The Brussels Post, 1953-8-5, Page 6"SAL
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"Dear Anne Hirst: Fifteen
years •ago otm' son married an
older girl. She has always been
so 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; be has had several
good positions, but changed them
often because he grew ashamed
of her -behavior, She watches
hint so closely that if she doesn't
know where he is; hour by hour,
she calls the police!
"We have helpedher in so
Many ways, and got no thanks
Cor ft. • , , She finally wrote me
a, letter asking us to stay away
tram her house; we have, and
shall continue to. But I arm so
Worried" about what will happen
to 0
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strain! Everyone that knows him
loves him.
"Your column is the very first
thing I turn to when my paper
comes. , God bless you in your
work! Have you any advice for
us?
A Worried Mother,"
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, collect his
* own paycheck, and otherwise
* get the upper hand. What
* threats she mak
es to compel
* his subservience, you cannot
knowl-'but he is surely under
* her thumb. ,
* His marriage was ob,•iously,
* 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 car, feel
* they have a father, however
* little authority he carries,
* All this is heartbreaking to
you and your husband. Yet
* any remove 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.
* Employ your energies in
* wholesome living: Wat' n
" your church and yams tam-
* muni y and he eetave watt ytar* husband ,n irarttes
• Rebs.a you ~ s, ti c
* prayer and - •'"
* r_. r 70
Strength yr, r:, a=
your se,n -aell end to,
. and at:rag. to e .
• erable l:fe
Bretano , bc* k sure New
York has leased a armee:sate'at
a lady who sper_talzas in •ea -
shells, a colleeters' fad that
seems to be enjeyingravarai.
The best customer to date was a
lady who ran up a b.': of 530.
"I'm movir.g to Hollywood," she
explained, "and I want there
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., at
attacking a proposed
d law to curb
cattle on highwayc, R. C. Carter
changed his mind. became an
active suporter of the measure
alter his car struck a stray bull
and was smashed.
New Note—Piano students will welcome this new device, said
to make scale practice easy. When she hits the right note, a light
flashes. A wrong one produces a loud buzz, The player can
compare the position of the lights with the notes as a check.
Old As The Hillis
Ma -in -Law Jokes
is
Dr.
on ethiing ofones, OX an expert non
jokes. He has been collecting in-
aftegl g and fel' Years. And
tt
rfiling, rossreferenei ng
just under 1,500,000 specimens,
some dating back 3,000 years, he
has reached a simple conclusion.
There is no such thing as a new
joke.
Nobody knows when, Man first
developed a sense of humour, It
was ve
human laughed atobahly nthe psight tiof
one of his fellows sinking in a
swamp, This feeling has become
More refined through the cen-
turies, but we are still prone to
laugh at the discomfort of an-
other.
By the time of cavemen a
more advanced forme of humour
had arrived. Primitive drawings
found on cave walls show a fat,
club -swinging' woman driving a
little man out of the shelter, It
was the first of all jokes about
mothers-in-law.
A joke that has been handed
down front the time of the
Phoenicians tells of the time an
old man was about to die.
"Where is Nessus?" he gasps.
The family chant: "Here at
your bedside,"
"And Deinaria?"
"Here," say the family.
"And Artemis?"
"He is here also."
With, his last reserve of
strength the old man sits up in
bed. "And who, by the beard of
Baal, is minding the bazaar?" he
thunders.
This type of story, with embel-
lishments, is still being told,
Dr. Ylones quotes another type•
of joke that has been going the
rounds for centuries. In its latest
form it tells of the Scotsman
leaning over the rail of an emi-
grant ship which has just arrived
in Sydney.
McTavish is thinking sadly
about the cost of his passage and
the .time it has taken to amens,
At .that moment he sees a diver
emerging from the waters of the
harbour. McTavish is dumb-
founded. Then, with an angry
frown, he turns to his wife,
"If I'd only known about that,.
we could have come across on
foot," he groans.
Bernard Shaw was once asked
whether all the witty sayings at-
tributed to him were really his.
"No," he replied, "I only pick the
best."
Whether Shaw knew it or not,
this saying was old before he
ever uttered it.
