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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-01-25, Page 2��ryry yy'' 4 5-AINGE e� CTv2t� d e ire P. C16 li,,e "One man's Inlet it another mall's poison!" How 1 ue-rand how fort- unate. If we`411 liked the sante kind of meat and it was equally good for everyone there would never be enough of it to go around. And by "meat" I am not thinking of what we eat but of work, plea- sure, governments, climate—ill fact anything dnd everything that con- cerns our way of living. Sometimes, in that connection, you wonder at a person's choice of work as his or her way of making a living. For ilistanee, if you have no liking for the type of work they do, you might wonder why anyone would want to be a doctor, a nurse, a telephone operator or a dentist, Yet all such work must appeal to a great many men and women or they wouldn't be doing it. And isn't that fortunate for us? however, there is ane other thing to remember—so often choice of a vocation is as nnlch a tuatter of fashion as diornond socks and short- ie coats. Young folk, in their for- mative years, get a notion for doing just what the other fellow is doing —which often leads to round pegs in square holes. Remember the period when most young fellows leaving school wanted to be bank clerks, and most of the girls either a school teacher or a nurse. Later there was quite a run on insurance agents and travelling salesmen, while every other girl thought a stenographer's desk was the place for her. Now there is a great increase in the variety of jobs available—now some girls think longingly of a job as stewardess on an airline and boys of being operators or transport dri- vers. Just a fete of then—both boys and girls—think farming MIGHT be all right. The sante thing applies to plea- sure. No two people have exactly the same idea as to what really con- stitutes pleasure. A quiet evening at hone or among friends can be more satisfying to some folk than all the highlights of the city . . . and vice versa. As for gorernment and part politics . . . well, we had better skip that one. But wouldn't it provide a good illustration of one man's poison? Poison. . .. oh my, yes! Take climate' . . why is it that people choose to live in any partic- ular country or district? Why choose an isolated area when you might live in a welt -populated com- munity? Or why choose quarters as cramped' as the proverbial sar- dine -can when you could, if you so desired, live out in the country? Or again, why live in the Northern Ontario backwoods when you might get a job in the city and live where there is plenty of life and enough noise to deafen you? Well, I guess you see what I am 4725 SIZES S -14•—l6 1.1-18-2t1 1-40-42 11 .11401,0 -fes ONE YARD 35in, for. sntall size! Little more for other sizes! An apron that fits nicer, is pretty for gifts or hostcssing at parties. Scallops and heart pockets are so gays Pattern 4725; small (14, 16), medium (18, 20), large (40, 42), Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25c) in coins (stamps Cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to .Box 1, 123 Eight. St., New Toronto, Ont. Send Twenty -live cents in cont; for our .mane Adams Pattern Book! See the smart accessory dresses, separates and classics, tine special easy -sew styles for all ages, the gift pages. Printed in Hook is a free Pattern for snaking child's dress r1oin from man's shirt. My Son, My Son—After a 42 -year separation, 83 -year-old Isaac - Neubart was reunited with his only surviving son, Leon, Who arrived with his wife and .child aboard the Gen. Blatchford. Leon was Iocated in Germany by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. He was six months old when last seen by his father and the only' member of the German clan to survive World War TL driving at. What actually started this train of thought was a letter we got from Bob. Bob, apparently, is in his glory—living and working among all kinds of heavy con- struction machinery. Noise all day and all night. Trucks with tires so- big it takes five strong men even to tip them up on end. And the price of them around $1200 a piece! Buckets on the pow er-shovel big enough for a man to crawl around inside them. . And the weather—so cold the men are work- ing in zero temperature a good deal of the time. And Bob has been oe what he calls "the graveyard shift" --which wouldn't make it any warmer The plant shut down for C'hristrttas and then all the trucks bad to be towed before they would start again; the shovels also refused to operate. At Christmas Bob went to visit his uncle at La Cave. Drove there and had three flats on the way, caused by - the extreme cold. At - 2 a.m. he was changing a tire at 25 below zero! And yet he is happy . • , that is the life he likes. Oil and gasoline seem as necessary to stint as fresh air to a farmer. Why anyone should prefer that kind of life to farming is hard to fathom. But so it is. The snore I think of it the better I understand the feelings of the mother hen who hatched out a duckling. Partner has never want- ed to do anything other than farm so Bob can hardly be called "a chip off the old block". Unless one aright say there is a similarity even though circumstances are differ- ent. You see, Partner was the only one in his family who wanted to go farming—and his family could never understand why. Nor could my family understand why I was willing to be a farmer's wife. But there you are—farming was our "meat"—and could we go back 30 years we would probably make the sante decission again. True, it has sometimes been pretty "tough meat" but it has never been "poison". Illegal Parkers Read and Shudder Maybe the city council of Spal- ding, England, has hit upon the perfect device for making motorists behave. If Spalding motorists don't pay their 35 -cent municipal parking lot charges, a policeman will de- flate their tires. The Spalding city fathers have a sense of proportion worthy of the great Mikado who, in G and S's of the same name, proposed to make the punishment fit the crime: .And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merri- ment! Of innocent merriment! The Mikados of Spalding, under such a system, could work out a list of penalties for various offenses for which motorists are noted. And policemen whose (parking) lot has not been a happy one might begin enjoying themselves. The Spalding experiment is nota- ble for harnessing a natural urge in behalf of law enforcement. As Sir Walter Scott put it, lives there 0 mat who never to himself hath said. "I wonder what the driver of that car would say if he cantle out and found all four tires flats"? When the United Nations finds so apt a penalty for aggressors, and so delightful for law enforcement agents to apply, motorists with an unpaid parking lot charge soon will Ix% --The,.Christian Science Monitor ISSUE 4 w- 101 JJMiAY SCIIOOL LESSON By Rev, R. BARCLAY WARREN B.A., B.D. THE GREAT TEACHER Mark iv:1-20; 26-34 Memory Selection: Take --heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.