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Dear Anne Hirst: For three
years I've been going with this
sailor. Each time he is home we
plan to get married—and each
time he lets .me down, saying it
is best to wait, always promis-
ing it will be 'some day' or
'next time'. I do believe he
he troves me; he writes regular-
ly, he's always sending me gifts,
and he dates me every night
when he's on furlough.
"He is 22 and very handsome,
so lots of girls flirt with him,
but he never pays attention to
any except to me. I am 18, and
because I dated when young, 1
am very settled; he seems to be,
too.. 1 would rather die than
•give him up, for he is the only
man' P11 ever want. I trust him
completely—but I don't want to
wait for ever for 'some day'.
"I should add that he is re-
sponsible in every other way
• Is there any chance he may
jilt m? Pm living in a dream -
world planning our future, yet
he still puts off marriage. .
Each time we arc together we
have to say to a quick good-
night because our emotion al-
most run away with us, ... ,tee
wi LLsoon be here again, and as
usual 'I have high hopes of wed-
ding bells, but I still dread be -
Inge disappointed.
B. J. W."
H1 . NEEDS PRODDING
* I wish you have told nae
* how your parents feel about
* this lad's repeated postpone-
* went of marriage. If they ap-
* prove of him as a husband,
* tell him this time that they
* are waiting to announce the
* engagement and the wedding
* date. If you have no parents,
* indicate to him that you want
* to set the day—or else.
* If you have not started what
* we old-timers called a hope
* chest, do it now, and have a
* little exhibit to show him. This
* will please him or shock him,
* and you had better find out
* which it is to be. Ordinarily I
* would not suggest this, but
* you have waited so patiently
* that you deserve to know
* where you stand. Many a
* young man is content with be-
* engaged, and does not realize
* what agonies a girl's pride and
* heart suffer through his re-
* luctance to getting married.
* I wish you would write me
* what happens. I shall be in-
* terested, and no matter what
* you report, perhaps I can help
* through.
* *
IGNORANT YOUTH
"Dear Anne Hirst I had the
bed luck to fall in love some
months ago with a boy I thought
was really nice. He is disap-
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pointing. Ht never takes me out,
though he has bought a single
ticket occasionally for a movie
1 heard about; he has never
gone with me. If I date anyone
else, he throws a scene—yet I
know he dates other girls,
"Three times I broke with
him, but I do love him, so I al-
ways welcome him back. What
iso -your opinion of all this?
UNHAPPY"
• What are you getting out Of
* this friendship except the
* pleasure of being with the
* boy when he chooses to see
* you? Aren't you being fool-
* hardy?
* No girl will content him for
* long, for he is self-centered
* and has no conception of cour-
* tesy nor the social rules most
* of us live by. If you keep on
* seeing him you will find your-
* self apologizing for his crude
* manners to everyone who sees
* you together.
• Stop dating him, and you
* don't have to give a reason.
* Just say you'll be too busy
* from now on to see him at all.
* You must know plenty of
* ether young men who know
* what is due a nice girl and
* who will be more generous
* and obliging. This one is not
* for you, and your dissatisfac-
* tion will only increase and
* keep you miserable.
+: * *
When a young man keeps his
fiancee dangling too long, it is
wise to act. Better to know the
truth than to undergo emotional
anxiety. In time of indecision,
trust Anne Hirst for the best
solution. Address her at Box 1,
123 -18th St., New Toronto, Ont.
-111 MOLES
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Mother's Day, Blossom Sun-
day, and a comfortable fire in
the furnace—allthree rolled in-
to one. And right now I am get-
ting more satisfaction out of the
furnace than the other two,
especially as I have an infected
arm, a raised temperature and
a feeling that someone with a
sprinkling scan is pouring ice-
cold water up and down my
spine. There is really quite a
story to this bad arm . of mine
which I may tell you about at a
later date—when the sprinkling
can has ceased to function.
I was relating my tale of woe
to Partner when he came into
breakfast this morning but I
stopped in a hurry when he said,
"Well, I have trouble at the
barn now . . . serious trouble."
"For heaven's sake, what is
it?"—visions of a cow with colic,
a still -born calf, or something
equally unpleasant floated be-
fore my eyes.
Imagine my disgust when
Partner said, "It's my radio
not so much as a squeak out of
it. Now I won't be able to get
my Sunday 'sermon while I do
my chores."
But to return to this special
day. I have never been too keen
on this Mother's Day idea, nor
of cars cluttering up the high-
way on Blossom Sunday. Like
most farm people we have
plenty of blossom around here
—no peach bloom of course, but
plenty of cherry, apple, pear,
japonica and hawthorn. It was
very beautiful when I looked
out this morning greening
trees, blossoms everywhere, and
beyond it all a gorgeous sunrise.
