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PAS i EE a TU Sa Eh 1] Ped Ll} [= "Dear "Anne Hirst: My daughter is heartbroken over her first love affair. She had gone with this nice "boy- for nearly a year, and they are both 17. A "month ago, he told her they were too young to go steady. "He told his mother lie loves my girl, but doesn't know what lhe wants : to do. Recently he's been going with a fast erowd, and he's changed so- much. My daughter is a good girl; she doesn't Fa ii Line Of Flattery R4746 % bi 14--48 bythe Selo, © Temperatuie~ going up--up--up but you're cool and comfortable! Vertical seaming creates the 'most flattering line for you----gives you: a taller, slimmer look! Remember, this dress is casy'to-cut--designed to fit your fuller figure! ' ' Pattern R4746: Women's Sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 36 requires 334 yards 35-inch fabric; ~ ¥% yard contrast. This pattern casy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has - complete illustrated. instructions. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (35c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this patfern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. * = Send- order to Box |, "123 Eighteenth -St., -New Toronto, Ont. -* of her--grief. ; "* It should not take long for her "* to get " * perience and smoke or drink which is rare now- adays. 1s ; "I've reminded her she has plen- ty of time to meet somcone else, but she says she-cannot stop think- ing. of him. I wish 1 knew how to comfort her! :; "I'he trouble -is, while she kept steady company 'with him she lost contact with other friends, Please advise me. I" wrote you once _be- fore, and 1 thank you for your an- swer, It has Deen a great help. - A Very Worried Mother": PANGS OF FIRST LOVE - Few of us would relive our first love affair. The pangs that mark its end strike too -deep. Susceptible young hearts feel their world has crashed ... Don't let your girl feel guilty that she cannot forget this boy. That wouldn't be natural. Time, and * other dates. will dull the edge * BEE EEE. back with hér former * friends, . Summer brings picnics, * excursions and other "informal * outings that attract group par- ¢ ties, and the boys and girls she * knows. in her church will not let * her be loncly long. You can plan * some of these get-togethers with * her, and start a wider social life _ * for her again. * Incidentally;~since, this young * man is experimenting with a dif- * ferent crowd it is well that she * does not date him. Later, when * he learns to discriminate, he'll * probably -appreciate her mniore * than ever. Fi, * I..hope that * heed of your daughter's sad ex- distribute their * dates among all -their friends. * Then, if one boy gets restless * (as young boys will) they will * not be left alone. : . *° Your daughter is, as you say, * an intelligent girl, and smart, _* too. She will not make this mis- * take agaip. Your assurance that * her plight is not uncommon will * help reconcile her just pow, and * guide her in the future. * How fortunate "you are that --* she confides in you! * . * : - .. TO "UNHAPPY" Marriage be- tween cousins (I presume you mean first cousins) wa$ long prac- ticed all over the world, including this country. Then came a period of disapproval, which still .obtains in many communities, The objection lies, of course, in the children ¢° such. a union, Sometimes both. parents inherit-the same unfortunate traits (physical or mental) which can be passed * oii to: their offspring, though I am told this does not always occur, {The present consensus seems to be that" such - parents take no chances than others. It is safest that both these young people consult -a physician who knows the family history of each, and take his advice. « * « ACT OF A CAD "Dear Anne Hirst: The more Ne - . 2 9 (1758 Ah A 2 : : ' Snowball Fight In July?--Russel Green, 9; holds a placard adver- , : " 'tising his unique summer treat--nice, cold snowballs, which he's r been hoarding in the family's deep freezer. Russel only intended : to sell them for cooling-off purposes, > ; 4 thinks it's a fine time to revive a favorite winter sport.' but the little boy at left |..a date. I knew his reputation, and. other. teenagers ' * who read this column will take most awful thing: has happened to mel A boy I met recently asked me for refused. Now he's spreading a nas- ty story about me! "None of my friends will 'believe . it, I'm sure. But what of acquain- tances, and other pedple whose re- spect I want too? : "Isn't -this a prefty rottey thing to do?" It there any way he can be stopped? 'y FRIGHTENED" * Tell your father, or another * male relative. He will know how * to handle such a cad.