The Brussels Post, 1957-01-30, Page 2." .
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even.d.olirve P. Ctozke
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,We are glad the strike doesn't
hold up the, mail completely be -
Cause 'the new year mail is ,,a1-
ways interesting to us especially
as we received a number of
very welcome, letters from read-
ers of this column which have'
been much appreciated — even
though some.,OLthe letter-writers
preferred to remain anonYrimus,.
Then there 'ate 'the 'Short, 'Very
short intimate letters' . "just' a
not to let you know we are still
alive but very busy=—so much
illness in the family and so
many changes—but we are going
to Write you a really long letter
• 'very soen," Didn't you get a few
letters like that?
Well, another upset that pre-
'vented "a return to normal liv-
ing" was the. Sudden illness of a
friend in town—an old lady Of
eightY-three, living alone. For
innately she has many good
friends so between us all she
`had someone with her all the
time, night arid,. day. My stint
was to
e
go down after dinner and
sta Until about seven_ o'clock.
Th lady is now recovering Very
nicely and no doubt Will Scion be
up and around again. The 'come
back' of smile Of Orit aged
• tens
Partner; of cetaad, has been
doing a bit of batehing but as
long as there IS Itidd in the re,
frigerater he dosn't inirid as, he
doesn't haire too Many chores
:Outside these, dayS.' pur. One OW
4 golit, o we shall seen be'
buying UntilAtteit tine 'as
to§§4 .toraa§ in again. Partner
is. alSO getting• the - barnyard •
'Cleaned out, the 'ease way—'by'
selling the fertiliiet This pred
tide is agi)inat'-fill good fatnilitg
Principle& 'but 'not in our ease.
'Ai an thefartri down in graS,S
Somewhere in my column last
week I voiced.the hope of a re-
turn to. normal living. So what
happened? Canada started the
New Year with a railway strike.
As you know it actually started
as scheduled. My sister and
nephew were here at the time
and they had to return to Osh-
awa a day earlier than planned.
In a way we were glad because
the weather was desperately
cold and we were so afraid they
might not be warm enough.
Stoke as you like, these big
country houses amid the wide
open spaces are exposed to every
wind that blows which makes it
hard to keep an even tempera-
ture. Nekt day, that is the second
day of the strike, the mailman
came along as usual—minus the
morning paper. Now we are get-
ting it again but always , a day
late. That doesn't suit ,Partner
too well' because no matter what
we hear by radio or television
he still wants his paper. More
so than I do. I like to listen to•
the news of the day, ,condensed.
and delfvered in 'tabloid form.
That way I can keep on with my
work and still keep up" with the
times. But that doesn't apply to
local weekly .papers. They must
be read, marked and inwardly
digested without benefit of radio
and TV. They are the papers we
read .from-end to end and back
again. We read the advertising,
the council reports, social 'affairs,
coming "event's, personal items
and the highlights of the week's
news. This applietorily . More
, so—to readers who' are quite' a
distance from. home. We. got a
bundle of. English local papers
last week and to us they con-
tained a` goldmine` 'el 'informa-
tion.
. 4,1,00M .OF :NIGHT • . "—Playing Postmarf.polio-
crippled„children,do their bit for the 1957 March of Dimes. The
youngsters-mPiledtthe•first" of two million "contribution envelopes
being sent outlayrthe Ncitional Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis. Left to right,rchildren are: 'Gail labita, 6; Gerard Boyle, 4;
ana Jill Sealring;"3:"'" '
'DEAR, ANNE HIRST:
"How can I find. out if my
usbarici. is unfaithful?" cries a,
ifs:tressed wife. "In all 01,1r nine
years together, I never before
have doubted him. But now un-
certainty is tearing me apart!
"There is a woman in this
;own who is notorious; she has
:p.roken,..up, two homes, and I am
afraid 'for mine, A, friend told
me she has seen my husband
with her downtown, but how
can I prove it? He deniesa he
even knows her,
"I admit that when I am up-
set, I accuse him of having an
affair, but it is his own fault —
*here there's smoke there's
are,' etc. He has not changed
oward me, he is as loving and
attentive as ever, and our mar-
;iage has been beautiful: But
t cannot forget what I heard.
