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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947 / THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE SEVEN English War-Bride Describes Her Journey to a New Life By G. SHIRLEY 1 am a war bride who early this year left England and came out to Northern Canada with my three-month-old son. It was a i difficult journey to make di g the winter and with a young baby. i After a sad parting from my parents I had arrived at the hos- tel in London where 700 other war brides and their babies had come from all parts of the British Isles and from France, Belgium, and Holland, In the hall and lounge weary brides sat on suitcases, waiting to fill up forms. The babble of voices in different languages and the crying of the children made it difficult to hear the Canadian officers and doctors who were trying to shout instructions to us, That night I shared a small room with three other mothers and their babies. We were five floors up in the marrow staircas- ed building, and it was not easy to get our babies and their carry- cots up and down these stairs, Customs Troubles It took several hours to get us all past the customs at South. ampton, and there were hungry and persistent wails from the ba- bles, for it 'was long past their "feed" time, Many babies were taken ill dur- ing the voyage and so when the ship docked at Halifax--several days late after ploughing through pea-soup fog ---- an ambulance waited to take the sick babies te hospital. As we disembarked, a band played the Wedding March and "0, Canada." My son was admitted to hos- pital, and Tr spent an anxious week in Halifax, I have confused and contrast. ing memories of Halifax -- the first Transatlantic town in which I spent any time; rickety street cars rattling around treacherous- ly rutted main roads , . . shop windows spilling over with fruit . , « stores where you could buy stockings and lovely clothes--all without coupons . , , overpower- ing steam heat inside, and out- side piercing cold that was an even worse form of torture. When my little boy recovered, I continued the journey to Mont- real, The trains seemed slower than those in the Old Country, but more comfortable and much cleaner. But it was the meals that impressed me most on my first Canadian journey. I re- member now the astonishing sight of a lunch menu of chicken, meat, fish, Christmas cake, ice |ers cream, fruit -- and really white bread. Vast Country I began to realize the vastness of the country I had come to as I gazed out of the carriage win- dow at seemingly endless white space -- desolate snow-covered lands, with sometimes a lonely cluster of shacks, with frozen lines of washing outside. At Montreal I changed trains, and while waiting in the extreme- ly modern and well-heated station 1 thought of the grubby, draughty stations in dear old Londcn. The train travelled all night, passing through Ottawa. When we arrived at North Bay next morning my husband boarded the train and poked his head through the curtains of my bunk just as 1 was struggling into very creascd clothes. We had been parted lof just over a year, and he had never seen his baby son, who lay fast asleep beside me. That was a very memorable moment. , . , And so on again over snow- covered lands passing through Swastika--the town which tried in vain to change its name--and then at Porquis Junction our train journey was over. And there at the railroad junc- tion were my new parents, There were more miles yet to do, and these we covered by road. It was 30 degrees below zero, but the sun shone brilliantly and sparkled on the monotonous snow, We bumped over wooden bridges, spanning frozen rivers which were former trade routes to and from James Bay and used by the Indians and fur traders in the romantic days of water traf- fic. And so we reached the place that was to be my home town-- Cochrane; but by this time I' had fallen asleep, for it had indeed been a long and weary journey, London and England seemed so very far away, Hand Exercises Quieten Nerves "I play a musical instrument-- or to," reports entertainer Marie Austin, "to keep my hands fit and flexible." Lovely, skilled hands are essential to tiny travelling USO performer Marie's success in entertaining thounsands of boys in the US. Armed Forces with the funny ges- tures that accompany her singing and dancing. And to keep her hands absolutely relaxed and dextrous, lttle Miss Austin plays a tune or two on the plano, guitar, saxophone, trombone, accordion and clarinet. Or, many times, merely goes through an imag- inary set of musical scales on her table or desk. Women who are working under a great deal of nervous tension, says Marie, will find these two hand exercises excellent de-tension- First, extend fingers and thumb as widely apart as possible, stretch- ing them until they almost ache, then relax. Repeat several times. Now. vigorously lift fingers high, one by one, bringing them down, as if striking notes on the piano. And, when your fingers no longer fidget, you'll find the rest of you is completely tranquil and relaxed. Times-Gazette classified ads pay GROUP (1) Multicolour and plain colours. Low and Cu- ban heels. REGULAR 3.95 wria$7:98 GROUP (1) Soft pliable Brown Moccasins, a few