--That is, * if-you are so frightened you feel * a stop must be put to it. * After years of knowing - that * some people stoop to contemp- * tible lies, I've concluded the best -* way to handle the matter is to * ignore it. : : * This revolting. character--has * added que more item to his un- *.savory reputation, Don't worry » * about it. . Others know what "he *"is; and will only laugh him down. Ph be * x } Young girls who. date on'y one ° boy are apt, some sad day, to find him gone, Make all the friends you . can- handle while you are young. It pays . , . Anne Hirst is here to advise you. Address her at Box }, 15 Eighteerith St. New Toronto, nt. : TV STUFF A It was five minutes before the end of a tense Army-Navy football game. The score was 28-28; Army had worked "the ball to the Navy three- yard line. The stands were in an uproar. : Suddenly a "man who had been following the fray on his television set snapped of f- the current. i ; "What's the idca?" cried his ouf- raged guests. "We'll miss the most exciting part." : "I -know," admitted the host, "but do you think Itm going to get caught in that mob?" : 3 . LIKE FATHER . -- -- hd - ~ A prominent radio announcer took "his young daughter to.a church "din- ner. The parson invited the. young-- ster to say- grace. She bowed her head and said, "These victuals, good friends, are coming to you through the «courtesy -of Almighty. God." HowCanl ? : By : Roberta Lee a Q.:What is the most efficient 'method of drying a' sweater after washing, so that it will not get out. of shape? - : A. Make a hammock of a piece of mosquito 'netting or other thin material. Hang this hammock: in the sun and lay the sweater on it. . Be sure that the hamiiiock is drawn out 'flat so 'the 'sweater' is not. doubled up. Ta Q. How can I prevent the tar- nishing of 'brass articles -such as candlesticks and fixtures? A. Try lacquering them. They will not tarnish and also -will not ~require as much polishing. " Q.How can I clean artificial flowers? * : A, Put them into a. jar of cleag- "ing fluid, seal, and shake well. All soil will disappear. Q. How can' dry a wet book? A, Do not dry near a fire, or it will' warp. If water has been spilled on a cherished book, place some blotting paper on each side of the wet leaves and press with 'a moderately warm iron, treating each: leaf separately, Then the leaves will neither warp nor wrinkle. ? Q. How candles? A. Wipe over the soiled candles with a clotli dampened with alco- hol. © This will. not harm their luster. ; < . How can 1 treat scars that have been left' on the face by pimples? . 2 A. Bathe them regularly with a solution of boracic acid, followed by an application' of zinc' oint:" ment. ; ; ene Hon . Q. How can I relieve perspiring hands? ais Lo A. Try applying two or three times a day, or at least niglitly, an astringent lotion 'consisting of one part boracit acid to twenty parts of water,.and then dust-with talcum "powder. x *7Q. How can I can I clean soiled remove auto- ment? y A. Rib lard on the psgts; then wash in cold water, folffved by a washing in warm water. . This will remove all stains, Q. How can I mend a loose umbrella handle? .- 3 "=A. Pour. some melted resin 'or sulphur 'into the hole. Quickly force 'in the umbrella and rod and hold for a few minutes until the substance hardens. : .'Q. How can I prepare. cabbage sauce? rad "A. A 'cabbage sauce is excellent. when. served with broiled fish" in place of the usual tartar sauce, It can be made by shredding finely chopped green peppers, 1 cup diced celery, 3 tablespoons chopped nuts, 1 cup boiled dressing, and 4 table- spoons chili sauce. Chill for several , hours before serving. ps ------------------ mobile grease stains from a gar- I: v4-head cabbage and mixing with 2 "You're Bigger, I'm Older," brags twp-year-old Lonnie Davis to his half-grown great dane puppy, ten months old. "And | know bet- - ter than you about getting cleaned:up." Lonnie is trying to talk the pup'into having his chin wiped before entering a Small-Fry , Puppy Show:- 1 HRONICLI INGERFARM Gwendoline P.Clathe Na there were a 'Socicty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Insects <1 should certainly be in trouble. And no doubt I would have plenty of company, - It was this way. I was looking at our shrubs, thinking 'it was time the pruning shears were put into operation, when I noticed their leaves chewed off. "Now what on earth is doing that" I won- dered. Closer inspection -gavé the answer. Under the leaves and al- ong the stats were dozens--maybe hundreds--of\lJight grey caterpil- Eh Transfer Designs in 3 colors - Transfer Designs _ in 3 colors indoors with these colorful motifs! "Dogwood pink, forget-me-not blue, green green leaves--and easy to do! Just