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"Mothers have been placed on
such a high pedestal that many a
daughter with mother trouble keeps
it to herself for fear of treading
an holy ground."
So writes a
distracted girl
whose love for
her mother has
been distorted—
because that mo-
ther for years
has kept the
whole family in
a turmoil of mu-
tual distrust and
humiliation,
"Our tantily grew tip," she re-
ates, "in • a highly religious but
tense 'air of hatred, and ridicule of
friends, relatives, and my father.
On his death I was left the tinan-
cial support of my mother... ,
FUTILE SACRIFICES
"Site'has kept us all In a constant
uproar by belittling each one to
the other and deliberately creating
trouble ,
"Finally, lav health broke. I left
—and had to Keep up two house-
holds. I still loved her, and had a
deep sense of obligation. •
"But through the years she has
grown worse. All of us have done
-what we could, in time, energy and
money, to make her happy—to no
avail. No one will ever know how
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DRESS,
much heartache and anxiety she
has caused me alone.
"I have tried every solution. But
after each outburst I am in a night=
mare, miserably sick with a feeling
of frustration and guilt. I've gone
through the cycles of initial love,
obligation, indifference and, at
times, complete distaste. I don't
want to have a crop of complexes,
feel self-pity for my futile sacri-
fices.
"I want to live a Christian life,
and marry a wonderful man -=which
is the second phase of my problem.
To marry him, I would have to go
overseas—or wait IS mouths until
he returns, And I don't want him to
find me a neurotic.
"My mother feels my duty is
to her. She says she won't live
much longer, though she is in good
health now. Shall L stay here, be-
yond the reach of her temper yet
near enough to be of aid if she
needs me?— Or go to hint, where
I can find happiness and tranquil-
lity I'm afraid I've reached the
saturation point. unless 1 find a
solution,
"There is nothing more 'pitiful
than an aged widow living alone
who thinks the whole world hates
her. But who can he any unhap-
pier than one who has never had
love, and is narking off the days •
before she can start living?"
r., Every reader of the column to-
' day will appreciate how hard it
t' is for this girl to make her .de-
* cisiolt. Whichever way she turns,
''' she is bound to question the wis-
c dour of it.
Her desire to find tranquillity
* at last, is uuelerstandable,-- Not
'•' only because of the attendant
" happiness it will provide, but
" because she has almost reached
* the end of her rope, and no doubt
wonders whether iter remaining
°' here would really benefit her
• mother.
' \fauy a daughter %could feel
• she has donee ('ry thing passible•
• for her mother, and can, safely
4' leas e the responsibil"ty to her
relatives.
' Vet-. this girl still feels within
* her a sense of that responsibility.
11 she can stick it- out, would
* staying hone better satisfy- her
* conscience'
°' TO "A DAUGHTER": No
'` one but another girl who has had
to put up with such a parent cau
appreciate ail you have endured
since your father died. Having
observed so many parallel situa-
* tions, however, f understand the
cost. year in and year out, that
your ; lave paid for your loyalty
amid Your tolerance.
Suppose you go abroad and
marry your soldier? Would your
happiness remain untouched by
* the feeling that yon had "de-
;. sorted" your mother? Or would
" vont feel entirely justified?
' You oust, of course, stake up
°
your own to 111 d. Whichever
course you choose, you have my
" understanding and my adntira-
'" tiPrl.
%low much does a loyal daughter
owe to her mother? Anne Hirst
feels it depends on the circum-
stances, If such a harrowing prob.
lem confronts you, ask her aid.
She sees both sides, Address Anne
Hirst at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.,
New Toronto, Ont.
Sub To The Rescue -• Charlotte Knight, magazine editor visiting
Korea, is pulled up the side of the submarine Volador after sailors
From the soh rescued her from the sea. Miss Knight and two Navy
fiiers were dumped into the sea when their helicopter, transferring
hoe from a ship to the sub, crashed, Four sailors dived overboard
and made the rescue.
New
haulms Are Amphibious
By GAILE DUGAS
The new sunsuits, developed in
stark white orclear, fresh colours,
can take to water, too. The reason
that they're equally at home in
sun or water is that they're de-
veloped in fabrics that take readily
to a dip, Further, these suits have
complete linings.
