The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 26, 1946, Page 5

‘MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1946 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN IS CHASTITY DISAPPEARING ve AMONG GIRLS OF TOD By DR. CLIFFORD R. ADAMS THE LIFE OF MY AUNT HATTIE ‘By NINA LESLIE CALLEJA | Employee Stock — ‘Plan Is Studied ean rte eo ~ PART I When my Greataunt Martha Ann died. in 1940 she was some-} where in the neighborhood of a hundred and five years old. No; one kne wexactly. She had been! stoutly maintaining for years that she wa seighty-one, and this, in the face of having two grand-| children in their late sixties. But . mo one ever bothered to point out this slight evidence to the con- trary, because Aunt Mattie was! not the sort of woman one dis-} agreed with or contradicted. The} general opinion extant in the! family was that it would be safer } to argue with a buzz-saw than to cross The,Old Lady. With one breath she'd say “Eighty-one years old”, and with the next she would launch into a description of Queen Victoria’s coach as it had passed through the London streets on the way, to the coronation ceremonies. This event, which took place in the year 1837, she claimed to re- member distinctly, because, she said, she was a littel girl at the time and her father. had hoisted her up on his shoulder to view, the procession. H Keen Memory Of Deep Past | It is entirely possible that she remembered, because while what- ever had happened yesterday and last week and last year meant nothing at all to Aunt Mattie, and she never could remember a conversation unless it had taken place at least twenty years pre- viously, the deeper the penetra- | tion into the past, the clearer the details were in her mind. She could tell you, for instance, about her wedding dress- when she married Old Man. Faulk, when she was only three months past fifteen years old.» It'was of white satin embroidered with pale pink rosebuds and _ paler green leaves. Futhermore, she had worn seven petticoats, and every one of them except the second from the bottom had had three rows of blue ribbon flushed in and out of the handmade lace : eyelets. She could tell you the! nunWer of buttons on her first; son’s first knee-pants suit, Not Silent. Even In Death | I was not present at her pass-! ing, but Aunt Lola, writing me} about it, said: “She,was conscious ' right to the last and talking.” Of course Aunt Mattie was talking.' She had been talking full speed for a hundred years, more or less, which made me feel that perhaps even. ath ..was,. not... strong enough do a thorough - si- Jencing job on her. Certainly Aunt Mattie’s: entrance into the hazy Hereafter was far from that! of a shivering, uncertain, scared wraith; rather, she probably bounded upon the scene militant- ly, blatantly, vibrantly, a can- tankerous spirit spoiling for trou- ble, stamping its foot and loudly demanding to know its where- abouts. and why, and fast. ‘ Considering her character, her funeral could chsily have been the source of the new famous joke , of the thunderstorm coming up as the casket of the deceased was being lowered into the grave.| + Just as the ‘first clod was cast down onto the coffin there was a terrific thunderclap, whereupon a voice among the mourners mur- mured: “Well, she got there.” Handed Down A mere change of environment, even Heaven or Hell. was noth. ing to faze Aunt Mattie, During ! her life she had been handed down from generation to genera- tion, like the family silver. When the young people: were contem- lating marriage and the build-° eo of a home, they automatically allowed for “a room for her,” be- cause they knew that sooner or later she’d park herself in on them for an indefinite stay, and she'd kick up a sizable; fuss -if she didn't have proper and par-' ficular accommodation. | She was no ‘pathetic, retiring old lady to creep in and out of her kinfolk’s houses, feeling neg- lected, apologetic, eager not to be burdensome. Nobody neglected Aunt Mattie, because nobody neg- lects volcanoes. She usually ar- rived like dynamited lava, and if she happened to be in a fairly. civil mood she would be just’ mildly insulting to her hosts. But if she made entrance and an-} nounced, “I feel evil today,” the thing to do was scamper for cov- er fast unless you wanted to be blasted verbally into the middle of next week. No Asking—She Demanded She