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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-07-17, Page 6"My wife accuses nth of being /elfish and a liar—which I ant." So begins an astonishing letter' from a man honest (or defiant) enough to admit hisfaults but thinks he is en- titled to them. He has never told his wife how much mon- ey he makes, nor how much he has in his pocket for his family's use that day. "Marriage," "is not built on she reminds hint, itea.0 "1 drink, I smoke, and ['m a tight wad," he confesses. "Put hasn'ta neon the right to some fun? My father once told me a nem could strike his wife if she slapped him first, and I agree. "91v wife works hard. We have four girls, and she is rising theta in a Christian way . t wish you'd print this letter, 1'd like to - settle this orale and for att." WHAT A MARRIAGE! * How 10 convince such a man * of the meaning of true marriage? Bare And asstiful ••• ■ R4719 10--20 f+ ,�y! ,41 ( BODICE t 1–J •'�'�`�+ ! v'7�'=fid PUFF .o ,he sleeves un the prettiest clay -to -date blouse you nuld choose: Square neck in front, And who'd guess it plunges to a ircmatic deep \' in back? Easy cn sew, there's just one pattern cart to front; back is all in one with ties, wraps to tiny waist. Pattern R4719: Misers' Sizes 10, 14, 16. 18, 20. Size 16 takes 2 yards 341 -inch fabric, This pattern easy to use, sim- le to sew, is tested fur fit. Has complete Ilustrated instructions, Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS 135e) in chins stamps e:inot he accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly, SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. :rend order to !lox 1, 123 Eighteenth St.. New Toronto, tint. ISSUE 29 — 1952 * Whatever his wife (or I) say, * would be news to him. * Front his father he has the * idea that the husband dominates * the home, and the wife does as * she is told. He demands all the * privileges of a bachelor; she * keeps 'house, bears his children, * and submits like,the slave she is. * from the heights of his mala * superiority he glories in -his * power, and looks down upon this * lesser creature with contempt. * This plan's thinking is as for- * eign to most pf my readers as * though he cause front another * world. * How his wife has stood hint '' all these years is a marvel. * Where are the dreams she dreamed of marriage to the man. * she once must have loved? De- * vied the confidence and affection * she deserves she has watched * them vanish one by one, swept • away by a man'.; complacent * vanity and selfishness. * I suppose she has sleek it out * because of her four girls. flow has she managed to bring c' the up "in a Christian way?" * Never knowing what income she * could count on for their increas- * ing needs not' even what edam- ' tion they could expect, -she bas * lived from day to day in anxiety- * nxiety* and despair. Plodding along like * a burdened animal, her spirit has been crushed; and her hopes have * withered within her, * This husband would never * dare treat his business partner * as he has treated his wife.. He * would iaugh at the premise that * marriage is the most important * partnership that life offers—and * the one in which he has failed * miserably. * It is his wife Who has my * sympathy. As for hint, wilt he *•ever know all that he has missed * in marriage and will continue to O lubes? * * * TO "MRS. A. C.": In your buss band's present low circumstances, I realize how anxicius you are to contribute to the fancily income. You do not tell me of your aptitudes of talents, and it is dif- ticult for one who does not know • you to be of practical aid. These suggestions, though, may be worth your considering: Von have a small boy to look 'after, so whatever you do take on should he something you can do at home. 'rhe sad experiences you re- late reveal your shyness, .which you say you cannot overcome. So sell- ing, for you, is out. Can you sew? Alter clothes? Such services are in demand every- where. How abort taking the child of a working mother into your home live days a week? Many a woman makes real pin - money by getting magazine sub- scriptions over her telephone. Doing personal.shopping for busy people while your son is at school can he profitable, too. Let all your friends know you're looking for words. They may have other ideas, according to their needs. Also, consult a good employment agency, and tell them yotir prob- lem. They nw9' be able to put you in touch with same business that r•an supply work you can do at home. Running dawn such ideas will suggest others, Try it, and good lurk! • * * * Have you failed as a husband? Iead your marriage vows again— and be humble . Anne Hirst's understanding. and. wisdom. are here for all who ask, White her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St„ New Toronto, Ont. Keeps In Training --Addicted to railroading since childhood, Charles Rice decided to build a house and make it leak as much like o train as possible. He's seen in the photo painting the "locomotive" which he