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The Seaforth News, 1961-07-20, Page 2Orighim Young's Wife Who Flew The Coop Nobody knows how many wives t3righam Young, the Moe mon "Lion of the Lord," tete- .ally took to his bosom, What- tr. aver the number, Ann Eliza Webb — who author Irving Wal lace believes was the 27th and' last was, one too many, Alone of the Prophet's numerous har- em, Ann Eliza soured on Celes- tial Marriage (polygamy), flew the coop, and sued for divorce. Out of her extraordinary story Wallace has built a biography, "The Twenty -Seventh Wife," fascinating enough to wipe out the memory that his last consi- deration of sex on a large scale was the tawdry best-selling no- vel, "The Chapman Report." Ann Eliza, child of Mormon "Saints" in good standing, trek- ked West in the exodus to Salt Lake at the age of 1 crowing up under the Prophet's eye, she first detected a gleam in it when she was 17. Young lodged her as guest in the Lion House — his populous seraglio — but did not snare her into Celestial Marriage until she had wed and divorced. a young plasterer who mistreat- ed her, Ann Eliza later insisted that she thought Young a "hate- ful old thing" and married him only to save a brother whom he threatened to ruin, When ,he became wife No, 27, Ann Seize was 24; the Prophet was 68 Ann Eliza put up with it for tour years. Eventually, she ac- quired gentile (non -Mormon) allies when she opened her rot- tage to boarders, With their' help, she fled the Prophet's bed and board to lodge in a gentile hotel. Here, she went to bed at night expecting to be murdered by Mormon avengers and awoke one morning to find that her apostasy had made her a coast- to-coast Celebrity, For ten years, Ann Eliza stumped the nation, raking in money, with her lectures on life in Brigham Young's harem, Shrilly and tirelessly, she nag- ged Congress to outlaw poly- gamy in Utah and, in time, she helped inspire some genuinely stiff legislation, though a good many Fundamentalist Mormons still practice plural marriage to- day. Another irony attended Ann Eliza's crusade: She married a philapdering Michigan lumber- man who taught her to hate monogamy as much as polygamy, What finally became of her is (ne of the unsolved mysteries of the American past, The most disappointed people the world are those who get riehat's coining to them. etwe " Match -Mates" 61/ feu l'V Oval shape is elegant; pin- wheel, so pretty—crochet match - males for living, dining room. Pinwheel ovals -dramatic for eloilie,, place mats, TV cover. "euffet scarf, Pattern 582: doilies 115x30 and 11x16 in string; 13x24 sand axle inches in No. 30. Send THIRTY-FIVE C N'.1'S (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1. 123 Eighteenth St., New Toron- to, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and Al), URIiSS. •JUST OF'F THE PRESS; Send now for our exciting, new 1961 :Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, crochet, knite sew, em- broider, quilt, weave—fashions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, ba- zaar hitt Plus F"REE--instruc- anns for six smart veil raps Marry, acnd 'l5¢ now.l PIN-UP GIRLS Wearing unusual halos of huge pins in tree ditional cloth braids, these Lombardy girls take 'port in a Roman pageant. HRON1CLF S °IN INGERFARM efterxeloter.e Clarke There are all kinds of wonder- ful things on the market these days — electrical and otherwise. A gadget to cook weiners, special candles to burn. to keep bugs away, humidifiers and. ale- hu- midifiers; push-button contrap- tions for this, that and the ether. Providing you have the money— or credit — you can get them with less trouble than it takes to tell, But suppose , you want ' something ordinary just an ordinary, everyday article—now, that's a different story. You shop, and you shop and you shop, only to be met with a blank state and a shake of the head wherever you go. What you want may be so ordinary that department stores and such like don't even bother to stock it. What am. I getting at? Just this. I was , badly in need of a shower -cap. Naturally I didn't anticipate any trouble in getting it, but, will you believe it, at a nearby shopping centre I went into Tamblyn's, Kresge's, Wool- worth's and all the ladies' wear I could find and not one of them had an ordinary shower -cap. Swim caps, yes, in all kinds of fancy shapes and patterns, all of them too tight - and too expen- sive for my purpose, After I came home I was airing my grie- vances to a neighbour. The very next day she came over and brought me a shower -cap. "Where in the world did you get it?" I asked, "At a little store in the village," she answered. It was just what I wanted — good quality plastic with elastic round the edge and it cost only thirty-nine