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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-11-18, Page 6A gait,!, ," Ati "Dear Anne Hirst: For some tune now you have been printing more letters than usual from girls who are dating married men. They 'all seem to be caught in the sante web, and 'can't give him up: Perhaps the experience of a friend of mine will show them what they can expect. `This woman was married and had a little girl. Her hus- band drank too much, so she decided to go back to work, chiefly, 1 think, to have some• thing else to think about. "She became secretary 'Lc a married man with three child- ren. He said his wife didn't unedrstand hint (the old gag) and asked her for dates. He lavished gifts on her, and fin- ally promised he would get a divorce if she' would, too. COULDN'T STAY TRITE "They both got their freedom, and married. It lasted just three years. He dominated her completely; they went where he pleased, entertained only his friends ... Then he started see- ing other women. "She divorced him, and is back working again somewhere else. "Her former husband married a nice girl and they are raising a family. Her own little girl (now 13) sees her father often and adores him and his wife, "My friend. is heartbroken, and looks ten years older, "Maybe some of your readers who are dating married men will see in this instance one more proof that a married man who will cheat one wife will cheat another. Bystander." e During the past twenty -odd * years, two generations of • * readers have followed this * column. It is not possible to * telt how many such situations Figure 'Battery Fashioned for the Balt -sizer ,- cut to .properly fit the short- er, fuller figure! Sew -easy — you're sure to want more than one. Select stripes — they're elinening, forst lovely chevron- - efleet in front! Popular 4 -gore skirl drapes gracefully from hip— line. le ::turn 47110: Half Sizes 14%, 1e%, let , 20%, 22%, 241. 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"We really were meant * for each other, I can't be * happy except when I ain with * hien, And if he doesn't love his * wife any more, why should he * stay with her?" * They choose not to remem- ber that he vowed to cling to * that wife until death parted * them; they refuse to see him * as a dishonorable creature * who pursues a single girl with * no concern for her good name; * they fall for the old line of a * wife who does not understand —and how proud they are that * THEY do! To the wife whose * man they steal they give not • a thought, nor (perhaps * worse) to the children they * rob of a father, * As you aptly put it, a lean • who cannot be true to one * wife will not be true to an- * other. Your friend learned * this through bitter experience. * Now, in her loneliness, how * she must be suffering! * * * It is a foolish girl indeed who will waste her time (and her good name) on a married man. Isis attentions are no comple- ment to her ... If young readers aro being tempted, let them write to. Anne Hirst for advice, Address her at Box 1, 123 Eight- eenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. The Weaker x? Says YOU Science, at last, has proved that women are better than men — and man admits it! Dr. Ashley Montagu, profes- sor of anthropology at Rutgers university, told members of Holy Blossom Temple that sci- ence had disproved the myth that woman was "long on hair, short on brains." Men were stronger in such things as lifting, pushing and pulling, but now 90 per cent of that sort of work was done by machinery, In any case, man paid a terrible price for his extra strength by using his energy so fast that he burned out much more quickly than the female. Females lived longer than males, even though they were more subject to certain disord- ers. In the U.S., the relative life expectancy .figures were 65% years for men and 72 for wo- men. Besides working less hard than worsen, men were insen- sitive and lacked an under- standing of a woman's work in the home. A day's housework exhausted the mere male, and by the time he had finished a second day around the home, he was ready for hospital. Women were able to cry. and this restored their equilibrium. Men did not, and so got ulcers and boils. From an intelligence point of view, girls were always supe- rior in schools. They were bet- ter students right up to college age, and kept about two years ahead of the boys. But why was it that men had achieved so much? Wore not women capable of just as much achievement? Undoubtedly, yes. But they did not have wives, as the men had; to urge them along and inspire them! HIS SYSTEM Jack Dubois was in a tavern in the Texas cow country when a sweet young thing advanced toward the weighting machine. Before stepping nn the scales she tossed a challenge Jack's way. "How much do you think I weigh?" Although she was medium of build he guessed 116 pounds. Them she turned to an older man and asked him. He said, "Reckon about 131 pounds." She weighed 132. Jack asked the old fellow, "How did you come so close?" "Shucks, Jack," he said, "I've bought and sold a lot of cattle in my day. And I allus judge em by the hind quarters first," HONOR PRINCE ANL) PRINCESS—The new issues of National Savings stamps in Great Britain have portraits of Prince Charles and Princess Anne. se— roe prLES Ji Gem-hest-rw P CFti,ekar We have just enjoyed a lovely weekend -- insofar as weather was concerned — and I expect the same thought was in every - One's mind — how different from the week