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Zurich Herald, 1954-01-21, Page 61; ite "Dear Anne, Hirst: You told a 14 --year-old girl, in a recent ar- . 'Yett tide, that she would ,get over tte,let: ' this puppy lave she had for a boy 21. Maybe she won't. I didn't. "When I was 14 I loved a boy so much; some little misunder- standing made him quit dating me. It didn't work out that way, and I got married. That was 13 years ago, and now I have three children. "For a few years I thought 1 had gotten over my love for him. But now he has rnoved nearby (he's married and has two chilt dren) and is a close friend' of any husband. I find I love him as I always did. WHAT TO DO? "Can't tell him not to visit us without giving a reason and that I cannot do. I have tried to con- quer this emotion, but I have failed , . I know my first duty is to my family, but is it fair to my husband, or to me? I can't bear to hurt my husband or the children, but sometimes it seems ean't go on. :Even though I can't, have the man, it seems un- fair .to be living in sin -which it is, if only in my own mind. 'What ant I to do? E. c." 43' I urge you, first, to overcome * this conviction that you are ' living in sin. You may not be * in love with your husband, but * your place is by his side; as * the mother of children, you * cannot entertain the thought Week's Sew - Thrifty! 4651 12-20 41411 xlp SEW - EASIEST ever. T w main pieces! Run several up in a jiffy for thrifty gifts! r_:e sure to make one for yourself, too - it's such a sweet slumber number with those .ferninine drawstring bows. A nightie you'll enjoy snaking and wearing! Pattern 4651: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39 -inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit, Has c inplete illustrated ins'ructions Send XHIRTY - FIVE CENTS (350) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE NAME, ADDRESS STYLE NUMBER. Send order to 3ox 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. * of deserting them. - Even if * this old sweetheart still loves * You, which is certainly ques- * tionable, his life seems to be * happily established with his * wife and family. * You will have to clear your * thoughts of this lave. You will * have to see him as he is -a * pleasant friend of your bus- * band and children -and adapt * yourself to the role of hostess. * You can be practical, though, * and absent yourself while he * is in your home as unobtrus- * ively as you can, and, of course, * never be alone with him. Your duty is clear - to re- main the loyal wife of your good husband, and be the cheer - tut oompanion he expects. Once you bury your secret in your heart, and regard it as one of those things which might have been but cannot now be, you will achieve a peace of mind and a courage to accept your fate and even find soul -satis- faction in it. To allow yourself to dwell on the past is infantile in a wom- an of your age and situation. Attend church regularly, and pray for peace, having faith that it u.;11.1 come. * The power of one's will is onger than many of us believe. can wipe out the past, and bstitute a cabin quiet strength t swings us through situations ch cannot be changed . • citing to Anne Hirst often un- rdens a troubled soul. Address at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., vv - Toronto, Ontario. str It su tha whi Wr bu her Ne MAIL SERVICE BY REINDEER One day I was standing in the kitchen of a farmhouse in a Akaslompolo village, high in the mountains of Finnish Lapland. Snow was drifting by the win- dow. Sometimes a. gust of wind would send the fine whie pow- der twirling straight upwards, so that I could see nothing -through the tiny panes. At other . times there would be a lull, and then I could make out a human figure standing on the road I knew the little man. It was Matti, the Lapp. He had his arms around the neck of a rein- deerand seemed to be talking to it. The animal was attached by leather traces to a pulkka, a low hollow sled that looks something like a canoe, and Matti held a rope from its halter in his free hand. The reindeer seemed content. Every now and then it would slowly shake its head and snow would slide off the antlers and drift away A girl same running out trom the house across the road, clutching the scarf wound round her head, She gave,Matti a lit-• tle packet, which he carefully buttoned inside his reindeer - skin jacket, and then hurried back into shelter. What happened next was al- most too quick for the eye to follow. Holding the end of the rope still in his hand, Matti re- leased the animal's neck and leaped with a single movement backwards and sideways ou'c a sack of straw in the bottom of the pulkka. At the same instant the reindeer shot forward. Snow had gathered high on the road, but the animal cleared the drift in a few bounding leaps and then settled down to a regu- lar if jerky gallop. In