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The Seaforth News, 1959-11-26, Page 6ANNE HIRST "Dear" Anne Hirst: I could be the happiest wife in the world if my husband would stop drink- ing. In every other way, he is ideal, and through our five years of marriage our love has :only deepened, .He has lost two fine positiotts because of this weak- ness, yet, he argues that he gets so depressed without alcohol that he cannot bear it another hour. So he takes the first drink, admitting . the usual consequ- ences are inevitable. "I lett him three yeers ago, hoping he would straighten out. Neither of us could stand being apart, and since then we have tried to conquer it together. I suffer with him when these moods come on, and I would make any sacrifice that could dispel them. ... Now I have tried everything I know, with almost no success. I can honest- ly say I have never reproached him afterward, I love him too much. "Perhaps in your long experi- ence you can find some hope for us both? I pray you to try. DESPERATE" COMMON SENSE o The next time your husband * complains of depression, go with him to his doctor and in- * sist on a check-up. Nerves can • cause all sorts of miserable re-' * actions, as can some lack in " one's physcial make-up. A * physician that knows the fam- * ily history can usually diag- li-A,41Q4.4 MIX -MATCH wonders — all quick -to -cut, easiest to sew.' Whip up blouse, jumper, jacket, overalls in thrifty cottons — gay solids or bright plaid 'n' plain duo. Printed Pattern 4924: Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size '6 blouse takes 1% yards 35 inch; jacket 1%; overalls 17/s yards. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS 50a) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety). forthis pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. nose a condition and, with the patient's co-operation, relieve * it. Like -so many other afflicted, • persons, perphaps your has- * band thinks he needs the re- laxation that alcohol temper- * arily supplies. I suggest that • he get in touch with Alcoholics * Anonymous, who have helped * so many thousands of men and • women overcome their seem- * ing need for liquor. * A love such as you and your * husband are blest with is too * rare to risk. With everything', * to live for, including a' wife • whose contentment is built * around him, surely your hus * band will not allow such a * marriage to be wrecked when, * there is help to be had! A man * who cannot control his appe- * tite for drink should never o take the first sip. Those who • have learned to resist it are * living testimony that his can * too, if he will co-operate. If * he contends that he is the ex; ° ception, ask him to try for • your sake. Faith in himself * and his own moral strength is * what he needs, and others who " have found it know how to *:help him. * . Alcoholics Anonymous is * non-sectarian, there are no fees * involved; its only purpose is * to aid anyone who needs aid * and will do his part. Many * who have sought help and * found it, are now rescuing * others trapped by the habit. * The group has grown from its * inception in 1935 to a member- * ship of over 200,00Q, in 7,000 • groups in 70 countries. It has * been accepted by churches, * prisons, hospitals and many of * the medical profession. Ask * your doctor's opinion of the * organization's work. I think I * know what' he will say. • • • "DOES HE OWN ME?" "Dear' Anne Hirst: For over three months I've been engaged to a young mane I've known for a year. I though he was the most courteous and thoughtful person in the world, and he was—until_ we got engaged. "Now he thinks he owns me! He tells me what to say and how,• (and I'm not ignorant) and he`. has taen a dislike to my' best girl friend. He almost forbids my seeing her. He isn't always as polite to me as he used to be. "What has happened? I- love him dearly, but I don't like him as he is. You understand what I mean? CLARICE" * How much do you know * about your fiance's home life? ° Does his father try to dominate o his mother? If . he does, you • can understand why this lad ° follows his example; now that * you are to be his wife, he is * showing that is what marriage * means to him. * You do not intend marriage * to be like that, and you had • better tell him so. You are the * same girl he .admired before * he proposed. You will be the * same loyal friend to others, * too,and you will expect him • to treat them (and you) with * his former courtesy.. , Other- • wise, the engagement should * be ended. * I expect you two have been * seeing each other too often. * Take off a couple of nights a • week for your friends and * your family. If ,he does not * get the idea explain it, and o put it up to 'him. ° • •, Unburdening one's. heart to an understanding 'friend often brings the relief of confession. Anne Hirst's sympathy and experience can comfort you. Write her frankly, and address your letter to her' at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. ND xIERNEY AS SALEGIRL — Actress Gene Tierney, under treat- ment at Menninger Clinic 1n Topeka, Kan., models a necklace In a dress shop nearby where she works oe a salesgirl, END OF H 6R 'RUN AWAY' -- Nine-year-old. Evelyn Rudie, who won TV stardom as the pre- cocious "Eloise," primps at Friendship airport near Baltimore, Md., after a jet flight. Evelyn, whose proclaimed goal' was an .interview. with Mrs. Eisenhower, admitted ;he sole purpose of her "run away" from •her'Hellywobd home was for publicity and to bolster her personal popularity. She was taken to the 'home of a fpmily friend at nearby Chevy Chase.: RONICLES CMinr'dcttz<sClanks A dull, dreary day—and back • to standard: time. That's fine except that animals have no way; of knowing the clocks 'have' beefy • set `back. So what happens early Sunday ' morning Ditto was pawing at my' face and Taffy was wandering all, around the house wanting 'to go put. Partner still' being dead.. to the world there, was nothing for it but to leave; my warm bed. and attend:�to 'them. Once awake that extra 'hour seemed tool long to take so I split the difference and. got ,breakfast halfway between fast' and -slow time. I expeet, in a day or two we shall be quite well, • adjusted. Last week I was in the Milton district andmade a number of• calls, 'mostly on 'dam 'families, fairly c 1 o s.e to Ginger -'Farm. Partner didn't come as.he want- ed to get.en with some garden• .work at home. Plenty•to