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from cover to cover with great •
interest and without discovering a
single error. Over here, errors in
typesetting are very common even
in prestige publications.
Thank you for sending me a
complete copy of the "Lucknow
Sentinel and for your continuing
support and interest. As time
passes, I'm 'really touched that
your readers become, if anything,
even more enthusiastic. On the day
your paper arrived, I had a whole
, pile of mail from Lucknow,
Goderich, Toronto. People just sat
down and wrote straight after
reading my published letter and
many sent me extra copies. One
dear lady sent me a complete
Sentinel and five cuttings of the
letter and photograph. I've so
many invitations to' come out on a
_th at___Lh.a.rc11*_know- haw- t o-say
"No". But things are sad here. I'd
be afraid to leave my husband and
son. As always in troubled times,
men are more at risk than women.
But one of these days, perhaps
we'll have peace again and won't
be needed here just to keep them
safe.
I've sent off a copy of your paper
to Mrs. Mary Clark in Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, and this isn't a
proper letter to you except to thank
yOu for your kindness and to send a
copy of my B.B.C. script which l
think yoiir readers would enjoy. I'll
write you another open letter later
in the year.
Yours with many good wishes,
faltered.
One of my German girls was in
the Hitler Youth and very keen,
sending me loads of leaflets and
propaganda. The other, though,
was shy, delicate, nervous. Two
days before Nazi troops marched
into Poland, I had a frantic letter
from her. "Please write to me very
often," she said, "very, very
often" 's the last I hear •,
They say the age of letter writing I from her
and
until
that
the Armistice when
d
she sent me word at once that she
was safe. We carried on from there
but with time, marriage, children
you know how it is the
-
- hard below the belt, I can tell yOul
that. I economize where I canon correspondence faded until six -
clothes and stuff - but not on
stamps, NEVER on stampS.
Out on the Canadian prairie as a
wee thing, before I was old enough
to write at all, I used to sit after
birthday or Christmas, tongue
clenched between my teeth, care-
fully tracing pre-drafted thank you
notes to aunts and uncles and
• cousins I'd never seen backjn the
old country. "Bread and butter
letters" those were called. Always
say thank you for, a gift or
hospitality or generosity of any
sort. It's polite and kind and quite
refreshing in these careless days.
I'm never done writing thank you'
letters, everybody's so good to me.
After years of drought and
disaster 'during the Hungry Thirt-
ies, we had no seed left to plant, no
money, no future, so we gave away
everything we had, leaving our
is past. Not while I'm around it's
not! I've been a letter writer all my
life and I'll not change now.
Increased postal charges hit me
SCRIPT OF B.B.C. BROADCAST
LETTERS' TO YOUR FRIENDS
BY
MOLLIE WHITESIDE
Mollie Whiteside.
months ago, I came across a
photograph and wrote to her again.
Sadly a note came back. Poor
Jenni's dead. From asthma she'd
had since a child, her mother told
me. My German's very shaky now
and the mother hasn't any English
but we write to each other now and
then and somehow keep in friendly
touch for Jenni's sake.
Straight. from school off to the
W.A.A.F. and London in the blitz. I
wrote home every second day to
anxious parents left behind in
Ulster. thinking of me and the
falling bombs, trying not to worry. I
could see them waiting, watching
for the postman and made sure he
called almost every time be passed.
sending long, detailed, fascinating
letters that we discovered quite
recently after my mother died. You
couldn't make them up. As a
TODAY'S HEALTH
Good health habits started
early help a child for life
gannOn in Tyrone with Dungannon
in Ontario. Theirs is only a tiny
town so they publish my letters in
the nearby Lucknow Sentinel and
crowds of readers write in constant-
ly, trying to trace Irish ancestors,
confiding, making me as welcome
as one of their own. "I'm marrying
soon", says one. "We're having a
new baby", writes another. They
tell me their stories, reaching out
for comfort in grief, for shared
pleasure in their joy and send me
little gifts, stickers for my mail,
calendars, souvenir scarves, croch-
eted handwork, Canadian flag
brooches that I wear proudly.
reminded of them wherever I go. I
' write to each in turn and an open
letter to their newspaper when the
time is right. They're my friends.
Maybe we'll never meet but they
know I care and often that's all they
want.
That's what letters mean. I
think. They show that somewhere
someone cares. In these modern
days when you can lift a telephone
and dial across the world, chatting
has taken over. "Hello, Mum. Yes
thanks, I'm fine. Could you send
on my squash racket, My slacks,
perhaps some cash? Dad alright?
Great! That's lovely . Have to fly.
'Bye, Mum". It's far too easy and
not the same at all. Parents want
you to write. People the world over
long for letters. I'm convinced of
that, Mine get terrific response.
not because they re wonderful or
clever or special in any way but
simply because they fill this need.
This is what good souls are looking
for, contact through the written
word, something they can dream
over, boast over. read over again.
again. again. A line from you could
really make their day.
