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The Brussels Post, 1958-04-23, Page 6•1 • woe NEW YEAR'S BELLES—Shapely Aquamaids churn up a spectacular seasonal greeting in Cypress Gardens, Florida, 'Tear Anne Hirst: My daughter is already hav- ing trouble With a grand boy She married a 'few months age." writes a sorry mother, "and all because we spoiled her so when she was growing up, We never limited her allowance, and she has no more idea what a dollar buys than her 8-year-old sister. I never taught her how to cook, though I should have anticipated these servantless times, We were so proud of her that all we want- ed was a. carefree girlhood for her; well, she had it—and both ehe and I are paying for it now, 'I have never been so ashamed in all my life!" NEVER TOO LATE * A mother cannot expect * her daughter's marriage vows -4' to change the girl, overnight * into the perfect housekeeper. * Couples usually start on a * small scale, and the bride of- * ten has never made her own * bed. Too many young men, " fresh from their mothers' well- * run households, get the shock * if their lives when they must 4' live in the disorder of their * new homes. Driven to rest- * aurants for breakfast, they - dread coming home to a din- * ner poured out of cans or a * delicatessen makeshift. Week's Sew-Thrifty PRINTED PATTERN 4792 t0-20 4.4-sne. The "Empire Princess" — this Printed Pattern fashions the loveliest lines for your figure. Graceful dress with scoop neck, high empire bodice, fitted, flar- ing silhouette; bolero, Printed Pattern 4792: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 dress and bolero require 41/4 yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate, Send. FORTY. CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pat- tern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St,, New Toronto, Ont. Money does not grow on * trees, nor drop as manna 'from heaven, Why shouldn't a ' young husband expect his * bride to know how to spend * his salary economically? Long ' before her wedding day a girl '' should have learned that dol- lars are hard to come by, yet • how can a girl realize that when her parents handed over ;• greenbacks as though they were dimes? "Children will be your " greatest blessing," one wise • mother told her girls, "but you • aren't good enough to deserve *• them unless you have learned discipline yourself. Live by the standards I have taught * you, and never do anything you would be ashamed to tell '1' me." Is there any safer rule • for a girl to live by? Unpreparedness for marriage e is too common among today's 4' girls. If one starts marriage * equipped with the practical * knowledge of homemaking, *-and morally supported by * the ideals that a conscientious * mother has instilled, she has * won half the battle and will * really deserve the husband she * is getting. To "REPENTENT MOTHER" * Take your girl in hand im- * mediately. Spend your morn- * ings teaching her the funda- * mentals of cooking and good * housekeeping. You failed her * once, but now she will look to * you, since she realizes that, * with your help, she can be- ' come the practical helpmeet * her young husband believed * he was marrying. *** THE WRONG TRACK "Dear Anne Hirst: ; I am over 16, and been dating a boy two months. He'd make dates and not show up and never explain why. I realized other faults, too, but when I was with him I didn't care. "A week ago he said goodnight and that he wouldn't be back. I don't know why— "Unless it's because we were just sweethearts, not real friends. We petted a lot, but now I be- lieve we had nothing else in common. I do miss him but he doesn't even speak now. "Two girl friends have told me what to do to get him back, but you are older than they are, so please help me. • The boy is gone, and let it 4' be for good. He has taught you a lesson you should have known.— * You cannot hold a boy's 4' interest by petting. There are * too many other girls who are * as generous, and 'unless they have other attractions the boy * is off to new conquests . Kisses 4' should be saved for real * friends, not casual acquaint- * ances, and when a girl your age is so ardent it indicates * she has nothing else to offer. Similar ideals and tastes, * and respect for one another, * are essential to real friend- * ship. Aim first for these, and * don't stoop to petting until, * you are old enough to realize * its place. Almost any attract- * ive lad can give you the same' * physical reactions, but the * girl who depends only on * thrills is cheapened in the * opinion of any smart lad and se soon finds herself alone—and * talked about, * *' Brides who fail as wives are not always to blame. Often it is the mother Who bas indulged her instead of fitting her to be a real helpmeet . . . Turn to Anne Hirst when probleins beset you, and receive the help which she can give. Write, her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ontario. Walt Disney's Model Railroad Some years ego , he (fa- ther) sought relief from worry by building a model railroad big enough to ride on. Every evening when. he came home he would go down to our lower yard and tinker With his train a model locomotive, several flatcars, boxcars. and a caboose on narrow-gauge tracks.. Father's train has enough cars to seat a dozen friends, and he. likes to give his guests a ride. He built the engine himself, copying a full-sized locomotive made in 1800, It's a perfect little coal-burning model, scaled an inch and a half to a foot. When Father fires it up, he wears his engineer's cap, coveralls, and work gauntlets. He carries an oilcan with a long, slim nozzle, When Mother and Father were drawing plans for their new house — the one they've lived in for the past seven years — Father decided to lay his tracks all around over the grounds. We thought he was crazy and said so, "If I can't have a railroad around my house," he argued, "what's the use of building a new house?" At one point Father went to his attorney, Spence Olin, and said, "Spence, I