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The Seaforth News, 1957-01-10, Page 6ANNE I4IPST' 7mo& ramik a+u+d(.eot,- "Dear Anne Hirst: What does I girl do who still loves her husband but who is slowly go- ing crazy because he isn't the Mansitethought he was? When We were dating,he was always to kind and indulgent that I thought he was perfect. But of-. ler two years of living with tim, he turns out to be a jeal pus fiend who is slowly killing he perfect love I had. "I was a young widow with. wo small children when we parried. He as wonderful to hem then, but now he is only ealous. My elder boy, five, is ds pet hate; the child can't play n the same roam without havi- ng my husband yell at him or atnish him though the boy tever was any trouble before. "My husband is always east - ng up to me a man I was en- laced to before we met; he ron't let me visit my mother be- muse he says I'll meetthe for - tier 'lance there! 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"Hecan be darn sweet to me and the boy when he wants something, but once he gets it, he is on the rampage again. I cannot please him in anything I do. He keeps mein a dither, and with two active children and a young baby to keep up with, I can't hop around as I did. I am tired all the time tired of household drudgery, tired of his excesses (he's worse when he drinks) and, Heaven help me,. I'm even tired of the children, They are sweet kids, but my nerves are so shattered, I want to scream at them. One thing. helps — my husband makes a good income and is generous— except he refuses to hire a baby- sitter. "What do you think? Can I ever make peace between my husband and my son? I want the friends I miss so much!- I could never love anyone else as I still love my husband, but I'm afraid I will stop caring for him altogether, He is neither just nor kind, and I am at the end of my tether. EXHAUSTED WIFE" * How a girl in love can be * mistaken in her man! When * you two were going together, * he thought everything you did * was so right, was kind to your • children a n d your family. * How could you believe that * what showed then was not * his t -tie nature? * It may be that jealousy alone * accounts for all his prohibi- * tions. He is still bitter about * the man you once loved. Now * he has projected that appre * hension to all those who love * you—your family, your friends, * even your little boy. To jus- * tify .himself, he has to keep * you on the defensive. Spiritu- * ally and, alas, physically you * are on the verge of a break- * down, You had better face him * with the truth. * Either he conquers these un- - • founded jealousies and trusts * you to enjoy a normal life, or • you are through, Remind hiin • that he has always had your • love; if he hopes to keep it • he must be fair to your chil- • dren and not interfere with * their training. He must be * made to see you are over- * worked and that if some help • is not provided, you risk your * health. If he will not give you * the respect, the freedom, and • the affectionate faith you de- • serve, then you married a man • you did not know and you • cannot keep on living with ° him. * You have tried valiantly to • live up (or down) to his de- * mantis. You find it impossible. • It is he who can save your • marriage. If he will not, you * will have to escape through *divorce or, perhaps, a trial ° separation, • I know this is not the solu- s tion you wish, but from all • you tell me, it seems the only • one that can move him. You • have my sympathy. * * ° 'Why worry alone? If a friendship or marriage has reached a crisis, tell Anne Hirst about it. Let her weigh the situation and help you relieve it. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New To- ronto, Ont. We don't mind so much that out local postmaster read all our mail, but when he started an- swering it, we thought he went too far. —Herb. Shriner ILOOK MA, ONE HAND — The graceful statue in Rockefeller Center appears to have no trouble supporting a huge Christmas free. The 64 -foot white, spruce was being noised into position by crane when the photographer caught tree and statue in this Interesting angle. WOODLAND MONARCH — Two-year-old Ona Caine points ex- citedly to Washington's 65 -foot Christmas tree, quite a bit taller than she. Looming in background is Washington Monument, taller still. el HBONICLES i1NGERFARM 6v¢M.oU� D. Clarke It would seem that early winter finally caught up with us — and in no uncertain way. Gale force winds battered on the doors and windows last week, in many cases protected only by screens, which, until the day before, had been necessary to keep the flies out, so suddenly does our weath- er change. One day you couldn't keep the -furnace low enough for comfort; the next day it was inadequate against the cold winds. There was no serious damage done around here except to knock our entire telephone line out of commission. It was two days before it was working again which raises an inter- esting sidelight. The last two or three years there has been a lot of work clone on telephone lines in this district. The old party lines disappeared. We were changed over to a dial system which was a great improvement. New poles were erected and miles and miles of wires and cables strung. We•noticed these cables were hung very loosely, not taut from pole to pole the way the old single wires had been. This was meant to be an improvement of course — and apparently is — until something goes wrong. When that happens the trouble takes longer to find and entails more work. As one man put it — "it was easier to work on fifty miles of the old lines than five miles of this." There must be factors on favor of this type of wiring but if it takes two days to fix one short line, what then? What will hap- pen in real bad weather — in ice storms, for instance? How long will it take to fix the lines under such conditions? Could it be that cables are not satis- factory for the wide open spaces? Naturally this is a matter that concerns everyone, telephones being such a vital necessity in this day and age. And here is another sidelight on present day problems. An old lady pensioner, living alone, needed new firebricks in her kit- chen stove. Four years ago she had a similar job clone and it cost her $12. Last week, the same job. on the same stove, cost