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Some of Pnfdess Elizabeth's personal friends feel sure she will visit the Duke of" Edinburgh in Malta after he goes there in 0c- iober to join his new ship, the destroyer Chequers. If she, decides to go, her hostess will be Countess Mountbatten, at whose Hampshire home the princess and duke spent the first part of their honeymoon. The countess has taken a villa on the island so as to be near Earl o Mountbatten‘ who is with the i hleditcrranean Fleet. The duke ' will not be entitled to leave while on a foreign commission. Unlike naval personnel stationed in Brit- ain, he will not get any shore- leave passes enabling him to ily home.

O O Nine-month-old. Prince Charles. second in line of succession to the British throne. had his first haircut last week. "He sat up like

a little man while I went a: it with the scissors." Barber Felix Wost said. "Dicint even squirm.

Even laughed when I tickled his ear with the comb." Did Princess Elizabeth, like other doting moth- ers, look wistfully at the baby curls being sheared away? "She wasn't there,“ West said. “As a matter of fact, l was alone with him in the nursery until the l governess came in." West. who also cuts King George's hair, said he didn't cut Charles’ locks loo short. "Just took the surplus off around the back to give him a young gentleman's appearance," he said, When Charles left the room. West said, the young prince raised his hand, waved and said "Ta-ta." This is the first quota- 1ion on record from the baby that one day may be king. The his- toric haircut took place at Bal- moral. Scotland. where the royal family is vacationing. West flew from London in one of the king's planes for the occasion. O O O

Mrs. J. A. Bernard, Miss Nor- ma Bernard, Mr. Omar Bernard are in Ottawa where on Septem- ber 8, Ralph, youngest son of Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Bernard entered the order of the Oblate Fathers as an noviate. Lat- er they will visit Dr. and Mrs. Eric C. Loth in West Roxbury before they return to Government House, Mr, and Mrs. J. P. Mac- Innis and son Alex of Summer- side accompanied them to Ottawa.

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Mrs. George D. DeBlois, Mrs. John Fraser, Mrs. P. A. Creelman, and Mrs. J. L. Curran left yes- terday morning on a motor trip through Nova Scotia.

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Mrs. Henry Fischer of East Sepauket. Long Island, New York, who has been visiting with he): brother Mr. A. Roy Kendall who

is a patient in the P. E. Island Hospital, returned home this week. ' I O O Honouring Mrs. Edith Show

~ MacLean whose marriage is tak- ing place this month, the mem- hers of the Kirk Auxiliary enter- tained at a duster shower Tues- day evening at the home of Mrs. H. E. Hyndman. Rochford Street. The group also presented Mrs. MacLean with a wedding gift. Re- centhostesses for Mrs. MacLean include Mrs. Wendall Barbour and Miss Betty H011 who gave a luncheon party for her. and Mrs.

(Dig) L. Prowse and Mrs. A. iPeake who entertained at a shower.

‘Miss Norma Thompson arrived on Saturday last from Bozeman. Montana, and is spending a holi- day with her mother, Mrs. W. D. Gillis, and Mr. Giliis, Water Street.

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Mrs. Noel l-f. DeBlois and Mrs. Thomas DeBlois entertained at dinner and bridge on Friday eve- ning at Keppoch for Miss Joan Miller whose marriage is taking place next month.

o O Mrs. J. J. Denhy of Toronto is mending a holiday in Charlotte- town and is registered at The Charlottetown l-Iotel.

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Mrs. A. a. Cdsh left Thursday for Halifax. She is the represen- tative of the Anglican Woman's Auxiliary of P. E. Island on a committee of’ the Board of Man- agement of the Missionary So- ciety of the Church of England in Canada.

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Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKinnon. and three children. David, Phillip and Peter left Thursday on a two weeks visit to Ottawa.‘

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Friends will be interested in the eng ement in Fort William, Ont., o! Miss Dorothy Shuttle- worth, youngest» daughter of Mr. B. W. and the late Mrs. Shuttle- worth of that city, to the Rev. Robert B. Wright. son of the late Rev. S. B. G. Wright and Mrs. Wright of Toronto. formerly. Miss l". Winnifred DeBlois of Char- lottetown. The marriage will take place at St. Paul's Church, Iort William on Saturday, September the Ifth.

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Capt. G. D. Cochrane. Mrl. Cochrane, and their daughter Su- sari of Fredericton. N. 8., are visiting in Charlottetown. Capt. Cochrane is Staff Capt. "A", Army Headquarters, Fredericton.

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Mrs. B. D. RJZETS, Westmount. Montreal, is visiting in Charlotte- town the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ethel Rogers, Upper Prince Street. While here Mrs. Rogers spent two weeks holidaying at Stanhope Beach lnn.