Dr. Ylones believes that a fun-
ny story must be passed on two
or three times by experts, and
embellished each time, before it
reaches its best. But once it is
established, it will go on for ever,
It was claimed recently that
eighty per cent of the jokes
levelled at the head of the
Kremlin had already been used
against Hitler. Most of them,
probably, date back to Alexander
the Great.
Talking Dogs
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.c is ole_ wren
left
Tisa a
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r ,n -..s. w • -Ate,cine herzte.
new " Ingoy ne co- rat _t with
such remarks as "Let for a
nae: I
will." N I a-,_..: and
"Maybe," accota- eg to tne:
c.:mstanc.
Hollywood plans to star Mr.
Lucky in a documentary picture.
Signor Gino del Mar, of Milan,
-s also found dogs to be apt
pupils. He taught a Scotch ter-
rier named Bonnie a repertoire of
some 650 words, and when an
accident cut short the career of
the canine prodigy he started
afresh with Dana, a black poodle.
As yet Dana doesn't talk, but
she can spell out words, distin-
guish colours, add, subtract and
divide.
Riley Hickinott, a cocker span-
iel of Kalamazoo, is listed in the
local telephone directory, while
Lady, sheepdog pet of Mr, and
Mrs, Fred Shields, of Goodland,
Kansas, lives in an exact replica
of her owners' home, This "ken-
nel" cost a 1000 dollars to build.
Dogs are also coming in for
their share of mankind's woes.
From Ireland comes the story
of a setter and a spaniel put on
guard over an illegal whisky still.
Instead of doing their duty while
the owners were away, the dogs
sampled the contents of a twenty-
one gallon barrel, Police arrived
and found them in a sorry plight,
The setter was unable to stand,
and the spaniel was iii a state
of alcoholic Stupor, .
In Los Angeles it is planned o
to give psychosis treatment to
250,000 neurotic dogs, nearly a
third of the city's canine pope-
lotion, Part of the cure consists
in making sO much noise that
conditions will seem relatively
peaceful when the dog .returns
home, -
'7o,.Sleop! Perchance to Dream „^'rr If the- tittle Woman is
drear,iipg of,buying•a bedtime outfit .like this, there's darn ,little'
perchpnce„,of Pap,py getting, any sieep when the bill comes,in.^
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The magnificent eight ensemble, 6)% Italian designer Cerri, was
modelled in Rome by Princftas Zino Rdchewsky, Russian -born
actress, the square -necked gown and robe are of white. g eor
and Valenciennes' lace. g - gette
e
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.
HRONICLES
INGERFARM
7 asande c�e D rte, kQ
Wath e gs selling at 85 cents
amen: only food Mitchie-
t' 'Jvk at these days is
a =ea.o... raw egg: However.
it amt as extravagant as it
sematia bemuse in every day's
.at- there is usually at least one
e;' that is very email. cracked
orm. as appen, so Mitchie is
able to enjoy his convalescing
Jet The mower -cut -leg is heal-
= beautifully and Mitchie is
beigirrmg to feel more like a
oat again. His main worry now
is that he still can't use his right
foot to scratch his right ear
During the day he hides among
the rase bushes or sleeps ufider
t 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 roadway,
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 suffcrine 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! 1
have .finally come to the con-
clusion that. I must go back to
perenttials 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 cotn-
'pletely disappeared, Bugs ate up
the asters; snapdragons grew tall
add spindly and the zinnias be-
came brown and shrivelled after
I sprinkled them with bug -death.
HOwe`ver, 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 gerahiums were given
o 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 but 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 me 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 psi par-
titularly, 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
given without any thought of re-
turn 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 in 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
enthusiasticthan herself, so,
when Lizzie Likeit come along,
exclaims with delight, "Qh. 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 a 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 toe little
sun and wilts for lack of water.
Asked a few weeks later how the
begonia is coming along Lizzie
answers carelessly — "Oh, I
don't know what happened to it
— it just wouldn't grow for me
and gradually died, I threw it
out last wwek,"
Poor Mrs, Flower -lover feels
as hurt and grieved as if she had
lost a friend — as indeed sae 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 course the
arm needs exercise — and what
better- excercise could at have
than washing dishes? Only she
doesn't always see ft 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 - I man-
aged very well.
