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By P. H. MacArthur.

-If you have never eaten vege- tables grown in your own garden. then you have not tasted them in all their crispy freshness. Grow- ing vegetables in ne's own garden is I very satisfy‘ g experience for each day after the first green shoots lift their heads above the soil. one can watch them grow- ing until, finally. they burst into gorgeous blossom. A little later, comes the vegetables themselves which, when we begin to eat them. causes everyone to exclaim: "How delicious!"

The growing of vegetables is not at all difficult. Nature does her part in producing the fruits of one‘s labour and we. the gar- deners. must see to it that nature gets the chance to do flu but work.

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First. the soil must be spaded and given the necessary food ele- ments to promote healthy growth. Our plants. in order to put their best feet forward. must have suf- ficient sunlight, air and space. By lollowing this advice. our vege- tables will not fail to produce their full yield.

Many city folk don't bother with I garden because they fancy that little phi in their backyard is not big enough. Don't let that stop you. Carrots. beets and radishes. lor example, require very little space and most varieties of vege- tables have already been develop- ed by expert gardeners to produce good crops in a small area.

Dig your ground thoroughly. this is a must. Then break up every lump of soil. and remove stones and other stuff. Don't be afraid of spading to I depth of one foot. but on the other hand, don't bring to use surface any of the hard subsoil.

Be cautious of starting your garden too early in Spring. If the ground is not in shape. it will surely bake and give you I lot of extra work.

Here’: I simple way to test the soil so that you may know when its fit to cultivate. Take I bit of clay in your hand and squeeze it. If it stays doughy, it's too wet to dig. If it falls apart, you have the go-ahead signal! Before plant- ing your seeds, it is best to mix some fertilizer with the soil. Ten pounds to every 200 square feet of soil is sufficient.

Plant your garden with thought- ful care and you'll get I full re- turn from your plot. This may sound like I tall order but actual- ly it's quite simple. Carrots, peas, radishes. etc., can be planted ear- ly enough to get a second crop —-that is. if you select early varie- ties and like to have lifise things all through the growing season.

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For the second sowing, you'll need another dash of fertilizer. Always plant a leaf crop. such as lettuce. after the beets. radishu. etc. This rule work! the other way as well. The reason for this rotation IS that different crops take certain definite elements from the Soil. This practice helps to keep the soil from becoming exhausted and does much to elim- inate poor crop and the spread of plant diseases.

Of course. there'll be plenty of weeds but a good hoe and I bit of elbow-grease will keep your garden clean. If you will remem- ber to keep the weeds down at the start. you'll have gone a long way in destroying them. Once- the vegetables get a good start. they'll be able to more than hold their own against their enemies.

Thin your vegetables in gradual stages and you'll have delicious greens for your table all summer. On every package of seeds that you buy. you'll flndtlnstruotions for planting. thinning and general care; so when seeding time rolls around. plant that vegetable gar- den you've dreamed about so long. Then when the Fall comes. you'll

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Canadian Press staff Writer LONDON. April 14 — (OP) Pleats are I forefront fashion-note this spring.

As I compromise on the hard lines of the Paris "chemise" dress. British designers are pleating from shoulder to hem. This gives free- dom and grace to an otherwise un- attractive style. softening the hard straightness of the line.

There are pleated spring and summer dresses in light woois. georgettes, shantungs. nylon chif- fon and many other of the newest nylon materials.

Pleatlng is carried in all typu of silks from the sheerest gear- gettes to the heaviest satins, This covers a. vast range of dreises from evening and cocktail dresses to gay. simple holiday prints and beachwear.

There is small choice in the types of pleating. Generally kni‘e or box pleating is used. the differ- ence lying in the width of the pleat.

Most chemise dresses are sleeve- less. the long shoulder line finish- ed by contrast cuff, suggesting a cap-sleeve. Necks are either round or collared, all are high and clean- cut to give emphasis to the straight pleat-line. If a set-in sleeve is used this is generally of narrower pleat- lng than the dress and caught in a tight cuff,

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Many designers use two dif'er- ent sizes of pleating to emphasize waist. hemline or yoke.

In pastel-colored shantung a box-pleated dress has cuffed set- in sleeve and tiny collar, Nan-owe; pleating from knee to hemline gives the new huglook to the knee-line. A’ chiffon waltbtmd decorated with two hunches oi artificial llowers adds a touch of femininity. - In moss-crepe a knife-pleated dress falls from sleeveless cu'f d shoulderline to full swinging hem- line. It has tiny round neck with

side-button front and narrow waist-belt. Many shawl-collared, garden-

Dilly dresses have unpleated bo- dice and full. sunray skirts, Tobe- look. strapless. cufl-top dresses may have pleated bolero-top. Pleating is also used in the backs of loose. swing jackets; in yoke-to waist panel in suit jackets; in back or all-round pleating of blouses. The new. mannlsh, shirt-blouse styles with high neckline and bow tie are often softened by minutely pleated chiffon. vest.

