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*sips 15 00[OC. to bc called * humni. The tragoedies whîch *she or lie causes can leave *their mark for yeýars, and the * hearfache is never forgoffen. '; Whenever I print a situation *more heartrending than usual, *alm-ost invariably sorte reader *who bias had the samne trouble *is convinced thaf it deals wifh * ler personal sorrow. More of- '(ten thlan rot thepyare mfistakýen, as you happen f0 be. 1I[have "checkedl the original letter 1 *printed, and find the writer *lives in a city over 1,000mie *from youi and the womran she *wronged %was lier nxd *neig-hbour. * i ope, hiowever, that she *who broughf-i sucb grief uponi *you- and your children willj *read this today an-d take irmý *mediafe steps f0 make amYends. *That is thie !basf she can do. NOT READY TO MARRY 'Dear Anne flirst I1 arn nearly 17, and I'm nin a real mess. 1 was dating- three boys at once, and 1 proised tf0 mairry two 0f tleie after fhey came baclk from serv- )One o! theni wrote me this week fliat lie is se loniesomre lie's going to mnarry a girl lie oesni'f love - but thaf if 1. asked himn nQt f0, lie wouldJn't, I know vthe girl an-d sh-e is nice. 1 don't want f0 hurt anybody. "But now I_Èrealize I1ovethis boy1. ShalI el]him sol *If you. fook mari-ae sr, *lighf-ly three mnonths ago that *you gof youirself engagea f0, I wo boys, I don't think you are *ready f0 imari-y anuybody noie. *Perhaps you wanted onfly te bc lie ind because they were go- *ing into service, but if was *wrng and cruel f0oi-aise their *hopes. If theyv ever meet anid *Compare notes, you will nofetL' *flatfered b, their comments, *C almn down, 'Wriwte flu *young moan- that you realize * ou wore 0 young fo bo sez *sure of your beart, And you *think ifbet fer f0 wait unilj * eis discharged before you *commitý yourself. Whaf le de- *decides f0 do is Lup f0 him. *This will give you a chance - o grow up and f0 realize that *mariage is a sacred parfne-r- *ship enfered into for, fLe rest *o! your lifo. You are not near- *ly ready f0 promise scibne- * sponsibilifios now. * * 4 * An idle word, a cruel slur thougblessly expressed, can des- troy a worman's good naine, Gos.. sip As one of the most evil o!f pastmes . . . If you have biee the victir, tell Anxie Hlrst about it and have lier symipathy and counsel. Address ber at PBox 1. 123 EigIhteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. Modern Eiquette By Roberta Lee Wihat is ithe proper Ie-ng-th ne for a young woman to snournnng for her father? rbis dlepends entirely upon iehings in thie maffer. The n o! wearing mcurning ila sterict as itf!ormi-er]y w ,as. people do flot consider if s Ir a. al. When Some0île whon you just met says, "I amn glad Ve met you," isn't a Se"ble No; hIls would lave a Con-. ,ding air about if. If is btter te accompany the wvith a "thank you," Is it permissible for a dii uest te ask for a sepond -tg id rela- boa- uests' t fIe o de.. onê ~ f rock. sneria exeiitv isin by biri-hday. She has haid 15 chi graundchildren and five grec wheel chair-for her birthday ' Comtposer of Hit Wasn't anl Expert The greatest song ever wrîit- ten about base2bail is ",Take Mle Out f0 the Bal Game-" which is played and sung- thousands ofl fimies in and out of season,-No doubt you've sung if yourselt onl countless occasions. But here'S somefhing that perhapps you didn't knowi about the mari who wrofe if. M\/any years agoù there was a famous sn writer and vaude- ville star named Jack Norwvorth, The stage -%as his only passion. Fie had flot hing f0 do with) basebail. Hlis speciaity was coin- posrng love songs and singing- themi to