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"Dear Anne Hirst: I've been
engaged for over a year, and my
ance is growing impatient. But
I hesitate. to marry hint because
o my mother. She is not only
handicapped, but very spoiled.
"She has always frowned on
an my former beaux and does
net get along well with my
mance. I know it is chiefly her
fault because she hates the
thought of losing nee by mar-
riage.
"1 cannot afford to pay her
board elswhere. She would have
tai live with us and, frankly, the
thought frightens me. But I must
:either take that chance or end my
engagement,
"My fiance and I love each
other dearly, but I cannot ask
him to wait any longer. He is a
patient man, and wonderfully
kind, and says we will manage
somehow. But have 1 the right to
expose hien to my mother's
whims? UNDECIDED."
TAKE THE CHANCE
• If your fiance is as eager to
marry as he seems, why not
* go ahead? He will make allow-
ances for your mother's tem-
" perament. and he would not
* offer her a home unless he be-
* lieved you three could live to-
* gether agreeably.
* Tell your mother that you
* have fixed the date of your
* wedding, and expect her to be
"w more tolerant toward your fi-
* ance. Selfish as she is, she
r. should be grateful that you
* have found someone to love
* you and take care of you. When
* she sees that your marriage
* is inevitable, she will have to
• reconcile herself to it.
* In planning your living ar-
'" rangements, I suggest that you
provide a pleasant room for
>" her, furnishing it, more like a,
"" sitting room, with her own
s books and radio. When you are
e' settled, encourage her friends
• to visit her, and see that she
* has some interests other than
* herself.
* After a while, you may find
* a private family who can give
a her the little care she needs.
,'.Mom ! \Utu .fashion-cocw;;cieus
little girl +vi11 love her new spring
outfit appliqued with a sailor's
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spring coat, it's practical as well
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;SS III!: 14 --m 1953
" Many people are glad to add to
their income in this way and
the expense is not usually pro-
s` hibitive.
Neither of these arrange-
" ntents is ideal, of course, yet
* how else can you two marry?
" Your fiance wants a home of
* his own; he does not wish to
" move into your mother's house.
* Go along with his idea, and
• take it for granted that things
' will work out well. If- you all
" will be a little more charitable,
" and thoughtful of each other,
* you :may find that the troubles
you anticipate will not devel-
,. op.
Opening one's holm, to a per-
manent guest, wi ethe:r related
or not, is not the ideal way to
live. But if once roust, she can
work things out, usually with
less difficulty than anticipated.
Anne Birst's counsel will
help, too. Write her at Box L
1?3 Eighteenth St. New Toronto,
On t,
HRON1CI,.
.NGERi'AR
,.r
It has been a horrid, wet. mis-•
erable day, and this afternoon
we had a slight thunderstorm.
?,Then he heard it Partner said
— "Thunder in March, empty
barns in September." Just a say-
ing of course, but I suppose all
these old-world weather pre-
dictions must have been found-
ed on the personal observations
of country folk throughout the
the' years. Here are a.- few more
weather forebasts all wrapped up
in rh.yine.
Signs of Foul Weather
"'rhe hollow winds begin to blow;
Tlie clouds look black, the glass
is low.
The soot fails down, the spaniels
sleep
And spiders from their cobwebs
creep.
Last night the sun went pale
to bed.
The moon in halos hid his head.
The boding shepherd heaves a.
sigh
For see a rainbow in the sly.
Hark, how the chair's and
tables crack—
Old Betty's joints are on the rack,
Bey -corns with shooting' pains
torment her
And to her bed untimely sent her.
Loud quack the ducks, the sea -
fowl cry,
The distant hills are looking nigh.
'Twill surely rain, we see't with
sorrow—
No working in the fields
tomorrow."
37r. Erasmus Dartvin.
The couplets go on for an-
other 36 lines but check on the
ones I have given you anti you
will probably know then tehether
or not it is going to rain!
Rain or shine, it doesn't worry
me very much when I am at
home but if I am going away for
a day I wish I could be sure
whether it will be warm of cold.
Last Friday, for instance, I had
to go to Toronto. And the fore-
cast was for high of 55!. 1 -rush-
ed down town to pick up my
spring coat from the cleaners so
for once I was quite comfortable
in the city .At least I Wes as
comfortable as 1 could be while
riding around in the .street -cars
for a good part of the dair, I
mean that literally as I had to
go to the opposite o ltskitts of
the city twice e- 'but'fortunate-
ly not in rush hours. 1 also. had
occasion to visit one of the de-
partments in the Parliament
Buildings, and believe me, I
couldn't have been treated with
greater courtesy or consideration.
