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The Seaforth News, 1956-09-13, Page 2vTvvvv.y E Voter. f — NEW DAUGHTER-IN-LAW .... TELLS A HAPPY TALE Instead of the forlorn recital of marital woes that usually .starts this column, today I quote from a bride's paean to a mother-in-law whose under- standing presents a pattern that others could well follow. "Please print this, Anne Hirst," the joyful girl writes, "to show your readers that all mothers- in-law are not like those they write you about. "My new husband earns a small salary, so his mother offered us her upper floor until we get a place of our own. She added a bath and kitchenette, and we have private lock on our door. We live in such seclu- sion that sometimes I feel em- barrassed. Our privacy is com- plete. She never comes up with- out telephoning first; she goes marketing with me only when I ask her, and never advises what to buy nor tells me how her son likes things cooked, She is more like an old friend than an in- law. "Our friends- run in and out as they like and, though some- times they stay late, she never lets we that she knows it. If she finds we expect company, a cake out of her oven appears, or a tray of assorted sandwiches; she never joins us unless we especially invite her, We all go to the same church, and when my husband wants a round of golf early, she never says a • word. There are things we don't agree about, of course, and by consent we don't discuss them. Her son worships her, and I am beginning to. "I was the daughter of par- ents wno got a divorce, and now 1 often- think if my mother had been like her, they wouldn't have. "My hus'tand and I have our differences, too, but we've al- ways had too much respect for each other to let, it come to a quarry[, Parsaps this is just a continued honeymoon phase • and om' marriage may descend to suet things later, but I don't believe it, Since I've known his mottle,. I see why he is so sweet and thoughtful. I am happier than I ever dreamed of, and all I want is to deserve it. My only concern is that when the can afford a place of our own, I won't want to gn:•' - TO III'MBLL : A mother- '- in -1_i lik' yours brings out the host in everyone who NEW PRINTED PATTERN EASIER—FASTER MORE ACCURATE Our new PRINTED PATTERN -makes sewing a cinch! Dreamy style, this shirtwaist dren,—and what could be prettier than a summer fashion of airy voile or lawn! It's flattering in all 3 sleeve versions; sea• -easiest for you! Printed Pattern 4614; Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40. Size 10 takes 5es yards 35 -inch. Directions printed on each tis- sue pattern part. Easy-to-use, accurate, assures perfect fit. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Print plainly ..SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS,STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE. ADAMS, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Out * knows her. She understands * how precious one's privacy is, * so she minds her own affairs * and just stands by if you need * her, How fortunate you are, * and how wise to be humble! * She has her reward too, in * your appreciation and grow- * ing devotion, * Let us both hope that pos- * sessive mothers-in-law read- * ing your tribute today will * resolve to cut the silver cord * and let their Sons and wtvse * live their own lives, too. How * splendid their reward would * be! * ** BOY PROBLEM "Dear Anne Hirst: Since my freshman year I've like a boy very much. This year we'll both be seniors. He has never dated me, and twice backed out at the last minute from going to girl - and -boy dances with me, But I can't forget him, and when- ever I see him (which is sel- dom), I like him more, "Another boy has been fairly interested in me this summer, but whenever another girl comes along, he turns his at- tention to her. He is very popu- lar, and I like him a lot. I see him almost daily, since he is a lifeguard at the pool where I swim. I've never dated him. "A third boy has been dat- ing me, but I wouldn't want him as a boy friend. I know he's going to ask me to go steady; bow can I refuse with- out hurting his feelings? He gets too familiar. ' 8 don't know what to do about the first two, and I res- pect your opinion. I know one girl whom you have helped very :ouch. Thank you. MLVED-T)P TEEN-AGER" * Your experience with these * boy.