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vr ONICLES aver Far Spring is furtively peeping around the corner. Old Sol has raised his thermostat; crows are flying noisily across the fields; robing are tentatively twitter- ino from tree-tops and swamp 0gs are singing. In the garden snowdrops are blooming; daffodils buds are swelling; spiked-shaped tulip leaves are appearing; tender buds of flowering shrubs are taking on form and colour and the first ruby-red rhubarb leaves are beginning to uncurl. In the house every room from attic to cellar is becoming less attractive. Bright sunlight flood- ing-the-rooms--reveals the need- -this THING, as can be deteoted coming from its great mechanical body. The throb of its heart is stilled until human ald is forthcoming. Great rubber tires act as Insulators between the living earth and the steel of its. body structure. And yet this mechanical mon- ster; its intricate insides a mass of gears and wires; its blood and nerves gas, oil and electronics; its breath foul; it "voice noisy, drowning --out the song of birds, frogs and humanity. This . tempermental as a neurotic woman, as power- ful as the devil himself; this thing has more attraction for most young boys on a farm than all the horses, livestock . and poultry put together. Some boys, not previously too fond of farm- ing have settled down 1 quite happily once Dad has been per- suaded to buy a tractor, Others, once the novelty has worn off, have found a 'tractor not quite « the answer to a foot-loose dis- Keaping Warm -- At ehicken Tone throughout EGrope, ncobatérs are at a premium, so scenes like the above are not uncommon. These six-hour-old chicks seem quite content in the arms of a young Hamburg, Germany, lass. And she seems quite content, too. : ~~ with shaking knees taking the chair for the first time. Here and there members up against the problem of filling an office that nobody wants -- arid T-mean no- body -- for in most organiza- tions .there are many workers opportunity = if her interest is ~ genuine and active. It is up to the older members to encourage and .promote installation of younger members to office -- and then back them with their own years of experience -- V Plenty Of Ghosts In Windsor Castle Dark, 'wild, wailing nights, an owl "hooting at -a cloud-racked moon, and one just cannot help thinking about ghosts, More so, of" course, if your home happens to be in a centuries-old castle. Many such castles and other historic homes are associated: with our own Royal Family. And in most cases those oastlés have been the scene of deeds of violence .of the kind which: seems to make haunting quite inevitable. Windsor Castle, naturally, has more ghost sfories than any of them. Many 'people have believ- ed in many of them through the centuries, and the believers have included some very reliable and level-headed persons. Windsor's ghosfs (or not all of them, at any rte) is the Queen's Librarian, Sif Owen Morshead, whose home is beside the castle, and whose 'daily work is inside the castle. He is not' ashamed to recount the story of the ghost of George III, who .went mad _ and 'in his last days lived in. a' room overlooking the North Terrace. The story goes on to tell how. the mad king used to come to the window whenever he heard the guard being mgrched by, when he wquld return the salute the officer gave him. On the day of the king's death. (he was already in his coffin). the ensign in charge of thg guard looked 'up from habit towards the win- | for spring-housecleaning. Paint- ed surfaces have a dingy look; paperd walls you hoped might do another year show dark, un- sightly streaks along the scams. In the flelds wheat is taking on a greenish hue and looks fairly promising. Clover? It is 'too early yet to predict 1 how well clover has survivied the winter. Well-drained fields are devoid of surface water and in low lying flelds swampy patches are less in evidence. In- the stables spring calves have bégun to arrive. Cows and heifers, let-out for exercise snjft the air exploratively: the smell of early new growth is "in their 'nostrils, They stand pensively. looking over fences and gates; gambol around the yard at in- ° tervals 'and then return unwil- lingly to dry hay and dairy con- centrates. Dogs and cats roam: the flelds in search of unwary mice and rabbits. Sparrows. keep up an incessant twittering in and around the buildings. And among all response thi --0f nature --to--the- Bp of spring there sits one inanimate con- traption -- the farm tractor!.In- sensitive to the God-given miracle of new life-it sits there -- not a tremor of expectancy posifion. I have often wondered about tractors . . . is there a special affinity. between young boys -- and 'old boys' too for=that mat- ter -- and man-made power machinery? There can: surely be little sympathetic relationship between tractors and the .good earth as compared with horses. . In early spring horses can make their way where tractors fear to tread. Tractors must bide their time until sun and wind have conditioned the land to hold their weight. Horses can work in a field, leaving the wet "spots until the last, their hooves indenting the land but not to the extent of heavy rubber trac- tor tires. We know all this yet in. our stable there are no friendly horses to whinny their welcome at our approach. In- stead, in our drive-shed, there is a tractor, just as I have des- cribédd -- cold, inanimate and insénsitive to the miracle of spring. : . Another sign .of spring is the numberof annual organization meetings --' past, present and still to come. Retiring officers who have done their stint; in- coming officers, some of them reluctant and' uncertain, a few Singapore Sling ~ = Due to the Increase of crime jn Singapore, men, women and children are flocking to Judo schools to learn the art of self-defense. At one such school, which teaches some 180 pupils, Instructor J. Bell ig tossed by one of his more apt | female students. - + hisd--4£ +1 1 outrITew--appareni--reaacts; "sometimes SS 8 9 80 BEI ETS Bese es * * into a no T Ys Say 'apparent' advisedly because a good worker has all. the qualifi- cations of a good officer -- to a greater or lesser degree. True, her leadership qualities may be dormant but they will slowly but surely develop --- given the without--criticism--or--prejudice: New blood is necessary to keep pace with the times. And for in- _spiration and_guidance in W.I work there -ls no better lead