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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-05-17, Page 2AN f !41R5.T) �..�:1 6unae8o2 "Dear Anne Hirst: For over a year I went with an awfully nice boy, who was like a brother to nae. After he joined the Army, though, he wrote he was in love with me and hoped I would wait for hint , , Now he is on his way back, and. thinks I'm ready to marry hint! "Re has some wonderful traits which other friends of mine lack. He is kind„and Unselfish, and always thinking of me; he doesn't smoke or drink. I kept all this in mind when I said I'd be waiting, though I knew it wasn't love I felt. Incidentally, his parents are grand and they like me a lot, I know he would make a wonderful husband. "I haven't been able to tell him I'm 'not in love—it would hurt him too much. I keep think- ing that maybe I'll get to love him after we marry. But what if that didn't happen? GRACIE” BE HONEST * Don't think of marrying any • * lad with whom you are not * in love. It isn't fair to yourself * or to him; he would sense it, * and no, self-respecting man * wants .an unwilling bride. It * is possible, too, that even * though married, you would Week's Sew -Thrifty .�r� 1i C��,S .1111 a'S melt* Iii ii ` aia�IaSI sae B1r, til! I f iI in 11 4:. •'Iri ii1'�, MM. ti r . ,,,1 1152.11 1,T "mane( tape Ina et. PIM i• mta a\� i ; ma111•11A11t!1e i, am ��l.10 lia 0111‘ ' 4�itr1441. � .ell: r ala 1• >u efe 204 ,A1 a + Nil . toa titling In J ttgarlaw ice" ' Only FOUR main pattern parts to cut out. stitch! See the diagram, how EASY it is to make this pretty summer. dress'. Its smooth, simple lines are so Battering to your figure. ShouI- iier bows untie' for jiffy ironing. Choose a gay cotton — sew it now! Pattern 4506: Misses' Sizes 12. 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes an/¢ yards -35-inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (350) (stamps,can.not be accept- ed, use postal note for safety) for this pattern.. ..Print. plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, 123, Eighteenth St. New Toron- to, Ont. * fail in love with someone else. * How tragic that would be! * When he arrives, tell him * honestly you aren't ready to be * engaged •yet, that you lake. * and admire him more than * anyone you know, but you * cannot marry anybody under * false, pretenses Of course, you * should have told him all this '" earlier, so admit it. He will * be disappointed, but he will * appreciate your honesty and I * predict he will set out prompt- * ly to win your heart. * Too many young girls can- * not bear to deny they will * wait for a lad leaving for the 4' service—sometimes they are * sorry for him, often because * they want to boast they're * engaged to a serviceman. Too * late, they see their mistake,. * and the complications that * arise can be more than em- * barrassing. * It is best to be honest, ec-en * at this late day. *1 *1 * WHY WASTE TIME? "Dear Anne Hirst: My parents only let me date twice a week, and lately the only boy I like has broken a few dates on the spur of tins moment. That was all right for a while, but now he keeps it up. Other things he does hurt me, too. "He declares he loves me, but he. has certainly changed in a big way. Shall I keep on seeing him? UNHAPPY" * When you have only two * dates a week, isn't it extrava- * gent to give them to a boy * who treats you as he pleases? * What fun you could be having with a well-bred lad whom * you can trust to keep his * word! * You must be very easily * pleased to put up with such * nonsense; it is painful and is * getting you nowhere. A date * is a boy's -given word; if you * are constantly worried won- * dering whether he will live * up to it, what pleasure are you having? * Send him off, date nicer * boys who think you are worth * their time ,and will treat you * as considerately as you de- * serve. If you haven't known *. any, look about you in church • and in school and use that * litle head of yours to encour- * age those .who seem worth * while. Cultivate girl friends, * too, for throughthem, you will * meet boys who were brought • up • to be gentlemen. * * * In any time of indecision, te.il Anne Hirst about it. Her long experience and her waren sym- pathy have given her a deep insight, and her counsel is safe to follow, Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toron- to, Ont. HIS MISTAKE He. was a new office boy and' was having great trouble in keeping callers from disturbing his boss. "When I say you're out. they never believe tie, sir," he said, "They say they must see you." "Whatever t1eY say, be firm," snapped the boss. "Tell them 'That's what they all say. It's im- possible.'" That afternoon a tough -look- ing woman called' and asked to see the boss. "Impossible," . said the bby, firmly, "But I'm his wife," said the woman. "That's what they all say, .ma'am," was the reply.. HIS DAILY BREAD — That's no special loaf of bread that six, • year-old Arturo Fernandez is struggling with, It'san average- sized loaf that folks down in Buenos Aires, Argentina, use, Argentines claim theirs to be the •largest daily loaf of bread in the world, 207 BIRTHDAYS—Between them, these two. women' have nearly tripled the Biblical lite span of three score and ten years. Mrs. Charlotte Bonner, left, winks as she shows off congratulations from President Eisenhower and Cook County board president Daniel F. Ryan. She is 106, and has outlived three husbands and four children. Youngster of the two is Mrs. Pauline Sandoval, right, who is only 101. Mrs. Sandoval, has had a doctor's at- tention only twice in her life. The first time was 11 years ago, when the medico told her. she'd