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' THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE SEVEN MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1947 ATATATATATAS Personals Accounts of social events and of Yistio's (0 414 1118 180 y Sie appreciated Miss Ada E. Woman's dtior TELEPHONE 35 OI IATIIIFILRENRETA, Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Miles, Gibbons Street, are in Belleville today attending the golden wed- ding anniversary of Mr. Miles' parents, : > +> Mrs. Evelyn Bateman will speak on her recent experiences in Florida to members of the Ren- dezvous Club on Thursday at 8 p.m, at Adelaide House, * 5 e The elocutionist whose perfor- mance was so outstanding on Fri- day night at the concert in North- minster United Church was Mas- ter Alan King, son of Mr, and Mrs, Edwin King, and not Master Allen Young as printed in last Saturday's paper, : > oa : Mrs. E. J, Myers, sister of Mr. Gordon Conant, celebrated her 75th birthday yesterday, when she received about 50 callers at her apartment on Simcoe Street South. Mrs, Myers graciously ac- cepted flowers and other gifts. She also received numerous greet- ing cards, * >» An branch of the Junior Boys' Y Club met on Friday night in Bast House with Mr, John Masiewich in charge and formed a airplane building group which they named the Mercury Model Club, Here new mode] airplanes will be designed and old ones repaired and rebuilt, A+ Rev. A. m¥ rein? of Whitby, secretary of the Ontario County Temperance Federation, will be the special speaker at the month- ly meeting of the Women's Chris- tian Temperance Union in King Street United Church Sunday school room tomorrow at 2.30 p.m, Refreshments will be served. A cordial invitation is extended to tHe women of Oshawa to at- tend this meeting, SB & Mrs. Dermot Conway, president of the Junior Catholic Women's League, Oshawa, has received the following letter from Miss Pat, Young of Kenora: "I wish to take this opportunity to acknowledge re- ceipt of the Presto Cooker which ar- rived yesterday in good condition. I must say I got the surprise of my life on learning that I was the win- ner as it was the first time I have ever held a winning ticket. Thanks again and every success to your league." * + & An informal fireside hour was held at Adelaide House last night when a group with Mr. Bill Carlton at the plano opened the program with a singsong followed by spmphonic re- cordings and a discussion on music which included modern, classic, sym- phonic and opera. A quiz revealed that young people are music-con- scious, are developing an apprecia- ir > and fight preter ; oa cs. Popu- 'lar sentimental composers were at the bottom of the list. * » # Several prenuptial showers were held recently for Miss Mar- "ths Malette, a bride of Saturday. Mrs. Nellie Morton and her daughter, Bernice, were hostesses for a cup and saucer shower giv- en by neighbours. Miss Irene Weeks arranged a miscellaneous shower, The girls with whom the bride worked in the cafeteria of the General Motors gave her a shower of crystal ware, and the staff of General Motors presented her with a coffee table, * Pe Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Collins, Bruce Street, who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last Friday were honored on Saturday evening at the Armouries when a hundred members of the Sergeant's Mess and their friends congratulated them and Sgt.-Maj. Jack Barker present- ed Mr. Collins with a life member- ship and Mrs. Barker gave Mrs. Collins a bouquet of roses, Both recipients made short speeches, the friends for the gifts. 8.8M. John Jonassen presided. Mrs. Sam Clement of South Porcupine who came for her parents' golden wedding celebration was ones of those present. Huddersfield, Yorks, Eng, Feb. 2--(AP.)--A 64-year-old landlord by | do it so long, but no longer. letting a furnished room for a daily rental of one pack of cigarettes and | ed a box of matches, Dr. Chase's NERVE FOOD Today Is Big Sister's Birthday Pictured above are Lynda Dale West, who celebrates her second birthday today, and her three-months-old sister, Francine Leslie West, wearing her christening St. Julien Street. robe. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs, A. W. West, ~--Photo by Campbell's Studio Make Wolves Pay Then They'll Stop By ROBERT RICHARDS New York--Blonde Selene Mahri, Manhattan's top model, today ad- vised the lesser gals in her trade on how to make men behave. It's simple: Charge them $40 an hour. "At that price, your time is too valuable," Selene said. '"No matter who they are, or how rich, theyll keep their minds on their work." The advice apparently is needed because several models recently have complained in public print about certain persons who wanted to take their photos with a $5 cam- era in a $500 apartment, complete with etchings. "It's very seldom that you come across that type," Selene said, "but, 2h me, they're easy enough to han- Eelene (she's 22, and came to the United States from Finland seven years ago) and another model, call- ed Lisa, are the only two in Man- hattan who demand and get 40 bucks for 60 minutes' work. The average model starts at $10 an hour, jumps to $15, but rarely reaches $25. "I never particularly planned to hit $40," Selene said, in a voice that closely resembles Greta Garbo's. "I kept raising my price to keep from Werkisg---and people kept meeting "I average $400 a week. I could earn much more, but I tum many down. I'm very outspoken and make many enemies. I work only for ers I like. My per- sonal blacklist is a mile long." Selene must have a respect for the er, an appreciation and of his work, or she refuses to prose at any price. She appears in all the swank women's magazines, and you've probably seen her. She's five feet, 10 inches, and weighs 120 pounds. Her hair is so blonde it's almost white. i Bg it long with a near-page cut. "Pretty Corny-Looking" "Tell them that my hands and feet are very large," like Garbo). "In fact, I'm pretty corny-looking." But a press agent for one of the biggest model agencies in the busi- ness--and one for which Selene "As far as photography goes, Mahri has the perfect face." Selene never goes to work before noon. She spends her mornings in the country, on Long Island, where she raises French poodles. "In case anyone is interested," she said, "I've got eight puppies to sell." - Two years ago Selene was forced out of modelling because the glare of the kleig lights almost blinded her. "There's one thing that I always remember," she said. "Modelling is not like being an actress. You can "finish- But Selene thinks she'll be around --at that same $40 an hour--for quite a few years longer. : Toronto Man Wins Praise at Festival Toronto, March 1--(CP)--A ren- dition of Schubert's "The Wander- er' sung by Robert Ivan Foster, of Toronto won high praise from adju- dicator Dr. Stanley Roper on the second day of the Kiwanis Music Festival here. Dr. Roper called the rendition "remarkable". Other results included: Tenor solo, 21 years and under--K William Perry, Lindsay; Don Card- ham, Grimsby, Girls' chorus, 17 years and under-- Notre Dame Choral Club, Water- down; Central High School of Com- merce, Choral Club, Toronto. Oratorio solo, soprano--Freda El- ston, Brampton; Eunice Hunt, Hamilton, "When you're old, you're GIRLS! WOMEN! TRY THIS IF YOURE On 'CERTAIN DAYS' of The Month! Do female functional monthly disturbances make you feel ner- ety, cranky, so tired and out" ~at such times? try Lydia E, Pinkham's vous, fi a ii 8! Then do Vegetable Com d to relieve such sym This fine medicine is very effective for this purpose! . For over 70 years A dr of fils and women have reported fit. Just see if you, too, don't report excellent results! Wort: trying. VEGETABLE COMPOUND Hirohito's Poems Claim Attention Once a year the Emperor of Ja- pan writes a poem. The Empress writes one, too. And all the Imper- ial princes and princesses. There is quite a fine how-do-you-do about it, Robert Peel writes in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. Poetry-writing is, in fact, one of the chief articles of an emperor's education, Japanese poetry, calli- graphy, and other "cultural" sub- jects are even now the staple edu- cational diet of lhe crown prince, though a grand total of two hours a week is allowed him to study Am- erican history and democracy with an American tutor. Traditional Form The emperor's poems are in the traditional form of 'the Japanese hatku--a miniature 17-syllable af- fair, consisting usnally of a single image. Like a stcne dropped into a quiet pool, the image is intended to send forth ever-widening ripples of thought (or imaginative aware- ness) through the receptive, con- templative mind. Tue present emperor and empress take their annual poems very seri- ously and expend much time and thought cn them, though more scrhisticated members of the fam- ily dash off their poems as a light- hearted chore. The Japanese are therefore justified in looking for the greatest possible significance in the emperor's annual poem, Last year he wrote one that caused some acid comment in the American press. In it he admon- ished his people: Be like the manly pine Which does not change its color Though bearing the fallen snow. Wag this an appeal to the "un- broken continuity" of Japanese his- tory and a deprecation of the evil times as a period of temporary de- feat? Did he expect the occupation forces to melt away like the fallen snow, leaving the imperial Japa- nese tradition green and intact and flourishing? Those who were close to him in- sisted that it was rather an