kept everybody within hailing distance on a constant run, doing unnecessary things for her comfort and convenience. Asking was a coward's tactics; Aunt Mattie demanded, loudly and positively, and got. What- ever place she honored with her presence became immediately a hive of bedlam-like activity. It always struck us oddly that a woman around the century mark could exhaust a houseful of younger people, but Aunt Mattie was the old girl who could do it. Shrunken, wizened, there was very little of her except her bound- ' i ‘ less energy and the most gosh- awful shrieking voice ever heard by human ears. That .woman eould holler like a symphony of ambulance sirens. The elaborate “attentions she received are usually reserved for rich dowagers with property and jewels, bonds and legacies to.bequeath. Aunt Mattie’s earth- ly possessions, aside from a sparse and moth-eaten wardrobe of completely outmoded, circa 1902 clothes, consisted of a worm- chewed highboy with one leg missing and no handles on its drawers, so that it had to be-plac- ed in the center of her room and the drawers pushed out from the back, an almost wholly worn- through alligator pocketbook, a horse-chestnut that her second husband had used as a good-luck charm, two cracked china dogs, a maternity corset purchased in 1928 because she had wanted io see what the danged thing looked like, a feather bolster patched at both ends, and usually about fif- teen cents in cash. Prided Grandson’s: Picture And, of course, her pride and joy, the picture of her grandson Len. This was a large, amateur- ishly drawn, staring charcoal por- trait resting on a discolored bam- boo easel. Aunt Mattie had the distinction of being the only per- son alive who could look at that picture without blanching, flinch- ing and feeling the urgent need jof a stiff drink immediately. Many a visitor had a nasty mo- ment upon viewing that picture. !.Aunt Mattie always showed it to everybody who came in the house, explaining that it was the living and spitting image of her most beloved grandson, who, in Aunt Mattie’s own words, “was kilt in the Spanish-American Waw.” This was another case in which no one bothered, or dared, to contradict her, though everybody knew the true facts of the matter, which, briefly, were that Len, turned down by the lo- eal draft board in Norfolk, was wandering around drunk and in- advertently pitched head-first in- to an open manhole, where he promytly broke his neck. But be it understood that Len was no less a hero in his Grandma's eyes because of the manner of his death than had he carried Nie Confederate Standard itself atop San Juan Hill. To Be Continued “TODAY’S:® BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Dg. Jerome: C. Hunsaker of the Mass. Institute of Technology, famed aeronautical engineer, born at Creston, Iowa, 60 years Rev. Dr. Henry A. Atkinson of New York, noted Congregational Church official, born at Merced, Cal., 69 years ago. Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, superintendent 6f West Point, born at Keytesville, Mo., 45 years 0. Charles B. McCabe, publisher of the N, Y. Mirror, born in Cleveland, 47 years ago. Dr. Lee de Forest of Los An- geles, famed inventor in the field of radio, born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, 73 years ago. Jules Romaine, famed French author, born 61 years ago. ———000——— SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1946 (Know America) . William Francis Gibbs of New; York, noted naval designer, born in Philadelphia, 60 years ago. Prof. Walter P. Eaton of Yale, author, teacher of play writing, born in Malden, Mass., 68 years ago. Dr: Morris S. Kharasch of the University of Chicago, professor of organic chemistry, born in Ukrania, 51 years ago. Willy ‘Pegany ot New York, artist, born in Hungary, 64 years ago. . Dexter M. Keezer of McGraw- Hill Publications, New York, ex- president of Reed College, ¢x- WLB member, born at Acton, Mass., 51 years ago. Chester J. LaRoche, noted New York advertising company head, born in Boston, 54 years ago. HIS DREAMS ARE PUNCTURED CLARKSBURG, Calif. — (AP) —Liz Nagetti, 33-year-old farm laborer, felt the ‘need of a siesta and picked a shady spot behind a pumphouse on a ranch near here. He awoke in a storm of bullets, He waved frantically from around a corner of the pumphouse and a bullet cut off two fingers of his right hand. Three policemen