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Zurich Herald, 1952-04-17, Page 6"Dear Anne Hirst: I ant eugag- ed to one man, and in love with another. I am 16. My family drove the boy I love from my door. "They made him unwelcome by telling him what time he could come and the very latest he must leave. "Now they have found me a, new man, who they decided would make a good husband. "They immediately told my clover I was going to marry their idol. He left before I could explain. Now he won't speak to me! "I love my family, and can't bear to hurt them. They have al- ways given me everything I want. But now they are trying to run my life( "Shall I marry this old man I hate? Or tell them the truth, and let them hate me as long as I live? Young Martyr * How we dramatize ourselves '► when we are 16! * You picture yourself as a * romantic heroine imprisoned by ur cruel parents in a high tower, * and believe you will be freed * only if you consent to marry a< a man you hate. How you wish * your true love would come some * dark night on his charger and * ride you away to happiness! * Life isn't like that. * Parents aren't, either. Your 's mother and father would not * think of forcing you to marry * someone you dislike, nor will * they hate you when you object. '' Why didn't you just say no * when this man proposed? Why * didn't you write your boy friend a promptly about their plans for * you? 4% They must have had reason to `► forbid your seeing him—perhaps * because he did not bring you 's home when he promised. Any * goodpiarents would have done a the same. At any rate, they feel * you would have a better mar- 's riage with the man of their * choice. 'h Calm down. Tell your parents * you do not want to marry him. s" Continue to see him now and 'k then if they ask it, but that is '!° as far as you need to go. And it is all you have to do. Oroom Quits Job "Dear Anne Hirst: I've been Married four months. We had a Wonderful honeymoon, and .I was a happy( But now my husband as been drunk for a week, and won't look for work. "He quit his job before the wedding. "We are staying with my mother. "What must I do? I am 18, he k 25." Mrs. M.L.D. ' What a poor start your has- * band has made in marriage! You Spring Thrift -Plan Save on ,dour new slip -covers! Make them yourself, fit them right out the furniture. You'll do a good professional job too, with our easy step-by-step instructions. Instructions 841 has step-by-step directions for basic slipcover, 6 other types, 4 footstools. Send TWENTY-1IVE CENTS la coins (stamps cannot be accept- ed) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, Print plainly PATTERN NUM- ER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Such a colorful roundup of handi- work ideas! Send twenty-five cents now for our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog. Choose your patterns from our gaily illustrated toy's, dolls, hnusehoi'l and personal accessories. A pattern for a hand- bag Is printed right hs the Boole. * must be sick with disillusion * and apprehension. * Unless the boy is really ill * (physically or mentally) he had * better learn right now what mar- * riage means, The vows he made * before your minister included * included the promise to cherish * you. "Cherish" means to nur- * ture, to treasure. * How he has let you down! * Your mother (or father), I * know, is tempted to tell hint he * had better go hack home until * he finds a position, stops drink- * ing, and learns how to be a * good husband. When he has * proved himself, you two can * start all over again. * Neither of you will relish the * separation. But it seems to me * that any lesser course is dan- * gerous and futile, * I am so sorry! * * * Our girls have greater freedom than any others in the world. If you do not abuse yours, your parents will trust your judgment . . . If you are at odds with therm, tell Anne Hirst about it. She under- stands you (and them) and has helped thousands of youngsters find a more harmonious family' life. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. PARKERISMS Press agents for road shows and carnivals will stop at nothing to grab a little free publicity and provide grist for their quills. One even staged a mock marriage be- tween two elephants, with a third pachyderm acting as minister. A Los Angeles paper obligingly printed a photograph of the weird elephantasy on the front page. Dorothy Parker's comment was, "I give it six months!" Miss Parker was asked another time to express an opinion of an overpraised novelist. She remark- ed, "He's a writer for the ages— for the ages of four to eight." At a dinner party, Miss Parker was irked by the antics of one of those ladies of fifty who dresses like a debutante, drooling over an embarrassed colonel. Vaguely aware of a threat of mayhem,in the air, she giggled self-consciously and explained, "It's his uniform. I just love soldiers:" "Yes," agreed Miss Parker, "you have in every war." How Can 1? • Q. How can I produce holes in panes of thin or weak glass? . A. Provide the places to be per- forated with a ring of moist loam, whose center leaves free a portion of glass exactly the size of the hole desired. Pour molten lead into the ring, and the glass and lead will fall through at once. Q. How can I raise the nap of a rug that has become flattened from heavy articles of furniture? A. Dampen a chamois, fold it several times, and place it over the mark. After the chamois has been there for several hours, the mark will have disappeared. Q. How can I remove a grease spot from the wall paper? A. Pat some fuller's earth, French chalk, or plain talcum powder on the spot and allow to remain for several days. Then brush off. Q. How can I easily wash paint- ed walls? A. Use two pails of Iukewarm water. Wet a cloth and sprinkle. sparingly with baking soda. Wash a convenient space, rinse with clear waterwater, and wipe dry. All grease and dirt disappears with very little rubbing. With AR The Trimmings -Sporting her brand-new bonnet, Beverly Matthews sheltered the traditional baby chicks in .her hands, and looked forward to a happy day of hunting for her Easter gifts. RON!CLES i1NGEIFARM Gar2ttidoltr\.