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"Dear Anne Hirst: What do
you do when your mother-in-
law tries to run the whole fami-
ly? She is sweet to us in many
ways, but allows us no privacy.
She loves her grandchildren, but
she imposes her own way despite
their ordered routine.
"She wakes my baby out of
a sound sleep to rock him. She
tells me what to feed him,
though she knows I follow our
doctor's prescribed diet; she
even disagrees with me as to
his clothing.
"She complained to my hus-
band that I was stingy with the
baby, so I let her have him for
a day. She fed him indigestible
food, and he was sick for four
days. This didn't seem to annoy
my husband; he almost always
sides with her.
RUINS FAMILY LIFE
"No matter what we have
planned for a holiday together,
she insists on gathering the whole
family at her home. And if my
husband and I have planned a
quiet evening, she accuses me
of trying to keep him from her!
"Yet if I am ill she drives me
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to the doctor, or comes and takes
wonderful care of me. She has
so many lovable qualities that
I feel disloyal in complaining of
the annoying ones.
"Is there anything I can do
about all this? Thank you for
any ideas.
* If you are ever to escape from
* your mother-in-law's doming-
* tion, you will have to have
your husband's consistent co-
* operation. Her deliberate
* planning of your personal life
* is trying enough, but when
* she takes over 'the baby's
4' training, that is going too far.
* A mother's first right is to
* bring up her child in the way
* she thinks best. Explain to
* your husband that you and he,
* alone, are responsible for the
* baby's welfare; you have en-
* listed the best medical advice,
* and it is your duty to follow
* it. Tell him that's how it
* should be—and you will de-
* pend on him to back you up.
* Remind him that a married
* couple must have privacy.
* They cannot enjoy a full life,
* and grow closer as the years
* pass, if they must share all
* their leisure with his people.
* or yours. You will join fami-
* ly reunions occasionally, but
* observe some of them at home
" with your husband and little
* son; this is your right and his.
* Once he realizes how essential
* it is, he will find how much
* happier he, and you, can be.
* Your mother-in-law is the
* true matriarch:' Loving and
* kind, but domineering and
possessive. She considers her-
self the rightful head of the
* family, competent to run their
* affairs. She laughs at mo-
* dere practices of diet and
* training, and imposes her old-
* fashioned ideas ;ppon the grand-
* children in such a high-handed
* manner that it is almost im-
* possible for, parents to inter-
* fere. This she sees as her
* bounden duty, born of her
* love for them all.
* Once you gain your hus-
* band's cooperation, talk things
* over with his mother, calmly.
* Emphasize your appreciation of
* all her kindness, but remind
* her that you and your hus-
* band must decide what is best
* for the baby, and also for your-
* selves. When she realizes you
* stand firm, she will have to
* retire from the field and leave
* it to you and your husband,
* where it belongs. Let us hope
* this can be accomplished with
* only slight annoyance. Good
* luck!
* Every wife owes her hus-
* band's mother loyalty and res-
* pect; but when her children's
* lives are interfered with, she
* must take a stand. If this
* problem is worrying you, tell
* Anne Hirst about it. Address
her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.
New Toronto, Ont.
PIE -EYED PIGEON
Brewer's draymen unloading
some barrels of beer from their
van into the cellar of a Wareham
pub had the misfortune to knock
out a bung and quite a quantity
of the beer flowed into the gut-
ter before it could be up -ended.
Later an inquisitive pigeon sam-
pled the frothing overflow and
apparently found it to its liking.
It was seen staggering around in
pigeon-toed circles and giving off
feathered hiccoughs!
Ready To Travel -- Lee Kyung Soo, four-year-old Korean orphan
found wandering the streets of Inchon, Korea, last year by Navy
Chief Petty Officer Vincent Paladino, is bound in red tape that
keeps him in Hawaii. But the youngster is packed and ready to
leave when Hawaiian officials are satisfied that Paladino got
legal custody of the boy,
Homage to The Rain — Thousands of pilgrims gathered in the
rain at the famed"Marian Shrine of Fatima in Lisbon, Portugal.