Pleatlng is also used for decora- t_ion--in__ hem panels. shawl collars. cape-sleeves or stole.

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Nor was it ended by this mora- lna. the wintry storm which had descended so surprisingly at week- end. out of preceding seasonal weather, to temporarily put an end to motor traffic. and-pretty well isolate country folks amid their snowy ‘surrounding: "for Easter." We suppose it brought its disappointments and heart- aciies to many I one. detained at a distance. snow-bound and un- able to join their families in the pleasant and customary observance of the Day.

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In such a misfortune. we are apt to become acutely aware of the delights and privileges of that home we may not reach, however humble. which can hold within its walls. so much that contributes to- wards making life sweet for us. and good. And sometimes in an enforced absence. this sentiment comes in an over-whelming nos- talgia, to make one "long for the wings of s dove" to follow in the direction that thoughts pursue.

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We recall being considerably startled one Easter Sunday morn- ing in the long ago, when rain- fall and muddy roads contrived to make the day rather dreary. We looked up from some interest of the moment to find a guest of the family in tears. "I can't help it. Ellen." she said trying to smile "but there's no use denying it — I should have gone home for to- day." “And why?" we queried. "Oh I don't know why." she re- plied slowly, "it's just a senti- ment I can't very well describe. 1 only know — and what must you tnink of me! that I'd like to be ho-o-me!" It comes back as clear now as in that far away yestcr-year. At the time. James was in the yard, scattering an armful of hay to the flock of sheep — they crowding about him. bleaung plaintively. And we re- member the thougnt came to mind. one would like to be away from Alderlea, while right before our eyes was another wh loved to be at home. That was t — the key to happiness . . . Home.

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‘'I‘d like to be there. to go to church with the family." she snif- fed. “not that I'm so religious". she went on. “but the Easter ser- vices in the church at home are worth a dozen other Sundays to me—it's more holy . . . sanctified —and hopeful and happy. The sad part of the Bible-story is past. Ellen. like the passing of Winter. and in its place is hope and Spring. And the dinner." she whispered in so tragic a tone it brought a chuckle. :'with mother and dad and the children. Oh I know they tease and are noisy. but they're good-hearted and nice. And the baby's cute now! Yes. Ellen. de-

finitely I want to go home. But. there now," she shrugged and smiled brightly, "what's the old

saying? ‘what can't be cured" . . ." "Must. be endured!" we laughed, "and by tomorrow, perhaps the weather-‘ll be better, and you'll be able to go home." “But this feel- ing will be gone then" she said. "it belongs only to today — or on a Christmas. I guess. or Thanks-

giving!" 0 I 0 if our thoughts strayed at times during yesterday's inclement

weather to "The Hills of Home" and beyond to another "Home" where I twain are along with their memories, it was not to repine over our present clrcumstangg. but on the contrary to remem- ber wlthal, how good the day was to us as a family. Small lads were happy in the early finding of Eas- ter baskets. ("You go first. and I'll follow!" we heard one remark. rather timid of exploring the still- ness below stairs. And then a de- cided "No! We'll go together. Here — you take my hand!") And if the Crow. an Easter character with whom we have had little ac- quaintance, and whose habits are .._._._______.___.

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Their Majesties the King and Queen recently drove in the irisn State Coach with a Sovereign's escort of the Household Cavalry for the State Opening of the new British Parliament. Their Majesties were cheered all along the route from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament. The procenion marked the opening of London‘: biggest week of pageaniry since the war, the streets being gaily decorated for

the State visit of the French President.

Among those who watched

the procession was His Royal Highness Prince Charles. He saw the procession from the wall of Clarence House with his nurse. This pic- ture shows His Royal Highness Prince Charles watching the procession on its way to the Houses of Parliament. (Picture circulated March 1950).

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Reader Describes Good Woman Who Is Bad Mother-in-Law

I acquired a mother-in-law in my home soon after my marriage. .My wife is grand. but. we both admit that her mother Just about has us on the ropes.

My mother-in-law would be a peach if she lived 500 miles away. But in the house she is a pain in the neck. She commits no one

DEAR MISS DIX:

great offense. She just piles up little things. thing. especially the upbringing the house after charging sleepy-eyed to ask: darling?" And only the other day I overheard her say "I'd keep a pretty good watch on Jim. He is on the road now and you have no way of know- ing what he is doing. much trust in I man as you do in him. You are too sure of him."

