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A Tale Of The Selkirk Settlers

DOROTHY DIX SAYS-

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Tyrannlcal Parents

Overstrictness Drives Children To Underhancled Behavior

(By I‘. W. MacArthur)

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On a' certain Sunday morning some weeks later, Sandy Mac- Pherson arrived at the home of the young shepherd, holding in his hand n letter which bore the primate seal of thc Earl of Sel-

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"It's for ye, iaddle, from the Earl 0‘ Selkirk," the uncle said as he noticed the young man's eyes directed toward the large envelope.

“How ken ye it's from the Earl o‘ Selkirk?" questioned the eager youth. “And now are we that ha'e no learning to know what is in it? Now, if only Old Niel was here, he'd be able to read it for us. Niel had a power 0' learn- ing. had Niel."

"Now don‘t get yourself all in a dither, young man. I have most o’ the Writing stored in my head. Ye see,'when the postmaster tolrl me a letter had come for ye— well, natural-like, I had him break the seal and read me what it said."

"‘T\vere mighty smart o‘ ye, Uncle Sandy, to think o’ it, Quick! let me hear what it says."

"Now, I can‘t tell it word for‘ word, laddle; but ye‘ll he able to

DEAR MISS DIX: I am 17. My parents are very strict. They don't allow me to have boy friends or go to dances. I am a normal girl just like the rest of the girls who have dates night after night, but when I even take a walk with a boy I have to do it on the sly and lie to my parents about where I have been. I hate to do this, but what else can I do? I am not thinking about running out every night butwl would like to go out once a week to a show or to the dime; at the parish house or have a friend at my home.

I am so tired of not having any pleasure l have tried several times to kill myself, but at the_ last minute I lacked the courage, and so I live on in my prison. When I am 18 can I leave home and get away from my mother's and father's tyranny?

SALLY

ANSWER: I wonder if this overstrict mother and many other mothers like her, have ever thought that their daughters regard their homes as a prison against whose ‘ i bars they have beaten themselves until they are ‘Ieady l0 mmm“ suicide? I wonder if they realize that they are erecting a barrier be- tween themselves and their daughters that never can be broken down. that they are driving their girls aWfly "Om 110""! and 103mg every chance they might have had to protect them and help them?

Of course, these martinet mothers and fathers suyjhfll they 8T0 trying to protect them and save them from committing the ffllllesi of youth. It has been a long time since they were boys and girls and, with that curious amnesia that comes to parents. they he"? f"- gotten how they wanted to do things when they “'91? YOURS. 50 ll seems to them a very small thing to keep Sally at home when all the other girls are going to a party, and to say no when Sally wants to go to the movies and to say no, no, no when Sally desires to 115k g boy to the house.

listen carefully.

"The words on that envelope,‘ says, ‘Hector MacDonald, Esquire, Ayr, Scotland.’ That would be ye, laddie. Now, the inside reading says that the Earl o’ Selkirk has chartered three vessels that will‘ sail in a month's time tcflthc New World with eight hundred folk from the western islands for a place in Prince Edward Island

In the case of girls this is particularly disastrous because if. not caned Began They are to settle only makes the girls meet the boys secretly. but it Causes them w on the estate owned by the great b; so boy crazy that they pick up with any sort of a lad. It lS the ,E,1r1 hjmsell mothers who give their daughters a jlldiolvlli 8111011!"- Ol ffeedlll" and i "Now, lei me think a minute. i who make their boy friends welcome at home, who know ivheie Oh_ yes, 135d“; and ‘he Ear] 5| their daughters g0 and with whom they associate and are ab“! l" giving them a‘ the very best of ‘time and proton them, terms. Ye see, he wants them to

RESULTS

All the results that the overstrict parents achieve are that they make their children lie to them and force them to do in an under- hand way the things they would be glad to do frankly and openly and honestly. And it breaks the parents‘ hold on the children andniakes them regard their father and mother as tyrants instead of their best friends.

The overstrict mother defeats her own purpose. own their homes in time. Beini: that you and me are distant kin o’ his, he has asked ye to accom-

DEAR. DOROTHY DIX: What can you say to a sirl l" h" We A pany him on the voyage." O I I

whose mother, married sisters and neighbor women have always impressed upon her that all men have but one idea in taking a wife, and that if she marries her life will be a living torment im- posed upon her by an unscrupulous, inconsiderate husband.d Hscr mother tells her that any izirl had better he dead Illa" mm" - g badly has marriage been pictured to this girl that she shudders an

covers her face when talking about it, and, although she l5 in lovc with a man, she is afraid to venture into matrimony.

Here Sandy paused to observe how his nephew was reacting to the letter. The ind appeared like one in a trance. l-lis mouth hung open; his eyes stared into spaccal ‘Indeed, he was an wrapped up in MR- X- ihis thoughts that for a moment ior two he failed to notice that his .

