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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-06-09, Page 8r_. "Dear Annie Hirst: My wife and I have been married nearly five years and have a three- year-old daughter. I thought we were perfectly happy; we spent all our spare moments together. Suddenly last February she left me and went to her father and mother. All the explanation she gave is that she doesn't love me any more. . "I went to a western town, and she came and spent 10 days with me. She told me that she has fallen in love with an 18 - year -old boy and wants me to divorce her! Now she doesn't answer my letters. "Should I grant her wish, or try to win her back so our daughter can be with us both? Do you think I have a chance? JOHN" * For the sake of her little * girl, I hope your wife will be * persuaded to come back to " you at least for a year. Though * she believes she is in love * with someone else, only time * can prove how real is the * emotion, and she owes the test * to everyone concerned. Assure * her that no reproaches will * await her, nor will ,you impose * any affection she does not * welcome. Promise her that if * in another year she still wants * to separate, you will discuss * it then: during that period she * will not see this lacl, but de - Three Charmers •'� ��vtRl'�c, IJY�m ��� Presto! Easi.y economically you can crochet 3 hats—in new- est shapes of spring! Crochet leaf - type to match your favorite en- semble! Band style takes 1 hour to do. Crochet Pattern 875 for 3 jiffy hats in straw. yarn., wool, or chenille. Easy instructions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for tris pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. "rint plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. INSPIRED 1DEAS—pages and pages of novel designs in our NEW Laura Whcelei Needlecraft Catalog for '955' Completely dif- ferent and so th' filling! Send 25 cents for your copy now! You'll want to order many of the pat- terns shown, * vote herself to building, with " you, a eoegenial family life * for the child. * When two people marry, * they find their happiness in * living for the other. When a 4' child comes, however, they * unite in providing the love * and emotional security need- * ed for her normal develop- * merit. In accepting that re- * sponsibility, personal happi- '' ness is sacrificed if need be; * it is a shallow mother who * would deprive a child of her * father's companionship and 4' guidance. And how 'could a * boy of 18 be mature enough * to have a father's love or his * wisdom? * If you have been friendly * with your wife's parents, * wouldn't it be well to write * them, too, and be sure they * are on your side? * You have had a bitter blow, * and I am sorry for you. I do * hope your wife will be fair enough to come home- and * fulfill her proper duties. * * * SPOILED HUSBAND "Dear Anne Hirst: My hus- band is a grand person in many ways. But he was an only child and never had any family re- sponsibilities. . . . e-sponsibilities.... Now my aged aunt in another town (who brought me up) is in her last illness, and a note from her physician says she cannot live much longer. She needs me. My husband objects to my going. "I have my own income and we have no children, so I • am free to go. He thinks she is a sentimental hypocondriac — which she is not. If I let her down, I would never forgive myself. What shall I do? UNDECIDED" * I think you should go to * your aunt. She gave you a * home when you needed one, * you are her only close rola- * tive, and she is missing you * now. * Your husband may still. ob- • ject, but later on I expect he * will understand. If it were his * mother that was ill, he would. * want to be with her. Remind * him that you feel obligated to * comfort your aunt by your * presence in her last days. * In a matter of this kind, one * must do what she thinks is * right. • * * When a child is born, its pa- rents can no longer consider their personal contentment first; their responsibility must be centered in giving the child a harmonious family background. If this problem confronts you, tell Anne Hirst about it. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont. An Object Lesson American Protestants some- times are criticized as being stub- born, selfish, heartless, and bigoted because they resist ap- peals of Roman Catholics for bus transportation, textbooks, lunch- es, nurse service, or other and more direct subsidies to their parochial schools at public—that is, taxpayers' expense. In many European countries government subsidies to "confes- sional" schools of several faiths go much further than this, in- cluding building costs and teach- ers' salaries. In France, Germany and to some extent Britain and the Netherlands, it has taken real effort to preserve adequate sup- port for state schools. In Belgium it has long been Il AT-GRANDCHiLDEN BY THE DOZENS * If Mrs. Anton Strack, left, has a proud smile an her face, it's b,e•pause she's standing beside her 100th