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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 24, 1956
Page
14
A reader seeks guidance on loving a woman 16 years older and an aunt of a college friend. Anne Hirst discourages the age-gap marriage, warns of social censure, and suggests seeking partners closer in age. She also advises the other letter writer to end her marriage and return to family support. The page then shifts to travel writing about China’s peony season with lush descriptions.
This ad promotes pattern 4084 for children's dresses in sizes 2 4 6 8 10. It notes quick sewing, cotton fabric in pastel colors, 35 cent price, and illustrated instructions. Send size name address and style number to Anne Adams, 18th Street New Toronto.
A lyrical account of summer in China describes markets in Peking with cherries and jam, gardens flowering wildly under a gardener, and a calendar of flower fairies governing each moon from the Rose Fairy in April to the Chrysanthemum Queen in later months.
A farm letter discusses surveyors entering property to assess damages and the need to value sentimental worth of trees planted years ago. It contrasts the care for evergreens and maple saplings with inevitable losses, plus a related tale of bull and heifer calves and a Toronto couple finding an unplanned litter of kittens after plans to rehome the cat.
The article explains whale eye placement with eyes set far back facing opposite directions. It notes the eyes cannot move to look straight ahead and describes how a whale must rise and turn to scan the horizon, as explained by Mr Heapbigfish.
The writer laments late spring as bulbs peek barely above ground while frosty nights persist. Family visits bring warmth. plans for a grandson outdoors and a future cloverleaf project by the highway department loom over the farm. Surveyors and mystery activity punctuate days, with Rusty the dog announcing presence.
A pilot ejects when his plane loses power and drifts downward. He meets an upside down old woman floating upward who jokes about his crash and a gas stove going up.
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