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TEA ':..AGS
"Dear Anne Hirst: I am think-
ing of leaving my husband. I
realize this is a big decision to
rnake, and I don't know if it
would be best for the children
We have three, and have been
married 11 years.
;,"My husband is good -in some
leers; he doesn't drink or run
around, and he does buy plenty
et food for us. But that is where
it. ends. He thinks because he
makes a living for me, I should
be his servant. I'm a good house-
keeper, and he goes around to
find a little dust to nag about!
He never gives me any money
unless I beg for it, and then I
Must tell where every penny
goes.
"He never has a kind word
for the children, He just screams
at them, even when they haven't
done anything wrong, They are
beginning to fear and hate him.
"I have never worked, and 1
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haven't a particularly good edu-
cation, Do you think 1 should
try to get out on my own? • Or
live in this prison the rest of my
life? I am only 29, and said to be
nice - looking, Surely someone
would hire me?
WORRIED WIFE"
BE PRACTICAL
"' Isn't there some older friend
" whose advice you trust? Is
* your father or another male
* relative nearby? If not, then
* I urge you to be practical.
' ' To get and hold a position, a
"` woman must be more than
"` nice -looking. She must be able
to do the job, and earn her
salary. It is hard for an un-
''' trained person to be self -sup-
"` porting even in these days of
* high employment; when she
": has three young children to
care for, further complications
*•
exist. Surely your children
• need you now more than they
* will later on? They need you
^' to protect them from their
.father's injustices, and to other-
" wise counteract his bad Milo-
`' ence.
• From what you say of your
"` husband, he does .not appear
"' to be a man who would keep
on providing for his family if
• you are no longer living in
* his house.. I am afraid he
would be outraged at the idea.
Though he is unpleasant to live
"` with, he does supply shelter
and food, and these your chil-
dren must have: to deprive
them of such security is a
grave step to take,
If you have no one to turn
to, why not consult a family
counselor who knows the local
opportunities, and who can per-
"` suede your husband to be a
* better man and father. Or
• perhaps the Domestic Relations
"` :Court might - be interested, if
you prefer to talk With them.
Your minister, also, -might help
your husband, or know of a
part-time job that you might
take on, later increasing the
hours as you find you can.
None of these ideas may ap-
peal to you, but your presence
* in your husband's house seems
"t to me essential for the chis-
"' dren's sake.
" What cannot be changed
* must be endured; snake the
* best of things until a welcome
• wad occurs. I ant SO sorry!
If things seer- unbearable, hold
on—until a better way opens up
for you . . . Meantime, Anne
Hirst's sympathy and experience
are• yours. Write her at Box 1,
123 Eighteenth 5t., New Toronto,
Ont. Sometimes just telling one's
story brings comfort
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START AT HOME
In Texas, they tell a story of
the days when the redoubtable
Ma Ferguson first tossed her
sombrero into the political arena
She came back from a succession
of stump -speeches all over the
state, and reported heppily
"Looks like I'm going to sweep
Texas." Pa Ferguson took the
pipe out of his mouth, ane sug-
gested gloomily, "How about
starting with this living "eons?"
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Peeping Pau s Bunyan—Unafraid of the giant face peering in
her window is pretty Eleanor Hall. She knows it's all in fun.
The face belongs to a statue of Paul Bunyan, legendary woods-
men, which stands in the fun* house df the Chicago Museum
of Science and Industry,
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Grenadier Review—Queen Ellzabeth 11, looking very tiny, inspects
her Grenadier Guards at Windsor Castle in. England. After the
review, the Queen presented the Royal Standard --or company
colour—to the Sovereign's Company, First Grenadiers.
H ONIC
INGMAR
The last few days our tarns has
looked like a real farm—or rath-
er the way we used to think a
real farm should look twenty or
thirty years ago. It was six red
hens that made the difference
, six quite ordinary New Hamp-
shire hens. These biddies were
all that remained of a pen of fat
hens we were selling for boiling
fowl, We kept a few back for
ourselves but somehow we didn't
get thein killed. Early last week,
when the sun was warm and
bright, I took pity on our st
hens and let them ,out of the
pen. To be perfectly honest I
don't know whether I let the hens
loose for their sakes or my own.
