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Zurich Herald, 1953-08-06, Page 2a4e.0a4 ' "SA TE COFFEE ADA' EW4VE i4Is F;: �•'i "Dear Anne Hirst: Fifteen years ago our son married an older girl. She has always been se jealous she doesn't allow him to visit his family. She has never attended church or let her chil- dren go to • Sunday school, and those children don't know their grandparents except on their mother's side. "She seems only to want our son's money, She doesn't care anything for him. She has al- ways gone to his office to collect his check; he has had several good positions, but changed them often because he grew ashamed of her behavior. She watches him so closely that if she doesn't know where he is, hour by hour, she calls the police! "We have helped her in so many ways, and got no thanks for it.... She finally wrote me a letter asking us to stay away from her house; we have, and shall continue to. 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His Problem * The girl your son. married * has literally taken him away * from his own people. Her hold * on him is apparently too over- * whelming for him to protest, * or he would have had the * gumption long ago to assert * his independence. He would " see his parents when he * pleases, he would take his * children to church, colleot his * own paycheck, and otherwise * get the upper hand. What * threats she makes to compel * his subservience, you cannot * know; but he is surely under * her thumb. * His marriage was obviously, * a mistake. He must have been * bewitched by her beauty or * her charm — neither of which, * I expect, can move him now. * Perhaps he is staying with her * only so his children .can feel * they have a father, however s little authority he carries. • All this is heartbreaking to * you and your husband. Yet * any move you might make to * advise him would, through * loyalty to his wife, be resent- * ed. You two (like so many * other lonely parents) can only * stand silently by, grieving. — * And praying that one day, he * will find a way to end his ser- * vitude, and once again know * the parents he still loves and * and misses. * I might suggest that your * husband try to lunch with his * boy now and then, IF the lad * will consent. That, too, may be * a questionable gesture. Ask * your husband's opinion: he * may have a better idea * For your own sake and your * husband's, try not to dwell too * long nor often on your son's * troubles. Grieving alone only * weakens one's hope and faith. M Employ your energies in * wholesome living: Work in * your church and your coin- * munity and be active with your * husband in various endeavors. * Rebuild your faith through * prayer and meditation, and so * strengthen your belief that * your son will find the wisdom * and courage to better his mis- * erable life. Bretano's book store in New York has leased a concession to a lady who specializes in sea- shells, a collectors' fad that seems to be enjoying a revival. The best customer to date was a lady who ran up a bill of $90. "I'm moving to Hollywood," she explained, "and I want these shells to remind me of my old home on the Atlantic coast." No- body told her that every shell she bought came straight from a beach in the South Pacific. Crushing Argument. Near Bax- ley, Ga., distributing handbills attacking a proposed law to curb cattle on highways, R. C. Carter changed his Hind, became an active suporter of the measure after his car struck a stray bull and was smashed. , Now Nate --Piano students will welcome this new device, said the make scale practice easy. When she hits the right note, a light fashes. A wrong ono produces a loud buzz, The player can compare the position of the lights with the notes as a check. no Sleep! Perchance to Dream . °'—If the Little Woman is dreaming of buying a bedtime outfit like this, there's darn little perchance of Poppy getting any sleep when the bill comes in. The magnificent night ensemble,: by Italian designer Cerri, was modelled in Rome by Princess: Zina Rachewsky, Russian -born actre.g. The square -necked gown and robe, are of white georgette and Valenciennes lace. ,a. tegese Stumpy—Morning walks proved disastrous for Ranger, a dog belonging to Bill Rolen. One morning Ranger came limping home with : a broken leg. The leg was set and Ranger took his morning walk the next day and—returned home with his other leg broken. RONICLES INGER, eva.te.dolf C 1 A, t'1 e.r.. With eggs selling at 85 cents a dozen the only food Mitchie- White will look at these days is a beaten, raw egg! However, it isn't as extravagant as it sounds because in every day's take there is usually at least one egg that is very small, cracked or misshappen, so Mitchie is able to enjoy his convalescing diet, The mower -cut -leg is heal- ing beautifully and Mitchie is beginning to feel more like a cat again. His main worry now is that he still can't use Iris right foot to scratch his right ear During the day he hides among the rose bushes or sleeps under the shrubs; at night