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DAMAGED HEART MAY CON- TINUE TO WORK SATISFAC- TOBILY FOB MANY YEARS

Many think that once the heart is ” aged by coronary throm- bosis (heart stroke) or by an at- tadc of rheumatic fever. the pat- ient will inevitably have another heart stroke. and that he may drop dead at any time. What they for- get is that the heart is very strong and even the damaged heart will often withstand the or- dinary work required of it for a full life time.

We can compare a damaged heart to a bridge that has with- stood heavy loads for many years. It was perhaps a. 10-ton bridge when it was built but after many years of use, bridge inspectors, in- stead of pulling it down. change the sign from a 10 ions to five tons. which means that it will withstand the weight of five tons for many years to come.

some years ago I quoted Dr. Paul D. White Harvard Univer- sity. as follows, in Clinical Medi- cine: ”A patient with a damaged heart may live long and happily. We must learn to recognize the difference between immediate and later danger in these cases. The heart is a tough organ which will stand abuse and recover even after sehious damage." .

The danger to a damaged heart can be increased by fear. even more than by heavy exertion or work. From the straight physical standpoint. a patient may with- stand several attacks of coronary thrombosis. if he remains 4 to 6 weeks in bed after each attack.

Further information regarding the heart as stated by Dr. White should be comforting to heart pat- ients, Patients with other forms of heart. rliscase. such as tachycardia rvery rapid beating of the heart) and rheumatic heart disease can avoid serious damage by remaining in bed for several weeks after an attack has passed.

Heart disease is always a ser- ious matter. but the heart can stand a great amount of damage without death occurring. One of the greatest dangers in cases of damaged hearts is the damage done to the whole body. including the heart. by fear.

The heart may be damaged but can still carry half its former load. Heart disease. though so serious. may still allow the heart to ca.rI'.V on its work for many years if the patient will remember to live an easier life and follow his doctor's orders as to eating, sleeping, and exercise.

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PBECABIOIYS AGE

Cross-eyes among susceptible children usually develop between the ages of two and four.

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TO ALL OUR FRIENDS

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Switzerland has an ice palace that never melts. 06 feet below the surface men hewed a skating rink, the only natural skating rink pal- ace in the world. Isadore Strauss and her husband were among those who perished when

the Titanic went down in 1912. Forced into one of the lifeboats, Isadore Jumped out to join her

husband on the ill-fated ship. "We have been long together," she said. "We are old now. "Where you go. I will follow." . . 0 H. G. Wells had such a large dome that he found it difficult to buy a hat. that would fit it. One day at the club he tried on a list belonging to E. S. Peck of Cam- bridge, Mass. It was the real Mc- Coy, so he walked off with it, and later penned the following note to Peck. "I stole your hat. It fits me; I shall keep it. Every time I see your initials inside of it I shall think of you and of your bridge. I take off your hat to you." . . .

While the majority of cases of diptheria attack the throat. this disease has been known to attack the eye, the nose, the skin. and body wounds. the germs getting into the open wound. During the 2nd World War doctors encoun- tered such wound complications among the flghtiiig forccs. . . . In pionce-r days in Prince Edward Island cancer was very prevalent among the settlers. and small ex- ternal cancers were drawn out troot and stem) by means of is cur- ious concoclion known as "The Cancer Plaster". The

great majority of N'orlh.American snakes ar harmless The great majority of North Americans

firmly believe that all snakes are poisonous. The truth is that there are no poisonour snakes on P. E I.

Whole wheat flour does not con- sist of the whole kernel of wheat as the name would seem to imply, but only about 90 per cent of the entire wheat berry. It lacks bran, and other important food ele- ments. It is graham-bread that is in reality a whole-wheat product because it contains the entire wheat germ. . By the way, this flour is named after Sylvester Graham. is clergyman. who advo- cated its use for persons addicted to the use of liquor. and for longer living and better health.

