HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-03-25, Page 2ANNE
RIPST
:Dear Anne :Hirst: I am a
widow in slay late 40's. For three
years I went with a widower
who has three small children.
He promised to marry me as
anon as he could to give me and
the children a home. They were
with a private family. Now I've
had the shock of my life.
"Some months ago he was
transferred to another city. He
said he'd be back to see me in a
month. I wrote him weekly. A
month ago a woman called ma
long distance and told me to
leave him alone, I'd caused
enough trouble. She said she
had been his wife for seven
nnonths!
"Why didn't he tell me the
truth—instead of taking me out
after he got married, begging
me never to leave him? I love
him dearly, he was always so
kind and so good.
"I hate the idea of this woman
telling people I am a trouble-
maker. (A friend told me about
that.) Shall I write him, and
ask him why he did such a cruel
thing to me? Or leave the mat-
ter as it is?
Crushed and Discouraged."
w The nature of man is in -
e scrutable. How one man can
b possess so many admirable
qualities as your friend did
s and yet stoop to deceive a lov-
e ing, loyal, warm-hearted wo-
4' man like you, is one of the
e mysteries that is hard to exec,
* plain. You and I can only be-
* lieve he was entirely sincere
with you, but got involved
* with a determined woman and
o like many another male, had
not the courage to confess it.
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* The least he could have
done was to tell you the truth
o himself. What cowards some
' men are!
o What more could he ask
▪ than all you have given him--
° your love, understand, and
e your loyalty, all your leisure?
° You would even have raised
e his children as your own. For
* three long years you waited
° to marry him, and all that
n time your faith sustained him,
e Though , your love would
* wish him to be happy, I am
o afraid he will not find happi-
ness. Already you have "caus-
e ed trouble" between him and
° his new wife,• who was brazen
* enough to tell you so. His
• conscience must have re-
o proached him months ago, and
° the knowledge of his deceit
° will not leave him. I hope you
° will preserve your dignity, and
o not send him any questions or
o reproaches.
4' I know how bleak the future
4° seems before you, but knowing
o your are guiltless will comfort
° you You have the sympathy
e of all your friends, which will
o help heal the hurt. Cling to
o your church for the peace you
° need, and for the faith in
yourself to cope with this sor-
e row.
M Don't concern yourself with
this woman's wicked com-
ments; they only reflect her
malicious nature. I do not
envy her husband nor his
children, who will have to
live with it.
°
Y:
TO "L. M. Ii,": In the States,
such a situation as yours requires"
only a brief civil ceremony be-
fore a judge. to straighten things
out.
However, to be sale, I sug-
gest you consult the Ontario Le-
gal Aid Plan, in care of the Law
Society of Upper Canada, O-
goode Hall, Toronto 1, Canada.
'When one's faith in anoth'er is
shattered, the blow is. one of the
. most cruel that life can bring.
Turn then to Anne Hirst, who
will help you through. 'Write to
her. at
Box 1,123,
Eighteenth Street,
New Toronto,
Ontario.. •
Wrote Life Story
With His Fo,.
Still a young man., but vic-
timized by cerebral palsy from
birth, and one of a family of
seventeen children—fourteen are
still living — Christy Brown of
Dublin is a human miracle.
He was born, doctors 'thought,
with some injury to his brain.
Throughout his childhood he
could not sit, stand, walk or for-
m u l a t e words. This physical
powerlessness extended to his
feet. His limbs were usless, so
it seemed. But 'he could use now -
and then, very slightly, his left ,
leg and foot.
S e v e r al friends, including
specialists, tried to get his par-
ents to put him in a home for
mental defectives. They refused'. '
And how splendidly has their
faith been rewarded. In 1950,
the National Association for
Cerebral Palsy. took Christy
under its wing. And by skilled
treatment, much of it new, he
learned how to sit, stand, walk
a little and finally to speak.
Now, with a' pencil, gripped
between the toes of his left foot,
he's written his life story •-- a
brave, humorous tale, sharp in
observation, and free of self-
pity. He paints, too, toe -fashion,
showing a flair for landscapes
and family portraits, Now, with
a tutor, he's taking a tiniversity
course.
Note Difference -- Kenneth Arvidson plays a five -rich -long cor-
net which Is said to be one of the world's smallest. However, the
instrument has the same length of tube (16 inches) as the stan-
dard model being played by Christine Munson.
Piggy -Back ,Home •-= You'll ,never have to say "let's go home,"
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room and a downstairs living room Demonstrating the outfit,
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Morand. The portable home folds into a 10 -inch pack on top
of the car and can be assembled in'"15 minutes.
