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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-05-15, Page 2Zia LAOA? 02,010 MEE wish "Dear Anne Hirst: When I was In high school, I ran away and married a man my family did not like. He was most unhappy at home; he had a step- mother whorl he didn't get along with. I loved him, so I disliked her in- tensely. It be- came evident that she disliked me as much. "After our little girls were born, any 'husband became restless again and I found he was turning to his stepmother and father for consola- tion. "We had a lot of bad luck. He joined the Army. His family seem- ed to think it was my fault, but said I could stay with them in re- turn for my allotment cheque. I turned them down. Since then, they Easy Embroidery e IIT Olt,s Oa, y � : q Siv1,41104A2,4 PICTURE NEWS! Embroider this needlepainting, then add ,ready-made ruffles to make the girl's skirt. Gay, pretty -perfect or a little girl's room! Frame or line this picture for a gift. Pattern 615; the transfer is 15 x 19 inches. Send. TWENTY FIVE CENTS ;in coins (stamps cannot be ac- Cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Such a colorful roundup of handiwork ideas! Send twenty-five cents now for our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog. Choose your patterns from our gaily illustrated Toys, dolls, household and person - 41 accessories. A pattern for a handbag is printed right in the hook. came to see us only when My hus- band was home. Letters Complicate ''Soon my husband's stepmother began to write endearing letters to him! I told him that I saw a couple before he went overseas. He re- plied, 'The old girl does get a bit sloppy, doesn't she?' However, he answered the letters and is still writing her. None of them seem to care about my feelings. "Is there any way to show a man that his wife and family should conte first? Is there any way to tell this woman that site is over- stepping her place? "He is still overseas. What I'd really like to know is just what place she really occupies in my husband's life -mother, friend or lover?" CON FUSED." flow differently you'd feel to- * day if, when you read these let- * ters, you and your husband had * had a good laugh together -and * dismissed the idea of their iuipor- * tancc as ridiculous. *, Ha.: it occurred to you that * your husband is so relieved to * be on friendly terms with his * father's wife that he accepts her * terms of endearment with a * mental shrug? His reply to you doesn't indicate he takes her seriously. * I know you are suspicious, * and hurt as well. But if she is * as malicious as you think, why * don't you beat her at her own * game? * Keep your letters flying across * to 'hien. Loving letters, brimming * with news of his friends back * home, gay with stories of the children's latest tricks, and tell- * ing hila in detail just what you've been doing. * Enclose amusing clippings, * snapshots of you all -and remind * him that you only live for the * day he conies hoose. You know * him better than anyone else does * and can gauge his normal re- * actions. So he sure that every letter you send makes him feel * that he's dropped in at home and had a wonderful, refreshing visit 't' with you and the children. *; No platter how tempted you * are, never say anything about * his family, except perhaps that you saw them lately and they're * all fine. Give hull the impression * that the unpleasant past you all * deplored has gone, and that so * far as you are concerned, the a future will larint a new feeling all around, You won't get anywhere re- minding him that you and his children come first, nor accenting your rights or his wrongs. And any attempt to tell his step- mother off can only add new fuel to the flame of her probable hatred for you.. . At least while thousands of miles lie between you and your " husband, take it for granted that * no rivalry for his affections ex- * ists. The chances are you will * find it true. "I.)ear Antic Hirst: My new hus- band is a problem already. lie has the habit of coating honk at any time lie pleases, and not even tele- phoning first. • "ft is not only irritating, but un- • CROSSW RD PUZZLE ACItOi 4 5. Man's name 7. Ignited 8. Walls unsteadily 9. Bravery 1. Shear 5. Season 9. Artless 10. reel 12. Thin coating 13. Substance 18. Skill 18. Thin cloth 18. Jo pan rise pagoda 19. ]'Declare 21. Masculine nickname, 22. Repose 23. European dormouse 28. Ages 27. Undeveloped flower 99. Border 30. Silky cloth 34. Piazza 38. Smooth 29. ltiovini; trunk 41. Actor's part 42.One (Germany 43. Money penalties 48. Beverage 48. Ralf Marne/ er 48. Gateway 50,Norwegtan 81. IForeign 92. Want 83. 