HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-08-11, Page 6"Dear Anne Hirst: Last fall,
when my sweetheart was order-
ed overseas, he wanted to get
married. We bought the wed-
ding rings (which I paid for)
and made arrangements with
Our priest. Then he called me
up and said to forget it; he
couldn't get enough time off!
"Two weeks ago he wrote me
he wants to break our engage -
anent. I told his family, who
couldn't believe it. Because my
parents had been helping so
wonderfully with our plans, I
can't bear to tell them this. I
asked him if there was another
girl and he replied No — but
what could I do if there were?
"So it sounds like there is
somebody else. . . . I simply
cannot let him go, Anne Hirst,
Y love him too much. I haven't
looked at another pian since we
got engaged. I'd do anything to
get him back, but if I admit we
are through, everybody will
make fun of me! Yet should I
give him up? And how can 1
tell my parents?
UNSIGNED"
HE GAVE YOU UP
I'm afraid you will have to
* face the bitter truth: It is not
e a question of giving the young
'* man up; he has broken the
* engagement, and you can do
* nothing but accept it. Tell
* your parents and your priest
* immediately. They will be
* shocked, but at him, not you.
* They will help you through.
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"` 1f you adrnit to your friends
that you have been jilted,
they will pity you. Why not
'" simply say you have changed
* your mind and would rather
* not talk about it? I think your
* family will approve this.
* Whether or not another girl
* is involved, there is no getting
* the lad back. He has made his
* decision, and no one with any
* self-respect would 1 r y to
`'' change it. Call on
your self-
respect now. Hold your head
* high. Look up boys you used
to know and date them;
* whether the idea appeals or
not, that will help you more
* than you believe today.
* I am sorry. I realize how
* you must reorganize your
* dreams of the future, and the
adjustment will be hard. But
* your attitude will prove what
* you are — a girl of character
* who shows the rest of the
* world how a lady. behaves
* under stress.
"DOES HE LOVE ME-"
"Dear Anne Hirst: My trouble
is that I don't know whether the
boy I care for loves me or not.
I am 18 and he is 22, and I want
to marry him — but he has not
asked me. One night he said he
was the `nearest to marriage'
he'd ever been, but I've heard
other boys say things like that.
"He only sees me once a
week; his father died a year ago
and he has a mother and sister
to look after. He is bashful, but
he's the settled type, too. If he
is too shy to ask me, how can
I let him know I love him?
(I'm not the sort to ask a boy
to marry me.) I know this let-
ter isn't good enough to be
printed, but do let me hear
something soon.
GERRY"
You cannot know whether
" the boy loves you unless he
* says so. He may care, but
'" with his responsibilities he
* cannot think of marrying, di
* expect, for quite a while, so
he hesitates to commit him-
* self. The surest way ' to em-
barrass him would be to imply
h" that yon love him. No 'matter
how shy a young man is, he
* wants io take the initiative
° and he would resent such a
declaration; it would put him
* on the spot, and that, of course,
* you would shrink from doing.
Time is your best ally. Try
* to be patient. Whether the
* idea appeals or not, I urge you
not to forsake your other
* friends but accept their dates
* frequently. It will keep you
better balanced emotionally
* and make you a more interest-
* ing companion to this lad as
* well.
* * *
When you feel your heart is
breaking, keep it to yourself,
Go through the motions of liv-
ing, and before long they will
•have some meaning again. A
setter to Anne Hirst can bring
you comfort and courage. Write
her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.,
New Toronto, Ont.
UNAVAILABLE
Seeking to steer clear of the
Soviet orbit, Eiiezer Kaplan, the
finance minister of the very
young state of Israel, journeyed
to America recently to float a
five - hundred - million - dollar
bond issue.
The directors of a conservative
Wall Street banking house list-
ened courteously to his story,
and then the chairman asked
him, "Would it be possible, Mr.
Kaplan, to let us see Israel's
last three annual balance
sheets?"
Kaplan answered, "The last ,
two, Mr. Chairman, I can pro-
duce without difficulty. The one
before that, I am afraid disap-
peared when the Temple was
destroyed in 586 B.C.!"