cents. A few days later while work- ing on a wool afghan I am mak- ing I broke my crochet hock. It was bone and had worn smooth with all the work it had done over — I don't know how many years. I had another hook a steel one, but it wouldn't slide in and out of the wool nearly so well. That afternoon I went into two wool shops and a variety store in search of another bone crochet hook but all they had were steel hooks. One storekeeper said — "Why don't you try next door — Mrs. Smith has all kinds of things you probably wouldn't find anywhere else," So I went "next door". Proper- ly speaking it wasn't a store at all but an ordinary house, the front room fitted with shelves and a couple of counters and the owner -storekeeper a little old lady, probably in her middle sev- enties. "Bone crochet hook?" she re- peated, epeated, in answer to my query. "Oh yes, I have lots of them." And she produced a sma_1 box, with hooks of all sizes. "They don't sell very fast now," she ad- ded, "no one seems to crochet any more." I got talking to the old lady and was told she had been in business forty years and in her present location sixteen years. "I have lots of stuff here " she ,aid proudly, "maybe things you'd never find elsewhere. If you can't find what you want in lt.e big stores come back again end I'll likely have it." I looked around the crowded little store and could quite be- lieve it, It was one of those de- lightfully quaint places that have a little of everything — toys, china ornaments, socks, knitting wool, greeting cards, notions of all kinds end,, thank goodness, crochet hooks. Among the crochet hooks I noticed some 'bodkins — arnd. I hadn't seen a bodkin for Younger folk who don't even years. Maybe there are plenty of know' what a bodkin is. Sometime later I am going to pay a wooed visit to that little store, It. was Pike stepping back to the days of Charles Dickens end the "Old Curiosity Shop", A colourful old world oasis in the midst of modern merchandise -- a shopping centre was 10,1 across the road, with stores too modern to sell shower -caps and eiochet hooks. The front door of this lit- tle shop even had an over hang- ing bell that rang when the door was opened, It is possible many readers of this column may have just such a shop somewhere in their com- munity.; At any rate I so': rt t t tern across wherever I. pa, ;'- tie - times the 'owner- is ars elderly Pensioner, keeping store because, it gives him an interest in life — he probably has a room at the back where he and his cronies can play cards in between cus- tomers, If you like ' colourful characters pay him — or her — a visit. You will be richly re- warded. Generally speaking it is not only the store that is inter- esting but the owner as well. Engage him in conversation and you will usually find his philoso- phy of life is liable to put many of us to shame. Just a word about the weather. Here it is almost the end of June and our furnace hasn't stopped pumping yet. This summer (?) will surely set' some kind of a record. Q. The man I am to marry is a widower, but I' have never been previously married. Am I per- mitted to wear white and a veil? A. The bridegroom's status has nothing to do with the bride. So • long as she has never been mar- ried previously; she may wear the traditional white wedding gown and a veil. What Would Happen if A Samb Went Off' At first it was merely a sense of annoyance that swept the city when everything stopped work- irig, ' Then annoyance deepened to outrage, And finally, it was a sense of utter helplessness that gripped hundreds of thee- sof New Yorkers nd realization of how fearfully—adea- pendent the inhabitants of a great city have come to be on electrical power. In the tall buildings, there they were, thou. sands and thousands of them,' without elevators. Dark n e as came on, and they were with. out lights, It had been the hot- test day in nearly two years (90 degrees) and suddenly they were without air conditioning. And for four hours and 22 min- utes there was precious little that moat of them could do about it, The power failure that crip- pled New York last montes brought chaos to a 5 -square -mile area of Midtown Manhattan in which 400,000, people live and at least that many work, It couldn't have happened at a worse time — at 5:05 in the afternoon, at the peak of the 'rush hour, Thou- sands just leaving their offices found themselves standing in pitch-dark lobbies high in . sky- scrapers,. with endless dark stairs as their only way out, Thousands ' of others were stranded deep in tunnels on stalled subway trains. Probably the luckiest — none too justly — were those who had already stopped off in their favourite bars for a couple 'of quick ones before starting home. In most places candles were quickly lit and cash registers jingled as the customers gradue ally got the idea that they tied a wonderful excuse for staying right there. People in rooms with natural light found that there is a basic urge that guides your action when you find that the power is off. 