We have a young son whom we
"early love, but even with •him
C am not myself, and he senses
It.
"My husband has a fine repu-
tation, and is very popular with
everybody. His family have
dyed here for generations, and
I can't believe he would be guil-
ty of sin — and with such a
Public character! If it were a
friend of mine he were interest-
ed in, I would be hurt but not so
ashamed. Don't yen think I
should do something about it?"
WHY DOUBT HIM?
* I suppose it" is of little use
4` to remind you that few men
4 stray from home if they find
* love there, and the compan-
• ionship they need. - In nine
* years your husband has never
4' sought anyone else, nor ne-
* glected you in any way. Your
* only basis for these doubts is
* hearsay; don't you know that
* jealous "friends" sometimes
* cannot resist sowing seeds of
* suspicion in the mind of a
* wife who is happier than
* they?
• Sit down quietly and com-
* pose yourself. Look at your
4` marriage as it has existed for
nine years. Can you find any
* fault in it? Your husband is
* a man of integrity; he is de-
* voted, attentive, proud of you
* and: his son. What reason
* would, he have :to seek his
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* pleasUre elsewhere? You say
* that if he were interested in
* a friend of your, you could
* understand; if that were true,
* you might well worry, for
* she could be a formidable
* rival, But, what, joy could he,
* a, man of refinement, find with
4` a disreputable woman? You
* have been, you are his be-
* loved wife, you are closer
* than any couple you know.
* What must your husband
* be thinking of your accuse.-
* tion? He undoubtedly is re-
* volted and can find no words
* to reply to you.
* Cast fears from you. Be-
* lieve your husband still is the
* fine person he has always
* been, and resolve that from
* this day on you will trust him
* with all your heart. Cease
* your nagging, and you be
* very sure that the hours he
* spends at home are relaxed,
* made content by your love
* and, more important, by your
* complete faith.
• Whether or not you can do
4' this, I do not know. But I
* urge you not to pursue the
* matter further. *
WANTS A WIFE
"Dear Anne Hirst: I am a
man in my early 40's, with two
unhappy memories behind me:
I loved two girls (successively)
and both turned me down —
the first because I owned no
property and. was making only
a small salary. The other, who
pretended to care, left me. flat
and married somebody else.
"I always have attended
church regularly and usually
took up some activities there.
I'm not hard to get along with,
my family are O.K., and now I
have an excellent position with
every hope of security. I am
ready to get married, build a
home, and appreciate a good
wife.
"Won't you give me the name
and address of that young wo-
man of 25 who is lonesome in
this town that is strange to me,
too? I haven't met a single girl
that attracts me here.
JIM."
• You probably are a new
'0 reader of this column, or you
* would know that I never can
* introduce readers to each
other.
• My customary suggestion to
* men in your situation is to
* cultivate the men you know
* and like, and tell them your
* problem. Happily married
4' ones will see that their wives
* introduce you to eligible
* young women. Let your new
* minister and other leaders in
* the community know your
* hopes, too, and soon you
* should find yourself pleasant-
* ly occupied.
• If you can take an early
* vacation this spring, visit a
* resort, make yourself known
* to the social director, and go
* on from there. Or take a
* cruise — on it, you are apt
* to meet unattached women in
* the mood for romance, which
* develops rapidly aboard ships.
* New places and faces will
* give you a lift and new hope
* for the future. Good hunting!
* f. *
Anne Hirst stands by to guide
you through any kind of
trouble.. Write her frankly, and
receive her understanding and
her sympathy. Address her at
Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New
Toronto, Ont.
BLEAK HOUSE — despOil-
in§ the handiwOrk of Jack Frost
is this disgruntled little girl in
Fran curt, Germany. After clear-,
trig ci space Or; the icy pane and
,flattening her nose fait a better
look, she, has apparently decid-
ed that little girls Stay indoors
On days like thit.
Did Ravens Guide
Men to. America?