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BEATING THE HEAT -It may give him a tummyache, but 7 -
month -old Joey Jordon will at least be cool for a: while. The
little citizen, is about to dig into a huge slice of iced water-
melon, a method of beating the heat thats much older than
Joey,
HRONICLF.S
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WRITTEN FROM East Anglia ,
Well, I had to read through
a carbon copy of last week's
column to find out where I had
been and where I said I was
going next. So now we proceed
to Bath. This was for the pur-
pose of visiting my cousin-81--
who
ousin-81-who lives in a private home for
the aged, and also my aunt -in-
law, 84, who lives in a big house
by herself. I passed the famous
Roman Baths but did not have
time to visit them.
My trip to Bath was by motor:
coach from Swanage—by way of
Bournemouth, Christchurch, New
Forest, Warminster, Salisbury,
Bradford-on-Avon and smaller
places. As we came through
New Forest there were dozens
of Forest ponies roaming the
road. The coach -driver had to
weave his way in and out among
them as some of them would not
budge an inch. One little foal
was lying stretched out in the
grass alongside the road. A fel-
low -passenger ' told me these
ponies are often quite a nuisance
to farmers in the district. They
invade fields, barnyards and
gardens. If gates and doors are
left open they are quite likely
to walk into any farm kitchen
that is handy.
Every fall there is a round -up
of ponies for identification. Some
are banded, others have their
tails trimmed in a certain way.
Needless to say many farmers
think the ponies are quite a
nuisance but they are definitely
a great tourist attraction. As I
saw them wandering around the
roads 1, wondered how long they
would be tolerated by motorists
on our Canadian highways!
Speaking of motorists I don't
think there could be better
drivers anywhere than those I
have seen in the English and
Scottish districts I have visited.
The place where my cousin
lives is in an isolated district off
the main road, six miles from
Bath, so I was told by the coach
driver that 1 would have to get
off the bus and take a local
train!
"Aroona", home for the aged,
stands amid acres and acres of
its own grounds. It was once
an old Manor House and the
setting was breath -taking in its
beauty. Every window loolzed
out upon well -kept lawns and
gardens and beyond the gardents
trees and more trees growing
on a grassy slope leading to a
very high peak among the hills.
There were bids everywhere I
even saw a little wee English
robin whose only resemblance to
the Canadian robin was its reed
breast.
01 course the home itself was
old and huge and accommodated
the staff and twenty-two pay -
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Established 1855
ing residents. The old people
' are well -cared for and comfort-
able. Theoretically they should
be happy. Some of them are not,
Their complain is—"too much
isolation—nothing to see and
very little to do." They said—
"Just because we are old we
don't want to be shut away from
the world completely. We want
to see and know what is going
on around us:"
One dear, contented old lady
is 96. She asked if I were fam-
iliar with Fay Inchfawn's writ-
ing and was delighted when I
told her I had several of her
charming little books of homely
wit and wisdom. "Then you must
' meet her," said Mrs. King, "I
want you to do that." So cousin
Mabel took me over to a lovely
house just across the road—the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ward, the
latter better known to the public
as Fay Inchfawn—a lady of great
charm and grace. To me the visit
Was, most enjoyable. When we.
carne away Mrs. Ward gave me
an autographed copy of her lat-
est delightful little book "As I
Lay Thinking".
The Warden (matron) at the
home was kindness itself and
offered me a room for the night
so I could have more time with
my cousin.• I give you these de-
tails so as to present a truce
picture of British hospitality.
Incidentally, the Warden was
with the Children's Aid Society
in Toronto for six months about
two years ago.
' The next morning I visited •
my aunt -in-law in Bath. She
is quite contented as she still has
her own home — although the
house is far too big for an
eighty - four - year - old person.
However, if every one could be
as bright, energetic and happy
as she is old age would never be
a problem. We had lunch and
a few happy hours together.
Then it was back to Swanage
far me—a five hour journey.
Next morning I went by train
to Cambridge and here I am
staying with a married nephew
who was born after I left Eng-
land 36 years ago.
Cambridge itself has altered
very little. I was able to • find
my way around without any
trouble. "Parker's Piece" is still
here—with boys in white flan-
nels (pants) playing cricket. On
the main street there is an anti-
que shop which the late Queen
Mary often used to visit. "Boots",
cash chemists is still on the cor-
ner of Petty Cury and two book
stores that do a large foreign
trade are in the same old loca-
tion. Of course the grandeur of
the Colleges has not changed
except that some of the decora-
tive carving and gilt work has
been restored to its original col-
our and beauty. The famous
"Backs" of the colleges are as
green and restful as ever, and
"The Bridge of Sighs" remains
to capture one's imagination
IT MAX BE
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ISSUE 83 — 1955
Grandchester, beloved by Rupert
Brooke, is still an unspoiled
village, with its old Rectory and
thatched roof cottages.