than our own splendid little magazine -- "Home and Coun- try." ~r [ANNE HIRST | Youn family G Gounselot "Dear Anne. Hirst: I am from overseas, and have no one else: | to turn to. Please help me' be- fore I-go out of my mind ,. I married "my husband when he was visiting over there; I was only 17, and my family tried to stop me, but I thought I knew all the answers. Now we have three children. I could have loved my husband dearly, except for his insane jealousy. "He™ gives--us everything" we want -- except. what any wife ---needs most, her husband's faith. "Without any reason, he ac- cuses me of seeing. men when I go shopping, and he even thinks I let them in our home! I am attractive, and though I can at- tract men without even trying, I have turned my back on them all. It is only my faith in God that gives me the strength to go on. Much as I love the children, y I feel like walking out on everything. (He does not "1 like people_and found fault with all the friends we have had.) HOME IS PRISON : MI am not allowed to leave the house at night. I try to make "him understand that a woman |. has to have some change, but it is no use; he will not take me anywhere. , T work - hard, and keep the children and the house clean and fresh, and myself, too. I get so nervous I cry day and night, and I am dead inside, , "My husband knows I come from a nice family, and he knew tha good life we 'had in my own home} I have never been back since coming here. . .. Only God knows what I go through, giv- ing the best years of my-life to a man who doesn't trust me. "Please, please help make him see how unbearable things are for me! He does not know I am writing you, but he reads your column. \ UNHAPPY AND DIGUSTED" When a man marries a girl from another country he has a_ double obligation to see that she is a happy wife. Uprooted from her own people, she must look to him to provide the social life that will balance her homemaking routine and keep her mind and spirits em- ployed and alert. In this way, she stays young and interest- ing; their home becomes a center where she blooms into full maturity that reflects credit upon him as a citizen, a husband, and the father of a fine family, - This husband has offended all along the way. He so fears that other men will be attract- * ed to his wife that he con- * demns her fo a veritable . s prison of hole being is insulted by: his oundless suspicions; her . + Broun staryes for companion- ¢ ship; her rsonality sinks egs, Is it any * wonder she feels dead inside? * Without the inspiration of ® friendliness, how can he ex- ® pect her to be an adequate ------------ ee ---- --__ { ISSUE 18 -- 1054 ° [) ¥ s 4 ' AE Oy BR Ce Re EN GN, SG A KL NI WIR Sha ln Moorefield of Sydney, loneliness, Her ° mother to his children? Cut off from any local activities, forbidden association with friends who would welcome her, she cannot provide the proper : social background his children will need more and self languishes in solitary con- finement that saps her natural gayety and can, indeed, drive lapse. Men call themselves crea- tures of reason. How can a self- -réspecting man justify such a stand? Even American girls, alert and informed, can wilt under jailership and' suc- cumb to despair; this column has printed hundreds of their complaints, How rich would be this man's reward if he woyld behave like a real. husband! His wife would be so grateful being that her affection would warm his heairt, His life would he watches her spirits revive, he will see himself not as the has darkened her life unbear- trusting husband who plays fair. I wonder how. he would feel to respect himself for a change? * L * * A husband who doubts his wife falsely is about the lowest - of human 'beings. The sooner such men learn what they are missing; the more happy homes there will be. .-, ; In any time of trouble, turn to Anne Hirst. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. Real '"'Balt-And- Chain" Taken To Altar When 32-year-old Maxwell B. N.S.W,, took his "ball and chain" to' the altar he was wearing a real one. His bride weighed a peat 119 pounds., The real ball and chain weighed 45 pounds. It happened when Maxwell was being given a . bachelor send-off by his friends just be- fore he drove to the church. They chained' his. ankle. to the ball, which was made of con- crete, and threw away the key. So as not to keep his bride waiting, Maxwell went chained to church. Blacksmiths and lock- smiths were sent for, but did not turn up. The ceremony took place, and then someone arrived with numerous. bunches of keys,-- one of which was at last found to fit the lock on Maxwell's ankle. "So far as-the wife is coricern- ed it's just a case of mind over matter, old man. She doesn't mind and I don't matter!" more as they mature. She her- . her into a state of real col- . to be treated like a human take on a new meaning. As. bully whose baseless jealousy ably, but as a reasonable and . leaves, dow, and there was the old king. Instinctively he gave he com- mand "Eyes right!" and the king returned the salute as he had . - always done, Since that day the ghost of King George III has (they say) haunted the North Wing...Some-' times he can be heard pacing backwards and forwards, at others. Playing snatches of Han- del frantically on his harpsi- chord. But perhaj the 'most widely known Windsor ghost story is that .of Herne the Hunter, whose AN phantom has haunted Great Park ever since he hanged himself from one of.the ancient oaks. So genuinely frighened of Herne were the local folk that the tree -was pulled, down on the instructions of Queen Victoria. Much of the wood was used to make a suite: of furniture in the castle, and the rest was supposed to have -been burned to allay the locals' 'fears, But eleven pieces were over- looked by Henry Woods, the man who made the furniture, Years later 'they were found in an old tool chést by his son, who, with the old man's per- mission, made them into a to- bacco jar. It stands to-day in Windsor Castle. Iron-on Designs in Vibrank Colors just jron 'on! No embroidery -- Luscious (roses in two shades of rich red combined with soft green Beautify sheets, pillow- cases, towels, scarves, spreads and many other items! Pop 'em in the wash --- colors stay vivid 1 ; J : 'Washable! |. Pattern 580 has 14 motifs: four and glowing. Iron-on! Colorful! roses 4x4%; four roses 1% x 2%; six roses averaging 2% x4 inches. 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