> is characteristic of teen- . age friendships. You will be * smart (and avoid disappoint- men:) if you do not take any a of the lads seriously. Never * forget that the initiative be- * longs to the male sex, and * they will run like everything * if a girl assumes it. * Tell the third boy you don't * approve of going steady with e anyone — and avoid being • alone with him hereafter. .' Share youe dates as they * come, for that is the best way * to learn bow to enjoy young * men without getting pain- * fuliv involved. „ * If you have faced problems like those that appear here, tell Anne Hirst how you - solved - them. Other readers will ap- preciate sharing your experi- ence. Write Anne Hirst at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Tor- onto, Ont. How Supermarkets Trap Your Dollars An efficient supermarket op- erates at a net profit of only about one percent of sales. Thus when a super fails to make money on the bargains that pull you into the store, it must see 10 it that you also buy some high -profit merchandise like candy, jellies, spices, gourmet items—and all non-fo6ds. How is that done: You sell these things to yoursel'. You drift around the self- service super in a kind of trance. Touching, feeling; pick- ing up the merchandise, you buy on impulse—far more la- vishly than in a clerk -manned store. The average supermarket customer makes seven unplan- ned, impulse purchases for ev- ery three planted purrhases, a study of shopping habits has allows. Have you ever gone into a supermarket for a pound of coffee and come out with two jars of olives, a new anchovy spread and a gadget can -opener as wc1I? If so, you're only be- having normally in a market astutely designed to turn your visit into a buying spree. For example: Bend down at the dairy case for eggs. Sudden- ly your eyes come level with jars of'fresh fruit salad, or cel- lophane - wrapped, imported Swiss cheese. You can't resist sliding those high -markup deli- cacic.: into your basket. Super- market, rarely make you stoop for impulse items: only for ata- pies• You steer around a corner and nearly collide with a red pyramid of tomato -ketchup bot- tles. Hypnotized by the mass. display, you take a bottle—even though yon may have had no notion of buying ketchup. Su- pers have found that any item erected into a solid display will sell perhaps ten times faster than the same item set out on regular shelves. Another stratagem is to spot certain big -markup itemsin several different places. Count how many times you see olives BATTLE OP THE STREET CORNERS — Chicago Board of Health mobile inoculation team sets up on a street 'corner of the polio - stricken West Side as the city fights to curb the outbreak before the peak of the polio season, which usually occurs in mid-Au- gust. Door -lo -Door solicitation was used to bring people to the makeshift clinics as polio cases topped 600 in the city's worst siege of the disease. Previous worst season; 1952, with 170 cases totaled during the same period of time. Hardest hit; chil- dren under five, with a ratio of 89.5 polio cases per 100,000 children, compared to a ratio of only 25.8 cases per 100,000 in children between the ages of five and 15 —'the group previously most inoculated with the Salk vaccine. �.., Gwon.d.o1.1.-nz P. CtaxIce This has been the most insec- tivorous summer I ever remem- ber. Look where you will the air is full of bugs of some kind things that hop, fly or. crawl. Some that do all three. And I should know! Some kind of lit- tle black fly has neatly driven me crazy .-- and I am the only ane it bites. The flies are so small they can get through the screen netting. They have tiny wings, they also hop and they are almost black. You wouldn't think anything so small could be as vicious. The aftermath of their bites has given ane rest - les,; nights for the last fortnight -- except the last two nights -- and then only because I have been buying and spraying in - on your next visit. You'll find them on the relish shelf, next to the cold cuts, the crackers, and near the hardware where male shoppers tend to be. Some markets bait the lowest shelves with cereals, c'ooleies and candies advertised on chil- dren's TV programs. When tod- dlers help themselves, harassed mothers often buy rather than risk tears. Aisles are sometimes ar- ranged to direct you into sec- tions you didn't intend to visit, tempting you to go on buying. One new supermarket has a bank of short diagonal aisles between the long front -to -rear shelves and the checkouts. You hit the diagonals and deflect in- to the main, food -packed corri- dors. Meat -selling frequently comes in for special attention. In some supers the chrome rail of the refrigerated meat case is warm- ed just enough so you can rest your arms on it in comfort. Re- laxing