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Miss Lena McLuro, loft Wed- nesday for Toronto after a de- lightful visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. Chester S. McLure, Bonnehinley.

Misses Vera‘ arid ‘Laura Duncan left over the weekend on a holi- day motor trip to relatives in Bos- ion.

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ln honour of Miss Corinne Walker whose marriage to Petty Officer J. W. Ward, R.C.N. is tak- ing place the latter part of the month, Mrs. Baron MacDonald entertained at a miscellaneous shower on Tuesday evening.

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Mr. and Mrs. T. Roy Cudmoie returned Wednesday from a motor trip through the Catskill moun- tains, New Hampshire and Ver- mont. They also spent some time holidaying in Montreal, Boston and New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Beer, Palmer Apartments. accompanied by their daughter Miss Betty Beer left this morning on a motor trip to Toronto where they will visit with Mrs. Beer's sister, Mrs. G. K. Shells and Mr, Shells.

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Miss Beatrice MacDonald nf New York for the past week the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Gillis, Water Street, returned on Fri- day.

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Miss Janet Miller. Dumbarton. Scotland. and Miss Alberta Bryant. are spending a holiday with Miss Bryant's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bryant, Grafton Street, before returning to the teaching staff of Edgehill School for Girls, Windsor, N. S. - t. -

Honouring Miss Violet Birtwis- tie whose marriage to Mr. C. C. Montgomery of Summerside takes place this month, Miss Katherine Sutherland entertained at a kit- chen shower and shore party at Bunbury Wednesday evening. a - o

In Ottawa this week an engage- ment of Charlottetown interest was announced when Mr. and Mrs. W. Gordon Smith entertain- ed_ for their daughter, Marion Elizabeth. whose marriage to James William MacKlnnon, snn of Mrs. James A. MacKinnon and the late Mr. MacKinnon of Cole- man, has been arranged to take place September seventeenth in Southminster United Church. Mr. MacKinnon is Deputy Provincial Secretary for Prince Edward Is- land. O O

Min Georgie Jardine whose marriage to Mr. Donald Seaman is taking place in the near fu- ture was guest of honour at a miscellaneous shower Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. James Cudmore, Longworth Avenue.

. o o Mrs. Lloyd Grant entertained for Miss Jardine at a shower on Friday evening,’

t o o Mrs. Norman MacPherson. for- merly Miss Maude Bruce of Charlottetown, who has been a patient in the P.E.I. Hospital for the last two months has recover- ed sufficiently to return to her home in Providence, R. l. She will be accompanied by her bis- ter (Kitty) Mrs. T. H. Westwood.

, , Mrs. James MacLeod of Regina who has been visiting her sister liliss Mabel MacLeod. Grafton Street for several weeks left Mon- day for Toronto where sho will ‘be-the guest of her daughter ba- fore returning home.

m. lfld MPsTiiE-oia 1.. Pick- ard have had as their guests this week their daughter Josephine

now Mrs. R. W. Gottwaldt, Mr. Gottwaldt and their young son Paul who came by car from

their home in Minneapolis. Min- nesota, Accompanying them on their motor trip were Mrs. Gott- waldt. Sn, and Mr. and Mrs. An- derson.

O O O Mrs. J’. A. Clark on Thursday afternoon entertained at The Vil- la Waters for the members of the Baptist Missionary Society.

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Mr. and Mrs. 1.‘. V. Bell ‘had as guests this week Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Simlns of Fredericton, N. B. who with Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Merritheu of Ifiedericton, have been motoring through Prince Ed- ward Island and later will motor around the Cabot Trail.

Hoeteuea at the Golf Club this afternoon will be Mrs. J.P. Clarke, Mrs. J. W. MacKensie, Mrs. Earle Baker, Mrs. J H. Cerry

O O O O Mr. and Mrs. '1‘. I _ ‘ g and left on return to London, Ontarip.

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THE GUARDIAN. CHARIJOTTETOWN .

SEPTEMBER 10, 1949 ,

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ELLEWS DIARY

By An Island Farmer's Wlfo ififlt

lo many some: of rare lovoli. n?" 11°58 11in countryddo. they who can find "books in the run. hing books” may collect these de- llfiht-ful September days. "Don't you mink. Ellen" friend of our: wrote 1Y1 her letter this morning, having mentioned a. weddlng-to-be of mun. ual interest “that one is most for- tunate to be m3rrlBd—Qf when W5 CQH-ilde!‘ it. to be born in Septgm. ber?" It seems as though there is a background 1o happenings of this month, that can't be surpassed. or._ forgive me. a. September child!- "en squatted, and which serve to mark any event in mind long after 11 has Passed into the years.