Most people in the country have
all the beauty of the earth vis-
ible right from their own back
door, if they would but see it.
No need to drive for miles shut
up in a car.
Still on the subject of blos-
som I was amused at a remark
I heard yesterday. A friend was
telling me of a magnolia tree
near her home. It was full of
bloom. Then came the wind. The
branches were left completely
bare and the ground beneath
the tree carpeted with fallen
petals. "What a shame," I ex-
claimed, "the magnolia is such
a beautiful tree,"
"It deosn't appeal to me," my
friend replied. "I always think
it looks like a brazen wanton
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INDIAN INFLUENCE — Khaled
Goma! Abdel Nasser, son of
Egypt's premier, makes like an
Indian during an Egyptian
adaption of the gymkhana at
the Khalifa El Mammoun pre-
paratory school in Cairo, Egypt.
woman, with too much make-up,
and almost naked!"
Well, 1 have heard the mag-
nolia described in various ways
but never exactly like that.
Good thing we don't all think
alike—about magnolias and a
lot of other things. For instance
we know of some city people
who bought a cheap farm in a
hilly wooded section of Ontario.
They rented the land, fixed up
the house a bit and there they
retire for weekends. To insure
leaving business cares behind
they had the telephone removed
and requested that there be no
rural mail delivery. I didn't in-
quire if they had a radio or
television set. Probably not. So
for three days out of every sev-
en they are in the world and not
of it. And no doubt there are
numbers of other folk who go
r.v
rustic to . the same extent. i
wouldn't like it. It would do
something to nae I am sure.
Surely one's neighbours, the
party line, the rural mail, the
party on the next place calling
the cows home at night, all are
an integral part of rural living.
Some people might tell you an
isolated life such as I have men-
tioned is the ideal setup for
people who write. Don't ever
believe it except in exceptional
cases, The average writer may
like the wide-open spaces but
he needs them peopled with
more than birds, rabbits, mos-
quitoes and poison ivy. He needs
•
the sympathetic knowledge of
the comedy, pathos and tragedy
of neighbours to give him the
common touch.
The tractors and seed drills
have certainly been busy around
here this last week. Funny
thing, a week ago it looked as if
the land would never dry and
yet there is quite a'lot of seed-
ing done. We always have a soft
spot in our hearts for the trials
of the prairie farmer, having
survived four years of it our-
selves. Of course we have our
troubles down east but it is
rarely all our eggs are in one
basket. We have seen a weather-
beaten farmer out west looking
over his hail -flattened crepe,
slow tears coursing unchecked
down his lined, sunburnt face
We have seen his wife join him,
put her hand gently on - his
shoulder and say with amazing
simplicity, "Thomas -remember
.—there is always next year."
No wonder the west is called
"a next year country", The pity
of it is "next year" sometimes.
conies too late.
But not this year, we hopes,
We pray that springtime and
harvest will be better than the
prairie farmer dares to hope for
at present.
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To give producers a voice in product
marketing, Ontario now has the most
advanced legislation of any province.
For the betterment of rural laving, the
province makes special grants toward the
building of community halls, arenas, skating
rinks and swimming pools. 864 projects have
been developed under this policy.
To lighten the farm load and brighten
farm homes, the province pays half the cost
of new rural hydro lines. Over 85% of all
farm homes have hydro.
For more profitable returns, the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, through its Livestock
Branch finances a sire -testing program; milk -
testing service and provides assistance in the
eradication of Brucellosis and Warble Hy.
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For higher income from dairying, iryring, legis-
lation allows producers by collective bargain-
ing to obtain best possible returns o Ontario'i
fluid milk price formula has maintained price
stability.
To increase the productivity of the land,
new seed varieties have been introduced and
policies adopted providing for a sound land
use program.
To open up farm areas in Northern
Ontario, the Ontario Department of Agricul-
ture gives special grants toward the clearing
and breaking of land; assistance in the pur-
chase of livestock; veterinary aid and farm
water supply.
MOM
To promote scientific, high -return farm-
ing, constant studies are carried out by the
Farm Economics Branch, with findings avail-
able to all farmers to assist in the lowering of
production costs.
Under a farmer Minister, R S. "Tommy" Thomas,
and with farmers like W. A. "Bill" Goodfellow of
Northumberland and. J. N. "Jim", Allan of Haidi-
wand-Norfolk in the Cabinet, rural Ontario has an
Important place in the Progressive Conservative
program.
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