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of it, smiling beneath your
* hurt, evith the concluelen that.
• rho doesn't .know any better
* or you can decline the 'UMW".
and end the friendship, The
* latter 'choice is .the customary
* one, fee there can be little
* true companionship left be-
* tween yeu, She is not the-
* grateful. friend she used to. be.
• Her ostentatien. should arouse
*. only your pity, because she is
• missing a firm experience in
* life,
* We all know so many pees
* pie,. who, notwithstanding any •
• change in social position,. treas-
* ire our friendship through
* the years. They value us for
" what we are and have been to
* them, and lose no opportunity
* to show their appreciation for •
• long and beloved associations.
I know hew hurt you are,
* but you should not be. It is
4+, she who has failed you, and
• * her better self, She does not
a need your help now, but she
* would make a slave out of
e you notwithstanding. It is she
* who is inferior, of course I
* think you owe it to yourer-
* sonal. dignity and self-respe ct
* to take the strong stand; she
* will have to respect it. You
'e will suffer no loss in letting
* her go, for she is not the loyal,
* loving woman she once was.
* She is responsible for the end
a of the friendship which today
* is no friendship at all.
*
CLE.RGYISSIAN r.R.msEs ... .
•
take your words to heart. (You
may print my letter if you
wish.) I. T. L."
It may please you to know
* that I regularly consult re-
* ligious leaders of all faiths,
* and have found them eager to
* advise and .co-operate. Various
* organizations contribute infor-
* mation, too,, all of which help
* me do a better job. I 'shall wel-
* come any criticism or advice
e you may feel inclined to send
* me, *
When our friendship is taken
advantage of f the hurt may per-
sist but our,„consceence is clear.
,We should only 'pity the small
mind that prempts the act. Turn
to Anne Blest when you need
understanding .• and sympathetic
counsel, addressing-her at Box 1,
123 Eighteenth St., New 'Toron-
to, Ont.
Rite Growing
What happens when a village
has an acute shortage of pretty,
marrigeable girls?
Well, when this occurred in a
certain Swedish village some
time ago, its bachelors, began to
"migrate" to other and bigger
townships in large numbers,
The meet had grown tired of
going without sweethearts and
dancing Partners. The local
lovers' lane had become desert-
ed,
Finally, so many yqung men
had abandoned their jnbs in lo-
cal factories and gone to work
and• live elsewhere that the local
council were galvanized into ac-
tion.
They hit on the idea of "im-
porting" scores of pretty girls
each Saturday night from neegh-
bouring townships and villages
so that they could attend the
village's weekly ball — and meet
the remaining bachelOrs.
Free transport in buses was
provided between the girls'
homes and the village. The
scheme worked magically and
love and joy quickly returned
to the village. Back, too, came
many of the young- men who
had stayed away.
And so many engagements
have been announced recently
that there is now a crop of local
weddings imminent. In fact, the
local council will .soon be faced
with a new problem, that of
finding homes in the" village for
the young couples.
When a big gold rush was at
its height in British Columbia
in 1862, the miners so longed for
feminine companionship that
potential brides weree shipped to
them from London. •
Twenty attractive girls were
sent from orphanages. Young
miners wore their "Sunday best"
clothes as, they waited on the
quay to welcome this cargo of
beauty. Within a week, each
girl had found a husband.
Another sixty young women
followed within a few weeks.
Some were rather shy, but the
gold miners had winning ways
and all the girls were wives
before the end of the year.
"Dear Anne Hirst: I read your
column regularly, to satisfy my
curiosity about the advice those
in your position give to peo-
ple who write them. May I say
that I find it sensible and help-
fel?
"I commend you on the fine
work you are doing. and which
your philosophy and knowledge
accomplish. Through your in-
timate contact with human na-
ture (and without benefit of
theological training) you are
able to unravel the skeins of
poorly-knitted lives, and you
remedy defects which negli-
gence and ignorance have
wrought. I expect you to reach
those who would never ap-
proach a minister for advice,
"I hope that your endeavor
will continue to bear fruit upon
the good ground of those who
-Dear Anne .Hirst: I've tried
to solve this problem, myself
but ,got nowhere, so I tura to
you .days I've
been. good friends with another
Woman.. When she married,
things were rough,, and for
years I pitched in and helped
her clean hoesee baby-sat for
her children, etc.