a matter of seconds the pulkka had dis- appeared. The scene I had witnessed was the mail leaving Akaelornpolo village: accorciing to schedule. -From "Mail for the World,' by Laurin Mamie. Licking A Problem Postmaeter plaints about the taste of glue something about U. The inventive spenge tongue for Henry G Riecks tired of com- on pOthege stamps -so he did Necks devised a sign with cs wetting sldrnps. • .teri Double Mishap - When Jana Kay Vickers, 6, was crossing a street, carying her doll, a taxi hit her, breaking her legs. The attendants at the hospital found that the doll's leg was also broken, so it aka was placed in a traction. —4116. IRA HRONICLES INGERFARM efrwerwounx Clearness "It Pays to Advertise" - so we are told, and so most of us believe. Chain stores, depait- ment stores and independent small-town merchants, all ad- vertise their wares. . Candidates for election, all the way from local councils to the Federal government buy plenty of news- paper space. Santa Claus pere ades, Red Cross Drives, :nomi- nation meetings, auction saleSi. bazaars --• or what have you nearly always run a display .60 vertisernent where it will do thi. most goad - in their. locali paper. , But when it comes to, fartit, meetings, even .to the annita`V meeting Of various farm orgerde:; zations, what do we get? Merei.:, ly an announcement listed und Coming Events" along wit dances, church.' • bazaars ai school concerts, Some farm tolbilt read the announcements, sorne don't. Women usually follow thd, socia] events but most of them pass up annual farm meetings: But, if a meeting is advertised by what; is -known as "a display • advertisernent" it naturally at- tracts attention directly the, paper is opened. Farmers see it, remember it, and if they are in- terested make a mental reser- vation to attend that meeting, "But that sort of advertising runs into money," you say. Cer- tainly it does - but hasn't every organization funds on hand for j List that purpose? The Milk Producers, Cream Produ- cers, Fruit Growers, the Fede eration of Agriculture, and so on, all receive annual fees from their members, and it is getter - ally understood that part of ree amount this collected shall be allocated to advertising, And there IS a certain amount of advertising, but what does it amount to compared with other trades or industries? For in- stance there is the June "set aside' for milk producers - • primarily for advertising pur- poses - but the request tor this June "set aside" is given far more publicity than the subse- quent advertising of the milk • itself, In fact any time fund are required most farm organi- zations develop a pretty good publicity program - as for in. stance, the current appeal to farmers to support the Coopera- tive -Milk Plant. But when it comes time tor an annual meet- ing an organization ts satisfied with about a dozen line,- under "coming events!" The executive apparently goes to a lot of trouble to secure good speakers for these meetings -- speakers who doubtless have informetton and advice to pass on to the farmers, but, because the exe- cutive falls down on the adver- tising angle it often happens that such meetings are poorly attended, Farmers, of course are partly to blame - tney should be watching for mutual meeting armouncetnents. But 1 venture to say that the onus •ie chiefly on the executive of the farm organizations concerned, After all the importahce of a meeting - or a product -.- often assessed by the am0uht of advertising it is given. A farmer sees an Mutual meeting adver- tised in a held -type display and he inunediately thinks "Thie must be an important meeting ISSUE 4 . 1954 to rate that much advertising - guess I'd better go and find out the score." The chances are that without display he might not have known anything about the meeting at all until he sees it mentioned as a news item the following week. Farmers have a reputation for being sadly lacking in the busi- ness management of their farms. This probably stems from days gone by when farming was a way of living rather than a business. Now times have changed. To succeed a man must run his farm on a businesslike basis. The same applies to farm organizations` and, since the exe- cutive is presumably drawn from succeseful. farmers, they must have necessity to be on their toes if the organization is to stay alive. And one way is to advertise important meetings. The cost is Ii9We'enerared with the results °blather:I a- arid there < are surely funds -available for this purpose. As members of the Milk Producers Association farmers pay 1 cents, per 100 lbs of fluid milk; Cream pra- t; ducers 1/1.0 per Ib. butterfat; • the Federation of Agriculture. in some districts, has an op- tional levy on farm assessments. Other farm organizations have similar 1 e vie s commensurate with the amount oh produce sold. Surely then, farm organh- zations could Wolece