visiting the ranch had decided to do a little target practice and had selected the pumphouse for a target. The female platypus or duck- bill of Australia eats heavily while suckling young. In one in- stance, a female weighing only two pounds consumed one and three quarter pounds of worms and shellfish overnight. By AT. & T. Co. The board of directors of the American. Telephone and Tele- graph Company have voted to recommend to stockholders a new issue of convertible debentures in an amount not to exceed $351,- 000,000, an increase in the author- ized capital stock of the company from 25 million to 35 million shares, and the adoption of an employees’ stock plan under which up to 2,800,000 shares may be issued and sold to employees of the company and its subsidi- aries. A special meeting of —stock- holders to vote on the recommen- dations will be- held October 16. Proxies and accompanying state- ments describing the proposals are being prepared and will be mailed September 7. If the convertible debentures are authorized the company in- tends to file a registration state- ment with the Securities and Ex- change Commission shortly after October 16. The issue will be of- fered to shareholders in propor- tion to their holdings of stock. The offer of approximately $351,- 000,000 of debentures would mean that stockholders would be granted rights to purchase $100 of debentures for each six shares of stock held. The debentures will be dated about December 13, 1946, beaY interest at a rate of not more than two per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and mature not later than Decem- ber 15, 1961. They will be con- vertible into A. T. and T. stock, at a conversion price not exceed- ing $150 per share, during a pe- riod starting not later than four months from the date of issue and continuing until a date approxi- matély three years before the ma- turity date. The ‘employees’ stock plan would provide for the sale of stock to all regular employees of A. T. and T. and of most of the company’s subsidiaries, who meet certain requirements as to length of service. Officers of the A. T. and T. Company will not be eli- gible to participate in the plan. Payment for shares would be on an installment basis, either through payroll allotments or by cash payments, and installment accounts would be credited with interest at the rate of two per cent. No employee could pur- chase more than 50 shares, . The company estimates that on the initial offering more than 50,- 000 Bell’ System employees’ will be eligible to purchase shares, and that approximately — - 2,600,000 shares would be offered, out. of the total.of 2,800,000 which would be authorized for employee sale. Today’s Anniversaries (Know America) 1797—Innokentii, Russian priest 1823, adviser to United States when we took over, remembered there for his good works, born in Siberia. Died March 31, 1879. . 1813—James L. Cabell, Univer- sity of Virginia physician-educa- tor, Confederate surgeon, born in Nelson Co., Va. Died Aug. 13, 1889. 1863—William W. Wilmer, not- ed Johns Hopkins eye doctor of his day, born in Powhatan Co., Va. Died March 12, 1936. = 1874—Zona Gale, popular nov- elist-author, born at Portage, Wis. Died Dec. 27, 1938. 187f—John Buchan, famed Scottish novelist, governor-gen- eral of Canada, born in Perth, Scotland. Died in Montreal, Feb. 11, 1940. 001 wala SA SATURDAY. AUGUST 24, 1946 (Know America) 1784—Joseph E. Worcester, the New England writer of school books, dictionary maker, born at Bedford, N. H. Died Oct. 27, 1865. 1810—Theodore Parker, noted Boston Unitarian clergyman of his age, born at Lexington, Mass. Died May 10, 186 1846—(100 years ago) Henry Gannett, chief geographer of the U.S. Geographical Survey,. 1882- 1914, an organizer of National Geographic Society, father of American map making, born at Bath, Me. Died Nov. 15, 1914. 1847—Charles Follen McKim, famed New York architect, and among the country’s greatest, born in Chester Co., Pa. Died Sept. 14, 1909. 1884—Earl Derr Biggers, nov- elist, creator of “Charlie Chan”, born at Warren, Ohio. Died on April 6, 1933. pilin oa SA BR THEIR MISTAKE CHICAGO.