"Well, time marches on. Her
boys are groWn and. getting near..
vied; She has come into money,
bought a new home and two
cars. She has let me down eon-
eiderably these past few years;
the only times She's invited. me
were (shrewdly enough) when
she and her husbend _were. t9
entertain, and the visit would
end with me right in the kitchen
helpipg the servants.
"Recently she visited me for
the first time in ages, A son is
to be married, and (with the air
of a countess) she said: 'There
will be 100 at the cocktail party
and' I need. you; I'll have no
other help," and walked out be-
fore I could answer!. I could not
sleep all night. I'd thought I
would be a guest at the event,
but no, I'm still to. be Cinder-
ella,
"For a long time she has been
so overbearing and given me
such a feeling of inferiority!
Now she is on the way up, and
we are still struggling along ... •
I shall be looking forward to
your good, •sound advice, and
thank you kindly for it,.
CINDERELLA,"
TWO COURSES'
* Your 'problem is not so un-
* common as you. think. Many a
e childhood friend accepts grate-
* fully 'all the love, sympathy
* and practical help another
* woman gives her for years on
* end — and when she .comes
* into money, changes her en-
* tire nature. She believes her
e new wealth entitles her to au-
* thority, and she exercises it
* with almost unbearable arra-
* gance.. Instead of using her
* good fortune to brighten the
* lives of less fortunate friends,
*.she. thinks they should be fiat-
* tered by her recognizing their
existence. In other words, She
* becomes a first-rate snob,
* You can take either of two
* courses: keep on serving her
* in your former capacity as a
* 'seiner and getting a kick out
to sleep I heard a. newscaster
mention bad storms at Welland
and St. Catharines. Power nit
and the lift bridge halfway down
for forty minutes with a long
line of cars waiting on either
side, It sounded quite serious and
yet on Sunday it wasn't even
mentioned on the main radio sta-
tions at all. Had it been a here
rible murder or a bank robbery
it would have been mentioned on
every broadcast. Naturally any-
one with friends in that locality
would want to know more about
that storm if he had once heard
it mentioned.
Freak storms are sometimes
heard of only in the most casual
way. For instance, all Saturday
afternoon the sky had been very
black in this district but we got
only a few rumbles of thunder,
Then a young fellow came in the
drugstore while I was there, said
there had been a bad storm ten
miles farther north but yet when
he got to Milton there was nd
sign of a storm at all. So We are
wondering about that one too,
Seems as if the weatherman is
determined not to let his left
hand know what his right hand
is doing. We are particularly in-
terested in the weather just now
as we have a niece on her way
over to Europe and thie will be
her first voyage across the At-
lantic. I imagine it is an, educe-
tional project as she is one of a
group, all of whom are in their
second year at University. That's
what I call getting education the
painless way. Or is it? I suppose
someone, is having to foot the
bill.
Monday morning . . . cold,
Windy and Overceste-and yet a
little humining bird is flitting
around the sweet rocket in the
garden. Dear, optimistic little
bird, we will take a leaf from
your book and hope for brighter
days to come. And in the mean-
time get on with jobs that are
much better done in cool weath-
er; Suiting one's work to the
weather is sometimes better pol-
icy than the usual wash-on-Mon-
day, clean-on-Friday schedule
that allows no margin at all.
The rice grew swiftly while
we were gone during the sum-
mer and when we came back in
late September the fields were,
dry again and the grain stood
high and yellow. Then came the
harvesting when once more the
farm family sallied forth and
with hand sickles cut the
sheaves, and tied them and
stacked them and *carried them
to the threshing floors in front
of the farmhonse. There the
sheaves were spread and men
and women lifted the swinging
bamboo flails and beat out the
grain. Women swept up the
grain and spread it in winnow-
ing baskets and men tossed it
up for the wind to clean.