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"I don't want this to be a re- gular thing . . . My sister lives nearby, but offers no solution. Can you give me any? TROUBLED \VIFI?." * \Wait a reasonable time for * your husband to arrive, then '` some evening soon visit your * sister, and leave him a note * where you are. Add that his. * dinner is in the oven. • Don't * make an issue of it -and don't' * show any angei- when he calls * for you. Be as gay as usual, and * see that he enjoys what's left * of the evening. * So many new husbands do not * realize that if there is to be * order in the home, a wife's rou- tine has to be observed. They * forget that their contribution to that order is vital, and any lapse * on their part upsets the whole * regime. * You are wise to curb this habit * early in your marriage. If more 't` wives had taken the initiative * promptly, they would be happiet- * wives today. • * * * If your husband is a soldier, it is your job to carry on at home- keep your • problems to yourself, and make his morale your first job. Write Anne Hirst whatever is worrying you: she'll try to help. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eight- eenth Street, New Toronto, ,Ont. Weekly Sew -Thrifty J LI V L)1RESS I Duster -coat Evening Wrap 1 I)cach-C,)at! Get the most use, with the least sew- ing from this! Make it in a shan- tting for a spring coat -date -dress, Later you'll wear it ever your suit to beach and back if you make it in • a tubbable cotton! Pattern 4530: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 40. Size 16 takes 4% yards 35 -inch fabric. This pattern is easy to use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instruc- tions, Snit THIRTY-r'IVE CENTS (35c) in coins (stamps catcpot "be accepted) for this patterer: Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLI!, S4UMB;✓112. Send older to Box 1, 123 Eight- eenth St., New Toronto, flit, In Chicago In the dear dead days of long ago when Prohilvtion was in its glory, one of its chief beneficiaries, . a gentleman named Al Capone. gave a dinner dance attended by the creme -de -la -creme of Cicero. One extremely pretty girl, making her debut ie this select society, was the cynosure of all eyes, as she fully expected to be. but as the evening wore on, she grew more attd more restive, The host, Mr. Capone himself, had not ask- ed her to dance with him. "He's danced four times With that frump with all the peroxide burls and purple beads," she • com- plained to her escort. "IIe hasn't even looked at me. \''ou're a big shot -or so you tell me. I)o some- thing about it!" Her hard-pressed escort had a sudden inspiration. "If yon knew what 11 meant, Capone dancing with that lane so often," he told her, "you wouldn't talk like that. He's putting the finger on her! She must know too much. Capone's signalling the boys to give her a ride. She's as good as gone right now!" The girl paled, shuddered with excitement, and whispered, "Gee, honey, how was I to know?" The young Machiavelli was so pleased with his strategem, he couldn't resist telling it to Al Ca- pone, who promptly decified the joke was too good to cut short, He walked over to the girl, calmly took her away from the man to wltorn she was talking, and said loudly, "This dance is with me!" For four dances in succession, • be whirled her around the floor, at the end of which the young lady was so frightened, she was utter- ing ,incoherent sounds and her eyes were popping from her head. Capone appeared more and more interested. On the way home, much, much later, the girl's escort let her in on his whimsical little joke. If you're looking for a' story with a happy ending, this one has it, I suppose. The girl achieved some small measure of revenge within twenty-four hours. Her boy friend was found 'dead in an alley, his body sprayed with a dozen machine gun bullets. She was look- ing sadly at his picture, and won- dering what to wear to the funeral when a messenger arrived with four dozen long-stemmed American Beauties. The enclosed card read, "Mr. Capone expects .you to have dinner with hint this evening." t. ^-..-4u -4 : law • 11:'' 0 1CLES ���/ �1'�1'r M 'n7 Gvretc.dottr,e P ClcyAe Maybe it sotiods crazy, but 1 just feel as if I want to write only about the weather --- it is so beautiful. And there is no better place to appreciate it than right here at home. Not only that but 1 have a new vantage point from which to enjoy the weather - that is, our rebuilt sunroom, which faces south-east. It is a job that has needed doing for years. The front was falling apart and plaster chopping off the ceiling but until now there always seemed to be some other more in need •of urgent attention. So the sunroom degener- ated into a catch-all for the un- wanted overflow, from other rooms. The main part of the rebuilding is done but we still have to wait a before we can get wiudow sash for our picture window - it} feet by 5. The. location of the sunroom is ideal. From one corner we can see the highway; .from the oppos- ite corner there is a lovely view of our neighbour's bush tvitich borders part of our farm, provid- ing a good shelter belt and a love- ly background for our pasture fields. The immediate foreground • is• not so good. There is the winter ashpilc, also an incinerator where 1 have been burning rubbish for three days! Fortunately such un- sightly scenery is easily removed. l don't know how much use the rest of the family will make of our sunroom but l know it is going to be wonderful for me. I have never been able to sit out in the garden with my mending, writing or read- ing