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The Brussels Post, 1953-7-1, Page 2Y"YYYY Y VV Y YY♦♦Y VY♦VYVY �iat�ae y�r�a ' iuz"SALAD ANN€ i4IPST zouir. ?---adkna, "Dear Anne Hirst: I don't love love my husband any more. I'm' wondering whether to return to him on account of our children? I really think they and 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 rent. My husband drank and gambled. My mother has always bought clothes for the children, helped pay our bills, and even 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. 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"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 hoose 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 MOTHE.t." GET FREE * Why or, earth do you think * of going back to your hus- * 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 • 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 * ofhis 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 almost beyond belief Viet cruelties some wives sub- mit to (and often mistakenly) 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 him, Anne Hirst will advise you. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteen St, New Toronto. Ont. RAG OF FLOUII SAVES DIVER'S LIFE A. bag of 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 whcrc doctors saved his life. Puff Hard—With 'an Impish look, loaftho Matth ws, 8, gloms, to be starting Byron Lanahan; 8, off Early as a embker, That Pripet is mode of rare pink and white opaque grass and was used in a 19th century linglish tobacco shop only for display. How Can !? By Anne Ashley Q. How can I restore the fragrance to a sweet -grass bas- ket?'- A, Just as soon as .the basket.. begins to lose its fragrance, dip it into boiling water. When It dries, the fragrance will have re- turned, Q. How can 3 destroy chig- gers in the bushes and on the lawn? A. On the bushes, by the lib- eral use of sulphur, applied. with a dust gun, On lawns,, just by keeping the grass cut: Q. How can I clean white wicker chairs? A. First, brush off all loose dirt; then wash with lukewarm ' suds, to which has been added a little salt, not wetting the chair any more than necessary. Rinse well with cold water to harden the wicker, The wicker may be hardened by using a little lemon juice in the rinse and drying out of doors. A chair dried near a hot fire usualle creaks afterwards. Q. How can I prevent pers- piration stains on a hat band? A. Fold a strip of cellophane and place it under the inside hat band. This will prevent pers- piration and oil from staining the outside ribbon, or band, Q. How can I remove tar from the hands agd clothing? A. Tar is easily removed from the hands and clothing by use of a little lard, followed by soap and warm water. Q. What is a good moth pre- ventive for closets? A. An excellent preventive against moths is to moisten a cloth in turpentine and wipe out the dresser .drawers and closets occasionally, Q. How can 1 mend broken crockery? A. White lead is one of the few cements that will resist both heat and water. Apply this thin- ly to the broken edges of the crockery, press them tightly to- gether, tie in place, an set aside for two or three days to dry. Q. How can I prevent wire from cutting into trees when using it to support the branches that are heavily laden with fruit? A. Put the wire through a piece of discarded rubber hose, and the wire cannot cut and in- jure the bark of the trees, Q. How can I avoid having a damp cellar? A. It is a good plan to fill cheesecloth bags with pieces of charcoal and hang them in the damp cellar or basement. These will prove effective in removing the dampness from the air. The bags should be emptied occasion- ally and the charcoal dried and used again. Q. How can I renew artificial' flowers? A. Trim away the ragged parts of the artificial flowers, and then shake them over the steam from a boiling kettle, taking care not to get them wet. Sun ;n' Fun! - 4524 SIZES no* - teed YOUR BABY'S GROWING UP! You want these adorables for her now! Precious scalloped dress has wings or puff -sleeves and a sweet- heart penny -pocket! Sunsuit is ONE PIECE, opens flat to iron, seat lets down for quick changes Bonnet is one piece also, Pattern 4524: Toddler Sizes I, 2, 3, 4, 5. Size 2 dress, 11/a yards 35-incb; playsuit, 11e yards. ' This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for at. Ilas complete illustrated instructions, Send THIRTY -FIVE CENTS (35¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New 'Toronto, Ont. Clot; SpurldlAps-Recording the speed with' which a blood clot is formed, an,4jtra-Yiscoson, is demonstrated above by Dr. Ray- mond Yesner,at left, and„Dr,-Alfred Hurwitz, assisted by tech- nicien ,Jean antwhistJe, A small - ultra sonic sensing element "feels:” the blood. This machineoffers new hope to victims of diseases requiring exact knowledge of blood -clotting time. • HRONICLES 1NGR E- W The -weatherman, apparently, is in the dog -house. Very few of his+ forecasts of late have been accurate and the general public has become annoyed and distrust- ful. He promises a fine day and we get a'downpour; cooler weath- er and it becomes hot and sticky; 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 lay day forecasts, In the weather office, as we know, changes in atmospheric conditions are registered on sen- sitive instruments that have stood the test of years. By them the weathermanknows the type of weather that should normally fol- low according to the disturbances that have been recorded. Then why have these forecasts sudden- ly become so unreliable? Well, what about the atom bomb? Un- til the last few years did the weather bureau ever have to deal with the effect of atomic weap- ons? Imagine ordinary, everyday air currents floating around in the ether, just minding their own business, bringing good weather or bad according to normal pres- sure conditions, and then these same air currents suddenly find themselves blasted in eyery dir- ection by huge atomic explosions, without advance warning being registered by weather office baro- meters. And then the reputation of the weatherman is 'blasted as - has been so unfortunate as to predict ... especially if he prom- ised the next day would be "warm and dry" and what came was wet and windy! Ah me, who would be a weatherman 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 night. 