prominent, eye-catching display advertise- ments, rather than a few tines under "Corning Events," which is the cheapest form of advertising available. Or why not both . . . a display plus a detailed an- nouncement un de r com in g events? Maybe I am speaking out of turn but that is the way it ap- pears to me, especially as 1 so often hear farmers say - "1 would have, gone to such -an - such a meeting only 1 didn't notice the announcement," I might also add this is not a plug for our local papers - they are quite well able to look after their own advertising. Lived I Darkness For Thirty Years Strange case of a man who lived in a cellar for thirty years was investigated recently by health authorities in S oet t h Africa. Bear ded and with ragged clothes, the man was apparently content to live in the cellar, 12 ft. long, 10 ft, wide, under a large warehouse, never speaking ';o any of the employees who occa- sionally encountered him when he wandqted up to the ground floor. The soil goal of the cellar was covered with newspapers, some many years old, The man bathed in a near -by stream at night when nobody was about and did his primitive cooking on a small stove in the cellar. Nobody knows where he got his food, for he had no money when the authorities found him. He refused to move at first, but eventually was taken to an insti- tution. The teener was always in darkness, for he had fieither gas nor electricity and the only ventilation came from a few holes bored in the small door of the cellar. The man seemed to know noth- ing about what has been hap- pening in the world during 'the past thirty years. Said one offt- • cial: "He was a modern Hermit." e.. This Doll Travels Colt to Coast All the dolls that Santa pack- ed in his bottomless beg weren't destined for the waiting arms of little girls. Many that just sit and show off their finery aren't toys at all. Those garbed in native costumes from around the world are usually cellectors' items. Others are so beautifully dressed they look like present- day versions of 17th century couturier dolls from which ladies of fashion once ordered their wardrobes. Both are. purely de- corative and won't take much tossing about by grubby little hands. • , A direct descendant of these French -lade couturier wax dolls is a pert, 27 -inch puppet who s' 'travels. from Newfoundland to Victoria telling Canadian fami- lies about modern -living fabrics. She is Nancy Nylon, the 4011 un the largest wardrobe in the world.ie Like the overage Canadian woman she represents, Nancy is more a follower than a setter of styles. Every article in her extensive wardrobe from her three-inch ski boots to her new gold and black striped nylon evening gown in painstakingly made to scale by leading Cana-, dian designers and artisans. Us- ually these men and women spend just as many hours cutting, fitting and stitching the minia- ture models to Nancy's measure - meats as they do producing full- scale designs for their flesh- and-) lood customers. All seem 'to enjoy making Lilliputian articies for their tiniest client, who never gets tired during fittings or indignant when accidently pricked with a pin. Since Nancy's figure is slight exaggeration of the human form rather than that of a toy doll, her dressmakers insist on the usual three fittings. Like women everywhere, Nancy has a clothing budget which, though large enough to provide her with the varied wardrobe her many trips and personal require, doesn't anew for many extravagances. Last June she had a iall hat designed by one of the Queen's milliners - Aage Thaarup - the man who created the hats Her Majesty wore during her Royal Tour of Canada. Con- sequently, the only other hat 'Taney added to her wardrobe this season was a tiny velvet pill box. All Nancy's clothes are design- ed to demonstrate to the ave- rage woman what the qualities ? nylon can mean to her in everyday life. Cana ,nylon is the fibre behind almost every article the red-headed puppet wears. Among her most recent purchases are a magenta satin evening gown, a green velvet coat, black velet high heel shoes, a snowy white evening jacket of nylon fleece lined with red sa- tin and the tinest water -proof umbrella 'in the world. Everything must be washable, wrinkle -shedding and easy to pack. And when Nancy sets out on a tri to a distant Canadian roint, she packs her latest Can- adian fashions and then jumps into the wardrobe trunk to make the journey with them. CLOSE SHAVE Umpire Billy Evans called a close decision against the Chicago White Sox one day and the Sox were beaten. Next morning, Ev- ans sauntered into a barber shop • for a shave. The barber began sharpening his razor. As he prepared to shave the umpire, he squawked, "Wish I had the ump who called that play in my chair. I'd eut his throat!" Evans jumped up, grabbed his coat and hat' and was gone! 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