HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-06-25, Page 2ar as a r �a
"Dear Anne Herst: I don't love
fere my husband any more. I'm
wondering whether to return to
leim on account of our children?
lY really think they are better off
without him. But I want your
,opinion.
"We have six children, and I'm
expecting another in a few
months. Since my husband sold
our home we have lived in many
places and have been put out of
them because of non-payment of
sent. My husband drank and
gambled. My mother has always
bought clothes for the children,
helped pay our bills, and even i
bought food for us. I have left
my husband half a dozen times,
but on his promises to do bet-
ter we would go back.
"In the past year I have work-
ed as much as possible, trying to
get bills paid—he doesn't believe
in paying debts. Five weeks ago,
he was so obnoxious that I quit
my job. That night he threat-
ened to kill me. I left, and went
Designs
Colors
�(f
580
g
No embroidery — just iron on!
Luscious roses in two shades of
rich red with soft green leaves
transferred on sheets, pillow-
cases, scarves. spreads, tow els and
many, many other items! Easy to
wash—the colors stay vivid and
glowing. Quick, send now.
Just iron on! Jiffy! Washable!
Pattern 580 has 14 motifs. From
2114 x 11/4 to 33 x 41/2 inches.
Send TWENTY - FIVE CENTS
in coins (stamps cannot be ac-
cepted) for this pattern to Box 1,
123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto,
Ont. Print plainly PATTERN
NUMBER, your NAME and AD-
DRESS.
EXCITING VALUE! Ten, yes
TEN popular. new designs to
*crochet, sew, embroider, knit —
—printed in the new 1953 Laura
Wheeler Needlecraft Book. Plus
many more patterns to send for
—ideas for gifts, bazaar money-
makers, fashions! Send 25 cents
for your copy!
to my mother's. Each day he
comes here and says he's going
to kill me—and in the presence.
of the children.
"Do you think I should stay
here, or go back to him when
he finds some place to live? I
don't know where to turn! He
drinks heavily, and now he
watches the house and bus line
so I dare not leave the. block. I
can't sleep, or get any rest.
"I know I have faults, but
everyone around us knows I've
tried to be a good wife and
mother. Maybe I've failed, and
caused all this? Please help me.
"A WORRIED MOTHER."
GET. FREE
* Why on earth do you think
* of going back to your bus-
'` band because of the children?
• Their young minds are al-
* ready contaminated by his
* evil ways, and his outspoken
• threats against you must make
" them hysterical. Your first
* duty is to protect them from
• such a father. Further, you
* have not reason to believe his
* promises any more. If he ever
• should find another place for
* you all, how long do you think
* the landlord would put up with
r_ his offensive conduct?
"' You are fortunate, indeed. in
" having such an understanding
• mother. Stay with her. Your
* children have a home and sus-
* tenance there, which their
* father never provided for long.
* After you arrange a separation
* or divorce (which I hope you
* will do immediately) you can
* find another position when
* you are able to take it, and
• this time, hold it without fear
* of his intrusion.
* From other information you
* give, I do not believe any wo-
* man could do more than you
* have done; frankly, I don't
* see how you have stood such
"' a life for so many years. Cease
* questioning yourself, then.
• take steps to get free of this
* worthless man, and look for-
* ward to a better life: for you
* all. •
It is alinos t beyond belief
what cruelties some wives sub-
mit to (and often lnista.kenty)
for the sake of their children. If
your husband is impossible to
live with, take action while you
are young enough to go your
way without hien. Anne Hirst will
advise you. Write her at Box 1,
123 Eighteen St., New Toronto,
Ont.
BAC ()F FLOUR SAVES
DIVER'S LIFE
A bag at flour saved a maimed
pearl diver from bleeding to
death at Thursday Island.
The "skin" diver, called Rix-
on, had his leg seized by a large
shark. He rammed his thumbs
deep in the shark's eyes and
forced it to let go.
Then he struggled to the din-
ghy and was hauled aboard. In
the absence of anything that
would make a satisfactory liga-
ture, it seemed that he might
bleed to death.