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There is a restlessness, a haste l0 the months of Spring and Sum- mer often somewhat disturbing. that i5 gone from the mcllowness and fructivity of September. Now the year has completed much of its Purpose, and the days Seun to loiter a biz. 0h. I know there's the PTB-iervmg and all that for the like of you and me, but there's a peace and a fullness about its days that is missing from the other months. A day can be so still and beaufifuL l1 flight s0 full of the magic cf moonlight, it's as though Nature has at last. taken time to attend u, her devotions, and is returning thanks for the plenty and beauty 0n Overs’ hand. Yes as you can see. I like September!"

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We looked up from reading her letter to find the proof of it — a gathering of golden stocks were in picturesque possession of a. shelter- ed spot against the tree-crowned hil1side:_guarding them above dark spires pierced the sunlit hlue; the vows stcod knee-deep in the placid Wild below. Near at hand we slimmed an apple-laden bougli; gossamer floated like soft length..- flf Silky thistle down. and that golden glint along a length cf read- side? That was goldenrcd trystlng with the bees. Truly there was much to he said for the quiet loveliness of the September scenes.

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Only the lovely ones We would recall to min-d at wrecks end-ell of the beauty of firlci and grove. of orchard and wayside, and as well a sunny smile. a word. Others that would now lntrdude‘ are but a desecration to the serenity of the hour at hail-d. But some are per- sistent-the perplexitiesthat un- bidden still pursue. the disappoint- ments and losses of past days that have been ours to bear. This week has been especially gracious to the farmers at Alderlea. No major problem came to vex or distress them other than the odd delays incidental to the best of harvest- ing. It was to the women-kind that a. disaster came, as recently as to- day.

O O They have been the owners of a flock of ducks-fine fellows that only to march in stately file across the yard was to bring their keep- ers nice visions of richer days to come. Over and over again we made plans as to what we should do with the proceeds from their ultimate sale ancr we had con-tri- buted odd roasts of them to the family larder. They might buy us we confided to Jeanie fine reading lamps or other articles of electric- ity "when we get the lights." And indeed it was a confort to have them on foot, if only 1o refute James notion that "Ellen never was much good with poultry."

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At present we are obliged to hear it humtbled and in silence though we suppose there shall be other be- ginnings. whenever hope again "springs eternal." Because today. one after another of the flock to a number which made Karolyn in- quire in amazement, "Arrd didn't it grieve you?" tnppled over and died. Grandduaghter regarding the plump lifeless bodies sighed: James "expected it"; we murmured "all that expensive feed lost" and Jock said “worse than that-all the work of raising them!" The oontriibuting factor to the happening. we believe was a. feasting on the liberal sprinkling of salt On the cabbage heads in a. near field which James said "was to be expected of it" since the surroundings were favor- ite prowling grounds for the flock.

And we sighed-in secret, an-zi lest

MUTEQOUQmhé-‘TEZI 115E McCarey and her aunt, Miss Em- ma Dougan.

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On Thursday evening Mra. Har- ry Silliphant and Mrs. W. A. Currie were joint hostesses at the farmer's home in Summerside when they entertained their bridge club. \

O O O Mrs. J. M. Densmora of New- ton Centre. Massachusetts. who has been visiting relatives in the province for the past month left on Wednesday morning for her home. While in Summerside she was the guest of Miss Lulu Toombs, Convent Street. ‘ O O O

D5‘ and Mrs. A. A. Lockhart and son Frank. accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Williams rc- turned to their homes in Sum- merside after a most enjoyable ten days‘ trip to Boston, Massa- chusetta.

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Mr. and Mrs, Wallace Brad- shaw, Summerside, have had as their guest the farmer's cousin. Miss Lila Bradshaw of Medford. Massachusetts, who left yesterday on return. ,

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Mr. and Mrs. Stirling Inman and Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Ready, City, are leaving over the week-end on a two weeks holiday motoring to Boston. New York and the White Mountains.

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‘DOROTHY DIX SAYS-mm

Attic Waste

Hoarding Of Useful Articles. ls Selfish Sentimentalify

Financiers have been telling us to get money out from under the mattress or out of the safety deposit box and put it into circulation. For unused money docs no one any good.

A worse crime than the hoarding of money is the hoarding of things. and that is an -offense of which virtually every mother's daughter of us is guilty. Nearly every woman has her house chuck ' full of things which are of no earthly value to her, but which she cannot bring herself to part with. Piles of old magazines. Clothes the children have out- grown. Shabby shoes. Year-before-last hats, Shabby furniture. Old party dresses. Odd pieces of china. Broken toys. Thousands of useless articles that clut- ter up the place, but which she clings to through some misguided idea that she is being thrifty in doing so.

