HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-3-17, Page 2ANNE 14IRST
7{ocah. Pwtiu.Py Gxktieo.Qv2.--
bear Anne Hirst: I am a
widow in my late 40's. For three
years I went with a widower
who has three small children.
He promised to marry me as
aeon as he could to ghee me and
the children a home. They were
with a private family. Now I've
had the shock of my life.
"Some months ago he was
transferred to another city. He
said he'd be back to see me in a
month. I wrote him weekly, A
month ago a woman called me
long distance and told the to
leave him alone, I'd caused
enough trouble, She said she
had been his wife for seven
months!
"Why didn't he tell me the
truth -instead of taking me out
after he got =new.' begging
me never to leave him? I love
him dearly, he was always so
kind and ;so good,
"I hate the idea of this woman
telling people I am a trouble.
maker. (A friend told me about
that,) Shall I write him, and
ask him why he did such a cruel
thing to me? Or leave the mat-
ter as it is?
Crushed and Discouraged..
" The nature of man is in-
* scrutable. How one man can
* possess so many admirable
* qualities as your friend did
* and yet stoop to deceive a lov-
* ing, loyal, warm-hearted wo-
* man like you, is one of the
* mysteries that is hard to ex-
* plain, You and I can only be-
* lieve he was entirely sincere
* with you, but got involved
* with a determined woman and
* like many another male, had
* not the courage to confess it.
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The least Ilecould have
a done was to tell you the truth
• himself. What cowards .some
'a men are!
* What more could he ask
* than all you have given him. -1
" your love, understand, and
* your loyalty, all your leisure?
You would even have raised
* his children as your own, For
* three long years you waited
* to marry him, and all that
* time your faith sustained him.
" Though your lover would
wish him to be happy, I am
afraid he will not find happi-
nom Already you have "caus-
ed trouble" between him and
* his new wife, who was brazen
* enough to tell yon. so. His
* conscience must have re-
* proaehed him monthsago, and
* the knowledge of his deceit
* will not leave him. I hope you
* will preserve your dignity, and
* not send him any questions m
* reproaches,
* I know how bleak the future
* seems before you, but knowing
* your are guiltless will comfort
* you You have the .sympathy
* of all your friends, which will
* help heal the hurt. Clipg to
* your church for the peace you
* need, and for the faith in
* yourself to cope with'this sox-
* row.
* Don't concern yourself with
* this woman's wicked com-
e ments; they only reflect her
* malicious nature, I do not
* envy her husband nor his
'* children, who will' have to
* live with it,
TO "L. 131. 111,"; In the States,
such a situation as yours requires
only a brief civil ceremony be-
fore a judge, to straighten things
out.
However, to be safe, I sug-
gest you consult the Ontario Le-
gal Aid Plan, in care of the Law
Society of Upper Canada, O;-
geode Hall, Toronto 1, Canada.
* * *
IS'heu one's faith in another is
shattered, the blow is one of the
most cruel that life can bring.
Turn then to Anne Hirst, who
will help you through. We'He to
her at
Box 1,123,
Eighteenth Street,
New Toronto,
Ontario.
Wrote Life Story
With His Foot!
Still a young man. but vic-
timized by cerebral palsy from
birth, and one of a family of
seventeen children -fourteen are
still living -- Christy Brown of
Dublin is a human miracle.
He was born, doctors thought,
with some injury to hie brain.
Throughout h i s childhood he
could not sit. stand, walk or for-
m u l a t e nerds. This physical
powerlessness extended to his
feet. His limbs v -ere u:'l, ee. 80
it ser:med. But he could use now
and then, very *light)", ht- left
leg and font.
5e venal lrt rr:,, ineledu,g
specialists, tried to pet his par-
ents to put him in a hone for
mental defectives. They refused.
,.And bawl, splendidly has their
faith been rewarded. In 050,
the National Asn,ciatiou for
Cerebral Palsy took Christy
under its vying." And by skilled
treatment Hutch of tt newe he
learned how to Sit, stand, walk
a little and fin,lly to speak.