Havens , were the pilots
'
•
the pioneers, the discoverers of
the race. A pair of them were
generally taken by a sea'king is
his vessel, and when, the stars
finite failed to show where he
was, they acted the part of a
compass for him, He let them
loose and, marking the direction
which they took, followed, as
best he could, in their wake,
sure that they were taking the
shortest way to land, On one
occasion, they made a great geo-
graphical discovery. Flokki, a
famous sea-rover, fitted out an
expedition to test the truth of
reports brought by other sea-
rovers, that there was a large
island sOmewhere, an "ultima
Thule," far beyond even the Far-
oes. He took three revens with
him. . . . He reached the Faroes
and striking boldly out to sea
beyond, let loose raven No. 1,
which after rising high in the
xr, returned to the islands,
whence Flokki concluded that
they...were still the nearest land.
He sailed onward again, and let
slip raven No. 2, which, after
circling round for a time, re-
turned to the ship; whence
Flokki, concluded that there 'was
now no land within even a
raven's sight or scent. He sailed
onward once more, and then let
!nose No, 3, his forlorn hope. It
flew off at once north-westward.
Floicki followed in his wake, and
discovered the eastern coast of
a huge inhospitable island, which
he named Iceland. 'Soon after-
wards the Northmen came to set-
tie in the newly - discovered
country. It became the home of
the Scalds and the birthplace of
the Sagas. And the adventurous
Northrnen, sallying forth thence
again, 'in process of time, and
doubtless accompanied and guid-
ed by the ravens, who were in-
separable from them, discovered
a still mare remote and inhos-
pitable island, which they named
Vinland or Greenland, — From
"Bird Life and Bird Lore," by
R. Bosworth Smith.
CLIPPED! = Here's Elvis, by the
Army shorn. Which leaves the
girlies all forlorn. His locks and
sideburns on the floor, he 'ain't
gonna shake them curls no
more. The Army barber hasn't
really got to ,.Elvis Presley yet.
This is just our retouch artist's
idea of what the, lad will look
like with a G.I. clip.
The Memory of
The Wild Goose
Not many a hunter, looking
up a cold blu6 barrel at a cold
grey sky, will ever think about
Jack Miner. Few Misspurians
peering outward from a Boot-
heel goose pit will ever have
heard pf him. But „as Jay N.
(Ding) Darling, noted cartoonist,
and conservationist, once said,
"Wild geese have: better memor-
ies „than men." Wild, geese and
every mariner of migratory bird
flock to the"land- and waters of
the. Jack Miner Migratory“Bird
Foundation...near-Kingsville, On-
' Jack Miner was a Canadian.
Working' in the land from Which
most of 'our migratory wildfowl
come, he gave his life to' conser-
vation, and his property as well:
Three years after his death, in
1347, the Canadian Parliament
visaed an act establishing the
week of his birthday, April 10,
as Wild Life Week, The Canadian
Gnvernment contributes $5,000,-
000 annually to help maintain the
great Ontario sanctuary, but it
must still seek private contri-
butions to buy more land to
serve wildlife -- and the human-
ity that wildlife serves,
This year the City of Detroit
joined it the observance of Wild
Life Week with its Canadian
neighbors. Missouri is a distance
(rein Detroit. But it is not far
as the wild goose flies, nor too
far for men to remember Jack
Miner's way-station for hundreds
of thousands of Wings beating.
Southivard. St. Louis Post-
Dispatch,
OBLIGING TRAIN
The Moat obliging train in
Canada IS the one that runs
from Cochrane to Moosonee on
the Teriniskafning and' Northern
Ontario 'Reilwair. It waits two
days at Moosonee to print its
*ssengers back again!
Going to School In
Shakespeare's Day
Now for the school in Shake,
speare's day, Shakespeare was
allowed to join the school, when,
he had reached the age of seven
years . Shakespeare's class-
room was long ,and narrow and
timbered. There would be
desk for the schoolmaster and
smaller desks, benches and
forms for the scholars, For, les-
sons, Shakespeare would learn
Latin, some arithmetic and a
little Greek, English. was not a
school subject, but it is interest-
ing to record that it was a
schoolmaster who was alive
when. Shakespeare lived who
first pleaded that the English
language should be taught in
school.
