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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-04-16, Page 3'ti !k\7 's 311 -4•4•••-4-r44•44 -C .e -a The kr.er PROBLEMS OF EVERY DAY LIFE By Dr. M. M. Lappin TELL THEM THE Tll.'.UTII, Among the many letters 1 receive, not a few of them raise a question. which I may phrase 'thus: "Wbat shall we tell our children?" :here is a typical example: "Our daughter is almost seventeen. There is a side to life which 'gibe has never seen, She will be through with school this year, and some relatives have invited ber to stay with them in the city so that she may have bet- ter opportunity for advanced educa- tion....Our problem is whether we should let her go and run the risk of exposing her to possible dangers which, so far as we know, she does not even know exist". I have not quoted the letter in full by any means, but 1 have quoted enough to indicate what the parents from whom it came believe to be their problem. And, quite frankly, I ane sur prised that parents hi this age should feel this to be a problem. After all, is there any sound reason for trying to veil the true facts of life from our children? If there is, I confess 1 can- not find it. There is nothing about life which cannot. be made known to our chil- dren, and especially when they are approaching_tl^ili:E`ago at which they are perforce obliged to go out into the world and face life for themselves. Surely it is far better to warn our children about the traps and pitfalls of life than to have them go out in ignorance and fall into some of those By Adam Broome .a-e -r. o-- --o.- --O a G -•s-- �..s-:w t o 6-0-0-0-0-•- 0-0.4•11.6.10-4.11"0-111, SYNOPSIS SIGNOR 1'A1fIsLL1 ut Milan, a fa ;mous composer," is about to make his first appearance in London. He is to conduct the first performance of a sym Dhony of his own composition at the Queen's Hall. The event has aroused very great interest. 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Parelli makes his entrance, and rats - mg his baton suddenly collapses. Medical aid 1s immediately forthcom- ing, but it Is obvious that the man is dead. 10 the audience are two young people, Lettice Blanton and 'Stephen Garton. 13ranksome, a student is traced as procuring some deadly poison from the University safe lust before Pareilt's death. a s "I've tot q;' sir, that this was going to be-a`qu•eer case. I'd like you sir—all the same—to read to the end of that letter. And before you go any further—and I' don't think this will take away the interest for you —I think I might tell you that the handwriting expert is almost certain that the person who wrote this let- ter is the same as the writer of the 'Doctor Hawkes' letter to Brank- some." General Berwick sighed. "You know, Taunton—I'm not a detective, and never pretended to be one, but I never guessed it was part of a policeman's job to sort .. out lunatic puzzles of this sort. It all seems Greek to pie." "I've been in the Force a pretty good time—been a detective, too, most of it. But I can tell you, sir, that when this affair started, I was as much at sea as a recruit. This whole thing is utterly fantastic as you say, and at first I couldn't see how things were going to hang to- gether at all. In fact, not until I got hold of this letter (the expert's idea of the similarity to the other only confirmed my own), I'll admit that I was quite at sea. But now that we know, or think we know, that the same person wrote both these letters, we've got some sort of a starting point—some kind of connection. And that's just what we've been wanting all along. If we can put together only two pieces of the puzzle it's going to help us a whole lot with the other bits. And we've got a few of them already." If the opening paragraphs of the letter were puzzling, there was yet greater bewilderment in store for the Commissioner as he read- what fol- lowed. The writer went on to say that he was enclosing a ten pound note. The waiter's wife was to go to some ob- scure jeweller in the East End or somewhere inconspicuous to have a rough copy made of the baton, of which the newspaper photograph was enclosed. The cost need not be very great, Instructions were given for allowing for a short sha-p projection amongst the imitation stones„ as the base which replaced the real ones at the same part of the genuine baton, and on which Francesca Pomagna would smear some compound which would be sent at a later date. This compound would contain a drug, which would inspire the conductor, when it reached his system through the blood, by the puncture in his hand when he grasped the baton, to his most sublime efforts. The concert would be a stupendous success and the prestige of the composer and his country in the world would be effec- tuallyseeured. It would br el no L53 to try to make Martinelli, the valet, the bear- er of the baton, It was known that he never allowed the real one out of his custody, except when he de- livered it to his master with his own hands at the hall for a concert, It, seemed that the only thing that could be done was fo_ someone to obtain access to Martiuelli's room. just be- fore he left for the hall, overcome him in some way, get possession of. the baton so that a change cquld be made after the plan was successfully carried out, and to carry both the real and the false baton tothe con- cert, whilst in disguise as Marti- nelli. The easiest