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Zurich Herald, 1956-08-23, Page 6"Dear Anne Hirst; 1 am 18, and have gone steady with a young man for two years. We graduated together, and now he is working away from home. Before he left, he said we'd get married as soon as he could save money. That was two months ago; when be was home last week end, he didn't say anything about our future, and his letters give no plans. Mean- while, I got a job and, by sav- for food and transportation, I have a good little sum in the bank. "I am puzzled as to whether to wait for him, or forget him. I really want to get married and start our new life together. Do you think I should tell him so? He is making good money and sends some to his family; they really don't need it — his father has a good job. "I love him so much — and when we are together, he is as good as gold! PUZZLED" * Haven't you hear that it is * the woman's part to wait, * quietly and steadfastly, until * her man feels he can support ** a wife and family? To stand * loyally by, inspiring him with • her faith and enthusiasm, * never any impatience with * his progress? * No boy of 13 can afford to ,: marry soon, unless he has • some income apart from his a salary to set aside as a nest- * egg. In addition to supporting -o-o Flattering! 4886 SIZES 12-20 Giem $ It's a "princess" dream—the prettiest flattery your figure ever had! Smooth, simple lines from molded bodice to flare skirt— adapt so beautifully to ahnost every fabric. Easy sew- ing too—make several in cotton, linen; shantung for glamour wear! Pattern 4886: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes Oa 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 (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal not for safety) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, 123, .Eighteenth St, New 'Tor- onto, Ont. RI*STJumhe • himself, your fiance is sending * money home. That is a filial * gesture which you have no * right to question; he knows * his familiy's circumstances * better than you do, and your * critical attitude reflects un- * pleasantly upon you. I am * sure he would be shocked if * he learned it. ' * Knowing he is eager to * marry you, should be enough ,, for the present. It is unlikely * he will disclose any future * plans regularly, for they de- * pend upon his success in his * present position. He takes' it * for granted that you trust * him. To express any dissatis- * faction would destroy the * idlealistic picture he holds of * you, his loyal sweetheart * standing valiantly by as a real * helpmate will. If he knew * how feverishly you desire an * early marriage, he could not * but wonder whether he has * mistaken your understanding * of his circumstances, or lack * the character to fill your ex- * petted role, or both. * A woman often waits years * to marry the man she loves, * finding his constancy and de- * votion well worth it. Quiet * your impatience, and be * thankful that this honest, de- * serving young man, "as good * as gold," wants you for his * wife. If you cannot compre- * hend the realities of the situa- * tion, or accept these years of * waiting graciously, you had * better tell him so and stop * wasting his time. TWOTTII'IING BEAU "Dear Anne Hirst: Over a year ago, I met a young man who had been dating another girl for a long time. He began seeing me, and now he has ask- ed me to marry him. I love him dearly, and said I would. "But now I discover he has been calling on the other girl again! He doesn't know I know. "I simply am heartsick, but I care enough to want him to have the girl he prefers. What do you think? LOST" Tell this young man that • you are not engaged to him * any longer, and tell him why. * A lad who proposes to one * girl and then sneaks off to * date an old flame is not for * a nice girl like you. As a * husband he could not be * trusted, and as his wife you * would have to take it. Now * you don't, If he confesses his offense * and asks you to forgive him, * put him on strict probation * for a long while. Treat him * only as a friend, not a fiance, * and openly date others, too. * He may learn his lesson for * good, but you must protect * yourself or you will get hurt * again. * A man without honor is * not fit to marry anybody. * * * The engagement period is a time of test, ani should be one of the most beautiful experien- ces in a girl's life. Be careful that your fiance is not disap- pointed; consider his problems your own, and stand loyally by in love and understanding, Anne Hirst can help explain you both to each other, if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. During his years with the Giants, Fresco Thompson saw little action. One afternoon, during an exhibition game, he was relaxing in the dugout when Bill Terry, the Giant manager, yelled at him, "Go in as a pinch runner!" After eleven years in base- ball, Fresco just yawned. "I'd love to, Bill," he said. "But I just had my shoes shin- ed." aae SCURRYING "SQUIRRELS" —• A prototype of Russia's new ''squirrel" car wends its way through traffic on a busy Moscow Weal. It •ltas a rear.mauntod, air-cooled motor and is reported reachspeech of 55 to bb miles per hour, getting 40 miles to rth Qcoliph. phato and caption material from Soviet source. SOY SCOUT HAWK — At Camp Cickagami, there's a red-tailed hawk who thinks he's a Boy Scout. His official title is "Mr. Nick Hawk, official merit badge counselor for bird study." And he's introduced as such at all Boy Scout meetings. Dick Smith, found Nick about two months ago and brought him to camp, where 200 Scouts now feed, pet and care for the bird. Dick, left, holds "Mr. Nick", as assistant camp director Dick Haas, right, looks on. HROICLE 1NGE.' FAR evniad.olin.e P. Ctia,r11,,e We got our yearly tax bill last week . . . and it was very welcome. Welcome on two counts. One because our entire taxes en a hundred acres still amount to less than the taxes on an average six -roomed house in town. Two, because for the first time that we know of en- couragement is given for prompt payment. One percent discount on taxes paid within thirty days. At the end of two