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The Brussels Post, 1955-06-08, Page 6x. comfort your aunt by your * presence in her last days. * In a matter of this kind, one * must do what she thinks is * right. • When a child is born, its pa- rents can no longer consider their personal contentment first; their resnonsibility must be centered in giving the child a harmonious family background. If this problem confronts you, tell Anne Hirst about it. Write her at Box 1, -123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Out. An Object Lesson American Protestants some- times are criticized as being stub- born, , selfiste, heartless, and bigoted.because they resist ap- peals of Roman Catholics for bus transportation, textheolcs,'Iunch- es,. nurse 'service, or other and more direct subsidies to their parochial schools at public—that is, taxpayers' experise. In many European countries governthent subsidies to "conies. Alone? echeole Of several faiths go much fttither than this, in- cluding building costs and teach- ere' salaries. In France, Germany and to some extent. Britain and the Netherlands, it has taken real ettert to, preserve adequate sup- Port' for state schools. In. Belgium it has long been RONICLif$ INGIiR ~FARM Clvqr‘doline a ,2,..74.441ta. Meager. %es., . •• •••.:„ I I 14 , •01. •• • •••••••W*1!.....r..1", FOUR CRYING OUT LOUD — This quartet of hungry little robins lives in a nest that mother built over Sam Goodman's garden hose. Although quite perturbed over *Mom's absence with the groceries, they don't seem to mind her unorthodox choice of a building site. 4 Ay * vote herself to 'building`, with • you, a congenial family life * for the child. * When two people marry,. "' they find their happiness in # living for the other. „When a •*. child comes, however, they 'Unite in providing the love -'emotional security need- *' .for her- normal , develop, *tnent, fn accepting that re-, *.eponsibilitya personal, happi-. ness • is sacrificed if need be; it is a. shallow mother who * would deprive a child of her * father's companionship and, * guidance, And how could a * boy of 13 be mature enough * to have a father's love or his * wisdom? * If you have been friendly * with your wife's parents, * wouldn't it be well to write * them, too, and be sure they are on yoUr side? • * You he've had a bitter blow, * and I am sorry for you.1 tie • hope your wife will be fair * enough to coirre home and * fulfill her proper duties. SPOILED HUSBAND "Dear Anne Hirst: My hus- band is a grand person in many ways. But he was an only child and never had any -family re- sponsibilities. . , .. Now my aged aunt in another town. (who brought me up) is in her last illness, and a note from her physician 'says she cannot live much longer. She needs me. 'My husband objects to my going. "I - have my own income and we have no .children. so I am free to go. He thinks • she is a sentimental hypocondriac — which she is not. If I let her • down, I would never forgive myself. What shall I do? UNDECIDED" • I think you should go to * your aunt. She gave You a . * home -when you needed one, * you are her only close rela- .* tive, and she is missing you * now. • Your husband may still ob- * ject, but later on I expect he * will understand. If it were his. * mother that was ill, he would * want to be with her. Remind • * him that you feel obligated to ,tREAtaltANDCHilLilEN B1f TFIE boiii4S" Tf Mrs. Anion Strode, left, hrileCE,Orblid: 30.0b, Oki +iet 4foce r it's because she's staiieling beside her Otjth great,grandchild, a nine-pound ferneounee boy born' recently to Mrs. Rayner:hid Thesting',• right, Great- gi,dildniathee Strode also has l3 living thildreri acid 0' bleildeene fora grorid total of 18() descendants "Dear Annie Hirst: My wife and I have been married nearly five years and have a three. year-old datighter, I thought we were perfectly happy; we spent all our spare moments together. Suddenly last February she left me and went to her father and mother. All the eXplanation err e gave is that sheedoesn't love Me any more. "I went to a western town,. and she came and spent.'4Q days. with me. She told me that she has fallen in love with au 111- yeerold boy and wants Me to divorce bort Now she doesn't answer my letters. "Should I grant her wish, or try to, win her back so our daughter can be with us both? Do you think I have a chance? JOHN" * For the sake of her little * girli I hope your wife will be * persuaded to come back to * you, at least for a year, Though * she believes she is in love • with someone else, only time * can prove how real is the * emotion, and she owes the test • to everyone concerned. Assure * her that no reproaches will * await her, nor will you impose * any affection she does not * welcome. Promise her that if * in another year she still. wants. • to separate,: you will discuss e it then; during that period she * will not see this lad, but de- Three Charmers Presto!'.1asi,y economically you can crochet 3 hats—in new- est shapes of spring! Crochet leaf- type to match your favorite en- semble! Band style takes 1 hour to do. Crochet. Pattern 875 for 3 jiffy hats in straw. yam. wool, or chenille. Easy instructions. 