It was very gratifying to find'
public officials so pleasant and
obliging to an absolute stranger.
One sometimes hears run -ours
to the contrary,
Another experience last week
concerned. plumbing, and as a
result we are very thankful we
are not faced with the necessity
of putting in a furnace or a bath-
room. Our outside pump was
giving trouble. Partner was sure
the leather washer had perished,
and so we sent for a. plumber.
Time was when Partner would
have done a job like that him-
self --- but it is beyond him now.
The plumber arrived, along with
his assistant; took out the pump,
fixed it and put it • back again.
The men were here less than
an hour yet the bill for labeler
alone was $5. Now, just suppose
we had to have ,a big job done,
an eight-hour day would :meet :at
least $40 for labour, plus ..the
high cost of.materials used. That
is the sort of thing that makes
farmers dissatisfied with their
own returns. A bathroom today
would run into at least $1000.—
and
1.000--and possibly considerably .More.
It would take a lot of mill:, eggs,
cream, or wheat — or even eight
or nine cows --• to make .up a
let 000.
Incideutally, the trouble with
our pump was not caused by a
defective washer but by a nice,
fat frog, The brass screening bad
broken away from the intake and
this poor little frog had become
wedged in the pipe. Partner was
almost afraid to tell me they had
found a frog in the well? He
needn't have been. The thought
of a frog in our drinking water
dict not worry -rte — not for that
length of time. Frogs and•wate.r
seem to belong together. And
after all frogs' legs are consi-
dered a delicacy. It it had -been
a rat or a few dead mice .. ugh?,
... that would have been differ-
ent, Conte to think of it, it would
have been more appropriate had
they found a snake so close to
St. Patrick's Day.
Snakes, frogs or mice, it. just
goes to show a Well should be
looked into once in awhile, how-
ever carefully the top is pro-
tected, If there is no access
through the top some creatures
find a way of burrowing through
,the sides . . that is in the case
of e dug well.
. f Hollywood resident pat-
ented a seesaw that car' be oper-
ated by a single perspn.
Hid. Their Money
In Queer Places
A Cornish farmer, persuaded
to invest in National Savings
produced £:1.50 in half-crowns
from an old milk churn, He was
one of those people who for
some reason distrust banks and
choose strange hiding -places for
their wealth. For even in 1953
there are folk who like hoarding
their savings in places where
they believe they will be "safer
than the Bank of England."
An old, man. in Eire had a
shock when one day he discov-
ered that his 'wife sold one of
the household pillows to an old
junk man for a few pence. No
wonder! The pillow contained
about £400, his life savings,
which he had deposited there
secretly without telling even his
wife, But he was lucky; he man-
aged to retrieve his fortune from
the junk merchant.
Treasury notes for £450 re-
mained wrapped round cistern
pipes in a Liverpool house for
three years before they went dis-
covered lay a new tenant. It u as
found that the did tenant had
placed them there during a long
• period of frost to keep the water
from freezing and because he
thought it was the finest possible
hiding -place. When he moved
out, he forgot the money!
A tobacco jar, a dog's kennel
arid a music -stool have been
used at various times as "banks."
A retired Lancashire mill -hand
who suddenly .decided to en-
trust hie savings to a bank said
he had previously kept them in
a stuffed bird.
An old woman who died some
time ago had kept her money in
a hollowed bone. And it was
found that a patient in an United
States hospital had for five years
used her wooden leg as a safe
ctrpusit for x+2,000.
A man had seven thousand
sovereigns under the floor of his
bedroom in a Teddington house
during the .first World War. He
put them in tobacco tins, he said
later, and concealed therm there
"for safety against air -raids" The
lids of the tins were glued down.
Some people carry fortunes _in
the clothing they wear every
-day. A woman old -age pension-
er left a Blackpool hospital with
nearly £5,000 tucked under her
arm in a. brown paper parcel, Her
hoard was discovered; fastened
with safety -pins in her many
pockets after she had been
knocked down while crossing a
road. Some of the notes were
new; many were limp and soiled
• and hacl obviously been carried
around by the woman for years.
Many of them were screwed into
tiny balls.
