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3! Ay 3 nt Aa Ey RARE 80h de Xe NG GAN Ne LARA RCL TE TL A - -------- | | ANNE HIRST Youn. "Dear Anne Hirst, Sg¢ven years ago when I was 15, I married a man 10 years older, my parents tried to dissuade me, buf I © thought 1 "knew everything: Now' we have a little girl, and it is chiefly for her sake that I ask your counsel . . . Her father has" been drinking for years (which I did not know when we mar- ried) and he is getting worse; then he has physically * mis- treated me so that I am really afraid. "So far I have been able to prevent: her seeing or hearing him at such times, but I don't know whether 'I can keep that up. Strangely enough, he is de- vot>d to her and she to him . . . He travels sometimes now, and when he is home he drinks al- most consistently. He tells peo- ple I am a spendthrift, and that I dite men in his absence! He © gives me so little money (barely enough to get along on) that 1 am almost destitute of and must count every dime. The only places 1 go are to church and an occasional movie with mv little girl. : "I would leave him. but 1 can't bear togseparate the, child from him, even thought I expect he will get. worse as he Hows older. Yet how can I let her dis- cover what sort of father she has? IT must do something soon, and I will do anything you say MISERABLE" 2 - 7 + et by Lorn Whellr Make this attractive. cover for any size TV set! It's prétty grape pattern--a smart combii@tion of filet crochet and regular crochet! Pattern. 600: Crochet TV square 25 inches in No. 30 mer- cerized cotton; smaller in No. 50; larger in crochet and knit- ting cotton. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box I, 123 Eighteenth St, New Tor- onto, Ont. Prin{ plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, vour NAME and ADDRESS. it LOOK for smart' gift ideas in our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog.. Crochet, knitting, em- broidery. lovely things To wear. Dolls, iron-ons, quilts, aprons. novelties -- easy, fun to make! Send 25 cents for your copy of this book NOW! You will want to order every new design in it. ! clothes LEE A A A EE I A, tamily Counselor "A SLIM HOPE * Your marriage still could * be a good marriage if your * hysband behaved as a hus- band should. He must be cop- scious that he is failing in his job. To attack "a faithful wife is monstrous; to spread tales about her is the act of a cad;- to squander money he cannot afford 'is utterly selfish, ~ The picture of his future is not heartening, and I see only one hope -- your husband's love for his little girl. There may lie the answer you hope to find. . He must know that he cannot 'conceal his weakness from her for long -- and then he will have to- face the horror and the shame she will feel. You will convince him that unless he transforms himself into a de- cent, right-living person you will take her from him, for you refuse to allow his influ- ence to darken her life. 'The time for him to reform is today -- not next month nor next year. If he laughs off go through with it. If your husband would ad- mit his failures and try to be- have himself, I know you would call on all your pa- tience and faith to help him is up to him. * * * IN LOVE WITH LOVE "Dear Anne Hirst: You, with my parents, will say 1 am too young to be in love, but really I am. My family makes fun of me and says it won't last, but I know it will. The young S20 and doesn't know TT for him; I'm afraid we couldn't be friends if he found out. "But how can I act when he « drops in? I am so miserable! DORIS" Almost all girls in their young man several years old- cr. It is nothing {o be ashamed of. Indeed, it can have a salu- tary: effect. Subconsciously vou will mold yourself- info the kind of girl you think he admires, and instead of aping tinue to be your own best self. You are so wise to give no sign of your emotions: if he "sensed your affection he would avoid you. By using restraint, vou can keep your secret and remain the little pal he likes to see now and then. When vour family teases you. don't retort; ignore it, and they will cease. Go out with your girl friends often and learn some- thing from them all. This is "one way to grow more inter- esting, and develop into the fine. normal young woman that nice lads will want to date. . It is likely vou will outgrow this phase,- but vou can al- ways hold this young man as. vour ideal, ene by which to measure other bovs you'll be dating soon. * * * » » » LJ * * * * * * * - * * - - » . » * * * L w * * - ® * Ld * . a - Many a man has changed his life for the sake of a child he loves, when all other appeals failed to-move him. Anne Hirst has helped thousands of couples to a happier life, and her wis- dom and experience is at your service. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New 'Tor- onfo, Ont. RAILWAY POLICE Canada's railways had a po- lice force of 1,080 in 1953. Aver- age' salary of the 197 inspectors and sergeants was $4,367, and of the 883 constables $3,455. _your threat, you will have to Perhaps it is not too late, Tt . early teens get a crush on a -- other girls ybu 'will just con- . n x i a RITZY PERON EXILE & ps SETS UP - fl -- Maria Goran Weiss, glamorous, tennis-playing friend of Juan Peron is seeking a luxurious villa in Zurich, Switzerland, for the deposed Argentine dictator. She is backed by his "exile" fortune. The 35-year-old brunette is | with Peron' "estimated ower of attorney. Peron is reported to have | "between $6,000,000 and $20,000,000 in various banks in Switzerland. Miss Weiss is pictured in 'Buenos Aires, where she competed in the Pan-American Games tennis matches. ROYAL BRIDE SAID "NO" BY MISTAKE Amid the glittering splendour of the Coronation ceremony a princess in the simple grey habit. of a nursing order sat in one of the honoured central seats of the royal box and, gazed down love ingly at her only son, the Duke of Edinburgh, and at his wife, our youthful Queen, 1 Most people imagine that the. Duke of Edinburgh's . mother, H.R.H. Princess Alice of Greece, is Grecian by birth. truth is that she was born in Windsor Castle as a ranking great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria . . . and Princess Alice was soon adored as one of Bri- tain's loveliest young princesses. Her doting great-uncle, King Edward VII. used to run his hands through her soft, fair ring- lets and - declare bluffly that no throne in the 'whole of Europe "would be too good for her. Her father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, - was fully. alive to the dynastic undertones of these royal compliments, . Alice passtéd her girlhood in a happy though regal atmosphere. There were visits to cousins in Russia, exciting "holidays against a background of jolly sleigh-bells and glistening snow. There were tours through Germany, an end- less succession of balls and parties. x And of course there were plenty of matchmakers among her aupts and uncles; some hope- fully linking Alice with the fu- -ture Tsar of Russia, others dis-- cussing prospects in Sweden, and Prussia. Then, unpredictably, when barely eighteen, brown- eyed Princess Alice fell in love. with handsome Prince Andrew 'But the | = and their tiaras, ribbons and stars began to run after the carriage, clutching paper bags of rice and-- To a startled poSse of - confetti. German police, the paper bags looked like bombs. And they, too, joined in the rush! The Emperor of Russia spied a short cut through the crowd, © and putting his head down, ram- med his way through the cheer- ing people. Just as she was bow- ing her acknowledgments, Alice received the contents of a bag of rice full in the face, followed by a satin slipper. Catching the slipper, she hit: the over the head with it, then re- sumed her seat with an idyllic smile, . If one lipgers over this amus- ing scene, it is because the sands were running out. Though so happily begun, Princess Alice's married life was to be fraught with 'danger and. tragedy. When she was blessed with four delightful daughters, no wo- man in all.lthe-world wag hap- _pier. Once, during a. family re- union in -Malta, she met her youngest brother, - now Earl Mountbatten, and as a young naval cadet* "he cheekily ex- pressed indignation. at haying been made four:times an uncle before he was fourteen years - old! z But the storm clouds were gathering. Her father-in-law, King George 1 of Greece, was assassinated at point-blank range by a madman in the streets of Salonika, and Andrew's elder brother, Constantine, assumed the throne. With her four little girls, Britain's Princess found. herself embroiled in plot counter-plot and military revolt as a result of divided loy- "alties in the first world war. - During one uprising, Alice was busy in a tapestry shop.ip Ath. | ens, which she. ran for charity. A Emperor ~ Alick | police agents. Every day was passed in an agony of suspense, Soldiers and heroes in those grim days were being sent to the firing squad, Would 'Andrew be amongst them? The trial finished , . . 'and Prin- cess Alice, tired and pale, wgnt to a church to pray. As she came out, she saw Her sister-in- law running towards her with news: PREY Her. hand flew to her heart and then she heard the cry, "He's safe! It's all right!" Andrew had been sentenced to banish- ment, not death. And Princess Alice turne church, made the sign of the cross and burst into tears. The rest of -the story is known to the world. A British warship rescued. Princess Alice and her - husband and carried them to safety. Andrew never forgot his debt to the Royal Navy and re- solved that his son ible enter its service, He died in exile. But Princess Alice always re- membered that her prayers had been answered. That js why in a nursing order in Greece today she works among the poor. and lowly, remembering the days when her husband was spared to her to love. A Hand-Loom Weaver And His Work David Robb is the weaver of Pettybaw. All day long, he sits at his old-fashioned hand-loom, which, like the fruit of his .toil and the dear old graybeard himself, belongs to a day that is past and gone. He might have work enough to keep an apprentice busy, but where would he find a lad suffi- ciently behind the times to learn 'a humble trade -now banished to 'the limbo of superseded, al- most forgotten things? His home is but a poor place, but the rough room in_which-he works is big enough to hold a deal of sweet content. It is cheery enough, too," to attract the Pettybaw weans, who steal in on wet days and sit on the floor playing with the thrums, or with bits of colored ravelings. Sometimes when they have proved - themselves wise - and prudent little virgins, they are even allowed tg tquch the