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re = eS x 1 fa A MEIN SX po. is i tm oh oe x Era i" SL ar a Ta iy os Sg em FOR ar tr a EE Cr Si a RSS -- ey / 37 £0 ENR = - 3 GR 8) t 3 SAA Gk ¥ EIN Sy 3 - (ANNE HIRST | "Dear Anne Hirst: Seven years | ago I had a brief affair with a girl from my office. At the time, I thought I had good reason . , . I soon realized, however; I loved my wife, and wanted only hér, Wé were reconciled, promising to. forget the past. Though the affair was definitely ended, my wife has never ceased to nag me about it. She made- such scenes that the girl quit her: job. 2 "Since then, my wife has ag- cused me of having'an affair with every new girl that joins the staff. She will not believe my denials, If I'm a few minutes late getting home, she is furious; I never know what mood I'll find her in. When we discuss any fam- ily problems, she eventually blames all our troubles on my running around! I only leave the house at night without my family to escape her scenes. CHILDREN INVOLVED "We've been married 16 years, and have two lovely children. Now my wife makes it a point to start arguments before them, "tells them I'm a no-good. father and husband, and she screams her accusations loud enough for the neighbours to hear. Heaven knows I've been faithful to her, and a good parent, in spite of her tantrums. When I have threat- ened to leave (which she has asked me to do) she says she will take the children to another Bouquet for Brides Spring. garden of flowers to beautify bedroom . linens and guest towels. Easy to embroider "---#nd so pretty in white or pas- too ----- much Remember, gifts mean so tel colors. hardmade more. Pattern tifs 603: transfer six mo- about 4 x 13 inches cach. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins_ (stamps cannot be: ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME And AD- DRESS. EXCITING VALUE! Ten, $ "TEN popular, new designs to crochet, sew, embroider, knit --_ printed in the new 1953 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. Plus many more patterns to send for --ideas for' gifts, bazaar money- smakers, fashions! Send for your copy! yes 25 cents LIE EE EE EE EE EE TEE NE RESET EE TS only - their wrapping a narrow parcel about city and I'll never see them again. "That thought I cannot stand. I love them, and in spite of her belittling me, they do love me. "I've thought of quitting my job; but I have a long service record, and anyhow, I don't be- . lieve it would help... I am tired of living this sort of life. The children and 1 are upset nearly all the time. I am at my wits' end. Can you suggest any solu- tion? : C, HJ." If you 'want to stay® with your. children,--I'm afraid you will have to put up with your wife's unjustified accusations. It will require all the restraint and endurance you can muster, but it will be worth it. "--She is cruel and unfair, to carry these accusations. from year to year. She knows why the affair began (and she was not blameless) and she must LE I your one offence. She must re- member you -are not a prom- iscuous man, and particularly because of your children, you would never repeat it. Evident- ly you are living an upright it. She keeps you on the de- fensive, and shamefully mis- uses her power. Her suspicions have become an obsession. I agree that a psychiatrist might be helpful, but she refuses the idea indignantly. Whatever the provocation, you were, of course, wrong to break your marriage vows. Now you are payin and pay- ing high, for it. Bu our chil- dren are paying, too, suffering their mother's continual tirades. This is another reason you must stay with them, using your in fluence to counteract hers. [do suggest that you employ all 'possible tact to avoid these scenes. Get home every day when you are expected. If you are delayed, telephone, and name the hour youwswill arrive, Give her no possible excuse to question your fidelity. When she does raise her voice in re- criminations, leave the 'house and, if you possibly can, take the children with you. Make this a habit; it is a gesture that (who knows?) may~ dis- courage her, When the youngsters are grown and on their own, you can, if you ddsire, be. free of this miserable existence. > Many a_home is Boll together ~ for the children's One's personal happiness is sur- rendered for their welfare . . . Anne Hirst. weighs each situa- tion thoughtfully, and will ad- vise you accordingly.' Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto. LAN A I JRE SE ER OR JE JE IEE RE IRE EE NEE EY SEE TER NCU SEE YA WE SS Su SS MOUNTAIN BOATYARDS The Dutch island of the Caribbean, Saba, in presents some- thing of a problem to boatbuilders as the island rises steeply from the sea, and possesses no har- | bours. Nothing daunted, the ship- wrights build their boats on the top of a mountain and then low- .! er them skilfully into the water. NATURALLY LONG Two workmen sal down to vat lunch, and one began un- half a yard long. "What's that?" asked his riend. 