appeal to his people's courage to bear up under the weight of adversity, It is entirely possible that the poem genuinely expressed the emperor's pitiful and rather helpless solici- tude for his people, but more im- portant was the nationalistic politi- cal interpretation that could be readily put on it by traditionally minded subjects. This poem was made public soon after the emperor issued his famous "renunciation" of his divinity. Many students of Japan felt at that time that the country would not so easily "change its color" and accept the emperor as less than the su- preme object of devotion. Still Their God It is therefore interesting to have the director of Allied Headquarters' religious division state recently: All we can do is tell the Japa- nese pecple the emperor is not divine, but they still regard him as a god. And now the emperor's poem for this year has been made public. It is reported to have been composed in a railway carriage en route to the much-bombed town of Mito, but it und represents much careful prior thought: The day dawns hopefully upon the town of Mito; The sound of the hammer is heard clearly. Does this represent a sincere and joyful acceptance of a new order for Japan? Or is it an attempt to repair the damage caused by last year's incautious poem? Exhortation To Rebuild Few people who know the emperor personally will doubt that he meant it as encouragement to his people to rise from their ruins and energeti- cally rebuild Japan, literally and figuratively. And those who surround him undoubtedly hope for the restoration of something like the old Japan, the poem itself can be taken as giving imperial sanc- tion to the forces that are working for a new, democratic nation. Most Americans in Japan feel the exhilaration of that clear "sound of the hammer" which symbolizes fresh energies and potentialities among the Japanese people, If the emperor's poem were no more than an expedient recognition of the new spirit stirring in the nation, it would still encourage the hope that a blindly obedient people will even~ tually free themselves from the au- thoritarian myth that has held them in long and viclous bondage. No one will ever be killed by hard work if he loves, and is suited for, that work, according to health ex- perts. Work which may be harme ful is that for which a person is not suited, or, which can be per- formed only by constant strain and worry. Martha Malette Wed To John G. Barclay The marriage of Martha Eliza- beth Malette to Mr, John George Barclay took place on Saturday in the chapel of St, Andrew's Uni- ted Church. The bride is the daughter of Mrs, Winnifred Bar- clay and the bridegroom 1s the son of Mrs, John Barclay and the late Mr, Barclay, all of Oshawa. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George Telford, ' The bride was given in marri- age by her brother, Mr. Neil Mal- lette, She wore a navy blue suit trimmed with white, a black and white hat trimmed with black veiling, and a corsage of red roses, She was attended by Mrs, Louis Kelemen, Jr, who wore a suit of American beauty shade with white accessories and a corsage of red roses, The best man was Mr. Allen Barclay, A reception following the cere- mony was held at the home of the bride's aunt Mrs. John Kyle, The bride's mother wore a blue crepe dress with black accessories and red roses 'to receive the guests, and the bridegroom's mother was in a black wool suit with black and white accessories and a cor- sage of pink carnations, For the wedding trip to Buffa- lo the bride 'chose a grey wool dress with black accessories, The couple will return to live in Osh- awa, Caravan Players Win Eayrs Trophy Toronto March 1--(CP)--The Toronto Caravan Players' produc- tion of Hartley Alexander's Indian spirit play, "How Death Came into the World," was awarded the Eayrs Trophy here last night in the fin- als of the Central Ontario Drama Festival at Hart House Theatre. The play was directed by Mrs. Dorothy Goulding. One of the most dramatic mom- ents of an evening of drama came when the plays had been viewed and the adjudicator Esse Ljungh an- nounced the winner of top acting award for women, The award went to Dagmar Hinch, who studied her part with the help of other actors in her troupe because she is on the verge of blindness. Miss Hinch, with no previous act- ing experience, was selected for a part in "The Torch-bearers," pro- duced by the Civic Theatre Players on the strength of a director's con- viction. She played a leading role in the play directed by J. E. Bean and which won second honors, It was written by George Kelly, Harvey Cronier won top honors as best male actor for his part in the third prize winner, "The Jar" by Luigi Pirandello, produced by the Toronto Conservatory Players. It was directed by Sterndale Bennett. Adjudicator