her $20! In other words, half of one. month's pension gone to pay for one small job. And not a thing she could do about it. It wouldn't have been safe not to have the stove fixed; she naturally couldn't do it herself and there was no hope of getting. it done cheaper elsewhere.' Doesn't it make, you wonder how people with small incomes ever get along at all? Well, I suppose we all have our problems wherever we live. On some farms, for instance, it is lack of water. On our farm we naw have too much. That is because we have one overflowing well without a 'pump, the water flowing' by natural gravity through a pipe to a tank in the stable and then to another tank in the barnyard and from thence through an overflow pipe to the outside. When we had 25 head of cattle the odds were even. Now we have more water than our few head of cattle can use. However, Partner thinks he has thought of a way of dealing with the situation to prevent the formation of a lake at the back of the barn. Well do I remember what happened some years ago when the outlet pipe froze solid and Partner was crawling around on the ice on his hands and knees until he had the pipe thawed out. One problem we didn't have last week was how to get tickets for the Grey Cup game! You don'tneed tickets to follow the game on radio or television. But it was really funny. I was busy making pyjamas and Partner was putting on storm windows when I turned on the TV. Partner would come in, go down cellar for a window, bring It up, set it against a wall and then sit down and watch the game until there was another score. That would keep him satisfied for a little while so away he would go, put on his window, come back and repeat the proceedings. I, too, was dodging back and forth from the sewing machine to the living room. That is, until the last quarter. Then we stayed with it. I don't understand a thing about football but it didn't take long to . catch the spirit of the game. Bob and Joy got here in the middle of the play. No one said ''Hullo, how are you?" The salutation was "Hullo, what's the score2= And in how many •homes, stores, farms and offices was the same thing happening? To say nothing of. the 27,000 who actually at- tended the. game., And now to close, ' here is a hint for those who do their own. sewing. ' As .I said I was making pyjamas — for a man who falls through the jacket long before the rest of the garment is worn out! ' So here is what someone told me to do and I am passing the tip' along to you. Make the back with double material from the neck to the waist. It makes a neat job and should surely prolong the life of the jacket. Andmuch less work than patch- ing afterwards. Grandma Moses Starts Painting I always liked to paint, but only little pictures for Christ- mas gifts and things like that. I painted for pleasure, to keep busy and to pass the time away, but I thought of it no more than of doing fancy work. My husband Thomas never talked about my painting;. he thought it was foolish. But one .night, a few weeks before his death, in January, 1927, he came. in, it wit,• after candlelight, and he asked, "Who did that paint- ing?" It was one I had just painted . "Oh," I said, "that isn't much." "No, that's real good," he said. The last few weeks, when I started to do:.a title painting, he was right there watching, and liked it so much. He never knew that he was going. And yet he made some very strange remarks that fall. Once he said, "I don't mind dying ... but I can't bear the thought to go and leave you here, But if there is such a thing as coming back to this earth, I will come back and watch over you." When I had quite a few paint- ings on hand, someone suggested that I send them down to the old Thomas' drugstore in Iioosick Falls, so I tried that. One day a Mr. Louis J. Caldor of New York City, an engineer and art collector passing through the town, saw and bought my paint- ings. He wanted to know who had painted them, and they told him it was en old woman living down on the Cambridge Road by the name of Anna Mary Moses. He wanted me to paint more. He came back several times. I•Ie bought the pictures and paid for them. He took them down to New York to show in the gal- leries. Then, in October of 1940, I had the first exhibit of my paintings. I am not superstitious or any- thing like that. But there is something like an overruling power. I never know how I'm going to paint until I start in; something tells me what to go right on and do. It is just as though Thomas has had something to do about this painting business. I have thought "I wonder if he has come back, I wonder if he is watching over me." (From Grandma Moses: My Life's History.) At college reunions you find that your classmates have gotten so stout and bald they hardly recognize you. —General Features Corp. ISSUE 52 — 1956 SIMPLE METHOD A newly married accountant decided to set up an efficient, business -like household budget "Here's a hundred dollars; dear," he said to his bride. "And here's an account book. Now it's really ,very simple. I want you to write down how much I'vt given you on one side of the page, and on the other side writs down what you do ,with the money. Then at the end of the month we'll be able to see where every cent has gone." On the last day of the month the young bride proudly handed the ledger over to her eager spouse. Everything was done just as he had specified, On one side of the page was written: "Reiceived — $100.00." On the opposite side of tht page, carefully printed, were tht words: "Spent it all." A charwoman was telling t friend of her prowess in polish. ing floors. "When I started to work hers the floors were in bad shaped but' since I've been doing them, she said with quiet pride, "titres ladies have fallen down." --A.M.A. Journal Droll New Friends Aatuta Wkeslat Little children love cuddling. these animal pillows — big ones want them as a decoration. A wonderful new gift idea! The stitchery is so simple and takes little time. 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On left card, a jet-black horse bears bears an. Indian maiden garbed. in jewel -bright robes. The other shows a trumpeting i blue ele- phant with two youths in mas- querade clothes. Card at right, by artist Joseph Low. depicts Italian children in a gay donkey cart, en route to a fiesta. av_•rsu�,.