1 "Well, my wife's away, so I 'made a pic for myself." "A bit long, isn't it?" "Of course it's long--it's rhu- bard pie." € vim » ie sary Basking " a Basket=Two aims are made for this device. 1} - can be used as o chair, as the young lady is doing, or it con - be used as a basket, handy for carrying garden produce, The chair was exhibited at the International Garden Show in Ham- & : 4 Fd Ld burg, Germany. know it has ended. This was - life, and receive .no credit for { 'I. has FOUR I Strange Happenings Atop High Building If you're in a nervous c¢ondi- tion, you would be well advised not to go to the top of New York's Empire State Building -- even if you had the chance. When you step out of one of the 72 eleva- tors (they operate in Seven miles of shaftway) at the 102nd floor, you'll. see things that will make. you doubt yourself. Standing in the obser valory_on top of the tallest building in the world (1,472 feet to the "top of the-TV tower) you'll see the snow falling up, because of the per- verse air currents. Coloured Rain Sometimes red rain falls thick- ly on the huge glass 'windows, It's attributed to the red clay sucked up bv windy outside the city. Occasionally, verse, Just- 10 be per- unaccountable showers of white rain hit the towers, stain- ing the stonework. . ee The strictest teetotaller may recoil in terror from "snakes" which seem to appear under cer- tain atmospheric conditions, ~In fact, these are due to a strong wind which produces a mirage (in appearance exactly like a huge python) crawling out of the air towards the observer. - So high is the tower that there is frequently a temperature vari- ance between the base and the top. This is often -in the region of nine degrees, and the record variation is twenty-four degrees. A giant, four-engined bember once crashed into the building at the seventy- -eighth flaor. One of the engines passed clean through the structure, while another fell down an elevator shaft. Bursting fuel tanks caused a fierce fire, yet people working seven floors above the accident didn't know anything had hap- pened. A tribute to the great stability of the structure The effects of St. Elmo's fire (a dramatic form of static electri- city) are startling at this height. When a storm is brewing: one can lean over the parapet df the observatory and pluck a handful of" cold, blue flame- out of the air. A visitor. to the. skyscraper can charge himself with static electricity if he is insulated with rubber-soled shoes. Try this if "you want to give your girl friend' a shock. Provided the day is dry enough, she"ll remember: . the electric thrill of that embrace. 4Way Wonder : sake. i one dress, daughter different outfits to wear! Start off with the jiffy sun- dress--than button on the bolero," scalloped capelet or dress-up col- lar for Monday-to-Sunday 'vari- ety. Use remnants, save fabric, money, time. Send iow! Sew this now! Pattern 4666: Children's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Size 6 sundress 15% yards 35-inch; bolero % yard. This, _paftérn easy. to use, sim- ple to: sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS: (35¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. . Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St, New Toronto, Ont. Sew only . USEFUL KNOWLEDGE "Gleorge is marrying one of 'those all-round girls, She swims ~ drives a car, golfs, and is an air pi "Lucky for George cook, isn't It? he can £ i i - the arm 4 Every 'Day is Ladies' Day--"Just a boy and a'girl," was all the family Angela and James Willson wanted when they were married in 1934. But Mother Nature had other ideas and now : they have six girls, two of them twins, and no boys. At top are the Willsons with Judy, 13. Next below are Marcia and Marlene, twins, 9, left and right, with Nancy, 10, in between. . E Bottom aré Susan Jane, 4, and Cindy, 2 2a. - Gwendoline D Clarke r) i _ Glory be, the sun is shining! May it so continue, then perhaps it will not 'be necessary for me to light the furnace today--as I did yesterday. After all, it is ~middle of June so that is not exactly an unreasonable hope. Quite apart from the necessity of fine, warm weather: for haying - --which" has not yet started at Ginger Farm--we shall welcome sunny" days so that one in par- ticular, of our present visitors can sit out in the garden. You see we have niece Betty here; re- cuperating after a-shoulder oper-" ation, which means she has a cast from her neck 'to her waist, immobilising one shoulder and completely. Frosh air and sunshine during the dag © will naturally kelp her to sleep better at night.