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The Seaforth News, 1958-03-13, Page 6ANNE HIRST eh"twn4akeuvidudirt, "Dear Anne Hirst: I am a very confused woman of 51, who for three years has been a dicontent- r11widow, feeling that life was behind me. Then I met a man nay own age, and it is really like a .ream come true. We have been seeing each other constant - for over a year, and our love nd compatibility increase all the thzi2, He never, goes anywhere Witheut me, and we are so con - end just to be together that that is all we ask . "So, you answer, why don't yeti get married? "No money. "He is a bachelor, with a small income that isn't enough to sup - pot the two of us. For three years -he hasn't been able to continue his profession (a chem.- isit because he cannot be on his fe .t so constantly; otherwise his health is perfect, as is mine. He owns his mother's home, and is reluctant to sell. (I have my own house.) I can get along on the pension my husband left, but if are emergency came along we w ' be in a bad spot. •V. are both church members t, is where we met) and have a but of good friends, but we shoull not like to confide our circumstances to anybody. "Shall we chance getting mar- ried? Or try to forget? MISERABLE" ALWAYS A WAY I prefer always to advise ▪ readers to do what they want o to do — but one must be prac- • tical. Have you ever worked? * Had any business training? * Many a woman your age is Lovely Centrepiece eimeeiRlitU eestitett raw. 1Mmaz Elegant centrepiece for a din- ner table I A graceful swan crocheted in pineapple design — till it with fruit or flowers. Pattern'581: Crochet directions for swan centrepiece; body about 12x61/4 inches. Use heavy jiffy cotton — starch stiffly. 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 Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. As a bonus, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our LAURA WHEELER Needlecraft Book. Dozens of other designs you'll want to order — easy, fas- cinating handwork for yourself, your home, gifts, bazaar items. Send 25 cents for your copy fo this book today! ISSUE 10 — 1958 • * holding down a job today who * never believed she could find * one. Why don't you try? Visit * a few employment agencies • and ask their advice; they may * have ideas, that have not oc- * curred to you. Also, follow the * newspaper want ads daily. * Are you a good cook? Is * there a neighborhood demand * for homemade cakes, desserts, • and other ready -to -serve dishes * you can prepare? Your Wo- * man's Exchange, or a similar * group, can tell you. * Perhaps this good man can * find a part-time job that will not overtax his strength. (A * talk with his physician will be * helpful.) More and more em- * ployers nowadays are conscious * of the needs of the partially * disabled, and more willing to * try them out. If you decide * to marry, the sale of his home * or yours would provide a nest- * egg against the future. * Don't be self-conscious about * money. Let all your friends * know you want to augment * your income. (The lack of * money is one of the most popu- lar conversation topics every- * where today.) Many couples * are living on an income they '" would have laughed at a dec- * ade ago. They have lowered * their standards, true; but they * believe in themselves and * each other and have enough * love and understanding to be, * as you two are, happy in just * being together. * Attack the problem with all * your energies, and leave ne * field unexplored. With courage * and your native intelligence, * you may be amazed how soon you both succeed. I hope so. It * is a shame that two nice people * so well suited should not he * together. Good luck! * * GOSSIP HURTS "Dear Anne Hirst: For four years I've had two girl friends who I thought were as loyal as I've been. Now they are telling a cockeyed story of my dating a married man, and they have some other pupils believing it. As though I would stoop to such a thing! "I am 16, and boys have always liked. me, too. This is hurting me badly. Nothing I can say has any effect. "I want and 2 need the friend- ship of my classmates. How can I regain it? Forget these false friends, and try to find others can trust? NETTIE" * It is usually wise to ignore * jealous gossip and show by * your discreet manner that you * are above such conduct. But 4' this tale could affect your repu- * tation among toe many other * girls. I think you should tell * your parents. * If the girls have no basis for * the story, they should be made * to admit it, and apologize to * all those who have heard it. * I suggest that your mother * call on their parents and see * that justice is done. * * * When two compatible people have faith in each other, there is almost no limit to what they can accomplish together. If you are concerned about your future, ask Ann Hirst's °minion. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont. CELL 07.1T Three white men serving long- term sentences in the Bwana Mkubwa prison ' in Northern Rhodesia used the prison as a base for operations while they went out at night, breaking into jewellery stores and other bus- iness premises. They were each sentenced to two years' additional imprison- ment after the judge was told that one forgot the key to the prison front door one night and so they were locked out and couldn't get back to their cells If it were not for this momentary lapse they might still have been at it, the court was told. IT'S THE SAME SUN—Establishing their own beachheads, Kay Kayse, left, and Pat Johnson indicate a difference of opinion with regard to headgear at Cyprus Gardens. Kay, a Honda girl, prefers a sweeping sombrero to keep the sun away. While Pat, from California, wears practically no hat at all. Gwtmd.olin.e P. Cloxike Whatever the weather in our particular locality — yours and mine — there is no reason to assume it will be the same twenty miles away. Or even less. One day Partner and I went to see Johnny, whose farm is only ten miles from here. It might have been fifty, Far more snow and icy roads. We found Johnny very busy — and very glad to be alive. He almost wasn't. It's the same old story. He had a registered Holstein bull. "No need to be afraid of him," John- ny used to say, "he'll never hurt anyone. He's so .quiet I can clean out his stall and work around him like he was an old cow." Then came a day when it was necessary to let the bull out into the barnyard. Suddenly, without warning, the bull turn- ed on him. It was only because . Johnny was able to get behind a huge post in the barnyard that the bull missed him on the first lunge. Fortunately an iron crowbar was within reach and Johnny used it to beat the bull over