I stood at the back of one of the stores—just watching. Finally, during a momentary slack pe- riod, I said to the storekeeper, "You must notice quite a differ- ence in trade these .days." His answer surprised me. "Not as much as you might think," he replied. "The extra town trade we get doesn't begin to make up for the loss of coun- try trade which is becoming in- creasingly evident with the re- duction in farm incomes. We have been aware of the change for some months now." Naturally many country folk know only too well that farm incomes have suffered a set- back, but it was the first time I had heard it was being reflected in small town consumer buying. In fact I had often wondered how long it would take farmers • generally to realize they were not as well off as they might think. Sometimes it takes a gar- ment quite a while before it actually burets at the seams. As far as I can see Saturday night closing only aggravates the situ- ation. In fact I know of a few LOST & FOUND The other day a woman, walked into the lost property department of an omnibus coan.- pany in" Edinburgh. She asked in a foreign accent: "Pave you a pair of gloves I lost?" The man behind the counter search- ed the shelves, but told her than gloves had not turned up. As he was turning away, the woman peered into his face and said: "You are Smith!" The man was amazed. He is indeed Mr, William Smith, of Penny - well Place West, Edinburgh. During the war, he was a prisoner in East Prussia. 11 worked in a cheese factory • scrubbing the cheeses, T h e woman, a German, also worked there, upstairs in the packing department. Mr, Smith took a closer look at the woman, and slowly he began to remember who she was. She told Mr. Smith she had married a Scots soldier and was now living happily hs Edinburgh. Unfortunately 'the German woman had to rush off to meat her husband and in the midst of all the excitement he did not get her address. Mr. Smith is wondering if chance will make the lady lose her handbag or umbrella before he has the opportunity of see- ing heragain and talking over old times. In the spring a young man's 'fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Alfred Tennyson. families, accustomed to shop in one particular town for years, who are now shopping in an- other district because it is the Only small town where stoma remain open on Saturday night. Thxro. taking about a4nacla. 6ti fP4 eletitate s toir 64,4 i,Ig>0 Opemiiitg. o f - iter ,gea hates at 4.6 cof1U.CC1.UGlhla. &A. 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