want you to draw up a agreement between me and my family. I want it to say that I'll be allowed to own • a right of way through my place for my railroad." "You don't have to do that., Walt," Olin said. "The house will be in your name anyway." "Spence," Father said, "I've been married longer than you have and. I know more about women. There are a lot of women in my family, and I need - this in writing.' At Father's suggestion, Olin dug up some old railroad right- QUEEN—Agneta Dyberg, 18, of Gaevle, Sweden, poses in Lon- don wearing a crown of lighted candles. Pretty Agneta, in Bri- tain to study English, was chosen "Queen of the Light", by mem- bers of London's Swedish com- munity. The custom has been carried on in the home country for 700 years, of-way papers to make sure of the w or din g. Then Father brought 'the document home. "I won't agree to build a new house," he said, "unless you sign over a right of way for my tracks." Mother gave in. That was all Father needed. He began to lay out a fine, sweeping run for hi3 train. The layout required a deep exca, vation in the front yard, Father *thought that it was a section of lawn Mother wouldn't mind hay- ing dug up, but she insisted she wanted a geranium bed there instead of "en old hole in the ground," To keep peace, Father agreed to tunnel under that spot, Then he discovered that a tunnel would cost a mint. The building- code inspectors said it had to 'be made of concrete and steel beams, Father was ready to give up. Then, while he was driving home from work one night, he heard a song on his car radio. It seemed a personal message to him. "Illejoy yourself," the refrain went, "it's later than yo t think." As ,aim as he reached home, oathcr phoned his contracto 'Put that tunnel in fast," he rid, "before I eiange my mind." E%thor has titvcr told anyone whet that tunnel cost him. He juatit;es it by saying that it, v ould make a perfect bomb shel., ter. Mother doesn't have to jus- tify it. She has her geranium bed, From "The Story of Walt Disney." by Diane Disney as told to Pete Martin, 01,04VIU STYLE "The TV broke down last night, so we had =a real old, fashioned evening." "Songs round the piano and that sort of thing?" "No, we listened 'to the radio," Sometimes I think if our fes- tive seasons were reversed we might do better — that is to say in regard to Christmas and New Year's. If New Year's came first, think of all the good resolutions we could make about Christ- mas!We would never, never get caught in a last minute rush; we would resolve never to get over-tired "or irritable; we would determine never to accept 'that second helping and we Would just take all the children's noise and excitement in our stride • — bless their little hearts, it is nothing more than high spirits. And of course all our Christ- mas cards would be away good and early and no one would ever be forgotten. Oh yes, I am quite sure if New Year's came first we would all be models of per- fection. But it doesn't — things are just as they always have been. To readers of this column Christmas has come and gone so now it is time to wish you all a Very Happy New Year. And I hope part of that happiness will come from thoughts of the Christmas that has just passed— that it will be just another hap- py memory to carry along for the next 365 days. I wonder . when al] the excitement is over and we re- turn once again to normal liv- ing , . . I just wonder how many take time to look back over the past twelve months — to more or less assess the past as it were; to take a good look at what we thought were serious, problems or at the pleasures we imagined were so itnportant. Remember the trip you planned that didn't come off — and that turned out to be a blessing in disguise. And there was that December card party at the school — the one you didn't get to because of the weather. You were sort of resentful, weren't you? But that was also the night • the best cow in your stable ran into unforeseen difficulties. Had she been left alone you might have come home to find a dead cow arid calf, Bad weather saved you' a lot of trouble that night. And there was that time when car complications kept you at Ithine and while you were still sort of nursing a grievance vis- itors arrived unexpectedly whom you hadn't seen for years. They were just passing through on their way to the coast and took a chance on looking you Up. Remember how glad you were —if the car had to act up—that it should have chosen that par- ticular clay to do it. Sometimes things work the other way round, bad has to make a trip for tractor repairs and suggest you and the' chil- dren come to visit your sister. But it's Monday . you just couldn't . . not before you've got the washing done, "The washing can wait until tomer row," says Father, "if we don't go early' "you won't get a visit at all," You allow yourself to be persuaded and while you are away a storm canes raid. and wind — and if, your wash- 'frig had been 'on the line you might have found it on the road coming to meet you. Eesides that Nellie was so glad to see you—she was just nicely over the flu and a .real old family visit was just what she needed. In fact it was good for all of you. The next day you went to work with a will and got the washing and ironing all done on the same_ day. So far as I know there is no law that says wo- men must wash on a Monday. And yet sometimes you'd al- most think it was a matter of life or death. How foolish can we be? But there, you don't really need me to remind you of these things. I am sure if you look back over the past twelve months you can remember doz- ens of instances when things happened very differently from what you had planned and yet the final outcome often proved to be — as I said before — a blessing in disguise. There are times when maybe we get a lit- tle too determined and force an issue over an affair that might better be left to take its own course. It is still true that "God moves in a mysterious way." And so, as we approach this New Year,I would say to you— as I so, often say to myself—let us be serious in our attitude to- wards life—but not too serious. Let us plan ahead by all means but with enough elasticity to make our plans adaptable to un- foreseen circumstances. Let us not treat everyday problems as possible major disasters. Let us also learn to laugh at ourselves —but never at others. 