The pilgrimage is held on the 12th and 13th of each month
to pay homage to Our Lady of Fatima.
What Women Do
To Get A Maya
When a pretty, nineteen year-
old girl arrived at a party in
Wellington, New Zealand, re-
cently, her face fell. "There
aren't half enough men to go
round," she pouted.
Then an idea struck her. Be-
fore her friends could stop her,
she rushed to a telephone; rang
up the local fire brigade and in-
vited everyone along.
Politely but firmly, the fire-
men refused to come. So ten
minutes later the girl rang up
the fire station again, this time
calling them out on a fire alarm.
The sequel? The girl had to pay
a fine of $15 and was ordered to
pay the cost of the turn -out!
It's amazing what a woman
will do to get a man!
One blonde, who loved a man
who had been jailed for four
years for stealing cheque forms
belonging to her, scraped togeth-
er her hard-earned savings; took'
them to a solicitor and pleaded
with him to get the man released'
somehow.
"She put the solicitor :n tunds
so that this application could be
made for the man's release," ex-
plained his counsel He added
that the woman wanted to marry
the man who had wronged her.
But the application. failed.
Even more determined to get
her man was an eighteen -year-
old, sloe-eyed Italian girl. whose
lover had walked out en her,
slamming the door.
As he reached the street, he
heard a shout and saw the shape-
ly form of the girl he had just
left falling from a second -floor
window.
He rushed forward ana just
managed to catch her in tris arms
before she hit the pavement.
They rolled over on the ground
together. They were taken to
hospital with minor injuries and
later that night kissed and made
it up. "I've won back rnv man,
nurse," confided the girl to the
matron before leaving hospital.
with him next day.
She certainly fell for ram!
In a Yorkshire church just
twenty years ago the bell tolled
once. The surprised vicar went
from his vicarage' to investigate.
There he saw a woman, a
stranger to him, kneeling at the
altar. Soon after a man, also a
stranger to him, entered the
church and looked round He
went to the kneeling woman
and said: "I am here, darling!"
The pair conversed in whis-
pers before the altar, happy in
their reunion. And the vicar
heard the woman say, "I for-
give," as she kissed him over
and over again. Later the couple
told him that they had married
in the church many years be-
fore but there had been a mutual
separation.
But the woman made the
stipulation that if ever She felt
disposed to forgive, she would
make a sign on the anniversary
of their wedding by tolling the
bell once. For several years she
had gone on their anniversary
and tolled the bell, but her man
had not come till now. He had
long before moved away from
the district, leaving no address,
but some strange, impelling in-
stinct had made him journey
matey miles in case the bell toll-
ed that night.
The couple, still only middle-
aged, left for a second honey-
moon.
When she saw her handsome
young husband standing in the
dock and facing imprisonment as
a result of per prosecution, a
Lancashire wife who had fet.ind
passionate letters from two other
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women at his lodgings altered
her mind,
-�1 want him, I must have him
back." She pleaded with the
magistrate not to send him to
prison.
And the magistrate, freeing the
man, commented: "If you can
explain why a woman acts like
that, you have explained one of
the greatest mysteries of the
"world." Turning to the husband
he added: "Your wife is deeply
infatuated with you. Even your
shoddy treatment has not killed
her love."
Wives have braved death and
starvation to be near their hus-
bands. There was a woman in
/the first world war who dodged
officials, stowed away in a troop-
ship and got up to the front-
line trenches because she feared
her husband would be killed.
She turned up, disguised as a
man, on a day when the enemy
was putting over a barrage and
a shell burst very near her. She
got, to her husband before be-
ing' shipped back to Britain.
Bandits' bullets were braved
by a thirty -five-year-old plant-
er's • wife, who went to live with
him in a • wired --off compound
on a 3,000 -acre estate hemmed
in by the jungle.