way to do this was indicated and a promise made that the compound for smearing on the baton would be sent later, and that as its virtue was easily. destroyed, it should be handled only in- rubber gloves, Francesca was to 'get, chloro- form at some chemist's where she was not known, and a sponge, say- ing she wanted it, for doping a eat, which had gone made. She would then be in possession of all the neces- sities for carrying out the scheme. Taunton was again amused at his superior Mica's bewildered expres- sion as he look off his spectacles, sighed and laid then; down on the paper when he had conte to the end of it, traps and pitfalls. Besides, children will get the facts about . life some- where. If they do not get them in the sacred and wholesome atmosphere of the home, they will get them in the muddy places of life and, if we leave them to "learn things in the dark" we are exposing them to very grave dangers. It Is not knowledge that leads our young people astray. It is ignorance, Indeed, it is something even worse than ignorance, for no youth or maid- en goes out into life wholly ignorant, but a great many do go out with only half -knowledge which amounts to dis- torted truth about the facts of life, and nothing is more conducive to temptation than half -knowledge, 1 have seen so :much distress result- ing from this very thing that, when parents ask me "What shall we tell our children?" never hesitate in answering "Tell them the truth". Contrary to the opinion of a great number of well meaning parents, we do our children a distinct disservice when we try to throw a cloak of mystery around life, and to veil from them the true facts concerning life. "To be forewarned is to be forearmed, and I feel that it is our duty to send out our children bol`ibiavarhed and forearmed. I think we should also make it clear to them that there are a great many people in the world who will not be bound by convention and who rebel against the moral sanctions of society. We should not send them out expect- ing to meet only saints In the world. If we do, they shall be rudely awak- ened and sadly disillusioned before they go very far. At the same time, we should be careful to point out that each has his contribution to make to. the well being of the whole, and that this contribution is best made by ob- serving the moral sanctions of society. To put the whole thing in a nutshell, It is the duty of parents to train their children for life as life must be lived in. this modern world. That can only be done by telling them the truth. NOTE: The writer of this column is a trained psychologist and an au- thor of several works. He is willing to deal with your problems and give you the benefit of his wide experience,` Questions regarding probletris of EV- ERYDAY LIVING should be addres- sed to: Dr. M. M. Lappin, Room 421, 73 Adelaide Street, West, Toronto, Ontario. Enclose a (3c) stamped, ad- dressed envelope for reply. VICTORIA UNIVERSITY TO CELEBRATE CENTENNIAL The one hundredth Anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter by King William IV. in 1836 to Upper Canada Academy, Cobourg, Ontario, as an institution of higher education, will be observed this fall by Victoria University, Toronto. The Upper t Canada Academy changed its name to Victoria College in 1841, and this was changed to Victoria University in 1884. Victoria College conferred the first degree in Arts ever conferred in Upper Canada, I in 1845. The original building of Upper Canada Academy, later Victoria College, in Cobourg, was opened in 1836 and still stands. This building is pictured in (1). Emmanuel College, the theological branch of Victoria University, was opened in Toronto in 1931 and is shown in (3) above.. Victoria College (2) the Arts Faculty of Victoria University, was opened in 1892 when Victoria College federated with the University of Toronto, and moved to Toronto. make head or tail of it. Of course we know that this woman carried out. the orders to the letter: But.:why? And who's the mysterious writer? Why does he wish to murder this fellow? Is it some musical maniac at work, or is there anything in the reference to Fascism? Or do you i think there's any chance of a love story behind the scenes somewhere?" "Well, Taunton ----all 1' cyan say is, give me the Army any day. I can't "I'm as much in the dark as you are, sir. We know haw effectually the girl carried out the plans, the sante as Branksome did his part at Oxford. And of course she's had to be de- tained, charged with murder. • For though I don't think for one second that she's guilty, even in the -legal sense, there can be no doubt that she was the person who actually arrang- ed the crime. She's only a peasant :girl by birth. Her husband had work- e'd in London before he married her, and was more sophisticated. She's very superstitious, like all her class, and very easily worked on. She and her husband, till he got this Bright - mouth job, were very hard up, and there were still some debts to pay off; the sight of the ten pound note was too much for her.' She got the stick made for a pound, and was en- titled to keep the rest. There were .o other expenses except a few shil- lings to rig up a disguise. As far as I can see she got herself worked up into the same state as Joan of Arc did, and really did believe she was doing her bit for her country. 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