the head, and then, some - .how or other, he managed to get back to the safety of the cow stable. • Johnny is young and strong and by good luck was able to deal with the situation. But what chance would an older, less agile man have had under similar circumstances? Farmers have been warned time and time again never to trust a bull. But in many cases the bull has been raised from a calf and the farmer and his son, or hired help, think they know all the animal's moods and fancies. The outcome isn't always as fortu- nate as it was in Johnny's case. Johnny, thanks be, is still alive —it's, the bull that's dead, Al- though he was a registered, well-bred animal he was sent to the stockyards. Well, I visited in quite a dif-' ferent locality than this last week. I spent two days with friends in Newmarket. I went • FOUR OF A KIND—Celebrating their 1 5th birt hday, the Kiffers quadruplets are all smiles of their home in Zweite, Holland. The quads, from left, are: Rini, Dorothee, Elly and Hans. Pooch's name is Jacky. by bus. It was fine when I left here, and in Toronto. But by the time the bus reached Rich- mond Hill it was storming like a young blizzard. The Same at Newmarket. Next morning there was a four -foot snowdrift cov- ering people's lawns and every- one was out shovelling a path for the postman. My friends used to be farmers but now they have a small store and a nice little five -roomed house, cosy, compact and convenient. They used to hanker for a stone house in the country, with a small acreage but now, being past middle life, they are content with a house and business that gives them maximum returns with a minimum of effort. That is their choice. Here is a horse of another colour. When I got home I found a 'letter for us from Dufferin county—Ontario's snowbelt. It told of huge drifts; of shovelling a path 'to the barn every morning—and then hav- ing the path fill in within an hour or two; of how glad they'll be when winter is over; how hard it was to keep the house warm without a furnace, and concluded by saying they were expecting baby chicks early in March! The roughest month of the winter in our estimation. In summer we know the air and scenery is lovely in Dufferin county and it is probably a good place to be in winter too—on farms where 'the owners are in their prime and possibly have every convenience, but we can- not see that it is a favourable location for a couple getting on in years. We certainly couldn't take it. Yesterday was quite a happy occasion for us. Our children and grandchildren had a dinner for us in honour of our 40th Wedding Anniversary. Just a family affair but quite a cele- bration. Forty gears ago we couldn't foresee that a day would come when we would have the joy of celebrating our marriage with a married daugh- ter and her husband and a mar- ried 'son and his wife, plus four small grandsons ... three walk- ing and one only four months old. Dee had gone to a lot of trouble—there was a nice din - nor, anniversary cake and a bout; quet of lovely red carnations —carnations like Partner gave me forty years age. The little boys couldn't quite understand what the party was all about. but they were all well and en- joying it anyway. Eddie is the star performer when it comes to mischief but he has such a roguisIle way with him that ev- eryone loves him. Ross is run- ning a close second fer getting into things. Dave, of course, is quite a little man: --after all he is four years old and goes to nursery school! Jerry is the "good" baby—laughs and coos at everyone who tomes, around. It was a very cold day—zero around here—but the roads were good and the car warm ree it didn't seem to matter. We cer- tainly don't envy our friends, in They Go For Pills in A Big Way - — The • Japanese are a highly emotional people, they love to take pills, and they like to imi- tate Western customs. These factors create a rich market for tranquilizers. Last week Tokyo's Welfare Ministry reported that in 1957 the Japanese went Wild for "tranki" poured out yen to the tune of $3.5 million for meprobamate alone. They were buying tranki without prescrip- tion at any handy drugstore, and swallowing them under the nerve-racking prodding of a hypertonic advertising campaign, The tranki rage struck Japan' with typhoon force in the fall of 1956, when the U.S.'s Lederle Laboratories j o in e d Takeda Pharmaceutical in a fifty-fifty deal to set up Lederle Ltd. as an outlet for meprobamate (best known in the U.S. by its orig- inal brand narne, Miltown). But no patent claim had been filed, and the vacuum was quickly filled by Japan's highly competi- tive drugmakers — concentrated on a narrow•street called Dosho- machi in Osaka, around a shrine of Yakuoshin (an ancient god of drugs). By December, Daiichi Seiyaku was on the market with its own brand of meprobamate, called Atraxin. Lederle Ltd. put out Miltown. Takeda competed with its own corporate offshoet by pushing Harmonin. Dalichi Selyaku (meaning No. 1 drag company) ran half -page ads showing men and women with agonized fazes, clutching swollen heads and moaning for Atraxin. Daiiehi and competitors put up billboards at Tokyo's busiest intersections, where stall- ed motorists and scared -running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill, There was even a sugges- tion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the sui- cide -minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide With overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved espe- cially popular with students cramming to pass the tough ex- ams for government jobs. There are already 15 brand names under which meproba- mate is being ' "• cations pendiet 0, h/A Atraxin leads ti sales of $1,23 Harmonin, then,/ Wt. original Miltml, is priced at teit most home - brands are tnric home laundry Modern Etiquette. by Roberta Lee Q. What amount of tip is it customary to give to a bellboy who -brings a telegram to one's hotel room? A. Not less than twenty-five cents. • Q. Is there any special marking customary on a cake to be served at an engagement party? A. A traditionally favorite decoration is the first names of the bride -elect and her fiance enclosed in a heart. Q. When a girl is with her escort at a table in a nightclub, and she wishes to leave to go to the powder room, what is the proper thing for her to say? A. "Will you excuse me," is sufficient. Q. 1 know it is not a "must," but if a girl wishes to give her fiance an engagement gift, what should it be? A. Usually some piece of jewellery — cuff links, key chain, tie clasp, cigarette case, or lighter. Four -Season Style PRINTED PATTERN 56c, but 0 s theya k )s. 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