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PAGE TWO THE GUARDIAN.

ELLEIl'S DIARY

I: an Island Farmers Wife

Today in I touching dsht. we commenced our preparations for Christmas at Alderlea. It is an en- deavour sometimes forgotten on farmsteads or postponed in t.he in- sistence of other duties of the sea- son. And often with unsettling re- cults. We think the wind which blew in a gale along our valley in the reoent November storm had something to do with prompting James to take up the chore this morning.

Yet never was it undertaken be- fore a more appreciative audience and so lovely was the scene it is recorded on a page of memory. that. if spared, we know we shall turn to when steps slow . and 0111' small ones have been borne along to adult interests of their own . . . This was. We recall. a beau- tiful morning, neither of fall ll0l' winter. but an exquisite combina- tion of the two.

The sky that arched above our Talley was quite .as blue as the best of Autumn's and a sprinkle of snow lay along the farmlands. The sun warmed and brightened the day and the wind that came in above a hilltop was mild. it play- ed a quiet melody in the trees about the yards. crooning above empty nests and stirring gently

the wash Jennie spread on the line. 0 0 .

We saw an icicle fall from an eave in the mildness and all about the snow was d1ssolvlnE-

and disappearing. But some still remained on the path between this and the house across the lane, hard-pack-ed and icy. We watch- ed the two children leave their door and hand in hand set forth in the sunshine. A bluejay called from the poplar by the gateway, not we fancied in token of falling weather but only from the Joy of being alive on a blue and gold morning like this. And now the youngsters stopped to regard their grandfather who came by briskly. a ladder on his shoulder.

Already there was one on the red roof of the smaller house to- wards which his steps led. They stood- spell-bound, while be mounted presently to the heights and called down to them from there. We left the window and came to the front verandah.

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"Do you see what heis doing?" granddaughter. tones bright as the morning hailed us. "Give it a good clermingt" she called out en- couragingly to the man on the roof. "because the more soot you take off. the more room he'll have for toys!" Then to us: "Are you going to have that one done? I think it would be better- that is if you wanted anything for Christ- mas. You couldn't expect a man in a new red suit to ..come down one if it was dirty, now could you? You wouldn't yourself!"

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Whether or not Santa Claus will pass ours by because of our ages, a question quite puzzling to the grandchildren, we remember there have been those occasions when we struggled to "come down" to our small ones, our reward, the delightful sparkle of a dream- come-true. an expectation realiz- ed. a fond hope fulfilled in their bonny eyes. ,

And so today when all the world was fresh and lovely in a cere- mony fraught with anticipation

for ours and satisfaction for their elders lhe chimneys were brushed shining clean in Santa Claus' visit. ,

Until tomorrow -- - Diary .. - Good-night. . . . .

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DECEMBER 7, 1951

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By James W. Barton. MD. xN SAVWG THE EYESIGHT OF

CHILDREN

Wlhen school physicians first be- gan examining school children and sending reports of their findings to the parents of those in whom they found physical defects, many parents were embarrassed and sent indignant replies to the school physic.an. They said they were perfectly capable of caring for the health let their children and had their own physician and dcntist. Fortunately, this attitude on the part of parents has disappeared almost entirely.

After infected teeth. poor vision is perhaps the next most common physical defect in children. In the Illinois Medical Journal Drs. Clifton S. Turner and J. A. Potter report the results obtained by the Peoria Visual Screening Project which began in 1946 for the pur- pose of finding the number of school children with difficulties of vision and what could be done about them. A total of 12,667 grade school. children were examined with the Mzissachusets Vision Test.

The results showed that about 18 per cent of the children were below normal eyesight standard. The findings also showed a grad- ual increase from 25 per cent in the first grade to 5:! per cent in the eighth grade with defective vision. These figures show that vision difficulties increase as the child advances in school.

Notwithstanding that these de- fects of children were duly re- ported to the parents, only 21 per cent, about one in five. received professional care from oculists and qualified optometrists. It is hard to understand why intelligent par- ents would not provide the needed professional care which, in most instances, would mean only the price of glasses.

Drs. Turner and Potter stress the importance of a small advis- ory committee representing the professions of opthalmology (eon- cernen with eye diseases) and op- fometry (measurement of the amount of vision present).

Because parents do not realize the importance of good vision. not only to the child's acquiring of knowledge but to his nhyslcai. mental and emotional health, they neglect or disregard the inform- ation sent them.

"In order to overcome the lack of follow-up of unresponsive par- ents and to urge them to obtain proper visual carelfor their child- ren, it is felt that this part of the program would be helped by as- signing the follow-up work to pub- lic health nurses."

Morning Smilg

'h&Qm Be Quiet

The disgruntled film actress sc- l costed the producer.

"I'll not appear in your new play unless you alter the cast. Two of the players can't act for toffee." "Indeed," said the producer, drily. "and who is the other?"

Ordinary

"I haven't met your husband, What's he like?"

"Just the ordinary type: 42 around the waist, 42 around the chest, V2 around the .golf course. and a nuisance around the house."

