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The Seaforth News, 1956-05-24, Page 6"Dear Anne Hirst: I am in a dilemma worse than I've ever before faced: I have fallen in love with a woman 16 years older, and though she agrees the idea is crazy, she declares she loves me tool She is an aunt of a college chum, and we have almost everything in common: Love of art and sports, religion, the same sense of humor, and we even like the same people. We both regard marriage as something sacred and eternal; I am eertais. I can be true to her for the rest of my life! "I know people will laugh at me, but I hesitate only because her friends may scorn her, and I honor her too much to expose her to criticism, She says she doesn't care. What do you say? TED" * My readers know that I am * on the side of lovers when- * ever I can honestly be. I am * not on your side today. * It seems to be nature's law * that men marry women of * approximately their age or * younger, and to flaunt this * fact is to invite trouble. I * do not doubt this fine woman • believes all she says, but she * cannot assume for long a * youthfulness she will not feel. * As for you, in a few years * you will find yourself more * at ease with girls of your * generation and though you * may hate yourself for it, there a will be nothing you can do * about it. Week's Sew -Thrifty A Wrapon for your daughter! Just sew two or three, Mother — and RELAX for the season! As you see, it has FEW pattern parts, whips up in a jiffy, opens out to iron and a child can dress herself so easily! Make it of cotton in flower -fresh pastel colors! Pattern 4634; Children's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Size 6 takes 21/4 yards 35 -inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (350) (stamps cannot be accept- ed, use postal order for safety) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. * Meantime, the woman will * have faced the censure of her * contemporaries, as you will * become the laughing stock Of * yours, and you Can no more * control that than you can stop * the sun from rising tomorrow * morning. * Many a young man becomes * enamored of an older woman; *. psychologists sometimes blame * the mother complex. Properly * approached, it can mature and * benefit the lad in some ways, * but to contemplate marriage * is to go off the deep end. * No matter how eager this * woman is to be your wife, * will be doing her no kindness * to encourage romance, I hope * you will stop seeing her and * at once, before you find your- * self committed. * Seek friends among girls of * your own age. You will be * amazed to find how soon you * will find another love and * another 'inspiration. PHILANDERING HUSBAND "Dear Anne Hirst; During the three years we've been mar- ried, I have put up with my husband's affairs, though it was disillusioning and painful. I am through. "My baby is expected in two months, and now my husband says he's in love with a girl he used to date, She has mar- ried but intends to divorce her husband — to marry mine! He demands that I start proceed- ings, also says her husband doesn't know about him. "What can I do? I can't think straight, and have no one else to advise me. WORRIED SICK" * You have countenanced * your husband's infidelities * too long. Now, when you * need his love and tenderness * as never before, he has let * you down again. I advise you * to tell him that you are * through with protecting him * from his follies. You will take * no action until the baby * comes, then if he still wants * a divorce he can have it, and * good riddance. * If he persists in this non- * sense, let him go — to face. * the retribution that will come * when the girl's husband finds * out the 'truth. He will de- * serve all he gets, and you will * be better off without him. * You know you can go home to * your parents, and since your * husband is well-to-do, your * future and the baby's is se- * cure. * How foolish men can be! * * * It is foolhardy to defy the laws of nature; not only you, but also the other person in- volved will pay the penalty, Consult Anne Hirst, and know you can trust her judgment. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont. China Celebrates Start of SWIM Summer in China begins in the fourth moon. In Peking, streethawkers sell little red cherrries like children's rosy cheeks, and mauve roses, dewy wet, from which Chinese house- keepers make a delicious jam. Then every garden is at its loveliest, wide awake at last. Nature rewards the Chinese love of flowers with a gift for growing them. Bushes, shrubs, even trees, forget to follow their original intent and bend to the will of the Oriental gar- dener, yielding him an almost wifely submission. The gerani- um in an old tomato tin blooms generously for the poor boat - TRAILER'S ANCESTOR Richard DelRay, 21/4 years old, ti ies out a harvest -time cradle, circa 1870, recently shown at an antiques fain Wheels enabled mother to trundle baby out to the field where she rocked while, she helped roll in the harvest. WAITIN' FOR THE RAIN TO CIME IN—In downtown Pittsburgh, shoppers don't have to let a smile be their umbrella on those rainy rainy days. A popular drugstore keeps about 40 umbrellas on hand, free for anyone to borrow. in the first year of its goodwill service, the store has not lost one umbrella as a result of dishonesty, Taking advantage of the free -lending offer is Virginia Barnett, a local shopper. woman who lovingly tends it. The New Year narcissus unfolds its star -petals from the crack- ed cup of the humblest coolie. A clump of asters grows in the stony ground beside his sentry - box for the policeman who wa- ters them in full uniform with his tea-pot. The calendar is marked with flower -anniversaries, and every moon is hostessed by a flower - fairy presiding over a long chain of flower -fetes. The Rose Fairy presides over the first moon Apricot Blossom over the second; Peach Bloom over the third; Mistress Climbing Rose over the fourth; the Pomegranate Maiden over the fifth; and the Saintly Lotus Lady over the sixth. In the seventh comes the perfumed Balsam Fairy; and in the eighth the Fairy of the Cassia Flower, so small but so sweet. The ninth sees the reign of the Chrysan- themum Queen, the tenth the Golden Lady of the Marigolds, the eleventh the cold and vir- ginal Camelia Fairy, and the twelfth is in charge of the pale Winter Blossom. The "birthday of flowers" in general is on the twelfth (in some places on the fifteenth) of the second moon... . Throughout China the fourth moon begins the fashionable season for garden parties, and the great event everywhere is the opening of the peonies, for the peony in China is the King of Flowers, and used to be call- ed "the ornament of Empire." When these favourites reach