Ljungh expressed the wish that all three plays could be presented at the Dominion Drama Festival at London next May. ------------------------------ 36 Housewives Keep Hospital Ward Open Thirty-six housewives, offe their services to St. sh A Hor pital, Chichester, have enabled the ward for the chronic sick and aged to be kept open. Three weeks ago, Miss Chapman, matron of the hospital, was faced with the problem of how to staff her wards. She was 40 nurses short and had little domestic help. 80 she had no choice but to decide to close He ward for the sick and old peo- ple. When this became known the 36 women offered their services, Now the ward is run entirely by them, except for the help of a fully-train- ed sister and a State-Registered nurse, : Most of the helpers have homes and families of their own to look after. They take it in turns to work four-hour shifts. DEFIES WINTER Mrs. J. Holler, of Hope Bay, owns a Christmas cactus which is more or less becoming quite famous. Bach year it blossoms forth with many blooms, and this was no exception, All told this Christmas it had 268 blossoms. The plant, which meas- ures nine feet eight inches in cir- cumference, is 35 years old.--Wiar- ton Echo. 7. ill Make Their a MR. AND MKS. BERNARD JOHN HIRCOCK whose marriage took place at 8t. John's Ukrainian Orthodox Church re- cently, The bride is the former Ella Nemis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nemis of Courtice, and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Nathan Hircock of Zien. --Photo by Campbell's Studio Lieutenant Reveals Double-Life Secret To your list of "now-it-can-be- told" items about the war, add the case of Lieut. Daniel Burns, of Cor- coran (near Fresno), Cal, whom his parents mourned as missing in ac- tion while he was safely home in the US. for 15 months and honor bound not to reveal his presence. Burns spent two years in Jap pris- on camps during which he acquired a lot of valuable information about enemy installations and operational methods. It is a secret how he got from a Shanghai camp to Washing- wu, but he did, The U.S. war de- partment put him on his honor.to "stay missing" and put him on special duty to use the knowledge of the Jays he had acquired. For 156 months he was in the U.S. and in all this time he could not let his parents know he was alive. It was not until March, 1945, that Burns was permitted to go home, and even then he was not permitted to reveal he had been in the U.S. Recently the lieutenant has been a member of General George C. Marshall's staff at Nanking. He is now en route back from China for the sec- ond time. 'Will Reveal Secret Of Ships in Bottles The old sailors' secret -- how the ship get into the bottle--will soon be a mystery no longer for 34-year- old Mr. Bill Cooper of Norwich, has started a company to show people how to do it. He got his idea through the in- terest shown in the ghirs in bottles" he sold at his shop and by bewilder- ed fathers trying to explain the se- cret to the small sons. Mr. Cooper, who has always been g keen model maker, and during five years in the RAF. was attached to a model- making department, learned many tricks of the trade trom an old fish- erman at Yarmouth, and in search of hints has visited many east coast ports. Mr, Cooper said: The art of mak- ing model ships which will go into bottles is a very old one, probably started in Scandinavia. It has been done for hundreds of years by sail- ors while they waited for the trade winds, and few of them will disclose the secret. . There is from 30 to 50 hours of work in the making of these models. I am now collecting all the informa- tion I can find about this hobby for a book I am writing." SPINSTER TAX Spinsters are agitating for earlier pensions. Might suggest, therefore, that every unmarried woman over the age of 16 should pay a special tax of £1 per annum in return for which she would be gyaranteed a full pension if still unmarried at 55? ~--B. Simmons, Worthing, England. TIPS FOR TEENS -- Short Page-Boy Hairdo is Smart By ELINOR Smartest, smoothest hair~-do of 1947 is the short page-boy. Long, shaggy manes and straggly locks are out-of-date along with ribbons, flowers and wide velvet bands. Fashion's pet hair ornament for parties,' dances and formal proms is a simple little gleaming gold pin or glittery rlainestone clip. For day- time, none at all--except the lustre of clean, well-brushed locks. & Hair-dos are smoother and usual- ly shorter, curled only at the ends. Thick, frizzy mops are out; so are bangs and elaborate curls. The page- boy hair-do--this year's version reaches just below the ears, smooth on top with ends turned under all around. The way you wear the top of your shorter page-boy hair-do depends on what's most becoming to you--perhaps tapered short ends like