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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-01-14, Page 7lase- Wives Aren't SoBadly Spoiled: There's nothing like a three- week vacation at home to re- veal the idiocy of those whe Claim American women are lazy: and spoiled, The housewife may be the only non -specialist left in this world of specialization. She must be all things to a considerable number of people. She is responsible for the phy- sical, mental and spiritual wel- fare of anywhere from one to a dozen children and adults. She superintends growing -up in the fastest-growing era man has ever known. She must know and have faith — indeed, must BE an ar- ticle of faith — in a faithless age, In a time of doubt and fear, she , It must betrayno bewilderment or insecurity. She must be an island of 'calm in a frantic world, If a woman in a Chinese com- munity works in a rice paddy, (someone minds her children and keeps house, If a European wo- man must discharge high social obligations, some one else cooks. If an Eskimo wife must cook and keeps house and mind the chil- dren,- her man does the shopping with his gun. The American woman must rear a model family, shop, cook, keep house inside and out, enter- tain and keep a man happy. To help her,, she has gadgets;, and because these theoretically give her leisure time, she is expected to participate in great numbers of activities for church and school, country and community and family and neighbor. She must be the intellectual academic and artistic equal of both husband and children so she doesn't bring shame ,to them, but she must never overshadow them. She must dream with man and child and at the same time be terribly practical. She must know more rules than a lawyer and more truth than the great- est philosopher, and be always more just than justice. She must be strong and weak, somber and gay, sympathetic and tough,de- vious and direct. She has to work before a man's day begins and long after his day has ended, but always be fresh and beautiful. And if she finds time to open a magazine, she is sure to find there an article tell- ing her how lazy and selfiish and inadequate she is. She must give infinitely and receive infinitesimally — and be happy with it. No. thanks. Make mine the salt mine.— Bremerton (Wash.) Sun, Just What's In That Little Black Bag? Just what do doctors carry in their little black bags? Often, some surprising equipment, the journal Medical Economics re- ported last month. A survey of 1,100 general practitioners and specialists :turned up these in- triguing items and comments by the doctors: A bent hairpin ("a quicker and more efficient instru- ment than any other for re- moving foreign bodies from ear or nose"): blank checks ("fomthe smart patient who flashes a $50 or $100 bill at 2 a.m ") ; wire cutters for removing fishhooks ("I've removed about 300 in the past 6 years"); and bubble gum ("with children, it's synonymous with injections"). On the other hand, a surprising number of bags (they weigh'be- tween 10 and 20 pounds) lack equipment which most laymen consider essential. The stetho- scope, for example is not carried _ x (or considered necessary) by 15 per cent of the GP's. Even ther- mometers are left at the office by 10 per cent of "them. The eloquence of thespeaker is in direct proportion to the number of nap -takers in the audience. WINTER TRAINING — Yankee baseball Etor Gil McDouga,ld takes over the controls of his son's model train in his home, Headhunter Wore A Bawler' Hat Can any family rival the re- cord of the painter F, W. Hay- man Chaffey for world travel? In 1949 he and his wife, Patri- cia, sold all they possessed and left their old Sussex' farmhouse on the Rother, intending to roam Europe with ,their year- old daughter, Susan, in a carry- cot. In feet, they roamed the • world. They earned their keep paint- ing, typing, guarding embassies,. guiding tourists, holding exhi- bitions and selling Chaffey's paintings. They bought an old Moorish house on the island of Majorca and arranged an exhi- bition in Madrid. Chaffey gives a graphic ac- count of their adventures in "The Road Grew No Moss," il- lustrated with his own photo- graphs and drawings. In 1955, while in Mexico City, Chaffey received a cable from London offering him a one-man show at the Hanover Gallery in February, 1958, So they set out to cross Central and South Am- erica to Rio de Janeiro and re- turn to England by way of Afri- ca, earning their keep en route just as they had in Europe. They travelled 10,000 miles by bus, car, train and 'plane from Mexico to Caracas, Venezuela, drove another 100,000 miles south in a Land -Rover present- ed to them there by a car firm, sailed 4,000 miles to Cape Town, drove 7,000 miles in South Africa, then sailed an- other 4,600 miles to Southamp- ton. On this journey Chaffey took thousands of feet of cine film, and 5,000 colour photographs. Ile painted enough for six -one man - exhibitions in different cities. When they arrived back their children — Susan, ten, and Charles, seven — had probably travelled farther and seen more of the world than any children of their .age anywhere. At one point their train had to creep along rails dented and mishapen by a cyclone. Their bus journeys and car -lifts were sometimes over roads strewn with boulders or thick mud, skirting mountain chasms. In their Land Rover, they had to cross swollen rivers, through darkness and torrential rain, scarcely knowing land from wa- ter, before reaching the Peru- vian frontier. Near Lanquin, Guatemala, he saw one river, the Semue, car- ried across another, the. Cabe - bon, by a natural bridge, the only one of its kind in the world, Nearly eight hundred yards long, over' one, hundred yards wide, it had been formed by calcium carbonate deposits and petrified vegetation gradu- ally thrusting outwards through the centuries. At Nicaragua's oldest city, Granada,' they stood on the shore of a great lake which has three hundred and ten small islands and probably the only fresh -water sharks in the world. While they were crossing Col- lombianews came of a terrible disaster at Cali. Four army lor- ries laden with