We get a description of school,
life written in 1612 by John
Brinsley. Brinsley was Head-
master of Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Grammar School from 1601-
1617. He wrote: Of school times,
intermissions and recreations,
the school time should begin at
six; all who write Latin to make
their exercises which w ere
given overnight, in that hour be•
fore seven. Thus they are to
continue until nine . . . Then at
nine, to let them have a quarter
of an hour at least, or more,
for intermission, either f o r
breakfast . . for honest recrea-
tion, or to prepare their exer-
cises against the master's com-
ing in. After, each of them to
be in his place in an instance,
upon the knocking of the door,
or' some other sign; . . . and so
continue until eleven of • the
clock, or somewhat after, to
countervail the time of the in-
termission at nine. In the after-
noon*: To being again all ready
and in their places at one, in
an instance; to continue until -
three, or half an hour after; then,
to have another quarter of an
hour or more, as at nine, . . .
so to continue till half an hour
after five; thereby in that half
hour to countervail the time at
three; then to end with reading
a piece of a chapter, and with
singing two staves of a Psalm;
lastly with prayer to be used
by the master . . . It was Roger
Aschan, who taught Queen Eli-
zabeth, who pleaded that chil-
dren could be better taught,
and learn better, if controlled
by love and not by violence.
Roger Aschanwrote: I do gladly
agree with all good schoolmas-
ters in these points: to have
children brought to good per-
fectness in learning; to all
honesty in manners; to have all
faults. rightly amended; to have
_every vice severely.. corrected.
This I know, not only by read-
ing of books in my study, but "
*1110 by expPrign0 MI go
;thread in the world, that ittos•
which be commonly the W1404,
the best learned, and best men,
also when they be old, were
never commonly the quickest of
wit when they were young.
Therefore the less bright who,
lar need never despair, — From.
"The Spacious Days of Queen
Elizabeth,' by Arthur S. Allen.
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and will eventually be taken
ever by the Department of
HighWays, it is naturally more
profitable for us to sell whatever
fertilizer has accumulated dur-
ing, the last year or so. The buyer
and trucker also do things the
easy way. No picks and forks
these days. They come along
with a mechanical loader which
fills the truck in about a quarter
of the time.
What an age we live in! The
automobile has eliminated a good
deal of our walking and now
automation is considerably sub-
stituting the use of -our hands.
•But not entirely, we can be
quite .sure of that. It will be a
long time before we stop using
a knife 'and 'fork! The average
person, is too' fond of eating 'for
that to happen. And most of us
eat too much -anyway. In some
cases the more leisure a person
hag the more he eats—for the
simple. reason he has ''more time
to enjoy- his meals. But alas; that
way danger lies and the trouble
creeps on, in such an insidious
way. Soon after Partner disposed
of his milking cows he began to
put on weight—and that he .can-
not afford to do. 'So we '.reviewed
his food "intake for an average
day ,discovered he was too gen-
erous with starches 'and liquids
and acted• accordingly. Now, al-
though he isn't on a diet he has
cut down on bulk foods and in-
creased those which supply vita-
mins and proteins. When we buy
milk we shall get skim 'milk for
- drinking and a bottle of cream
for our coffee. That creaw, will-
be our one concession becanse
we do enjoy our breakfast cof-
fee! We hope 'by exercising 'a
little common sense to avoid
trouble. Sometime, the • Great.
Reaper will catch up with us but
we don't intend to go halt-way, ,
to meet him! Perhaps Some other
folk. may stop, qhirik 'and ear
according to their needs rather
than their fancy.. „
THEY'RE GETTING WARM.— 'As Millions of people make, their
way through the cold of winter; these Ilamingoes and West
African Crowned cranes soak up the -warm sunshine in warm
South Florida.
OlD4OAERS-MAkt.trdirifeADLINES .L Clain* ,to"be' the oldest Mon in the Middle 'East it
Mohammed-Ktralit Alitrel'Hawa, who livei in a Village on the Mount of overlooking •
Jerusalem According to his birth certificate' (ittset), Was,,loOrn in, hte Moslerti caienclar:.year
124t1,.'w.hich would make him 136 yearS old..,./tiOhammed,•who still has remarkable strength;
Works hi his garden and walks to the local' mOsade for his -dailyprayers: He Would probably
say '"just a kid' if he could meet Mrs, Mary Arnold, right, who lives in, the. Methodist Sunset
Hanle In Quincy, ill: She has lust'' 'Celebrated her 104th birthday. AlthOtigh Confined to d *het&
chair by a hip broken a few years bide her health is -good and she keepi busy crocheting: •