When at last the rice was
harvested it was piled into vats
made of clean rice straw 'woven
into matting and shaped and tied
into containers. There was• poet-
ry in every' movement of the
blue-clad peasants, and I. see it
all clear in my mind today, a
series of exquisite and symbolic
pictures, memorized through
half my lifetime. • e
Only in JaVa, year 'later; did
I see - the process whole • and
simultaneous, for there upon the
richest• soil and with the finest
rice climate in the. world, plant-
ing and harvestin went-on in
adjacent fields,' the earth in con-
tinual production 'so that while
some farmers transplanted seed-
lings into the .water others bOre
home the sheaves. When I think
of Java, I see handsome brown
men carrying on their shoulders
sheaves of rice, heavy-headed
and cut as exactly even as
strands of yellow silk. — From
"My Several Worlds,' by Pearl
S. Buck. Copyright, 1954, by
Pearl S. Buck.
ess
The whole process of the
growing of rice is a cycle of
beauty, from . the seedbeds,
greener than any green on
earth, to the last harveSted
golden sheaf. *I was charmed
always by every change, and es-
pecially by the transplanting,
wh,en the dry fields were filled
with water and, the farm family
rolled up the legs of their blue
cotton trousers and waded into
the water and planted the seed-
lings neatly and exactly spaced
over the fields.
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Seeing to me I have quite a
lot of catching up to do in this
column -- some of it good, some
bad.
Remember I was telling you
about Mac, the dog we got from
the Humane Society, Well, after
giving him a five weeks' trial we
decided there was only one thing
to do—take him back to the, ken-
nels. We hated to do it—be was
a friendly and affectionatesclog—
but he had bad habits which
seemed impossible to cure. Not
only that but he would not eat
properly and sometimes his eyes
looked as if he were suffering.
Who knows—he may have been
hurt or ill-treated as a puppy?
After our experience with Mac
we gave up the idea of getting
another dog—for the time being
anyway. And then I saw a Welsh
Corgi advertised for sale. Re-
member? . . . I have been want-
ing a Corgi for years, Now I have
one. Long body, short legs, fox-
red hair and a pedigree almost
as long as himself. He is nearly
two year's old, quiet, well-man-
nered and friendly. But to peo-
ple who don't know the breed
he looks odd, One farmer, who
had not approved of Mac, looked
at our Corgi and exclaimed—
"Well, things are getting worse,
aren't they?" His registered name
is Prince Robert of Green-
sleeves and we call him "Rob-
bie" for short.
It was Tuesday when we got
Robbie. Thursday I was baby-
sitting in Toronto as Dee and Art
were moving. Dave 'was either
sleeping, playingepn the veranda,
or out walking with me. Dee got
home, about 5.15. Dave was on
the veranda and I looked at him
every few minutes to, make sure
he was all right. The last time
was at 5.45. I looked and I looked
—Mit there wasn't a sign of Dave.
I called to Dee — "Deere isn't
here!" Then I ran down the steps
thinking he might have taken a
header over the, veranda railing.
Not a chance. But a young fele
10w, rooming next door heard
whet I said and called out—"I
know where he is—I'll get him!"
And off he went, He had seen
Dave on the run, going down the
street, crossing the road, round-
ing the" coiner and heading up.
Queen Street! Why he wasn't
run over was a miracle. We car--
ried him home, set him down on
`the veranda, and waited, taking
no notice of hini as we talked
with the neighbour next door.
Presently what we were waiting
for happenedrDave pushed his
way under the folding gate and
was ready to go again. His short-
liVed freedom ended with At
spanking: '
It was certainly a frightening
experience and made one realize
how easy it is for children to get'
killed on city streets ... and how
impossible to guess what a
youngster's next move will be,
I was glad it didn't happen while
I was alone as Grandma would
have earned a poor reputation• as
a baby-sitter. Maybe Dave inher-
its his desire to see the world,
from his mother as, until she
was five years old, she was the
world's worst for running away.
But we "didn't live in the city.
The wide open prairie, and later
our Ontario farm fields limited
the area of Daughter's escapadies.
Barring a tumble into the creek
or a mix-up with the cows she
was comparatively safe.
And the weather around here
just lately . . . just about every-
thing, including that grand rain
we were needing so badly. Things
were looking much better but
now the weather has turned cold
again. Tornadoes in the states
and in" Ontario . . . we are
just wondering, Late Saturday
night, just as I was dropping off
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