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Zurich Herald, 1956-06-21, Page 6.401,1 l�f FIRST F Co u0104 illot "Dear Anne Hirst: Our little family could have a perfect life if my husband's people would only let us alone ! They hated me from the start and were de- termined to cause trouble, which they certainly have. "When we married, he was the only support of his mother and sister, and we took care of them for a long while until a small inheritance came their way. Even now we contribute generously and send frequent gifts. Of course, I take our little boys to see them regularly, but ,our visits are so marred by their insolence and apparent jeolousy that I come home ill every itme. It is getting me down. "My husband 'hopes they will behave themselves' but that is as far as he goes. I have even talked of leaving him, but he just laughs,. or takes a few drinks and says to forget it. "Anne Hirst, it isn't that easy. I've got to have peace among us or I can't promise what will happen. I never reply to my in-laws' insults; I love my hus- band too much to cause trouble. Is there any way I can control their nasty tongues ? MARILYN" CONTROL YOURSELF * At this stage there is no * way I can suggest to stop these two females in their * malicious course. To this day, * they resent your harrying * their "meal ticket" and take * a spiteful pleasure in upset- * ting you. They are not genes- * ous enough to rejoice in your Accessory Dress ! &ens, Plan a whole fashion ward- robe — when you sew this pretty dress ! Vary its neckline (high or low); add a tie -on pep- lum, or a graceful bow ! It's the- ideal style for travel, vacation, day - to - dark activities. Just switch_ accessories for a fresh "new" appearance! Pattern 4603: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, Size 16 dress takes 3 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 eccept- ed, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, TAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Anne Adams, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. * husband's happiness; instead * they keep the upper hand by * tormenting you. * Since you are at their * mercy, try to exercise control • over yourself and see them as they are, two small-minded women who chastise you from force of habit. Can't you con- sider the source? Instead of allowing them to hurt you, build . an armor about yourself which their stupid taunts cannot pene- trate. Think of them as un- happy people who don't know * any better — and turn to your * lovely life, be grateful for a * devoted husband and two * sweet young sons, This is the * Christian way to handle the * situation; it is also the most * practical. * If you can adopt it, you will ,r. dismiss all their ugly ways * from your mind until you see * them next time. Then you will * brace yourself for what you * know is coming — and forget * it afterward. * Of course, your husband * should have put a stop to this * long ago, but few men will * take a stand against their own * people. * To leave him should be the * last thing in your mind, If * you did, you would miss him * so that you would reproach * yourself all your life for not * being willing to bear anything * rather than live without him. * For his sake, too, I am sure * you eri11 readjust yourself to • a sorry situation and relegate * its discomforts to their proper * place. * DIARY COULD BE MISINTERPRETED "Dear Anne Hirst: My mother has found my diary l She read many thing that I did not feel I could tell her, knowing she would not understand. "Since the day she found it, I am not allowed to have night dates, or even get into my boy friend's car, "We have gone steady for nearly four months. I am 14 and a high-school freshman. He is a trustworthy boy and, Anne Hirst, we have not done any- thing indecent. "But my mother thinks dif- ferently! How can I get her and Dad to trust us again? Disgusted and Distressed" * You must have been badly * shocked when you found your * parents did not believe you * when you told them your * friendship with the boy has * been entirely innocent. 1 un- • derstand how you feel, and * with all my heart I wish your * mother would accept your * word of honor. If you are be- * ing punished for things you * did not do, it is not fair. * The only way you can con- * vince your parents is to ac- * cept their restrictions without * protest. The evidence your * diary revealed seemed to be * equivocal; you p r o b a b 1 y_ * wrote of your emotions in * your own childish way, but * their interpretation frightens * your family. * Many parents would react * a's yours have, feeling they * had not been strict enough to * protect their girl from the * dangers they feel she was ex- * posed to. You will have to * accept it, and by your discreet * behaviour try to dispel their * fears. As you do, • they will * realize, I hope, that you are * not the girl who would lie to * her own family. If your in-laws are causing trouble, call on your common sense and defeat their purpose. It is a matter of perspective, after all,. and any practical wife can win out. In any crisis, write Anne Hirst, at Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St,,, New Toronto, Ont, • algr:;k;kra°ks. wx !8)G LETTER DAY—The giant symbol, shown above, was formed by most of the 1,300 4 -ii club boys and girls at the 3lnd annual 4-H Roundup. Photographer Floyd J. Hanna, who made the picture, only found out exactly how many were in the picture when he made a print for each of