Rixon's resource had no lim-
its. He yelled for a bag of
flour. The maimed leg was thrust
in and the dough that formed
staunched the blood effectively
until the lugger reached Thurs-
day Island, where doctors saved
his life.
Puff lard --With an impish Zook, Jonatha Matthews, 8, seems
to be starting Byron Lonahan, 8, off early as a smoker. The pipe
is made of rare pink arid white opaque glass and was used
it's 0 19th century English tobacco shop only for display.
Clot Soundings—Recording the speed with which, a blood clot
is formed, an Ultra-Viscoson is demonstrated above by (`fir. Ray-
mond Yesner, at left, and Dr. Alfred Hurwitz, assisted by tech-
nician Jean Entwhistle. A small ultra -sonic sensing elernent
"feels" the blood. This machine offers new hope to victims of
diseases requiring exact knowledge of blood -dotting time.
• •
Pla
11 NIX/E
INGRP
M _i 11tH tl!
The weatherman, apparently, is
in the dog -house. Very few of
his forecasts of late have been
accurate ar'd the general public
has become annoyed and distrust-
ful. He promises a fine day and
we get a downpour; cooler weath- •
z• and it becomes hot and sticky;
e
clearing skies and we waken to
the steady rumble of thunder.
Yes, it is most annoying when the
forecasts and the actual weather
are so contradictory, especially
when farmers, gardners, fisher-'
men and just 'ordinary folk plan-
ning an outing have come to de-'
pend so much upon the day by
day forecasts.
In the weather office, as we
know, changes in atmospheric
conditions are registered on sen-
sitive instruments that have stood
a foods we grow so that all nations
the test of years. By them the in the world may benefit.--pro-
weather that should normally fol -
weatherman knows the type of ducers and consumers alike—
low according to the disturbances
that have been recorded. Then
why have these forecasts sudden- a shortage of cereal grain, but
ly become so unreliable? Well, there should certainly be plenty
what about the atom bomb? Url :de hay, although everything de -
til the last few years did the pends on the weather. The alfalfa
weather bureau ever have to deal is very heavy but at present there
with the effect of atomic weap- is no bloom. I foresee happy days
ons? Imagine ordinary, everyday ahead when we start haying! With
air currents floating around in so much sap in the stalk it will
the ether, just minding their own take a lot of curing before the
business, bringing good weather balers can handle it. Good drying
or bad according to normal, pros- weather is very necessary as hay
sure conditions, and then these has to dry quickly these days.
same air currents suddenly find Cut it down, call the baler, draw
themselves blasted in every dir- it to the barn—the quicker the
action by huge atomic explosions, better—that sems to be the idea
without advance warning being now. Haying no longer interferes
registered by weather office baro- with what we women want to do.
meters. And then the reputation An extra meal or two perhaps
of the weatherman is blasted as
but few women have to stay
has been so unfortunate as to home now to drive the team on
predict ... especially if he prom the hayfork. What a hot, dusty
ised the next day would be "warm job that was, and how heavy the
and dry" and what came was wet whiffle -trees as we lifted them
and windy! Ah me, who would
be a wenth :rrnan in this atomic
age.
Lying awake the other night,
listening, unwillingly, to the crash
of thunder, and trying not to
watch the lightning, a comforting
thought suddenly came to me—
never yet have I heard of a tor-
nado, or "twister" unleashing its
fury at Light. As far as my
knowledge goes it always happens
in daylight, Am I right or wrong?
Well, last week this column
was written on the eve of one of
the most memorable events of
our time --the Coronation of El-
izabeth I.I. Now that, too, has
become history, and time marches
on. From 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. on
June 2, and then again from. 3
o'clock onwards our radio was
never elf. i don't think I missed
a thing, Nor did Partner because
he was milking the cows and fol-
lowing the procession at the same
time on his radio at the barn. It
was such a wonderful broadcast
but such an emotional. strain that
we were both tired out after-
wards. Instead of going down
town to enjoy our local celebra-
tions that evening we were glad
to finish up our chores and get
to bed a little earlier than usual.