- Joy is also "here=%d the one helps to look-after the other away for a day or two next week --if we are not too involved with haying. Last "Saturday good fortune came my way. FOr the first time in months 1 went to an auction sale where I knew most of the stuff. to be offered was really good and in excellent, condition. 2] looked afford to" buy two oil paintings that were included ih the' sale, Saturday came---and a big crowd, and .a good buying crowd -- as there were many collectors' items among the china and glass. I shut my eyes and ears to most of 'the bargains that were going under the hammer: but 1 wished 'the auctioneer would get around to selling the pictures because I felt I couldn't drag myself away un-. til I knew what happened. to them. But the pictures were in the living-room along with the __piano and walnut furniture, and the "contents of that room were the last to be sold. At last the table was sold, the chesterfield ' suite, the piano and a beautiful . what-not. But the pictures were on the floor, leaning up against a wall. People stood in front of them and moving away, the 'pictures being out of his sight. "Someone said, So the pictures were brought forward'. . . bid- ding started unbelievably low. The auctioneer caught my eye the . pictures!" and I nodded. Another bid, and then another. I nodded again, The bidding stopped. I waited breath- lessly . . . was no one going to raise my last bid? As I 'waited I suddenly realized that, however much they were admired--and they were admired--not every- one would want those pictures, they were entirely too big and unsuitable for the average mod- the 'augtioncer was "the pictures--you haven't sold ; ern home. That, also, was the' - reason the executors were let- ting the pictures be sold--no room . srif A --which is fortunate as I may be | it over the night before. | wand 'came away wishing I could for them anywhere, 'by 40" and were painted by an artist in the- farhily years ago. .. Once more the auctioneer 160k- ed around . . . "ladies and gentle- man, 'this is a crime . SE beautiful oil paintings . . . but they've got. to be sold." and fin- ally those unbelievable words-- "Sold here to Mrs. Clarke!" The pictures were mine. Actually! I brought them home and Partner liked them as much as I did. Then came the job of hang- ing them--a very ticklish-matter indeed. Even a good picture can be ruined by being unsuitably hung, especially one in oils, We tried them here. and we tried them there; separately and in pairs. Finally we decided they looked their best either side of . the door facing the west windows. There they catch the light and even 'as family heirlooms. They are 16" these change every hour as the sun' moves from east to west. But I am forgetting -- 'I haven't. des- cribed the pictures to you. One is a sunset scene in early winter, the ground lightly covered with snow. A young"buck-deer-stands in the foreground, head to wind, - seeking, questioning, with a new awareness of life. The other pic- J ture, probably late fall. A moun-_ tain . veiled in mist against a sombre dull-yellow sky. The rocky foreground, dark with bracken, and on the, lonely trail, -stands one stalwart stag--a shag- gy old warrior; obviously alert to every danger. that creatures of the wild. I don't pretend to' any knowl- edge of art but"I know what I like .and the sort of pictures 1 want to live with. I only hope they are not offensive to any threatens 3 critics of art who happen to visit Ginger Farm. Last Saturday I saw yet an-_ other picturé--but of a very dif- ferent 'kind--a picture of real life. It was the pjcture of an el- derly lady, going home from hos-- pital, her faded eyes bright with --excitement. She sat on the bick seat of the family ca¥; a nurse was tucking her in with pillows and blankets for greater comfort, The hospital is often the best place to be when illness strikes . but oh, that wonderful day when 'the doctor smiles and says -- "Well, 1 think tomorrow we can send you home!" Home . . . castle or cottage--it has one universal meaning. Tt is. the. place where - we belong. BOY GROWS "HORNS" ( Doctors in the Protectorate of Somaliland had a strange patient a short time ago--a boy who gréw "horns" on 'his fingers. Aged fourteen, he was taken to hospital with horns nearly as long as the fingers on which they had grown, On the end of each horn was what looked like a fingernail. - The boy's fingers were mas" saged regularly, and one morning the horns were seen to fall off, Then it was found that his fingers were normal, except that the tips were unusually pointed. The horns will go to a medical museutn. ~Lamarr, They adopted 'a 'child, -the Perfect Wife, Myrna Loy, but F ound A Live Lion In Her Dressing Room Hollywood marriages can' be chancy