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,ANNE 141IST
"Dear Anne Hirst: I ani think-
ing of leaving my husband: I
realize this is a big decision to
make, and I don't know if it
would be beat for the children
We have three, and have been
married 11 years.
"My husband is goad in some
ways; he doesn't drink or run
around, and he does buy plenty
of food for us. But that is where
it ends. Re thinks because be
makes a living for me, I should
be his servant. I'm a good house-
keeper, and he goes around to
And a little dust to nag about!
He never gives me any money
unless I beg for it, and then I
must tell where every penny
goes.
"He never has a kind word
for the children. He just screams
at them, even when they haven't
done anything wrong. They are
beginning to fear and hate him.
rI have never worked, and
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haven't a particularly good edu-
cation. Do you thunk 1 should
try t0 get. out on my own? Or
live in this prison the r9est of my
life? 1 ant only 29, and said to be
nice - looking. Surely someone
would hire roe?
WORRIED WIFE"
BE PRACTICAL
Isn't there sone older friend
whose advice you trust? Is
* your father or another male
relative nearby? If not, then
s I urge you to be practical.
* To get and hold a position, a
* woman must be . more than
e nice -looking. She must be able
" to do the job, and earn her
° salary, It is hard for an un
s trained person to be self -sups
4' porting even in these days of
* high employment; when she
* has three young children to
* care for, further complications
" exist. Surely your children
s need you now more than they
will later on? They need you
* to protect them from their
* father's injustices, and to other-
* wise counteract his bad influ-
ence.
* From what you say of your
w husband, he does not appear
to be a man who would keep
* on providing for his family if.
* you are no longer living in
* his house, I am afraid he
* would be outraged at the idea,
" Though he is unpleasant to live
with, he does supply shelter
• and food, and these your chit-
* dren must have; to deprive
* them of` such security is a
* grave step to take.
° If you have no one to turn
* to, why not consult a family
* counselor who knows the local
* opportunities, and who can per- -
s suede your husband to be a
* better man and father. Or
perhaps the Domestic Relations
* Court might be interested, if
* you prefer to talk with them.
s Your minister, also, might help
* your husband, or know of a
• part-tim'_ job that you might
* take on. later increasing the
* hours as you find you can.
* None of these ideas may an-
* peal to you, but your presence
* in your husband's house seems
* to me essential for the chil-
• dren's sake.
" What cannot be changed
* must be endured; make the
* best of things until a welcome
* way occurs. I am so sorry:
If things seen unbearable, hold
on—until a better way opens up
for you . , Meantime, Anne
Hirst's sympathy and experience
are yours. Write her at Box I,
123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto,
Ont. Sometimes just 'telling one's
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START AT JJO ME
In Texas, they tell a story of
the days when the redoubtable
Me Ferguson first tossed her
sombrero into the political arena
She came bark from a succession
of stump speeches all over the
state, and reported Iu.ppily
"Looks like I'm going to sweep
Texas:" Pa Ferguson took the
pipe out of his mouth, am: sug-
gested gloomily, "How about
starting with this living nom?"
Peeping Paul Bunyan --Unafraid of the giant face peering in
her window is pretty Eleanor Hall. She knows it's all in fun,
The face belongs to a statue of Paul Bunyan, legendary woods-
man, which stands in the fun house of the Chicago Museum
of Science and Industry.
A' oderan
Etiquette
Q, Isn't it improper •' for two
persons who are introduced et
dinner to reach across the table.
to shake hands?
A. Although not exactly im•
-
proper, it does create an awk-
ward situation, and it is much
better to refrain from shaking
hands and merely nod your head
in acknowledgment of a- table
introduction, If however, the
other person does reach his band
across the table to you, you
must not show any hesitation in
accepting
Q. Is it permissible for It per-
son to use business letterheads
for social' correspondence?
A. No; business letterheads are
forbusiness only,
9. Would it be all right to mail
out formal announcements of a
bride's second mariage?
A. Yes, although it is not cuss
ternary.
Q. Would it be all right for a
girl to send a young man a birth-
day card even though he has
never sent her a card or given her
a gift?
A. Yes; there is nothing at all
wrong with this. This is merely
a thoughtful gesture, and the
young man would bepresump-
tuous to think it anything else.
Q. When giving an informal
dinner, isn't It all right for Me
hostess to say, "Just sit any-
where you wish?"
A. No; this can often lead to
confusion. It is to much like
playing the old game of "musical
chair." The hostess should al-
ways designate where esch guest
should sit.
Q. That is the most popular
boutonniere for ushers at a
church wedding?
