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"Mothers have been placed on
such a high pedestal that many >.
•daughter with mother trouble keeps
it to herself for fear of treading
•on holy ground."
So writes a
distracted girl
whose love for
her mother has
been distorted --
because that mo-
ther for years
has kept the
whole family in
a turmoil of mu-
tual distrust and
humiliation.
"Our family grew up," she re-
lates, "in a highly religious but
tense air. of hatred, and ridicule of
friends, relatives, and my father.
On his death I was left the finan-
cial support of my mother... .
FUTILE SACRIFICES
"She has kept us all in a constant
uproar by belittling each one to
the other and deliberately creating
trouble , .
"Finally, my health broke. I left
—and had to keep up two house-
holds. I still loved her, and had a
deep sense of obligation.
"But through the years she has
grown worse. All of us have done'
what we could, in time, energy and
money, to make her happy—to no
avail. No one will ever know how
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much heartache and anxiety olte
has caused me alone.
"I have tried every solution, But
after each outburst I am in a night-
mare, miserably sick with a feeling
of frustration and guilt. I've gone
through the cycles of initial love,
obligation, indifference and, at
tines, complete distaste. 1 don't
want to have a crop of complexes,
feel self-pity for my futile sacri-
fices.
"I want to live a Christian life,,
and marry a wonderful man—which
is the second phase of my problem.
To marry him, I would have to go
overseas—or wait 18 months until
he returns. And I don't want hhn to
find me a neurotic.
"My mother feels my duty is
to her. She says she won't live
much longer, though she is in good
health now. Shall I stay here, be-
yond the reach of her temper yet
near enough to be of aid if she
needs me?— Or go to him, where
I can find happiness and tranquil-
lity I'm afraid I've reached the
saturation point unless 1 find a
solution,
"There is nothing more pitiful
than an aged widow living alone
who thinks the whole world bates
her. But who can be any unhap-
pier than one who has never had
love, and is marking off the days
before she can start living?"
• Every reader of the column to-
* day will appreciate how hard it
* is for this girl to make her de-
cision. Whichever way she turns,
she is bound to question the wis-
dom of it.
Her desire to find tranquillity
at last, is understandable.— Not
* only because of the attendant
* happiness it will provide, but
• because she has . almost reached
a' the end of her rope, and no doubt
* wonders whether ber remaining
here would really benefit her
* mother.
n: Many a daughter would feel
* she has done everything possible
* for her mother, and can safely
leave the responsibility to her
relatives.
Yet this girl still feels within
her a sense of that responsibility.
If she can stick it out, would
staying home better satisfy her
conscience?
TO "A DAUGHTER": No
one but another girl who has had
to put up with such a parent can
appreciate all you have endured
since your father died. Having
observed so many parallel situa-
't' lions, however, I understand the
* cost, year in and year out, that
you have paid for your loyalty
'd' and your tolerance,
e Suppose you go abroad and
marry your soldier? "Would your
"` happiness retrain untouched by
the feeling that you had "de-
' sertcd" your mother? Or would
• you feel entirely justified?
'K You must, of course, make up
' your own in i n d. Whichever
;' course you choose, you have my
t` understanding and my admire-
°: tion.
How much does a loyal daughter
owe to her mother? Anne Hirst
feels it depends on the circum-
stances. If such a harrowing prob-
lem confronts you, ask her aid.
She sees both sides. Address Anne
Hirst at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.,
New Toronto, Ont.
*
Sub Ta The Rescue — Charlotte Knight, magazine editor visiting
Korea, is pulled up the side of the submarine Volador after sailors
From the sub rescued her from the sea, Miss Knight and two Navy
Barrs were dumped into the sea when their helicopter, transferring
her from a ship to the sub, crashed. Four sailors dived overboard
and made the rescue.
New Sunsuits Are Amphibious
By GAILE DUMAS
The new sunsuits, developed in
stark white or clear, fresh colours,
can take to water, too. The reason
that they're equally at home in
sun or water is that they're de-
veloped in fabrics that take readily
to a dip. Further, these suits have
complete linings.
The tailored sunsuit, with trim-
mer lines and less fussis cut in
one piece for 1952. This gives a
sleek look to the figure, is good
for many types.
White gets the emphasis because,
obviously, clear white provides a
sparkling contrast for a deep tan.
But the new colours are, rich and
bright, meant to be at home with
the blue of sky and water. Shock-
ing pink, mauve, maize, emerald
and Cotillion blue all favour a tan,
too.
Beach roaming suit (left) by
Brilliant, is emerald -and -white pat-
ternedpique with wing -cuffed bra.
Pockets and little boy shorts are
cuffed, Because of a built-in bra,
this lined suit may be worn strap-
ped or strapless.
Clear white waffle pique (right)
makes sun -and -water suit with
calla lily neckline tapered into
straps that tie halter -style. Little
boy shorts are cuffed, cut with
deep pockets. This suit, too, has
complete lining.