But I do know I felt a thrill of
satisfaction as I watched the hens
scuttling around outside -flying,
running, singing—so delighted
were they to be free with all out-
doors to scratch around in. Mit-
chie-White thought it was lots of
fun too and started chasing the
hens. Honey wasn't quite sure
whether that was allowed or not
and stood anxiously by, waiting
instructions from Inc. Of course,
having once tasted the joys of
freedom, the hens were crowd-
ing around the door next morn-
ing waiting to come out. So—
out they came. Later that moral-
ing I heard a bit of commotion
and saw the hens running around
with outspread wings, but, since
Mitchie-White was quietly sleep-
ing I came to the conclusion the
hens were just enjoying them-
selves. We had reason to think
differently that night as one hen
was missing. Tonight, two more
were gone. Partner is quite sure
we have a fox to thank for our
lass. There is a bush just two
fields away so a fox could quite
easily follow the thicket fence
and slink over to the pen without
our seeing him-.
Now my country idyll has lost
much of its charm. Apparently
the old picturesque way, with
hens contentedly picking here and
there, as nature intended they
should, is not to be: To survive
the hens ,must be confined, since
life with fi eedoin so often brings
sudden death, But I wonder what
constitutes a hen's philosophy of
lire Would it be for a short life
and a merry one, or for a care-
fully guarded well-fed existence?
Whatever choice our hens might
make we certainly don't intend
to provide food for foxes—or
probably a vixen with pups to
feed. if three fug -grown hens
could be carried off so easily 1
hate to think what would happen
to a pen of half-grown chickens.
The weather, thank goodness,
has quietened down considerably.
Three days of high wind is not.
exactly pleasant, especially when
it .Leaves the fields and fences lit-
tered with paper and other junk
blown across from the highwa,.
You would wonder where it all
comes from. But the litter that
blows across our fields is as noth-
ing compared with what towns
and cities have to contend with,
In Toronto last Friday I came
from the Medical Arts on to
Bioor and the street was alive
with wind-blown papers, It was
garbage day. Some containers
had been bowled over by the
wind see that besides air -borne
rubbish, cartons and such like
were being swirled around an
the pavement, with a few hats
added for good. measure. It Was
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a pretty rough day for ordinary
people and yet, getting off one
street -car that I was on, there
was an elderly lady, unattended,
• carrying a white cane. She was
attempting to change cars at a
busy intersection, The conductor
left his seat to help her off the
car and was going to take her
across the road when someone
on the street came .forward and
offered to take charge of her.
Truly, blind or otherwise handi-
capped persons, often put to
shame those of us who are in full
possession of our faculties. But
it is heart-warming to see how
quickly strangers come to the
aid of. those who need assistance.
This morning we have one daf-
fodil in bloom—a forerunner of
many more to come. There are
literally .hundreds of buds in the
garden so it looks like a good
year for spring flowers. It is a
wonderful time for country liv-
ing. Sometimes I wonder why
anyone lives anywhere other than
the country. IIt isn't always cir-
euinstances that keeps people in
towns and cities. Sometimes it
is lack of courage, fear of the
unknown. Friends of ours in Tor-
onto's Moore Park district must
move. The man of the house, a re-
tired business man, would prefer
the country; his wife and daught-
er cannot visualize an existence
away from the city, especially
as Ann will be going to Univers-
ity next fall. So they have bought
a house away out on Wilson
Avenue, ft will take them just
as long to reach the city from
there as it would from our place
-had they done as we wanted
them to do—built a nice little
house on the corner of Ginger
Farnt, But there it is= -no two
people can see alike—so we can-
not truly say what is best for
anyone else to do.
