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Zurich Herald, 1952-07-03, Page 6'HOW CAN I FORGET MY HUSBAND'S INFIDELITYI" "Dear Anne Hirst: V4re recently anoved to this strange town. I ani ✓ ery lonely, and beset by bitter anemories. This is why: "Nearly a year ago we bought a new house back home, across the street from our best friends .. Soon,I discover- ed that the wife was mostly at our house while I was working -making love to my husband! "They went away together, for two weeks ... I guess he got tired of her. He came home and asked that I stop work, and move away. So I locked the door of our nice new home, and came here to live in a small apartment. "He declares he loves me, and I surely love him. But I am near- ly crazy! Transfer Designs in 3 colors THIRTY-TWO rose motifs! Ex- cellent value! These true-to-life colors -tea -rose and soft green are lovely to decorate bed -linens, cur- tains, towels, tablecloths, blouses, aprons. Washable too! Transfer the motifs in just a few seconds -no embroidery! 3 -color designs -Pat- tern 609 has 32 motifs, eight each of four different motifs 1x2T„ to 3rax5I!t 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 AD- DRESS. Such a colorful roundup of handi- e. work ideas! Send twenty-five cents now for our Laura \i'heelcr Needle- craft Catalog. Choose your patterns from our gaily illustrated toys, dolls household and personal ac- ceesories. A pattern for a handbag is printed right in the book. LONELY AND BITTER "Here, nay husband works every day, sometimes on Sunday. I am left entirely alone with my memor- ies, We enjoy our evenings, play- ing records and reading, and we like outdoor sports. He does not smoke or drink, and he had never sought any other woman. That one threw herself at him, and I guess he could only take it. "But I can't forget what he did to me! Can you help me to? A. C." * What you need is to make new * friends, and fast. 4" join the church, and be active * in its work. Look up a golf or * tennis or bowling club, and both * of you enjoy it, You two need to * play together, laugh together, and * become part of your cornmeal- * ty's life. The friends you will * soon make will develop your so- * cial life, as you visit and enter- * tain them you will have little * time to remember the painful * past. * And you yourself must get out * every day. If your husband ob- * jects to your taking a part-time * job in your former field, that is a'out. * You say you love children, and * can have none of your own. * Later, you may decide to adopt " one. Meantime, look up the near- * est children's hospital or orphan- * age, or make yourself useful in * nursery centers; all such groups * need voluntary help badly, and * the work will be exciting and * emotionally satisfying. �- * * PRAISE AND WARNING "Dear Anne Hirst: What a pri- vilege -and responsibility -is yours in advising others in their problems! "Far from being the laughable position the movies so often show it, your job involves the making of constant decisions, the end re- sults of which will be felt in the lives of many. "Remember to encourage others, and (as you so often do) to find their strength in the Lord, who is indeed a 'very present help in time of trouble.' "May the Lord Mese nu with n i.urlom. A MOTHER WITH MANY BLESSINGS" * From my childhood, I was' raised in my family's church, in * which my grandfather was a * deacon. Often I recommend faith * and prayer as aids to any human * problem- * But usually 1 do so only when " a reader indicates that religion is * part of her thinking, 0: that she has strayed. from the church she * used to attend. 1 have no right * to presume upon the duty of " minister or priest. * 1 do appreciate your comment, *. and most warmly. * You will be happy to know that * in these days of confusion and • instability. more and more people * are turning, or returning, to the * church for comfort and fresh * rout age. If you and your husband have known trouble, branch out into a more active life that will provide new and thrilling interests , Write your problem to Anne • Hirst and get the benefit of your sym- pathy and advice. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. CR SWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. r'orded fabrics 9. Present month 8. Fierce 72. Art ,,w poison 13. Wrath 14. canal in New York State 18. Mythical monster 16. Hard -shelled fruit 17. Fixed charge 18. Tilt 19..8R' holic Jiquor 20, fs able 91. Title of Ethiopian sovereign 23. lodieee 26. Dolma 27. Part of the face 28. Small explosion 29. interpret (archafel 20. Old piece of cloth 31, Tree trunk 32. silkworm 13, Total 4. Sat fora picture Get away - 17. Liking 18. Pulpy fruit to. road 40. TTrenln 42. Ivan 44, Plaything 4G. One of a Japanese rare 48.�7,;dible seatvred 47. 'Poem 48. Ston* 49. Seven 58.19y means of 51. Larne knife DOWN 1. Tumultuous disorder 2, Managers 3. Vertical 4, Witness 9. Less 6. 13dible Farina 7. however 3. Caravansary 9. Rearrange- ment 10. River Isla i+d 11. Honey gatherer 19, Groove 20. Cry of the crow 21 Turn right 23. Move to and fro 24. Forbearance 2G. blastened so. r.arge woody plant 27. Preserves 30..Regret 31. Large anal.. 33. watering place 34.'rhlcknese 36. ward ort 37. mall 30. Portend 41. Nobiemt+n 42. Soft food 93. Gone by 41. Summit 43. Land measures 1' 2 3 4'i s 6 7 �3, 8 9 10 II 12 '5 13 O . 14 b' 15 1 V` .f6 V a s`k .L v -j o Cr :V A f 21 22 ti, 23 a3 so 24 25 ; IIP Nix 27 .00 30o -W. 31 dO 32 V :, , 4.bv.. 33 �`r :..'34 d S 1 as I3a' ''r(En ..I r 3 i 9 3 N ;, �f,, •. i; MD 3a l $:i 39 • NT 4o 41 3 43 1'rLlry) 47..`e,,;''' a` , e 45 .3.r 9 W $I;33IV Y. siiV.LS'gill Ammer !elsewhere on This Page Owlways Howling About Something -"Hoots," the baby owl, is fed up with all the catty remarks delivered by his kitten play- mate. Why all the fuss just because he drank some of Kitty's milk? Both of them live at the home of Mrs, Olive Kirsche. ILIRONICLES %INGERFARM Gw.¢ Last week, while the weather was still cool, we spent the better part of the day fixing up window screens and putting them where they belonged. And not a day too soon. No sooner were the screens on the windows than the weather turned' hot and humid. However, with air getting into the house from all directions we are now quite comfortably cool. In fact, although it is 88 degrees outside I have just found it necessary to don a light- weight sweater. Different people have different ideas about how to keep the house cool in summer. We have often been told that the only way is to shut the doors and windows and thus keep the heat out Well, I've tried it, and we don't like that way at all. The house stays cool all right but we find it suffocating. At such a time Partner has often conte in and exclaimed - "For heaven's sake get some air in here!" So now, however hot it is the doors and windows stay open -with the blinds half down. Last Saturday I did not realize how hot it was until 1 got down town. I was shop- ping as usual and the heat was in- sufferable, And so was the parking! As to that, is there any ;small country town where parking has not already become quite a prob- lem? In our local shopping centre park- ing has been more nr less flee and easy up to the preesnt but just recently parking restrictions have been imposed. Now we go down town, look up and down the street . ah, what luck, there's an empty space .. . we drive up to it only to be confronted with a newly in- stalled standard -"No parking on this side of the street." 1 suppose that is as it should be and is for the protection of every person using the street, but it still doesn't solve the parking problem, Back streets are being used more and more for this purpose and, since many of them are narrow, this practise also presents a hazard. Maybe the time will come when every shopping district will have a drive-in park- ing area similar to Simpson's on Richmond Street, in Toronto! Any- thing rather than parking meters - or "steel pick -pockets" as Gordon Sinclair calls them. One reason for the increasing numbers of cars in small towns - and the resultant parking conges- tion -is the ever-increasing number of people from the country who drive to their nearest town instead of doing most of their shopping at the local "corner s..7re" as they used to. One reason for this is sn they may take advantage of the cheaper prices offered by chain stores in many lines of staples in these days of high living costs can you blame anyone for shopping where prices are lower? To give one instance that was brought to my attention. One country store was selling a well- known brand of coffee at $1.15 a pound. That same brand could be bought for 99c in a nearby town - not only from chain stores but from an