the participants. NOT EVEN MULES—When St. Louis policemen put up "No Park- ing" signs, they really mean it. "Al," pet burro of the American Legion in town receives a traffic ticket, above from Patrolman Harry. Freeman for violating the police order. Bonnie Brennan consoles the sad animule. When News Didn't Travel So Fast Cheering Australians, watch- ing the graceful Comet III touch. down at Sydney some • twenty- four hours after leaving London recently, shared the pride of the British people in the jet -liner's record-breaking come -back. Its world flight brought the Com- monwealth closer together than ever before in its history; the other side of the earth is now only hours 'away. Not much more than a cen- tury ago it took twelve months to get a reply to a letter sent to London, however urgent and official. That was by sailing boat. The clippers of the 1850s did bet- ter, completing the London to Sydney run in from sixty to eighty days, and there was great excitement when the steamers reduced the journey to two months in 1860. "There. was keen competition between rival newspapers, both in Melbourne and Sydney, to be the first to publish news from overseas, especially from Bri- tain, which could arrive in Aus- tralia only by shipborne mail," writes Frank Clune in his ab - — sorbing book, "Overland Tele- graph"—a mammoth work which has taken the author eighteen years to complete. At Adelaide on ship arrival days, we are told, there was a wild scramble by newspapermen to transmit news to Melbourne and Sydney over the telegraph line. One • hnterprising news - hawk tore out several chapters of his pocket Bible and handed them in for transmission to Syd- ney, so that he could monopolize the line for half an hour while he hastily compiled a news bul- letin to tag on the end of his message. Telegraph lines had a tremen- dous impact upon the towns they linked, bringing civilization and. prosperity. "0 v e r land Tele-- graph" is the story of a great achievement, the erection within two years of a gleaming strand of wire, on 40,000 poles stretch- ing across deserts, mountain ranges and tropical jungles from Adelaide on the south coast of Australia, to Port Darwin in the. largely unexplored north. Men sweated and died to find routes for telegraph lines in wild country populated only by "stone age" aborigines, some. of whom dealt mercilessly with "invad- ing" white .men, An explorer who more than once braved the unknown was Ludwig Leichhardt, But, at- tempting to blaze a trail west- wards across Australia, he mys- teriously vanished along with his entire party, which included six white men and two abori- gines: What happened, no one knows to this day. Nor has there been any trace of the fifty bul- locks, 270 goats, thirteen mules. twelve horses, drays, tents and equipment which vanished. Modern Etiquette... Q. When one is being intro- , deiced to a roomful of strangers, is one supposed to acknowledge each introduction with a "How do you do"? A. 0 n e sincerely - spoken "How do you do" should be enough, and after that, just smile and bow slightly to each person as you are introduced — with perhaps one or two added "How do you do's" in a low voice. Q. What is the amount of the fee a bridegroom gives the cler- gyman? A. There is no stipulated am- ount, although the fee should not be less than ten dollars. The size should depend upon the bridegroom's means. Q. Should a person ever place his napkin on the table while the meal is in progress? A. No; not until leaving the table. Q. What is the correct thing for a man to say to a woman who is blocking hist way when leaving a bus or other public conveyance? A. "May I get through, please?" And as .she moves aside to allow him to pass, he should lift hi. hat and thank her. Q. Don't you consider it very bad manners for a dinner guest to be late? A. This is considered one of the most serious breaches of eti- quette. A guest who is late for a meal in one's home must have a very good excuse to justify any pardon. Q. Is it proper to 'write a few lines of good wishes on the card that is enclosed with a wedding gift? A. It is quite all right to do so, although .not necessary. Q. What is a good rule for women to follow about dressing for various social functions? A. Whet in doubt, wear the simpler dress, If you don't know whether to wear a ball dress or a dinner dress, wear the dinner dress. Or whether wool or vel- vet, wear the wool: Q. When a friend is being graduated from high school or . college, and you cannot afford to send a gift, what should you do? A. Write a nice, sincere note Of congratulation, Q. For what, besides butter- ing breads, can the small butter knives be used? A. These should be used only for butter, jelly and cheese. Q. Is it all right for a bride to carry a bouquet if she is be-. ing married in a traveling dress? A. It would be better if she wore a corsage. RONIC1LES er6L„ INGERFAIIM All is quiet on the home front — at least for the moment. Dave is in bed but not asleep. He has had a very active day — and so has Grandma! Grandpa also shares in the activity as he has Dave outside with him for about a couple of hours every afternoon. We occasional- ly have a tussle of wills. Like all other children Dave has to see how far he can go and get away with it. For that reason we have to make sure that he does as he is told. He can travel so fast and has so much strength for a wee fellow that neither Partner nor I could han- dle him if we allowed him to get out of hand. Of course