The tailored sunsuit, with trim-
mer lines and less fust, is cut in
one piece for 1952. This gives a
sleek look to the figure, is good
for many types.
White gets the emphasis because,
obviously, clear white provides a
sparkling contrast for a deep tan.
But the new colours are rich and
•
bright, meant to be at home with
the blue of sky and water, Shock-
ing pink, mauve, maize, emerald
and Cotillion blue all favour a tan,
too. -
Beach roaming suit (left) by
Brilliant, is emerald -and -white pat-
terned pique with wing -cuffed bra.
Pockets and little boy shorts are
cuffed, Because of a built-in bra,
this lined suit may be worn strap-
ped or strapless.
Clear white waffle pique (right)
makes sun -and -water suit with
calla lily neckline tapered into
straps that tie halter -style. Little
boy shorts are cuffed, cut with
deep pockets. This suit, too, has
complete lining.
HRONICLES
INGER.
Y r%,sn.srt n r'Irt to,. c.
And niter t brls111uts conies the
New rear—with a lull iubetweeu
whet) we have a chance to sit back
and really appreciate all the good
wishes that came our way the
family presents and friendly gifts;
the greeting cards with their lovely,
artistic designs and appropriate
words: the surcease from the con -
Stan hurrying that we knew before
the testis a season. Yes, this lull
that sometimes follows a storm
---in this rase it has a storm that
began gathering for a, least two
weeks before Christmas —a storm
of activity which for litany .farm
people included picl:i11 poultry.
making Christmas cak and pud-
dings: taking in school concerts
trimming the Christmas tree, tilling
stockings, finding out who would
he home and When, lighting the
weather and ;axing our tuetnories
111 all entle51 our to hake stere 170
one was forgotten and err ' big left
on the missing list.
It was a hectic time 1,111 in the
1u1l that follows we have reason to
marvel at :lie love and kindly
thoughts that were showered upon
tis. And in this respect your hutn-
ble coluutnlst i5 no exception. 1
certainly did appreciate the friend-
ly seisms: that came buy way clut-
iug the Christmas season ---so many
from kindly readers, many of
whorl %,rite year af.er ,year, and
by their encouragement and inter•
est help 1110 to start yet another
year, telling you as best I can, of
the lit -timely happenings at Ginger
Farm, that probably tie in wi.11 •the
happenings oil hundreds of other
farms. ler response to several in-
quiile, perhaps 1 had better admit
1 did write -'rhe Brown Coat"
slots which appealed in the Family
Herald last •41•ptumhrr, Thant: you,
everybody, for liking 1t --•and for
telling me NO, 1 fps. it yon
watch -for i, y 11 1115c r nnolllct.
51 Ply I C1ure tut, h"IF AI leas! 1U -
other one has 1(14(1(1 a eevotr,l When
i' will be published is an10ne's
gIlesis .a ('5'(101, xis (414.1(=, three
months- - I 11elet- .knov, Nor does
it really ernter----getting a story
acrcp,ed -is the rutin thing.
[ am alva3 s glad whim my fan
mail fans tell the something about
their own Camille; . Airs. B. L.
of fort \Vl1liitrn for instance ---her
John is in 1 ollegiat.e clow --hut Ilse
first tittle site wrote all three child-
ren were little more than toddlers.
,y'oroe.intes 1 forget that fur other
folk time passes just as gttichly as
it docs for us- ehildreu grow up,
leave school and get married.
Queer, when f think of it, some
young peon'''. who are mow married
and in hooks at their own, wcrc
1104 even Loin when I starter( writ-
ing this cobalt'''. Perhap (;inner
i'(n•fh would 11a,,r letter named
L'tonk Farm.' -unci maybe
it xho111(1 hate been (1111)med oeta•
cionally to atop i:a : trildy
1,01114- to thinir of it, it may have
been dammed a ((111(1 1gany' 11011A -
j051 chain; e one letter slid yon will
get the idlea. Ilowcvcr, 1 have a.
long way to go yet 1•o catch up W1111
We were a party of six on
Christmas Day-- our own family
and two young friends --just right
for the small turkey that was easily
, disposed u£ 1-1oliday time off was
a little complicated. D au g h t e r
worked Monday and had Boxing
Day off. Bob had Monday off and
went hack to work on Wednesday.