• Now., with a pencil. gripped
between the toes of his left foot,
1V'8 'ernitton his '1tfe story -- a
breve, humorous talo, sharp in
abser,et'.ton, and free of *elf-
: iiity. CT- paints, too, ten -fashion.
showiee: a flair for landscapes
and family portraits. Now, with
'a'tutor he":`, inking e hnik'ursity
course.
Not, Difference -- Kenneth s rvidson jtlis);A' a five-inch-lan9 cor-
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Monkey Business
One local species 1 had failed
to get was a baboon, Early on
the morning -after out arrival
we had heard an uproar in the
valley immediately below. Leak-
ing out, we had seen dozens of.
baboons vending their way up
both sides of the ravine, Eventu-
ally they trogped past our long -
unoccupied :linuso,' A map who
had justtttrived with a ss;4alie
for sale d'ecla'red that the emitilale
'had' been- disturbed by alion
whose foetpridts; ,showed it had
entered the, lower, end of the
ravine earlythat morning. As'
we stood watching the •bpboolls
from the open doorway, several
of them werdese8n tb pause'; and.
pick up some ,weld' fruit, Sitb-
sequently children from Marthe's'
village, bringing rats and. "sn ls,
discovered the fruit and' ran
aiiotind• g'eefully' gathering all
they could find. We learned that
it was the fruit (Maluku in
Nyanja) of the N£sulte (plural
Misugo) or Msuku. (Ilapaca _kir,
kians) that was so relished.
The better to observe the ba-
boons Mary and Billy collected
fallen fruit froma prolific
msuko growing farther down
the slope and scattered it be-
neath the trees nearer the hoose,
There Thomas and Dundon found
it and were so obviously enjoy -
the feast I had not the heart to
shoo them away. I did raise my
arms and incline my head as if
sighting them long the barrel of
an imaginary gun. Understand-
ing the inference they .laughed.
Thomas said that in tinges of
scarcity their womenfolk gath-
ered msuko and mashed it in t
bowl. The pulp 'was orange -col-
ored with a faint flavour of
honey. 1 tried some but could
not muster any enthusiasm
though M. & B. apparently liked
is as much as did the boys and
baboons.
During our last days at Nchisi
the fruit ripened rapidly so that
visits from the baboons became
all almost daily source of amuse-
ment to M. & B. They selected
aninconspicuous spot among
the "trees where they might sit
and watch for the arrival of the
animals. Mary reported that one
'infant sat bolt upright on its
mother's rump as, pausing from
time to time to transfer more
fruit from the ground to her al-
ready bulging mouth, she stalk-
ed leggily along. Another young-
ster habitually remained behind
until the rest of the troop were
well away whereupon be would
scamper after them. Once the
dewier climbed into a low tree
after all his companions had
moved on . An old male ba-
boon appeared out of the under-
growth and without pausing in
his walk, reached up and gave
the youngster a cuff that sent
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H RON ICL S
INGERFARM
'1D' 1 ,andottnet P Cleerest
Well, Wen -it looks as, if the
rural telephone is •in for a little
housecleaning, especially 'Ehe old
party line. . Just in ease you
missed that bit of news perhaps
I should explain what I am talk-
ing about, A Bill -wee intro-
duced its• the Ontario Legislature
last week to put the Rural Tele-
phone service under a' new
branch of ggvernment, treated
by the Telephone Act of 1954.
The Act is aimed at giving "con-
tinuous and efficient service" to
the 164,000 rural 'subscribers in
Ontario, the first major change
since 1918,'
Under this new section it "will
be an offence to hold the line
in someone. needs 1t for an.emer-
gency, such as fire, accident or
sickness. Penalty is $50 fine or
30 days. A similar penalty for
the use of "indecent, obscene,
blasphemous or grossly insulting
language". Eavesdroppers . w h o
gossip are liable to a $50 fine -
that includes telephone company
employees as well as the general'
public.
Looks as if a lot or ground
viI1 be covered by this new
act maybe the person who
made the recommendations had
recently had some experience
with rural telephones!