But if the broadcast was tiring
to us what must the actual pro-
ceedings have been to the thous-
ands of participants . and to
the Queen herself? It is beyond
imagination.
Now, as I write, another im-
portant event is in the making—
the long awaited Armistice in
Korea. It has hung fire for so
long, one is almost afraid to hope.
And if an armistice is signed-•-�
then' what? Time will tell—but
we can be very sure whatever
happens in Korea will have some
impact on the lives of each one
of us, wherever we may live, We
hope more attention will be given
to a better distribution of the
Smile Prom Africa—Ingrid Rita
Mills, 20, is the owner of an
infectious smile that helped her
win the title, "Miss South Af-
rica." She will be in Long Beach
to compete in the Miss Universe
Beauty Pageant. In addition to
a trip to London for the Corona-
tion, Miss Mills also wort $10,-
000 and chance cot being Miss
Universe.
without graft or greed.
From. the look of the fields in
this district there is likely to be
When turning the horses back to
the barn. And that awful fear
that the rope might break, or the
hay fork go slithering through
the side of the barn! However,
when you're young you take it
all in your stride. It is only now,
with those days behind you, you
remember—and you thank the
powers that be, that no longer
is such work required of you.
You can get on with your or-
dinary work, go to your teas or
meetings—the haying goes on
whether you're at home or away.
LD'S MOST LONELY
IFE
ulby Li sitting
black kitchen
out her shopping
oal.
300 ib." "tea.
100 tins dried milk.
600 lbs. potatoes
Yes, Mrs. Daulby does h.er
shopping in a big way. She has
to. For this Lancashire lass, born
at Preston, is the World's Lone-
liest Housewife, She is married
to Burnley -born the Rev. Tom
Danlby, who is the Church of
Canada's missionary to the Es-
kimos of Northern Baffin Land,
and she shares with him the tiny
wood -built mission -house at
Pond Inlet, 400 miles inside the
Arctic Circle.
For five years at a time they
are cut off from civilization, see
no white man except the grizzled
trader from the Hudson's Bay
Company's trading post at the
Inlet—save once a year when the
supply ship from Canada comes
crunching alongside their tiny
quay.
The ship will take Mrs. Daul-
by's order back to Canada for
her. It will deliver the goods at
Pond Inlet—but not for another
year.
Accordingly, the World's
Loneliest Housewife must not
forget anything, One of her pre-
decessors in Baffin Land once
forgot to put her sugar on the
list. She had to radio for nd
have it delivered by 'plane. An
expensive omission!
IVtrs. Daulby drops a lump of
ice in the kettle and while it
melts and boils, goes on with her
list:
30
35
75
She
cases of brealclast cereal.
dozen processed eggs.
tins of biscuits....
will want candles, match-
es, wool, cotton, aspirins, cook-
ing utensils, books, clothes for
herself and husband, clothes for
barter with the Eskimos. it will
be a week before she has finish-
ed her stock -taking, checked her
requirements against'" last year's
list, pruned it where she can—
for the missionaries do not earn
much money.
Finally, she lays her task aside
and climbs into her sleeping bag.
There is no need for her to wait
up for Tom to -night. He won't
be home, not for •a good many
more nights either . . . for two
months, possibly three,
For the Arctic winter has des-
cended. The sun has sunk below
the horizon with a last brilliant
play of a hundred colours re-
flected in the sky and on the
surface of the ice -locked inlet.
The temperature is down to
something like 20 degs. below
zero. The land is frozen to the_ .
hardness of iron.
All of which means that tra-
velling time has come for Tom
Daulby. His sledge goes fastest
over the frozen ground. More-
over, the Eskimos are settled in
their winter encampments and
are expecting Aryoksoeeye ("The
Teacher"), as they call the mis-
sionary.
Perpetual Twilight
So, attended by his faithful
Eskimo attendants Nasook and
Jobe, with his sledge piled high
with rations and bundles of
Testaments, Tom Daulby • has
kissed his Margery good-bye.
With a cry of "Mush!" to the
dogs he has vanished into the
perpetual twilight of the Arctic
winter.