Which reminds me, I don't think T
have mentioned that Bob is now
boarding at hone but working in
Oakville. That means leavmg home
at 6:30 a,nm., taking lunch with hint,
and back house again for 6:3(1 din-
ner at night. It is nice to have
someone cooling n1 and out again --
and during the stormy weather
Bob's heavy car helped to keep the
lane open. 1 don't know whether •
it is the car or the driver but: Bob -
certainly seems to come through
anything, As for my poor little
Junehug, it has gone ins) hiker- -
nation—at least until the weather
clears, And f have almost gone
into hibernation with 11 •. ,, r„ to
town in eight days!
And now, dear tr;el its 1 m-4:•:11'1
close this column without wishing
you a very flappy New Year. \s
we look back over the twelve
months past We remember many
difficulties, many heartaches and
fears, but for most of us the stun -
shine was stilt greater than the
cloud, And so 1, will be in 1912,
An unsettled year ahead of us—
that much is certain. But if hap-
piness is it) our hearts we shall have
courage to face and overcome our
problems as they arise. Don't let
us cense a shadow by .standing in
our own sunshine.
Who Started It?
Where did they all conte from—
the familiar names and faces which
popuine the world's nurseries and
schoolrooms: the Little Jacic Ilotn-
ers, the Georgie Porgies, the old
women who lived in shoes? A few
weeks ago Britain's grown -tips were
getting the scholarly lowdown from
an authoritative reference hook; the
Oxford University Press's new
Oxford Dictionary of Nursery
Rhymes.
Editors Iona and Peter Opie
spent seven years looking through
haystacks of diaries, letters, books
and plays to find their needling
rhymes & riddles, They dug into
the histories of kings and queens,
wits and wags, drunks and druids,
consulted everyone from George
Bernard Shaw to their own child-
ren, aged six and four.
Some of the famous rhymes
they found, are at least as o1d as
the city of Route. Horace described
little children playing Rex erite qui
recte faciet—the first version of
"I'm the king of the castle." Pet-
ronius heard a small boy say Bucca,
bucca, quot sunt hie?, which later
became "Buck site, buck she, buck/
How many fingers do I hold up?"
At least one rhyme in nine, say the
Opies, was known in the time of
Charles I; a good half are at least
200 years old.
The early counting of Yarmouth
shepherds (Ma, mina, tetliera, met-
bera)- became "Eena, meena, mina,
tiro' ; and Westmorland's hevera,
devera, dick (eight, nine and ten) is
the most likely origin of "Hickory,
dickory, dock." In the 1811 Century,
"Ilot Cross Buns / One a penny
/ Two a penny" was a street vett.
doe's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep /
Have you any wool?" propablv
dates back to the export tax im-
posed on wool in 1275, The "Four
and twenty blackbirds, baked in a
pie" goes back to the Renaissance,
whet?' live birds really were put in
pies, ready to fly out when the pie
was cut, to cause a "diverting
Hurley - Burley am on g s t the
Guests,•'
Out of the Barracks. Most
rhymes, the Opies learned, were
never intended for children. Mat-
thew, Mark, Luke and John" was
a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go
to bed, Tom" -vas once a Barracks
ditty. "Mary, Mary, quite contrary"
possibly had a "religious back-
ground , . , ''a word -picture of Our
Lady's Convent' , , . the bells being
the sanatus bells, the cockleshells
the badges of the pilgrims, and the
pretty maids the [tuns .
Only a few rhymes have known
authors (e.g., ]h', 1olmgou, who one
day suddenly spouted: "If a roan
who turnips cries i Cry not when
his father dies r it is proof that he
would rather 1 Flare it turnip than
his father"). Many %Vere satire.
Soule thyme scholar, believe that
the downfall of Sir Robert Wal -
pole's man.stry..-popularly known
as the "Robinucrary"---gave rise to
"Who killed Cock Robin?", and
that Georgic Porgie was really
King (;oorr;e I.