A. The white carnation is prob-
ably 'the
robably'the most popular,
Q. When a woman has been
dining with a friend and her
hostess has no maid, is It all right
for the woman to help her hostess
clean off the table, stack the
dishes, and the like? •
A, She may offer to help; but
she must never insist if the hos-
tess declines her offer,
Q, When a girl is being intro-
duced to a man whom she be-
lieves she has met before, should
she mention this?
A. If his memory does not seem
so good as hers, it would be
better not to make mention of the
former meeting, and merely
acknowledge with, "How do you
do. Mr. Lee."
Q, Isn't it tfie duty of the bride-
groom to buy his own wedding
ring?
A. No. He should, of course,
buy his bride's ring, but she
should buy the bridegroom's ring.
Q. When setting the dinner
table, should the cutting edges
of the knives be towards the
plate or pointing away from the
plate?
A. Towards the plate.
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review, the Queen presented the Royal Standard—or company
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HRONICLES
11 G)FR FARM
The last hew days our farm has
looked like a real farm—or rath-
er the way we used to think a
real farm should look twenty or
thirty years ago. It was six red
hens that made the difference
, six quite ordinary New Hamp-
shire hens. These biddies were
all that remained of a pen of fat
hens we were selling for boiling
fowl. We kept a few back for
ourselves but somehow we didn't
get them killed. Early last week,
wires the sun was warm and
bright, I took pity on our six
hens and let them out of the
pen. To be perfectly honest I
don't know whether I let the hens
loose for their sakes or my own.
But I do know I felt a thrill of
satisfaction as I watched the hens
scuttling around outside -flying,
running, singing—so delighted
were they to be free with all out-
doors to scratch around in. Mit-
chie-White thought it was lots of
fun too and started chasing the
hens. Honey wvasn't quite sure
whether that was allowed or not
and stood anxiously by, waiting
instructions from me. OF course,
having once tasted the joys of
freedom, the hens were crowd-
ing around the door next morn-
ing wailing to come out. So—
out they came. Later that morn-
ing I heard a bit of commotion
and saw the hens running around
with outspread wings, but, since
Mitehie-White was quietly sleep-
ing I came to the conclusion the
hens were just enjoying them-
selves. We had reason to think
differently that night as one hen
was missing. Tonight, two more
were gone. Partner is quite sure
we have a fox to thank ,for our
loss, There is a bush just two
fields away so a fox could quite
easily follow the thicket fence
and slink over to the pen without
our seeing him.
Now my country idyll has lost
much of its charm, Apparently
the old picturesque way, with
hens contentedly picking here and
there, as nature intended they
should, is not to be. To survive
the hens must be confined, since
Iife .with freedom so often brings
sudden death. But I wonder what
constitutes a hen's philosophy of
life. Would it he fora short life
and a merry one, or for a care-
fully guarded well-fed existence?
Whatever choice our hens might
make we certainly don't intend
to provide food for foxes -or
probably a vixen with pups to
. feed. If three full-grown hens
could be carried off so easily I
bate to think what would happen
to a pen of halt -grown chickens.
The weather, thank goodness,
has quietened down considerably.
Three days of *high wind is not
exactly pleasant, especially when
it leaves Inc: fields and fences lit-
tered with paper and ether junk
blown across from the highway.
You would wonder where it all
comes from. But the litter that
blows aceoss our fields is as noth-
ing compared with what towns
and cities have to contend with,
In Toronto last Friday I came
from the Medical Arts on to
Bloor and the street was alive
with wind-blown papers. It was
garbage dey. Some containers
had been bowled over by the
wind so that besides air -borne
rubbish, cartons and such like
were being swirled around on
the pavement, with a few hats
added for good measure. It was
ISSUE 18 -- 1953
a pretty rough day for ordinary
people and yet, getting off one
street -car that I was on, there
was an elderly lady, unattended,
carrying a white cane, She was
attempting to change cars at a
busy intersection. The conductor
left his seat to help her off the
car and was going totake her
across the road when someone
on the street came forward and
offered to take charge of her.
Truly, blind or otherwise handi-
capped persons, often put to
shame those of us who are in full
possession of our faculties. But
it is heart-warming to see how
quickly strangers come to the
aid of those who need assistance.