So I'm hoping the age of letter
writing won't pass. You know what
they say. Someone somewhere
wants a letter from you! And isn:t
that the truth? Always remember
your old friends..Don't just sit and
think about it. Take up your pen
and write now. I can recommend it.
Honestly, you don't know what
you're missing. Letter writing's
fun!
Mollie Whiteside.
59 Killyman Road.
Dungannon. Co. Tyrone.
N. Ireland.
April 8th, 1977.
by David I'Voods
The Jesuits used to stiy and
perhaps still do - - that it: oil could
influence people in childhood you
could influence them for life.
hes \sere speaking from a Till -
tu,d and mor,d.i.ffidnoint, of cour se,
hut the concept is just as s;ilid k\ hen
applied to phssical and ens iron -
mental influences. ('Cr !oink , sk here
health is concerned. the earlier in
life sou practise \ cruise medi-
cine the more successful it's likels
to he.
Put ho‘k 4.ltr sou talk to kids ahout
health?
o find out. I asked tv, o people
sk hose \ cuts on I ht.-: matters I
respect greails -- school principal
Delaiier. ;Ind an articulate
and discerning pupil of•his. Patrick.
ins mne.s ear-old son.
. 1)elai/er. ss ho runs
sk high skoik doesn't mean chore. ;Ind
fun doesn't mean pediatric;match\ .
thinks that talking to kids ahout
health and, for that matter. dhow
\ th'ine else \1111111d he
open. related to thr it .111nrill and
their inIere-K. simple sk ith,snt being
pationtiing, and. if pr,,ihlc. fun
Refer t 111 ,1 11C,1101 11111-
"splITI•MI ed. parent endorsed pi oi.n Ini
11•,1112. fla \ trilled 11110! Isle ',011111011.
%Ir. 1)elai/er said the s,:hool
Wen responded \kith rink etsal
"k %Olen told they'd all he
'thane, \J, rift the stud
Hut as soon as the s Idle rut
,1S 'stetted Juice.- the
identification \k ith medicine e \
poi ,micd
As a further reinforcement of
the fun-and-fantas\ approach. the'
school set up a huge and tooth
inflatable shark and attached a
\k‘, Rinses \s'ith Juice.
Delaiier takes the fun approach
Irk the II e;timent of routine school
rater Ies plak ing Al: A rthe
\ set les .1110111 l'.S, militars sur-
econs In kore,i I and offering modals
for hi as erk in the form of lollipops.
`No tat as honest k is cor:I:tiled, \ou
should not con kids: therefore. if
•11)l.,1111n rrle1hL‘.! is to he
for them, s,lk so, 1 mail's. he
hellekes childr en should see doctors,
dentists, hospitals and talk to health
e ri,,rk. „hen the kids are well
not Hist see them 1001Plill:2 a hit
1:21iteningls at a time of medical
need.
Pair k 'Woods. kk ho's been in
hospital quite a fee, times. agrees.
thinks it's hest if doctors and
muses espla in beforehand what
the\ goinp to do . . he also
think , it's easier to he in hospital.
or doing some health-related activ-
it‘ like the fluoride rinse. with other
kids 'sot on sour ov,n.
Pat: 1,:k lilts school projects (like
one lie did recent!y ahout the lung) ,
is here. sou has e to find the infor-
nlaHlin 0111 ,,c1f, puttine trreelher
.ind. in this case.
J r) trier k ICNs. kv lilt a CO -OtleriltiVe,
r111'11.2 health-minded family phy-
CICHM: through to kids about
health talks that kind of participii-
.,,n on their p,Irt. a clear identifica-,,,,
tiro Akith thei,rsk‘d l o nId i.:il,:h , in a ,i bsttne.
fi ant,. ness
;In
farm• just sitting there, the car in its picture of the times, they're unique
garage, the binder in its shed. I and really 'valuable. I'm told. and
was ten when we came home to my they're being assembled now in
father's country and soon I won a book form. giving an impression of
scholarship to High School. Abso- those days you'll not find any-
lutely super that was. They made where,
me secretary of our school branch It isn't the first hook of my
League of Nations and I gathered letters, either. For years I corres-
pen pals as others gathered ponded with the daughter of an
daisies. Two I had in Germany, one Ohio steamboat captain and she's
in Italy. one in France, one in had selected extracts from 1937 up
Australia, one in New Zealand, five to 1960 published in a way that
in America no less. In Central City..1 would make a very touching film.
Iowa, my new friend's headmist- When the first Manuscript arrived,
ress was so intrigued that not only •I couldn't lay it down but sat and
did she take .me over herself but wept gentle nostalgic tears for
she had all my letters published in loved ones and days long gone.
'the Central City News for the whole Not that I've changed ,much.
community to read, not just in' still write endlessly to people I've
peace time, but right on into the never met who write to me, here in
war. Even as a schoolgirl, I was Ulster, across the water. eyer:s,-
grateful for this chance to put our where. Lately, hoping to spread
pitint of view and show them that in goodwill in the midst of our
spite of all, morale here never troubles, I've been twinning Dun-
school in
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