months unpaid taxes will be classified as over- due and a two percent penalty added. Now that is what we con- sider good business—a little dif- ferent from soap products carry- ing a label "10 cents off the regular price of this packet"— but omitting to mention the "regular" price! Honest -to -goodness discount is a wonderful idea. No one likes to lose money. Pay one percent more after a month's time? No- thing doing—we might as well have that one percent as the township. So by hook or by crook we pay the bill on time and collect the discount. As for paying an overdue penalty, that would be unthinkable. The same goes with hydro accounts. One time we got our - hydro bill mixed up with some Christmas cards and forgot to pay it. Hand- ing over that extra $2.50 really hurt. But we hadn't a leg to stand on—it was no one's fault but our own. Some coal merchants are adopting the discount plan in regard to customers' winter sup- ply of coal and find it works very weItll. would be wonderful if the same policy became more gen- eral in business instead of en- couragement given to install- ment buyng. It might result in a better economic system: Peo- ple would be less inclined to live beyond their means, which would be one more step towards curb- ing inflation.` Many older people will remember the time when there was no such thing as in- stallment buying. You either paid cash or you gave a promis- sory note. Over in the Old Coun- try, for customers with limited means, merchants had a "lay- away plan"—this meant so much a week paid into a "clothing . club." I suppose the revolving credit plan operated by some stores today works in much the same way—and is a good thing for those who seem to have a perpetual Bole in their pocket! Well, weather-wise, until Sal- urday we really had a wonderful week. Coo] nights, warm days- • what more could anyone ask? We had 'mid -week visitors on two separate days. Looking back I am amused at how differently we entertained them --that is, after the usual visiting at home, One friend was delighted be- cause I took her to visit an extra -special antique shop. She was absolutely in her glory, I don't know how long we browsed around but it was oer- tainly a wrench to drag our. selves away. Shopkeepers of antique stores are on a little different footing from other merchants. Naturally they like to make a sale but evee if they don't they ere, (1 " happy to show thei,' nd talk abut this one and ,..,,t to any 4 customer who is genuinely in- terested in antiques—and re- spects them enough to keep his or her hands off the priceless treasures. I am not quite such an enthusiast about antiques as my friend. That is to say, I value anything old that is given me because of its association, but I don't bur antiques to add to my collection. Our next visitor came from Toronto and likes nothing bet- ter than to ramble around the country. So for her we took a trip to a natural park, com- plete with waterfalls, caves, rocks and century -old buildings. Then we- looked at various houses that were up for sale, discussing the factors for and against new houses versus old. We also paid a visit to a wonder- ful old gentleman of ninety- five. He was somewhat lame but there was nothing wrong with his mental activity. More amazing still he had hardly a line or a wrinkle in his face. We felt this was a result of his philosophy of life. So different from the tell-tale wrinkles that denote the discontented person. Not all wrinkles, of course. 'There are wrinkles around the eyes . that go with a humorous disposition. We really enjoyed our visit and came away feeling that old age is a relative quality —so much depends on the years that have gone before and the mental attitude of persons as they approach old age. The friend who was with me for instance. She is in her early fifties and already a- little hard of hearing. Her doctor prescrib- ed a hearing -aid. Did she rebel? Not a bit of it, although she is very active in a social way. She adopted the attitude 'that people wear glasses to see better, then why not a hearing -aid to hear better? She could do without it for a while yet but her doctor said it would be wise for her to get used to it while she is still at an adaptable age. She is following his advice, making life more 'interesting for herself and less difficult for those with whom she comes in contact. I tried it out myself and de- cided that it was absolutely ridiculous for anyone to be self- conscious about wearing such a worthwhile little contraption. And I might come to it some time as my hearing depends almost entirely on the left ear. I punctured •the drum of the right ear years ago while diving in somewhat shallow water. • 1 WILL RETURN When Red Buffing was a rookie hurler with the Red Sox, he brought a sandwich into the bull pen one afternoon and started munching on it. Before he could get halfway through it, he was called upon to re- lieve the pitcher. "Who's coming up to bat for the Yankees?" Buffing asked before leaving the warmup arca. "Ruth, Gehrig, and Memel," he was told. Ru1iing carefully laid down the' sandwich. +� "Don't anybody touch that, he said, "I'll be right back." Lanudry Marks Catch Murderers The corpse of the attractive young brunette had lain un- identified in the mortuary for nine days. More than 200 rela- tives of missing women had filed past the body; none knew her. Detectives assigned to dis- cover her identity faced a seem- ingly hopeless task. The body was found early one morning in a field, a bullet wound below the left breast and another in the head. A clear case of murder. She was clad in a light sum mer frock brown shoes and a pale .brown coatee. Someone, probably the murderer, had rip-. ped the manufacturer's name out of the coat; there were no manufacturer's names on any of the other clothing. But there was one small thing which the murderer had over- looked: a dry cleaner's number In the collar of the coatee. The nufnber was CY-7705-B20. ° The Detroit police wired the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion, quoting the laundry or dry cleaner's number. At the same time they