independent grocer, The count- ry storekeeper when approached insisted he could not sell goods any cheaper and still stay in business. Not 'having the experience of a country storekeeper I am not in a position to judge but yet it seems obvious to nee that no man running a country store can hope to be in business if he loss customers by having prices out of litre with stores in nearby shopping centres. Grant- ed his daily, or weekly, turnover must be considerably less, but then surely his overhead expenses must also be less. The busy little country corner store has been almost a national in- stitution for so many years -1 .hate to think of it as one more thing that may pass away. And yet the writing is on the wall -unless country storekeepers and rural shoppers can meet each other half- way in regard to selling prices. Personally, if we had a little store within easy reach of us, and with prices that were reasonable, I would certainly deal there in .preference to going down town where one must waste time driving around looking for a place to park, and then waste more time waiting to be served. Or if one must park on a side street, then one is faced with the alternative of carrying parcels a block or more to the car. And that often means making two or three trips, depending upon the amount of shopping that has been done. There is room in the country for up-and-coming general mer- chants -but the easy-going cracker- barrel type has surely had its day. SKIRTS Sociologists have proved that scientists and artists "respond un- wittingly to the aspirations and the reasoning of the world in which they live. It is .no accident that Italian artists of the fifteenth cen- tury painted many madonnas and saints, or that Louis XV danced the minuet and not the waltz. The last report of Cycles indicates that all this applies to fashions in wo- men's clothes as well as to the subject -matter of art. If the coutur- iers of the Rue de la Paix imagine that they are free agents they will - be disillusioned by this report, which is a recapitulation of the findings of Mrs. Agnes Brooks Young. ' The couturiers probably don't know ite but what Mrs. Young calls the present bell-shaped skirt will endure until perhaps 1970. If the couturiers want to know the shape of the skirts that they will be designing in 1980 and thereafter Mrs. Young is the woman to tell then. There is no guessing about this. Mrs. Young has plotted fashion cycles from 1760 on, and shown that skirts change ' in style every third of a century or so. Why every third of a century? Because there are only three types of skirt con- tours and shapes -what she calls "back -fullness," "tubular" and the' "bell," •which went as far as it could go with the hoop skirt. If Mrs. Young had taken the trouble to go back to ancient times she would have found bell skirts and hoop skirts in some very old Greek statuary. Within her cycles there are variations, but they are held within an iron framework. The transitions are not sudden, which helps to create the illusion that the fashion designers may be as whim- sical as they please. Back in 1937, when the tubular skirt was still with us, Mrs. Young predicted that bell skirts would "come in" again. They did. All this supplements the work that Dr. Alfred Kroeber and other social anthropologists did years ago. Like Mi•s. Young, they dis- pelled the idea that the fashion de- signers are free agents. Who dictat- es what will be worn? The common people, it seems. They do it -but how? There is no answer --they just do it. -From The New York 'Gimes. In Praise (?) Of Love "No man who knows what being In love means talks of fair play." -Frankfort Moore. * * * "People never fall in live with each other: they fall violently. in -love with themselves, and treat. themselves to a mate." -E. F. Benson. * * * "The unfortunate part of most love affairs is that the men are only really keen at the beginning, and women get extraordinarily keen just before the end." - Benjamin de Mesquita. * * * "Love is a temporary condition of selfishness combined with a transient confusion of identity." -Hindu Proverb. * * * "If at the beginning of a love affair you have some misgivings, then. turn and flee ere you are too deeply in love; for once the .malady has gotten, hold upon you, it may prove too powerful for reason. Halt, therefore, in the very beginning, while