bangs, brushed to the side (left, above) instead of worn WILLIAMS straight on the forehead. Or the 3p can be brushed back smoothly with a faint trace of a 'shadow" wave at the temple (center). For older higlhh school girls, this hair-do for slightly longer locks has top fashion rating:--Part your hair on the side brushed smooth on top with a soft wave at the temples, if it is more becoming to you that way. Ends are turned under in page-boy style, then caught back at the nape of the neck with a long, narrow bar- rette in the same color as your hair (right, above). For formal affairs, substitute a rhinestone-sparkle or gold ornament for the barrette, if you like, It's sim- ple, easy to manage and a smart with a bare-shoulder evening dress as it 1s with sweaters and skirts. (For tips on the easy care of olly hair, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Elinor Williams at this paper), - Funerals in 1700 Dripping '"'Wet"' If residents of 17th and 18th Century New England had e thirst, all they had to do to quench it free was to find a funeral, for the serv- ing of alechol liquors in eopious quantities at funerals seems to have been a social requirement, Old writings in the Chicago library of the National Foundation of Funeral Service, an educational foundation, reveal that funerals in those days were dripping "wet". A committee of '"experiencéd men" would be appointed by the bereaved family to mix the funeral grog and "to attend to frequent and liberal dispensing thereof", ' according to the bocks. Rum, whiskey, apple "cyder" and gin were the usual potables used for the fi-/y funeral con' ctions--and appaic..tly even chi cn were served so they might drink to the memory of the deceased. But, the old books reveal, fami- lies were not the only ones charged with supplying liquor for funerals. One of the financial responsibili- ties of churches was to provide suf- ficient grog or punch to show re- spect at the funerals of deceased members of the ministry. If there is any doubt that fu- nerals were wet 250 years ago, the doubt can be washed away with the bill rendered to the family of one David Porter, who drowned at Hartford, Conn, in 1678. The cost of the liquor consumed before and during the funeral was almost two- thirds of the total funeral costs. The funeral bill follows: By pint of liquor for those who dived for him By quart of liquor for those who bro't him home By two quarts of wine and one gallon of cyder to jury of inquest By eight gallons and three quarts of wine for funeral . By barrel cyder for funeral . By one coffin By winding sheet .....c000000 1s 2s 5s 158 12s 12s 18s essessies. £4908 This amounts to almost three rounds for intoxicating liquor alone for David Porter's funeral-- a lot of money at a time when £10 was considered to be a liberal an- nual wage for a school teacher or bookkeeper, according to the Foun- dation library. In some sections of the world, al- coholic liquor still plays a promin- ent role in funeral service, but the dignity and simplicity of tradition- al American funeral service pre- cludes any such heavy drinking as unfitting to a religious service. A Vogue Editor Luncheon Guest Practical, conservative clothes, with the all-over "monochromatic look," is the verdict for spring, 1947, according to Miss Jane Kift asso- ciate editor of Vogue here to com- mentate at the Robert Simpson Co. fashion show, which opens this af- ternoon. . Wearing a black skirt, battleship grey pullover, a finger-tip jacket of white with crayon stripes of black and grey and a white off-the-face hat with octagonal lace veil that fell in" a sash-effect at the back, Miss Kift was guest of honor at an informal luncheon for the press and members of the Simpson merchand- ising and advertising staffs, Satur day. Clothes, the Vogue way, will not be dull. They will be, generally speaking, in- neutral shades of brown, grey and green, with indivi- dual accessories to give them a dif- ferent look. One high touch of color--red, orange or royal blue-- will be depended on to touch off the effect of newness. A return to the classic styles with fitted set-in sleeves, long straight lines in coats and the middy look in blouses and dresses were among Miss Kift's predictions of the lines the woman who cares will adopt. Hats off the brow, the large ones extremely plain and the smaller ones trimmed with flowers, is the general millinery trend. Pumps with closed heels and toes will be the street and before-dark mode, and handbags of calfskin will be the proper accompaniment to Vogue- designed suits and street dresses, Belts, if any, should in most cases be narrow. THRASHINGS Summonses 'against teachers for "assaults" after caning naughty children make me despair of our future leaders. When I-was a boy we took our thrashings, well-deserved all of them, like men and were the better for them.