Milk should never be gulped down like water. Why? Because when milk reaches the stomach it curdles, forming a thick, cheese- like mass that is hard to digest. Milk therefore should be drunk slowly. so that the gastric juice may be able to do its work proper- ly. . . Here's how Oliver Wendell Holmes defined afternoon teas: "Giggle - gobble -- gabble - git". . . "People gossip entirely too much." said a country maid to a Charlottetown merchant. "Why. only last week some of my talkative neighbors reported that I had twins." "Mary, I make it a rule to believe only half of what I hear!" replied the merchant.

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The biographer of Robert Bloomfield says: "His literary ac- quirements appear to have been all made during the time he was learning the business of a shoe- maker, and afterwards, while he worked at the same business as jouirneyman." The little moments put to good use.

3 Modern Etiquette

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Q. When a hostess knows that her week-end guest is very strict about attending chul'ch, should she arrange her schedule so that the guest has this opportunity?

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Elected as Aurora's

More and more of the female sex are forsaking the life of a house- wife for that of a politician. Mrs. Thelma Fielding is one of those aspirin-g females who recently be- came the first woman in the his- iory of Aurora, Ont. to be elected io council. She was sixth in b'e voted in in a field of seven candl- daies.

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of serving scrambled eggs

A. Try using three crumbled

soda crackers and two tablespoons p of milk to each egg. Mix thor-

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butter.

Q. How can I clean the hands

thoroughly after working around

an automobile or the furnace?

A. Rub the hands thoroughly with Vaseline jelly, allow it to re- main for about fifteen minutes. then wash the hands in the usual manner.

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if you find that more are only a few drops of vanilla or other flav- oring left in the bottle. add a half teaspoon of water to the bottle. Cork and shake thoroughly. You will have enough flavoring for the average cake.

Cutting Soap Cutting a bar of soap very often proves difficult. It will cut quite easily. however. if the knife is first dipped into boiling water.

The Toothbrush A sanitary habit. to form 15 to soak the toothbrush for two hours each week in borax water. or in any good mouth wash.

always make an arrangement such as this.

Q. Should a girl secretary rise when her employer's wife enters his private office?

A. Yes, and leave the office it she thinks the wife wishes to talk privately with her husband. unless she is requested to remain.

Q. Is it good form for it host to sharpen his knife at the table before carving a roast?

A. No; this should be done in the kitchen before the meal is served.

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1. What is wrong with tllls sen- tence? "Although it was a pretty close race, they blamed the loss on Bill."

2. What is the correct pronunc- iation-of "preamble"?

3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Courageous contag- eous, conscientious, constituency.

4. what does the word "banal" mean?

5. What is a word beginning with st that means "an incentive”?

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1. Say. "Although it was a very close race. they blamed Bill for the loss." Never blame a thing on a person. but blame a person for a thing. 2. Accent second syllable. not the first. 3. Contagious. 4. commonplace; trite. "The hostess did not permit the conversation to become banal." 5. stimulus.

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Tired Of Each Other

Bored Pair Should Try To Cut Down Number 0? Dates

DEAR MISS DIX: Is it possible for two people who really love each other to become somewhat tired of each other during a period of nine months' steady company? I've been going with a man whom I am sure I love. yet his company has become slightly lrksome at times. What shall I do? Shall I break a few dates? We see each other Wednesdays, Saturday afternoons and all day Sundays. Do we see too much of each other? We are not engaged. He is 34 and a

a. lawyer. I am 31 and a teacher of art. I want to get married. He probably senses that and he is afraid of marriage. I feel that things are dragging and that I must. make it clear that I don't intend to teach all my life. and if he isn't interested. some one else might be. I know he dreads making a mistake and also possibly dreads the boredom of

marriage. MARGARET

ANSWER: There is no such antidote for love as for an enanloured couple to give each other overdoses of their society. You say you are together all day Sunday. That is certainly -Pulling love lo an acid test. Personally. I can think of nothing more

-horrible and boring or that puts such a strain upon anyone as to

have to spend a whole. long. weary, never-ending day with anyone whom one either had to entertain or be entertained by.

FORGET ABOUT SUNDAY If you will cut out the gloomy Sunday business and just have it

couple of dates in the evenings during the week, with perhaps Silli- day evening thrown in for good measure. I think you will see that

1 the young man's ardor will revive.