do end not too much time to'do 'it in. You never know how soon win- ter will stretch forth its icy, hand. ' I found a number of changes• in and around our old neigh- bourhood. On one farm the man of the family had put in a swim- ming ' pool. I ,mean, a properly constructed swiming pool which I imagine cost plenty. It was the - real McCoy. Shallow at, one end. for children and six feet deep in the middle. Cement paving stones all around the outside and enclosed by .a chain-link fence. His wife said they really enjoyed last summer; never felt the heat 'at all and always slept well, at night. Perhaps I should add this young fellow does not depend on farming for a liv- ing, for the reason that he sold about half his acreage some time, ago. Another place I visited farm- ing activities are still very much the • orderof the day. Here I found the lady of 'the house had had the entire back ofthe house remodelled. Spacious, stream- lined kitchen with an adjoining utility room- and enough cup- boards -and gadgets to please the most' fastidious housewife. Re- membering the old kitchen as it used to be I thought she had done a marvelous remodelling At still another farm 1 found no outstanding improvements other than' painting and paper- ing but 'the 'old farm kitchen had a'nicely "homey", look with its black -topped kitchen .range. And of course there was a big old-fashioned tea=kettle on the side of the stove ready to pull forward so visitors could be welcomed with' a cup of tea It awoke nostalgic memoriesof our .own •ldtchen in days gone with mitts and oversocks dry- ing on. the high top shelf and a kitchen. where everyone came to get warm ,quickly, ' A few sticks 'of dry wood and the stove -top would be red-hot in a few min- utes. Yes,' there are attrabtions peculiar to each type of kitchen — the old and the new. One other place I visited— • a poultry farm with an ultra- modern house, not quite_ finish- ed but liveable. It had every- thing, Matching the best of any suburban homes I have seen -- but with more; space in all the rooms. All this and a gorgeous view from every window' The back looked out to a wooded section of the Hamilton )!,scarp - m e n t; the front to limestone cliffs of the same. .With tine autumn colouring at its best the scene was one of breath- taking beauty, marred partially by a barn under construction between the house and "The Mountain." It was a shame it had to be there however I sup- pose it was unavoidable since raising chickens is the owner's business, Right now he is not very happy about the price of chickens. How could he be when chickens, ready for the oven, were selling in the stores last week at 29l a ib: What the far,: mers were paid for those sam'e chickens I can't imagine—cer- itainly it wouldn't pay for the cost of raising them. I finished my round of visits - =by passing Ginger Farm, and what I saw made me glad` to come back to where 'we are living now. It won't be long• before the cloverleaf at High - Way 401 and 23 will be fini§hed and then the traffic. going past Ginger Farm will be terrific— and the house only 125 feet, from the road. We loved the old farm but it has nothing 'to at- tract us now — .only a host of happy memories — and that nothingteen destroy. And now for quite a different subject. I attended a meeting at. Clarkson at which the speaker was that well-known television personality, Charles Templeton. His subject was "What; •is Wrong With Our Schools?" He ' laid most of the blame to the -number of poorly qualified teachers pre- sently employed _ — a situation, he claimed, that is liable to be- come progressively worse and should have been' foreseen ten years ago.' Mr. Templeton is a fluent speaker and kept rigid control of his audience during the question period, allowing them exactly ten minutes to ask questions. That, I thought, was somewhat dictatorial. But per- haps he was afraid there might be a George Rowllands in the audience! Q. Some a my friends have told me that It :is improper for a person, even when ,dining alone in a public place, to read at the table. Is this true? -A. Your friends have .misin- formed you. There is nothing at all wrong with a person, who is dining alone, reading at the .table, Now You Can Smell The Movies Trying to follow in the foot- steps .of his late, tlamboyant father, showman Michael Todd Jr. has found himself blazing Jr new and typically flamboyant trail: He has • become entrepren- eur of Smell -O -Vision, a process for pumping odors into a movie theater to heighten the impact of the movie. Developed by Swiss - inventor Hans Laube, Smell -Q - 'Vision! caught the elder Todd's fancy as •early as 1954, but it was left to Todd Jr. to carry it through. In the last year and a half, he has spent ;$2 million to produce•"a movie ("Scent of Mys- tery") especially written for aromatic effects (examples: a mystery woman identified only by her perfume, a villain who •smokes'an odoriferous pipe.' He has also built up the 'Dec. 22 premiere at Chicago's'.Cinestage theater as a pioneering venture into the third dimension of sense. A few'•weeks ego, however, it appeared that pioneer 'Todd might .be beaten by a nose. New York theater, owner Walter -Reade Jr., himself the son of a, big name, showman (who for- merly operated New York's Astor and Mayfair theaters), an- nounced at a scented press con- ference that he would premiere a smellodrama of his own at the Mayfair on 'Dec. 2. Obviously rushing to beat Todd's premiere date. Reade's .A-romaBama, Inc., , laid out some $300,000 for the U.S. and Canadian rights to an. Italian' -made travelogue ..mi China ("Behind the Great Wair) plus the rights to a U.S.-develop- ed .S.devel'op- ed process that .could be used to dub smells into the scenes; Among Reade's best smells: The scent of tea /eaves (during a scene in a tea -house), of a tiger, an explosion, and a clean, spark- ling riYer. The decision to tltis contest may well hang en who has the best set of smells. Both will get their smells front "varying islx- tures of aroanatic chemicals can - meted by perfume chemists to stimulate natural odors, Reade will "inject" his odors into the. theater through the air distribu- tion system, counting on quick evaporation and a special elec- tronic filter to kill each one off before the next -scheduled smell. Todd will pipe his odors -to each Seat, which is more expensive but also quicker and easier to control. 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