nitro-glycerine head blown up in the barracks square, demolishing thousands of 'houses, buses, cars and trains. Chaffey flew there to photo- graph the ruins, and in the blaz- ing heat wandered for hours among the rubble, smoke and dust and mangled bodies. Three thousand were buried in a common grave in the main cemetery, which had been torn up itself. In Quitos, Ecuador, he met Dr. Fergusson, an authority' on the Jivaro head-shrinkers. He told him that afterthe fierce Indi- ans -had attacked a Spanish colonial outpost General Santi- seben, commanding the Peruvi- an Amazon area, sent out a pu- nitive . force of 'three hundred men and officers armed with rifles and machine guns. • None returned, but almost a year later he found one morn- ing, in front of the door of his office, the dried and' shrunken heads of all he had sent on the expedition! Chaffey went into the jungle villages and saw some shrun- ken heads; but never penetrated the secret of how they were treated. The Jivaros he found in Sucoa had traded with white, visitors and exchanged monkey - teeth bracelets and monkey -skin bags for old clothes, and these they never removed, even to sleep. The Chief, Quinindo, wore an old Air Force cap which he had not removed for over two years. Another Jiver.. had ' worn a short-cut evening waistcoat for the same period. An older man was greatly. pleased with him- self in a battered, grey -black bowler, wearing below it only a loincloth! LAVING FACE -- Wearing protective masks a nd clothing, barefoot battlers In San Itrancisco, demonstrate their skill in the ancient sport of kendo, fighting with bamboo poles. Students kneel in the background. SWIM Posed' A's Queen's Sister The wealthy guests laughed and talked excitedly as they awaited the arrival of the royal Cxincess. - sister of Queen harlotte of England -- who was touring the state of Mary- land, US. The princess's host had spar- ed no expense to make the oc- casion memorable, and every landowner for miles around envied his good fortune in en- tertaining a royal visitor. Three trumpets sounded, and the master of eeremenies cried: "Her Royal highness, the Prin- cess Susanna Caroline Matilda." Men bowed and woman curtsied as a slim, beautifully gowned young girl entered the room. With great dignity the lovely princess received the salutations `of the excited guests. Then, on the arm of her host, a wealthy planter, she moved to her place of honour at the head of the decorated table. Outside, newspaper reporters were busy scribbling notes of , the splendid scene. A n d the princess was so gay and charm- ing that nobody 'bothered to wonder why she should be tour- ing the smaller towns of Ameri- ca. After all, it was known that several other rich planters had beenhonoured by her presence I -during the last few weeks, and every .hostess was 'angling to have the royal visitor for her own guest, Then one of the reporters passed a slip of paper to a ser- ,vant, On it were the words: "She is a maid named Sarah Wilson, but has changed'. her name to Princess Susanna Caro- line Matilda." The "princess," in fact, was a runaway slave., and at last events were catching up with her. lu the meantime, she smiled and joked, oblivious of what was to happen. How did this amazing adven- ture begin? Sarah Wilson was born at a sleepy Staffordshire village in 1750. A smart girl, she attracted the notice of, a local lady, Caroline Vernon, a Maid of Honour to the Queen - While still in her teens, Sarah went to London with her new employer, as maidservant at the Queen's House, on the site of the present Buckingham Palace. One night in 1771, Sarah no- ticed that one of the Queen's rooms was unguarded. Know- ing that everyone was down- stairs, she tiptoed into the room, grabbed some of the dresses and jewels which were there and darted .away, Returning for a second load she was spotted by Mrs. Von Schellenberg, who caught her before she could es- cape. Next day Sarah Wilson ap peared before Lord Talbot,' the Lord High Steward, who sen- tenced her to life transportation, Within a month she' was on her way to America, where she was sold to an employer who put her to work in his kitchens. But somehow she managed to smug- gle with her a couple of gowns and some of : the jewels which she had stolen and hidden in her room. Having spent many w'?ae ry months in Maryland, she decid- ed to make a dash for freedom. She knew all about Court life from gossip in the servants' quarters. She knew, too, how great ladies dressed and behav- ed. Wrapping her stolen tro- phies in a bundle, she fled on foo t to another state, There, with an accomplice, she let it be known that a sister of the Qu e en Charlotte of England was soon' to visit the district. The rich landowners were all agog to be the first to entertain the "princess,"' and Sarah Wil- son soon had a long list of in- vitations. With great skill she contrived to "arrive" at night, with one maidservant. This may sound strange t oda y, but in those days the people in the remoter parts of America knew very little of royal etiquette. For quite a while, the "prin- cess" duped the district, living free at all the best houses. Then came the tell-tale slip of paper, and once more she was on the run. She was eventually caught at Charleston, South Carolina, and was taken back to where, she belonged. But once again this amazing young woman escaped, though this time she did not pretend to be a princess. She simply told people that she was an English lady. For a while she Managed to live by her wits and then, with a stroke of luck, she found herself in a town garri- soned by a crack English regi- ment Among the officers of that regiment was William Talbot, e kinsman of the nobleman who had sentenced her to• be trans- ported. Wearing her best. gown, Sarah Wilson Wag introduced to the young officer, At that point she dramatically disappears troln history. All records of her cease -• except one important tacit she married William Talbot 1 CLASSIFIED AikliTISING 'AGENTS WANTED EARN Cash In your Spare name, Just Phew your friends our Christmas and AU.Oceeslon Greeting Cards (lnchidlea. 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