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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
14
A 24 year old wife letters for guidance after her overseas husband announces divorce and cut funds. She worries about a potential long court battle, strained in laws, and custody impact on their son. The columnist advises not to contest the divorce and to tell the other man to step back, planning for future freedom.
A reader recounts going to Oakville’s Humane Society with a friend to adopt. They choose a stray black and white collie and a five month old German Shepherd mix puppy named Mae, then face settling a dog with two cats while adjusting to home life and gatekeeping the stairs. The visit also notes various dogs, a three legged cat with kittens, and a cocker spaniel slated for destruction, all in a springtime rural setting with boatloads of local color.
Quilt pattern 654 features 32 by 44 inch appliqué pieces and embroidered zoo animal motifs. Send 25 cents to Box 1 New Toronto Ontario with PATTERN NUMBER and name and address for the pattern and the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog 1955.
Excerpt discusses Sherpas as the happiest people with time seeming to vanish. It contrasts them with the Scottish highlander who claims time was created with abundance, noting the Sherpa perception that time does not exist as described by W H Murray in The Story of Everest.
From the Sherpa people comes a corps of porters renowned among mountaineers for service in the Himalaya. Many Sherpas reside in Darjeeling near their homeland Sdla Khombu, typical height five feet six inches with muscular build and head band carried loads. They wear a toga like upper garment and have dark hair tied in a pig tail though many now cut it short. Skin tone pale brown, some resemble South European physiques.
Sherpa people are semi nomadic with villages at different levels moving with seasons. They adapt quickly to high altitude, showing toughness and independence. Though literacy is limited, their life and trade reveal keen intelligence and humor aiding mountaineering.
The piece emphasizes family prayer as a path to harmony. It cites Hezekiah inviting the northern kingdom to Jerusalem for Passover as a model of reconciliation. It urges couples to forgive, read the Bible daily, and pray together to heal divisions.
A fragmentary meditation recalls Jerusalem’s joy as priests and Levites bless the people and prayer rises to heaven. The speaker urges thorough grounding in truth to relieve tensions and cites Rabelais as a memory cue for informed action.
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