"Doing the rounds of my par-
ish," as Toni Daulby laughingly
calls it, will mean a journey of
at least 1,000 miles. And all sorts
of things can happen. The sledge
may overturn, injuring one of
the men, some of their dogs may
vanish le pursuit of bear, a blite-
zard may overtake them and lute
prison them their rations dwind-
ling, for a week or more in the
fetid atmosphere of. a hastily
built igloo.
To preserve their
may have to go out
rifles hunting Arctic
caribou bird.
Roaring Polar Gales
lives they
with their
hare and
All this Margery Daulby must
think of as she lies listening to
the polar gales roaring and the
driven snow being piled up on.
the other side of the thin -wood-
en. wall of her frail little bole
of a home.
But she has learned not to
worry too much about her tough
missionary husband. He can
handle a kayak or a team. of
dogs as well as the Eskimos
and fire a rifle better than ariy of
them.
In any case, she has plenty to
do to • keep her mind occupied
as she deputizes for hint among
the Eskimos on the station, acts
as nurse, midwife, schoolmist-
ress, and hostess to visiting Es-
kimos, who come to make the
social call they love so dearly.
When she wakes it is dark, o4
course, and the temperature ire
the house is about 25 degs. Cr
degs. below freezing). She lights
the lamps, stokes up the stove
and gets the breakfast of cereal
and fried eggs and bread.
Her midday meal may consist
of Arctic hare, deer meat, ptar-
migan, fish or tinned meat and
vegetables. In the afternoon the
Eskimo children come in to
school, to learn reading, writing,
arithmetic and hand work. In
the evening there is more school,
for the adult Eskimos this time.
Payment by Tea
Then more chatting, more tea
and more biscuits, more dealing
— and the only payment the
Eskimos will take for the furs
they .have to sell is tea. You will
understand now why the second
item on Margery Daulby's once -
a -year shopping list is 300 lb.
of tea. The Eskimo is very par-
tial. to a nice "cupper."
But don't feel sorry tor the
world's lonliest housewife. That
is the last thing she would want,.
She loves her work and the peo-
ple whom she serves.
Even the Arctic weather isn't
half as bad as is popularily ima-
gined. In the summer at Pond
Inlet they can doff their furs
and, put- on thin dresses. In the
letter. Margery Daulby sent
home by the last ship out o1 the -
frozen north she. told ,with de-
light how she had collected forty'
different • kinds of wild flowers.
All the loneliest housewife had
to complain about, in fact, was
that her tomato plants, though
they flowered,, did not bear fruit.
A ripe tomato would have made
such a nice salad. with the muse
tard and cress she grows quite
easily by the light of the Mid-
night sura.
LOGY, LISTLESS
, xr;
ITH I'LIFE?
f
Blaen w*hi up your liver bile ...
jump out of bed rarin' to g,e
Liffe not worth living? It may be the liven
It'a a fact! If your liver bile is not flowing
freely your food may not digest ... gats
bloats up your stomach ... you feel con-
stipated and all the fun and sparkle go out
of life. That'* when you need mild, gents'
Carters Little Liver Pills. You see Carters
help stimulate your liver bile till once again
It is souring out at a rate of up to two pinta a
day auto your digestive tract. This Should
fix you right up, make you feel that happy
days are here again. So don't stay sunk get
Certere Little Liver Pills. Always have firsts
on hand.
ISSUE 26 — 1953
With A La
y
United States Ambassador to
ltaly, Clare Booth Luce, waves
apl greeting to a Roman crowd
and gives them a grateful smile.
At left Is her husband, publish,
alp Henry Luce.
4r! mat, Also Goes Wardrobe
Following the lady ambassador to Europe is her extensive ward-
robe. Care and transportation of a wardrobe is a problem for
any diplomat's aides. But in the case of a lady diplomat, the
problem assumes astronomical proportions. Seen above, Ronson
workmen unload part of the trunks and chests containing the
habiliments 'of United States Ambassador Clare Ccaothe Luce.
i
i7