TALL TALES
• Herb Shriner, a -television comic
in the Will Rogers tradition, ob-
serves, "A man will soon be able
to get clear around the world in
two hours: one • hour for flying,
and the other to get out to the
airport." We didn't need a plane
in Kansas -one day last summer,"
he adds, "Wind blew so hard it
got a herr turned clear around
the wrong way. Before it could
get straightened out and headed
into the wind again, it laid the
same egg six times!"
x"tU Sb KA res w rt + a
Women have always played a
decisive part in the chemical in-
dustry although they may not
realize it, according to leaders
in the industry. Women's demand
for white cotton and linen fab-
rics brought about the birth of
t h e modern chemical industry
early in the last century That
dates from the first manufacture
of bleaching powder in Glasgow
and the first production of soda
in Liverpool in 1823.
Before these chemicals were
produced, fabrics had to be
bleached by scouring with ashes
and exposure to sunlight f o r
weeks at a time. Increased out-
put of textiles made it imposs-
ible to spread them all cut in
the fields for such tune -consum-
ing treatment but the social
prestige of white garments and
linens remained strong,
Chemists believe that if the
upkeep of cottons and linens had
been left to men, dark -colored
sheets and shirts would have
been the fashion. Therefore,
they point out, feminine prefer-
ence brought about the manufac-
ture of bleaching chemicals
which comprised the nucleus of
the heavy chemical economy of
England for many years.
Of course, white did not pre-
dominate the textile field in
those days.' A limited number
of vegetable and Mineral com-
pounds were used for dyeing
but many were too expensive for
general use. Chemists say the
discovery of coal -tar dyestuffs in
1869 provided relief for the pent-
up desire for more colorful tex-
tiles, especially among the wo-
men.
The organic chemicals Industry
of today has been biult around
the dyestuffs industry. Profits
from dyestuffs -manufacture were
used for expansion into medi-
cinal and plastic chemicals. Here
again, the chemists point out, the
growth and expansion was not
due solely to the ingenuity of
chemists u1 making new com-
pounds but to the desire and
the demand on the part of wo-
men for new variety hi color.
In the sane way, they declare,
the pressure of consumer de-
mand for new fabrics brought
chemistry to the age of synthet-
ics. A silk -weaving company,
finding its market limited be-
cause of the cost of its product,
began the chemical research
Swimmer—Fluffing out her hair
after a quick swim at Daytona
Beach, pretty Barbara Denni-
son dries off under the bright
sun. She smiled for the camera,
even though the comb pulled a
bit too hard.
wlaiclt resulted its • the rh velop-
ment of rayon.
Following consumer appro vat
of rayon, the chemical industry
was stimulated to produce other
things. "Cellophane" cellulose
film is chemically an off -shoot of
rayon. It was invented during an
attempt to make waterproof
tablecloths.
Another example of the influ-
ence of latent consumer demand
on research and development is
provided by the textile industry.
Nylon was. discovered by acci-
dent. Researchers were not look-
ing for a new textile fibre, but
merely. studying the properties
of resin. The plastic they found
with the fibre -forming qualities
and exceptional strength spurred
the expenditure of millions of
dollars on further research. The
reason they were, so excited
about the strength of their dis-
covery was the need for a strong
fibre in the women's hosiery
field.
Just as the proceeds from dye-
stuffs helped found the pharma-
ceutical and .-organic chemicals
industries, the advent of the
automobile in this century pro-
vided far-reaching stimulus to
the industry. The manufacture
of the average car involves, dir-
ectly or indirectly, 256: chemi-
cal materials. Chen&j a'ls• made
passible t h e weldii+,•" process
which resulted in massLproduc-
tion of cars. The need rot gas-
oline brought about e.o,-thei by-
products of crude oil ir1;i,eb re-
sulted in plastics, seitat1 j.h• de-
tergents, rubbing a , ohol n d
paint solvents. Devvopn ht, of
quick -drying "cluco" rfamels- for•
cars led to better mantis for all •
purposes.+ •
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