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The Brussels Post, 1957-08-21, Page 6FAITH OR FIGHT? — This cake-cutting scene is misleading. Just before Kathryn Ann Kelly and George P. McCarthy cut the cake at their wedding reception, they pledged their faith in each other by placing their ring hands• over the wedding flowers, But what's that at left? A closer look reveals a fighting fist on Kathryn's other hand. Perhaps it was lust a reflex action. Only George will know. HRONICLE 1NGERFARM eumd.olinz P. Clarice "Corn Starch makes creamier dressings" ti 1 dew Hope 1 For Diabetics "HOW many other daughters Must give Up their liveA to take care Of their Mothers, Anne Hirst, while the boys in the :family Sail Off into matrimony and leave the girls holding the bag? They only think it is her duty." So exclaims One young; WOrnan who is growing weave. carrying the load alone. "My mother Is perfectly healthy and could live alone safely and pleasantly, if she would. My brothers insist I assume re- sponsibility for her just because I have not married—and how could. I when my mother has discouraged every man I've met and proclaimed far and wide that we could never separate because 'Mary needs me sal' " Mary needs her like she needs .a hole in the head. "My mother, instead of being grateful for all the sacrifices I have made, still tells me what to wear, where I can go, what I should say to my boss—and then smugly folds her hands and says, don't know what Mary would do without me!' "If these brothers of mine would visit Mother now and then, or even write or telephone, I could forgive a lot, But they are too wrapped up in their jobs and. their families; they are lavish with their advice, but they never think of the lonely existence I must lead. "I know you can't change these inequalities, but perhaps you can make one mother (mine) realize what I arts relinquishing for her. If I and other burdened women could feel that what we do for parents is not in vain, it would help; but all we get is a pout- ing old woman who wears her feelings on her sleeve and takes umbrage every time ,,the girl goes out for a walk We old-maid daughters don't want to grow cynical, or sound that way, but aren't we entitled to a single crumb of appreciation?" * TO MARY: Your plaint de- * serves the space I am giving • it. It expresses the dilemma * of hundreds of thousands of * "old-maid daughters" who are * being cheated of love and mar- * riage because their selfish * mothers absorb all their ener- * gies, and apparently regard it " as a criminal offense if the * girl makes one move toward • a life of her own. And be - • cause her sons go their way, • heedless of the circumscribed • routine their sister must follow, Slim and Smart PRINTED PATTERN This PRINTED Pattern is a wonderfully becoming style for half-size figures! Simple dress to wear for sunning; cover with the little. bolito.. A Silhouette that's neat, smart, slimmirigt Printed - Pattern 46.62: Half Sizes 141/2 , 161/2 , 161/2 ,-- Who Who 241/2, Size 161/2 dress requireS yards 36-iriCh fabric; 'bolero 1% yards., Printed directions .bit. each pat= tern part. EaSieri. laStery todUrate; Send PittY DENTS OM (StattipS cannot, be accepted, Use, postal not for Safety) for this' pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, Stilt 11CUMI31 R. Setict order to MIND ADAMS, tttnt 1,, 128' Eighteenth :St., geW l'Orente,, Ont. .ISSAJP 2Z. i657 S Cate-mdiegot * the burden is heavier. vrn * in her own home she has no 10 freedom; her mother directs * her comings and goings as * though she were twelve, exec- * rising her austere authority, antagonizing the girl's friends 4 and always any possible suitors. • If you expect ever to escape * from this treadmill, you will * have to assert yourself. Call * a council of your brothers and * tell them you intend to leave *.soon on the vaaction you de- * scribe, and that in your ah- * senee you expect them either * to invite their mother to their * homes or keep in daily touch * with her, Also that on your • return, other arrangements * must be made to share her re- * sponsibility. If you are firm, • they will have to change their • selfish ways—for what would • they do if you left home for * good and moved in with a * girl friend? * I do salute you and all other * young women in such an ex- * asperating situation, not with * a "crumb" of appreciation but * with the whole loaf. * * DON'T MARRY HIM "Dear Anne Hirst: I am really in a spot. I don't go regularly with any boy, and now a man in his late 30's is in love with me. I don't respond at all, but my mother and father keep tell- ing me I'll be foolish to turn him down, "I don't even feel at home with him, Anne Hirst. He is kind, however, and takes me anywhere I want to go . . should I take the chance?" AFRAID. • Your parents, like all others, * want a secure future for their * children. They are hoping you * will fall in love with the man, * but if you don't I am sure they • will not want you to marry * him. Don't say Yes to any man • you don't love, no matter what * material advantages he can * offer. * The fact that you are not * at home with this one is proof * enough to me that you could " never find any satisfaction in * marriage. Man and wife should first be real compan- * ions; the fact that he is so * much older and interested, in * things that do not appeal to * you makes you feel like a * stranger to him. That, you * won't get over. • Go about with boys and girls * your own age, and through * them you will meet other • young people. This association, * more than any argument, will * soon prove how foolish you * would be even to consider * marrying this older man. If you have carried parental responsibilities beyond reason- able limits, make a break for a better arrangement before you are too old to care. Anne Hirst is sympathetic, so write her frankly. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. Whatois considered the most proper way to eat a banana at the table? A. Peel the banana into a plate, then eat it with a fork. One of the major attractions at the Quebec Winter 'Carnival is the unique ice canoe race across two miles of ice floes. "PERFECT WIFE`` Marjorie Lord reVives the "perfect'wife" type at Danhy Thomas'' spouse in his television series. Mar jorie says the was "too hide" for Hollywood parts Of a few years. ago. She's riding high now with cf five'yedr ter-Ili-00 as• ban ny's TV mate. Recently released tor .sale atter. i.xbakt.live testing, is anew drug which could provide:. many dia- betics with the sumo vontrol as insulin. - and :by a treteeh more simple method. Leonarel angel, reporting in a recent issue of 'the Star Weekly, tells readers about the substance, which heralds a new day for dia- betics in Canada and the United States. Many thousands of these dia, betics may .soon be freed from lifelong dependence on the instil- in needle. In its place they will, have a pill that will also have to take for life, but which they can take by mouth. Canada and the United States 'have just released the drug for sale. .It was discovered in .qerm, any and its name is tolbutamide, although it has been assigned other names by Canadian and U.S. pharmaceutical companies. Tolbutamide represents a land- mark of medical drama in at. least four ways. First, it is. poss- ibly the most important advance in diabetics, since the discovery of insulin by Canada's Banting and Best in 1921. Second, there has never been a search for a new drug like the long and ex- traordinary search that led to tolbutamide. Third, no new drug has ever been tested so widely before being released for general use. Finally. no drug has ever been launched with greater con- cern to prevent possible misuse. • Fully described in Leonard En- gee Star Weekly article are de- tails of the new treatment and. what it means to diabetics the world over. M SS HAWAII — Lovely Sandra Lei Luahiwa Forsythe is this year's choice as Miss Hawaii in the Miss America contest in Sep- tember after making a tour of the United States. Of Hawaiian- English-German descent, Miss Forsythe is an airline steward- ess. Brand Names Out in Monroe, Wisconsin, Alvin Stolen wants to go into the tire business under the trade name "Stolen Tires, Inc." — ca- tering, we would hope, to the humorous rather than the baser instincts of his customers. If he is granted permission to use his own name in 'this way, Mr. Stolen may, encounter some unusual business problems. For instancee, he will prob- ably find the shock value of slo- gans like "It's a steal!" too bad- ly undercut to furnish publicity for those semiannual sales ,that seem to occur every two or three months in the tire busin- ess. And he will doubtless have to put up with joshing when- ever there is a rash of tire thefts in the area. However, the thing that dis- turbs us most about Mr. 'Stolen is the thought that a lady we know may read about his pro- jected business. She has been saying for years that she would like to market a ready-mix bo of ingredients for cakes, rolls muffins, etc. under the brand name "Scratch." Then, she says, the busy housewife could proud- ly tell her husband or sewing circle friends that she made those delicious dinner rolls (or whatever) starting from Scratch. If Mr. Stolen has any marked' success with his catch-name business, we're done for, The cook at our 'house is going 'to be too busy making Scratch for us to get anything made froth scrateh at dinner any more.— TheChristian Science Monitor. In La Gaspeste beauty rise* from simple charm to grandeur. This is the land Hof a people- who add to proverbial. Ouebed 'friendliness a wealth of histories cal traditions. Summer storms have made the news in so many localities dur- ing the last week. In this part of Ontario we had high winds, heavy rain, heat and humidity — nothing too, serious, except for the farmers. Lucky are the farmers who were able to get any dry hay stacked away in the barn. There are plenty who didn't. Drive along the country roads and you see field after field with bales piled in threes and fours, or in singles just where the machine had dropped them. Wheat is beginning to turn so now farmers will be pray- ing that damaging storms will not flatten the crops and make future operations still more dif- ficult. How can anyone expect farmers to be other than wea- ther-conscious? Always they have to hope for the best — but prepare for the worst. One food thing happened last week — eggs advanced in price by six cents a dozen. The poultryman will make his for- tune yet! But not if he depends on us. We use less than a dozen eggs a week — that is, when we are alone. I suppose we have been surfeited with eggs in the past and would rather have other food ,for awhile. For years cur standby has been eggs — devill- ed, poached, boiled, scrambled and sometimes fried. But no mat- ter how they were cooked they were still eggs — and of course excellent food at that. "What is there that the vintners buy one half so precious as the wares they sell?" That is a good ques- tion and apples to all kinds of farm produce. Perhaps in the past we did not make enough use of the stuff we grew or raised. And now we can't , . this year we haven't even got a vegetable garden. We were so busy getting the there wasn't time to get the ground into con- dition to make garden. Next year we hope to do better. Last Monday we went to Mil- ton to take part in the final Centennial Parade. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. The weather was per- fect and most people seemed to be in a gala mood. Our Institute float was in the form of old- time activities on the farm. A quilting party was in progress with four members dressed in bodice-tight full length drosses, very busily quilting. At the four corners of the float one house- wife was making• bread, another churning, a gay young thing was Occupied with an old-fashioned gramaphone arid I, as a black- bonneted grandmother, Sat in a rocking chair with my knitting and rocking a baby hi an old wooden cradle. As we passed along the streets I could see bee pointing me out to David. Of course he didn't recOgniie "Gran" in her get-Up. When I waved and I saw beWilclernient followed by recognition, and finally his face broke into Yesterday Soy and I toured 'he historic hOuSes open to the, public during OakVille's Ceti- tennial. Partner tame along too but he took on a baby-sitting job with toss while .16y arid I Went gadding, toss very oblig 131rd Watch On The Shores of The Dee In one of his most famous Homer compares the movements of the armies before ,Troy to the flight of wildfowl, 'geese and cranes and long- necked swans' in the storied marsh which has given its name to a continent. 'Ither and thither they fly, rejoicing in their wings,' so he describes them; and so the watcher will echo his words when the Knots come streaming to the sandbanks or the Starlings, weave patterns over their roosting--places in the dusk, Beautiful beyond description are the swiftly changing spirals when the light now catches a gleam of wings and now sets the whole array in silhouette, Mar- vellous beyond its beauty is the dense formation of the squa- drons, their perfect preelsion and spacing, and the spontane- ous rhythm of their unity; no bird leads; no signal bids them turn; and yet, as if a single will animated them all, a thousand wings beat together, Such displays are most fami- liar of an evening, and at a sleeping-place. One of my earli- est memories is of a big starling- roost in a tiny copse behind the cottage upon the Dee in which we spent our Augusts. Night by night when the sun was setting in splendour behind Hilbre, my father and I would stroll along the old sea-wall, and turning away from the glory of the heavens, gaze at the birds as they rose from the branches in honour of the passing day. The ritual never varied. Long before sundown the flocks would begin to assemble; small bunches of birds from near at hand; then battalions from further. afield; then parties of stragglers: at last the boughs were crowded with a clamorous company. Then came the flight a com- plicated manoeuvring over and around the copse, winding in and out in a maze of fluid circles, culminating in a 'grand chain' when the air was dark with a storm of living flakes. Then as darkness closed in, a sudden settlement, a final even- have been treasured and dis- played as an antique! Well, I guess centennial cele- brations are over once and for all for districts..a hundred years old. What will happen before each of the celebrating districts reaches its two-hundredth birth- day? Wonder is all we can do — certainly we won't be around to see it. We can only be glad we were able to celebrate the first century birthday. Now I must see if our visitors• have been able to entertain themselves while I have been writing. Sister Kathleen and nephew Klemi are visiting us for a week or two before moving on to make a nevi home for themselves in Peterborough where Klemi has been appoint- ed music instructor at the Col- legiate. Another reason for stop- ping — a man is pounding at the back of the house installing screen doors. Fresh air, without flies . . . that will be wonder-.. full song, sounding more like mob, oratory that/ vtlir, and at lest silence .and .41cep.,---Yrom "Mus- ings and Memories," by Charles HaVell, AM-”ORNg SPORT One of the most taseinating sports for those who have the courage to tackle it, says • the Hook of • Knowledge, is riding on a glider, or sail.pianc, the high altitude pressure wavet that sometimes form over mOon^ tains, .Sail-plane flights have been made up to 10,000 feet. At these altitudes the pilot must have oxygen equipment and par= ticularly warm clothes,, and 'the cockpit of his plane must be in,. sulated. Devotees of this sport claim that it is a uniquely weird and thrilling experience to fly silently five miles up. pt 'the crest of a huge, invisible, wave of air: His Favorite frarte. Witte& Here's just the chair-set to ap- peal to a masculine heart—for his study or his favorite chairl Filet crochet in a nandsome de- sign. Many, uses for this, crochet: as scarf ends too. Pattern 536 has charts, directions tor chair-set 121/2 x 16 inches in No. 50,,cot- ton. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Two FREE Patterns as a gift to our readers—printed right in our NEW Laura Wheeler Need- lecraft Book for 19571 Dozens of other new designs you'll want to order—easy, fascinating hand. work for yourself, your home Be sere to send 25 cents for yotu copy of this book now — don't miss it! 44, ingly slept most of the afternoon. The houses were most interest- ing but what struck me was the fact that there are many similar old 'houses throtighout Ontario and nobody notices them. It taker owners with imagination to furn- ish and preserve them in such a way to make them comfortable to live in And attractive to the public. The first post office at Oakville FS now a small but most fascinating museum, not cram-. med with antiques, the three rooms being furnished only with the essentials -for pioneer living such as the early settlers would have deemed necessary. A huge stone fireplace complete with a crane and cauldron. (We had the same thing at Ginger Farm but our fireplace was boarded 'up.) A hand-hewn table, four-poster bed, washstand and iron-stone toilet set and of course a num- ber of small furnishings of vari- ous kinds. In one privately"' owned house that we visited, the owner point- ed out the peculiar glass in the windows. At Ginger Farm we had that same type of glass and how I, used to bless it! It was full of streaks, bubbles and other imperfections. You couldn't see through it properly and after it was cleaned it never looked clean. 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