iron them on table lin- ens, bathroom linens, *blouses, .skirts, aprons! Quick! Easy! Washable! "Thrée-color motifs! No embroi- dery! Pattern 840; transfer of TWENTY motifs 2x2 to 3%x13 inches. wy ) il 'Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accep- ted) for this pdttern to Box 1, 123 'Print plainly PATTERN NUM- 'BER, your NAME and AD- DRESS . . * f Such a colorful roundup of handiwork ideas! Send twenty-five "cents now for our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog. Choose your toys, dolls, household and person- al Accessories. A 'pattern for a handbag is printed right in the . ISSUE 30 -- 1952 ¥ book. - the flowering elders had most of ° BRING the woods ard garden ' Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont.' patterns from our gaily illustrated .|° lars, about an inch long. Different from tent. caterpillars but. appar- ently just as restructive. And I was «destructive too! I put a large paper bag into a tin pail and into] it I droppéd every leaf 1 could find that had a caterpillar on it. .After "more than an hour's work--I put the bag into the kitchen stove and set 'a match to it without my, con- science troubling me at all. Where lies the difference, I won- der? I couldn't be unkind to any sort of bird or -beast but 'yet I took an unholy joy in cremating those horrible caterpillars. In fact while I like animals I don't like insects at all=except ladybirds and spiders--spiders because -of « their' fascinating. 'web-spinning industry. But now I think of it _a spider isn't an insect but belongs to a class of animals called "Arach- nida" which also includes -scorp- jons, mites and ticks. mythology Arachne and Minerva tried to outdo each other -in the art of weaving. The goddess Ath- ena--or Minerva--was so jealous of Arachne that she turned the poor girl into a 'spider as she work- ed--and 'so spiders have been spin- ning and weaving. ever. since. After doing my best on the elder- berry bushes I turned toa couple '6f mountain ash trees, which I have been nursing. from infancy. These 'I found were beinz attacked 'by another type of caterpillar-- golden-brown in colour. I pro- ceeded to give them the same treat- ment as the others. As I did so I wondered why so many destruc- "tive insects are allowed to plague 'our existence. Life would be sa much pleasanter without them, But still, bugs notwithstanding, we don't have to look far to find "reasons for rejoicing. We have all our first 'crop hay safely stowed "away in the barn---and it is in first class condition. ~The weather has been - uncomfortably warnr:-of late but it has: certainly' shortened the haying season. 'Now we shall have time for_other work before the second cutting is ready--which is just as well as we have quite a lot . L of extras in the offing--which have nothing to do with farming. One of our little chores this past week: has been rescuing some of our livestock from conditions brought on by their own folly. Out in the calf pasture at-the back of the house two little heifers, . Whitey and Red, have been graz- (ing all: summer; Whitey- is quiet" and contented and takes her- feed where she finds it. But Red wants 'whatever is on the other sides of the fence and is confinually poking her head through the wide wire * mesh to get it. Sometimes her ""head gets doesn't. When it does she never bothers twisting and turning to free * herself but waits patiently for someone to come along to disen- tangle her. horns from the wire --quite confident that she willbe rescued, The other day as 1 did exactly as she expected 1 fell to thinking what a resemblance there is between Red and Whitey to various types of people. We have human beings like Whitey, indus: In Greek - caught, sometimes it .|- Sentry In Uniform To Guard Snowdrop |= Wien the" Queen Mother "first became Queen she found' that a bottle of whisky and a' glass were placed on her bedside table every night. Each morning it was re-- moved, and each evening a fresh bottle appeared. | fed ~She- inquired the reason, and it was discovered that, more than sey- _"enty years earlier Queen Victoria tad a cold and had ordered a glass of whisky at bedtime. For some . reason the order was never can- celled and the whisky was placed there every evening.. When she died the habit had become tradi- tional and continued, with unfail- ing regularity, throughout the Queen Mary, : Stranger things have happened as : the result of habit. In the middle of . the eighteenth century King George II was shocked to hear of a riot at Drury Lane Theatre, one of his favorite places of entertain-' ment. He immediately respatched a contingent of soldiers' to the theatre and the disturbance was auelled. : : The following evening troops