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ANNE RmS`r
"Dear Anne Hirst: Four years
ago, When'I was 15, I married a
man 10 years older; my parents
ected violently, but I was one
who knew everything. Now we
e a darling little girl, and it is
ch" 'fly for her salre that I seek
yot•r advice .. , Her father has
been . drinking all this thne
(e' 'eh I did not know till I mar-
ried) and he is getting worse, He
mi -treats me physically so that
Tree actually afraid of him,
"eto far I've been able to pre-
yen!
re-
ve ;I our lIttl'e girl's seeing him
at such times, but I can't tell
hove long I can keep that up,
Strangely enough, he is crazy
about her and she loves him with
all her heart. He has to be away
from home now and then, but
When he is here, he drinks al-
most all the time. He tells neigh-
bors that I am a spendthrift, and
spreads tales that 1 see other
men in his absence. He give me
so little money that I am almost
without decent clothes, and I'
have to count every dime. The
only places I go are to church
and an occasional movie with
my little girl.
"I know you will tell me to
leave my husband, but I haven't
the heart td separate these two.
I expect he will drink more as he
grows older, yet how can I let
her know what sort of father
she has? I must act soon, and I'll
do anything you say.
DESOLATED"
SLIM HOPE
• ....Your husband must know
* how miserably he has failed
* as both man and father. To
* spread tales of your loyalty is
• monstrous. I am afraid that
* your only appeal is through
* his love for the child. There
* lies your strength. Not for long
* can he conceal his weakness.
* You will have to make him un-
* derstand that if he does not
* transform himself into a de-
* cent, right -living citizen you
* will take her from him, be-
* cause you refuse to allow his
* influence to darken her life.
* The time for him to change
* is not next year, nor next
* month, but today. If he will
* not consent you will have to
• carry out your threat, and
* promptly.
* If he realizes this is a crisis,
* and will do his part, you will
• be as patient as you can to
o help him win out. Perhaps it
* is not too late. It is up to him,
0 0
SISTER STEPS IN
"Dear Anne Hirst: I am 16, and
piu.t consult you on a serious
Problem. My boy friend asked
y sister to a dance, and though
khe is two years older I'm afraid
ohe likes him, (My mother says
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to date him as usual, but keep
her out of the way,)
"He tells me he loves me, but
friends say I'm foolish to hang
on to him, they call him a flirt
If he should ask me to marry
him, shall I accept?
BROWN EYES"
* If the lad has the reputation
* of being flirtatious, why take
* him seriously? Why believe
* that he loves you when he
* even invites your sister out?
* He seems determined to play
* the field; if you can enjoy
* facing such competition go.
* ahead, but I am afraid you will
* only get hurt. Should he pro-
* pose (which I doubt) postpone
* your answer until he has
*
proven it is only you he cares
* for.
* As for your sister, why don't
* you and the young man go, far
* a walk or visit friends? It
* isn't probable she would
* invite herself • to accompany
* you, and maybe she will
* eventually get the idea she
* is intruding.
* * *
Miracles do happen in this
world, and one can • always
pray that the love of a little
child will move a strong man.
Anne Hirst's long experience'
and concern for troubled read-
ers have brought new hope to,
those who .seek her counsel.
Write her at Box, 123 Eigh-
teenth St., New Toronto, Ont.
Grciham Goes Big
Down tinder
Resting in his Sydney hotel,
the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham open-
ed his Bible, closed his right
eye, and read with perfect ease
the twentieth verse of Psalm 66:
"Blessed be God, which hath
not turned away my prayer,
nor his mercy from me."
"You see," said the .ebullient
evangelist last month, "I 'artt
almost completely recovered."
Actually, Dr. Graham says he
regardsas providential the eye
trouble" which ' afflicted him
three months ago, impairing the
vision in his left eye and delay-
ing the start of his Down Under
crusade. "I know the Lord
meant it," he explains. "Itcreat-
ed a tension without which the
Australian ' mission might not
have been such a triumph."
Rarely, indeed, had such
crowds turned out to hear Billy.
One Sunday at the final Syd-
ney meeting, he broke his own
record with an audience of 150,-
000
50,000 spread over two stadiums.
The total attendance in four
weeks in Sydney came to 980,-
000;
80;000; "decisions for Christ" num-
bered 56,780 — more than he,
won in the sixteen -week crusade
in New York's vast population
area in 1957. In his nine .weeks
of crusading in Australia and
New Zealand, the far roving
evangelist has faced more than
2 million persons.
More impressive to Dr. Gra-
ham himself, however, was the
geographical range. Aside from
these two nations it included,
through wireless and tape re-
cordings, the islands as far north
as Papua and as far east as Fiji.
"I'm dizzy with the thought of -
what has happened in this area,"
he said.