mode from old oil drums. Tale Of The 'Well -Stacked' !Captain—Capt, John G. Bradley is "well•stacked," in the sense that he occupies one of the most unusual living quarters afloat. Bradley, veteran of 34 yeers' service with the Cunard Steamship Company, has his liv ing accommodations in the forward funnel of the line's "Alsotla," The funnel ,which improves the lines of the 10,750 -ton freighter, would have no function If it were net for the fact that It houses Bradley's quarters, the radio room, and wheel house. An observation . and compass platform 'occupies the funnel's top. Accommodations ore roomy, as the funnel is 31 feet high, 20 feet high, 20 feet wide, and 32 feet 9 inches in length. Alsatia's forward' funnel is a dummy, and has no connection with the engine room. Instead, it houses three decks of installations, Captain Bradley waves from the porthole in his funnel bedroom. His quarters are on the boat Captain Bradley plots the course in the chartroom which shares deck level, above which is the funnel space with radio room, wheelhouse and his quarters, wheel house and radio room. Life in a funnel can be very comfortable, The captain's steward, Ronald Giles, brushes off a uni- form in the 20 -foot -wide bedroom. An observation bridge is located atop the dummy installation. ' ? c ' ( _ a °- - am. 7�e .ft c,h+a, /HRO Gu>an diol 'no, 0 Clarke Last week wits a strange mix- ture of work and pleasure; worry and relief. Work and worry at the beginning of the week; work and relief at the end of it, Plea- sure was sandwiched in between. Monday and Tuesday were almost in despair, wondering if our best field of hay was doomed to spoil because of the damp, humid air. And then the sun came out, ac- companied by a hot, drying wind. Partner got out the tractor and rake to turn the hay just about the same time as the baling machine moved in. 13y 5,30 the field was scattered with nice, dry, tight bales. - While this was going on i was making last-minute preparations for going away on a little trip—a trip that would. have given me little pleasure had the baling not been done. Or that might have been cancelled altogether. In fact, 1 111in111 it would have been had Partner not insisted that I stick to my plans, "You have been looking for- ward to this trip for weeks—you just go and forget about the hay." In a way that made sense—I couldn't change the weather—but what farm woman can go away from home in comfort knowing she ' is leaving her partner to face work - worries alone? But everything turned out fine— by evening I was on my way to London town. London, Ontario, that is—probably the only London I am likely to see again. And why this trip to London? Well, that is whore the Annual Convention of the Canadian Authors' Association was in session. Last year it was at Banff, and the year before at Hali- fax but when it came as near home as London I was determined to get there .if I could. Now I don't suppose many of you would be interested if I told you about the lectures and discus- sions that took place day after day, hut I think you would enjoy meet- ing, as 1 did, the authors of matey books, short stories and magazine articles with which most of us are familiar—and also the little human interest sidelines that are bound to come into the picture wherever people are held together by a com- mon interest. Dr. W, G. .Hardy, author of "The Unfulfilled" and president of the CAA, was chairman for the con- vention. We couldn't have had a better man for the job -witty, whimsical and efficient. Under his leadership the sessions could not become dull. I think be had the womenfolk tinder a speifl This little story almost proves it. One even- ing a few of us were chatting to- gether, including two elderly ladies. Opinions about Dr. Hardy were tossed back and forth. -Said Elder- ly Lady No. 1: "I do think Dr. Hardy is a wonderful chairman," B.L. No, 2: "Yes, I do too. He is very clever. Have you read his book, 'The Unfulfilled'?" E,L, No. 1: "No, I have heard a lot about it, and T intended read- ing it, but now 1 don't think I will. i like Dr. Hardy so much I ata afraid if 1 read his book I might be disillusioned!" E.L. No. 2 "Yes, that is what I am afraid of too. I don't think I shall read it either!" If you have read, "The Unfulfill- ed" you will understand their re- marks. Apropos of that, one of the lecturers said that many books had to be both provocative and pro- voking. I told Dr. Hlardy I thought his book filled those requirements very well. He replied, "Yes, it was meant to." Bearing that in mind, the two elderly ladies in question could surely read the hook and still retain their personal liking for Dr. Hardy. The Cantpbelis created a good deal of confusion and amusement. There was Marjorie Wilkins Camp- bell, Toronto, Marjories Freeman Campbell, Hamilton, and Grace Campbell, Montreal, all of whom are well known, but getting the right authors to the right books was where the confusion came in. Wilfrid Jury, historian, gave an illustrated lecture showing Indian relics and