---"Just William," Sugden- veloped Men! Cease Back-Seat Driving Women The Abler Sex at the Wheel ® L 4 Making news in a Bernard Shaw or topsy-turvy vein, a male--and one who presumably knows where of he speaks--has come out with the statement that women are the abler sex at the wheel. This bold iconoclast, or traitor in the male camp, according to how you look at such things is Harold O, Carlton of the American Automobile Associa- tion, who followed up his body blow to male superiority with an admon- ition to heckling fausbands to cease their back-seat criticisms, since these impede rather then aid their better-driving halves on the road. The myth about women drivers-- to wit, that they are hopelessly bad compared with the lordlier sex-- began back in the early days of mo- toring, when men had a cinch keep ing up their end. Then, of course, it was easy to declare that women were too fragile to handle great big machines that admittedly called for brute to crank them up. The myth might fairly have been expected to fade as engineers de- automobile mechanisms more and more responsive to "the touch of the little foot in the soft shoe," but nothing of the sort hap- pened. Instead, every time a new safety rule was devised something was added to the list of driving de- linquencies alleged against women. Women couldn't read signs, they couldn't obey regulations, couldn't make signals, couldn't tell their left hands from their right, women chattered so much they forgot they were driving. And finally, if a wo- man saw an accident impending, what did she do? She shut her eyes, jammed on the brakes, clutched the wheel, and waited to hear some- thing go bang. Worse Than Plague All of which added up to the gen- eral implication that a woman on the road was a worse menace than bubonic plague and that it would be a far, far better if she nev- er wiggled her way out of a garage. Even women subscribed to this. leg- end--and still do. "Of course, men are superior drivers. Not that I've ever had an accident, and, come to. think of it, I have been run intd] three times by men," is a typical feminine answer to the "who's bet- ter?" question. But now comes Mr. Carlton--and there are,statistics to support him --demanding the myth's demise. Figures show that in New York State, in the first half of 1946, only 5,019 women drivers were involved in persomal-injury accidents as op- posed to 56,802 men (excluding ac- cidents involving military person- nel). It is true that men drivers are more numerous--wcmen held only 27 per cent. of the licenses in the last year of record--and fit is generally agreed that a male's aver- age mileage is greater than a wo- man's but, even so, this record makes Mr. Carlton's contention look very fair indeed. A survey made by the AAA. in Cleveland revealed that among stu- dents who had had special driving training in schools, 3.8 per cent. of the men and only 0.5 of the girls subsequently became involved in ac- cidents. Chance of Survival Another survey, made by two psychologists of the University of Pennsylvania, indicated reassuring- ly that even if you do get bashed by a woman driver, you--and your car--may survive. A study of the accident records of men and women taxicab drivers showed that while the women had more accidents, those in which the men drivers were involved were more serious and more costly. The cost of acci- dents averaged $5.77 per 1,000 miles for men, against $2.68 for the wo- men. Since statistics can be quoted with equal force on either. side, the AAA. has tried to estimate men's and women's comparative driving skill by testing both sexes for good driving. Basic physical requirements for efficient driving include good sight and hearing, ability to judge dis- tance, adequate resistance to glare and a minimum of excitebility, Oth- er factors enter, of course, but these are prerequisites. Men emerged from the tests show- ing slightly greater visual acuity than wcmen, but women can see further out of the sides of their eyes, (Perhaps keeping tabs on the erring husband through the ages tag something to do with this) Men can withstand the effects of glare better than women can, need- ing only 5.55 seconds for recovery, while women need 747 seconds, meaning that a woman would trav- el a third farther while blinded by a bright light than a man would. More Color-Blind Men Men are more likely to be color- blind than women, as any millinery- wearing female could tell you with- out fussing over alot of little tests. The male is particularly confused about distinguidhing between red and green, This AAA. test inci- dentally confirms findings back in 1898 when, at the suggestion of the head of the Department of Psychol- ogy of the University of Chicago, "the first attempt to obtain a