You may ask how you and ihe man will stand each other's com- pany after marriage if you get bored with each other before marrl.1;;-.e. But that is an entirely different proposition. Before marriage all ihut svveetlieiirts have to talk about is the state of their affections. but a husband and wife llflVn a million topics of interest to discuss because they have everything in common. Also, the husband and wife do not have to keep up appearances and always be on their best bnhavior, nor do they have to make rsonvcrsaiion and try to keep each other amused. The most blcssetl thing about marriage is that a man and woman who love cm-b nlher don't have to talk. They can just sit and read it whole evening through and feel that they are in constant communion.

DEAR MISS DIX: I am engaged to be married in a very fine- man who is fifteen years my senior. but here is my problem: He is very domestic in his lastcs. Loves a home and is especially fond of children and is always talking and planning the home and children we will have. l'flIOFtUI'lElI0l)' I have had to have an operation that will prcvcnt nip ovcr linving chlldrcn. Should I lcll him or marry him without telling him”?

LUCY

ANSWER: Tell him before you marry him. orable thing in do. If you married him without telling him that you could not have children. he would never forgive you. In fact. the marrlage would not be binding in law and he could have it annullcil if you deceived him in this important matter.

To many men children are not a requisite to a happy marriage. They have no strong paternal instinct and are rather glad than other- wise if they do not have to be bothered with babies.

But, there are many other men who adore children. who have a father-heart. just as a woman has the mother-heart, and to such men ns these marriage without chlldrcn is cinder-s. ashes and dust. Th:-y Hr? HIWHXS more father than husband. and no woman would make them happy who did not give them children.

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DEAR MISS DIX: I am engaged to a young man and we expect to be married in a few months. He and his sister want to take me in Ihcir home for a week-cnd visit with his mother. I have always said that I would not visit in ll man”; home until after we were married. Am I right to slick to my principles about this?

OLD-FASHIONED

ANSWER: You are being both foolish and selfish. For while it. would be improper and unconventional for you to go on for 3 yveqk. end with your fiance to some place where there was no other woman. ii. is not only perfectly correct for you to go to see his mother, but it is just what is expcctcd of you.

DOROTHY DIX cannot personally reply In readers, but will ana- wer letters of general Interest through her column.

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DFINITELY conflicting aspects dominate on this day. calling for the utmost care and precaution if disintegrating shoals are to be

wisely navigated. The unforeseen and quite unpredictable may be expected both ways, with sudden crash or visitation with quite as unforeseen benefits or constructive developments. In any event be ready for a "crash landing," with pleasant and dynamic force or un- calculated denouemenls. advancement and strange powers may "cap the climax."

If It Is Your Birthday

Those whose birthday it is may anticipate a year of sudden, ab-

rupt and unpredictable activities with surprising crises following what might be considered a

smashing blow. An unforeseen cli- max may follow with thrills and drama, in the wake of a sudden collapse or confusing dilemma. In any event it could be a "kicking upstairs,” to high honors. emolu- ments or delightful and romantic crisis. Keep prepared for whatever follows.

A child born on this day may have a strange career of sudden and thrilling adventures. with dramatic and romantic experienc-

es. novel and curious. but always vivid. spectacular.

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Our Chriilnm Greeting:

for happy days to come!

JOHNSTON & JOHNSTON

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million. 54 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon lbaklnl DOWEF. Vs teaspoon soda. Wash raisins in hot water and then drain and dry thoroughly be- .tween towels. Have the peel finely ,cut. Combine the raisins. mixed peel. nuts. fruit juice and vanilla. Cream butter and gradually cream in sugar. Add egg and but um” light. Sift the flour. then measure and sift again with the cinnamon, 53"'- blildnk Powder and baking Soda. Add this to the creamed mixture and then add the (run mixture. mixing well. Pat, out on I lightly floured board, making Me Strips 195 inches wide and 5; inch thick and i2 inches long. 5C0” 3'-ND: in individual pieces W10" bakins. Bake on a greased C00k1e sheet in a moderately hot oven (too 1".) for from

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KINGSTON UNITED W.M.S.