My wife. good sport as she is. mother. he has just as much right to check up on me."

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of our child. she goes to bed without her coming

She interferes in every- Nobody can speak in

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think I made I mistake in not choking the old lady. Why should she

try to create suspicion in my wife's mind?

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I think Jim has drawn about the best picture that

could be made of the good woman who is I bad mother-in-law. and who. with the best intentions in the world, does more,harm than

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She is the head of the home-wrecking crew and she doesn't kndw it. You couldn't convince her that she had anything to do with the disaster even when she saw her daughter sitting on the ruins of her house of happiness with her divorce decree in her hands. And the case is hopeless because it is Just as i posslb'e for I middle-aged woman to change her habits and way of looking at things as it is for I leopard to change its spots. Mother has run I house for forty years and she still thinks she has I right to run one. no matter if it is her daughter's.

There are so many good women who would he admirable mothers- ln-law if they lived 500 miles away. as Jim says. and that is why so often in this column I urge mothers to have I heart and not to go to live with their children unless it is absolutely financially necessary. And if they do, to try to remember that they are guests and act as

guests.

DEAR MISS DIX: Will you umpire this fight between my hus-

band snd myself?

He thinks that I mother should make a slave of

herself to her children and should be at their beck and call any hour of the day or night. For instance. our daughter. I capable college girl, was away for the day. I kept her dinner piping hot for her until 7 o'clock. She did not return until I much later hour. That was quite all right. as she was having an Innocent good time snd I was glad of it. but my husband thought that when she did return I should go out

and prepare her I hot meal. which I refused to do.

right? ANSWER:

Which of us is MOTHER.

I think you are exactly right and that your husband

is all wrong. and that you take the only possible means of retaining your children’: respect, when you force them to accept their share of

responsibility In family life.

There is no other crime that a mother

can commit against her children that is so cruel as for her to spoil

them. for them.

them when they leave home. I-‘ar. far better to teach children to stand on their own feet as soon as it is possible. Far. far better to make them pull their own

weight in the boat.

It utterly unflta them for life. for she can't softpad existence She can't do their work for them and coddle and pamper

Far. far better to teach them to try to save Mother

than to niake Mother work herself to death trying to save them.

DEAR DOROTHY‘ DIX: I am I widow 43 years of‘ age. unusually

young-looking and In excellent health. both of my children are married. would like to be self-supporting. but I don't know what to do.

do you advise’! ANSWER:

I have no encumbrance. as I have no income whatever and What WIDOW

In reality. I woman of 43 is just coming to the best

of life, and she isn't I bit too old to start out for herself on any sort of career that appeals to her fancy and for which she feels that she

has In aptitude.

My advice to you is to sit down and have I heart-to-heart ses- sion with yourself Ind find out what you really want to do. then go to some vocational school that teaches that particular thing. It doesn't make I bit of difference what you undflllke to do if you can turn out I first-clan Job at it. The world is anxious and eager to pay for ex- pert service. Flt yourself to give this and .......l. will clamor for you.

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IAONILINISI or HOSPITAL PATIENT:

We all have I great deal of syn- pathy for the lonely children in various children's institutions. is hsrd enough for men and women away from loved ones to hsve the dsys_ and nights pass in loneliness. but I little child without loved ones to comfort hkn lrrims an even sadder vision.

I have written before Ihout the children's hospital in which the nurses "cuddled up" little children and babies. This soothed the little

ones men y and physically and helped them to at and sleep peacefully.

That patients in various mili- tary hospitsk Ire nlfferim lone- liness was disclosed by I survey conducted by the psychiatry and neurology division of Veterans Ad- ministration. This was reported in "The Journal of .the American ‘Medical Association." of 52,000 mental patients in V. A. hosaltals. one-third have been visited by neither family nor friends for I year or more. ~ In one hospital only 219 of 785 patients had hId I visitor during the previous year. While this seems terrible neglect on the part of families and friends it is only true that some veterans are better off without visitors because there is something. of which the rest of us know nothing. that causes severe disturbances when visitors and patient meet. I have written be- lore of I boxer, who had been “knocked out" by hlowsxto the head several times. whom I visited regularly for some years. I was about to get him discharged from the hospital. He took a job and did well for awhile but finally had to return to the hospital. When I made my next visit. although -1 was his only visitor. I disturbed him and the physician in charge of his case agreed that my visits would not help him.

Dr. Harvey J. Tompkins. chief of the psychiatry (behsvior) and neu- rology (structure of brain and nerves) division states that while visitors might be disturbing in some instances. they would be highly beneficial to the patients in

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