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Ca Sa I on - ma Ws Hah FAS N a) AE ENE ALBA SRSA PHS ASG A ar ILE EEA] RT AA PACT ES AR " Ses at ned EEA i #1 SARL FAL bY "Dear Anne Hirst: I wish you would write a . plece straight from the horse's mouth about those mothers who insist on living with their chil- dren when they marry... It may clear the way for an engaged couple I .know wha foresee trouble with a capital T. I fear for the poor man. His fiancee's mother, who is well- off, is planning to live with them!" "Even now, he and she don't get along too well, She is with ihem every chance she gets; sha tries to go along every time they leave the house, and when they" don't, she sits in the parlor until he leaves. Besides, she talks too much, "She lavishes expensive gifts on the girl, who dares not de- cline them. It makes her.fianc2 furious; he takes it ag a personal reflection on his slim income. "Another couple, married nine months, live with his mother, but if they stay there they won't be married long. They are in their late 20's, and both want a family. His mother is literally appalled at the idea, but if thev suggest leaving she throws a dramatic scene. "We all need our mothers, their affection, their advice, of- ten their help; but most of the mothers I've observed are born bosses, they stick" their noses (and their tongues) in where they're not wanted, and only make trouble. Why don't they stay In the background where they 'belong? INDIGNANT" ¢ "Here is a true story: * A dear friend of mine lost * her husband two years ago. ¢ Their only son had been mar- * ried less than a year After ¢ the funeral my friend told ma ¢ excitedly that she was going "They really want me, Anne, to move in with the children: and they mean it. I can do the marketing and have dinner ready (the wife still teaches) and relieve them in so many ways. Aren't they wonder: ful?" And tears ran down her cheeks. I was appalled. I slipped Into another room where the son and his wife were. "You two can talk to me, you know. Now, the truth!" They looked at each other, and the boy said, "We do want Mom, of course, but you know we'd rather be alone." Mom and I had a long talk. mother - in-law had caused, and I knew my friend's tem- LAR BE JE JB JE JE IE BE JR BE IL JE JE NE WR WFP WEN Jy ; Chef's Favorite PRINTED PATTERN ---- mat T recalled the trouble 'her own . perament. them alone, to boss them!" are not as wise. need their mothers, EEE E EERE EERE eR ET ee se * LB * "Dear Anne Hirst: Congratulations on tat article you wrote about grandmothers- Everything you said is It would be well if young mothers would read it in-law, so true! more than once. "I am happy to say that it does not reflect on me; th: grandchildren . really love and trust me, and I am grateful t» be just a good friend they can turn to when things go wrong. but I have seen and heard so much. about the other kind that 1 must thank you again for giv- ing the. topic space. "So often it seems to me that the only time in-laws are want- ed is when the youngsters need money, or a babysitter for free. ADMIRER" * * * If children are old enough to marry they are old enough 'o run their own lives. Don't move ° in unless you must -- and then don't dominate them . . . Anne Hirst's counsel is-at your service Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ontario. Problem Drivers Americans tend to seek simples &nswers to complex social prob- 'ems on the basis of merely pass- ing alaw ,.. This tendency was plainly at work the other day when a group of members of a special committee of the. Utah Safety Council, meeting at the Capitol. recommended a ) changes in Utah's driver license laws . . . These are all questionable re- visions of Utah's driver license laws for the simple reason that they do not get at the heart of the problem. The essence of the driver con- trol ¢ problem is not the great mass of good drivers. Most drivers are responeible. Most usually obey traffic laws and follow sound driving prac-._ tices. They make mistakes, of course. They are guilty of some violations. They do have acci- dents. But they are not dangerous, problem drivers, and they do not reed - specialized enforcement and control. ie tin Utah I left her with, "You'll decide for yourself, of . course." . . , Some weeks later she .was sharing her apartment with a woman friend and had got herself a good position that employs her many talents. The children come to dinner once a week, she visits them now and then, Meantime, she lets 'A few months later she told how beautfiully things were working out: "I'm so relieved that I decided: to stay here, 1 just bet I couldn't help trying What a pity more mothers Children do as you say, but they are the ones to * decide when. . number of --it--or--|- Finding Snow On the Equator It (Mount Kilimanjaro) has .been climbed many times by a "large variety of people and is no mountaineering. feat, but it has its own fascination, not least of which is to find snow on the Equator, » « It is perhaps surprising to find this