This morning we have one daf-
fodil in bloom—a forerunner of
many more to come. There are
literally hundreds of buds in the
garden so it looks like a good
year for spring flowers. It is a
wonderful time for country liv-
ing. Sometimes I wonder why
anyone lives anywhere other than
the country. It isn't always cir-
cumstances that keeps people in
towns and cities. Som times it
is Iack of courage, fear of the
unknown. Friends of ours in Tor-
onto's Moore Paris district must,
move. The man of the house, a re-
tired business man, would prefer
the eountry; his wife and daught-
er cannot visualize an existence
away from the city, especially
as Ann will be going to Univers-
ity next fall. So they have bought
a house away out on . Wilson
Avenue. It will take them just
as long to reach the city from
there as it would from our place
—had they done as we wanted
them to do—built a -nice little
house on the corner of Ginger
Farm. But there it is—no two
people can see alike—so we can-
not truly say what is best for
anyone else to do,
TALL TALES
Herb Shriner, a television comic
in the' Will Rogers tradition, ob-
serves, "A man will soon be able
to get clear arbund the world In
two hours: one hour for flying, •
and ,the other •to get out to the
airport." We didn't need a plane
in Kansas one day last summer,"
he adds. '`Wind blew so hard it
got a hen turned clear around
the wrong way. Before it could
get straightened out and headed
into the wind again, it laid the
same egg six times!"
Woman's Part In
Chemical Advances .
Women have always played a
deoisive part in the chemical in*
dustry although they may not
.realize it, according to leaders
in the industry. Women's.demand
for white cotton and linen fob -
ries brought about the birth of
tlr e modern chemical industry
early in the last century That
dates from the first inanuTacture
of bleaching powder' in Glasgow
and the first prgd4ietion of soda
in Liverpool in J,8 3,
Before these ohenrieals were
produeed, fabrics had to be.
bleached by scouring' with ashes
and exposure ter sunlight f o r
Weeks at a time. Increased out-
put of textiles' made it imposs-
ible to spread them all cut in
the fields for such time-consum-
ing treatment but the social
prestige of white garments and
linens remained strong,
Chemists '.believe that if the
upkeep of cottons and linens had
' been left to men, dark -colored
sheets and shirts would have
been the fashion. Therefore,
they point out, feminine prefer-
ence brought about the manufac-
ttua of 'bleaching chemicals'
which comprised the nucleus of
the heavy chemical economy of
England for many years.
Of cause, white did not pre-
dominate the textile field in
those days. A limited .number
of vegetable and mineral com-
pounds were used for dyeing
but many were too expensive for
general use, Chemists say the
discovery of coal -tar dyestuffs in
1889 provided relief for the pent-
up desire for more colorful tex-
tiles, especially among the wo-
men.
The organic chemicals industry
of today has been biult around
the dyestuffs industry. Profits
from dyestuffs manufacture were
used for expansion into medi-
cinal and plastic chemicals. Here
again, the chemists point out, the
growth and expansion was not
due solely to the ingenuity of
chemists in making new com-
pounds but to the desire and
the demand on the part of wo-
men for new variety in color.
In the same way, they declare,
the pressure of consumer de-
mend for new fabrics brought
chemistry to the age of synthet-
ics. A silk -weaving company,
finding its market limited be-
cause of the cost of its product,
began • the chemical. research
Swimmer—Fluffing ouf her hair
after a quick swim at Daytona
Beach, pretty Barbara Denni-
son dries off under the bright
sun. She smiled for the camera,
even though the comb pulled a
bit too herd. -
which resulted in the develop-
ment of rayon.
Following consurnei' ipprovel
of rayon, the chemieal iadue'try
was stimulated to produce other
things. "Cellophane" cellulose
film is chemically an OIV.E4100t at
rayon. It was invented during an
attempt to matte waterproof
tablecloths.
Another example of the influ-
ence of latent consumer demand
on resedreh and development is
provided by the textile industry.
Nylon was discovered by acci-
dent, Researchers' were. not look-
ing for a new textile fibre, but
merely studying the properties
Of r'eshu. The plastic .they found
with the lbre-forming qualities
anti exceptional strength spurred
the expenditure of millions of
dollars on further research. The
reason they were so excited
about the strength of their dis-
covery wag the need for a strong
fibre in the women's hosiery
field.
Just as the proceeds from dye-
stuffs helped found the pharma-
ceutical and organic chemicals
industries, the advent of the
automobile in this century pro-
vided far-reaching stimulus to
the industry. The manufacture
of the average car involves, dir-
ectly or indirectly, 256 t:hemi-
cal materials. Chemicals made
possible t h e welding process
which resulted in mass -produc-
tion of cars. The need for gas-
oline brought about other by -
Products of crude oil which re-
sulted in plastics, synthetic de-
tergents, rubbing alcohol a n d
paint solvents. Development of
quick -drying "duco" enamels for
ears led to better paints for all
purposes.
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