Next month, after short cru-
sades in Brisbane, Adelaide, and
Perth, the evangelist will be
home in Montreal, N.C. "Then,"
says Billy Graham, throwing„up
his arms, "I'm going to have two
and a half months clear — en-
tirely with my kids." Next ma-
jor domestic crusade target: In-
dianapolis, —From NEWSWEEK.
H ARD -HAT HALO — Sister
Mary Madonna wears a Civil-
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as evacuationdirector for St,
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HONEYMOONERS — As they arrived in New York from the
Weaf Coaat,. newlyweds Elizabeth Taylor and `Eddie Fisher were
Weary but happy. They were, married in Las Vegas and were
planning to we On to Spain.
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HItONICLES
INGERFARM
Cvden-d
No matter what the weather
there isone crop that never fails.
The baby drop. Come wind or
rain, heat wave or blizzard, it
makes no.elfference — they come
anyway,; those little bundles of •
joy. We have a new arrival'right
next door to us. Last Wednesday
I took the mother to our local'
hospital for a blood test while
Partner took charge of her small
daughter. Next morning the
mother went to . the hospital
again. That time it was a hurry-
up call. The baby was .born three
weeks ahead of 'time,' It -was a
boy and mother and -stn are do-
ing fine so everybody is happy,
Another day we were over to
a farm ten miles from here
where the 'nucleus of another
crop was hying seeded. The fields
looked 'awfully dry and we
haven't had a rain since,so 1 am
sure most farmers are getting
quite anxious. However, there
have been dry spring seasons
before at which time the farmers
were sure the seed would be
blown away. And then a life-
saving rain would saturate the
fields, the oats, barley and .pas-
ture fields would come to • life
and the farmers forget their past
worries. The age-old saying still
holds good — springtime and
harvest neverfail• One year can
be better than another; isolated
sections may be hailed, dried .or
eaten out, but there has never.
yet been a cropfailure from one
end of Canada to the other. True,
there may be regional failures.
It so often happens one part of
the country may be dry and the
other wet. But nature has a way
of maintaining a balance, al-
though to the individual it often
doesn't look that way.
On yet another day I was at
our local W.I. meeting at which
the District. President was speak-
ing. It was an enjoyable, infor-
mal but very worthwhile meet-
ing. The President did not give
an .address as is usually the cus-
tom but discussed with us prob-
lems in Institute work. Actually
our branch president had writ-
ten to her ahead of time, asking
a number of questions to which
she hoped the answers might be
given from the platform. I
thought that was really as ex-
cellent idea, One question was
how and where money should
be spent. This is often quite a
weightyproblem as the secre-
tary receives so many appeals
from outside organizations.
The District .President con-
terded that our own branch ex-
penses should be looked after
first, „Delegates to the District
Annual, .Officers' Conference and
Arca •.Convention should have
their • expenses paid by their
branch. She thought that if dele-
gates give their time it is as
much as we should expect froth
them, They should not also be
out of pocket. She also stressed,
as so many Provincial officers
have done in the past, that
money -making project should
not be the main objective in
WI, work, We should be satis-
fied 11 we raise sufficient funds
to look after branch expenses
and local appeals — such as some
from regional hospitals, old age
homes, school for retarded chil-
dren and the Children's Aid So-
ciety. provincial and Federal
W.I. expenses are covered by the
amount deducted by Head Office
from our annual membership
fees — except in the case of spe-
cial appeals.
•I couldn't have agreed more
with the District President's re-
marks. I have seen more than
one W.I. branch lose members
and finally disband because too
many demands were made upon
its members, mostly for fund-
raising activities.
-At-one time keeping pace with
local organizations was easy.
Most women found time to work
for their church and the W.T. But
now there are so many organi-
zations a public - spirited club-
woman could be away from
home , every day of the week.
More than one person has had a,
nervous breakdown through
trying to keep pace with home
responsibilities and too many
outside activities,' There is a club
for this, a society for that, auxi-
liaries for hospitals, schools, vet-
erans and masons. In fact most
men's clubs have women's auxi-
liaries. Before she realizes what
is happening the average house-
wife, urban and rural, finds her-
self so involved she doesn't know
which way to turn. We need to
take an 'interest in community
activties but not to • the point of
exhaustion.
The same principle applies to
children. I am thinking now of
one eleven -year old girl in parti-
cular. A bright, intelligent child''
who•Iearns easily. Yet she makes
little progress at school, and array
not be promoted next fall. Why? .
She is out every night of the:
week to dancingclasses,,music'
lessons, Girl Guides or dramatic
school. And every weeksome
one is having a birthdgy party.
The child is high strung and pro-
bably tired out before the day
begins. How .can any: child keep
up with her school work with
so much after-school activity?