white. Men's, women's and boys' sizes. REGULAR 3.45 Sale Price $2.49 31 SIMCOE, ST. N. SPECIAL JULY Clearanc® SUMMER SHOES In time to save you money so that you will have more to enjoy your vacation. NOW, wkile selection is best. SANDALS AND PLAY SHOES MOCASSINS Greatly Reduced DAVIDSON SHOE STORE ACT GROUP (2) Elasticized Sandals in White, Black, Navy, Red, Beige and Light Blue. REGULAR 4.00 jo ria $2 98 GROUP (2) Highgrade, lugg:ge tan cowhide Moccasins. Men's and women's REG. 5.00 and 5.45 Sale Price $3.95 PHONE 227 Nuptials for Newfoundland Girl MR. AND MRS. who were united in The bride, form WILLIAM SHERIDAN marriage by the Rev. E. Donovan Jones last week. erly Miss Beatrice Jean Gale, Reg'd. N., is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Elijah Gale of Newfoundland, and the bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Thomas Sheridan and the late Mr. Sheridan, ~Photo by Hornsby Studio. 4 ceremony. Wed in Ajax Community Church MR. AND MRS. VVILBUR ROBERT SMALLEY who were married recently. The bride is the former Joan Muriel Wiles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wiles, and the bridegroom is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. E. Smalley. The bridegroom's father performed the --Photo by Hutchison Studio ATA" ATATAATATATATATATATAATA AAA TAA Personals Accounts of social events and of visitors to and from the city are A ted by this department Wiss Ada B. Ross, 'Woman's Editor AAA RRAAAARARARIR AAA" A"AATATATA ATA A AA Mrs. Leo Krantz, Chicago, Illinois, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Burnett, Arthur Street. >be Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson of Yarmouth, N.S, are visiting Mrs. Wilson's mother, Mrs, L. -V. Disney, Simcoe Street South. A A Miss Mary 2 A has just re- turned from a holiday in Sudbury where she visited Mr. and Mrs. Eu- gene Tammie and other friends. LO Mr. George Charbonneau and family of Regina called on friends in Oshawa this week. At one time with the Oshawa Reformer, Mr. Charbonneau is now with the Re- gina Post. * > Mrs. Earl Snudden entertained at her home in North Oshawa on Wednesday afternoon in honor of her grandmother, Mrs. Peter Mof- fatt, who was celebrating her 75th birthday. +P Mrs. Ada a' Chalifour, district sales representative for the Spencer Supports Company will hold a cor- setry convention next Monday at the Benson Hotel, Lindsay, and on Tuesday at the Hotel Genosha, She will be assisted by Mrs. Anne Q. Kelty, Toronto division sales manager for the company. LJ] Miss Greta i oi and Miss Violet Goch held a personal shower last Monday at the home of Mrs. Samuel Yuskiw, Bloor Street East, in honor of Miss Vera Goch, bride-to-be of this month, The rooms were decor- ated in pink, blue and white streamers. Miss Goch was pre- sented with a corsage of red roses and an autographed cook book by the 30 guests. The attractively wrapped gifts were placed in a "wishing well." Bingo games were played and refreshments served by the hostesses, assisted by Miss Helen Yuskiw, Mrs, Bill Baluk and Miss Helen Dutchuk. LEE J Happy Days at Camp For Oshawa Guides The following letter has been received from the Girl Guides of Oshawa who are camping near Bobcaygeon. The breezy style .in which it is written indicates the healthy, happy time the girls are having. It is addressed from the Oshawa Girl Guide Camp, Nogie's Creek, Bobcaygeon, and reads: "Three bus loads of us arrived here last Friday, Mrs. Hobbs, the commandant, and an advance party were on hand to greet us. "We were very hungry, but that was soon over and we set out to pitch our tents. Gee! What @ noise! Bang, bang, bang, "It wasn't long before we were all splashing in the lake, a=d after a followed the usual routine and report to nurse, We didn't sleep much for excite. ment but we are calmcd down now, and enjoying every minute of this glorious place. "We are working hard and playing hard and we "ave been government inspected and approve. ed. We we glad to see Miss Moyse, Mrs. McMullen and Mrs. Finley out here yesterday, giving us the once over. "We hope as many as possible will come and see us on visitors' day, next Sunday. Going north from Lindsay, keep on 36 High- way until about five miles beyond Bobcaygoen, then look for tem- porary signs pointing the dire - tion of our camp. There are three signs in all. The camp is about 80 miles from Oshawa, "Until Sunday, when we hope to see you, "Oshawa Girl Guide Campers." Vacuum pe mer brushes should {rom hair snd threads, Barry & Berny Share Birthday BARRIE JAMES AND BERNARD LOUIS twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Couke of Whitby. The bonny baby boys are celebrating their first birthday today. Alike in many. ways, each is developing a personality of his own. «Photo by Hornsby Studio. Philatelists' Paradise Operated by Scotswoman ee By ANGELA BURKE It isn't hard to tell that the little shop has a woman's touch. It is sparkling clean and as neat and attractive as many of the stamps which decorate the wall. The shop sells stamps. The owner is. Miss Ethel Gardiner, whose voice tells the story of her Scottish ancestry. Most of the world is in this little store which services stamp collectors. Operating a stamp shop is an unusual business for a woman, but Miss