before when the devastating effect of Hurricane Hazel was making itself felt more and more with every pass- ing hour. There has been so much written and broadcast about the storm you would think there could be nothing left to tell and yet every day more details come to light about places that were not even men- tioned at first, The ether day, for instance, I got a letter from my sister, now living on he outskirts of Oshawa, We had not read of any damage being done at Oshawa, nor did Kath- leen mention floods, but she did say the power went off at 5:45 p.m. Friday and on Sunday night, up to the time she wrote, it was still off. So in her apart- ment for two days anyway there was no heat, light, radio or means of cooking a meal. Friends in another district had invited Kathleen and son Klemi to dinner Saturday and Sunday, Afterwards, of course, they had to retprn to their cold, c"m- fortless apartment. Another day a young fellow cane here who had spent the weekend up..near Uweu Sound. Driving back he saw three acei;- .lents near Orangevill , On one occasion a car overtook him and then careened across the road and turned over in a water - filled ditch. He helped the trap- ped occupants to safety through the window of the ear other- wise they must surely have draweed, Dee and Art were here on Sunday and they did not suffer an' inconvenience at all — at least not in regard to the stores. Their trouble had been with Davey who had a bad cold or slight congestion with a tem - mature of 102 degrees. How- ever, penicillin saved the day and David is now as good as new. Sometimes I wonder how we mothers ever raised our families before penicillin was discovered, Bob and Jay came up last Friday as I was unable to get out to do my weekly shopping. The only storm ?smage in their Oakville home was from rain driving in under the doors and windows. But on the farm Partner is still fixing fences and filling in gulleys. And there is still the bridge in the lane to repels — or rather the approaches to it, It will probably take quite a few loads of fill to build it up again properly. Another thing, my, recent severe attack of lumbago, front which I am now thankfully re- covering, is directly attributable to Hurricane Hazel. Thinking Partner had enough to do out- side I was padding around in the flooded cellar trying to get the furnace going. And that finished me for awhile. And now Partner's neuritis, which is al- ways with him, has become much worse. So, while our troubles are negligible compared with the b or souls in the disaster areas yet they are real enough to have caused us considerable inconvenience and discomfort. And 1 suppose that applies to Mille a number of other farms ..nd farm families, - • Flow helpless can one get without being really sick? Doe - tors and hospitals perform near - tetra ' s in many apparently hopeless rases involving Illness and accidents and yet 'many eases of chronic arthritis and neuritis still resist every known treatment. Arthritis alone, so statisies say, is responsible for more lost man-hours of work than any other disability, It is also the last word in unpredic- ability.. Partner can carry a full pail 'of milk with the greatest of ease yet he is almost help- less when it comes to handling his own knife and fork at the dinner table. It doesn't really make sense — but there it is, Science moves ,along, some- times s)Owler, sometimes with startling .rapidity, As for in- stance in the "ease of weeds. Partner has always been oppos- ed to chemical destruction of weeds. He believes in control but not destruction on the theory that the fibrous roots of weeds are necessary to prevent soil erosion. So we were natur- ally interested in an article published recently on beetles and weeds, Experiments have been taking place in California and British Columbia for des- troying St. Johnswort by intro- ducing a certain type of insect which feeds only on this par- ticular weed, It has been found a cheaper and more effective method ' of eradication t lr a n spraying with chemicals, The insects do not attack any other :form of vegetation. It is thought plant life and the insect world are so clearly allied that future experiments may lead to the natural eradication of most of our troublesome weeds, The Parasitic Branch of the Domin- ion department of Biology is now experimenting with couch grass. Poison ivy, ragweed and wild Oats are also on the list. Objects That roug t Dad ' L .sck Recently a woman asked a jeweller to find a customer for her engagement ring. "Sorry," he said, "I'd rather not, 1 feel it's unlucky." He was right. The ring had brought her nothing but mis- fortune. She married the man who bought it — and he died within twa year's. Sadly, the widow put it away, but after a time she wore it again on several occasions. Ayways some- thing serious happened — sick- ness, loss of money, accidents, all of which she ascribed to the ring. But how did the jeweller sense the evil influence? Her case is one of many in which an inanimate object has put a hoodoo on its owner. Al- most everybody knows the dis- astrous history of the Hope Dia- mond. But there are other ex- amples just as uncanny. On his death -bed a Suffolk farmer bequeathed' a watch to his youngest son. "Never part with it," he told him. The young man promised, and he kept his word for some months. But it was an old-fashioned watch and although a good timekeeper, was not the sort he wanted to carry • around. So he sold it for a few shillings — and not long after- wards was