telegraphed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Ottawa. Within a few hours Detroit police received a telegram from the F.B.I. which read: "Number quoted by you was issued by Acme Dry Cleaners Detroit." Minutes later detectives were interviewing the manager of the Acme Dry Cleaners. He turned up his books and found the number. It had been allocated to a Miss Diane Warbecher who had given a Washington Ave- nue address. Within ten minutes detectives were interviewing the superintendent of the block Of flats where Miss Warbecher had stayed. • They learned that she had, in fact, been a Mrs. Warbecher who had left the block ten days before to go with . her husband to Chicago. A teletype message was sent to Chicago with the husband's full descriptioif and in the meantime the superin- tendent of the block had identi- fied the body as that of Mrs. Warbecher. The same evening Warbecher was taken into custody as he entered his hotel room in down- town Chicago. In his possession detectives found a .32 revolver which, they established later, had fired the fatal shots. Warbecher wanted to 1 --now only one thing before pleading guilty to a murder charge in the second degree: how did the detectives discover the woman's name? The police did not reveal the secret to him and in the con- demned cell he ruminated over the slip he must have made when he ensured that Diane Warbecher would not be identi- fied, for she had no relatives in the United States. He did not count on one r of the main identification systems in use in North America to- day: laundry and dry cleaners' marks. These telltale numbers have sent many men to prison, identified numerous others, in- cluding those found uncon- scious or injured in accidents. A system whereby every laundry and dry cleaning estab- lishment will' be listed with the police is under way. Every one of these establishments uses a number and serial letter com- bination to identify customers' articles and these identification marks are as foolproof as fingerprints, for no two estab- lishments use identical mark- ings. In Britain and elsewhere the need for similarly recording laundry marks is keenly felt. In Eastbourne in 1954 there was a daring burglary on a jewel- lery store. There were no clues, but one of the burglars had apparently cut himself in breaking into the premises, for he bad torn a'por- tion of his handkerchief to bind ' a finger. Aeteotive found -that the fragment did not belong to any staff member of the jewel..- ler's, but it bore a laundry mark which was quickly traced to London. The detectives now faced the formidable task of visiting every one of the thousands of laundr- ies in the city to discover which one had issued that' number. Then a girl squealed on the gang, In the flat of one of the criminals, detectives found other articles of clothing bearing the same number. Had London had a laundry indexing system, the laundry which had issued the number could have been traced within a matter of minutes and the criminal probably, appre- hended the same day instead of weeks later, as was the case. A classic case where a dry cleaner's mark brought a mur- derer to justice happened in the Windsor, Ontario, area ten years ago. A young woman was found murdered on the outskirts of the Canadian city. There was nothing by which to identify her and her face had been so badly battered that it was im- possible to publish a photograph. Windsor lies immediately on the American border not far from Detroit, and with in a few hundred miles of other large cities, including Toronto. She could have come from any one of these places, could have been murdered anywhere and her body dumped where it was found. - After six months had elapsed, the matter was pigeon -holed but not closed; one detective, Sergeant Mackenzie, still had the case open on his books and held the only link between the woman and identification` a dry cleaner's number—JY-8370-DZ. . The number was circulated to every police station throughout Canada and the United States, but months and years passed without anyone coming forward to identify the murdered wom- an. Mackenzie had not written the case off as hopeless; when- ever he went he visited laun- dries and dry cleaners in the hope that one day he would find one which would recognize the number. Four years and five months later, he was in Miami, Florida, on a short holiday. But even though on holiday, he could not pass a laundry without showing the number. And there it was that the long trail came drama- tically to its end. He walked into a laundry one day, intro- duced himself and presented the card bearing the fatal number. The manager identified it as one of his establishment's and soon afterwards the detective was looking at the number, written in the company's books almost • five years before and adjoining it a brief description • of the article and the owner's name and address. The number had been allocated to a woman named Iris Dorothy O'Brien who had left the Miami district .to go to live in Canada with her husband. Fortunately, the block of flats where the O'Briens had lived had a caretaker with a keen memory and he was able to de- scribe both the dead woman and her husband. O'Brien's description was cir- culated in the U.S.-and Canada. Two days later he was arrested in Montreal and when asked where his wife was, told a num- ber of conflicting stories. Eventually he admitted that he had killed his wife and removed all traces of identity. As she was an orphan without brothers or sisters the possibility of her ever being identified had been remote ... but for the diligence of a detective and the fatal laundry mark which sent O'Brien to prison for life. LONG.DISTANCE HOUSEWARMING — Residents of Rollingwood housing development watch as a little girl, left, adds a bath- room scale to a packingcaseful of "housewarming" presents which will accompany a full-size American ;home on its journey to Russia, The house ar+d everything in it, including the kitchen sink, has been purchased by Russia inwake of a building dele- gation's visit to this country last fall, House has been disassembl- ed, created and is ere route to Russia.