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NICLES
INGERFARM
evat,Ivd•oi i. P Cle
Well, well—it looks, as if the
rural telephone is id -foe 'a Melee!
housecleaning, especially .the old
party line. Just in;,case you
missed that bit of new perhalis
I should explain what 1 ani- talk= ::
ing about. A Bill was intro •
-
duced in the Ontario Legislature;
last week to put the Rural Tele
phone service under •a new';,'
branch of government, created
by the Telephone Act of 1954
The Act is aimed at giving "collet;
tinuous and efficient service" to
the 164,000 rural subscribers
Ontario, the first major change%`,
since 1918.
Under this new section it will`,e
be an offence to hold the line.`
in someone needs it for an emu,t
geucy, such as fire, accident or.
sickness. Penalty is $50 fine m
30 days, A similar penalty for e{
the use of "indecent, obscene,;,,
blasphemous or grossly insultinge,
language". Eavesdroppers w h eke
gossip are liable to a $50 fine—s
that includes telephone company
employees as well as the genera`ki
public.
Looks as if a lot • oz' gr!
will be covered by;; this
act... , . maybe the persone.
made the recommendations'
recently had some experiene
with rural telephones!
The old party line—like park-
ing—isn't what it used to be. It
has changed even more than the
old gray mare. Tinie was when
the party telephone was used •
aim a s t exclusively by farm •
families living on one road. They,
all knew each other and recog-
nized a neighbour's voice if she
asked if the line was busy. There •
was even a sort of unwritten
code on the party line. If you
came to the phone and found it
busy, and your need for it was
not •really important, you hung
up again without saying a word,
returning in a little while. 11,
however, you particularly wanted
tire' phone without too much
delay you asked politely: "Is the
line busy?" Chances are yuu
would hear your neighbors ring
off in a few minutes --a signal
that the line was now disengaged.
But, if they held on for another
ten or fifteen minutes, you asked
again—and waited. That usually
did the trick. Both parties would
say — "Well, I guess someone.
wants the line."
If polite Inquiries failed --which
was very rarely—then you would
get husband, brother or son to
inquire in a deep, masculine
voice—"Line Busy?" That nearly
always worked. A woman seldom
dared to hold out against a inan's
need of the telephone—he might
be wanting the 'vet' or a repair
man , . . and fast.
Of course, in case of real emer-
gency you had only to say: "May
I have •the line for the doctor,
please" --and the line was yours.
Not only that, the' chances are
one of the neighbours whore con-
versation you interrupted would
give you a ring later, ask who
was sick, and was there anything
she could do to help. However,
if no one came on the line while
two neighbours were talking they
would talk on -- the length of
time they chatted was •entirely
'their own affair, especially if
there were only Six or eight ret
a party line. Yes, we really got
along very nicely on the old
party Inc.i
But how times have changed!
City folk have moved out to the
county:. small town boundaries
have been extended, and more
and more subscribers have been
added to the party tines. Te
many of them sharing e tel..e..
phone is a new experi.nt:ae,.' 'ax-
ing little knowledge of the ni,-
written country cods,', t +.ai'1 ort
taking the Mini v.'hen 'all c'r
person asks it the line• ex busy,
they go right on talking. The
neighbourly feeling on a party
line has entirely disappeared—
that is, in congested areas. A per-
son at one end of the line may
not even ha v e a nodding
acquaintance with the party at
the other end. Not only that
the rural party line was never
intended ,for business purposes—
other than farm business.
It seems to me there should be
.a printed card of instructions
handed out to every party -line
subscriber, with general direc-
tions for using the rural. tele-
phone and also how to ring
another person on the sante line.
Some years ago a new neighbour
on our line wanted to give me
a ring. She knew our ring was
13 but to this person "13" meant
thirteen. So she straightaway
proceeded to ring the telephone
thirteen tunes. I heard it — who
wouldn't!—had a hunch what was
happening and answered it --- as
well I could for laughing.
The telephone company in our
nearby town is talking of a dial
system—and we hope it takes in
rural areas too. A few years ago
there were 15 subscribers on our
line. Then they divided it and
for a while. there was compara-
tive peace and quietness. But
more and more people moved
into the district; more and more
were added to our line., Now we
me :back to where we were be -
;:That is the general, pattern.
gin sure most rural' people=
• be glad the party line is
orhing under the jurisdiction of
the Ontario Government — that
is, if it means less subscribers on
every line.
