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The Brussels Post, 1955-04-06, Page 2EMS HRONICLES L ZINGERFARM ovendoltne C.14,r1.44 They're taling about ktO gaiteito .•••••••••66.#.001....41.11.1 ni+01.1•••••11 Di3 kam. 414dZon, at It Oopaaham& Beneath the, majestic crown of the Sugar Loiif, the people of Rio de Janeiro welcomed the Seagram Collection of Paintings of Canadian. Cities. At the Brazilian premiere in famous Copacabana udaQw ( A Collection lielped„,bring a lasting appreciation and a fuller understanding of Canada to Millions of people arolth d the world, • C.he Tioyto of.Seagram: intsiti4nte4AttOeit OF THE SEAGRAM Coti.gcnOW'OTTAWA; SAN JUAN, HAVANA, MEXICO CITY; Ca4CAS, Rib DE 'JANEIRO, SAO PAULO BUENOS AIRES,, MONTEVIDEO, ROME, LONDON; OAR1S„pENEVA-, STOCILHOLM, THE HAGUE, MADRID, AND A YISIT TO THE CANADIAN ARMED :ORcES IN,SOEST; WEST 'OEliMANV. CANADIAN TOUR SEACRAM COLLECTION: MONTREAL CHARLOTTETOWN;, HALIFAX, St JOHN'S, SAINT JOHN, SHERBROOXB,TROIS.-'RiV1114ES, TOSONt0,:CiUESEC, LONDON; EDMONfON, VANCOUVER, VICTORIA; CAL4ARY, PORT ARTHUR-TORT WILLIAM; SUDBURY, KIRd'SLCX1, 'HAMILTON, .SAILNIA, WINDSOR, SASKATOON, RELJINAJ. siikvviNt641..rAttS, nuu, Palace, and then at the Museum of Art, this Seagram Collection was seen by thousands of enthusiastic citizens. Throughout Latin America and Europe, the Seagram Collection portrayed' the vitality of Canada: het industrial expansion, her cultural progress; her vision and' talents. Abinad for a full year, the Seagram LOST & FOUND Tbe other day a woman walked into the lost property department of an omnibus coin- Pony in Edinburgh, She asked, in a foreign accent: "Have you a pair of gloves f lost?" The Man behind the counter search- ed the shelves, but told her the gloves had not turned up, As he was turning away, the woman peered into his face and. said; "You are smith!" The man was amazed. He is indeed Mr, William Smith, of penny. well Place West,. Edinburgh 'Poring the war, he was a prisoner in. East Prussia. tie worked in a cheese factory scrubbing the cheeses, T im e woman, a German, also worked there, upstairs in the packing department. Mr, Smith, took a claser look at the woman, and sloWly he. began to remember who, she. was. She told Mr; Smith 'she had married a Scots soldier and. was now living happily in Edinburgh. Unfortunately the Gernian woman had to. rush .-off to meet her husband and in. the midst of all the excitement he did not .get her address. Mr. Smith is wondering if .chance will make the lady • lose her handbag or umbrella before he has the .opportunity of see- ing her again and talking over old times. In. the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. —Alf r e d Tennyson. I ANNE HIRST1 FaAnze, au.s4e.eut_i R. 10 ► • MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER—It's the toy vacuum cleaner—not the little girl-LIKat's going to be a big help to mother. Battery pow- ered, the tankftyPe cleaner actually picks up crumbs and dust, Is designed la keeP"Sis busy while Mother gets on with the cleaning. It's one of the many "Grownup" toys manufacturers are now showing for the 1955. Christmas trade. "Dear Anne Hirst: While in nigh school two years ago our daughter, 20, met a young man 10 years older whom she has not been able to shake off, She is training to be a nurse, and we are niuch distressed about his effect on her, He is a D,P., has no education, and speaks broken English. She promised a year age to give him up, but last week she came home terribly upset. When she tries to end the friendship he ,goes to pieces. and she weakens. "Her closest girl friend thinks' our girl is mentally ill. She takes alike. Industrial. workers were. working six days a week at that time. When, they did their shop- ping I don't .know. But of course there were fewer of them around as industrial plants were small- • er in size and number. But the picture has changed. They. have 'the five-day week—so now it is the industrial workers and their families who. more Or less take over the small town centres on Saturdays. Pay envelopes pro- vide the means for the house- wives' shopping; Saturday mati- nees a weekly treat for the chil- dren and every available inch Of parking space is taken