he sleeps on a corner of the chesterfield, over which is spread an old folded sheet. He never moves all night. Today he almost lost another life. A car came up the lane, Mitchie, crossing the roedway, stood. petrified. Fortunately the driver saw the cat and gave him time to limp his way home. Oh dear, hasn't it been hot — and how badly we need rain? After all the rain we had a few weeks ago it doesn't seem poss- ible we should be suffering from drought already. But so it is. From the appearance of lawns and gardens now you would hardly know we had ever had any rain. My poor garden! f have finally come to the con- clusion that I must go back to perennials or go without -a gar- den at all — except for shrubs and spring flowers. Annuals and I don't seem to get along too well. Three dozen sweet alyssum plants that I set out so hope- fully in the spring have com- pletely disappeared. Bugs ate up the asters; snapdragons grew tall and spindly and the zinnias be- came brown and shrivelled after I sprinkled them with bug -death. However, nasturtiums and spider plants, also begonias, are doing fine so we have. a few annuals anyway to brighten out desert- garden. There are also about a dozen thrifty- geraniums, gaily blooming at the back Of the house. These geraniums were given to me last spring, already potted but unknown and unmarked as to variety. Among the more or- dinary kind there is one, which I believe, is a little uncommon. The small, double bloom is like a rose, white in the centre, merg- ing to pink. It is the prettiest, daintiest one of them all out you have to be close to it to appre- ciate its beauty — it is not a showy, free bloomer like the deep pink ivy geranium. The friend who gave ine these geraniums, gives away dozens of unidentified slips each spring. This year after her own plants came into bloom she discovered that not one of them was the little double rose variety which I have just mentioned, and which she specially liked So now my rose geranium is par- ticularly valuable as it will pro- vide slips for its generous ori- ginal donor. I often think that giving roots and .slips away is like spreading bread upon the waters. They are Pn without any thought of re - tan rxt and yet so often the parent stock dies — it may get frost- bitten or ringed by rabbits — and then the loss is often re- placed by someone to whom a slip or root had been given when the plant or shrub was m good health. Amateur gardens are the most generous people; always ready to share what they have with other flower -loving en- thusiasts, but they also like to follow the progress of what they give away, just as a benefactor likes to follow the career of a promising protogee. Sometimes the result is disappointing, which generally happens if con- fidence has been misplaced. In the case of flowers. the genuine . flower -lover cannot imagine her friends to be less enthusiastic than herself, so, when Lizzie Likeit come along, exclaims with delight, "Oh, your beautiful begonia!" her friend immediately says,' "Do you like it? I have another like that, you can have it if you want it.' So Lizzie goes home with s nice, healthy begonia, just coming in- to bloom, which she puts in the front room, and then only re- members it when it begins to droop. The plant gets toc little sun and wilts for lack of water. Asked a few weeks later how the begonia is coming along Lizzie answers carelessly — "Oh, 1 don't know what happened to it — it just wouldn't grow for me and gradually died. 1 threw it out last week," Poor Mrs. Flower -lover feels as hurt and grieved as if she had lost a friend — as indeed sne had. Well, we have young Betty back with us again --- this time without her arm in a cast. The operation on her shoulder was apparently a success. At this .minute she is busy washing dishes — she is already finding out that having one's arm re- lieved of its cast has its disad- vantages . . , but of pourse the arm needs exercise — and what better excercise could it have than washing dishes? Only she doesn't always see it that way. Yesterday, for instance, there were after supper dishes for seven, but Betty disappeared with a boy -friend -- perhaps for a different- kind of arm exercise. Anyway Daughter and l man- aged very well. Rattletrap. in Petaluma, Calif., garage mechanics examined Da- vid MeClure's car after he cont- plained of a "strange rattle," traced it to .the back seat, where they found a rattlesnake poised tai strike. • ISSUE 3l 1053 Was He A Pirate Or A Gentleman? The revival of the old riddle as to the character of Captain Kidd reveals a common misunder- standing. People ask: Pirate or gent? but seldom think there may be a third alternative. The real question is: Was he a buccaneer? For buccaneers were not pirates, though often they behaved as cruelly. They were mostly sailors who had settled on the Mosquito Coast, had been driven off by the Spanish, and had thus drifted into waging sea war on them. William Kidd was born in Dundee, the son of a parson. By the time he was 35 he was a