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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 22, 1952
Page
14
A reader worries about revealing family marriage secrets to her teenage daughters. Anne Hirst counsels delaying disclosure, noting risk of youth cruelty and suggesting maintaining trust and compassion. The column also advises a reader asked about adoption and urging openness when necessary, with personal guidance.
Advertisement offers pattern 4722 for girls sizes 6 through 16 including slips two bodice versions two skirt options and panties. Details list yardage for slips and eyelet edge with easy illustrated instructions and ask readers to send 35 cents in coins to Box 1 123 18th Street New Toronto Ont.
The Olympia London Ideal Home Exhibition showcases replicas of famous historic beds from Pepys to Ankhesenamun and Napoleon Josephine. Visitors see ornate canopied beds, carved lions supporting Ankhesenamun style beds, and lush wallpaper accents as part of a display narrating antiquarian sleeping spaces.
This item provides pattern 734 with directions for a baby cap jacket and booties using three ounces of baby yarn and one ounce of contrast. Send twenty five cents for the pattern to Box 1 New Toronto Ont and request Laura Wheeler Needlework Catalog with assorted toy and accessory patterns.
A compact car crib folds from a carry package to a padded rear-seat play area with blue pink reversible sides. Also described are a syrup made from apple juice and cane sugar, a Tiny Baby Frig with 1 cubic foot capacity, and a wire tensioner that tightens strand fencing by gripping slack wire.
Gwendoline D Clathe writes from Ginger Farm about sunny weather, rain needed, and a Busy week. Bob works north as power shovel operator on a new road. Joan attended the W I Officer s Rally in Guelph where 1 100 women gathered, sharing insights on branch finances and officer duties. The debate covered whether the District Annual should be a mainly business meeting with limited speakers, urging local talent development to keep members busy.
Miss Ethel Chapman national editor of Piers Magazine delivers an address on leadership at the Provincial Women s Institute meeting. She urges women to discover talents in every branch and promote discussion to develop leaders in rural and urban areas.
A Nieuw Amsterdam passenger, eager to gamble after warnings in the smoking room, played cards with three quiet strangers who befriended him with a fortune telling. Later, his wife noted their cleverness and the man realized they had cheated him out of his fortune.
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