Gardiner, who has a genuine love for the articles she buys and sells, manages to get along quite well. She says To- ronto is filled with stamp enthu- siasts and many of hem find their way into her store on Yonge Street, Toronto, just south of St. Clair, Miss Gardiner started in the business 10 years ago with a part- ner, J, T. Pepper, who died last year, Since then she's handled the business by herself, "I never collected stamps be- fore I entered the business," she sald, "Now I'm one of my best customers." Lots of children spend their pocket money. for collections and many older people start collect- ing stamps as a hobby in later years. The walls of the shop are dec- orated with stamps arrangeu ia neat formations on bulletin boards, and they read like all those places you would like to see, and never do. There are stamps from Nyasaland, Suriname, Usg- anda, Tanganyika and every other colony in the British Em- pire, and, of course, from all the Dominions, Miss Gardiner has a fascinat- ing stamp from Pitcairn Island where Christian Fletcher's descen- dants of "Mutiny on the' Bounty" fame still live. The stamp is a late issue and the only one the island ever put out, : The rarer stamps are kept in books which Miss Gardiner pro- duces when the enthusiastic phil- atelist comes in, She has 20-odd books lined with thousands of stamps from all over the world. Classic Suits Show Little Style Change LONDON, Eng. --- Classic tweed and worsted suits show little style change except a modifying of shoul- der padding and further emphasis on narrow waistlines, achieved by elaborate seaming, or by cut front and back insets. 'Hollow cut velvet is used frequently as trimming for collar backs, pocket edgings and sleeve cuffs. Suit coats tend to he slightly longer and the fullness is disappearing from skirts. "Stove- pipe" might almost be applied to those for wearing beaneath full, belted, three quarter length coats. TIPS FOR TEENS -- : Don't Despair, Shorty! By ELINOR WILLIAMS : If you're a tiny girl just under five feet, don't moan about your lack of height. Beauty isn't measured by inches --it's just as e for small girls to look smart pretty as it is for your taller sisters, Reaching just to a boy's shoulder is no handicap --and dainty femininity is one of the best assets a girl can have at any age. You do want to make the most of the height you have, so choose long slender lines in clothes to give the illusion of added inches. Dress your five feet or less in one-piece, dresses with narrow belts that don't "cut you in half." Very full peas- ant skirts aren't for you, little girls, but you can wear skirts with a hemline flare cut on simple slen- der lines and fitted snugly at the waistline, Big wide collars, wide belts and enormous handbags dwarf you. Wear small dainty jewelry-- and don't bury your pretty face and neck behind massive jewelry. Choose "V'* necks, one-color cos-" tumes, small prints and narrow stripes that will go up and down. Bold plaids are not for "you, and two-piece effects and high neck- lines will make you shrink to 1illi- putian size. When you buy a coat with fur, choose a flat, short hair- ed fur like beaver, mouton, widskin or leopard, Don't hide under a large, wide- brimmed hat, Suit the width of your hat to your size; wear medium brims and off-the-face hats. How about your posture? Do you stand erect with diaphragm and waist pulled in, chest and head high? Be careful not-to teeter about in heels that are too high. Wear them on~ ly as high as they are comfortable. Stand tall! (For your stretching exercises to help make you look taller, write to Elinor Willlams at this paper, en- envelope.) Father Officiates At Son's Wedding formed the ceremony agajnst a background of peonies, délphin. iums and palms at St, Luke's-in- the-Garden, Byron, Wednesday afternoon, when Eileen Elsie Graham became the bride of Dr. George Graham Copeland. The bride is the daughter of Mrs, Graham and the late Dun- can Graham, of London, Ont, and the bridegroom's parents are Rev, and Mrs. R, C, Copeland, of Pickering. Tradjtional wedding music was played by the organist, Stafford Churcher, Gowned in blush satin, fash. foned with sweetheart neckline and straight front panel, ' the bride was given in marriage by her mother. Her gown was shir. red at the back, the full skirt ex- tending to a slight train, and fine ished at the hipline with large satin roses forming a bustle ef- fect. Her matching halo head. dress held a fingertip veil of illu. sion and she carried a hand bou- quet of pink roses and wore the groom's gift, a pearl necklace. Mrs. C. F. S. Fisher attended as matron of honor, wearing a sim- ply-styled gown of pale blue nylon net with matching headdress. She carried a colonial nosegay, Dr. Donald R, Copeland, of Grimsby, brother of the bride- groom, was best man, nad the usher was Dr. C, F. 8. Fisher. For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Graham chose a gown of navy crepe with white acces. sories and wore a corsage of pink roses, The bridegroom's mother was gowned in delph blue crepe and wore a corsage of Talisman roses, Becher tea rooms, Dr. and Mrs. Copeland left for a motor trip to the Muskoka district, the bride traveling in ean aquamarine linen suit with brown accessories and a