HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-12-25, Page 2- — Can you .magine how this affects
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""Your answer I know, will
not change my mother's mind.
But for myself, I'd like to know
whether I am to blame, Or is
,she right?
R. W."
>, It is hard for one who does
not know your mother nor you
* to justify her unreasonable re-
" strictions. One who enjoys
* people as you do continues to
" need . h e i r companionship;
* without it she cannot but grow
" dull and irirospective, her
* nature is warped and her out -
e' look bitter. 'four mother en -
4' joys her own triends, and your
" presence allows her to see
* them more viten.
* She and you are at croSs-
* purposes. You do not tele me
* how she felt about your mar-
* riage. or your leaving your hus-
* band, which might explain a
* great deal. You lived with
* him, you say, but a short while,
* found that all he wanted was
* to do as he pleased; you eon-
* eluded nen er did love you.
* Yet he cemee to see you and
'l° the boy frequently, so there
* can be really no caustic feel-
* ing between you.
* I am at a loss to understand
* why your father allows your
* life to be s., circumscribed--
* unless he is under your
mother's thumb and only by
$' staying there can he find any
* peace at iion,e.
* No oi.e eine can definitely
" say who is air fault. From your
* letter, I con. ; ,xde that a con -
x, flict of personalities is the ac-
" tual cause, and it is probable
* that has existed for a long,
* long while.
e° One solution (if your church
permits,) is a divorce, and an
* allowance that will permit you
* to care for your boy unaided.
" Can this be arranged?
* 't. *
When you a rite Anne Hirst,
be explicit in giving her back-
ground upon which to base an
opinion of your problem. She
can be of greatF.: help ... Write
her at Box 1, 133 Eighteenth St.,'
New Toronto, int.
"Dear Anne Hirst: Since 1
left my husband, my little boy
and I have lived with my par-
ents; my husolnd supports us.
I am 32, 1 pay board and do all
the housework. My mother does
not approve of
my going any-
where, even
with a girl
friend to the
movies.
"She says 1
made a mis-
take, and I
must pay for it.
She goes out
often.
"She refuses to mind the baby,
and will not let me get a sitter.
More than once, she has asked
me to leave; beel I feel my son
is better off heee than in becausefurnish-
ed. rooms in care ci
one
I'd have tde
go to work.
She calls me awful names. I am
not a bad girl, Anne Hirst, and
never was; ley reputation has al-
ways been good. . My father
never interferes He .Hakes good
money, and I know I'm not the
burden. my mother claims. I've
never asked them for a penny;
I worked before the baby came,
and saved and paid for every-
thing myself.
WHO IS TO BLAME?
Before I married, 1 loved to
parties and dan'-'es and have good
times. I'd like 2.o go now, to see
if the world etill goes around!
Two and three months at a time
pass without me going anywhere.
Week's Sew -Thrifty
41f ST
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CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
KILT
AND .KIMONO
MEET
The Tartan plaid
and Nippon silk
spar for
prominence at a
Spanish embassy
party in London
as Sir Shane
Leslie, Reit., first
cousin to Prime
Minister 'Winston
Churchill chats
with Madame
Yoshio Suzuki,
wife of the
Japanese
embassy's
commercial
councillor.
the foliage as a whole is always
full and green.
Queen of the evergreens is the
laurel—a name wrongly applied
to several different varieties of -
shrub, even though there is only
one true Laurel, the Bay Laurel.
This is the poet's laurel, and
since the time of the ancient
Greeks this shrub or small tree
has been held in veneration.
Its berried twigs, twisted into
a wreath or crown, were used"to
adorn the victors in Grecian
games of strength and ,skill.. The
laurel crown came to be regar-
ded as the distinctive reward of
valour or of scholarship.
Another false notion is that the
evergreen mistletoe is the arch
enemy of the apple -tree and is,
very fond of growing upon it as
a parasite. But botanists. have
collected the. names of over thir-
ty trees on which the mistletoe
has been found growing, and of
these the thorn is the one most
affected by' it. The m:iscnetoe .Ls
way down at the bottom of the
apple's danger list.
Legend sof the Laurel.
That the longing for greenery
which has become an instictive
trait of the Briton no matter
what part of the world he hap-
pens to be in, makes us cherish
the few plants whose foliage has
not yet been shed. Who is there'
that does not associate the dark
days of winter with the glossy
foliage of our evergreens?
Traditions and legends have
gathered round the laurel, holly,
ivy, and mistletoe. One of thein
is that these evergreen shrubs
a n d trees do not shed their
leaves, but this is wrong.
It is true that there is no regu-
lar season for the fall of the leaf,
as in ordinary forest trees,
though a holly -bush in May and
June looks thin and meagre com-
pared with its Christmas appear-
ance. As a rule, however, all so-
called evergreen plants gradual-
ly replace the old leaves with
new, and so are constantly chang-
ing their foliage.
Reason why evergreen plants
can maintain their foliage so
long, when others so readily shed.
it, is that the thick skim of the
leaves pr events too rapid
"breathing" which produces fall
of the leaf generally. This thick
skin also enables evergreens to
withstand extremes of heat and
cold.
Most evergreen leaves last sev-
eral years. The holly, for in-
stance, produces new leaves each
season, but each new .leaf lives
three or four years, and although
there is a leaf fall every year, it
affects only the oldest leaves, and
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