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"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
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'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.
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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
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MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER—It's the toy vacuum cleaner—not the
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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.
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