The December me t f x' . ston United W. M. eS.mrIieN at”tIlIe home of Mrs. Elmer and Ralph Younker. Meeting opened with hymn 64 "Angels From the Realms of Glory".

Call to worship "Good Christian Men Rejoice", Luke 2, 8-14, Luke 2. 15-20 read by members. Hymn "Joy to the World'. The Christmas -program followed in Monthly. Reading. a birthday party, Mrs. Lloyd Macxinnon. Christian Stew- ardship, Mrs. Edger Newson. A letter from Mrs. Machrlane read by Mrs. Fulton Willis. World's Day of Prayer read by Mrs. Lyman Newson.

read by Mrs. Ralph Younker. Min- uies of last meeting were read. Roll call, 16 members. Collection 82.35. It was decided to send I plant to Mrs. Barrett for Christ- mas. Fruit to Mrs. Newman. Officers for 1951: President, Mrs. lzylplha Newson;---vlce- president. Mrs. Laine Smith: recording secu- l tary. Mrs. Earl Willis: correspond- I in; secretary, Mrs. Ralph Younker; treasurer, Mrs. Lyman Neweon: I community friendship, Mrs. James I Jewell; missionary monthly, Mrs. ' Fulton Willis; sympathy cards. I Mrs. Roland Buchanan; press sec- 'retary, Mrs. Will Younker: Chris- ; lien stewardship. Mrs. Edgar New- son: supply. Mrs. Bert Willie: birthday box. Mrs. Heber Barrett; ' beby band. Mrs. Lloyd Macxlnnon: Mission band leaders, Mrs. James Jewell and Mrs. Edgar Newson. Next piece meeting in Mrs. l'ul- ton Willi: home. Lunch commit- tee, llrs. Mex-rille Green. Mrs. Lloyd Maclfinncn. ueeun; closed with benediction by president.

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Christmas greetings were receiv- ed today from another Land of Sunshine, one which lies across a Continent, where Pacific zephcrs blow from California. ("I seem to mind the cold this Winter" we re- call a friend writing from an Is- land farm-home last year. "I know it's bracing and healthy-didn't Aunt Mary live to 99, and Uncle John . . . well, she never could un- derstand what carried him off so young. at 92, and he the youngest of the family and never a day sick! However-, when the frost is on the pane, and you scrape away a small corner of it in the morning to see what the world looks like, and one is obliged to wear layers of cloth- ing about the house, then it is El- len that I hear myself singing: "California here I comel") To this lovely winter land then, another Island farm-wife journeyed not long ago, not altogether from choice, because she had already known its charms, but to escape from a climate unkind to her dur- in: the colder seasons.

Her letter reads like a fairy tale, one even in these days of magic. most enchanting. and much more interesting than any of the long ago, because those are fancies of the dead and gone past, while this story is of the present. and true. It is fascinating to those of us who must remain at home to bake our loaves. and sew our seams. and wander only in spirit across any distance. "We came out here to Long Beach clitlirely by air-my first cpericnce in a plant-." she wrote "We had breakfast in Charlotte- town, and leaving the airport there at 6 A. M. had dinner lB,000 feet in the air outside Chicago. and lallded in Los Angeles at 12 P. M. Pacific Coast Time. we got to our destination at 2 A. M. or by my sis- ter's watch. just twenty-foutr hours after we left."

"Altogether we were in five planes. We changed at Moncton. St. John, Boston and in New York. at the La Guardla Airport. ,Then a big American Airways plane took us right across the Continent. stop- pin: only once" in Chicago to change crews and refuel. We had to fly high to get clear of winds and bad weather. The only glimpses we had of the earth beneath, was in Boston and New York, and these were iioi clear. Our plane was away above the clouds, and as we looked down so far below all I could think it resembled was heaps and heaps of fleet-y wool. stretching as far as the evo could see. It was really ma-rvellous, how the planes were able in land in that thick almos- phere but they seemed to have no difficulty, I may say much as I enjoyed travclling so fast and so comfort.-ibly. I was glad when we reached the good old eartht"