HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1949-09-29, Page 7That Port Hope
Peterboro Flyer
Muds didn't appreciate the rail-
road tracks as much as her children
At first she complained
quite a lot about the cinders and
the noise. But the little train only
maundered north of Peterboro and •
back, twice daily, passing at 7 a.m.,
noon, 1 and 5 p.m., and she soon
got so she used the din to tell the -
time by-
As
yAs a timepiece the railroad was at
least as reliable as the grandfather's
clock, with brass comets . and
planets sailing across its enamel
face, that stood tall as a tree in the
front hall. Grandpa Wilson, who
had passed this heirloom on to us,
used to say that when its hands
pointed to half -past ten and it rang
six, it was really twenty minutes to
four in the afternoon. Considering
its great age, Grandpa's clock kept
fairly good time; it struck all the
quarter-hours with a Big-Bennish
clang, preventing most visitors from
closing an eye, — or anyway from
keeping it closed for more than a
few minutes. , , .
The main traffic of our train was
devoted to milk and mail -orders,
with occasional passengers—except
on market days, when it was jam-
med. We youngsters soon became
friendly with the two engineers and
firemen, who were an accommo-
dating crew arid, like the condue-s,
tors, always ready to drop every-
thing
verything and step down to help a
farmer's wife with a baby or a
basket of eggs. They often took us
on a run in the cab with then and
showed Bud and Jamie how to
stoke the engine. Sometimes they
even let us ride on the cowcatcher
until Old Nosey Bones, the town
undertaker brought this to Mud's
attention..
"I declare," cried Muds, "I don't
see why you children can't just
' move normally instead of swinging
from tree to tree like apes or riding
on cowcatchers like . . . like . .
cows!"
There was really little danger,
though, far the train could be flag-
ged between stations anywhere
along the line and it had to go slow-
ly so not to miss Vhe signals.
No m.a•tter what stories you have
ever heard about provincial trains,
ours could go one better. It was
a regular little Baron Munchausen
of a train. It ambled nonchalantly
through the country trailing a film
of its exploits from.' one country
store to another, and thumbing its
smokestack at precisionists who
claimed that trains ought to start
on time. When a botanically minded
passenger spied through the win-
dow a rare fern or wild orchid, ,he.
had only to pull the alarm signal,
and the miniature Juggernaut would
obligingly stop while all on board
gat off and fell to picking wild
flowers. I remember once we got
home two hours late from a two-
hotn,r run because we had stopped to
gather the tiger lilies that spread
like wildfire along the embankment.
Meanwhile, the Port Hope post -
office bucks had been standing in
line for mail and the station oper-
ator had wildly telegraphed to every
dump to find out whether there had
been an accident. Our arrival was a
perfect scene far a comic opera,
each traveler descending with a
flaming bouquet and com'parin'g it
with his seatmate's. The Irish con-
ductor was naively surprised at
such ado about nothing. What did
a bit of lost time natter anyway?
"Sure, bad news travels too fast,"
he said, "and good news is Vhe
better fer anticipation," — From
"Jam Yesterday," by'Kabhleen Can-
nell.
SHAW ADDS UP
A London society woman, having
spent a large amount of money on
beauty treatment, is reputed to
have asked George Bernard Shaw,
who recently celebrated his 93rd
birthday, "How old do you think
I look?"
G.B.S. (looking her up and
down), "Judging by your teeth, 1
should say 18; by your blonde curls,
.19, and by your attitude, 14."
The lady was flattered, and said,
"Thanks for the compliment, but
still, how old do I look?"
G,B.S., "Well, add together 18,
19 and 14, and the answer is 51."
Norman J. MacMillan whose ap-
pointment to be vice-president and
general counsel of the Canadian
National Railway Company and its
stibshdiaries, and the Canadian Na-
tional West Indies Steamships Lim-
ited, has been announ'ed by R. C.
Vaughan, C.M.0 „ rhairrean and
president of the system.
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They Do—Smiling happily, Mr, and Mrs. Winthrop Gardiner,
Jr., leave the Park Avenue Methodist Church, New York, after
their wedding. The beautiful bride is skating star Sonja Henie.
Her husband is a socialite aviation executive.
Gwcrt.doLin.e P. Cle t e
"Next week," we say, "next week
the rush will be over!" But it never
. ,you know how it is—you
look forward to a little leisure when
the threshings are finished, or the
Exhibition over, or the canning and
pickling has conte to an end—and
then as sure as you live something
else crops up and you are just as
busy as ever. 4Zre certainly are a
busy lot of people, aren't, we—yet
it isn't always work that keeps us
busy. Last week, for instance, I
put in another day at the C.N.E—
at least it was .meant to be a day,
but it was cold and wet so Daughter
and I came home on the early bus
instead of staying the evening.
Last time I was down I forgot
about "Elsie" but this time I saw
• her. Not being quite sure where she
was I approached a policeman.
"Can you tell me where to find
Elsie?" I inquired. "Yes, ma'am—
straight clown that road to your
right," said the chief, And he never
so much as smiled—nor did he say .
"Elsie who?"
There were very few people
around at that time so my visit
with Elsie and Beauregard was •
quite unhurried, What tickled me
so much were the books in Elsie's
library although, I can only remem-
ber two of the titles—one was
"Calves, or a Career" and the other
"Bulliver's Travels." I remarked to
the girl handing out the leaflets—
"You must have quite a time with
the kiddies on this job." She
laughed—"Oh, we do—it's lots of
fun." And I could see she meant it.
One of the guards of the Hope
Diamond' meant what he said too,
only his sentiments were a little
different. "How do you like your
job?" I asked hint. "I don't," he
answered, "I never expected to
shout myself hoarse day after day
like I'm doing."
