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The Seaforth News, 1955-10-06, Page 6�1 T.cou.seArt._J "Deer Anne Hirst: My hus- band and I have been divorced over three years, and we have two children nearly of school age. I anh only in my early 20's now, and he is a few years older . We never did get along, we fought over everything .. The children were awarded to me at the time of divorce, and a short while afterward my husband was sent to a mental hospital, "Now he is back again, and is coming to his senses; we see each other often. He is wonder- ful with the children;. we all get along fine and love each other very much. He has asked me to remarry him, We realize that we were too young to marry be- fore, and that he was sick be- sides. "Both our families oppose our having anything to do with each other, and the things my par- ents predict scare me. "I do want to make a real home for my husband and the children, and now I don't know what to do. 'Please help me de- cide, A. J." PROFESSIONAL ADVICE * From all you tell me, I find * myself on the side of you and * your husband, It seems to me * that neither your family nor * his with all their affection and * good intentions, can judge his * condition as well as his wife. * Don't resent their attitude, * however. They are acting in * good faith according to what * they feel are the best inter - NOT TRUE—That's what Van- essa Brown, above, is saying about reports of backstage bickering on the set of TV's "My Favorite Husband." Van- essa costars with Barry Nelson in the show, and they and their spouses have been mak- ing a gay foursome lately. Barry didn't get along so well with Vanessa's predecessor, Joan Caulfield. este of you, your husband and * the children. * You are, of course, eager to * take your husband back, To * make as sure as you can that * he is ready to assume respon- * sibilities, I suggest that you * both consult the physician * who committed him to the * hospital. * I am informed that such in- * stitutions are usually over- '` crowded, and it could be your * husband was released before * he is sufficiently cured to * make a succecss of remar- * riage. Isis doctor, through ex- • tensive examinations a n d * analyses, will have an opinion * which can guide you both. His * conclusion may corroborate * your own or he may ad- * vise waiting for a longer per- * iod and further consultations * before planning a second mar- * riage, For all your sakes, I hope * with you that remarriage is * not far off. I£ you must wait a, for it, wait patiently and with * faith, knowing that it is safer * to accept a professional opin- * ion on such - a monumental * problem. DOUBTING WIFE WORRIES Dear Anne Hirst: I am very much in love with my husband and have always trusted him. Lately, though, once a month he stays out late; he has joined a men's club and he says they all gamble. I know he gambles sometimes, but I believe now he is interested in some woman. "Several years ago I saw him with a girl, who turned out to be a friend of his brother's. He explained things, but I didn't like it, so now I think he's see- ing somebody else. "Every time the club meets I get so uneasy I can hardly stand it! What do you think? WORRIED" * I think you are hunting for * trouble that does not exist. * You certainly have gone far * into the past in your search, * and dug up an incident which * was innocent of any meaning. * If you persist in such non- * sense your husband will rebel, * and who could blame him? * On the evenings his club * meets, why don't you and a * woman friend visit together * or go to the movies? That is * the practical answer to your * problem, and I hope you are * smart enough t accept it. In any crisis, tell Anne Hirst your situation and ask her opin- ion, 1f she cannot advise you herself, she will recommend a source of help which the situa- tion seems to require. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. He Added the Monroe Shape to Jet Planes RICHARD WHITCOMB AND Longley Field — Richard T Witcomb is the first inventor in history to give the aircraft In- dustry "Marilyn Monroe" sex appeal. But you'd never know it. When he leaves the roaring wind tunnels of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Whit- comb enjoys nothing more than to go home to his workshop. There he experiments in another field of. engineering --- internal combustion. He has even ap- plied for patents nn several in- ventions as a result of his hob- by, This is one example of the ever inquisitive n'iind that be- longs to the 34 -year-old scien- tist on the research staff of the for Aeronautics. And it also helps to explain why Whitcomb "THE SHAPE:» Also internal. is hailed as one of America's brightest aircraft designers He is the man responsible for the recently announced disciv- ery of the new concept in air- craft design leading to a great reduction of drag rise which oc- curs at transonic speeds. 