The old party line -like park-
ing -isn't what it used to be. It
has changed even more than the
old gray mare. Time was when
the partytelephone was used
almost exclusively by farm
families living on one road. They
all knew each other and.recog-
nized a neighbour's voice if she
asked if the line was busy. There
was even a sort of unwritten
code on the party line. If you
came to the phone and found it
busy, and your need for it was
not really important, you hung
up again 'without 'saying a word,
returning in a little while. 11,
however, you particularly* wanted
the phone without ton much
, delay you asked politely: "Is the
line busy?" Chances are you
would heat your' neighbors ring
off in a few minutes -a signal
that the line was now disengaged.
But, if they held, on for another
ten or fifteen minutes, you asked
,again -and waited. Thatatsually
did the trick. Both parties: -would
Say - "Well, I guess someone
wants the line."
If polite Inquiries failed -which
was very rarely -then you would
get husband, brother or son to
inquire in a deep, masculine
voice -"Line Busy?" That nearly
always worked. A woman seldom
dared to hold out against a man's
need of the telephone -he might
be wanting the 'vet' or a repair
roan , , . and fast,
01 course, fn ease of real emer-
gency you had only to say: "May
I have the line "for the doctor,
please" -and' the line was yours.
Not only that, -the chances are
one of the neighbours whose con-
vereation you interrupted would
give you a ring later, ask who
was sick, and was there anything
she .could do to help, However,'
if no one came on thoo.line while
two neighbours were tallying they
would talk an - the. length of
time they chatted was entirely
their own affair, especially if
there were only six or eight on
a party line. Yas, we really got
along very nicely on the held
party line.
But how time* have changed!
City' folk have moved out to the
corny:, small town boundaries
have been extended, and more .
and more subscrihere'have'been
added to the . party lines, To
many of them, sharing a tele-
phone is a hew oxperlenee, Hav-
ing little knowledge al the un-
written eauntry code, instead of
taking the hint when another
reer,m1 sewn if the line is busy,
they go right on talking,; The
neighbourly feeling on a,party
line has entirely disappeared -
that is, in.eongested areas. A per-
son at one end of the line may
not even have a nodding
acquaintance with the party at
the other end. Not only ,that
the rural party line was never
intended for ,business purreoses-
other than farm business.
It seems to me there'should be
a printed card of instructions
handed 'out to every party -line
subscriber,"w f t h• general .direc-
tions for using the rural tele-
phone and also how to ring
another person on the salve line.
Some years ago a new neighbour
on our line wanted togive' me
a ring. She knew our ring was
13, but to this person "13" meant
thirteen. So she straightaway
proceeded to ring the telephone
thirteen times. I heard it - who
wouldn't! -had a hunch what was
happening and answered it - as
well I could for laughing.
The telephone company in our
nearby town is talking of a, dial
system -and we hope it takes in
rural areas too. A few years ago
there were 15 subscribers •on our
line. Then they divided itand
for a while there was compara-
five peace and, quietness. But
more and more people moved
into the district; more and•more
were added to our line. Now we
are back to where we were be-
fore. That is the general pattern
so I am sure most rural people
will be glad the party line is
coming under the jurisdiction of
the Ontario Government - that
is, if it means less subscribers on
every line,
Wolves Attack Bus
As the driver of an empty
motor -bus ploughed his way
through snow-covered, deserted
country in Norther** Italy the
other night, he suddenly saw the
f o
1,111 s `of half -a -dozen wolves
which, impelled by hunger, had
descended from .the bills in
search of food,
The beasts ran abreast 'of the
bus fur a mile and the driver
knew that if he 'stopped. they
would alt. a c k " him. So he
switched on . all his . headlights
and drove full speed ahead, but
the welves began to overtake
him again.
P'inal1?' he outstripped all but
two of the wolves which he
could see racing ahead of the
bus. Desperately, the man drove
straight at them, ran them down
He arrived in Spoleto half an
hour later with the bodies of
the two wolves hanging over
the bonnet of the bus.