soon be blind. She still has sight in her right eye and now the doctor is getting glasses for her so she can enjoy her favorites—her flower garden and watching boxing, wrestling and cowboy movies on TV. Hired Baby -Sitter For • American humorist H. Alien Smith says he's spent half his life glorifying in his ignorance. One day he went to:a neigh- bour's party, and the last guests to arrive were a wealthy manu- facturer and his wife. Apolo-• gizing for being late, the man said: "We had trouble getting a sitter." Allen Smith naturally as- sumed that he meant a baby- sitter, but found he meant a sit- ter for his' dog, which they never left alone, Around ' Mount Kisco, near. Smith's home,' there's a million- aire who scurries about carry- ing large baskets of eggs which he sells to local groceries. When he went there to live he decid- edto keep a few chickens. They multiplied, and he kept build- ing more 'chicken houses. They got filled up, and still he built more until the time came when eggs were being . produced at the rate of machine-gun fire. Either he couldn't get help or couldn't keep it, and he was trapped. Meeting him lugging his eggs into a depot Smith laughed at him and asked why, with ail his money, he spent his days carrying eggs around. "It's this • way," he said. "When I started building chick- en houses all my friends and even my wife said I was crazy. So rd start another • chicken house, and the more I added the more they told me I. was a fool. "Then one day it dawned on me that I had about 25,000 dol- lars tied up in chicken houses, And something had to be done about the eggs. I couldn't go out and burn the chicken houses down and have done with them; I had to prove that I had been right. So what have I been do- ing for the. last four years? Peddling eggs: You need any?" Bergen Evans's selections from- Smith's books — "The World, the Flesh, and H. Allen Smith" are rich in stories like these. On the anniversary of Rudolph • Valentino's death, Smith says, the press agent in- duced a reporter and photogra- pher to watch with him near the crypt. Soon a big ear drove up, and out of it steppeda woman in black, heavily veiled, who placed red roses at the tomb, knelt briefly, and didn't seem to notice when the camera clicked. When the reporter stepped out to question her, she ran to the car and escaped. It was a master -stroke. Newspapers all over the coun- try played up the story of "The Lady in Black." There was wide speculation on her identity. The next August 23rd there were two ladies in black with red roses; the year after, more; and • finally ,so many that they .were other .underfoot to get to the practically trampling one an- . other underfoot to get to the tomb! Hollywood undertakers ad- vertise with zippy radio pro- grammes and billboard displays. One old -established undertak- er refused to join this colossal promotion movement, but at last surrendered to the march of progress. They put up dozens of huge billboards describing themselves simply as: "THE UNDERTAKERS WHO DO NOT ADVERTISE:" His Dog "There,- are so many weird' things you can see in a single day," Smith's friend, Fred Al- len, said. "There is a shoeshine stand where the coloured fel- low will not shine your shoes without turning' on some swing music and beating time against your ankles with his brushes, thus attracting large crowds who stand and watch you be- ing polished to ragtime ." A news agency reporter, he added, happened to be .at Para- mount the day Dorothy Lamour had her hair cut He asked her if he could cut off the first lock, kept it, and wrote a story about it, which was used in 200 news- papers all over the country, say- ing he'd be glad to give the lock to 'the first person who ;wrote in, The next day came a deluge of telegrams and long-distance calls from as far away as Bos- ton. Mail continued coming by thesackful, begging for that lock of hair, even offering large sums for it! Smith says that whenever Cecil B. DeMille is shooting 'even casehardened studio secre- taries knock off work it watch because the master director puts on a bigger show than the actors, Smith witnessed him arrive • for a scene. A step or two be- hind him were six personal aides. He walked with slow, deliberate step, ignoring the mob of employees gathered on the side lines. • He spoke no word but stopped alongside the big Technicolor camera. Removing his hat, he tossed it over his shoulder. A hand came up and caught it. He took off his necktie, cast it into the air behind him. A necktie man grabbed it. Slowly he unbutton- ed his jacket, still staring fix- edly at the scene, and let' it slip from his arms. A jacket man caught it as it began to fall. Smith was surprised, then, to see the Master actually roll up his own sleeves. He quotes a story of a New York newspaper man who, on his first visit to Hollywood as At:Wit:vs guest, was taken to see the sights — the Hollywood. Bowl, the Farmers' Market, the assorted Brown Derbies. the Sunset strip, and finally Forest Lawn Memorial Park, man's most splendid achievement in the way of graveyards, with its Lawns, fountains, . pools, trees; statutary, edifices and "Resur- rection Slope:" He drank in all the shining beauty, sighed and said: "These . Hollywood people sure know how to live!" On a visit to- England. Smith insisted on seeing • the playing fields of Eton, • He stood for several minutes at the edge of one, feeling" gusts *of emotion sweeping' through his soul as he . Murmured: "Just to think. This is where the Battle of Yorktown was lost!" (By the British forces in the American War of Inde- pendence,) COMING CLOSIE A newspaper editor, with some space to fill, set up the Ten 