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Las December the Belgian Parlia- ment voted by a substantial mar- gin to reduce the subsidies for these schools by about 5 per cent The vote Was recently repeate On Sunday, March 27, severe' thousand mounted police and rio troopers with sabers. batons an fire hoses were needed 'in Bru sels to disperse columns of mar chers which converged on th capital city in defiance of an offs ciarban on such demonstration Several hundred arrests ever made. A Catholic newspaper de scribed the disturbance as "memorable protest". If this is the kind of pressur encountered when a people' elected representatives conclud subsidies have gone too far, ca it be wondered at that. America/ non-Catholics balk at openin the door at all to a breakdow of the constitutional separatio of church and state,—From th Christian Science Monitor. Thrifty • 4657 Half-sizersi Two smart dresses' for the Sewing of just one! With the jacket on, this looks like a strittitess! Whisk jacket. Off when the teniperiture soars — presto! yob' have a ceal, slimming prin- cess dress. Proportioned to fit 1 Pattern 4657: Half Sizes 141/2 , 16 1/2 , 181/2, '20 eh, 22 7er, 241/2 . Size 161/2 dress and jacket 44's yards 39-inch labile: 1/2 yard Contrast This pattern easy to rise, shi5'- it+10. to sew, is iv; tea' for Ate lies' complete illustrated instructions. t Send Titittn,APIVE: CENTS !: (350) in coins fslemps cannel be acoepted) for this pattern. Print plainly.SIkE,..NAMEe ADDRESS, STYLE Ntnvittit, Mend order to Bet 1, 123 Eigh- i teenth Ste /le* Treteritcl, brit; Killed Unbeliever People living in the villageThf Newlyn. East, Cornwall, are be- ginning to believe that a curse associated with a local tree has come to an end. But many of there are still keeping their fin- gers crossed. If . we could believe local leg- end, the story began seine 1,400 to 1,500 years ago, when St. Newlyn decided to build a church in the village now known *hs Newlyn , East, and marked the site by sticking her staff into the ground, Then — saint like —she laid a curse on the' staff to protect it. The staff took teat and greW into a fig-tree which today is still flourishing — a tree which., quite impossibly, would thus 'be around 1,500 years Old! Nevertheless, by local tradition the fig-tree, now growing frotn the church wall, is sacrosanct: Until recently feW dared even touch its for to do se would lie to invite death within twelve months, To break off a branch, to prune it — or even to pluck a leaf — was as good as signing one's own death warrant, Or so it Vras believed; Yet another legend regardihg the origin of the cured says that tothe hundreds of years ago' a local Men falsely condeirined to death stuck a sprig of wood in the of the chlirth and dared it Would grow into a tree to prove MS innocence. Who this coudeitined criminal Wak teenla to be Unknown; But the fact that the he-tree is hi the` *all Each week the country seems more lovely than the p-recerling week. Now it is lilac time , and sttch a prolusion of blossom to isay' nothing •Of the per.' fume, But I still miss the la- burnum. In England purple lilac and yellow laburnum come into bloom at the same time — and the colouring is just perfect. remember . , my brother set the laburnum on his birthday — the tree is living yet." My brother didn't set it but there was a laburnum in our garden, and great clusters of delicate yellow flowers hung suspended from its boughs, Will laburnum grow in Canada I wonder? Seems to me I have --seen it a time or two and I can't see why it shouldn't. But 6/ou never can tell. Plant life is very temperamental. Take wall- flowers flar:insride . . . those lovely* brown, gold and bronze wallflowers that grow so easily C in England. But where in an- ada can, you find them? 'Ap- parently the climate is too hot for them, And primrose, cow- slips and bluebells — none of them likes our Canadian wint- ers. However, we have plenty of flowers in Canada that won't grow in England — our lovely ,trilium, for instance. And the birds .. Old Country olk miss the skylark, nightin- ale, cuckoo and the little red obit). Rem emb e r walking hrough the woods in spring and ow thrilled we'd be the first. Ime 'we heard the cuckoo? We new it was a lazy, good-for- othing bird, laying its eggs in nother bird's nest; enjoying the leasures of parenthood without airing over its responsibilities, ut yet we couldn's help loving S he cuckoo' song — "Cuck-oo . . uckoo!" And somewhere in the istance would come an echo — Cuck-oo . . cuckoo." As for the nightingale — there sn't any other bird-song that an possibly compare with the ightingale for sweetness. It be- ongs to moonlight nights, a ark beside a lillypond; two in canoe idling down-stream . . nd love's young dream. By ontrast, during World War I I card Zeps zooming and a ightingale singing all at one nd the same time, The skylark . , . who can for- et the skylark as he soars aloft n a burst of song? I wonder how any people read that lovely ittle pieoe in the Globe and f the church's Tressillian Chap- 1 has suggested locally that" the an" may have been Sir Robert ressillian, then Lord Chief uetice of England, who was xecuted during the reign of ichard II. For so important a local man lose his life in such circum- lances would naturally cause a eep and lasting shock in his °me parish; enough,- certainly; o give . rise to superstition re- rding the fig-tree. O the fig-tree or its supposed rsddly enough, the church e. cords reveal nothing concern- g .sra,• was it •she ere coincidence or the Curse e- which brought th to .a former rviCar Of New- d E,aSt? Tre Prtenedethe tree, Wes dead Within'a erne. time later a visitor, d oh holiday from Australia, v ,eted Newlyn East arid heard, -1114.1.