-Front "Time"
Remember Germany
In a 'Corona restaurant the
other day a diner remarked that
he could remember. only a few
years hack, when the chicken pie,
now SO cents, was priced at 35.
That, he thought, was a good illus-
tration of inflation. But it was a
far different kind of inflation front
the one that literally destroyed
the German ec0110111y 30 years ago.
"Ln the summer of 1923," says a
vritc'r in the Washington Star, "a
New Voris businessman ordered a
beefsteak in the Adliin lintel; def -
in. at the quoted price of one
million marks. By the time it was
creed it was worth 1.1 111111ion
marks and a half hour later! when
he check was presented the price
[vas up to 1.2 million marks."
1n the middle of this economic
atastrop1ie, the average German,
hough literally starving, appeared
o many visitors as being better
tressed, better housed and possess -
ng more personal property than Ver before,
The ill(K5'CI' 5(i',- shllple. Seeing
he contiuned devaluation of the
urI"eney, the nation went on a
igarltit buying spree and amassed
eel goods, many of which they
id not need or want, while scorn.
n':: savings accounts. -
b\'e haven't even approached that
stage on this continent and most
of us will pray that se never will,
Blit• in this time of a steadily de-
teriorating dollar, it is well- to re-
member where we could end. --
Front Tie Rinaulcial Post.
Couldn't Sing So
Wouldn't Work
Fifty. girls at a 'Belfast factory '
went on strike recently- because t
their employer refused to allow
them to sing while working, When
lie compromised by allowing thein 1
to Ion, they went hack to workt
quite happily. t
The value of music is rated c
highly by efficiency experts, who i
say it acts as 1 stintidaut to tired e
workers. As a result, many fac-
tories allow - radio- or gramophone 1
music to be played all clan long. to c
busy employees.g
EVell better are the %esu it. when 1•
employees are encouraged to sing d
among themselves. They worts i
longer and show less strain, des-
pite the effort waisted on singing.
Many works -pon0or their 01°11
(Loral societies, with the belief that
they give workers; a feeling of
pride which makes for loyalty ins
wards their eiuployers.
In the (1.S., where business effi-
ciency- is almost a mania, it has
long been the eust0nt for certain
teams Of heavy workers to have
their own singer, who is not ex-.
peat() to work so long as he Leads
bis gang in loud, hearty choruses.
'Forerunner of these paid singers
was the nineteenth et tl t u ry
"shanty -man," • an essential mem-
ber of any sailing ship's crew. Be-
fore the age of asechanization all
the wort( involved in saliling a ship
had lo be Clone by hand, When
sails were hoisted or anchors rats-
e([, the whole crew worked in un! -
son to the tunes of a inuldred lusty
seta-shaulties sung 1.1y the shanty.
man,
the record set by the late 'Dorothy ------
his,
ISSUE 2 -•- 1952
tIy Anne Ashlgy
Q. How can a silk umbrella lint
dried?
A, Do not open the silk umbrella
to dry it, as this causes the ,silk
-
to stretch and become stiff. The
proper method is 1l close the tun-
brella and turn it upside down.
The water will gradually drama off
without injuring the fiber of the
silk.
e pk ,k
Q, How can I snake wood was,
thee -proof?
A. Covering with several coats
of hot linseed-oli varnish will
snake the wood exceedingly dur-
able and weather-proof.
Q. How can I prevent my can..
ary from picking his feathers and
skin after his bath?
A. Add a few drops of cologne
water to the bird's bath.
;,
Q. How can I obtain an ebony
finish?
A, First use a coat of vermilion
flat paint; then a coat of black
paint that has already been mixed -
with a small amount of Chinese
glue. Finish with a coat of rubbing
varnish.
t. * *
Q. How can I 'treat a burned
cake?
I. Allow the cake to stand until
thoroughly cold, then scrape it
with a lemon grater. The burnt
part can. be almost entirely re-
move'', leaving the cake smooth
and ready for the icing.
1+ ;, t:
Q. How can I make a firmer
hem when lengthening or shorten-
ing a skirt?
A. Take a double stitch every
inch or so. This will make such a
firm hent that if you rip a few
stitches, the rip will not extend for
more than an inch.
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