HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-07-12, Page 2"Dear Anne Hirst: A cousin
of mine, 25, shares my apart-
ment; we are good friends, and
slie has a nice job, too. She has
had several dates lately with
men, but never took anybody
seriously until a few months
ago. This one she fell for in the
traditional ton -of -brick style...
"When they'd dated about a
month, she learned he was mar-
ried. He hasn't seen his wife for
two years, he told her, and is
getting a divorce. He told her
all about his people, his busi-
ness, and his friends, whom he
wants her to meet. But shouldn't
he have told her all this when
they first met?
"She won't listen to anything
I say. She says this is the first
man she's ever loved, and she is
Lure he loves her. Don't you
think she should stop seeing
him? I ani so fond of her I
don't want to see her hurtb and
she surely would be a vulner-
able victim if he's not on the
up -and -up. Please tell me how
to handle her.
WORRIED GIRL."
* I have heard of lawyers who
a told their feminine clients it
* would be "all right" to have
* dates with a man before his
* divorce became final. Per-
* haps this man's attorney holds
a• the same opinion; since he
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* has met the man's wife, he
* should be able to advise him
* wisely.
* It is, of course, safest not
* to date a man whose wife is
* still his legal mate. A wom-
* an who has not seen her bus-
* band for two years may not
* object to being divorced. On
• the other hand, some wives
* have turned dog -in -the -man-
• ger at the first hint of an-
* other girl being involved, and
* contest the action unpleasant-
* ly.
* From all you tell nae of this
* roan your cousin loves, he
* seems an honorable person all
* around. There seemed no
• need to tell her of his being
• married until he found they
* cared for each other; I do not
* excuse him, but I could un-
* derstand it. His connections,
* frankly described, recommend
* him. In the circumstances,
* isn't it best to accept him as
* he appears to be, and 'et the
• future take care of itself?
* It is not likely you would
* get far in arguing with your
* cousin. A woman in love (es-
* pecially for the first time),
* will not tolerate criticism of
* the. man, and closes her mind
* to any doubts about him. You
* will not find further argument
* welcomed, I'm afraid.
* - Since you have explained
* how you feel about it, I sug-
* gest you relax, letting her
* know again that you trust her
* and are standing by.
* * *
"Dear Anne Hirst: About this
time last year, I wrote you of
my weakness. Though I loved
my husband, I almost went
overboard for another man and
I was so confused I. didn't know
where my heart was. I wrote to
you, and this is a tardy ack-
nowledgment of your under-
standing counsel . . .
"Thank goodness, my husband
never knew. But my sense of
guilt persisted, and for the past
year I have devoted myself to
him in new ways I found to
make him happy. That has
brought me the reward you as-
sured would come, and has giv-
en our marriage new mean-
ing.. Bless you for your help.
ANONYMOUS."
*
* I share with you the happi-
ness you have today, and appre-
ciate your telling me of it. The
counsel I offered was not easy
to follow, but you had faith
and courage, and now you have
found the peace you lost for a
little while.
* * .
It is not wise usually to in-
terfere between a woman friend
and the man she loves. 'Once
you give your opinion, relax
and let her go her way. When
you are perturbed, write Anne
Hirst about it, and be certain
you will have her best judg-
ment. Address her at Box 1,
123 Eighteenth St., New Toron-
to, Ont.
SALLY'S SAUTES
"Let's quit arguing whether
dove's a pigeon, and enjoy
sqnab dinner tonight."
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IN HARMONY AGAIN -- The Andrews Sisters (from left) Patty,
Laverne and Maxine, are back together again after a long and
bitter separation. Says Laverne, "Our public refused to let us
stay apart." On their schedule. a triple -barreled comeback —
night clubs, a TV series and a film biography in which they'll
blend their singing voices for the three "big name" film stars
who'll impersonate them on the screen.
FAMILY WITH A SPLASH — Sam Zamudio, left, and his son,
Emilio, practice water skiing. Doing a water version of a father -
and son act, the Zamudios set the mood 'fot their community's
observance of national Father and Son Week,
Wed Three Ti = es
To Same Bride
In one of the greenest suburbs '
of Berlin, in the home of their
dreams — blitzed and then rebuilt
among the rubble — live an old
couple who were once feted every
where around the world.