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A man notorious for his mean- ness had stayed the weekend with friends. As he was saying good-bye to his hostess. she said: "I thought you might be embarrassed about the servants, so I tipped them each five dollars and said it was from you...

"Why didn't you make it ten?" the guest said, as he entered his car. "I don't want your servants to think I'm stingy!"

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PRECIOUS SCRAP

JOHANNESBUEG-(CP) - South African town councils bsvs been asked to introduce regulations controlling the sale of scrap metal. Police are concerned over the in- creasing thefts of copper. brass and lead from houses and buildings, b7 thieves who rush it to receivers who convert the scrap Into new forms to evade investigation.

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Islanders Married In Ontario

Mr. and Mrs. Prowse are shown above followins me” W9ddln8- Wig! them are their attendants, from left to right. M!” Hanmm Tumerv ' N., bridesmaid; the bride and groom; and A.C. 1 Bruce Slater. D83! mim-

. . . N mber leth. The bridesmaid, Miss Hannah 193? 7a:otlil)An1R:;lal gvaenadiari AirlTurner, R.N., of New Glasgow,- Force station Clinton Ontario. at Nova Scotia. yore 3 blue suit with a double ringl ceremony, the mar- white accessories and a corsage of riage took place of Madge Victoria. white carnations.

R.N., daughter of the late Mr. and The best man was AC. 1 hlrhuce Mrs Willard Thomas. of Victoria. Slater of Plncer Creek. 3. C. ey P I. to AC.l Gerald Albert.son were united in marriage by FVL. of Mr: and Mrs. Gerald R. Prowsc CAg. Hal;dln8- recepmm

H b , P. E. I. er e ceremony a 01 Mum” at our took place in London, thence they The bride wore a tan gabardlne motored to Niagara Falls, N.Y.

suit with brown velvet accessories The couple will reside in Clin- and a coi-sage of Talisman roses. ton. Ontario-

DOROTHY DIX SAYS-

Possessive Neighbor

Don'l- Reialiaie By Trying To Beat Her Al' Own Game

DEAR MISS DIX: We live in a housing project where the homes are quite close together. There are a number of children and they get along very well. However, there is one little boy who rate: our sympathy because his mother will not let him bring any toys out- side his house. He has very nice things, too. such as a bicycle, wagon, etc., but his mother treats them like gold. As soon as the child gets off his bike on the few occasions when he Set! it Out. She whisks it into the house. let another child touch his things. As a result. he roams around playing with other children's things. The other youngsters resent this. They keep chasing him home to get his own things, which of course he cannot do.

How can we make this mother see that It Is unfair to the other children to deprive her child of his playthings? Dolyou think it is right for her to be so selfish. consequently turning him into a grabber who wants the other chil- dren's toys? As you can well imagine, this woman is very unpopular and the only person who tolerates all this grabbing is the next-door neighbor, who is just the opposite with her youngster's playthlngs.

' THREE TDISGUSTED MOTHERS

ANSWER: the neighbor of whom you complain! represent almost the rest of the neighborhood!

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Tllo Birthday Murder

By Lungs lAwIs'

She sat in I choir across the ts- ble from him. The glare of sun- light on its white surface hurt her eyes; the metal arms of the chair were almost too hot to touch. Savhrs eyes seeme” Imp”- vious to the Blue. and his body to the heat. They were on hers with a ruthless and impersonal curio- my. "rm trying to pin down what yovutonce were and what you may be now." he said. ''I find it hard. The years do queer things to peo- ple. What you have always wanted to be. and what you have become, is that rather fabulous creature, u self-sufficient woman, functioning like a man in a man's world." He rested one arm on the edge of the table, leaned over it a little toward her. "You always had to bb first. Victoria. That's part of it. But there's another reason, I think, for your becoming that person. I won- der if you know about it. People know so little 'really, about the lin- ing of their minds. They have is fantastic ability to see of them- selves lttle more than the picture they themselvs create; the self that shows, the self the world sees. so I wonder if you know yourself the most important rea- son for your becoming such a. very successful woman.."

They stared at each other across the little table. "Your face." said Sewn.

CHAPTER TH IRTY-TWO Part Two

The two words brought an old ache sharply back ic Victoria. The ache that came when she ran into a hall of her childhood, heard lien mother say to a. woman over a ten. cup-the light voice behind the thick gree plush portiere- "Vic- toria is no a pretty child, but she's a wonderfully intelligent one." And then the mirror of the m8h08&ny hatrack, 8. faintly greenish ovall, holding a sharp, Dofnted childls face with gray eyes. That was the first time that ache came to her.

"My face," she said, "has been my fortune."

Sawn stood up, walked to the thick adobe wall with its row of potted cacti. He threw his cigaret over the wall. v and she was re- minded of seeing him make that some gesture on the night Albert had died. With his back to her he stood looking at the sprawled city under the wide blue sky.

"Therlast time we talked to- gether you told me some interest-

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