were ordered to - march to the theatre as a precautionary measure; and then the king forgot the mat- ter. One hundred and thirty-five years later, in 1894, a contingent of troops still marched nightly "to Drury Lane. in °B00,000 candles, of all. colours, being stored in Buckingham Pal- ace. Just after her accession, Queen. Victoria gave a State ball at the Palace, and ordered two used as part of the decoration. The official, to .whom_the order was given, mistook the Queen's command to mean that_she wanted two hundred candles every. day, He never stopped to think that the queen could not use so many can- dles in twenty-four hours. asd The. result was that for nine. livered daily at the palace. It was only stopped when there was no more storage space left, and some- one investigated: the matter. In 1849 'the Tzar Alexander II stood at a window of his palace and frowned at - the sentry outside. For a long time he had been puz- zled by the mounted and -armed triously earning their living, going their own 'quiet way, giving no. trouble to anyone, nor getting into _ any kind of jam from which they expect someone to come, along and extricate them, ./ --- There are also folks like Red-- discontentedly looking _ towards what is just beyond their reach; ieaving feed that is close at hand and straining for that which can. only be secured: by. getting into diffichities themselves while giving ipg_ them from the result of their =own" folly. 1 Then we have Alicat who stayed -on the beams of the barn for three days and wouldn't come down. "Finally rescued and brought to the house he purred like a. threshing machine. Now lie gets on the kit- chen roof and is afraid to come. down. 3 rescue him and had his thumb bit- ten as.a result. In the night a storm' came up and Alicat chose the les- The same thing happens every day. After being fed and fussed over the cat goes back to the roof and has «to be rescued all over again, I am' sure there must be a paral- lel to that in human _behaviour-- possibly in "thrse who "lack the courage--of their own convictions .--but my space is gone so I'll "leave you to figure that one out. - reigns of Queen Alexandra and ~ A mistaken order once resulted hundred "coloured candles to 'be other people the trouble of rescu- : One day Partner tried to - ser of two evils and came down. years two hundred candles were de- _}- « guard who, with+=full traditional ritual, took" up his position in the palace. there, and no reason, so far ds. the .Tzar could see, for an additional sentry. © He made inquiries and eventually. unedrthed "the astound the Empress Catherine III was crossing 'the lawn when she no- ticed a Snowdrop just about to "bloom. _ : '. She was by no means a sentimen- . this first sign of spring and, so that: no unheeding foot "should tra it, she ordered a guard to- stand near it. ; Ten days later the snowdrop had died, and Catherine had forgot- ten, but no 'one had the nerve to remind her-of the sentry because she had such an uncertain temper. So, one hundred years later a guard was still being mounted on the spot. GETTING -EVEN On-a crisp and clear summer © night in Maine, there was an amaz- ing display of the Northérn Lights, and a grizzled old guide named Leo had a chance to square ac- counts with a lady who had offend- ed his- dignity by showing greater intergst in _the whereabouts of We Took:te the Woods) than in his tales "of fabulous salmon runs. or nights under the stars. When Leo spotted "the. Northern Lights advise them to hurry-out and see ~ the _brilliant lady he added,«"Don't forget your pocket flashlight." f "Why?" she asked. "Help you see the Lights," he assured her, proper awe at the spectacle, the lady concentrated on pointing her Eveready in the proper direction. Then: she tried flashlight. : ie) "Leo," she 'said, "you won't be- lieve it, but 1 can see -those Lights every bit as 'well with this thing turned off |". ! Austerity Smasher -- The British may. have an austerity program, but they also have- pretty 18- year-old Joan Collins to grace their cinema. screens. Joan, shown above in a-tondon stu- dio, ha r first big role in the film, "I Believe In You." 2 » grr Ae Ouch! That Hurtsl--Five-year-old Patricia Ann Burnett, daughter of a doctor, winces as she gets an anti-polio injection from Dr, Byron T. York in Houston, Tex. Thousands of school children were injected in the city, which has been hard-hit by a polio epidemic, Slt kage a "middle of the lawn outside the There was nothing to guard ing. truth. . It seemed that; one day,c. tal woman, but she was touched by ~~ Louise Dickinson Rich (author of' he ran to the tent of his party to illumination. To the _ While the others-exclaimed with . it - without "the . a IT PA A