com- plete and systematic statement of the psychological likenesses and the differences of the sexes by the ex- perimental method" was made. If man's greater tendency to color: blindness has been established for nearly half a century, it's time to revise that gag in which a woman ° driver is plaintively asked by a cop af a traffic light: "Whassa matter, lady? Don't you like any of our colors?" "Give me a woman driver any time," one official said, "The very awe with which she regards the mysterious mechanicsm she is driv- ing is an asset. It makes her more careful. £€he may not be as mech- anically apt as a man, but she more than makes up 'for it by her anxie- ty to do the right thing." Women generally drive more slowly than men, he continued.' (This was borne out by AAA. stat- istics showing that men claimed to average 47.4 miles per hour, while women claimed a 44.7 average). Women are more courteous, more cautious, drive more "defensively"-- meking allowances for the weak« nesses of other drivers, and the une predictability of pedestrians. Take Greater Pains The bureau believes women take greater pains than men to learn the rudiments of driving. They are not ashamed to ask questions that ex- prose and dispel their ignorance. Contrary to general belief, they do not take longer to learn to drive than men, and are no more likely to get nervous when taking driving tests So to the graveyard goes one more myth of woman's inf y to rest comfortably with others of the kind--the defunct legends of women's incapacity to become doc- tors, architects, or machinists. It is very pleasant to have this woman driver myth quietly under- ground. Now the tired business man can relax while his wife tools him smootfily around on long, nerve-soothing drives. Now the hitherto dubious male can check his misgivings on his way out 'the front door, and while sister, mother or sweetheart attends to the wheels, he can put his mind on weightier Yhings. Picture-Map Quilt To Get C.N.E. Prize Toronto, March 3--To the woman who exhibits the most artistic quilt in the form of & picture map of Canada, will go a $100 prize at the Canadian National Exhibition here in August, it is announced by Kate Altken, Director 3 Women's Activi- ties for the C.N.E. Mrs. Altken explained that the special quilt would be an outline map of Canada on a white ground with the Provincial boundaries also outlined, The industrial and natur- al resources of the nation should be indicated either by embroidery or applique. For instance, the quilt map might illustrate the fishing in- dustry of the Maritimes, then move across to the manufacturing smoke stacks of Central Canada, the min- ing of the Northland, the wheat fields of the Prairies and the lum- bering of the West Coast. "The quilt in the form of a pic- ture map will give quilters plenty of scope for their artistic ability," the Director said. "They will be free to use their imagination in creating a plece of needlework which when complete, will show Canada as a strong, prosperous nation. This year, when so many visitors from other countries will attend the C.N. E., we are anxious to show them our country in all forms of art and handicrafts." This quilt competition is open to individuals or to organizations who wish to combine the artistry of sev- eral women in order to produce the quilt, it was pointed out. If there are artists and designers in'a community who could assist in the work, an organization or an in- dividual is free to let them demon- strate their ability by sketching or drafting ideas for the quilt map. This allows combined ingenuity to flare, with a view to creating the finest piece of Canadian quilting. Mrs, Aitken made it clear that the Canada quilt should be "regula- tion size." Entries will be displayed in the specia}, quilt room at the Ex- hibition. Particulars and prize lists may be obtained by writing direct to the Canadian National Exhibi- tion, Toronto. Prepared biscuit mixes are ideal time-savers for double quick cof- fee cakes, Ground or chopped al- monds, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter or shortening in proportions to taste, are perfect for crunchy topping. Social Notices $1 00 $1.00 Marriage Annou ncements ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs, T. D. Armstead wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Eileen, to Mr. Willlam G. Hawkins, son of Mrs. L. S. Palmer of Oshawa. The wedding will take place on March 15 at Al- bert Street United Church, "The Knox Presbyterian Women's Association Invite You to Hear "THE STORY OF HANDICRAFTS" MRS. LEREINE KNOX CHURCH, OSHAWA Tuesday, March 4th -- 8 p.m. Come and Bring a Friend A Free Recipe Booklet for Everyone This Advertisement fs by courtesy of 3 : Robin Hood Flour Mills Limited BALLANTYNE | road, London, 8.W.11, A ------