phenomenon in all three East African equatorial territor- . des, Tanganyika Territory, Kenya and Uganda, Tanganyika takes the honour of having the high- est mountain in Africa and the fourteenth highest in the world, Mount Kilimanjaro, 1t was first sighted by Euro- pean eyes when seen by John Rebmann, a Church Missionary Socigty missionary, in 1848. Next year, his more famous col-. league, Ludwig Krapf, visited what he called his "East African - Alpine land." He was fascinated - by its deep green forests, snow- cooled rushing streams and clear. sparkling air. It was on 3rd De- cember 1849 that he "observed two large horns or pillars, as it were, rising over an enormous mountain to the north-west of Kilimanjaro, covered with a white substance." These were the snow-capped peaks of Nelion and Batian of Mount Kenya, ris- ing to a height of 17,040 feet in the intense blue sky. It is strange to find that these discoveries were received with incredulity gnd even abuse by English geographers! It was contrary to prevailing theory to find snow-capped mountains on the. Equator. Kropf- and Reb- mann were discredited in: many quarters even by Livingstone. They were believed in France ney COVERING UP -- In contrast to the Bikini, this swimsuit does--a--good--job--of covering the subject -- in this care, Sara Brockett, who is sampling the surf at Miami Beach. - as we can. TOWERING TRIBUTE -- Towering 101 feet above ground near the U.S.A. Capitol is the Taft Memorial Bell Tower." Construct- ed of marble, it was erected in memory of the late Sen, Robert A: Taft. Cost of some $900,00 tributions, 0°was met with voluntary con-" ate ©) HRON INGERFARM Gwendoline P.Clarhe ICL The old year is practically gone; the New 'Year is almost with us and so it is time to ex- tend to you my very best wishes | -ct the 'season. I hope, too, that you had a most enjoyable Christmas; that it will be one more happy memory to carry slong into the new year. December 31 and January 1 "are two days close together in time but : worlds apart In sig- nificance. At the end of the old year inevitably we realise that a lot of things we worried about never really happened. We tried to cross many bridges before we came to them, Looking back -we see' how foolish we - were. But, by and large, it wasn't such a. bad old year, was it? But we naturally hope the New Year will be-even better. To the old year belong whatever there was of good and bad; to the New Year belong, as'yet, -only hope, determination and opportunities. For what? That depends on our- selves, doesn't it? We don't 'all hope. for the same things; we don't all recognise opportunities when they arise, but we all have a certain amount of determina- tion. Oh, yes, the New Year is a wonderful time so let's greet the little fellow with a cheerful grin and make him as welcome going to be around for another twelve months dnyway. Of course 1 am of.. necessity ahead of time in my writing, " This column has to sort of pro- ject itself into space for pub- ing requirements. So, as I we haven't even had our s and that makes it a Fg ward -- in more ways But we're getting no doubt when the 'Mdawns I, too, shall 7look back with a AA Ry for a L#¥ ot joy and gladness yi Frorward to a New Year i Juld quite easily be better ne last. W1 write 1 know it is going oh 4be an eventful year. In fact bh. a safe bet that all years d affairs we may Might "as- well, he's' location. - Old buildings disap- pear, new ones come into being and each time that happens something very precious is often compleiely lost." By :that I mean the early history. Nothing is. left to remind those, who come after that they are travelling roads that were-once Indian trails, and later:'the early roads of the .ploneers . -- those valiant souls who braved wind, weather and tickness to' wrest a living from 'the soil and to pave the way for generations to come. Progress is desirable and inevitable but it seems to-- me every township should do something to nreserve its own history. There. should be a printed pamphlet available ut cost to -all those who are interested -- and certainly for use in the schools. It need not be elaborate -- just an outline of the district, the names of ils first settlers; the location 6f old mills, churches, taverns and pioneer industries. So. much is- being lost. Even now construction has al- ready started on a new bridge on No. 5 Highway in Trafalgar Township -- at one time called Dundas Street," or 'sometimes Governor's Road, as it was originally intended as a. military road by Governor 'John Graves Simcoe. The bridge will span a huge ravine. Motorists will LEE Nan i... --tamia, horde 'of nomadic Land of Patriarchs It we draw a line from Egypt through the Mediterranean lands .of Palestine and Syria, then, "following the Tigris and Euph- esopotamia_ to rates, through the 'Persian Gulf, the iesult is '|. an unmistakable crescent. * Four thousand years ago this mighty semicircle' around the Arabian Desert, which -is called the "Fertile Crescent", embraced a multiplicity of civilizations