'It has already applied to two super- sonic aircraft resulting in speed gains up to 25 per cent. "Marilyn Monroe" is the name that has been given to the spec- ially designed fuselage Whit- comb has devised. It's also re- ferred to as "Coke bottle" and "wasp waist" tip until now the shape c.f the "Marilyn Monroe" fuselage has been kept under careful secur- ity wraps: It was first made available to the aircraft indus- try in September, 1952, however. MODEST MISS AMERICA—"There is nothing q ueenly about cheesecake pictures," says Sharon Kay Ritchie, Miss America of 1956. The Den ver coed is shown, at left, in the modest, one- piece bathing suit which she wore at. Atlantic City, site of the annual beauty contest. At right, Sharon, who says that she'll not permit any more cheesecake pictures to be taken of her during her reign as the nation's beauty q ueen, poses in conventional street garb on the roof of a New York City hotel assess HRONI LE INGER Gwen.cioLin.e P. Clo,,r1 The busy fall season is still with us. 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ISSUE 40 — 1958 house canning and pickling is still the order of the day; the aroma of pickling spices is wafted abroad and mother sur- veys with satisfaction rows of green nine -day pickles; rich red beets and the deep yellow of mustard pickles. In fact a row of pickles can be a pleasing study in colour contrast. The children, of course, are back to school and mother must now do her own fetching and carrying surprising the number of parental stops that can be saved when the children are around. On many farms the above pic- ture holds true; on other farms, as with Partner and myself, children have grown up and moved away. So now we do our own fetching and carrying — or in many ways fetch and carry for each other. But on a farm where active farming is still carried on modern machin- ery has taken the place Of will- ing hands. Taken the place, did I say? 2 wonder! A combine and a hay baler speeds up threshing and haying tremendously — provid- ing there is no mechanical breakdown. Less manual work is now required for many other jobs but it seems to me the work involved is taking more out of the older farmer than it ever did. Not physically per- haps — with a milking machine a man can milk fifteen cows as easily es, he milked five years ago. But the tension is greater; the output of nervous energy is increased tremendously from the days when Dad and the boys loaded loose hay on the hayrack and milked the cows by hand. Agriculture science has progressed by leaps and bounds during the last twenty- five years but I have yet to be convinced that the average older farmer is leading an easier life. Shorter hours, yes, daily chores lessened considerably — as long as everything goes all right, But a breakdown with the milking -machine, combine o r baler - or a power failure — can take more out of a man in nervous tension than would the physical energy used for the same job the old-fashioned way. However, there is nothing that can be done about it — manual farm labour being practically non-existent. As a result pro- gress and invention go hand in hand and it is probably only to the older farmer that adjust- ment comes a little difficult. The younger generation natur- ally accepts modern methods of farming in its stride just as it accepts jet planes and fast mov- ing automobiles. Mechanized farming is also an attraction to the middle-aged businessman with a yen for the wide open spaces, To him farming with modern machinery appears de- ceptively easy. So he takes up farming as a sideline, Or goes out of business altogether, buys a hundred acres in an unknown territory; spends several thous- and dollars modernizing the house and barn, and another few thousand on pedigreed cat- tle. In a great many cases a few years finds the business -man - farmer an older and a wiser man ... as a result the farm is again on the market, the busi- nessman having discovered by bitter experinece, that, to the uninitiated, modern farm ma- chinery merely substitutes one headache for another. Ironically eonugh if it were not for mod - MERRY MENAGERIE , "Ob, oh, I'm afraid you're not colorfast, dear!" ern machinery there would be fewer businessmen -farmers, If the would-be farmer thought he tnight have to milk cows by hand, clean out stables with a wheelbarrow and take hay and crop off the field the old- fashioned way he might not be quite so keen on buying a farm, But of course there are many successful businessmen -farmers. There is the executive type who can afford a farm manager and other help and thus indulge his hobby. Such farms are the show -windows of agriculture — a very different proposition from the businessman who sets out to run a farm by himself, even if he has every piece of modern machinery he can get. Well, 1 guess this is where 1 turn grandmother and leave farmers and farming methods, good, bad and indifferent, to take care of themselves. Dee, Arthur, David and Honey have just come in and I imagine 1 shall be required to do a spot of baby-sitting — and dog -sit- ting — while they go hunting tomatoes. Looks to the as if Dave has grown about two inches since we last saw him, and that was only about two weeks ago. How children vary. One wee niece, two and a half years old, weighs only about twenty-five pounds and' yet is. as healthy and active as a child could be. Excuse me, 1 must res- cue the cats and dogs. Dave has already made a bee -line in their direction. He is liable to love them to death. The so-called Silver eel is just a common Green eel with a date! 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FORRESI;AJL TRIES AGAIN -Her . sea -,trials post polled a number of times by hurricanes, the USS Forrestal moves out to sea,