This Was A. Real
"Race With Death"
One of the most dramatiie
races against time ever known,
a race .which saved a man from
being executed for g murder he
hadn't committed, occurred:; in ,
November, 1938,
The extraoxdinary e v e n ;t s
which led to this Sepsational'i'ace '
began in July of 1937, when a
Young farmhand named H2211
Ilervault, having got pp late;,p0e 1
morning; foolishly "borroweii'.',a
bicycle to, get, ta. woxif ul time. ,
That evening, he again molih
ed the cycle, intending to restore
it to its, owner' With elgllanatloils
and apologies. ' But while pass-
ing through : a Villagehe was
arrested for aiding •a, stolen bike.
I?espite his protests he was
lodged . in jail, and, next f,dpy
found himself in .court.
His amazenleut and fear ,m$y
be finagined when he `heard ltir`,n-
self being charged with mur-
der! Dumbfounded, he listened
while the police told the cadet
,haw .a-;sixteen.'ear-old gird
named Rachel. Renard had :leen
knifed in a wood near his home.
The prisoner had been found
riding a bike -stolen from -'the
same district, • and as the • edi-
dence - including his lack of
an alibi to cover ;the vital mur-
der period -pointed to his being
the murderer, he was arrested.'
The police then asked for the
case to be remanded' while they
searched for further "evidence.
against theprisoner, and :Ter-
vault was .brought back to his
cell,
Some months 1 a ter Hervault
faced his trial, and circumstan-
tial evidence was so strong ,that
the j u dg e sentenced him to
death.
One feature of the ease which
gave Hervault's lawyer reason
for still hoping, however, • was
the fact that Hervault was the
second to be charged with, the
crime. Somewhere, he reasoned,
there must be a third - and
guilty -man.
Then, as he reviewed the evi-
dence, a sudden suspicion struck
him. 'Excitedly, he consulted a
large-scale map of the district.
His suspicion was confirmed,
and withit new hope was born;
He decided on a plan, , ,and
immediately proceeded to put it
into action. He engaged Roger
Lapeble, ace -cyclist of the
French, race,-trgelig, 10, " ide a
trace with death" along the same
.road, nearnPeris, ,which, the de-
fendant, erya>»t, had used the
OW he was Arre8t6d•
For seveatal 'weel(s Lapebie'"
went into ihtensiV1..training, A3
last nerve the vital.r)ipyt,of the
airwe .fish .Alpe, lyioyen with
•.ltstoniah 1sg speed, Lap,eliie cycled
.algng the 1!'erich roads, p t sev-
e1'aY hamlets' and a' village. At
r the `tether end'!t7aite'd thelllawyer
1
and' other officials, eine ,deep
anxiety. From tim,e,,tor time they
consulted their watches. At last
Lapebie,:appearedi;4breatitless and
veryrrtil"4d, • • "il
One 0f; the offi5ila,,;•looked
a ax e fu 11y' at Ars gtob-watch.
TQt} ve lost the race, La!,ebiel'
LI, told the panting' cyclist.
"I'm so .. , sorry," stammered
Lapebie but' his ;failure was
exactly "the evidence •lawyer
needed. *mod with»it he de-
mal}dcdr.a ,i etriel ;at the Supreme
Cohtt. of"A,ppeal• ,.
In court he outlined vis new
evidence, and in conclusion stat-
ed: "My Lord, only tin days ago
I gave Roger Lapebie, of whose
cycling fame you have'all heard,
the- task of- cycling from the
• place where . ilea ,girl, was mur-
dered to ,the farm where the
defendant works, He .was given
seventy-five • minutes .to aver
the ,,distance whleh is .the exact
t i m e, the, prosecuting 'counsel
gave Hervault to cover the same
di's'tance - add Lapebie failed! I
' cohtend, • therefore, •'t 11 a 1' Henri
Hervault couldnot have com-
mitted 111e murder. He could not
have got ,there in time!',,
The speech created ya Sen-
sation, When Lapebie had given
his 'evidence, the judge' declared
Hervault ."not • gu i 1t y" and
ordered his ,immediate release.
ISSUE 12-1954
Work And Devotion - Their faces concealed, two nuns in one
,of the five cloisters of Ferrara, Italy, wash their clothes in a
wooden tub. These nuns lead an unbelievably severe life of self-
imposed hardship. They are not permitted to speak to each -other,
except on special occasions, and must cover their faces when
seen or spoken to by anyone not belonging to the order.
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