there, you ponder the goodies spread before you and convince yourself that the rib roast for 04.25 is a sounder in- vostmeet than the frankfurters for 49 rents. Steaks and chops are often entwined with green leaves or green plastic ruffling. Green creates an after -image of red in the eye which makes the meat look redder and more ap- petizing, "The right colors put women in a buying mood," says Verna R. Lane, consultant for a Texas chain, Turquoise, yellow and pink are the colors, exports think, with most appeal for women. But whatever the super's de- cor, the checkout is the pay- off. Isere the customer's stood abruptly changes. Suddenly, af- ter a leisurely tour of the pre- mises, she's in a hurry. To keep her patronage, the market must avoid a bottleneck, Big markets put on extra clerks at peak hours; one packs while the other rings up. Ile somesupers moving belts slide the merchandise into position for stowing. Most markets price- stamp every possible item to prevent errors and save time. A new cash register automati- cally computes correct change. secticide with reckless extrava- gance. I thought if I got bitten up much more infection might get into the blood stream, and then dear knows what might happen. Some folk tell me these insects are grass fleas. Could be as there is a hayfield tight next to the house. But we have never been bothered with them before. However. bites or no bites, I have been very busy , . . mov- ing house. Until now, with eleven rooms to play around in I seem to have managed to spread myself and my belong- ings all over the house. And if there is anything that clutters up a place like old paper:, books, clippings and so forth, I have yet to meet it. So, after a consultation with Partner, it was decided 1 should talce over a room upstairs --- it used to be Bob's bedroom. First it ]tad 10 be cleaned and a new place found for boyhood's remaining treasures. And, with Partner's help a double bed to take down and remove to the boxroom; and cupboards and shelves to set up in its place. And then. began the grand job of collect- ing my belongings and carting them upstairs. In the middle of this things began to happen outside, One man came in to cut a field of hay at the back of the farm. Another man was busy in the front field. Then came the hayloader and after him a big rig from the Department of Highways. I never saw any- thing with such huge rubber wheels -- all four of them. It was a soil -testing outfit, sent in to take samples of the soil for construction purposes. The men used a 12 -inch bore, went down about eight feet, took a sample of the soil, and then filled the hole up again. I think they made four holes. While this was going on I was busy with my job — taking twenty-five vol- umes of an encyclopaedia up- stairs. Two volumes at a time was all I could carry with com- fort. Later I got into trouble for Bonnie Scotland Comes With Us Our vacation was over. We had already said good -by to Peter's'family, Now the time had come to say good -by to Scotland. Peter and I stood on the deck of the Transylvania, anchored in the Clyde, our elbows on the rail, watching twilight thrust- ing her lengthening fingers into the lanes and streets 'of Glas- gow -town. But our thoughts were far away—up wild glens to the north, down pleasant countrysides to the south, sort- ing out a hundred' memories, mentally packing them into neat bundles to store in mind and heart.. Memories are riches, and we had great riches in store --the memory of Oban, where we ate fish and chips on a red -checked tablecloth, where we lingered long over the woolens for sale, soft as a baby's cheek to the finger tips; Oban, where the sea air was cold sharp with the pungency. of salt spray and the romance of the Western Isles just over the tumbling horizon; • Oban, where the lone piper on the Esplanade issued an invita- tion hard to resist, . - How could we ever forget the magic of "the bonnie, bonnie hanks o' Loch Lomond" where I had stooped to pick up a pocketful of smooth milk -white pebbles, in an effort to carry some magic away with me; or the banks of the River. Tay and the River Tummel, Inverurie, Pitochry, Drumlithie — places whose very names were music? On some distant night on a far-off shore, we would unpack and dust off these memories, and find them untarnished by the years. Ones, again we would be standing on a swinging bridge in Inverness, watching the sun sinking in a soft glow of Turnerian colors behind the chimney lops, turning the River Ness into a painter's palette. And in the distance. we would hear