great-grandchild, a "line -pound fourrounce> ittoy born Meently to Mrs. Raymond Thessing, right, Greats tirandrriother Strack also has 13 living children and 67 grand- children, fora grand total of 180 descendants FOUR CRYING OUT LOUD — This quartet of hungry little robins lives in a nest that mother built over Sam Goodman's garden hose. Although quite perturbed over Mom's absence with the groceries, they don't seem to mind her unorthodox choice of a building site. customary for the state to pro- vide a large part of the budget for Roman Catholic Church - operated schools, even extending this to a near -monopoly of edu- cation in the African Congo. Last December the Belgian Parlia- ment voted by a substantial mar- gin to reduce the subsidies for these schools by about 5 per cent The vote was recently repeated. On Sunday, March 27, several thousand mounted police and riot troopers with sabers. batons and fire hoses were needed in Brus- sels to disperse columns of mar- chers which converged on the capital city in defiance of an offi- cial ban on such demonstrations.. Several hundred arrests were made. A Catholic newspaper de- scribed the disturbance as a "memorable protest". If this is the kind of pressure encountered when a people's elected representatives conclude subsidies have gone too far, can It be wondered at that American.. non-Catholics balk at opening the door at all to a breakdown of the constitetional separation of church and state.—From the Christian Science Monitor. Thrifty Half -sizers, Twr smart dresses for the sewing of just one! With the jacket en, this looks like a suitdress•! Whisk jacket off when the temperature soars — presto! you have a cool, slimming prin- cess dress. Peoporti,rned to fit! Pattern 4657: :lair Sizes 141, 161, 181/2, 20'4;. 221/,, 241. Size 161 dress and jacket 42 yards 39 -inch fabric: Vs yard contrast, This pattern easy to use, site. ple to sew, is te; ten for fit. Has "complete illustrated instructions, Send TIIIg fl' ->GJ' 7E CENTS (350) in coins (sfeirips cannot be accepted) for this t,attern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, , ADDRES , STYLE NUMdER, Send order to 13o'. 1, 123 Aligh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont, Each week the country seems more lovely than the preceding week. Now it is lilac time . . * and such a profusion of blossom — to say nothing of the per- fume. But I still miss the la- burnum. In England purple lilac and yellow laburnum come into bloom at the same time -= and the colouring is just perfect. "I remember . . . my brother set the laburnum on his birthday — the tree is living yet." My brother didn't set it but there was a laburnum in our garden, and great clusters of delicate yellow flowers hung suspended from its boughs. Will laburnum grow in Canada I wonder? Seems to me I have seen it a time or two — and I can't see why it shouldn't. But you never can tell. Plant life is very temperamental. Take wall- flowers for instance . . . those lovely brown, gold and bronze wallflowers that grow so easily in England. But where in Can- ada can you find them? Ap- parently the climate is too hot for them. And primrose, cow- slips and bluebells — none of them likes our Canadian whit- ers. However, we have plenty of flowers in Canada that won't grow in England — our lovely trilium, for instance. And the birds . Old Country folk miss the skylark, nightin- gale, cuckoo and the little red robin. Remember walking through the woods in spring and how thrilled we'd be the first time we ' heard the cuckoo? We knew it was a lazy, good-for- nothing bird, laying its eggs in another bird's nest; enjoying the pleasures of parenthood without taking over its responsibilities, but yet we couldn's help loving the cuckoo's song — "Cuck-oo . . cuckoo!" And somewhere in the distance would come an echo — "Cuck-oo , cuckoo." As for the nightingale — there isn't any other bird -song that can possibly compare with the nightingale for sweetness. It be-` longs to moonlight nights, a • park beside . -a lillypond; two in a canoe idling down -stream . . and love's young dream. By contrast, during World War 1 I heard. Zeps zooming and a nightingale singing all at one and the same time. The skylark ... who can for- get the skylark as he soars aloft in a burst of song? I wonder how many people read that lovely little picet in the dobe and ;miss :441:82x:ieo: ,VatcAtion �fiArrangement' inm�nBertnida Bahamas Newll AIR AND StEAMSIIIP RESERVATIONS CRUISES & SUS TOURS Hotel Reservations Anywhere J 0 K. JOHNSON & CO., LTD 647 Bay 5t.. "menta 2, Ont.. BM. 6.948 t r M:•�,.iJJ l t.F y.!'�.iirn'�htiJ�.n/wiuJ��.NJJY.