'Corn-- bandthents and ran ,them with- out editorial comment. The next' day he got a letter from a subscriber which said: i*Cancel any subscription; you're getting too personal," HRONICL * i,xr,w ES ANGARFM,Ilvi Thut clock I mentioned last week — the one that sounded like a buzz -saw — it's back to normal again now. Apparently something was wrong . with its lubrication .SYstem. Something very wrong, I would say, for I never heard anything like it. Even after we got it home again I thought at first it was just as bad as ever. There was still a noise. I listened and listened . , and then I laughed. It wasn't, the clock I heard but a passen- ger train chugging its way . out of the station! I thought I would let you know about our timepiece just in case any of you might have a similar ex- perience. Incidentally, there was no charge for fixing the clock as it came under the guarantee. Well, I guess in time we shall get used to queer noises around here. The other night Rusty was barking like fury. There didn't seem to be anyone on the premises so we finally called him in so that peace and quiet- ness might be restored. Next morning we discovered the reason for his excitement. On the highway, just below our line fence, there is a S-bend, complete with guard rails. Someone driving a new car, ap- parently lo st 'control of the vehicle; went through the fence and over the bank. I' 'suppose Rusty heard voices when the tow -truck was called to the scene. We don't know. why that accident happened but I was on a county road the other day on which anything could happen. Up to the brow of a certain hill the road was. good. Just over the brow it was anything but • good. The road had heaved bad- ly and left a huge 'boil" right across the road. Naturally this was obscured by the hill. And • yet there was no warning sign to indicate what was ahead. An unwary motorist could be. in the ditch before he knew what had happpned. In which case I believe he could bring a charge against the county be- cause of the absence of warn- ing sign — if he could prove the accident was the result of road conditions. Motorists are continually urged to drive care- fully. Isn't it just as necessary for those in charge of county and township roads to erect warning signs when road condi- tions are unsafe for normal driving? Last week we saw a similar instance in another county. Only worse. Again it was just over the brow of the hill. But in this case, for the width of a car the road was good. But in that very spot a car was parked! As a result Bob had to drive through the worst of the 'boil.' Roads are bound to break up in spring. It is unreasonable to expect repairs to be made all at once. But I don't think itis unreasonable to expect . that warning signs be erected when necessary. After all, farmers as taxpayers, are shareholders in county and township roads. And surely shareholders are entitled to express an opinion, or voice a complaint if insufficient atten- tion be given to roads that pro- vide hazards for motorists. But let's think of life on a higher level. Yesterday l heard geese up aloft. I couldn't see them because of the clouds, but at least it was cheery to hear them and the song spar- rows and robins. Later in the day we heard swamp frogs sing- ing, So there we have life on three levels. Under the water,. on the ground, and above the clouds. And all creatures akeep to their own level except man. Man, by his ingenuity, has dis- covered means to dive below the surface of the waters and to soar above the skies, al- though the majority still swarm' over the • earth like ants on a hill. Yesterday we realised this only too well as we went down to Oakville to have dinner with Joy and Bob. In the afternoon Bob took us all around the town and its surroundings; the huge Ford place, the new ce- ment plant that covers even more acreage. And then the houses . . , subdivision after subdivision — and every finish- ed house was occupied. If they were not already being lived in you would wonder where the people were all coming from to fiill them. I'm telling• you. it seemed very quiet and secluded when , we. got back to Ginger Farm. But *during the night I was awake quite a bit. and do you know, while I was trying to get off to sleep again, all I could see was hooves . rows and rows of house. Houses with pink roofs and yellow doors — or blue, green or terra-cotta. Houses, except for the colour- ing, all so very much alike. Our hundred -and -two-year-old house looked drab by comparison. Ah, well... I hear a truck coming up the lane. That means two- reore of our farm family will soon be on their way to the stockyards. Who knows, next time you buy veal steak or cutlets you may be eating veal that was raised at Ginger Farm.. Now that should be a ° privilege! I think we should have "G.F." stamped on the carcass just for fun. On the other hand initials can be misleading.` "G.F." could stand equally well for "Good For- tune" or "Great- Failure" justdepending on your sense of values. "STOLE" -THE SHOW -=- Polka- dotted stole which doubles at each end' as • an elbow -length glovehas captured` buyers" eyes at recent showings ih Paris, France. THE DAINTY BITE SIS ;:- For his daughter's wedding, Cari F. Wilke, a baker, whipped up something special. Thegiant wedding cake, above, took Carl three days to make, stands four and a half feet high, weighs .150..poonds, and is valued at 5150. Based with three individual four -layer chocolate cakes and a three•Iayer yellow cake, this unique confection is crowned by four three -and -two -layer fruit cakes. According to old Eng. - fish custom, use of the fruit cakes makes it an authentic "groom's! cake." .