In the past hoarding was exploited as a virtue. There was even a proverb that if you kept a thing seven years you would find a use for it, which, of course, was the vericst nonsense, for in the majority of cases most things have rusted or rotted out in seven years, Besides, nobody ever goes back and reads old magazines or wears moldy shoes or finds a place where an old buckle or flower fits on a hat. Every woman knows from experience that having a dress made over is an extravagance that only the rich can afford.

Once upon n time I helped a friend clear out an attic in a house in which several generations of wcll-ta-do people had lived. The walls were literally covered with ovcrcoats and cloaks that the nroths had eaten into rugs, There must have been n truckload of molds-ring shoes in a cortier, There were dozens of trunks filled with baby clothes and children's clothes and the clothes of the various members of the family who had dicd. There were boxes of rotting bedding. Bed springs falling to pieces with rust. Chairs and tables and bureaus falling apart. Barrels of yellow and tattered books covered with mil- devr.

When i lind surveyed the room I turned to my friend and said: "I iliink this attic is the wickedest Place I've ever seen, and I thank God I am not one of the women who piled up all of this useless junk when there were people all about them who were cold and naked, and that I won't have to answer for this senseless hoarding on the Judg- mcnt Dopz"

And I meant it. Believe me, saying that. you thought you might wear a pair of shoes another time isn't going to be a very convincing alibi for not giving them to some poor freezing wretch whose feet are on the frozen ground, nor are your sentimental feelings about the clothes Johnny and Mamie wore when they were little going to be a good excuse for not clothing the ragged children that live behind you on tho next block.

I have heard good and charitable women boast that they had every stitch of baby clothes that every one of their children had worn care- fully folded a\\';.\y in lavender. They would have been shocked if you called them heartless. yet not half a mile from where they lived were poor mothers who were bringing children into the world so Poverty- strickcn that they would have to wrap the new-born babe in on old shawl or a bit bf sacking. _

All of us know people who treasure as sacred the garments of their (lead. The gay party dress some pretty young girl wore. The warm quilted robe that was such a comfort to Mother when she grew old and chilly and the blood flowed sluggishly in her veins. Father's thick overcoat and heavy brogues, The sweaters and sport fogs that some boy looked so handsome in.

'l‘hese clothes of our loved and lost seem so much n part of them that it is hard to give them away, but is it not laying flowers on their grave to make some living person happier because they lived? Will not the poor girl dancing in the pretty frock scnda thought that is a prayer toward the other girl to whom it once belonged? Will not the old man and the old woman, warm and comfortable, call down n benediction on those other. old people but for whom they would be cold and shivering?

And thc old furniture that you have discarded. There are peo- ple slcepim: on the floor or lying on hard boards to whom your old bed would seem as luxurious as the princess’ forty mattresses of ease. There are rheumatic old men and women sitting in hard chairs whose old bones would cry aloud with joy at your shabby old upholstered chairs. There are thousands of poor women who would rise up and call you blessed for an old table or a cupboard or a chest of drawers to take the place of the soapbox furniture which is all they have.

So be not. of those who commit the crime of the attic. Go over all your possessions and pass on to some one less fortunate than yourself everything that you can possibly do without.

Clothes and furniture and books and toys will bring you more happiness in bringing happiness to others than they will stacked away on a closet shelf.

DOROTHY DIX

DOROTHY DIX cannot reply personally to readers, but will ano- wer problems of general interest through her column. .

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But that was only a trivial dis- appointment in our week and day. We enjoyed a mid-day dinner o: tho house across the lane, when the family at Alderlea. forgathered to honor those of Jennies folk, vac- ~ ationing briefly frcm a neighboring 1_ what is wrong with m1, sen. P"°vm°e"a 51st“ and husband “d tence? "I like all kinds of movies." YW"? daughler- bmw" °r maids 2. What is the correct pronunc- and eyes. n contrast to grand- mum o, "regatta"? daughters fairness. We ate fowl 3_ which one o, the“ word, is and "fixin’s '. and a cake of Jeanie‘: misspelled? lunmous, baking known to granddaughter as delmoui “the birthday cake." And we were 4 what do" the word unluguryu sorry that holidays must come to meg“? an end soon. and folks must return ' 5 what i, ._ W"! beginning 1° their ""5 - - ~ And "W" l“ with n that means "lacking stiff- week stands at the door of His day. “as. m“ and weak...) when in the turn of the hours folks ' will gather to their Churches, to ,ANSWEBS