'With them, yes, but not at them. Above• all, in this troubled world, let us remember the Mas- ter of the Universe is still all- powerful. Under His guidance the Power for Good is, and al- ways will be, greater than the Power for Evil. Have a little faith . . . things will work out . . you'll see. Maybe 1958 will be our best year yet. No harm done in hop- ing anyway. Happy New Year everybody! cam.psite FoundBii Canada, Mankind lived in laritish Co- lumbia 8&,150 years ago, thou- sands of years earlier than pre, viously known, This prehistoric record has been establislvd by radioactivity analysis Of camp- ;fire ash found in a deep railway cutting 40 miles northeast of Vale, a little town 100 miles from Vancouver. Carbon. ash has been alalysed in many places in America and Mexico,, but, nowhere else have such ancient remains been dis- covered, In British Columbia some deposits have been found at Locarno Beach, Vancouver, which 'are said to be 2,430 years old, and the famous Marpole Midden, perhaps the most exten- sive one in America, is dater' as having been formed at the be, ginning of the Christian Era, The race of men who formed the Marpole Midden has not yet been identified, but -the consen- sus is that it preceded the an- cestors of the present Canadian Indians, Dr. J. K. McCallum of the University of Saskatchewan is the chemist who assigns the age to the carbon ash deposits. Var- ious tests from different parts of coastal British Columbia show that man was active thereabouts from 1,580 to 2,450 years ago, As far as can be judged, the ancestors of the present Coast Salish Indians came down from the north about 650 years ago. Other tribes came down 1,000 years earlier, then disappeai:ed. At Point. Roberts, a little point that juts out of British Colum- bia, there was a settlement 1,580 years ago, and it is be- lieved that these people came from• the south, probably from what is now California. Dr. Charles E. Borden, archae- ologist at the University of Brit- ish Columbia, and his assistant, Dr. William Matthews, are not disclosing the exact site of the recent discoveries. They wish to keep tourists and amateur collectors away until a thorough survey has been made, writes. P. W. Luce in The Christian Science Monitor. The Yale site was exposed during railway construction. It has several layers separited from one another by sand of various depths, and there is evi- dence of man living there at different periods separated by centuries. The bed - of -the Fra- ser River is now 50 feet below what is was millenniums ago, and this great drop has been considered in estimating the age Of the deposits. Many stone scrapers, knives, hammers and primitive weapons have been picked' up, but all in a broken condition. A further 'eXploration of the site is ex- pected to, cost about $6,000. Dr. Borden has been active for years in *Preserving the historic. Vancouver Marpole Midden, which was discovered in the early years of, the century, and which is now almost entirely ab- sorbed by modern needs. A small parklike area has been re- served, for archaeological re- search, but the lack of capital has handicapped development. et.w.jokeee It.4 tow cOnte iiii21,1P of Ylot seAomen colt hill ivory morit int!' ISSUE 2 — 1958 em Etiquette . by Roberta Q. What are 114 duties of tbt bridegroom's family before wedding? A. Nothing special„, outside paying a call on the bride's par-. tints after the engagement bW. been announced, and, to but the bride as nice a, wedding giti As possible. It's nice, too, ft)) the. man's family to invite thi girl and her family to a gather. lag in their home sometime be• fore the wedding, Q. Lately I have noticed per• sons of apparent refinement using toothpicks at the table, It this now considered .aeeeptablel A. Not at all. Toothpick* should never be seen in use, the table or anywhere else. Q.. Is it correct to have monogram engraved on the en. velope of social stationery? A. No; the monogram should. be engraved only on the note- paper. Q. What are the occasions when sending flowers is really obligatory? A. To the funeral of a friend or a member of a good friend's family. To an intimate friend- who is — or has been — seri- ously ill, To. neighbors Who give an anniversary party. To a guest speaker, when we are -the hos- tess, Q. What does an usher at a church wedding do if several women arrive together? A. He offers his arm to the eldest. If no other ushers are there to escort the other wom- en, they follow in pairs. • Bulky-Knit Tweed Fashion news! Knit a bulky jacket in tweed effect or solid color. Large needles and wor- sted make the inches grow. So easy, you can watch TV while you•knit. Pattern 673: di- rections for sizes 12-14; 16-18 are included, 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 thit PATTERN NUMBER, and your NAME and ADDRESS. As a bonus, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our 1958 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. Dozens of other designs you'll •want to order—easy fas- cinating handwork for yourself, ytnir home, gifts, bazaar items. Send' 28 cents fOr your copy' of this book foday! AN NE, 141 .4/01414 Faprzaw cairApt,selat tHE END —Grimly humorous is the location of this "Dead End"• street beside d cemetery. Indeed, for some it will be e last stop", • re-e •-eeee'tn"e.e7e,fleaseic,(4,4 H ONICL ARrL 4 yen doll P. Cla,rke iiiJANUARY'?--No wee:Whig bells are ringing, but there are plenty of brides in evidence hi the WiriclaWs of theso shops Manhattan. Although are street—Grond Street down riede fhlf tiowery—is in one of the hiOtt run-down se rations of New York, dittiOlt on entire block is eettwi up by stores featuring turrifthrilgt.