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Notjust Whiter

MORE SUOS IN HARDEST WATER

RICH SUDS

IN COOL WATER ENDS DIRTY

SOAP SCUM

Nor JUST Wl-IITER, Nor JUST aur "FRESH-AlR-FRESi-l" even WHEN

sweeter, fresher. And they_ us cleaner because this new light-

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get the most o‘ it, I reckon, if ye,

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Modern Etiquette

By lobes-ta Lee

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Q. Does it show poor taste to use artificial flowers around the home?

A. No; they are 'popuiar snd some people even use them foi- decoration on the dinner table.

Q. 1s it all right for a woman to introduce her husbands mother as, “This is my mother-in-law"?

A. It would probably be better to say. “This is Bob's mother."

Q. What gifts are appropriate for the fifteenth anniversary?

A. This is the crystal wedding.

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The Stars Say--

l; Genevieve Kambls

For Saturday. October 1

IT is probable that the uii-der- standing and shrewd griLsp of pend- ing difficulties and obstacles. with faithful and forthright attack upon existing conditions, may have power to tum the tide into proli- fic. expanding and enduring chim- nels. Study, astute techniques, m- geiiuity, determination are bound to impress desired assistance 0i‘ capital from influential sources. Won by able work, personal influ- ence arid potentialities may assume pleasant and happy roles.

For the Birthday

Those Jvhose birthday it is. are assured an about-face from recent delays arid complications. with fhc assured cooperation of those in position to help to desired, enduring and far-reaching culminatlons. Ser- ious grasp of underlying condi- tions, with shrewd and astute managcmmit. should win over on- position and bring aid in financial influence. with pleasant reactions on the private affiliations. Work to this end with ingenuity, ability and diligence, using social or profession- al flnesse to further sound object- ives. Some sort of intuition or hunch might help. Idealism and reality blending in happy climax.

A child born on this day has excellent talents. practical as well as idealistic qualities to assist it to a career of influence, power and personal gratification.

GANDY DANCERS

Gently-dancers is a name given railway section hands.

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BRlG-HTER DRIED INDOORS

Best of all. Surf gives you I way to wash 2v g with one product. Dirty work clothes, overalls. And line things. too . . .- filmy stockings, undies . . . dresses, wooiena . . . lvoryfhinjl No wonder Surf‘ has already outstripped every washing s‘ introduced in Canada in years! Start right sway to let Surf get everything at your house cant: . . . and swuri Look for the sttrsctljve btliiie hos at your grocers. se s sweeter way of washing for ovsiythiri]!

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That‘ Body Of Yours

James W. Barton. M. D.

HELPING T0 FIGHT ALCOHOLISM

All over the world groups of pub- iicminded men and women are or- ganizing to fight alcoholism and rc- ciaim alcoholics. These groups rec- ognize that aieoholis-m is so much like a disease that they are fighting Just as other groups are fighting tuberculosis, polio and heart dis- ease.

Just as a survey is made of the amount of any disease present in a community. large or small. a. sur- vey has been made as to what causes men arid women to become alcoholics.

In the "Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol," Yale Univer- sity, Drs. J. W. Riley, Jr.. C.F. Mar- deii and Marcia Lifschitz state that after a nationwide survey or public attitudes concerning the drinking of alcoholic beverages, information was obtained as to why individuals drank. The information proved that drinking ls caused as directly by social pressure as by the inner drives of the individual.

It was found that social pres- sure is more influential in causing ivcmen to drink than with men; they young as compared with the old, and the “occasioria.l" drinker compared with regular drinkers. On the other hand, regular drink- ers tend to state that their rea- sons for drinking lie more within thttriselves than in the pressure from the group.

In discussing the prevention of drinking, these physicians sugiges‘. among other pieces of advice em- phasized by the Nationai Com- mittee for Education On Alcoholism. "Never insist on anyone taking a drink."

Another suggestion which might have a far-reaching effect in fight- ing alcoholism is the simple mat- ter of serving both alcoholic and non-alcoholic‘ beverages at gather- ings and in such a mariner that. either choice seems appropriate. "Certainly for the alcoholic addict who has regained his sobriety it would have its significance for he knows ‘he must not take one drink.“ In addition there are those adults who do not like to drink. but “choke it down lust to be sociable." "Finally. and what is really most important to consider. are the younger persons who have not yet ccme to believe that drinking ‘always’ goes with sociability.“ These simple suggestions ln help- ing to fight alcoholism are certain- ly worth trying.

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Cook ’s Corner WmiiiwW FEATHERY BROWN ROLLS

This dough requires no kneading until the time comes to shape the rolls-at which moment it is given a. light kneading, and cut into pieces and shaped in the pans. Yield-z dozen rolls.

‘A cup lukewarm water

1/3 cup granulated nusar

1 cake fast rising dry yeast

1% cups milk

4 tablespoons shortening

2 teaspoons salt

2 cgss. well beaten

3 cups once-sifted hard-wheat

(bread) flour 3 cups whole wheat .01‘ IflhB-ml flour.