Rattletrap. In Petaluma, Calif.,
garage mechanics examined Da-
vid McClure;5 car after he com-
plained of a "'strange rattle,"
traced it to the back seat, where
they found a rattlesnake poised
to strike.
ISSUE 32 -_ 1913
'as tie A Pirate
'.jr A Gentleman?
Ziac
revival elf the old rjdd
to the character of Captain
reveals a common misu
standing,"Peopfe aska'Pirat
gent? put seldom think t
may be, a third alternative,
The real question int Wa
a buccaneer? For buccan
were not pirates, though 0
they behaved as cruelly,
They were mostly sailors
had settled ora the • ;M'osg
Coast, had been 'driven .0.0 by
Spanish, and had thus dri
into waging sea War on the
Williain:,,,Kidd, was '13or11
Dundee, the son of a parson,
the •atifne'� he. was' 35 , lie 1'Wa
citizen of the .eolony_of t,
York, a successful sailor of g
ohmmeter. -
Abotit Bellam nthwasis t• sent Out onne the arN
York by William III'to put do
the piney which' had becom
scandal,
Kidd was. in so high stand
that' he Wad deputed to' comma
a specially equipped ship .to.
the •traffiic down..
Int' this ship . of 30 guns Ki
sailed with authorisation.;to,.
against ships of.a named enc
and a', general commission
pursue and destroy all Fren
pirates, ,
For two years Kld"d: sail
about the West 'Indies, and, b
by bit strange tales 1,4%1
leak;'tlti;tpugh, It `waa'said ' th
having been sent 'to catch pirate
he had become one himself. Wh
caused' the rumpus was his.acti
against a British ship,
Kidd had sighted a strang
flying' the' French. flag, Iq
boarded her and was told by th
captain that he was reall
British, but had' run up th
French flag in self-protection,
Despite the fact that. he she
ed Kidd his papers, he clainne
that Kidd .took! part •o§:Ilia gol
and cargo and thus played pica
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 . seUr'vy.
ridden and his men mutinied
and cat • lam .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 coup=
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 sometimes 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 01d 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 coun'sel
and prevented from 'getting his
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Knights Is Armpit'
Hold Picket Lin"
LONooN---(NEA),:--'What With
the high cost of living, a knaght
can't put On enough beef to tote
around a suit„ref altme ,:weighing
25 pounds—net On $0 a day, and
vitamin pills' costing what they!
do,
This is the argument put forth
by the "Knights of the Round
?able"—extras in the Americs4ia
film of the same name, who are
pon strike today for a day in
take -home -pay.'
afore than 200 knights downed
their swords for extra pay in 'the
Alm starring Robert Taylor and
Ava Gardner: The walkout
spread to every studio in Eng -
It's`'' net just the' Weighty' cos,
tinesthey complain of, there's
the matter of beards, A knight
can'tgait/ good 'beard trim for
under 50 cents, these days,.
And then there's the 6 AM.
atudio avail—how can anyone ex-
pect, a knight to show up for
work that early after a night of
Wassailiing•?.. !, n •
It's not as thoiigh you could
send any old stumblebum to
King Arthur'e aeourt. A knigl{t''s
got•to'1'iave'class, and class cornea
expensive.
While the union and movie' of-
flctals' argue ' 11 . out, Guinevere
(Ava Gardner) sits around smokes
ing cigarets, wondering whether
her marriage with King Arthur
(Mel Ferrer) is ever going to
come off, A few doors down Sir
Lancelet "(Robert Tii1lor) is W-
ing his fingernails.
Work en two other American
films,. "Tate Flame' and the'Flesh, n
starring Lana Turner, and "Crest
ief the Wave" with Gene Kelly,
has.. keen held - up pending the
outcome of the strike.
The dispute was referred to .
the Ministry of Labor, for settle-
ment, which would have caused
King ,Arthur to snort something
like:
"Welfare state coddling!”
t
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
mon 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 Ameri-
cans of Long Island are seeking
to have the whole matter once
more thrashed out by a judicial
commission.
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A Gal's Best Friend=Diamonds, baseball diamonds, that is, are
pretty Joan Crosby's source of job add support., In her, New York
office, 'she writes the biographies that. appear. on the famous
bal+a,ayer cards tucked inside bubblegum wrappers,< Here she
c„ac,;s statistics so as not to mislead her 'rabid readers,