because the pesky mosquitoes torment hie to such an extent that I have to seek refuge in the house. Now I shall be able to work, re lax or do a spot of bird -watching and enjoy the fresh air and sun- shine - that is, once the windows and screens are on. It is going to be wonderful! The sunroom is where 1 am sit- ting now, without benefit of win- dows and my first visitor has ar- rived through the empty window space - a noisy bumble -bee flit- ting busily back and forth. • Froin the chestnut tree the starlings are holding a family con`erence. By the way, have you noticed that starlings have one call that is an exact imitation of the come -hither whistle commonly used by boys on the street to attract attention from the girls passing by. Now I wonder -are -boys imitating the starlings, or is it the other way round. On April 24th Partner reported the return of the barn swallows. At least one swallow was back and was immediately busy houseclean- ing. And 1 mean exactly that, This little swallow was in and out of the cow stable, pecking vigorously at the accumulated rubbish in one of last year's nests, flying away with it or just letting it drop to the floor. I wonder if ifr. Swallow objects to housecleaning as strenu- ously as some other males - and with as little result. Well, there is one thing we can- not get used to this spring - that is the hum of neighbour tractors all around us while our own trac- tor sits silently in the driving -shed. As I may have mentioned before we are not putting in any crop at all this year as we have the entire farm down in grass. We should, at least, have plenty of hay and pasture. However, the fact that we are not doing any seeding doesn't ocean there is no work to do around here. There are, in fact, enough clearing up jobs to do to keep Partner and me busy all summer, SEDICIN tablets taken according to directions is a safe way to induce sleep or quiet the nerves when tense. $LOO tiro Stores ani 1orSedicin,Toronto2. from daylight to dark. Which reminds rte, five have survived the first two mornings of daylight sav- ing time - and we found the' change -over quite painless, Wt discovered it is just as easy to get up at 5.30 D.S.T. as at 5.30 standard time. But we may find it harder to go to bed at 10.30. which is our theoretical hour for retiring, although I always tell Partner he gets in one sleep before bedtime and the rest of it afterwards, How- ever, for that I ane very thankful because 1 ani sure it is Partner's ability to sleep that has kept slim going ever since World War L What a blessing to go to bed and drop right off to sleep. "1 can't sleep!" is such a common com- plaint - although matly people would sleep a lot better if they didn't worry about keeping awake. If sleepless folk would only tell themselves that lying awake is not a major disaster, that they are at least resting their bodies, then that thought alone would relax their nervous systems and in a little while sleep would surely follow. Time To Haul Out In Montgomery, Alabama, P. wealthy general strode confident- ly into his bank and sought to cash his check for a hundred dollars. An efficiency expert had revolutionized the bank's system, 'however, and the paying teller declared, "I'll have to ask for your identification, please." "Dammit," roared the gen- neral, "I've been a depositor here for years and you know hie per- fectly well." "Kindly see the sec- ond vice-president," said the teller. The second vice-president took the general to the first vice-presid- ent and the first vice-president took him to the president. The presid- ent okayed the check just in time to keep the general from having an apoplectic stroke. As lie raked in his hundred dol- lars, the general suddenly demand- ed, "What's my balance here now?" The teller investigated and report- ed rather sheepishly, "$234,405.47, sir." The general made out a new cheque for $234,405.47, and said, "Now, dantmit, get the president to okay this one. 1 want it in cash." The frightened president came pattering over on the double • and protested, "General, you're withdrawing your entire balance with us!" "I certainly am," said hte gen- eral. "I figure 1 better grab it while there's still one idiot in this bank who seems to recognize me." They passed her in the park. "That's Perry's wife," said Carter. "Thinks" the world of her hus- band." "Does she?" "Rather. She even believes the parrot taught him to swear." Burning T e and Feet Here is a clean, stainless antiseptic oil that wilt do more to help you get rid of your trouble than anything you've ever used. The action of MOONE'S EMERALD OIL Le so powerfully penetrating that the itching b quickly stopped; and in a short time you are rid of that bothersome, fiery torture. The same to true of Barber's Itch, Salt Rheum, Eczema and many other Irritating unsightly akin troubles. You can obtain MOONE'S EMERALD OIC. in the original bottle at any modern drug store. It is safe to use -and failure in any of these all meats is ram indeed. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ISSUE 20 -- 1952 01994-2 S perly lJelicious as a dessert itself I CROWN AN RUP Sys