Dear Anne Hirst Advice Column on Love and Fidelity
A reader asks about leaving a husband for a married man with three children and plans to move to another province. Anne Hirst warns against sin, emphasizes family harm, and urges choosing loyalty, stability, and remorse over elopement and divorce. A second reader seeks reassurance about fidelity during a fiancé’s college absence and is advised to maintain trust and steady correspondence.
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Anne Hirst
Wight
Tom
Tas
Garden notes on flowers and ailing cats
A reader shares joy over growing flowers and a giant self sown sunflower that toppled. She reports a cat, Mitchie-White, with neck eruption and a scratched bleeding wound, bound her cat’s foot, and considers mineral or olive oil as a fur conditioner and remedy. A Toron to friend also has a cat with similar trouble and suggests oil as a treatment.
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Animal Kingdom
Mitchie-White
Toronto
Toronto visit and family worries over Dave's illness
A correspondent describes a trip to Toronto to see Dave after throat surgery. Dave remains under medical care for chest issues, while the family and friends cope with weather, clothing mishaps, and daily chores including fence work and a lighter aluminum wheelbarrow replacing a heavy barrow.
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Toronto
Dave
Dee
Teronto
Barrow brings relief on the farm and sparks gift thought
A farm scene recalls using a heavy steel pan barrow and a lighter aluminum wheelbarrow. The narrator urges women to consider aiding chores with better equipment and notes an elderly farmer would benefit from a Santa Claus style upgrade as he labors with rocks and soil.
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Santa Claus
Bob
Great War Hero Afraid of Cats and Other Fears
A compendium of unusual phobias and quirks from history and everyday life. The piece notes neophobia fear of new things and ailurophobia fear of cats, with anecdotes about Lord Roberts and others, including a London specialist who must sleep with a north-facing bed. It also mentions a rich American woman carrying rope for fires.
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Harley Street
London
North Pole
Lord Roberts
Boyle
Scots Won't Nake Sporrans any More
Recruits are wanted in an olde trade as a revival boosts demand for sporrans the leather or fur purses worn with kilts. The craft requires five years training, wages around 60 percent and overtime, with few newcomers. Most makers are older men. handmade sporrans fetch about 75 dollars abroad.
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