A. Fort 'Wayne., Ind., :ratan re-
ported that he had set foot in
every country in the , United
States (3,074 of them).
Good Taste For Teens
By SALLY McCRAf
This week ure'te going to 'talk
about that common teen coma
plaint, "Why Boys Lose inter-
est," The boy in your life doesn't
'phone any more and living is a
pretty . dull affair without him,
Even your girl friends tell you
your torch is showing, And the
sad thing about it, it isn't the
:First time this has happened. Just
a couple of months ago, that
terrific :fellow, for no apparent
reason, walked out of your life.
Before hint there was Jimmy,
whom you also thought was 'tee-
l'ifte, just didn't call any more, -
either.
You just can't figure it out;
you're nice enough looking, wear
keen clothes, dance quite well,
in fact you believe you're all the
things you think boys like in a
girl. 13ut they just don't come
over any more. Its enough to give -
a gal a king-sized inferiority
complex. Besides, think of the
wear and tear on your heart;
its terrific. Something is wrong,
that's for sure; but WHAT?
You wish and wish that some-
one would tell you. Well, that's
our aim, In fact, we've taken
things in our own hands and ask-
ed the boys to tell us, Here are
the questions and their answers.
If you were going with a giri
and liked her very much, what
could she do that would :make
you lose interest i.n her, to the
extent that you'd stop going with
her?
Fossessiveness. Boys apparent-
ly, just don't like possessive girl
:friends. They say, "A smart girl
never makes a boy :feel trapped,"
Being chased. Boys don't like
to be chased by a girl. They feel
very strongly about this. They
say, they like to pursue and that
they lose interest as soon as they
discover a girl is theirs for the
asking. Anticipation, they say, is
part of the chase, and if they
know how a girl is going to act,
because she has already done her
part, they stop chasing and lose
interest, They said they lose in-
terest from a lack of the admir-
ation, which every boy feels for
the girl who is hard to get. This,
they told us, doesn't mean a girl
has to play coy. A smart girl
waits for a boy to ask her for a
date, she doesn't 'phone suggest-
ing dates and making plans.
They did say. that sometimes
a girl should play games with a
boy and not let him know that
she sits at home, waiting for him
to call. A smart girl doesn't let
a boy become too sure of her.
PRETENSE; Boys say they def •
-
initely dislike pretense or arti- •
fidelity in. their girls. They Want
their girl friend to be a girl and
to be herself; feminine and in-
teresting.
So girls know the type of per-
son you are. Perhaps your strong
point is sympathy and warmth
and this makes you naturally in-
terested in others and in their
problems. ')'herefore, you can
make a boy feel superior and
masculine by stressing your own
.femininity. SUPERIOR,: Boys tell
us they don't like a girl who acts
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superior. They say a great many
girls think they are better th€ ie
the boy who pays the bill.
Boys told us a little secret.
They need admiration, so much.
so, they'll seek it until they finch.
it. A smart girl knows that trues
admiration is really kindnese..
Kindness is remembering not to
hurt the feelings of others. B.
quick to lift a boy's morale; give;
'with. the sweet talk and let lifts
hand out the disappointments and
remember that boys bruise easily'..
They said.
A smart girl, they tell us, in
generous with kind words and
flatters her beau's ego by bein
interested in hien, rather than..
herself. Make a boy friend feels
he is the most wonderful person.
you've ever meet and he'll' be re-
luctant to leave you. Remember:
girls, "Honey catches more flies
than vinegar."
NEXT WEEK: Answers to "Go-
ing Steady", "School -Night Dates"
and "Lucky .Streak." Teens arcs
intuited 'to send their problems:
to Sally McCrae c/o of this news-
paper. Please send a stamped, ad••
dressedenvelope for personal.
reply.
Tastier (Carrott
These three ways of cooking
carrots have brought favorable
comment from many.
1. Mash carrots as you would
potatoes and put plenty of heavy
cream or butter in. Serve piping
• hot, Salt to taste.
2. Cook sliced carrots and sen:
to one side while you prepare a
sauce for them. Fry out a couple
of slices •of baccon which hag
been cut up. When a nice light
brown, pour on a cup of cream,
Have hot and pour onto sliced
carrots.
3. Cook carrots. Make a very
thick white sauce and add car-
rots, mashing them first. Then
spread combined mixture on a
platter and let stand a couple of
hours. Afterwards, shape into
patties, cover with cracker
crumbs, and fry in butter:
They're delicious!
And the
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