hanks of pink and yellow and blue yarn that lie in rainbow-hued confusion on the long deal table. All this time the "heddles" go up and down, up and down, with their ceaseless clatter, and David .throws the shuttle back and forth as he weaves his old- fashioned winseys. . . . The loom stands by an east- ~ern window, and the rare Petty- baw sunshine filters through the branches of a tree, shines upon the dusty windowpanes, and throws a halo round David's head that he well deserves and little suspects. =In my fore- ground "sit Meg and Jean and Elspeth. playing with thrums and wearing the fruit of David's' loom in their gingham frocks. David himself sits on his wood- - en bench behind the maze of cords that form the "loom har- ness." . ' The snows of seventy winters powder his hair and beard-. . . And as for his smile I have not the art to paint that! It holds ° in solution so. many 'sweet though humble virtues of pa- tience, temperance, self-denial, honest endeavor, that my brush falters in the attempt to fix the radiant whole upon the canvas. Fashions come and go, modern improvements transform-the arts and trades, manual skill gives- way to the cunning of machine, but old David Rob, afer more: than fifty years of toil, still sits at his hand-loom and weaves his' winseys for the Pettybaw bairnies, + time , ... and wasn't .it grand - | early. back towards the people had an experience sim- "house. We have since heard of -| "quite a few people in this dis- "take it all in. Stop to watch the 'miss a {rotting race. © And the Junior (all very good--but do you know * the terrific amount of work and "pay their way in realise how thought and planning and in- * present. Working "all those who in any way help Back to 'good 4 old standard to get that extra hour last Sun- day morning? 'Unfortunately nightfall now comes all too But we can't have it' both ways, ean we? The last day of fast time was also the day of our County Fair --and we did manage to get to it fon a couple of hours. Not longer because the plumbér was here that morning fixing the - furnace. 1 wonder how many ilar to our own. Practically all our smoke pipes rotted. Fifteen lengths and four elbows, as our pipes go right through the trict who had furnace pipe trouble. Why should: that be? Was it the humidity this sum- mer, or was it because most of the coal last year was oil-treat- ed to prevent dust? We are in- clined to.think it was the oil which, produced . some sort of chemical reaction on the pipes. Be that as it may we under- stand the use of oil has been discontinued. The explanation? Customers were objecting to the oily odour that permeated their homes. ; : But to- get back to the fair. Friday afternoon there was =a drenching rain and the "probs" did not sound too good for the morrow. But the weatherman - was kind. The day was com- fortably warm and sunny, There was a wonderful attendance and something, somewhere, go- ing on all the time. Local fairs are no longer 'slow' the way they used to be. In fact it is like a small C.N.E.! You can't cattle being judged and you Or look at the dray horses in the ring and you lose out in seeing the square dance competition. And in the display halls you can't see the work for the people. Such a lot of good exhibits , . . sewing, knitting, "quilts and so. on, representing hundreds of close work by scores of people. Farmers and . clever and Yes, "it was Homemakers original displays. what impressed me-most? Just.' planning that had preceded the, day of the fair. How many people who do no more than hard the directors work to make their own particular fair a suc- cess. A successful fair doesn't just happen, It is the result of weeks and weeks of careful tensive activity just 'before and ° during the fair. And all a labour of love. The same applies to the organiations that set up refrésh- ment booths as a means of bringing in a little money for their" W.I, W.A, or whatever organization they happen to re- in cramped v| quarters 'isn't easy--nor is the catering. . Which will be tHe best seller -- hot dogs or pop? What the public demands -de- pends on the day--and no one can plan the weather. So I say hats off to the directors, the exhibitors, the caterers 'and to to: make the local fair a success. And this applies to all fairs, not to any one fair in particular. -vey for Highway 401, But of course the exhibits and various events are not the only attractions. There are also the people you meet. Time after time you hear--"Well, for good- ness sake, I haven't seen you in years" And do you know, 1 am beginning to "believe it is a very small world. I met one of our District W.I. officers. at the fair who informed: me the last time she saw me 'was at Montreal "hurrying across, | the runway to board a plane for Prestwick, So you see it doesn't matter how far you 'are from home you can never be sure {here isn't someone around who nows who you are. I'm telling you, folks, you have to watch' your step these days in this lit- tle old world of ours! Well, there is quite a bit of excitement among the farmers around here these days. The Department of Highways is re- putedly checking on its last sur- which cuts through our farm. When this check-up is completed ijt is said valuators will be mak- ing the rounds. So now the local Federation of Agriculture is holding a series of small meetings among the