Measure lukewarm water int-o l small bowl and add 1 teaspoon u! the granulated sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in yeast- Scaid milk in a double boiler: "- move from heat and add the short- ening. salt and add remainlnll granulated sugar. stir uni-ll 53w“? ening is melted and salt and siiilll’ dissolved. Cool to lukewarm; st" in the well-beaten ears and yew mfitinths hard-wheat (M115) 3°"? and beat thoroughly‘ with mixinfl spoon; work in the whole wheat (or graham) 110m’-

Brush top of dough with soft shortening; cover and let rise in I warm place. free from dlyllllll- until dough is doubled ln bull- Punch down iioush in bowl. then turn out onto a iiizhlly stressed M"- fisce; cut dough into 24 111"" °l

ual size.

"with greased fingers. knead each piece into s smooth bail and st- i-mge on greased baking pans. about an inch apart. Brush t0?! with soft shortenlfll. cover and let rise until double in bulk.

Bake in s hot oven, 400 degrees. 12 to 15 mlnuinl.

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ELLEWS lllIlllY

By An Island Farmer's Wtfe £es

These days we must suffer sun to take its way across the line as it is, in wind-blown showers and patiently await the clearing with return of sunny skies. What if rain washed down the windows. and a high wind blew so lustily that James’ first care of today was to clean a chimney of its accumu- lated soot? After it, will come the calm. We still look for this in oc- casional glimpses of stars tonight. and shall find it pi esently beneath "the infinite tender sky" of Au- tumn, for Autumn, ripe season of the year is here with the dawn. “And how did you manage to pass the time today, Ellen?" James chuckled, when the dusk of thc last Summer day, damp and be- clouded, brought him home along the fields from Rob's to the sanc- tuary of his old armchair.

\Ve have to record that witn us time never _lags on. On the contrary it seems to have wings So many things we would do. so many additional interests could be ours in this interesting period of living, we say, "if we just hni-l the

limo" We improved part of to. dflfs hours in the making of pickles, finding in the tang of vinegar and spices .a piquancy

and color which might have pass. ed unnoticed on a sunny sky. Yet wondering as we mixed and smoothed the sauce which goes to bind the vegetables together if the shade might be over-eor under- emphasized in the dlmness of the kitchen, Truly we "egg by “gm/i I o, o

James’ homing makes him de. tour to the house across the lone to visit briefly with granddaughter before her retiring. It brings him then to the home light where we catch up together with the happenings of the day. We laugh over some of these, but other; are 10° touching for words, and we are left in a silence,

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0"!‘ lllllllilhts going out to those whose names have come to us in the conversation-the ill and in hospital, and they whom we have kmwll by name and in the flesh. now translated to a place "beyond the veil. And in mind we total our personal loss, the smiles, the friendly handclasp, the kindly words we shall miss, for these are the values which are undying, which live on in the hearts of those left with fragrant memories and always with some regret, e o e

At Alderlea these damp days, the yflllllger farmer continues his work of carpentry. Ageing barn- doors have been expertly repair- ed, a new weighing-crate built as well as a portable loading chute to span the space between plggery threshold and truck. This last improvement stands to do away with the timely waving of a broom nd an apron. and the heart--leaps at James’ “Ellen. don't let him out at that side. I didn't want you there for an ornament, it was to keep him from jumping over! If he gets clear. the d--_ wouldn't catch him. and besides he'd he all hot and bothered-and that's no way to send an animal to mar- ket!"

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Though down the years none of a lengthy procession has escaped during the loading, the new struc- ture will eliminate all possibility of the like and leave us free to enjoy some less exciting duty — perhaps to admire then, besides the long aiim sides of the ani-

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Dish Cloths

Scmetimes in iiiimp weather, dish towels and clothes have a disagree- able odor that cannot be removed by ordinary washing. If this is the case. use a little ammonia in the water when washing and they will soon become fresh and clean.

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Q- How can I clean enamelivare in which food has been burned? A- BY filling with cold water, adding one tabiespoonful of wash- ing soda for every quart of water. heating slowly. and then letting it boll for about ten minutes. The burnt food can then be removed without difficulty.

Q. How can I keep cheese ‘nolst and free from mold for several days?

A; By WlllPDlng the cheese in a._cioth thoroughly saturatcll with vinegar.

Q- How can I clean the pearl handle of an article?

5- By rubbing vigorously with salt. The luster will be restored by wiping with a chamois.

Heme Take p double stitch every inch or so when hemniing a gar-meat. If s few stitches are ripped the hein Will be so secure that the rip will not extend for more than an inch.

New Brooms An effective treatment for the new broom that will toughen its bristles is s good scalding in hot suds.

BABY'S

UPSET STOMACI-l QUlCKlY CORRECTED

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Better English

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1. What is wrong with this sen- fence? "It is absolutely correct that we saw two twins."

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

3. which one of these words ls mispelicd? Pessimlsm, peztinscious. petrefy. pendulum.

What does the word "diminu-

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