camp sites along the Htt- ronian trail, particularlyat Sault St. Marie, This was followed by an address by Franklin MacDow- ell outlining the wl.y and wherefore in 10s writing of "The Champlain Road." All these sessions were held at Thames Hall at the Western Uni- versity and excellent accommoda- tion for those attending was pro- vided at Spencer and Huron Col- lege, And the heat? If the ses- sions had not been so interesting 1t would have been intolerable, It did, however, add much to the informality. The men discarded ties and packets. The women did not pay too moil attention to appearances either --hats and gloves were conspicuous by their. absence, Art Of Paper -Making No industrial saga is more fas- cinating than the story of paper. It did not start with wood, but wood has largely taken it over. Over eighteen centuries ago, the Chinese invented the art of macer- ating vegetable fibers and then matting them, on woven wire screens under water, into thin (let sheets. The materials first used were mulberry bark, old fish nets, hemp and rags. The papyrus of Egypt was probably the most wide- ly used writing material of ancient peoples and gave the - name to paper, but it did not meet the spe- sifications of paper as the Chinese made it. Inner filaments from the stalk of the papyrus plant were flattened out, wet, .laminated in several thicknesses, pressed to- gether, and dried in the sun. Pa- pyrus was really light and leafy form of plywood. Paper is still made by baud in China and elesewhere, and very much the same tools that Te'ai Lun devised in A.D. 105 are used. Ex- ilerts tell us that no more durable' paper has yet been made than the hand -wrought sheets of linen and cotton fiber on which the Guten- berg Bible was printed in 1450. With a thousand technical improve- ments- and substitution of giant complicated machines for human labor, modern paper mills turning out five hundred tons a day still use the same basic process.. . The finest grades of paper are still glade from cotton and linen rags. Bible pages , . , are made from flax. Paper is made from straw, from cornstalks and sugar cane refuse. But the heavier yields of fiber obtainable front wood have turned the scales in mass produc- tion. Consequently, paper experts woods, and today ninety-five per cent of all the paper made in the United States starts with wood as its principal material.—From "For- ests and Men," by William B. Greeley.. I arrived home hdme Friday af- ternoon to find the baling machine here again; Partner raking at the back of the farm; a cow just calved in the field; Bob niovei down to Oakville — temporarily -- courting hotne at night and taking his lunch each clay, Hardly a thing left to eat, of course, and then coating to draw in hay again that sante night. And the house ...I Have I been busy? I leave you guess, UNDAY SCIIQO1 LESSON fly Rev, R. Barclay Warren, LA., I3,I1. Ohtani, a Matt of Faith and .tluteility, Judges 6:11.17, 25-27; 8: 222.23. Memory Selection: Teach me Thy way, 0 Lord, and lead me in is plain path,—Psilrn 27:11, It is aiways refreshing to find 15 man who possesses the great com- bination of humility and faith. With such men the Lord can achieve His purpose. Gideon was such a matt. He eame from a poor family and in his own estimate he was the least in that fatnily, But heartened by . a vision he became an adventurer for God in three great ways. In. the realm of personal religion Gid- eon found a faith for himself. The story of the fleece has been judged by some to be a crude method to test God,- but out of it Gideon evolved a faith that satisfied him, that upheld 111111, Religion, if it is to have any personal value, must be founded upon personal expert•• epee. Because Gideon had a living faith he moved to his next great ad•• venture, that of a leader in social service. Today the land is in the grip of enemies just as relentless as those of Israel. Political life is full of evil; in too many ways un- scrupulous men•exploit the people. 'rhe poor are oppressed, tate weak are crushed. We must adventure for the defeat of all that harms or hurts our fellows. The noblest act of all in Gideon's life was the refusal of a crown when it offered no opportunity for serving men. The man who would lead for ambition's sake always ends a slave, but he who adventures for others will find his kingdom awaiting him, for he will he crown- ed in the hearts of those for whom he sacrificed. The lesson illustrates the import- ance of morale, The fearful were sent home as well as those lovers of ease who laid aside their armour while they drank, The victory was NMI by men of faith. God give ,,r., 1 us more such men today. SHE KNEW Having been taking a girl out: for some time, a shy young man was now trying to screw up_ his courage to propose to her. But somehow he couldn't find the right words. At last he blurted out: "W -would you help me to spend my salary?" "Why, of course," she replied brightly. "I -I mean for ever," he contin- ued. 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