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And after Christmas t,mes the
New Year—with a. lull al!ibetween
when we have a chance. tt{.tsit back
and really appreciate all good
wishes that came our' i 'tile way; the
family presents and fri�iil'dl,gifts;
the greeting cards wi,tktilu;!.lcvely,
artistic designs and` 'aiiffebriate
words; the surcease froth the con-
stant hurrying that we kri',vir before
the festive season. Yes;'this hill
that sometimes foliows;`'ia. storm
--in this case it was a storin that
began _gathering for at 1 #tst two
weeks before Christmas -,a storm
of activity which for many farm
people included picking poultry,
making Christmas cak , and pud-
dings; taking in school concerts,
trimming the Christmas tree,'^filling
stockings, finding out who would
be home and when, fighting the
weather and taxing our memories
in an endeavour to make sure no
one was forgotten and ne '-.ing left
on the missing list.
It was a hectic time but in the
lull that follows we have reason to
marvel at ,he love and kindly
thoughts that were showered upon
us. And in this respect your hum-
ble columnist is no exception. 1
certainly did appreciate the friend-
ly wis;ies that carte my way dur-
ing the Christmas season—so many
from kindly readers, many of
whoiu write year after year, and
by their encouragement and inter-
est help me to start yet another
year, telling you as best I can, of
the homely happenings at Ginger
Farm, that probably tie in with the
happenings on hundreds of other
farms. Itt response to several in-
quiries perhaps 1 had better admit
l did write "The Brown Coat"
story which appeared in the Family
Herald last September. Thank you,
everybody, for liking it -and for
telling me .u, Pei -naps," if you
watch for i„ yeti may see another
story before too long—at least an-
other one has been accepted. When
it will be published is anyone's
guess --a month. slit weeks, three
months ---1. never knots. Nor does
it really natter—getting a story
a ccep.ed is the main thing.
1 ant always glad when my fan
mail fans tell me something about
their own families . , . Mrs. B. L.
of Fort William for instance—her
John is in Collegiate now—but the
first time she wrote all three child-
ren were little more than toddlers.
Sotue.imes 1 fot-get that for other
folk time passes just as quickly as
it does for us ---children grow up,
leave school and get married.
Queer, when 1 think of it, some
young people who are now married
and in homes of their own, were
not even born when .1 started writ-
ing this column! Perhaps Ginger
Carni would have better named
"'l'he Brook Farm" ---and maybe
it should have been dammed occa-
sionally to stop its steady flow.
Come to think of it, it may have
been dammed a good many times. --
just change one letter and you will
get the idea. however, 1 have a
long way to go yet to catch up with .
the record set by the late Dorothy
We were a party of six on
Christmas Day — our own family
and two young friends—just right
for the small turkey that was easily
disposed of. Holiday time off was
a little complicated. Daughter
worked Monday and had Boxing
Day off. Bob had Monday off and
went back to work on Wednesday.
Which reminds tie, I don't think I
have mentioned that Bob is now
boarding at home but working in
Oakville. That means leaving home
at 6:30 a.m., taking lunch with him,
and back home again for 6:30 din-
ner at night. It -is nice to have
someone coming in and out again—
and during --t're 7Stormy, 'weath'er
Bob's heavy car helped to keep the
lane open. I don't know whether
it is the car or the driver but Bob
certainly seems to come through
anything. As for my poor little
Junebug, it has gone in,+o hiber-
nation—at least until the weather
clears. And I have almost gone
into hibernation with it--tu+',- •r1+ to
town in eight days!
And now. dear friends, t mustn't
close this. column without wishing
you a very Happy New 'Year. As
we look back over the twelve
months past we remember many
difficulties, many heartaches and
fears, but for molt of us the sun-
shine was still greater than the
cloud. And so it will be in 1952.
An unsettled year ahead of us—
that much is certain, But if hap-
piness is in our hearts we shall have
courage to face and overcome our
problems as they arise. Don't let
us cause a shadow by standing in
our own sunshine.
Couldn't Sing So
Wouldn't Work
•
Fifty girls at a Belfast factory
went on strike recently because
their employer refused to allow
them to sing while working. When
he compromised by allowing them
to hunt, they went back to work
quite happily.
The valve of music is rated
highly by efficiency experts, who
say it acts as a stimulant to tired
workers. As a result, many fac-
tories allow radio or gramophone
music to be played all day long to
busy employees.
Even better are the resu its when
employees are encouraged to sing
among themselves. They work
longer and show less strain, des-
pite the 'effort wasted on singing.
Marty works sponsor their own
choral societies, with the belief that
they give workers a feeling of
pride which makes for loyalty to-
wards their employers.
In the U.S., where business effi-
ciency is almost a mania, it has
long been the custom for certain
teams of heavy workers to have
their own singer, who is not ex-
pected to work so long as he leads
his gang in loud, hearty choruses.
Forerunner of these paid singers
was the nineteenth century
"shanty -roan," an essential mem-
ber of any sailing ship's crew, Be.
fore the age of mechanization all
the work involved in sailing a ship
had to be done by hand. When
sails were hoisted or anchors raise
ed, the whole crew worked in utile
son, to the tunes of a hundred lusty
sea -shanties sung by the shanty.
man.
ISSUE 2 1952
Who Started Ii?