involved in a motor- cycle accident from which he died a few ,hours later, The man who bought the watch was his pillion -rider: He spent a long period in hospital, and was left with a permanent limp. The watch? It was ticking away merrily after the smash occurred. But it stopped at the exact moment that its former owner died, A clock is associated with an- other uncanny and inexplicable event. In a London suburb an old man lay dying. Directly he breathed his last, the clock on the mantelpiece stopped. After the funeral his married daugh- ter sent it to be repaired . "It's done for," said the watchmaker. "Completely worn out. Can't do a thing with it." The clock was put in a cup- board and forgotten, Then the daughter had a baby, and soon afterwards her husband heard ticking from the cupboard. The clock was going again and went perfectly for years afterwards. Mysterious and battling hap- penings are associated with the East, but there ran be nothing so curious as the story of the carved ivory figure which a wo- man brought to an antique dealer. " I want to sell it," she said. "It gets on my nerves," Asked why, she explained that her father-in-law had brought it from China and had been killed in a pit accident shortly afterwards, His only son --the woman's husband—had commit- ted suicide and she herself was just recovering from a danger- ous illness. It was an interesting curio, and not being superstitious the dealer bought it readily at a bar- • gain price. But while putting it on a shelf with the aid al a ladder he fell and broke his leg. Later, he gild the ivory figura and on his way hone the pur- chaser was knocked down by a bus, An oriental curse? Several thought so. But magic scarcely seems the explanation in the case of a scythe in a certain farm building. It was hanging high out of reach, and obviously hadn't been used for a long time. A visitor asked why, and was amazed at the answer. "That scythe was made es- pecially for my grandfather by the village blacksmith," said the farmer solemnly. "He used it only once. He was an expert, and yet he cut his foot. Blood - poisoning set in, and it had to be amputated. Later, my father was using it when he slipped, the point opened an artery in his arm, and he nearly bled to death." Then the farmer held out his right hand and revealed that the top of the index finger was missing. "I got this sharp- ening the thing," re said. "Af- ter which 1 decided there was something. unlucky about it." A really eerie story had its origin in the French Revolution. A family now living in Norfolk possessed a lock of hair which belonged to an ancestress who had died on the guillotine, For some reason it was kept in a glass case, and one day a guest noticed that the hair, normally fair, had turned almost red. He drew his hostess's attention to this, and immediately she went deathly pale, "It's an omen!" she cried in fear. "Whenever that happens somebody in the family dies!" Her fears were .justified. That evening a telegraph boy came pedalling up the drive. With shaking hands the woman open- ed the envelope and read the message. Then she collapsed. The telegram conveyed the sad news that her sen had been killed while mountain -climbing in North Wales. Another present from abroad also caused trouble. A prospect- or in Smith Africa sent his fin- ancee a nugget to be made into a ring. This was done, but dir- ectly she wore it her finger be- gan to swell, Neither the jew- eller nor the doctor could ex- plain why, but eventually the pain was so severe that she left off wearing the ring. The explanation—if you can call it that — came when the prospector returned home. "I found the nugget," he told his financee, "among a pile of na- tive bones," Had some witch - doctor put a curse on that spot? Perhaps. Strange things happen in Africa. This is especially true of Egypt, for there are many stories of misfortunes which dogged those who disturbed ' ancient tombs. One of the lesser-known concerns the case formerly hold- ing a mummy of a princess who died some 3,500 years ago. It was bought by five Englishmen front an Arab in 1869. He frankly admitted that he want- ed get rid of it. The English- men soon discovered why. One lost an arm when his gun exploded. Two suffered finan- cial crashes and died some months later. Another was acs, eer cidently killed. The sole sur- vivor brought the mummy -case to England and gave it to his sister. She and her fancily suf- fered all sorts of disasters, and were nearly driven niad by worry and anxiety, Eventually, t h e ill-omened relic of a past civilization was deposited in the British Mus- eum. But not before it had ex- acted xacted further toll in death and accident, What is the explana- tion? None—unless you believe in the supernatural. But whether you do or don't the question remains. Are soma inanimateq'bbjects possessed of an evil influence? It seems like it. THEY SHOULD BE HAPPY—Thomas Lopeman and his family have 'every reason to be happy—a geologist confirmed the claim that there's uranium on Lopeman's farm, Things have been rough for the family (14 children, not all shown) but they hope there'll be better things ahead after the government inspects and approves the find. WINTER WONDERLAND IN THE MILLINERY DEPARTMENT—Juliet cap of ermine with jewelled Vara at side of fare, left, Is complemented by the matching ermine muff, Ambrose designed the ensemble. "Snowbanks' at right, of white fox set off with jewelled flower on a so tin stem tape a muff and stole of matching fur.