corsage of pink roses. Dr. and Mrs. Copeland will re- side in London, Ont., where the bridegroom will continue post- graduate studies at the Univer- sity of Western Ontario, The bridegroom's father per- Early Canadian Manuscripts To Be Displayed at CNE By ALASTAIR McIVOR It's the manuscript of one of Can- ada's best-known histcrical novels. That alone makes it valuable and important, But it becomes a piece of Canadiana of rare interest, when a history all of its own is added to the tale it tells--or the tale it would tell if anybody could read it. The facts are that the manu- script of the great 19th century novel, The Golden Dog, could not be read by the publisher so atro- clous was the handwriting of its author, William Kirby. It had to be déciphered by a friend of his, Hannah Catherine Lowe, afterward Mrs, J. Servos, whose son, Launce- lot Cressy Servos of Breadalbane Street, now owns the document. Living Characterisations Interest in the famous Canadian novel will be given a boost .when the Book Fair display and paieary opens at the Canadian National Ex- hibition. Kirby's is one of a dozen or 80 novels which will be the basis for living characterizations, who will be dressed in the color and fashion of their day. Mr, : Servos: has offered to lend his prized possession. CNE visitors will see a page or two of Kirby's practically illegible handwriting, but with the manuscripe insured for a jump' fa y expect the privilege of thumbing through it. The cover page is dated April 18, 1869. The plot of the story is woven around a tablet now inserted in the wall above the entrance to the Que- bec City post office. It depicts a dog gnawing at a bone and beneath it the verse, as translated by Kirby: I am a dog that gnaws his bone, I crouch and gnaw it all alone-- A time will come which is not yet, When I'll bite him by whom I'm bit. Like most historical novels, it is partly fiction and partly history. Kirby was a Tory of the old school and cherished loyalty with religious fervor. Perhaps what cheered Kirby in his work was the knowledge that Queen Victoria read and enjoyed his novel. Letters of praise and admiration came to him from every- where; only the cheques were few. In foyalties Kirby received little more than $100. Manuscript Transcribed Mr, Servos says that "but for my mother, Kirby could never have written the novel. He brought the manuscript to my mother to copy it. She knew Quebec, too, and gave him background material." The manuscript was duly trans cribed, however, and Kirby submit ted it to publishers at Rouse's Point, on the Canadian line %e- tween Quebec and New York State. Whether due to a bit of piracy on the part of the publishers, which Mr. Servos says was common in those days, or from the negligence of someone at the Niagara express office, the manuscript disappeared and the original which Hannah Servos kept has fortunately been preserved to this day. The manuscript passed into Mr. Servos' possession after his mother died, about 12 years ago. He keeps it in a safety deposit vault. Launcelot Cressy Servos is him- the curious will self the author of a Canadian ro- mance, Frontenac and the Maid of the t. Some of his pointers in the game of golf he has put down in another volume, Prace tical Instruction in Golf. Six Bridesmaids Attend Ann Hrico Holy Cross Church was the scene of the wedding recently of Ann Hrico, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs, Michael Hrico, Oshawa, and John Juric, son of Mr. and Mrs, John Juric, of Mimico, The Rev, Phillip Coffey performed the ceremony against a background of pink and white peonies. The wed. ding music was played by Mr, Jack Driscoll and Mrs, W. H, Gif« ford sang, The bride was given in mare riage by her father. The full skirt of her white satin brocade gown was fashioned with a slight sweep, and the fitted-in waist had a sheer yoke and a full pleated peplum all round. The long tulle veil was caught to a wreath of orange blossoms, She wore a small gold cross, the bridegroom's gift, and carried a cascade boue quet of Briarcliff roses and Ste phenotis. ¥ The bride was attended by six bridesmaids and two flower girls, Miss Elizabeth Janchik was in yellow and Miss Mary Janchik in blue satin brocade. Miss Julia Lipa, Miss Julia Spisak and Miss Anne Uhrin were all in blue mar« quisette, and Miss Anne Ferjo was in pale green. Miss Elizabeth Janchik carried an arm bouquet of red roses and the others car- ried pink. Their gowns were all in the same style with cap sleeves and elbow-length mittens. Each wore a single strand of pearls and a wreath of flowers in her hair, The flower girls, Miss Martha Michna and Miss Milka Orac were in blue satin gowns, with lace mittens. They wore wreaths of flowers and carried old-fashioned bouquets of pink roses, The best man was Mr, Joseph Hovanec. The ushers were Messrs, Michael Savko, George Girovsky, Frank Laciak, Michael Donick and Joseph Donick. To receive the guests at the re. ception held at the Slovak Na. tional Hall the bride's mother wore a two-piece blue crepe dress, and the bridegroom's mother a grey printed jersey. Each had black accessories and a corsage of pink roses. : The couple left for a honeys moon in the Muskoka District. 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