affairs, Gene Markey first . married Joan Bennett, They had a - beautiful daughter, then di- vorced. Next, he married Hedy then divorced. A third try was after a while they divorced, too. One day Hedda Hopper, famous: : Hollywood columnist and screen actress, said: "Gene, 'when what '| you really want is a wife, "why do you kacp on marrying picture stars?" "I just keep on trying," he replied, smiling faintly, "some- where in this world there must be a woman in 'whom are com- bined all the qualities I'm looking for." "Beauty, wife, mistress, mother, star rating--Gene, you're. looking for something not yet born on this planet." © . "Maybe s0," he said with a twinkle," but I have a lot of fun ete | "looking." ' "It Is So Silly!" In her sparkling memoirs, "From Under My .Hat," one of the most candid, amusing books ever written about Hollywood, Hedda Hopper says that John Gil- bert, who acted with Garbo, beg- ged her in vain to marry him, He even had a siite..of rooms. arranged in his hduse for the great Swedish star, and the black marble bathroom cost him15,000 dollars. When he showed it to her she put her slender hands over her eyes and murmured: "The marble--it is too shiny--" so he got workmen to flute it and take the shine off. : "Hurt by her refusal, he Hext: wooed stage star Ina Claire, then eloped with her to Las Vegas. In the wedding pictures Ina carried a bouquet of wilted flowers. "Weren't they awful?" she re- marked to Miss Hopper later. "Just as we were about to start the ceremony a little man came up from behihd and pushed them .into my hand, When it was over, I learned he was the town under- And That's That--Shirley Buch- anan, queen of the 8th Annual Los Angeles Home Show, takes "hold of the dress material on one of the 201foot-high displays to- show that it's the real McCoy. The gigantic can-can girl is one of several on display in the Mar- di Gras area of the show. Toothless Tyke -- Admiring his perfect teeth from a distance, three-year-old Billy Siglasky is one baby 'without baby teeth. They were replaced at North= western University Dental School because of decay. He'll wear the false teeth until his permanent set grows in. . taker and didn't think it proper for a bride to be married with- out flowers." When Garbo got news of the - wedding she merely burst out laughing and said: *It is so sil-ly!" Cat Feud At one time there was a feud between Gloria Swanson, who loved cats, and Pola Negri, who hated them so much that she ' ordered every one to be banished from the studio. Her cohorts ran around snatching them up and dispatching them in bags, while' Gloria's scoured back alleys, rounding up strays to let loose, putting out cans of milk and liver tit-bits to woo them. In the night, Gloria's cats would be seized and cast out. In the morning two more would appear for every one ejected. : Then Gloria scored off Negri by riding from her dressing-room to the set in a wheel chair, fring- ed on top, pushed by a Negro boy, Everybody said: "She's just showing cff." But Miss 'Hopper says she swears to this day that her" costumes were so cumber- _ some she ¢oulin't walk that dis- tance to the stage, Frances Marion, the police dog of her neighbors, the Fred Niblo's. The blow was felt by everyone,-but Frances and her husband did nothing about it. Their twelve gardeners, however, ~ taking things into their. own hands, were busy for days on 'a mysterious activity. Then, in the night, they dropped twelve bag- . fuls of snails on the Niblo's lawn, .'and in no time the garden didn't have a living flower! Miss Hopper got a scare once when she was working till mid- night with Norma Shearer. in the studio Louis Mayer took over at the Selig Zoo, wherg, wild animals are trained for pictures. Return- ings to her dressing-room, . she feund a lion sitting 'in the door- 'way! She let out a screech, ran back towards the set with Norma "at her heels, found a night watch- man and tried to tell' him about it, but her teeth were chattering so, she could hardly get out the words. He just gave her laugh. "He wouldn't bite you, missy. He ain't, got no teeth to bite with. . . " "He's got claws, though." "They're clipped. Don't go bein' afraid, ladies. At night when all the picture people are gone and there's nothing for the animals to be scared of, we give thefn-the run of the place--they'd have the run of it all the time if you folks wasn't clutterin' it up." x "THIS WITCH A LOBSTER. Working, her wizardry on an unsuspecting lobster, pretty Trudy Golden made him stand on his 3 "head. She did # by placing him | Cin position and 'gently stroking his back. a big' BEWITCHES id. screen ; writer, 'owned a: beautiful Scottie which was killed by the vicious. VS * "e . 1 od {A v iT i x 2 k » | ERTS ® |= -\ | i | - I i Hl vv v 3 rig S32 L 4 7