enfthusiaqsfic audiences. Orne day lie began to play Button-Oin Ma«sic! 480917flf 10-20 C HANGE fi-n uidvess fa city dress quick as a wink wvith tIat clever collai-off e Seeho if, burtons right f0 the dress points up ftle curvy shape 0f fhe neckiine. Youll gýet so mucli more wear out o!faamrant co-m- binafion like this - and if's se easy fa make! Pattern 4809: Misses' Sizes 10, 1-2, 14, 16, 18, 20. Sizc 16 trs 41%l yards 35-inel; collai 1% yards. This pattern easy to use, smn- -pie to stw, is tesfed for ID Ras complet e illusfnated !irfUctiOnls. Send THIRII~Y-FIVE CENTS (34) il cois (stamps cannot be accepted) for fhis pafttern, Print' plainly SIZE, NAME, AI)DRIESS, STYLE NUMBEE. Send order te Box 1, 128 Eighteertb St., N'ew Toranto, 'Onlt. dno Ramirez, demonsirates that -)recding a needie on er i ]Oth Ltren, fhree of themn stIli living, !,à t-grandchildren. Sbe warited aý ýo cari get outside with the kids". around wil-a new tune, a tune fIat wvould express fhe meaniug and romnance o! basebaîl. Affer al', flore w_1eofamous football songs. Why n ro, a song for base- bail, f00? Try as lie would, Nrot couldn't seem f0 f md a proper tune tefilfthte idea of basebaliL The thouglif confinued f0 liaunit hîn, liowever, and onre nig-hf ho sat down and composed a song le called 'Take 1M/e Ouf fe fhe Bail Gam-ie." Thaf was in 1906. IfL was a nenvous Jack Nor- wortl who t'ried ouf thaf new Son~g on~ a tLheafre audience. Wben bis songs wvere about love, they liad gonle over big, The song about basebail \was aifo- gIeflien- different. fie was afraid fIat a theatre audlience wouldn'f like if at al. Wben lie finishied singing "Take _Me ouf fa fllie Bail G ame, " touLfi2 audience lit erally xent wild. They ap- pl-auded an-d cbeeried and made himn sing if again and again-. The song was a bit. "Take M11e Ouf f0 the Balil Gamn-e" became fhe imost popular song infh counftry. People wýýhistled if, sang if, hummned if. Ift seemed ta be a song that ex.-- pressed ail [fie excifemrent and colon of basebaîl. The national pastirme adopfed the song as ifs own. If becaime itsfs teme song-, ifs niational anitheml Mlotorvebiclo ccidents caused an average $ý318 property dam- age eadh in fIe firsf quarter of 1953, $33 more flani in tIe f arml peidof 1952. .And now it.'s Engl,,and. Last Friday we camne by train fromr Edinburgh f0 oLondon, If w7as a m-ost inteneýsfiug sigbf-seeing journey and wve gail njoyed if. 1We gof into Euston station a:bout feul p.m. . .and then i 1knew we were back in London. The same old mad sci-amble for lug- gage! Onie porter w7,ouldi say if was in tlie car aliead, anoflier ùn fhe car behind. Evenftually if was uinfangled and we wereý on Oui- w1ay. One bus took passen- gens; the other the luiggagec-. Most o! uis climbed f0 flie top o! fIe double-decker bus and liad our f i-sf f lijldriving fîrougli the lighfed London streets -- for so many years complet ely dar.ý We were taken straigf f oui roomns af fhe Strafford Court flofol. Apparenfly this hofel la fairly new and nio one seema f0r know wbere if; is - not eveni the bus-driver. So now we gef myself losf -- which I do quïte frequenfly -- I ask fo Mai-shall and Snelgrove's, a big store which ila next fo f -a sort of aonsCollege ýStre-cet type. Satunday we *wenf ton a rm-o- for-c-Oach tour o!f te city -- or rafler part o! if. We foilowed the route f aken by fhe Coronaicn procession so we drove fînough Hlyde. Park, pasf Sf. Jameys PlcBuckinigbam ipalace andA Marlborough flouse. We were f00 lafe fo see the Cbanging o! the' Guard but we did see Guards niding by on iheir beaufifu] blacký horses, porfecfly in sfep. As we passed various