perfection, the President of the Republic himself sends to privi- leged guests invitations for a "peony -viewing." . . They are conveyed to the audience hall, across a lake of lapis -lazuli, in one of those barges, with row- ers standing to their oars, that formerly transported Sover- eigns. . When formal greetings are over, guests are free to wander through the Palace gardens where the flowers appear as beautiful pictures most beau- tifully framed. We cross zigzag bridges over ponds with shim- mering gold -fish, like streaks of fire. We pause in open pavili- ons whose roofs are draped with wisteria, Here and there, long purple -blue sprays hang as a curtain, staining the sunlight as it passes through. A mauve carpet of fallen petals covers the marble floor. Above our heads the bees in the blossoms make a sound like the drone of the sea in a shell, Slowly, stopping often to ad- mire each new vista, we pro- ceed to the throne of the King of Flowers, the grey rock -gar- dens where fantasy runs riot in stone, the terraces faced with yellow -glazed tiles splintering into sunbeams. Here the plants are set out in stately rows showing how well those Chinese gardeners of long ago under- stood the value of contrast: pink. against green, grey against rose -colour, the grouping of feathery bamboos as a back- ground, the dark note of twist- ed pines, all arranged to en- hance the perfect blooms," sun - drenched through the trees, — themselves sunfllled cups. From "The Moon Year," by Juliet Bredon and Igor Mitro- phanow. HR®NItI ES NINGE,RFARM Three weeks ago spring flow- ering bulbs were peeking through the ground. They are still peek- ing, no more and no less, for spring still tarries while the weatherman treats us to frosty nights and occasional snow flur- ries. Daughter was here Sunday and she was reminding me that on April 17 last year she was in hospital and I had taken her some f r es h stewed rhubarb, straight from the garden. Ac- cording to the date it is now a week later and yet the rhu- barb this year is no more than an inch above the ground. No- body minds a late winter, or fall, or even summer. But a late spring — that is harder to take. Everything within us and around us longs for the spring, for the rebirth of flowers and trees and shrubs. Those who are well and active and busy about their day's work welcome the spring. But to those who are not so well, to the convalescents, to those who weary of the four walls of a house, to all such persons spring is doubly welcome. So for those people in particular ISSUE 21 — 1956 we most sincerely hope that good, health -giving clays are not too far away. And when they come, make the most of them, friends. You who are house - weary, take time to be out-of- doors. "Dust will wait but vio- lets won't." Get out and enjoy the sunshine — it is good for whatever ails you. We are certainly hoping for a little warm weather because, as soon as he can play outdoors, our grandson is coming to visit us — all by himself. And it will certainly take the great outdoors to use up some of his surplus energy. So here's hoping — for his sake, and ours too. In the meantime, whatever the weather, we have plenty to interests outside — and the in- terest is likely to be maintained for some time. Surveyors from Me Department of Highways, are all over the farm, mapping out a cloverleaf for No. 401, half of which will be on our farm. I suppose they know what they are doing but it is all a mystery to us. One time we look out and we see from one to three cars and six or seven men. Half -an - hour later the cars may be gone and no sign of activity any- where. Or maybe one car will be at the road. No men in sight but by Rusty's insistent barking we know nen -are somewhere around — here, there, anywhere — we don't know. Sometimes they arrive before eight a.m., sometimes they don't show up at all. To keep track of them would be one grand guessing game. It is also necessary to for- get sentiment once the survey- ors get busy. First of al] they bring in a card which says that surveyors will find it necessary to enter your property and that "a valuator will arrange to make settlement in regard to any dam- ages." That is fine - as far as 11 goes. But can a valuator as- sess the worth to you, real or sentimental, of a tree or a group of trees? We have evergreens on our property that were set out the first year we came. From lit- tle twelve - inch seedlings we have watched them grow to sturdy trees, twenty to thirty feet high. When Partner saw the surveyors working among the evergreens he begged them to save the trees. He was, as- sured the trees would not be destroyed unless it became nec- essary. With that he had to be satisfied. Those trees took over thirty years to grow and could not be replaced by a similar growth for another thirty years. Also during our first year on the farm we planted maples down the lane. Only a few of them lived. We treasure the survi- vors, It may be that one or more of them will topple under the official axe. We shall be com- pensated , , in cash, maybe. But in other ways? Well, as I said before we have to stifle sentiment — for that way leads to heartache. In the meantime Partner has his own guessing game, and a little more work at the barn — a fresh cow and a new-born calf to contend with. And then he comes to the house ane we get talking about the contrari- ness of nature's laws. Many times, when we were shipping milk to the dairy, we hoped for heifer calves to replace old cows going out. So what did we get? More bull calves than we want- ed, of course. One season we had twelve bull calves and one hei- fer. Another year two little hei- fers and the rest bulls. Now with the idea of raising veal calves, we keep only two or three cows. So now what do we get? FIeifer calves, no less, And last year, if you remember, the first cow to .freshen after we sold most of our milking herd presented us with twin calves — and heif- ers at that. Sometimes it looks as if you can't win whatever you plan. Nature is liable to throw everything into reverse. Which reminds me: A young couple in Toronto have a very nice housecat. They are also ex- p e c ti g their first "blessed event." Norma thinks it would be unwise to keep a cat when the baby arrives. So when she was going home for a few days last week she asked Ted to find a new home for the cat — with some friends who had said they would like her. Ted, of course, delayed this little chore until ,. the weekend. Friday night he came home from the office to find Tabby proudly mothering four kittens. Quite an un]ooked for event. Seems to me some city folk need a little instruction about the facts of life! Poor Norma. She was worried about one cat — and now she has five. 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