� IFiSIIE 23 — 1955 Mail a week ago about the sky- lark sent to Canada with an im- migrant boy to cheer his lone- liness. The sprightly song of the little bird proved to be the greatest ambassador of goodwill that could possibly be imagined. The story reminded me very much of Wordsworth's poem about a thrush that I loved so much in my youth — still do for that matter, "At the corner of Wood Street ... hangs a thrush that sings loud . . . poor Susan has passed by the spot and has heard in the silence of morning the song of the bird." And in the song of the bird Susan re- members so 'much of the home she had loved. Well, it hasn't been all birds singing and flowers blooming around here. There has been some work done too. John and his hired man were over to put in a field of oats and there were two tractors going most of the time. The men were here for dinner and went home for chores and supper. Friday night Johnny came back again and worked in the field until after twelve that night — for himself, not for us! Saturday morning he came along with a team for the drill and a girl to drive the tractor. Maybe so much 'ambition should be commended . . . but I d o n' t know. Rushing a job like that must be very 'exhausting. Any- way, it makes Partner and I feel tired just to see them at it. We can still put in a fair day's work ourselves — but not at that pace. We sent some cattle out earlier in the week — a cow and two veal calves. Poor old Jane — she finally went to the stockyards, after Partner threatening to send her out for several years. But there was al- ways some hold-up . . . "Might as well wait until after the calf Is born" or "I'd like to get a little more meat on her first." Now Jane has gone, and she tipped the scales at 1190 lbs., so, for an old cow, she wasn't exactly skin and bone. Our few remaining hens are doing fine. Partner said the other . day they were laying 98%. "Why 98?" I asked. Partner was not sure whether it was always 98 but it wouldn't sound right to say you got 16 eggs from 18 hens. Everything has to be worked out in percentages these days! Maybe Parner listens to too many farm broadcasts at the barn — or gets more in- formation than he can make use of. This struck us as funny. Partner had been very interest- ed in. Mr. Leatherbarrow's idea of "Gold in the Grass". When he knew the author was to ad- dress the local Seed Fair last spring he wanted to hear him. But he had a friend staying here at the time. Partner tried to get aur friend interested enough to go to the meeting with him. But it was useless. A few weeks later this same manwas back aagin, and, quite by accident, had come across "Gold in , the Grass" and had read it. He in, terribly enthused — "best book I ever read". Apparently he did; not connect the author with the speaker Partner had wanted to hear but told him all about the book, assuming, no doubt that it was all news to Partner. Ani that's the way it was left. Part- ner can act awfully dumb when he feels like it. Class Submarine A strange sight among the multi -coloured exotic fish that swarm in the clear blue waters of the Caribbean, nosing over the coral and through the beau- tiful garden of tropical sea plants, is a tiny "glass" subma- rine. Cramped within the special shell, adventurer Edward J' Le- Compte and two of his friends peer out the wonderland of colour and shadow searching for sunken treasure. The foaming white surf thund- ers against the golden beaches Of the islands — islands whose rocky approaches are strewn with the wrecks of ' storm -ra- vaged ships that foundered through the centuries. LeCompte got his romantic treasure -hunting ideas back in Oklahoma City when, two years 'ago, $1,800,000 worth of gold was recovered off Nassau, in the Ba- hamas. He had always been fas- cinated by old yarns of deep-sea treasure and this made him de- cide to find out for himself. His fourteen -foot submarine can withstand water pressure at 2,700 feet, 1 can carry a load of 3,000 pounds and cost some $15,- 000 to complete. He says he built it of fibreglass because the material is three times stronger than steel for its weight. Going on Vacation? Florida? Wa arrange Hotel, Motel, Aparlm*a accommodations! A FREE SERVICE; Write, mention accommodations nee¢S ed. Number in party, children, pofltl etc. Beach or town — price rang ADVANCE RESERVATIONS BUREAU Mt, 341 No. Federal Highway, Dania, Plod;;; (2 miles south Ft. Lauderdale -- 20 miles north Miarni) 2Vs tablespoons BENSON'S or CANADA Corn $tarcb IA cup granulated sugar Few grains salt 114 cups (10 oz.) canned fruit juke (apple, pineapple or blended') 1 egg yolk % tablespoon butter 1 egg white 1 tablespoon granulated sugar COMBINE BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch, sugar and salt in saucepan. STIR in % cup fruit juice gradually; mix until smooth. ADD egg yolk and mix well together until smooth; add remaining fruit juice mixing well. COOK, stirring constantly, over medium heat until mixture is smoothly thickened and comes to a boil. BOIL 1 minute, stirring constantly. REMOVE from heat, add , butter; cool, stirring occasionally. BEAT egg white until stiff but not dry; gradually beat in sugar, CONTINUE beating until mixture stands in stiff peaks. FOLD lightly into cool mixture; combine Well . POUR into dessert dishes; chill before serving. YIELD: 4 servings. 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