The responsibility obviously be-
longs to the parents. No child's,
health and education should be
sacrificed for the sake of over-
ambitious parents. And yet itis..
, often done) although a happy,
carefree growing -up period is a
child's natural heritage. At
least, it should be.
Little Tommy had been - fas-
cinated by his first trip to the
ballet. On the way home he
said to his mother: "I don't
know why all the girls had to
stand on their toes. Why can't
they just get taller girls?"
SALLY'S SALLIES
'Take this back, please, and
'bring nut a pink oae; I'm re-
decorating the tseo n."
Girls Who Rend
7)ubae Lives
By day she was a perfect se-
cretary in a shipping office .. .
honest, respectable, reliable. By
night she was a young wildcat
who went out robbing shops and
houses with a 'gang of reckless
young criminals.
Returning to her lodgings af-
ter a,day's work, she discarded
her well -tailored business cos-
t u m e, donned a sweater and
tight -fitting red jeans, and tied
up her hair in pony -tail fashion.
Then she went off to a cafe in
London's East End, where she
joined her gang.
This double life lasted for
several months, Then, a short
time ago, Janet, the 24 -year-old
Scots girl, blundered. Acting as
look - out for the gang which
was ear -ramming a tobacconist's
shop, she screamed a warning as,
a policeman rounded the street
corner.
But it was too late her boy
friends had already crashed in-
to the shop. The policeman grab-
bed her wrist. She bit him and
with her free hand punched him
in the face, but he -held on.
When Janet was put on trial
and sentenced to six months'
imprisonment, h e r employers
were astounded. Il couldn't he
she, insisted the shipping office's
chief clerk. She always seemed'
to him, and to all her business
colleagues, sucha quiet, cense!,
entious girl,
Like certain other people,
Janet suffefed from a split per-
sonality, a Jekyll and Hyde
complex. Sometimes this com-
plex plays havoc with a per-
son's romantic life.
A beautiful 28 -year-old South
AfricEen girl,. Sonia, goes
through agonies because of her
dual personality. She finds her
self quite unable to love one
person wholeheartedly, S h e
craves for the affections of twu
entirely different types of men.
One is a lad of eighteen just
starting a career, the •other a
mature man of the world in his
late forties.
An orphan, Sonia recently
consulted a psychiatrist a b o u t
her problem. She seemed to be
suffering, he said from repres-
sion at not having a brother or
Rather.
• Her nearest approach to hap-
piness sees her shuttling be-
tween her two loves, This leads
to curious complications. A few
weeks ago her older man
friend, a mining engineer, met
with a serious accident, break-
ing his leg and three ribs. He -
expected her to visit him the
next day, but. she said she
couldn't because that day she
had a date with her younger
boy friend!
A more piquant if more read-
ily understandable double life
is being lived ley Yvonne, a
23 -year-old dancer, a girl of
French parentage, but since na-
turalizedin this country. Her
father died because he ,was too
fond of the wine bottle. This
has made the girl a strict tee-
totaler who hateswines as a
drink, . yet it has an irresistible
and secret fascination for her
For, according to -a close
friend, she saves all her spare
money and spends it on- good
quality eethite wine. Then, when
she has accumulated sufficient
stock,( she.. pours it all into her
bath and,wallows in it!
"She •seems enormously` re-
vived' in vitality whenever she's
had one of her white wine
baths," says her friend.
Angela, a twenty,six-year-old
Midland girl, worked in a coal
merchant's office. She was a
gssiei and efficient secretary,'
and her boss entrusted her with
some of his private business,
Soon she discovered that t'e
was being unfaithful to his wife,
so either out or greed for more
money or disappointed because
of his lack of interest, in her, she
turned blackmailer,
On three occasions he left
money at a cert"sin spot, as aa
anonymous letter advised' him
to do if he wished to keep his
guilty secret dark. But wizen
this became too costly he pluck-
ed courage and told the police.
A trap was set. A package, with
a15 in marked notes, was left
at the foot of an oak, and the
police kept watch,
The detective in hiding was
surprised when a pretty fifteen-.
year-old schoolgirl dismounted
from- her cycle, went straight to
the spot where the package was
buried and retrieved it.
"What are you going to do
with that?" asked the officer.
"I can't tell you," replied the
child firmly,
"Then" perhaps you will tell
me who you are. What is your
name, please?"
She told the detective her
name, and the coal merchant's
blackmailer was revealed to be
her elder sister.
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ISSUE 23 - 1959
AUSTRALIA.BOUND — Stanley Yankus is shown with his family
on their was; to a new life in Australi)i, The rebel Michigan
farmer is leaving the c.uuntry because of federal farm re-
stn. -irons Yankus holds daughter IKnren, 3. Below him ars
sons Dennis, 11, IeFt, and Russell, 13. Mrs. Yaukus is :at right,
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