—To the surprise of everyone at the Brookfield Zoo, El Diable, a giant anaconda, gave birth to 21 live anacondas. Zoo officials who thought the snake was a male, change “his” name to “La Dia- bla”, the feminine form. Peter Stuyvesant, determined the size of Albany, N. Y., in 1652 by firing one cannon ball north, another south, and declaring all land between the shots within ‘city limits, Author of the Book, “How To Pick A Mate” and director, The Penn State Marriage Counselling AP Newsfeatures i po youths. Service can be-no question that in recent decades there has @ spectacular rise in premarital intimacy among our Before World War I, for example, only about one girl in 15 who married was a “fallen woman’ if S . as they called her then. Today, not one bride in two can *- claim innocence of sexual expe- rience. My own observation from clinical experience is that about three out of five of the engaged couples planning early marriage who can consult me have experi- enced full intimacy. After studying the lives of 792 couples, Dr. L..M. Terman, au- thor of “Psychological Factors in Marital Happiness,” found that about 68 per cent*of the girls who married in 1940 were non- and missionary in Alaska from} have decided to) virgin whereas only 13 per cent ° were non-virgin in the period around 1912, He concliided: “The trend toward premari- tal sex experience is proceed- ing with extraordinary rapid- | ity.” ; After studying his statistics Teachers Won't — Hock Earnings TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 26 (FNS).—Upon the issuance of the first installment warrant for the (FNS).—W. C. ' of the Aviation Division 0 struct or alter air fields and build- ings and he points out. that the greatest'need today is for air field buildings. the ensuing school year in the} pi: sum of. $1,776,366.64, Compiroller J. M. Lee issued the following statement: , “School teachers of Florida will not again have to hock their earn- ings to live this year while wait- ing for the state to collect rev- €nues appropriated to pay them. For the first time.in the history of the state finaneing of public schools, we can open the school ; year with sufficient funds in! jami’s 36th street air terminal is the state’s leading airport, being served by eight domestic and in- ternational airlines, handling about 160 flights each day and some 3,500 passengers. Jackson- ville is next with four airlines and 1600 passengers. Tampa fol lows with three airlines, 26 flights and 550 passengers. Orlando, has three airlines, 30 flights and 386 passengers; West re ies several decades he said: jhand to pay the salaries of teach-| Palm Beach, Tallahassee, Pensa- the drop (in virginity) should gis and bus drivers. No ‘pay a| cola, Vero Beach, Daytona Beach, continue at the average rate month and skip a month’ this |\Marianna, Key West and St. Pe- shown, virginity at marriage will’ be close to the vanishing point’ for girls marrying after 1960.” There is a good deal of evi- dence, however,. that the trend has already slowed down in the past few years and that the pen- dulum, in fact, has started swing- ing the other way. In recent months I have talked to several leaders in the marriage counsel- ing field and the consensus was that today about 40 or 45 per cent of our brides are virgins at marriage. A large proportion of the girls who remain virginal un- til marriage have experienced so-called heavy petting. Where- as less than half of the past generation petted before mar- riage, today fully nine-tenths of our young people pet before marriage. I do not suggest that this is wrong. Certainly engaged cou- ples should respond to each oth- er emotionally to the point where the full intimacy which marriage will bring seems natural and de- sirable. However, it,is a disturb- ing phenomenon of our genera- tion that so many girls feel they can give, without giving all. I have read a great deal about the supposetf* "wild orgies that take place on college campuses. Objective surveys, however, show without question that premari- tal sexual experience among college students is: much less fre- quent than among people who inever go to college. The fact that girls today participate in so much petting and full sexual experiences might lead you to assume they do so because they are unable to restrain their passions. That, however, does not seem to be the case. Dr. Alfred Kinsey of Indiana University, after studying the sex behavior of many thousands of Americans, has found that sex- ually a woman matures much more slowly than a man, Where- as the typical man reaches the peak of his sexual drive at the early age of 18, the woman does not