Fritz Kreisler, the famed violin-
ist, is now in his eighty-second year.
But at his side there is still the
frank -eyed woman who used to
watch him acclaimed b, queens and
kings and say, "There is my darl-
ing!"
Darby and Joan, indeed! "In the
autumn of life," says Kreisler, "we
stand stronger than ever, united
through companionship and deep un-
derstanding, grateful for the hap-
py past, enjoying the present ... "
But turn back the clock to the
days when Fritz Iireisler, slim and
handsome in his twenties, strode
the deck of an Atlantic liner. Cele-
brity hunters among the passengers
may have marked him down as their
lawful prey and perhaps were con-
sidering how best to angle for a
meeting.
They little suspected they were
watching a crisis in the life of a
genius. Kreisler seemed pre-ocen-
pied as if lost in a world of mu-
sic. But in reality he was think-
ing about a hat.
In the little haberdashery shop
on board. he had seen a blue beret -
.like cap. Perhaps it was as suit-
able for a woman as for a man,
but on an ocean voyage one had
to defeat the wind.
He turned into the shop and there
\it was — a blue cap, unobtrusive
and yet the instrument of destiny.
"I'll take it with me!" Kreisler
announced. "How much is it?"
"Oh; dear," said a voice behind
him. "That's the very cap I want-
ed."
Kreisler turned and saw the
most captivating girl he had ever
encountered in his life. To this day
he even remembers the costume she
was wearing — a neat little outfit,
the colour of wine.
Harriet Lies looked at her rival
with American candour and puzzle-
ment crept into her eyes. Where
had she seen his face before?
"Dear lady, please take file
cap!" he begged her.
Harriet demurred, but Kreisler
laughed. He bad come to the con-
clusion that in any case it was a
woman's hat and would have look-
ed absurd nn him. Harn.'i-et accepted
in the end. She left him, express-
ing her thanks and adding a very
definite "Good day'." And Kreisler
strolled back along the deck to re-
join a friend with his heart filled
with inexplicable emotions.
"I've just met my wife!" he de-
clared.
"But you're not married," the
friend retorted, incredulously.
"No, but I'm going to be !"
"To whom?"
Kreisler realized that he did not
even know her name. But a
beautiful girt with a little blue cap
on a liner in the middle of the
ocean would not be like looking for
the proverbial needle in a haystack.
And be saw her that eveniug.
Next morning the eap was perkily
adorning her heart.
They renal' their first meeting
after all those years. On leaving
the shop Harriet, too, had gone
straight to her friends to say she
had fallen in love with an unknown
man. And while Kreisler had been
desperately searching the ship for
someone who could effect an intro-
duc1ion, she had been doing the
same
There's something in the air on
a transatlantic voyage. Kreisler
and Harriet were by no means the
only couple to stare at the moon,
to listen to the wash of the ship
and imagine that fate had intended
them for each other. Defiantly
they announced their engagement,
despite friends who thought that
shipboard engagements were made
to be broken.
But once ashore — when Harriet
went to her parents in New York—
their certainty persisted. They were
married in New York City.
Their honeymoon was another
transatlantic crossing, to comply
with the arrangements of a tour
that the violinist had to undertake
In England. And then, just )Cor fust,
they were married a second time
in London!
Nor was this the only ceremony.
In 1047, when they were both past
seventy, Kreisler and hitt wife seal.
..ed their long years of happiness
with' and American church ceremony.
Concert tours aside, they started
their married life in England in
two rooms over a teashop in Maid-
enhead. This was one of the few
places where Kreisler found he
could practise unclisttii'bed. And
while the sounds of his fiddle filled
the room, Harriet sat in a corner
quietly learning Germain.
Marriage so improved Kreisler's
music that his concert fees began
to rise. Coupled with Ilarriet's keen
business instinct there. came in.
creasing prosperity and a move I a
luxurious Portland Place, in the
heart of London, oddly enough in
a house later demoltshed
Yet Kreisler's career was grid
thing — and his marriage another.
