The Seaforth News, 1953-08-06, Page 68a4 O' . e?'
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"Dear Annie Hirst: Fifteen
years ago our 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; he has had several
good positions, but changed them
often because he grew ashamed
of her behavior. She watches
him so closely that if she doesn't
know where he is, hour by hour,
she calls the police!
"We have helped her in so
many ways, and got no thanks
for it.... She finally wrote me
a letter asking us to stay away
from her house; we havr, and
shall continue to. But I am so
worried about what will happen
to Our boy, living under such a
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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 Blether."
Uis 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 makes to compel
* his subservience, you cannot
* know; but he is surely under
" her thumb.
* His marriage was obviously,
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 move 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 'tti11 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, niay 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 yew: son's
* troubles, Grieving alone only
"' weakens one's hope and faith.
' Employ your energies in
* wholesome living: Work in
" your church and your cam-
* munity and be active with your
" husband in various endeavors.
* Rebuild your faith through
" prayer and meditation, and so
* strengthen your belief that
* your son will find the wisdom
• and courage to better his mis-
▪ erable
Bretano's book store in Nee
York has leased a concession to
a lady who specializes in sea-
shells, a collectors' fad that
seems to be enjoying a revival.
The best customer to date was a
lady who ran up a bill of 390.
"I'tn moving to Hollywood," she
explained, "and I want these
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., distributing handbills
attacking a proposed law to curb
cattle on highways, R. C. Carter
changed his mind. became an
active suporter of the measure
after his car struck a stray bull
and was smashed,
taw Nola --Piano students will welcome a this new device, said
is 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.
"To Sleep! Perchance to Dream . ."—If the Little Woman is -
dreaming of buying a bedtime outfit like this, there's darn little
perchance of Peppy getting any sleep when the bill comes in.
The magnificent night ensemble, by Italian designer Cerri, was
modelled in Rome by Princess Zino Rachewsky, Russian -born
actre=q The square -necked gown and robe are of white georgette
and Valenciennes lace.
S umpy—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 clay
and—returned home with his
other leg broken.
G'vendol.i r`.e D rt A Nk
With eggs selling at 85 cents
a dozen the only food Mitchie-
White will look at these days is
a beaten, raw eggl However,
it isn't as extravagant as it
sounds because in every day's
take there is usually at least one
egg that is very small, cracked
or misshappen, so Mitchie is
able to enjoy his convalescing
diet. The mower -cut -leg is heal-
ing beautifully and Mitchie
beginning to feel more like a
cat 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 rose bushes or sleeps under
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 suffering 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! I
have finally come to the con-
clusion that I must go back to
perennials 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 com-
pletely disappeared. Bugs ate up
the asters; snapdragons grew tall
and spindly and the zinnias be-
came brown and shrivelled after
I sprinkled them with bug -death.
However, nasturtiums and spider
plants, also begonias, are doing
fine so we have a few ennuals
anyway to brighten out desert
garden, There are also about a
dozen thrifty geraniums, gaily
blooming at the back of the
house,
These geraniums were givens
to me last spring, already potted.
but unknown and unmarked se
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 out 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 is par-
ticularly 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
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 10 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 protegee. 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
enthusiastic than herself, so,
- when Lizzie Likeit come along,
exclainis with delight, "Oh. 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 toc 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 week."
Poor Mrs, Flower -lover feels
as hurt and grieved as if she had
lost a friend — as indeed ane 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
arni needs exercise — and what
better excercise could t+ have
than washing dishes? Only she
doesn't always see it 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's car after he com-
plained of a "strange rattle,'
traced it to the back seat, where
they found a rattlesnake poised
to strike.
ISSUE 33 — 1953
Was He A krate
Or A Gentleman?
The revival of the old riddle as
to the character of Captain Kidd
reveals a common misunder-
standing. People ask: Pirate or
gent? but seldom think there
may be a third alternative.
The real question is: Was he
a buccaneer? Fer buccaneers
were not pirates, though often
they behaved as cruelly, '
They were mostly sailors who
had settled on the Mosquito
Coast, had been driven off by the
Spanish, and had thus drifted
into waging sea war on them.
William Kidd was born in
Dundee, the son at a parson. By
the time he was 35 he was a
citizen of the colony of New
York, a successful sailor of good
character.
About this time the Earl of
Bellamont was sent out to New
York by William III to put down
the piracy which had become a
scandal,
Kidd was in SQ high standing
that he was deputed to command
a specially equipped ship to put
the traffic down.
In this ship of 30 guns Kidd
sailed with authorisation to act
against ships of a named enemy,
and a general commission to
pursue and destroy all French
pirates.
For two years Kidd sailed
about the West Indies, and, bit
by bit, strange tales began to
leak through. It was said that,
having been sent to catch pirates,
he had become one himself. What
caused the rumpus was his action
against a British ship.
Kidd had sighted a stranger
flying the French flag. He
boarded her and was told by the
captain that he was really
British, but had run up the
French flag in self-protection.
Despite the fact that he show-
ed Kidd his papers, he claimed
that Kidd took part of his gold
and cargo and thus played pirate
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 scurvy -
ridden and his men mutinied
and cast him into his own state-
room. They released hien weeks
later, and, at the point of a
pistol, commanded him to lead
then 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 cour-
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 hint.
He was sent to England and
putaon his trial at the Old 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 counsel
and prevented from getting his
Knights in Armor
Hold Picket Line
LONDON--(NEA)--What with
the high cost of living, a knight
can't put on enough beef to tote
around a suit of armor weighing
23 pounds—not on $6 a day, and
vitamin pills costing what they
do.
This is"the argument put forth
by the "Knights of the Round
Table"—extras in the American
film of the same name,who are
on strike today for $3 a day in
take-home pay.
More than 200 knights downed
their swords for extra pay In the
film starring Robert Taylor and
Ave Gardner. The walkout
spread to every studio in Eng-
land,
It's not just the weighty cos-
tumes they complain of, there's
the matter of beards. A knight
can't get a good beard trim for
under 50 cents these days.
And then there's the 6 A.M.
studio call—how can anyone ex-
pect a knight to show up for
work that early after a night of
wassailing?
It's not as though you could
send any old stumblebum to
King Arthur's court. A knight's
got to have class, and class comes
expensive.
While the union and movie of-
ficials argue it out, Guinevere
(Ave Gardner) sits around smok-
ing cigarets, wondering whether
her marriage _with King .Arthur
(Mel Ferrer) is ever going to
come off. A few doors down Sir
Lancelot (Robert Taylor) is bit-
ing his fingernails.
Work on two other American
films, "The, -Flame and the Flesh,"
starring Lana Turner, and "Crest
of the Wave," with Gene Kelly,
has been 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!"
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
men 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.
A Gal's Best Friend—Diamonds, baseball diamonds, than is, are
pretty Joan Crosby's source of joy and support. In her New York
office, she writes the biographies that appear on the famous
ballplayer cards tucked inside bubblegum wrappers. Here she
checks statistics so as not to mislead her rabid readers.