landowners concerned to establish some sort of prolective policy. Partner is attending one such meeting this morning. v In the meantime was are get- ting a little action from the Main- tenance' Division of the Depart- ment of Highways on a wash out on the corner of our pro- perty. It had previously been "repaired" with - loose stone. Now a permanent job is in pro- gress--a cement retaining wall directing the course of the creek away from our property. We are well satisfied with the job. Action was finally taken after we had sent one letter to Ham- ilton and another to Queen's - Park calling attention to the matter." Sometimes a little co- operation: between the "*publie and the*Department helps both parties. # oa INTERNATIONAL --Grecian- inspired, Swedish-designed and fashioned in Britain, this striped worsted evening gown brought "gohs" and" "aahs" from fash- ionwise buyers at the recent International Wool Fashion Fes- tival, in London. 4 Through a hail of falling shrap- nell, she ran home . . . and saw with horror that her children's nursery window had. been shat- tered. Smashing through the: glass, a bullet had whizzed above the princesses as they played and- buried itself in the plaster. "You should return to Eng- David has small book learn- ing, so he tells me;- and indeed he had need to tell me, for I should never have discovered it, myself -- one misses it so little when the larger things are all present! , , , = 3 i Notwithstanding his unfamili-_ arity - with langnebbit words, David has absorbed a deal of of Greece, - He was just twenty-one years old, tall, fair-haired, as strikingly good-looking as the Duke of Ed- inburgh is today. Princess Alice was unable to speak a word of Greek; Andrew's English® was halting. But with the blithe as- {surance of youth he made. his hopes and passions known. The betrothal required the WHERE THERE'S WOOL, THERE'S A WAY -- A way to publicize if, that is. TV actress Lisa Ferraday fihds it's easy to pull the wool over the eyes of Democratic Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney who hails from Wyoming, where sheep-raising is a major factor In the agricultural economy. Lisa and pst lamb, "Wooly," pose with the Senator in front of the nation's Capitol before taking off on a cross-country tour in behalf of the nation's woolen goods industry, King's consent under the Royal Marriages Act, and Edward VII wanted it fully emphasized that the bride was a British subject As a result, the shy ash-blonde princess had to undergo three marfiage ceremonies, One was civil, another Protes- tant. The third, and most "pic- turesque, ceremony was held ac-_ cording to the rites of the Greek Orthodox Chtirch in the lovely old cathedral church at Darm: stadt. By this time, it is not to he wondered at ifthe bride was a little confused! During the service, the priest 'had to ask her two questions -- whether -she consented of her own free will to marry Andrew or whether she had promised her hand to someone else, ~ In some perplexity Alice mur- mured "No" to the first question, and "Yes" to the second, and a_ ripple of amusement ran through the congregation. As the pair drove.away for their honeymoon royal guests in land," Andrew told her, Tender-y 1 "Wisdom in his quiet life; though ly Princess' Alice answered, "I will never leave your side . , ." Then King Constantine abdi- cated and in _the resulting up-. heaval Andrew and Alice fled with their family to Switzerland. But it was not long before the Royal Family were * welcomed .back. = Delirious with joy, a cheering crowd "even tried to tear off Andrew's garters as' sou-, _venirs, " A} rd . On the Allied side, Andrew army against the Turks, While he was- commanded .a valiant away he received the long- awaited news that a son, Prince Philip, had been born. A period - of renewed happiness seemed to | But just as suddenly. dawn, events took a savage turn, The Greek Army met with reverses, In the throes of revolu- stion "and = counter-ravolution, Prince Andrew was stripped of - his honours and arrested. "I must go to. him!" was his' wife's only thought. Her home _ was walchéd day and night by so far as I can see, his only books hgve been the green tree outside his window, a glimpse of the distant ocean, and the toil of his hands, - iit But I sometimes question if as many scholars are not made 'as marred in this wise, for -- to the seeing eye -- the waving leaf and the far 'sea, the daily task, one's own heart-beats, and one's_neighbor"s --. these teach s in good time to. interpret ature's secrets, and man's, and God's as well. -- From "Pene- lope's .Progress," by Kate Doug- las Wiggin, \ PW FY " A MORE BEEVES 20 SLAUGHTERED Canada's slaughtering and meat packing .industry slaught- ered 1,469,346 beeves in 1953 as compared with 1,251,802 in 1952, but the cost of the animals was lower 'at $220,361,419 versus $258,892,737, © y tl ® Germany in' 1207. Since then she in Sunday school, . 2) FAITHFUL LUTHERAN - Rounding out 64 yedrs of perfect Sun- day school attendance, Amelia Grim, left, was honoured at Promotion Day services inthe Grace Lutheran Church of. Frank- lin. Labrida Hanby, assistant Sunday School superintendent, is affixing the special pin awarded to her, Miss Grim's attendance "has been broken only once, for a trig to her mother's native has a record of 2496 Sundays | -- eR at te seme i,