Once she was driving with him
on his rounds when bandits fired
and shots went straight through
the car without touching them.
Sometimes she saw bandits roam-
ing only three hundred yards
from her front door as she did
the `cooking.
A Durham woman did not be-
come a bride until she was sixty-
four. Why? Because although
the sweetheart of her early wo-
manhood wanted to marry her
when she was in her twenties,
she was determined to keep a
promise to her dying mother —
that she would care for and stay
with her ailing father.
Through the long years she
waited, corresponding with the
man who loved her, who had
gone to seek his fortune in Cana-
da Then, after nearly forty years,
her father died and she married
her seventy -two-year-old lover.
They talk at a Midlands rail-
way station still about a girl
who got in conversation with
a young man on the crowded
platform and then "lost" him
when the train came in.
But he had told her his sur-
name, Smith, and that his par -
Ch'ing Father
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'rine A Shock
A few weeks ago, her Majesty's
Telegraph Ship Monarch set out
from London, loaded with 1,450
miles of submarine cable. This
will be joined to the 800 miles
laid last summer, and will com-
plete the renewal of the cable,
maintained by Cable and Wire-
less Ltd., between Porthcurno,
near Land's End, and Newfound-
land.
The old cable was laid in 1874
and went out of use in 1943.. It
is estimated that the renewal
operation will cost $6,000,000,
and that it will enable cable
traffic on this route to be in-
creased by 70 per cent.
The 8,050 -ton "Monarch" is
the largest and most up-to-date
cable ship in the world, She can
carry up to 2,500 nautical miles
of cable in her four cylindrical
tanks, which have a total cap-
acity of 125,000 cubic feet.
Cable ships must remain at
sea for long periods and hence
carry enormous amounts of fuel,
stores and water. Five thousand
tons of cable, 2,000 tons of fuel,
and 1,000 tons of w a ter may
easily be disposed of "on voy-
age," so that special arrange-
ments are made to maintain the
stability of the unloaded ships.
Most cable ships are small,
about 1,500 tons, They are readi-
ly manoeuvrable in restricted
waters and can steam as little as
one knot when required. Much
of their time is spent in repair-
ing damaged cables.
They are officially entitled H.M.
Telegraphic Ships, and fly the
Blue Ensign with their own
crest.
This crest depicts Fathts:
Time sitting on a coil of rope,
watching the first cable land on
the seashore. He holds a scythe
in his left hand, and in his right
an hour -glass shattered by an
electric spark.
His face bears a look of aston-
ishment, a symbol of his surprise
a: Time being destroyed by the
electric telegraph, The motto:
"Ne Tentes aut Perfice," means
roughly, "Attempt not or accom-
plish thoroughly."
The first commercially suc-
cessful marine cable was laid in
1850-51 by the steam tug "Go -
lith," which was especially ad-
apted for the job. It was laid
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ents lived in a big city about
five miles away. So determined
was the girl to see him again
that she started to ring up every
Smith in the telephone book.
"Is there a young man belong-
ing to your family who wears a
dark -grey lounge suit and has
blue eyes and was travelling on
business to -day?" she queried.
She found her man - over forty
'phone calls later! The couple
were married last year.
between St. Margaret's Bay, near
Dover, and Sangatte on the
European coast.
Another was laid between tient
and Belgium in 1853, by the.
collier "William Hutt." It cov-
ered seventy miles, and the
cable, which weighed 500 tons,
needed three days to be coiled
into the ship,
Shortly afterwards, a cable tc
Ireland was laid;- and in 1861
the first Atlantic cable was paid
out by the 20,000 tons "Great
Eastern," which had failed as a
passenger liner!
Great difficulties were encoun-
tered in the laying, so that in
the next few years the cable ship
became a distinct type. "Far-
aday" was the first real cable
ship, and was built in 1874 for
Messrs, Siemens.
Later she became a coal hulk
working at Algiers until 1931,
and afterwards at Gibraltar.
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