again a woman's deep - throated laughter and the- haunt- ing strains of the bagpipe.;. Or we would be seeing again the wistful ruin that is Melrose Abbey, with the fragile_ lacework of its Crown of Thorns window, open to the wind and the rain. its cobwebby traceries silhouet- ted against a darkening sky. We would not soon forget the jewel-like smiling or Dry burgh Abbey, with its yew trees and hawthni'ne hedges, or that per- fect moment when two wee las- sies asked us the time of day and then disappeared like frightened deer toward a cot- tage among the tree•, from which smoke curled lazily up- ward; . . or the beautiful coo - 1 per beeches; the rose trews, pink and yellow and salmon; the del- phiniums of an intense, heaven- ly blue. I would remember inconse- quential things, like hotel tor - riders, , Suddenly someone Amir Me firmly by the arm. and it fami- liar voiee with a burr to the "es" said, "Como on, Kat,, you've dreamed long enough. Let's go below and unpack...." And I knew that already' Peter had left Scotland behind and was thinking of the new reponsibilities that a w a i t e hint in the city of Washington, ---From "A Man Called Peter," by Catherine Marshall. • There's one good thing about ignorance—it causes a lot of interesting arguments. doing the job myself. If I had known it was going to pour with rain so soon I would have waited for help as the storm very effectually put an end to all outside activity for the rest of the day. However, the job is done now and I am settled down -- more or less -- in my new quarters. But I have run up against another problem. Until I get used to it I won't be able to write for looking out of the window! I didn't realise what a grand view I would have from upstairs. The win- dow faces north-west, overlooks our driveway, lots of trees and green fields, No. 25 Highway, Do -It -Yourself ,,rr itYdfa.4.'7.es '°01. Easy as 1-2-3 to make rickrack' jewelry! It's so dramatic, so ex- pensive looking, you'll want a set of earrings, pin, necklacel Combine pearls with rickrack -- so thrifty! For bazaars and gifts. Pattern 605: all directions for rickrack jewelry -easy to• maker Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, 125 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER. your NAME and AD- DRESS. Our gift to you—twit woudet' • ful patterns for yourself, yam home -- printed in our Lours 1956 Dozens- of other new de. signs to order - crochet, knit. ting, embrailert iron one, novel. ties. Senna 25 cents for your copy of this hook NOW -- with gift parteens printed in is and in the tii.4tancc' the "noun• tains' And of course, the setting sun, What Moro c'uuld anyone want? - 1.',111 I was careful to place my lyncwrit:1' desk well away from the window. where neither Wee., nm' scenery will dislraut MY a .12111 inn w'hett 1 really settle 1'own to wort:. Of course this new set-up has its die:+rleani 1pcs too . . . the stairs for instance. Sometimes no sooner h.,ve 1 got upstairs than the door belt or telephone rings. And the phone rings five times before 1 can get to it Daughter says "Put itt an ex- tension phone." Good- idea, but that cost; money and I don'I think we have enough calls coming in to warren',' the ex• pensc. Outgoing calls I can ar- range to make when I am downstairs. Partner says it looks as•if we have conte to the part- ing of the ways he living downstairs and I on the second floor: But we do have our mean at the sane table and in the evening we ;hare the television together! it isn't even as bad as when we had a lot of cattle. Then I did used to think we led separate lives -- with Partner at the barn most of the time and I at the house. But Come to think of it there is nothing extraordinary about that. A professional or businessman's work is usually away from home isn't it? On a farm it just seems queer because a far- mer's wife is used to having her menfolk within earshot most of the time, Yesterday we had a quiet day until about four o'clock. Thera things began to pop. First a very welcome caller, then out Toronto family, and finally Bolt and Joy. And they all wanted eggs to take home with them. With eggs selling at 730 they are glad to get them at whole - get better and bigger eggs, but at a lower price. EGYPT GIRDS FOR SHOWDOWN — This picture, transmitted by radio shows teachers, recruited under Egypt's National Guard mobilization prpgram, being instructed in use of rifles at Gezirra, Egypt. Egypt's president, Goma! Abdel Nasser, has threatened all-out resistan:e should any attempt by force be made to take over the v,tal Suez Canal. .q it 1.