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 II, Now that, too, has become history, and time marches on. Froin 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 2, and `then again from 3 o'clock onwards our radio was never off. I don't think I missed a thing. Nor did Partner because he was„milking the coWs and bil- 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 tittle 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 hOl'self? • 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 Ito long, One fs'altnost 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 live d each one Of us, wherever we may live. We hope more attention 'Will be given to a better . distribution of the Smile 'From -Africa—Ingrid Rita Mills, 20, •is the oWner of an infectious smile that helped her win the title, "Miss South Af-, rico," 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 won $'10,- 000 l0 000 and chance at being Miss Universe. foods we grow so that all nations in the world may benefit. -pro- ducers and consumers alike— without ,graft or greed. From the look of the fields in this district there is likely to be a shortage of cereal grain, but there should certainly be plenty of hay, although everything de- pends on the weather. The alfalfa is very heavy but at present there is no bloom. I foresee happy days ahead when we start haying! With so much sap in the stall( it will take a lot of curing before the balers can handle it. Good drying weather is very necessary as hay has to dry quickly these days. Cut it down, call the baler, draw it to the barn—the quicker the better—that sems to be the idea now. Haying no longer interferes with what we women want to do. An extra meal or two perhaps but few women have to stay home now to 'drive the teeth on the hayfork. What a hot, dusty job that was, and how heavy the whiffle -trees as we lifted them 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. ft 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. THE WORLD'S MOST -LONELY HOUSEWIFE r • . Mrs.. Margery Daulby is sitting by her shining black kitchen stove making out her shopping list, She writes: 20 tons coal. 300 -ib, tea, 100 tins dried milk. 600 lbs. potatoes Yes, Mrs, Daulby does her 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 Rey, Tom. Daulby, who is the Church Of Canada's missionary to the Es- kimos of Northern Baffin Land, and site 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 it and have it delivered by 'plane.' An expensive Omission! Mrs. Daulby drops a lump of ice in the kettle and while it melts and boils, goes on with her list: 30 cases of breakfast cereal. 35 dozen processed eggs. 75 tins of biscuits.... She 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- - tended. The sun has smile 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 Tom 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 in pursuit of bear, a b11:t� zard may overtake them and ime prison them their rations dwind- ling, for a week or more in the fetid atmosphere of a 'hastily built igloo. To preserve their lives they may have to go out with then(' rifles hunting Arctic hare and caribou bird. . Roaring Polar Gales All this Margery Daulby, Mout think of at 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 Rf, her frail little box of a home. But she has learned not to .worry toe much about her tough missionary husband, . He case handle a kayak or a team ot dogs as well as - the .Esicimep and fire a rifle better than any of them, - In any case, she has plenty to do to keep hex' mind occupied as she deputizes for him 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, ot course, and the temperature in the house is about 25 degs. (7 degs. below freezing), Siie lights the lamps, stokes up the stove and gets the breakfast of cereal and fried eggs and bread. Her midday meal may consist of 'A*><tctic 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 Ib. of tea. The Eskimo is very par- tial to a nice "copper;` But don't feel sorry '`tor the world's lonliest bousewkfe. That is the last thingshe would want. She loves her work and the peo- ple whom she serves. Even the Arctic weather isn't half as bad as is'popularity 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 of 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 mus- tard and cress she grows quite easily by the liy,ht of the mid- night sun. -- LOGY, LISTLESS, OUT OF LOVE WITH LI` Than woke up your tire* l,lle . jump out of bed ruin" to to Life not worth Using? ft may ba the Overt It's o fact! V your Sear bas Is not [lowing freely your food may net digest . , can bloats lip your stomach , , , you feel coo. atipoted and all the fun and on,eSle go out of lite. That's whoa you flood mild, gentle Cnrtorn Little Liver Pala. You sea Carters help stimulate your liver Lilo till once again It Is pouring out ole rata or up to two pinta a day into your digestive trout. This should az you fight up, make you feel that happy days ora hors again. So don't slay sunk get. Cortaro Little Livor Ptlla. Always hove timer on hand. ISSUE 20 — 1953 With A Lady Diplomat, Also Goes Wardrobe .ri$a50 -.. United States AmbassaddFt' tet Italy, Clare Booth WO, waves a greeting to a Roman crbvid and gives them a grateful smile. At left Is her husband, publish. or Henry Luce. Following the lady°prnliAailor to Eilyb !4'711 ijar'(YSiterttivel Wdrd- robe. Care dad transportation of a war ; drone is �n problem far any diplomat's aides. But in the casts of a lady diplomat, the problem assumes astronomical proportions, Seen above, Roman workmen unload part of the trunks and chests containing the habiliments of United States Ambassador Clare Boothe 'Luce.