But now it is all over for an-
other year—the shouting and the
tumult dies—the cattle go back to
stables; the hens and ducks, turk-
eys and geese go home again to
the' quiet and comfort of their own
familiar quarters, and quite pos-
sibly preen their feathers and tell
their stay-at-home brothers and sis-
ters what the Big Fair was like and
how much they were admired. And
the children are back to school again
—which means there are now a
few hours during the clay when one
can drive down the street without
fear of running into some child
wheeling crazily across the road.
The scant attention children give
to cars and trucks these days is
terrible. It is a wonder more of
the more not killed. I was driving
down Main Street the other day,
and there wasn't a person in sight,
suddenly a boy about ten years old
wheeled across the road right in
front of me. IIe must have come
out from between parked cars be-
cause one minute he wasn't there
—and the meet tee was. I jammed
on the brakes, missing the boy by
inches. All he did was look at me
casually and went on his way. It
was lucky for hien my brakes were
good—as for me I had a headache
for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately some accidents
happen that are entirely unavoid-
able, but certainly children have
little regard for their own safety
or that of other people. I beleive
one reason for it is that so many
parents of today have never ridden
bicycles themselves and do not
realise the care that is needed. It
seems to me no child should be al-
lowed to own a bicycle unless he
is first made to realise that he must
obey traffic laws—or else. , . .
But I suppose there is danger
everywhere. The farm appears to
be the safest and most peaceful
spot on earth—but we know it
isn't. Just today Bob nearly had
the tractor turn over on top of
him— on the side of a hill where
he was working up the wheat
ground. Noe, the field is ready to
sow so that danger is over for a
few months anyway. 40
And there is the latest about
Honey which might be of interest
if relayed to the y..ungsters. I have
told you how she• picks up her
supper dish and brings it into the
house. Now she will also bring the
mail up from the road if we give
it to her. But today she tried a
new stunt all by herself. I was
working in the woodshed and
Honey thought it might be a good
idea to bring in her dish. "No,"
I said, "no supper yet," But not
to be discouraged Honey took her
dish into the kitchen, I called her
back, took the dish away and put
it behind me. "No," I said again,
"no supper." Honey looked at me
sorrowfully for a few minutes;
then she carne behind me, picked
up the dish, walked down the
steps and put the dish down out-
side exactly where she got it from.
Then she came racing back, wagged
her apology for a tail furiously,
and said to ane as well as she knew
how: "There now, you see I did
• understandwhat you were talking
about!"
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"Dear Anne Hirst; My atop -
daughter was small when her Dad
and I married. I loved her very
much, and we were good pals
through the years, All my plans
centred about her , . , But when she
was 16, an older man persuaded her
to run away and marry him. (She
told a neighbor she left because
she was mad at me at the moment.)
"All this was 10 years ago. But
we still can't
seem to Pave it
down. Slie has
three precious
children n o w,
and I'd like to
love them as my
own—but i am
not allowed to.
She is so jeal-
ous! Both she
and her husband find fault with
things I say in ordinary conversa-
tion, and there is continuous fric-
tion.
"I feel that it is time to quit try-
ing, just forget I have a step-
daughter, and forego these lovely
children. All this makes my hus-
band unhappy, too. I have told him
to visit them when he wishes to,
but to leave Inc out.
"Is . there any happiness, or
thanks, far—
An Unloved Stepmother?"
TRAGIC SITUATION
* I well understand how hurt you
* are, and how baffled by your
* stepdaughter's continued un-
* friendliness.
* Now that she is married and
* has these children, you might be
* enjoying the fruits of all your
* labor in raising her, Instead, you
* are shunted off, misunderstood,
* and made miserable. It is hard
* to account for, unless your belief
* that it is based on jealousy is
* correct. (I have not space to print
* all your letter.) I consider it un-
* likely -that her runaway marriage
* was the result of friction at home.
* She probably used that as an
* excuse.
* It might be wise to make your
* visits to her less frequent for a
* while. 1 would not consider the
* break final, however; that could
* only sadden you more. Let your
* husband do the visiting, and see
* what happens. Send the children
* gifts, and messages when you
* have an excuse to, and let it go
* at that.
* Look up new interests to keep
* your mind off this unhappy cir=
* cunistance, and keep as cheerful
* as you can, for your husband's
* sake. It is distressing for him.
* too, but he is as helpless as you
* are.
* I am so sorry!
HIS MOTHER DISAPPROVES
—"Dear Anne Hirst: I am a girl
18 years old, and in love with a
boy my own age. He is in love with
pie, too. But his mother does not
like me.
"It is because I've been married
before, and have a child. She her-
self had five when she married her
present husband!
"I have never done anything to
cause Iter dislike ... We want very
muclh to get married. Shall I go
and talk to her, or what?
M. L. B."
* I doubt that you would. get
* very fair in talking with this
*young man's mother.
Why doesn't your own mother
* see her, and discuss this? (I stip-
* pose your mother approves of
* the marriage?)
* It may be that she considers
* her son too young to marry now,
* and with the added responsibility
* of raising another man's child.
* This may be her real reason, and
* it is a natural one.
* If she consents to see either
* you or your mother, it would be
* wise to emphasize the fact that
* you are willing to wait until he
* is of age, and until she is con-
* vinced he is sincerely attached to
* you. And assure her, too, that it
* is his happiness you seek, as well
* as your own.
A child's ingratitude is hard to
accept. A mother can only comfort
herself with the sure knowledge
that years dispel misunderstandings,
and hope. Anne Hirst's sympathetic
understanding will help. Write her
at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New
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