¢ P Cla-rke This column is being written a day ahead of time because tomor- row we are expecting a friend front Montreal. It will be our first meet- ing in three years so we shall have plenty to talk about. And believe me, there will be very little fussing over meals tomorrow.- I know this friend. of mine very well and I also know she would rather sit down to a sand- wich and a cup of tea than have me wasting precious time fixing fancy dishes in the kitchen. However, I expect there will be more than a sandwich on our menu. After all I still have two men to feed. Daughter and two of her friends were here today and our Honey dog nearly went wild with excite- ment, starting directly Daughter got. out of the car. Before long Honey's own particular ball was brought from its special hiding place, and then the fun began—Honey running, jumping, and catching the ball as long as Daughter was willing to throw it. Poor Honey—I am afraid Daughter is the only one who has patience enough to play with her. I am just her meal ticket and Partner is the fellow who goes to all the interest- ing places where there is Sure to be good hunting. He is also the fel- low who can be trusted to hand out a bit of coolcie (oven -dried bread) when he has his four o'clock tea. "After all," Honey almost says with her pathetic brown eyes, "when a girl has been chasing around all afternoon hunting mice or anything that crawls she needs a little bit of cookie to help her last out until supper time." * X: 4 I always tell Partner that Honey , is his little dog—must be when he goes out of his way to spoil her. So this is the greeting I got the other day after being in Toronto. ' "Don't ever say again that Honey is my dog," said' Partner. "While you were away she was quite happy with me as long as I stayed outside but directly we came into the house she was all over the place looking for you, upstairs and downstairs, into every room." * * * Tippy is our problem dog. She. senses a storm long before we hear the first rumble of thunder and starts trembling with fear. I often wonder what she would do in an air-raid. Dull days Tippy . remains hidden at the back of the woodshed. Nothing on earth would induce her to ride in a car but she will run along beside it at 30 miles an hour for at least a quarter of a mile, and then gives up and ambles home. Tippy is the most nervous dog we ever had around here. Why, I don't know because she has never been treated with anything but kindness. But of course, we don't know what may have happened to her before we bought her—when she was just a Puppy. * * * Come to think of it, every type of livestock is temperamental—in- cluding hens: Some folk may think all bens are pretty much of a. much - We have found out they are nots not by a long way. Breeds of hetes, are as different as races of pe pie• Plymouth Barred Rocks are nhiet, motherly hens. So of course -they go broody very easily and are tdifficult to break .up. Light Sussex are much the same, but more lazy than Rocks and spend a lot of time :just sitting around in the sun. White Leghorns are nervous and highly strung. just give one good cough or sneeze while ' feeding them and they are all over the place, flying high and banging themselves against the pen windows. Hybrid Rock -Leg- horn -cross are even worse. In addi- tion to being nervous they are messy feeders, scratch around in their lay- ing boxes and break and eat their eggs. New Hampshires . , . ab, they are real biddies. Quiet, clean and friendly. They sing arotunct in their pen and never disturb or foul their nests. They are economical feeders, good layers and happy, contented biddies. When they have outlived their usefulness they still make good table fowl. * * * Little black hybrids — that is B.R.X.N.H., are almost as good. As chickens as they feather out and mature very rapidly. But being smaller they are not as profitable as Hampshires when sold as boiling fowl. * * * And that is as far as our personal experience goes—but I suppose 1 •'have said enough to start an argu- ment as most poultry people have their own ideas as to the best and most profitable birds to keep. That's fine—just so long as no one tries to talk us into keeping White Leghorns again—even though their eggs are as white as the driven snow! CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP n Ice ci�xeam a sundae treat for the whole family CBH-1 angeorOmmornmatemeriamageurammoometram mosessesseessivoissaSsieslitsrei Look Out, Folks! You're Being Watched If there is an insect t any kind in the room as you this—= whether it is a fly, beetle, cock- roach, spider or one of a dozen common species too s all to be seen — you are prbbably being watched by thousands of eyes. Most insects have compound eyes ten to twenty-five thousand visual rods or "little .:yes" com- pounded into one' big eye, arranged into such a comparatively Sig bulge that their owner sees not only to the sides but straight ahead and backwards. Those marvellous compound eyes also give insects a range of colour experience quite superior to our own. We can only see colours within a particular ra ige—that of the spectrum. Insects see much more, A bee can see ultra -violet light. Ants and owls can see infra -red A worm has no eyas at all, yet if you shine a light on one in the dark it will try to squirm back into hiding It, -.';sees" danger through its piiik.sldn, which is covered with photo' -sensitive cells. In -daylight. most birds have eye- sightr,.tbreetines as keen as our owns p et they are almost com- pleteiblind when the sun sets. Mosi.:birds cannot fly safely among the branches until daylight allows good vision. Nighthawks, owls, and other noc- turnal birds have eyes that are built to operate at, night. During the daytime they lie motionless be- cause their eyes, though larger than those of many day -active birds, allow no clear picture of familiar scenes in the full light of day. Their eyes serve them best in the dim illumination of the twilight sky when they patrol for. flights of ,, moths and beetles. Accuracy of d -y vision has been sacrificed in favour of the extra sensitivity re- quired in the dark. Birds have a "third eyelid." While a bird is flying, its third eyelid passes back and forth across its eye in a sideways movement, keep- ing the eye moist and clearing it of dust. It is not quite true that cats and dogs can "see" in the dark. It is true that they can distinguish things in darkness muchbetter than we can, because their pupils can be distended to a far greater extent. This permits them to absorb and make, good use of rays of light that are so faint they make no impres- sion at all on the human eye. Take a dog or cat into a room that is. "pitch dark" to our eyes ands it Will find its way about. It might even jump on t. a high chair NOW To RELImVR PAIN IN THE JOINTS Warm affected parts. Rub in warm oil. Keep covered with warm flannel. At druggists' for 85 years. 5T-3 with perfect accuracy and judg- ment. :'This is partly explained by the sense of touch. A dog can steer by the tip of his rapse. and a cat by using her, whiskers, and these or- gans are amazingly efficient and sensitive. If a dog is blind,' or if he has hip eyes bandaged, he can still find his way quite safely by the guidance of his nose, but he cannot jump. He will have to be lifted on to a chair, even though he has dis- covered its position. This is because in total darkness animals are as helpless as we are. They "see in the dark" quite well simply because even on the dark- est night there is a certain amount of light about, and they are able to make far better use of it than we can. The Bargain: I don't want it; can't use it; but at that price L can't refuse it. ,And .the RELIEF IS LASTING For fast relief from headache get INSTANTINE. For real relief get INSTANTINE. For prolonged relief get INSTANTINE 1 •Yes, more people every day are finding that INSTANTINE is one thing to ease pain fast. For headache, for rheumatic pain, aches and pains of colds, for neuritic or neuralgic pain you can depend on INSTANTINE to bring you quick comfort. INSTANTINE is made like a pre- scription of three proven medical ingredients. A single tablet usually brings fast relief. Get Instantlne today and always keep it handy nstantine 12 -Tablet Tin 25 Economical 48 -Tablet bottle 70 ISSUE 16 — 1952 1/1+11A/, Y -o atia2 BREAD Yours, with wonder'fiil fast -rising, DRY• Yeast! You're sure of tempting, de- licious bread when you bake with Fleischmann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast! This wonderful new yeast keeps its full-strength and fast -acting qualities with- out refrigeration! Buy a month's supply! WHOLE WHEAT BREAD • Combine 3 c. boiling water, / c. granulated sugar, 4 tsps. salt and 1 tbs. shortening; stir until sugar and salt are dissolved and shorten- ing melted; cool to lukewarm. Meanwhile, measure into a large bowl 1 c. lukewarm water, 1 tbs. granulated sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle with 3 en- velopes Fleischmann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast. Let stand 10 minutes, THEN stir well. Stir in cooled sugar -shortening mixture. Combine 5 c once sifted bread flour and 5 c. whole wheat or graham flour. Stir about half of the flours into yeast mixture; beat until smooth. Work in re- training flours and adcl addition- al bread flour, if necessary, to make a soft dough. Knead on lightly -floured board until smooth and elastic. Place in greased bowl and grease top of dough. Cover and set in a warm place, free from draught. Let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough, grease top and again let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough; turn out on lightly - floured board and divide into 4 equal portions ; forth into stnooth balls. Cover lightly with cloth and let rest for 15 mins. Shape into loaves; place in greased loaf pans (4/" x 8/"). Grease tops, cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Make in hot oven, 400*, for 20 mins., then reduce oven !teat to moderate, 350°, and bake about 20 minutes longer.