there is still tinge." -Ovid. * * * "Believe me, an exacting woman's the very devil." -Duncan Swann. * * * "What she'd do if she fell in love. God knows. When that hap- pens a woman gets all tied up in knots, and she doesn't know how the devil to undo herself. That's the whole secret of the mystery of women." W. J. Locke. * * * "The man who fondly fancies that he understands women goes through life with one foot in quick- sand and the other on a banana peel." - Helen Rowland. a * * In Iove, to be serious is to be grotesque." - AmbroseBierce. * * * "The soundest piece of advice on falling in love is to try, with every bit of energy and good -will, to keep a dialogue going. One-way talk is fatal." -Dion Reilly. * * * "Nobody dares to say that women are a nuisance out of their proper place. Yet every man knows it." a * "Men and women are natural liars concerning love and fishing and golf - and, above all, love, which alone is a necessity.' -Dudley Leslie. * * * "A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark." -H. L. Mencken. * * * "Women have to pretend that they're being hunted against their will: she wants to be kissed as you want to kiss her." - Stephen McKenna. * * * "When a woman refuses to quar- rel with a man, it means that she's tired of him. True lovers fight back." -Joy Baines. * -Arthur Richman. * * * "Love is not a flower. It can- not be revived by putting into a vase. It's a • flame, and when it's out it's out." -Augustus Thomas. CRASH SAFETY E. B, Dye, of the Cornell Aero- nautical Laboratory, has developed a so-called "beam pad" principle for aircraft helmets to protect the bead against severe blows. "Beam pad" helmets reduce effects of im- pact four or five told compared with ordinary helmets and with a reduction of helmet weight. The Cornell Committee For Transpor- tation Safety Research believes that the same principles can be applied in designing automobiles and planes. How Can I? By Roberta Lee Q. • How can I make a rose jar, or potpourri? A. Select a large -mouthed jar, and put in a layer of rose leaves one inch thick. Sprinkle with salt, and add one or two cloves. Repeat this process until the lar is full. Let stand for about 10 days, then remove to permanent jar, and if desired add one ounce essence of roses. Tar should be kept tightly closed, opening for a few minutes each day, as frag- rance is desired. Q. How can I make a moth- proof bag? A. Newspapers, stitched to- gether, can be made into very serviceable mothproof bags for storing garments out of sea*oe, due to the fact that moths are not fond of newsprint, Q. How can I make use of dis- carded umbrel'a ribs? A. These ribs make good and lasting supports for trailing flowers. If they are painted a soft green, they will hardly be noticed in the garden. Q. How can I prevent window screens from rusting, A. They will not rust, and will look like new, if a coat of linseed oil is applied to them. Q. Ho'v can I store my funs for the summer, instead of leaving them at a fur house? A. See that the furs are thor- oughly cleaned; sprinkled freely with powdered tobacco; place in a suit box with close -fitting lid; theca wrap securely in seval thicknesses of newspaper. Q. How can I clean reed and rattan furniture? A. Use a stiff brush dipped its ' furniture polish. This not only cleans the furniture well, but gives it an added gloss. Q. How can 1 remedy cotton goods that has become badly scorched? A. Dip the goods into cold wa- ter and hang it in the sun to drip and dry. Repeat this process sev- eral times if necessary. Silent Sex Appeal --Sultry Holly. wood newcomer Rita Gam de- monstrates monstrates her "ability to proe ject sex appeal without uttering a word." She appears with Ray Milland in "The Thief," a film Int which none of the actors speak, Although she is never closer to hie than five paces, Rita keeps Milland speechless throughout the film. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 2 9 N S4-d3cr"rI.?:i0 O N 1 b' O] 1 V` V a N Y .L v -j o Cr :V A f . a3 so ; IIP i dO V / 3 d S 1 M ''r(En 9 3 N ;, MD l W r., d j 3 ' 1'rLlry) 36,9 .3.r 9 W $I;33IV Y. siiV.LS'gill 1N4,Sd9a9 ISSUE 27 - 1952 moor Stumpin' Along Just Mine-"Stumper," five-week•cld claclv:hlrrcJ puppy t.,ll t !r -rt et leg at birth„ shows his master, Larry Lewandowski how nicely he gets along wi;lt tL ee'-1 .' 1 his artificial leg.