Harriet stayed in the background
so consistently that the Queen
invited Iireisler to tea unaware that
he bad a wife. And Kreisler ,hnd
the temerity to decline, saying that
he already had an engagement with
Mrs. Kreisler.
Needless to say, an instant note
from Buckingham Palace put things
straight by saying that Her Majesty
had not been aware of the Pres-
ence in London of Mrs. Kreisler:
the invitation was, of •course, for
both.
• Harriet has often declared: '7
Jive for nobody but Fritz!" Kreis-
1er once said: "Success is ephem-
eral but love is everlasting."
Destiny decreed that this couple
should have no children. But there
soon began Harriet's remarkable
mothering of many children.
In Vienna, Berlin and America
thousands of orphan children owe
their happiness to the violinist and
his • wife. The fees earned by pour-
ing out melody were poured out
in the children's care.
Even in recent years, Kreisler
sold his library of rare books in
order to give $100,000 to a children's
hospital. Once when he came home
from a concert there was scarcely
room to m o v e, for Harriet had
bought 2,000 pairs of children's
shoes.
A few years ago, at a great ban-
quet held to honour Kreisler in his
old age, the violinist smiled at the
hundreds of guests and called Har-
riet his "No. 1 blessing." Unexpect-
edly Harriet was called upon to
pay tribute to her Fritz — and in
tones choked with" emotion she
quoted the song from "South
Pacific" .
"I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in
love, I'm in love, I'm in love with
a wonderful guy !"
re Most Animals
Colour. Mind?
Are most ''animals colour blind,
or blind to certain colours`? '1'o
find the answer to this question,
scientists plan to conduct a series
of harmless experiments in the
United States this summer.
It is already known that few
dogs have a sense of colour. House
dogs show no preference for a red
carpet or rug over a blue or vari-
coloured one and seem to express
no curiosity whether their owners
wear bright -coloured or darkelothes.
Cats seldom seem todistinguish
colours and show no partiality for
bright hues.
Monkeys are believed to see prac-
tically the same colours as people.
At the University of Wisconsin a
few years ago, Dr. B. Weinstein
experimented with Corry, a mon-
key, to find out if be could sort out
objects by colour.
Corry had to look at an assort-
ment of red and blue flowerpots,
glass ashtrays, skeins of wool,
feathers, cups, thimbles and blocks.
Then he had totry to separate the
blues when given a cue in the form
of an uncoloured, elliptical block,
and the reds when the cue was an
uncoloured, triangular block.
Once he was given the proper
cue, the monkey unhesitantly plck-
ed out blues from reds and reds
from blues. Dr. Weinstein also tried
to get him to respond to the spoken
word "red" or "blue" but Corry
failed In this test.
Another scientist proved by an
ingenious test that chickens (hardly
notice violet, indigo and blue. In
a dark room with seven colours
projected on to the floor, he found
that the fowls atonce picked up
grains of rice .lying in the red, yel-
low, orange and green rays, but
paid tto attention to the food that
was coloured violet,
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ciPLIGINGERFATA
Geez,ncl.ctttxu?' O Clei.elko.
Now 1 call tel you in till ).i Seel'el
--the substance of which lots been
worrying us fur quite awhile. The
fact is David has a baby brother.
So now you can uuderstanel why
Meld has. beeli here on an ex•
tended visit all by himself. Elis
ino.her was anything but well so
we: thought the best, way to give
her ata opportunity fur a much
needed rest was to have l>eVId
here.. The baby, "Edward Collet"
was bo)'i.l 5.80 11.111. May 23. duet
weighed M lbs. 8 and one half oes.
bxcept that be is fatter he looks
very ulnch like, his big brother. Of
course everyone stays "What a
shame it wasn't a girl.' Actuary
it would lu.tve been a disappoint.
ment to his parents if he 11lad been
a girl. Dee was most anxious for
another buy as she thought two
boys would be such company for
each other later on. As for' our.
choice — boy or girl, it didn't
really matter, just Se long as every-
one was well and normal. So far
everything seems to be all right.