well- known places fhe fhoughf came f0 mue- how m-uel we leanni f rom e ýducational films. The places seemied so famniliar, nof on account o! ny liaving seenï fhemn before, but because of fIe number 0ff imies 1 lad seen fhemn on the screen - smnall odn really, as I saw fhe Coronafion picture fbree times. Sunday mnorning about niine o'Clock wue assenmbled fo-r a moton tou~r f0O xford whicli hadl been arraniged for us by the Britisli Travel Associatïin with one of fleur staff f0 accompany us. We wvenf by way o!f x bridge, Miadenlead and Wal-, ligfrc. e stopped briefly at a lovely hofel -- Sinrdle' flout el -af Maidenlead. The ferrace where we liad co!!ee ovTerlojoked( fIe River Thamnes complete wifh pleasu-re boats, canoes and punts, Besfet Ial fliero were a ïnumber o! graceful swans. A waifer ai fIe botel provided us witb staleý bread. A number of the girls in fleur enthusiasrn gof on fo a floafting dock to foed the s-W.9ns. A boafm-an camne hurryîng along warning tbem f o gef off fleur comybïined weighf wats sin- -n fe ock!, By fIe lime wo got Io Ox--ford it was raining but tor awhile thaf didn'f orr LS alt ail as wve were given a heeu lunicheon at the Ranjddlph Fioïel -- sf111 as the gueý:sf f he Bnî- tishi Travel Association. 1 didnr'i hear anyonie complamn abo-utte English cookçing! Thus fortified we were raý to walk fto the cloisters and a few of the colleges. We visiteà Magdalen ClegChrist Church anid one other, the nne f whichi, 1have frotn I though 1 had seen al tes colleges before 1Iwas just as o-ver-awied as other m-embers of the parfy by the ancient build- inigs thaf hadl been the, seat of legrning for so many of our ïa- mrous British men and .vonieri- six centuries. N\afurally w,ýe only skimmneà the Surface as we liad f0 bOard, our bus again by' four ocok The driver rýefurned to London by a differenit route, commgr42 fhrough Higli Wycombe andý BeaconIsfield -- a road I1 re- memibered so well. By special request the driver went oefî course a bit so as f0 fake usý fhrough Stoke Poges. Here we al leftf the bus to wandevr flirougli the churchyard and ap to the littie village church, whiere the famous Gray's Elegy aswrltten. We couiln'f have arrived al. a better timne. The church bell was calling the il- lagers f0 worship and 1 fhink many of us would have given a lot could we have sfayed fior that service. The setfing was- historic rural England af its best - oldi, old tombstonies% graves well cared tor, sweeý.t- scented roses frees - not bush- es - ufull bloom. Nafuara shrubs and a hedge of Eniglish ,oly u either side of the gravef. path from the Church f0 the road. But alas, we had to conî- tinlue our hiomaewar-d way .- tbrough rmany wl-konsub- urbs, includîng Acton. Monday affernoon, by invita- tion, our group visited the HouseýL of Commnons. The iniial stages - fookliff îtle while as wve had tm pass from one lobby to anofhieïr. each wifh 1 or 2 policemnen on guard. Evidenfly flie "bobbiesr were ouf f0 enàjoy themnselvez f00, as they insisted, on calling us Am-erica-Pns, but winking- across af eacbh0fler as tbey did'-it. One ù0f fhem rid "We tfiled if on a group back fliere and fhey didnï't 'a-Il bristle!" Only a imn-ited number of the- group were allowed to peak infto the hous, and the onily for a few-i minutes, but we were ail învifed- to affernoton feaà on 'lie Terrace overlooking the Thames. Here we were greeted by a few mein-î. bers of Par-liamnent, includling, Beverly Baxter. From the fos of Coýmmons mwe proceýeded te Canada House, f0 a Reception given by the H-igh Commisiôner. D-"RIVE WITH CARE I UVI ~ ber %v wroter ýat. 1 iau' c late, ;R": ln ies an'd 10 --OS-