he has a lingo all_his own which we don't always understand. However, by following 'his line of reasoning — and don't ever think he hasn't got one — we can generally figure out what he is talking about and in that way we make out all right. Surprisingly, he gets into very little real mischief, I expected we would have to put things �. out of reach and keep a few doors and cupboards shut up but he hasn't been that 4ray at all. Nor does he interfers with the television, Of course he wants his own programs morn- ing and evening. After that he pays no attention to the set at all. But a funny thing happen- ed yesterday. Dave was by him- self in the living -room. I thought 1 heard him whimper- ing and. want to see what was the matter. He was sitting in a big chair and half crying as he looked into the black face of the television. I had forgotten to turn it on! That was soon remedied and he was happy again. The weather hasn't helped us at all with our baby-sitting. We can't leave the young man out- side to play by himself — there are too many wet places. Prac- tically the only dry spot is in the lane — and that hardly makes a safe playground. The weather also complicates the business of getting him dressed — lightweight snowsuit, mitts, helmet and rubber boots — not quite the sort of outfit you ex- pect a child to wear the fourth week in May. And how disappointing the garden is this spring. Very few. daffodils and we usually have such a lot. I hope the bulbs haven't rotted. One of our neighbors, who generally has the side of a hill looking just like "a host of golden daffodils," this year has very little bloom at all, However, in our garden we at least have lots of narcissi to look forward to. Apparently they don't -mind the cold, back- ward spring. There is still no spring seeding done around here, except on a few isolated farms where a stretch of sandy soil runs through the district. On some farms cattle have been turned out to pasture. They should at least have plenty of grass and water for awhile. Cat- kins are out on the poplars and the orioles have returned to the elms. Occasionally we see canaries and sap -sucker. And that is about the extent of na- ture' tory at the moment. No frogs, even yet. Government surveyors have done a little more decorating in our fields. They already had yellow stakes tipped with black. and orange stakes tipped with red, some of them to mark the spot where iron stakes are em- bedded in the ground, But just recently another work gang came along and put in ordinary steel fence posts right along- side the yellow stakes. The De- partment of Highways evident- ly doesn't intend anyone to for- get where the survey goes through. It isn't so communi- cative in other matters. For in- stance, the Department has al- ready registered a plan for ex- propriation of the land needed for the road but Yet we have not been notified, Nor have there been any men out from the property office to appraise the value of the land. Strange the things that can be done on a person's own property when the governinent takes over, Not that we mind, We are only too anxious to see the work started. That's the trouble with these big highway jobs — the plan- ning stage takes so long the road is out of date before it gets finished. This column has been writ- ten by flts and starts in be- tween attending to David's de- mands and answering the tele- phone. We did not expect any company this week -end and then came a call from my sister and nephew in Oshawa — would it be all right to come for the day on Monday? The answer was definitely yes. We have not seen them for over three years so we shall be very glad to have them come. Latex I suddenly remembered one of them is a vegetarian and the' other on a fat-free diet. Thal rather complicates things with the stores closed. Fortunately we have plenty of milk, eggs, rhubarb and 'a little asparagus. All that added to whatever the refrigerator may produce will no doubt see us through. We also got a phone call from Daughter who said she was feeling very much better so we feel well repaid for having tak- en young Dave off her hands for awhile. It looks as if grandpar- ents still count inthe scheme of things. 'Bye for now — hear the young man calling .. from the bathroom! When cut flowers begin to wilt give them the hot water treatment, They will revive quickly if the ends of the stems are cut and Immersed In hot water. Have the water about as hot as your hands can stand. Party P.-?ia#ore Int Craw, Malt. Two pretty ways she can wear this style! A cool, cute pinafore — a party dress with the addi- tion of the separate little collar! So versatile — sew - very - easy RI' you! Pattern 801: Children's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included. Pattern, embroi- dery transfer, directions. Send TWENTY - FIVE CENTS_ (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) to Laura Wheeler, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Our gift to you — two won- derful patterns for yourself, your home — printed in our. Laura Wheeler Needlecraft book for 1956! Dozens of other new designs to order — crocks 4 knitting, embroidery, . iron -ons, novelties. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOW — with gift patterns printed in it ! ISSUE 25 -- 1956 Tr.y my de1iciou DESSERT BRAN MUFFINS ::.2ait6. dirk ,.iOtYYhov^ti }, Q,...}tiS.'i:::::,..•:;Y.TSw`Y,..y3•.1`itn:l•••++5�.::>Ar�flt:t:h:. .,:;rw�'�".?X>S+`. 1P ..•`. 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