—Mark iv 24. Jesus Christ was the Greatest Teacher of all time. He spoke as never man spoke. In today's lesson s=Ie teaches concerting His kin by means of parables. A p has been defined as ' a.aa e story with a heavenly meaning. But we trust not think of the earthly as the source of the heaven- ly. Rather, "The Lord is king, not borrowing this title from the kings of the earth, but having lent his own title to then:; and the 'king - dont of God' is, in fact, a most literal expression; it is rather the earthly kingdoms that are figures and shadows of the truth." The parables are simple so that even a child may understand. 'When we succeed in employing enough of simplicity to engage the mind of a child, our sermons will reach a level that strikes the heart of the adult; "for the children's heads are just about level with the hearts of adults." The kingdom of God becomes very great from what seems to .pian as a very insignificant beginning. Certainly when Jesus was crucified there seemed little likelihood that 1 -lis followers would rise to spread His truth around the world, But that is the case. The Christian faith is the most powerful force in the world today. Evil still ex- ists, but in its midst God, as Lowell has said, keeps His own. "Careless seems the Great Avenger, History's pages but record One death -grapple through the ages, 'Twixt old systems and tate Word. Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the diet unknown • Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above His own." Some day troth will be on the throne. Cu us Grounds For Divorce -- The ease with which divorce can be obtained in the United States is resulting in an increasing mi nl- ber of applications based on more and more curious claims. One of the latest is the applica- tion of a Detroit parson on the grounds that his wife refused to dust his Bible. A Michigan man has sued his wife for divorce on the grounds that when he proposed his normal spectacles were broken and he was wearing a pair which were out of focus. Strange? 0 course it is, but not more so than the reason for which a Los Angeles woman actually did get a divorce—her husband called her a fool when she trumped his ace in a card game. Nor is it more absurd than the reason for which a man from Yar- mouth, in Maine, was granted a divorcee—his wife gave him too much pea soup. One can sympathise with some npplicauts, however. There was the lean who found ()tit after he had married that his wife had twenty- seven pet cats. And there was the woman in Chi- cago who had little difficulty in get- ting a divorce on the grounds that her husband's pet dog and pet monkey made life unbearable be- cause of the tatter's habit of throw- ing stones at her. It seemed she was afraid of thein, and when they tried to come near to her she threw small pebbles at them. For a while this kept them at a distance until the monkey learned the habit of throwing them back. One of the latest divorce appli- cations is from a girl in Tennessee on the grounds that she was too young when she married to know what she was ,doing. She has been marded two years and her age at the moment is 13. Perhaps the answer is given in the bylaws of Nevada, where a residence of six weeks is neces- sary before qualifying for a divorce, but six months residence is essen- tial before a fishing licence can be issued. "Dear Anne .ff.irst:.1 have a bus - band who does not trust me. I art so fed up I don't know which way to turn! "Before I mar- ried, I was off on the wrong track, My hus- band knew about it. — and h a s never let Inc for - g e t it, Since meeting him, I have never cheated. He does not believe it. While he was abroad and in service he had several affairs, and he accuses me of the sante sins at that time. "Day after day, I bear the same thing. He doesn't even trust me to go shopping by myself! "He is a wonderful provider. He never lets our children or me do without anything we need. He does- n't drink and he just likes to spend his time at home with the television. He leads a hermit's life, and feels I should too. I have no girl friends. The only place I visit is my mother's or his, and then I have to take the children. I like visiting, for I am home all week with the children. "I should be thankful to have a husband who takes care of us. But I am so miserable I sometimes feel like walking oitatl I still love hint, but not like I used to. I know if he keeps up these accusations I'll be a ner- vous wreck in a few years. "I'll do whatever you say. DISGUSTED" TAKE A STAND Unless you want to keep on living this sort of life, you will have to take a firm stand. You will have to tell your hus- band you cannot bear it any longer. Having to defend yourself con- stantly against his insulting accusa- tions is warping your nature so that your health is being endan- gered. You cannot be a good mo- ther, nor a normal wife, when you are under continual suspicion. For the children's sake, as well as for your own, you must effect some change in your way of living, and quickly. If lze will not go out with you, you will take the children and go alone. You will make new friends. :mite them to your home; if sullen and inhospitable, let s. You will take the children les, ;tabs and give 'them little so they, will have a more life with their friends. not enough for a man to for his family's material . He owes them spiritual tion, too. And he owes his s complete faith. It is his make sure she i5 enjoying hen being married to hint, and making a Monne life for 11101 s all that is right and rich and full. --Or would your husband rattler have an invalid wife on his hatless? x A titan who does not enter into the social life of his family and who deprives his wife of hum= rights, is cheating. them all of thein due ... Anne Hfrst.will help you in your problems. 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