Wolves Attw:ck us
As the driver of an empty
motor -bus ploughed his way
through, snow-covered, deserted
country in Northern Italy the
other night, he suddenly saw the
form s of half -a -dozen wolves
which, impelled by hunger, had
descended from the hills in
search of food.
The 'beasts ran abreast of the
bus, for a mile and the driver
knew that if he stopped they
would a t t a c k him. So he
switched on all his headlights
and drove full speed ahead: but
the wolves began to overtake
him again.
Finally he outstripped all but
two of the wolves which he
could see racing ahead of the
bus. Desperately, the man drove
straight at them, ran them down
ele arrived in Spoleto half an
hour later with the bodies of
the two wolves hanging over
the bonnet of the bus.
iits Was A Real
"Rage With Reath
One of the most dramatic
races against tinge ever known,
a race which saved a man from
being executed:far a murder he
hadn't committed, occurred in
November, 1938.
The extraordinary e v en t s
which led to this sensational race
began in July of 1937, when a
young farmhand named Henri
Hervault, having got up late one
morning, foolishly "borrowed" a
bicycle to get to work in time.
That evening he again, mount-
ed the cycle, intending to restore
it to its owner with explanations
and. apologies. But while pass-
ing through a village lie was
arrested for riding a stolen bike.
Despite his protests he was
lodged in jail, and, next day
found himself in court.
His amazement and fear may
be imagined when he heard him-
self being charged with — mur-
der! Dumbfounded, he listened
while the police told •the court
how a sixteen -year-old girl
named Rachel Renard had been
knifed in a wood near his home.
The prisoner had been found
riding a bike stolen from ' the
sante district; and as the evi-
dence — including his lack of
an alibi to cover the vital mur-
der period—pointed to his being
the murderer, he was arrested.
The police then asked for the
case to be remanded while they
searched :tor further evidence
against the prisoner, and Her -
vault was brought back to his
cell.
Some months 1 a ter Her vault
faced his trial, and circumstan-
tial evidence was so strong that
the j u d g e sentenced him to
death..
One feature of the case which •
gave Hervault's .lawyer reason
for still hoping, however, was
the fact that Hervault was the
second to be charged with the
crime. Somewhere, he reasoned,
there must be a third — and ,
guilty—man.
Then, as he reviewed the evi-
dence, a sudden suspicion struck
him, Excitedly, he consulted a
large-scale map of the district.
His suspicion was confirmed,
and with it new hope was born.
He decided on a pian, and
immediately proceeded to put it
rr
into action, Frit engaged,, Roger
L a p e b i e, ave- cyclist of the
French race -tracks, to "ride as
race with death" along.tbe same
road, near Paris, which the deal
•fendant, Hervault, hade used the
day he was arrested.
e'er se v e r al weeks Lapebie
went into intensive training. At
last came the vital day of the
race with time. Moving with
astonishing'speed, Lapebie -cycled' •
along the French roads, past sev-
eral hamlets and a village. At
the other end waited.,•the lawyer
and other officials, in deep
anxiety. From time to time they
consulted their watches. At last
Lapebie appeared, breathless and•
very tired,
One of the officials looked
carefully at his stop -watch.
"You've lost the race, Lapebi.e!"
he told. the panting cyclist.
"I'm so .. , sorry," stammered
Lapebie . . . but his failure was
exactly the evidence the lawyer
needed. Armed with it he de-
manded a retrial at the Supreme
Court of Appeal.
In' court he outlined rue new
evidence, and in conclusion stat-
ed: "My'.Lord, only ten days ago
I gave Roger Lapebie, of whose
cycling fame you have all heard,
the task of cycling from the
place where the girt was mur-
dered to ' the farm where the
defendant works. He was given .
seventy-five minutes to c o v e r•
the distance which is the exact
t i m e the prosecuting counsel
gave Hervault to cover the .same
distance — and Lapebie failed' I
contend, therefore, that Henri
Hervault could not have come
milted the. murder. He could not ,
have got there in time!" -
The speech created a sen-
sation. When Lapebie had •given
his evidence, the judge declared
Hervault "not gull t y", and
ordered his immediate release.
ISSUE 12 -- 1954
Work And Devotion -- Their faces concealed, two nuns in one
of the five cloisters of Ferrara, Italy, wash their clothes in a
wooden tub. These nuns lead an unbelievably severe life of self-
imposed hardship. They are not permitted to speak to each other,
except on special occasions, and must covet their faces when
seen or spoken to by anyone not belonging to the order.
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