•culte. He laughed it off es e• lot of superstitious hon- sense, and to Prove it • a.burich Of leaves train the tree. Later he returned to Australia. Within.-twelve months he was taken died, At different times 'the vicars of the church have. -wanted to uproot ,the fig-tree, but elocal in- habitants have , always pleaded, successfully, that it should be left alone, And always they have reminded each new vicar of what happened to b former incumbent who ignored their ad- vice! Until recently; this advice has been taken to heart, Then, odd- ly, a number 'o: the-villagers took courage in 1951 and pruned the tree. All are still alive. So the villagers are 'beginning to think,* after all, that if the fig- tree was ever really cursed, its power is new sit.an end. Vacation Aria ii g 6 in e In " • AVM.' litrinit hifotkii,'.. berinnde • Ralminds • Haw:1117 AIR ANC,' STEAMSHIP" RESERVATIONS CRUISES R SUS TOURS • Hotel Reservations Altybt,tiere• roPitISON"e CO lu1 D` 'sae St„ Toronto 2,. Di t, 6143‘ li4SInt 23' .Mail a week ago about the sky- lark sent to Canada with an im- rinigesrea.n,trhbeoyspit4fietillye4soll:gis oirithee" 'little bird proved to, be the greatest Mnhassatior of goodwill that' could possibly be imagined. The story reminded me very much of Wordsworth's poem about a thrush that I loved so Much in My youth — 'etill do for that matter, "At the, corner of Wood Street hangs a thrush that sings loud . . poor Susan has passed by the spot and has beard in the silence of morning the song of the bird." And in the song of the bird Susan re- members so much of the home she had loved. Well, it hasn't been all birds singing and flowers blooming around here. There has been some work done too. John and his hired man were over to put in a field of oats and there were two tractors going most of •the time, The men were here for dinner and went home for chores and supper. Friday night Johnny came back again and worked In the field until after twelve that night — for himself, not for us! Saturday morning he came along with a team for •the drill and a girl to drive •the tractor. Maybe so much ambition should be commended , . , but I d t know. Rushing a job like that must be very exhausting. Any- way, it makes Partner and I feel tired just to see them at it. We can still put in a fair day's work ourselves — but Trot at that pace. We sent some cattle out earlier in the week — a dow and` two veal calves. Poor old Jane — she finally went to the t d cky ar d,s, after Partner threatening 'to send' her out for several years. But there was al- ways some hold-up . . "Might as well wait until after the calf is born" Or "I'd like to get a little more meat on her first:" 'Now Jane has gone, and she tipped the scales at 1190 lbs., se, for an del cow, she wasn't exactly skin and bone. Our few remaining hens are doing fipe. Partner said the other day they were laying 98%. "Why 98?" I asked. Partner was not sure whether it was always 98 lent it wouldn't sound right to say you got 10 eggs from le hens. Everything has to be worked out in percentages these days! Maybe Perrier liatens to too many farm brOadeasts at the barn — or gets more in- formation than he can make use of. This struck us as funny. Partner had 'been very interest- ed, in Mr. Leatheabarrow:s idea :e4 "Qold• in the Orass", When he knew the author. was to ad, dress the local Seed Fair last „spring he wanted to ,hear. he had a friend StOing here at the•titne. Perteler tried to get Or. 'friend interested 'enough go to the meeting with him, But it was useless,. A few weeks later this same man was back aagin, and, cmite by accident, had come across "G.old in the Grass" and had read it, Op was terribly enthused --- "best book I ever read". Apparently he did not eonnect the author with the speaker Partner had wanted to hear but 'told him all about the book, assuming, no doubt that it was all news to' Partner. And. that's the way it was left, Part- ner can act awfully dumb when he feels like it. Class Submarine A strange sight among the multi-coloured exotic fish that swarm, in the clear' blue waters of the Caribbeanq nosing over the coral:and through the beau- tiful garden of ;tropical sea plants, is a tiny "glass" subma- rine,d within the sp-ecial shell, lrl,amsapveentwet Edward J. Le- Cbmpte and t*p of his. friends peer out the wonderland of colour and shadow searching for sunken treasure. „ The foaming white surf thund- ers against the golden beaches of the islands'— islands whose rocky approaches are strewn with the, wrecks of storm-ra- vaged ships that foundered through the centuries, LeCompte got his romantic treasure-hunting ideas back In Oklahoma City when, two years ago, q,800,000 'worth -of gold was recovered off Nassau, in the Ba- hamas. He had always been fas- cinated by old yarns of deep-see treasure and this made him de- cide to find Out for himself. His .fourteen-foot submarine can withstand water pressure at 2,700 feet, can carry a load of 3,000 pounds and cost some $15,- 000 j td,` tcornplete. He Says he built it of fibreglass because the material is three times stronger thin steel for its Weight. a Going on Vacation? Florida? We arrange Hotel, Motel, Apartment ' accommodations! A FREE SERVICE, Write, •mention accommodations need- ed. 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