ly- ing side by side like a 'lustrous string of pearls. Rays of light streamed out from them into the surrounding 'darkness "of mankind. Here lay the center'of civilization from the Stone Age tight up to the golden age of Greco-Roman culture, : About 2000 B.C, the farthe we look beyond, the Fertile Crescent, the deeper grows the darkness, and signs of civiliza- tion and culture decrease. But. aver the eastern Mediterranean, already a light is shining. It is Hn. the heyday of the Minoan kings of Crete, fouriders of the first sea power known to history . . . In the Fertile Crescent' and ia Egypt . . . cultured and highly developed civilizations jostled each other in:colorful and be- wildered. array. ! "Peace and prosperity must .have reigned in this world of. Nile, Euphrates, and Tigtis, for we have never yet discovered an inscription dating . from this period .that records any large- scale warlike activities. iy Then suddenly from the heart of this great Fertile Crescent, . from the sandy sterile wastes of the Arabian desert whose thores are lashed by the waters of the Indian Ocean, there burst in violent assaults on the north, on the northwest, on Mesopo- Syria, and Palestine. a tribes . of Semitic stock. In endless .waves these Ainorites, "Westerners" as their name implies, surged against the kingdoms of the Fertile Cerscent. The empire of the kings of" Sumer and Akkad collapsed in: 1960 B.C. under their -irre- sistible attack . .. cy Meanwhile one of these tribes of Semitic nomads was destined "to be of fateful significance for millions upon millions througa- out the world up to the present day. It was a little group, per- haps only a family, as unknowa ° and unimportant as-a tiny grain of sand in a.desert storm: the family of Abraham, forefather of the patriarchs . . .- N "Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's "house, - unto a land that 'I will 'shew thee. (Gen. 12:1)" . : The country of which the Bible is speaking 'in this case is Haran. Terah, his son Abram, his daughter in law Sarai, and - there was fi "Wop in this nuclear ags 42 be eventful, Quite 'Dyes in various | "I'm going to Mother to learn how to cook." "Surely not. _drive over it, as they do over the present bridge, and few will know that down .in the ravine once a pioneer village called "Proud- foot Hollow". Here William Lyon Mackenzie is said to have hidden and evdded his pursuers after the .disastrous Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, The Tril- ler residence where he once lay hidden in the attic while soldiers played cards on the ground floor, still stands overlooking the ravine. Dundas Street is steeped in history and Proudfoot Hollow rhould certainly be given recog- nition: as .an. historic site before its history is completely for- gotten. Already much has been lost. One of the -earliest post offices -- "Postville" was re- cently demolished and a gas sta- tion erected on the site. Cars are now serviced 'where the Stage Coach changed horses be- fore making the perilous journey through Proudfoot Hollow. Modern progress speaks for it- self; History - depends. upon us for its preservation. 'Shall we sit back and let the past be more and more obliterated? Ba hft School are all sharpened up in these. casty ds from the sale of their works means new equipme ht . 4. 3 5 Cy parade in Oslo, go on thriving SE Norway. Students. of 1h mes to advertise their annual exhibi nt for the studen BE a ME EN EL x : a . : Ea ---- his grandson Lot lived thera. \Gen. 11:31.) ¥ « - What was actually meant by - Haran was until recently almost entirely unknown. We knew "nothing of its eary history. All the' old Babylonian documents were silent about the middle tes, Meso= gave rise to a great and exciting discovery and added consider- ably t6 our knowledge. They brought the Haran of .the Bible and the kind of life lived by the patriarchs quite unexpected- ly Into a historical context, --From "The Bible as History," by Werner Keller, translated "by William Neil. Bonus For Weight : The eldest of the 12 regular. sediarli, the plodding men who bear the Pope in his portable throne, is Pio D'Eusebio, a gray- ing, 52-year-old Roman." One of the great honors which came re- cently to Signor D'Eusebio and kis colleagues was to carry Pope' John XXIII from the Sistine _ Chapel to St. Peter's and back again, a circuitous trip of nearly. - une-hal- mile, on the occasion , of the coronation. Last month the popular Pontiff . took note of their labors. Re- portedly' 'regretting that his ~ weight (about 200 pounds) was greater than that of his prede- - cessor (about. 140), John grant- ed the sediarii bonuses of 15,000 'tre ($24). ; Signor D'Eusebio, whose father 'carried five 'Popes, and who him- 'self. has carried three, could not recall any precedent for such- eonsideration. "It was'a grand i and noble gesture," he.sald. -- Modern Wall Dramo by Loans Whe . Slim, long, elegant panels -- 'newest approach to decorative drama. Use narrow frames. 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