citizen of the colony of New York, a successful sailor of good character. About' this time the Earl of Bellamont was sent Out to New York by William III t0 put down the piracy which had become a scandal. Kidd was in so high standing that he was deputed to command a specially equipped ship to put the traffic down. In this ship of 30 guns Kidd sailed with authorisation to act against ships of .a named enemy, and a general commission to pursue and destroy all French pirates. For two years Kidd sailed about the West Indies, and, bit by bit, strange tales began to leak through. It was said that, having been sent to catch pirates, he had become one himself. What caused the rumpus was his action against a British ship. Kidd had sighted a stranger flying the French flag. He boarded her and was told by the captain that he was really British, but had run up the French flag in self-protection. Despite the fact that he show- ed Kidd his papers, he claimed that Kidd took part of his gold and cargo and thus played pirate to one whom he was commission- ed to respect. While Kidd, oblivious of the storm brewing in England, sailed the seas, his name became in- famous as one little better than a traitor. What really happened? Kidd's ship became scurvy - ridden and his men mutinied and cast him into his ..own state- room. They released him weeks later, and, at the point of a pistol, commanded him to lead them against a Dutch ship. 'Kidd resisted, saying stoutly that his commission was against the French and the French only. In the end Kidd won his way, but he made a dangerous and deadly enemy of the men's lead- er, the notorious Gunner Moore. Next day the captain and the gunner came into conflict, Then Kidd, with characteristic cour- age, tackled the ringleader and killed him with a steel -hooped bucket. After that, during - the long voyage, Kidd certainly took prizes, but they were not always French prizes, and somethnes the kegs of gold that came aboard his ship "Adventure" was English gold. After two years of this, Kidd ' made for port. There he learned that a warrant for his arrest awaited him. He was sent to England and put on his trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of Gunner Moore. How was Kidd tried? The answer is without any fairness whatever. He was railroaded to his death, for whether he was guilty of piracy on the high seas or innocent was never proved, one way or the other. Kidd was forced to stand his trial without defending counsel and prevented from getting his Knights In Armor HOW Picket Line LONDON--(NEA)--What with the high cost of living, a knight can't put on enough beef to tote around a suit of armor weighing 25 pounds—not on $6 a day, and vitamin pills costing what they do. This is the argument put forth by the "Knights of the Round Table" --extras in the Americana film of the same name, who are on strike today for $3 a day in take-home pay. More than 200 knights downed their swords for extra pay in the film starring Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner. The walkout spread to every studio in Eng- land. It's not just the weighty cos- tumes they complain of, there's the matter of beards. A knight can't get a good beard trim for under 50 cents these days. And then there's the 6 A.M. studio call—how can anyone ex- pect a knight to show up for work that early after a night of wassailing? It's not as though you could send any old stumblebum to King Arthur's court. A knight's got to have classy and class comes expensive. While the union and movie of- ficials argue it out, Guinevere (Ave. Gardner) sits around smok- ing cigarets, wondering whether her marriage with King Arthur (Mel Ferrer) is ever going to come off. A few doors down Sir Lancelot (Robert Taylor) is bit- ing his fingernails. Work on two other American films, "The Flame and the Flesh," starring Lana Turner, and "Crest of the Wave," with Gene Kelly, has been held up pending the outcome of the strike. The dispute was refereed to the Ministry of Labor for•<settle- ment, which would have •caused King Arthur to snort something like: "Welfare state coddling!' documentary evidence. The jury, browbeaten by the judge, return- ed a verdict of guilty without hesitation, and poor Kidd—for he is to be pitied whatever his crimes—passed to a vile and ghastly sentence. He was hanged, not as other men were hanged, but within a head cage of iron, his limbs kept rigid by iron hoops. Thus, trussed like a chicken, Captain Kidd was left to swing in the winds until starvation brought death. Was he pirate or gallant sea- man? The experts have often debated the issue. Now Amer. cans of Long Island are seeking to have the whole matter once more thrashed out by a judicial commission. A Gal's Best Friend--Dk nionds, baseball diamonds, that is, are pretty Joan Crosby's source of joy and support. In her New York office, she writes the biographies that appear on the famous ballplcfyer cards tucked inside bubbleguin wrappers. Here she checks statistics so as not to mislead hor rabid readers,