up. Country children also want 'to go to the Saturday matinee and to be taken to town while moth- er goes shopphig. So a great number of farm people must still go down town. Saturday after- noon. Of course they used to wait until Saturday night, but that is practically a thing of the past as' now small town store- keepers practise Saturday night closing, The result . , farmers, fpetory workers, men, women and children, from town and country• all crowd into .town at approximately the same time. Stems are jammed, :Farm folic . who, leave their shopping until Saturday have trouble in get- ting served. Older farmers, not having children who look for- ward to this Saturday treat, now do their best to avoid Saturday shopping, As for me, there is. enly one thing that takes, Me to to town on a Saturday afternoon —just to Mak up the weekend edition of A certain newspaper which I would bate to miss, and to get a few books from the library, rY' Saturday I found the town particularly busy and I stood at the back of One of the stores—just watching, Finally, ,dnring a momentary slack pe- riod, I said, to the storekeeper, "You must notice quite a differ- ' ence. in trade these days," His answer surprised me. "Not as much as you might think," he replied. "The extra. town trade we get doesn't begin to make up for the loss of coun- try trade which is becoming in- creasingly evident with the re- duction in farm incomes. We have been aware of the-change for some month's now." Naturally many country folk know only - too well that farm • incomes have suffered a . set.. back, but it was the first time I had heard it was being reflected in small town consumer buying. In fact I had often wondered how long it would take farmers generally to realize they were not as well off as they might think. Sometimes it takes a gar- ment quite a while before it actually bursts at the seams, As far as I, can see Saturday night closing only .aggravates the situ- ation, In *fact I know of a few families, accustomed to shop in One particular town for years, who are now shopping in an- Other district because it is the only small town where stores remain open on Saturday night, He is beyond her aid, Like the spineless creature he is, he has fastened himself to her like a leech, draining her spirit and effacing her naturally gre- garious temperament until she is practically a recluse, deny- ing herself normal friendships. If she cannot help herself out of this dilemma, you should warn him personally that if he attempts to see her again you will take steps to prevent it. no interest in shows or dancing or averts, and I. ..realize she is far from well. She has lost too much weight in training, though she is doing well in it. "We have always been .prokid of.. our three girls and we are not trying to dominate this one; but we'leel she is most unwise to. keep on with this friendship. What do you suggest? WORRIED PARENTS" * You two are wise to be dis- * tressed. Through her misplaced * sympathy for this weakling * your daughter has become so * emotionally involved that her * native intelligence and corn- * mon sense are being under- * mined, She need not be men- * tally ill to have got in this * state, but she has allowed her * kindness to rule her thinking. * For her own sake, she must * refuse to see him again. Now * that she has confessed. it * should not be difficult to con- * vince her she is only harming *, herself and doing the young * man no good. * * K * * * P 1, Bunny Bag •p. • p 6il fea4,14W6Q4, Poor eld Tippy finally died, He departed this life last Mon- day and the farm seems Pone somewithout -him.. Acebrding to our "vet', a virus infection had Penetrated the liver and spleen and was the main _reason why Tip refused to eat. When I told the. vet Tip was eleven years old he exclaimed, "Well,' after all, what could you expect?" And,now for. some good news. Last Thursday I heard geese overhead. At least thought I did, but I wastifft"Sitre as. .I couldn't see them. But the next day a neighbour told me he heard geele, too: So I guess I , was right, even though, it does seem early. Early geese, early spring—isn't that the old saying? And who will grumble if it proves to be true? Just for the record, the date