'You go to a window and look out — to find .someone across the street look- ing out at you. But for the great majority, it was anything but a joke. They stumbled and groped down the skyscraper stairs. It took two hours 'for 3,000 people to clear out of the new 41 -story First National City Bank Building. Even worse off were those caught in elevators, The Fire Department answered some 75 calls to rescue scores of trap. ped victims, It was just as bad in the tun- nels of the Independent subway system, which carries about a third of the 800,000 rush-hour passengers, About 4,900 riders were trapped In trains under the East River, between their jobs in Manhattan and their homes in Queens, for a long, long three, hours, Women faint- ed, men took off their shirts, others gipped advertising signs down and used them as fans against the steamy heat. Somehow thecity's institutions managed to carry on, Hospitals used bucket brigades to feed their patents on upper floors and kept Aron lungs in operation with diesel power. The New York Times, the only newspaper affected, got its copy written by candlelight, then sent it by platoons of messengers to the downtown plant of The World -Telegram and The Sun to be printed on the latter's presses. At 9:27 the power came back, The city, blinking 'a bit, return- ed to normal. Warning Against The Witnesses Some 70,000 Jehovah's witness- es, most of them toting Bibles, gathered in New York last month for meetings at Yankee Stadium and"field service" ringing doorbells and prose1yting, In an article timed to meet this on- slaught, the Jesuit weekly Amer- ica warned its Roman Catholic readers that since the witnesses generally "know more about the Bible than most Catholics it would be well to advise un- prepared Catholics to avoid them, for they will accomplish little and may endanger ` their own faith." Appraised of the warning, the chief of the witnesses, Nathan H. Knorr of Brooklyn, had this reply; "If (the Catholics) had the truth and . .'witnessed to it, they would be able to convert the world in two or three years." Mrs. Mary Schmidt, a witness— and former Catholic—from Flor- ida, heartily agreed. "We know they haven't the truth," she said. "The Bible shows uslthey're way off." DRIVE CAREFULLY — The life you save may be your own. S iilrr $/ ek, IOW! PRINTED PATTERN '314 SIZES 10-18. 41-4•4e. - -esu , Sew it one day, wear it the next! This shapely princess sheath is so easy to fit, and fits so beautifully. Stitch it straight- away in white, black, or a brie liantly colorful cotton. Printed Pattern 4814: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 10, 18. Size l8 takes 2s/a yards 35 -inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. The biggest fashion' show of Summer, 1961 pages, pages, pages of patterns in our nese- Color Catalog. Hurry, send 351. ISSUE 23 - 1967 e Prescription for Hospital Visitors TO OUR VISITORS: 10 UUK VISITORS: t tsEMRa you LtK� 1oa soca t THE ROOM, NOT THE BED, IS SEMIPRIVATE—polite- ness may prohibit him from complaining, but the patient's comfort could be jeopardized by someone sit- ting on his bed. Please use the chairs provided, and keen visits short. TO OUK VISITORS: "A SEA OF UPTURNED'FACES" . , is bound to upset lite patient. That is why we suggest only two visitors in a room at one time, If others are there, please 'wait or return later. THERE ARE TWO 'SIDES TO EVERY STOGY! The patient's side may not be as pleasant as yours. Be con- siderate, and always observe "No Smoking" signs posted in the hospital. They are there for the safety of the patients. TO OUR VISITORS: DON'T BE A "HAPPY WANDERER." Make certain of the correct room first, and always knock before, enter- ing. The blushes you save may be your own. VISITS .COULD RE ENJOYED - NOT BOUM D For the welfare of our patients, please observe good visiting practice. Humor and horse sense are mixed in o Ontario Hospital Assoc • aeon's "prescription." it's intended to cure the thoughtlessness of the emall minority of hospital visitors who make things miserable for patients, hospital per- sonnel dnd other visitors. Based on an idea originating with a group of hospitals in Port Wayne, the opening move by the Canadian organization hos been to dis- tribute the four posters shown, above, to its 200 member hospitals in Ontario province. Bottom bar appears on each poster. If the operation on the funnybones of visitors is successful, the campaign will be pursued with further "treatments."