Where did they all eoane front—
the familiar names and faces which
populate the world's nurseries and
schoolrooms: the Little Jack Horn-
ers, the Georgie Porgies, the old
women who lived in shoes? A few
weeks ago Britain's grown-ups were
getting the scholarly lowdown from
an authoritative reference books the
Oxford University Press's new
Oxford Dictionary of Nursery
Rhymes.
Editors Iona and Peter Opie
spent seven years looking through
haystacks of diaries, letters, books
and plays to find their needling
rhymes & riddles. They dug into
the histories of kings and queens,
wits and wags, drunks and druids,
consulted everyone from George
Bernard Shaw to their own child-
ren, aged six and four.
Some of the famous rhymes
they found, are at least as old as
the city of Rome. Horace described
little children playing Rex erite qui
recte faciet—the first version of
"I'm the king of the castle." Pet-
ronius heard a small boy say Bucca,
bucca, quot sunt itis?, which later
became "Buck she, buck she, buck/
How many fingers do I hold up?"
At least one rhyme in nine, say the
Opies, was known in the time of
Charles I; a good half are at least
200 years old.
The early counting of Yarmouth
shepherds (ina, mina, tethera, met-
hera) became "Eena, meena, mina,
mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,
devera, dick (eight, nine and ten) is
the most likely origin of "Hickory.
dickory, dock." In the 18th Century,
"Hot Cross Buns / One a penny
/ Two a penny" was a street ven-
dor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep /
Have you any wool?" propably
dates back to the export tax lin-
posed on wool in 1275. The "Four
and twenty blackbirds, baked in a
pie" goes back to the Renaissance,
when live birds really were put in
pies, ready to fly out when the pie
was cut, to cause a "diverting
Hurley - Burley amongst the
Guests."
Out of the Barracks. Most
rhymes, the Opies learned, were
never intended for children. Mat-'
thew, Mark, Luke and John" was
a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go
to bed, Tom" was once a barracks
'ditty„ "Mary, Mary, quite contrary"
possibly had a "religious back-
ground , . . 'a word -picture of Our
Lady's Convent' ... the bells being
the sanctus . bells, the cockleshells
the badges of the pilgrims, and the
pretty maids the nuns . .
Only a few rhymes have known
authors (e.g., Dr. Johnson, who one -
day suddenly spouted: "If a man
who turnips tries / Cry not' when
his father dies / It is proof that he
would rather / Have a turnip than
his father"). Many were satire.
Some rhyme scholars believe that
the downfall of Sir Robert Wal -
pole's ministry—popularly known
as the "Robinocracy"—gave rise to
"Who killed Cock Robin?", and
that Georgie Porgie was realh
King George 1.
—l' rout "Time"
Remember Germany
111 a Toronto restaurant the
other day a diner remarked that
he could remember. only a few
years back, when the chicken pie,
now 80 cents, was priced at 35.
That, he thought, was a good illus-
tration of inflation. But it was a
far different kind of uiflation from
the one that literally destroyed
the German economy 30 years ago.
"In the summer of 1923," says a
writer in the Washington Star, "a
New York businessman ordered a
beefsteak in the Adlon hotel, .Ber-
lin, at the quoted price of one
million marks. By .the time it was
served it was worth 1.1 million
marks and a half hour laced when
the check was presented the price
was tan to 1.2 million marks."
In the middle of this economic
catastrophe, the average German,
though literally starving. appeared
to many visitors as being better
dressed, better housed and possess-
ing more personal property than
ever before.
The answer was simple, Seeing
the continued devaluation of the
currency. the nation went on a
gigantic buying spree and amassed
real goods, many' of which they
did not need or want, while scorn-
ing savings accounts.
We haven't even approached that
stage on this continent and most
of us will pray that we never will.
.But in this time of a steadily de-
teriorating dollar, it is well to re-
member where we could end, ---
From The Financial Post.
By Ante Asblsy
Q. How can a silk umbrella tta
dried?
A. Do not open the silk umbrella
to dry it, as this causes the side
to stretch and become stiff. Tisa
proper method is ti close the unt-.
brel:(a and turn It upside down,
The water will gradually drain oft
without injuring the fiber of the
silk.
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Q. How can. I snake wood wea-
ther-proof?
A. Covering with several coats
of hot linseed -oil varnish win
make the wood exceedingly dur-
able and weather-proof.
e: e *
Q. How can I prevent my eared
ary from picking his feathers and
akin after his bath?
A. Add a few drops of cologne
water to the bird's bath,
*
Q. How can I obtain an ebony
finish?
A. First use a coat of vermilion
flat paint; then a coat of blade
paint that has already been mixed
with a small amo'unt of Chinese
glue. Finish with a coat of rubbing
varnish.
'4:
Q. How can I treat a burned
cake?
•.. Allow the cake to stand until
thoroughly cold, then scrape it
with a lemon grater. The burnt
part can be almost entirely re-
move'", leaving the cake smooth
and ready for the icing,
e: *
Q. How can I make a firmer
'hem when lengthening or shorten-
ing a skirt?
A. Take a double stitch every
inch or so. This will make such et
firm hem that if you rip a few
stitches, the rip will not extend for
more than an inch.
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