Alter getting the goud clews ulv
next worry was finding some way
to see the uew arrival. To help cue
out a young neighbour with Small
children of her olvu cable to the
rescue and offered to keep David
for a few hours, which meant I
could go down on the three train
and back on the seven — and with
luck get in to see Daughter during
visiting hours. But luck .almost
deserted me. The train was nearly
an hour late. It was quarter to
five before I got to the hospital.
As you probably know most
private patients can have visitors
almost any time. But not mater-
nity eases. However, the supervisor
was a flesh and blood person with
sympathetic - understanding a n d
she gave ole special permission to
visit. Daughter for half- an• hour.
I appreciated the concession and
came away quite satisfied. And
Daughter was well pleased with
my surprise visit.
The wsather is still making news
but yet, in between wet days farni-•
ers around here have managed to
get n little seeding done. At least
we hear the frantic hum of tract-
ors from dawn to dark. Oh yes,
and the swamp frogs are singing.
At last! Another thing I have no •
-
ticed it too. It seems we are becom-
ing a nation of week -enders. Mon-
day and Tuesday we read and hear
about win: took place over the
last week -end. Wednesday, Thurs-
day and Friday plans are under-
way for the week -end ahead.
Weather forecasts are based on
the possililities of rain or shine for
pleasure seekers from Friday to
• Sunday night. You tnust have
heard it quite often — "A.nd now
for the week -end weather report."
' Except on farm broadcasts we hear
very little about what is happen-
ing on the farms .because of the
continued wet weather. So long
as it's fine during the day and for
the week -end that's all that mat-
ters. The other day one newscaster
giving the "probs" said this: "And
the weather . . . mostly fine but
with the possilility of heavy show-
ers. However the rain will be ut-
night so it shouldn't be too bad."
We got that night rain all right —
enough to hold up seeding again
but the daylight 'hours were bright
and sunny as predicted sb 1 im-
agine everyone except the farmers
was satisfied.
And, now it's Monday morning
again and the house is strangely'
quiet. Yesterday Joy and Bob were
here and took David back with
them for a week or more. We are
going to miss the little fellow and
now Grandpa won't have anyone to
help him fix the fences! It could
be that we shall get a little more
work done but we didn't mind let-
ting the work slide a bit just so
long as we were able to look after.
Dave properly. Which meant that
he got enough fresh air and- exer•
else that Haling and sleeping MIS
no problem for pian til all,
Yesterday afternoon 1 gut a
ride In to Toronto - Itaaviug (1t i J
tut to tool; after Dave until Joy
got. bore 1rtughtei' wag oil and
looking forward to going home 10•
dal The baby iti c4lilong lilung fine
and appears 101)01e reddish hair —
aftel' his mother, Wiwi) we went
(limn to the nursery we looked
through the window at the pre
nurture babies, all of (heal 111 In:
cnlbaturs. `there was one pair of
111115, 0110 by Caesarian se).1ton
and one wee coloured elite. All of
them had such tiny arms and legs
there seemed little MON than skin
to cover the bones, It see111e)1 'n•
credible that in all probability the
greater percentage of those tiny
morsels of humanity will eveutna)iY
grow to normal inf'anl inninrlty,
anti perhaps in clue time be ns
healthy and strong as the other
babies that were full time -- thanks
to modern medical science. W.hnt
chance of survival would those
babies have bad fitly years agnt
Perhaps it is a gond thin); to ,:rye
premature bobies occasionally. t'er-
haps we are inclined to take n(lr-
nudity a little too much for grant-
ed, forgetting (lint 0 new life and
a perfectly formed body is still
1 h greatest. miracle on earth.
"I'm not going back `to school to-
morrow, Mummy."
"Why not, dear?"
"Because 011 Monday the teacher
said 4 plus 4 equals eight. On Tues-
day she said 2 tains 0 equals eight.
To -day -she said 7 plus 1 equals
eight, and I'm not going hack till
she makes up her mind,"
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CAMEO — Study In likeness is made by Queen Elizabeth 11, left;,
and Princess Margaret, dad for rainy weather in Stockholm
during the Royal Family's 'state visit to Sweden,