on which."41" heard the geese was March 10, I haven't seen or heard a robin yet, but there was -a blue jay, , out for an airing this morning and there are certainly plenty of crows and starlings around and the cows are sort of sniffing the air when they 'are, turned out to drink—the way they do when spring is in the air. The willows are getting a yellowy look and the creek is running fast, washing away a corner of our front field down by the road, due to a faulty ,edgineering job at the time the highway was built. As if there wasn't enough soil erosion in the country al- ready. Farm auction sales are corn- ing along thick and fast these days. In the ' last three to be posted the present' owners are retiring and younger men have purchased the farms. Which is all to the good." We hope the trend continues. You know, farm folk have a lot of adjusting nowadays—and it isn't always easy. As every- one knows Saturday used to be the shopping day for farmers and their families. As recently as ten years ago almost direly small town was crowded on'Sat- • urdays with country folk latent on weekend shopping, and of 'course visiting among themselves ..—especially on Saturday:nights. The families of business people were seldom seen, in any great number down town on a Satur- day. There was a sort of un- written law that left that day to the farmers: It made it easier for shoppers and 'shopkeepers Ira Glamour! WiLI4E RETURN "Dear Anne Hirst: For nearly a yeast - have been going regum larlY:livith" a fine young man. Re-' cently11 called the whole thing off—and how sorry I am! I find I love him more than I knew, and I miss him more than I can bear. • "Twice since then I've been with him, but he says his love for me is not the same. If it had been real love in the first place, couldn't lie forget my silly act? Wouldn't he forgive me and come back? NO NAME" * Sometimes one who loves is so hurt by unkindness that it * is hard to be reconciled. Per- * baps this young man is afraid * you will repeat the offense, and he is in no mood to risk it. * All you can do is wait and '3€ see—and hope. In your place, I should not call him, nor write. Let him find out whether you are more important in his life than he thought; if you are, he will soon be with you, Parents find that Anne first's opinions and counsel are Sens- ible and workable. She does not expett too much—and she keeps her readers' confidence. Write her at Box I, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. THE ,CHARM OF MUSIC Tots get ready for . bed fast when they can pull-P.J.'s out of Ronald Rabbit. Mornings, they push night toga neatly through the opening in bunny's tummy. Fun to make! Pattern 601: It's made of two flat pieces plus round, stuffed head -- so easy! Pattern pieces, transfers. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. INSPIRED IDEAS—pages and pages of novel designs in our NEW Laura Wheeler Needle- craft Catalog for 1955! Complete— ly different and so thrilling, you'll want to order your favor- ite patterns. Send 25 cents for your copy of this new, new cata- log NOW! Music I heard with yot was more than music. —Conrad Aiken. You're lovely to look at, Jr. IviisSi in your new glarnOur frock! • Halter neckline above a whirl,. ing skirt — line diVine for a young figure! Match pretty scal- loped, jacket to the dress; con- trast with a. sheer insert on the dress bodice. Patthrti 4701. Jr. Miss Sizes 11, 13, 15, 17, Size 13 dress tEtiteg 3% yards 35-inch fabric, yard Contrast; jacket, 1. *at& this pattern easy to use, sit& pie to seVi, is tested ier tt. gait complete illustrated inatitiCtions. Send THititT - AVE CENTS 060-.)' in coins (stamps tannot bt accepted) for this pattern, Print Plainly SIZE, NAME, AptiEESt, Stki.At NUMBER. Send Order to Box I, 124 EiglitQeTit1 St., New torontoi Ont, TRANSPARENT ADVANTAGESAn eyeful in Or .out of the .haiii•k Models -joan ..BroWri; who is testing a new plastic at CypteSt. Gardens. The transparent hammock is only 10/1000 Of ari. irieft thicke'yet Ws strong enough to hold both Jodn chid. Betty Wand, *he leaks .gbod jusi...ptariclind there, Best thing bbduf . the ,ham- Mad( is,theit .Licari tan tee everybody On the beach—arid every, body can StCe her. to5 ISSUE 14.