The outskirts of Cambridge,
like other districts, has mush-
roomed with Council Houses,
new sub -divisions and industrial
plants, There is very little dif-
ference between it and many
parts of Ontario. I am staying
in a built-up area on a road be-
tween Newmarket and Cam-
bridge that I remember as a
country road through the little
village of Cherry Hinton.. Today
we visited a cemetery where my
sister-in-law was buried four
years ago, and my brother two
years ago. Part of the cemetery
has been set aside as a cemetery
for Air Force officers and men,
killed during the last war. They
and from all Allied countries, in-
cluding Canada. Each grave is
marked with a white cross bear-
ing the crest of the country to
which the officer or N.C.O. be-
longed. Needless to say all the
graves are well cared for with
roses growing at the foot of each
cross,
MORE DIPTHERIA
The number of diptheria
cases reported in Canada climb-
ed to 208 last year from 132 in
ht:1953, the first increase since
"1944.
Handwriting Is
Health Barometer
If ,your handwriting's bad, be-
ware! It could lose you a for-
tune.
An Italian won no less than
$125,000 in a football pool a lit-
tle while ago. But for a long time
he could not be traced because
his handwriting on the coupon
was unreadable.
Graphology experts say that
all over the world people's hand-
writing is becoming less legible.
One of the main causes is the
fact that life today is so hectic.
- Many people tend to write too
fast — to scrawl, in fact.
A London professor has de-
clared that our handwriting Is a
good health barometer. The
healthy child is a better hand -
writer than the delicate child, he
says. He mentioned a woman
whose handwriting was week by
week "a most sensitive baro-
meter to her physical and emo-
tional condition."
Another expert points out that
aright hv
amountof nourishing food
frequently writes illegibly. His
writing lacks the buoyancy and
• clarity which distinguishes that
of a well-fed man.
An Austrian psychologist w1u
investigated the signatures and
handwriting of 8,000 people,
many of them famous, said:
"You can disguise your voice,
but not your handwriting. Peo-
ple who are told that large cap-
ital letters are a sign of vanity
and who try to remodel their
handwriting, find that in mo-
ments of emotion they go back
to those bold flourishes."
Commenting on Sir Winstorn
Churchill's handwriting, he said
the fancy curved tails to his let-
ter y's were a sure sign of pow-
erful erful imagination.
IVlany famous men have writ-
ten badly. Napoleon's handwrit-
ing was once called the worst lex
Europe. Actor Sir Henry Irvin
wrote so illegibly that an ex-
employee of his who had secured!
a Iine or two of Irving's stage in-
structions with signature ap-
pended used the note for yearn
as a free pass to a London thea-
tre!
PARTY PIECE
Guest (departing at last):
"Good-bye. Hope I haven't kept
you out of bed."
Host (politely): "That's ail
right. We would have been get-
ting up soon in any case."
VEVA
NO EXCEPTION —• Shapely Cleo
Moors is Miss Billboard of 1955,
so she was due for the inevit-
able ..glasses, .:mustache ..and
whiskers drawn by some mis-
chievous man. The actress w015
her title at Las Vegas.
VANILLA ICE R
EAM
Ya cup granulated sugar
7/2 2 tablespoons BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch
teaspoon salt
1 egg, unbeaten
2 cups milk
%a teaspoons vanilla
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
MIX sugar, BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch and
salt in top of double boiler.
ADD egg, mixing well.
STIR in milk gradually; mix until smooth.
PLACE over boiling water and cook, stirring con-
stantly, until mixture is slightly thickened, about
5 to 6 minutes,
REMOVE from heat, add vanilla; cool.
POUR into refrigerator freezing tray.
CHILL until just firm, setting cold control for fast
freezing.
REMOVE chilled mixture to bowl; beat with rotary
beater.
FOLD in whipped cream; blend weft.
RETURN to freezing tray; freeze 2 to 3 hours.
SET cold control midway between fest freezing and
normal for storage.
YIELD: about 1 quart
Choco/ate Ice Creams Follow above recipe. Omit egg
and e cooking.
dd squares unsweetened chocolate to mixture
For free folder of other
delicious recipes, write to
Jane Ashley,
Home Service Department
THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY
LIMITED,
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