reach her peak until 10 years later, usually a few years after she is married. Why is it then that girls be- come involved in so much sex adventuring? Most girls, I be- lieve, start to pet because they are afraid they won't be asked if they don’t (which of course has no basis in fact). They give kissés as rewards to the boy who takes them to the dance. And some- times they become involved in idle experimenting. The level-headed girl—and there are still many of them— decides in the quiet of her own room a philosophy of life. As a part of that philosophy she sets up standards of conduct she can live with until mar- riage, and sticks ot them. Babies Checked At USO Here Babies may be checked at the Jackson Square USO on ares days and Fridays from 9:00 a.m., to 4:00 p.m., while the mothers , shop or relax. This service was | planned by the group of mili- | tary wives who met for luncheon with the USO staff members Tasty Friday. \ ‘ Further plans included a drive for members for a Wives Club, weekly luncheon meetings, card games on the patio every Friday at 2:30 p.m., and outdoor adven- ture trips. Those present were: the Mes- dames Millicent Hobbs, Jerry Tonden, Juanita Hartman, Vir- i | ginia Favors, Mary Louise Rhodes and Dorothy Frzewiecki. Htried to enter the armed forces year so far as the state is con- cerned.” WHY HE KNOWS ALL THE ANSWERS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—' (AP)—Everyone knows no one is expected to make a perfect score on the Army’s classification tests so when J. F. Price did just that when seeking entry to an! officers’ candidate sehool, the} officer in charge made him take| another test while the supervisor watched. | The result was the same, and{ fast, too. Se Price explained to the puzzled offieer: { “I’ve been checking these test’ papers as an enlisted man for | three years. All I have to do now; is look at the question number! and I know the corect answer.”) Svlomon’s Justice Now Modernized , ST. ALBANS, Vt—(AP)—| Judges, in a bathing beauty con- test counted the votes and whis- pered: “It’s a tie between Betty Fallon and Monica Bashaw.” They whispered again and then announced: “Betty Fallon has been judged | ns’ and Monica Ba- | ‘Miss St. Alba shaw ‘Miss Franklin County’ GETS MORE IN ARMY CENTRALIA, _ Ill. Albert George, 34-year-old father of 7 children, was rejected when he tersburg follow, with 12 other airports listed. Cities Near Ports Lazarus points out that no Florida city is more than 86 miles from an airline stop and that about 63,000 residents of Georgia and Alabama are served by Flor- ida ports. He lists 19 cities, including ‘Tampa, Fort Myers, Perry, San- ford, New. Smyrna Beach, Stuart, Fernandina as potential service stops for planes flying inter-cun- tinental Great Circle Routes. Your Horosco SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1946—Today’s nativé may be a promising experimentalist and an accomplished critic, but there is a tendency to a complaining na- ture, probably dissatisfied with its achievements. Much of this may be avoided by schooling the mind to contentment, since there should be a fair measure of suc- cess. SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1946— Today’s degree brings friend- ships and fortune, attained chief- ly through the pleasant, convivial | spirit natural to it. And if op- portunity is seized at the height ) of the tide, the end of life will ‘ certainly be. enviable: MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1946 —Today’s native is shrewd and penetrating, with a steadiness and gravity of manner that will often be misunderstood. The methods of thought will be very just, but mathematical and hard, lacking emotional qualities. There is no indication of great fortune, per- because hig truck driving at the St. Lou fegarded as essential. A year after the war, however, Georg? was accepted as an army pri-j vate. Now his monthly salary allowances and base pay, amount to $258, ‘which is consideraviy more than his $33 weekly pay as a truck driver. A formal gesture of Egyptian hospitality is the serving of a small cup of coffee. Birds use mouth secretions as cement in making nests of mud, sticks, grass, hair and feathers. Ordnance depot was) j haps owing to indolence, or a lack of exeeutive ability or. pos- bly inability to make one’s self | understood. |. 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