The Guardian, Charlottetown, Mon., Oct. 8, 1966. 9
MARY HAWORTH ~ Méther Woul
d Benefit
From Specialist’s Care
DEAR MARY HAWORTH: My mother, 74, is getting to be such a problem for my sister and, me that .we feel we’ can’t
*. handle it without outside help. —
Since father died some years ago, she has lived with either my sister and her husband or me and my family (husband and four young children). Frighten- ‘ed and confused, unwilling to _live ‘alone or even be‘salone, she went first to live with m_-y. sis cr.
There she made life so disa-
and: lately has been undressing
in their presence, indifferent to propriety. : My husband says she can’t
|stay much longer around the
children unless her condition improves, for which I haven't much hope.. Her doctor prescri- bed medication to relieve her depression but nothing elise. He 2ys her symptoms refer to an
ed;—otherwise_she is in good
physical condition. '
My nerves are at the breaking
aging process that can’t be help.
{Nun Operates 7 For Incurable Children
BELMONT, N.Ca —(AP) Sister Marie Patrice bent over the playpen and lifted a baby girl with blonde curls.
“Isn't she lovely,’’ the . nun
said softly, kissing and natting the: child. The baby is 11 months old. She looks normal except for one fea- ture. Her head is larger than us- ual, She is a hydrocephalic.
Like most of the 69 children at Holy Angels nursery, she will live only a few years.
These children are blind or de- formed. Some are both) Most are under six years old. Modern medicine can do little for them.
The state of North Carolina has no place to care for them. Hospitals cannot keep them. Neither can “parents, for, in most cases, they require around the clock caré.
But Sister Patrice decided 10 years ago she could do some- thing. She was operating a day nursery on the grounds of Sac- red Heart junior college and ac- ademy in Belmont, a textile- in-
dustrial town~ 12 -milés-—west— of
A doctor brought her a three-
A Nursery.
rge tumor’on its back, and dangling, -twisted legs. :
Sister Fatricia named her Maria. : 1
She responded to care and _at- tention. One day she smiled. A few days later she made gurgl- ing sounds. f
“T almost dropped her,” said Sister. Patrice. ‘‘We were all so excited.” ~
Surgeons removed thé tumor from Maria’s back.. Her head, twice normal size, began to get smaller. Later she learned to talk.
Though she. remains in a wheelchair, she may. some day walk with the help of braces. She goes to school now.
“Others heard of us and want- ed to°bring théir helpless in- fants,’ Sister Patrice recalled:
She asked the Sisters of the Sacred Heart to borrow money to build a nursing home. But they said they could now until they paid off a debt on the~college.
Sister Patrice got permission to solicit funds. She enlisted a board of advisers, The nursery
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moon a bad way to begin life,"’~says a British rabbi. suggests. newtywells should sturt married life together in ‘their\own home.
ficial way of Rabbi Vivian .G. © wrote -in the journal of the National Marriage Council.
Honevmoons Not Good Idea Writes Rabbi
LONDON. (AP) — A _honey- trip is “a... thoroughiy married He
‘san artt- Starting lilfe,"* Simmons
“The honeymoon
‘Here ‘are two’ young people,
freed for the first time from the joys or burdens, the securities or. uncertainties of their separ-
ate homes, going into the world together. cei ;
“The proper place for them
is the home which they have prepared for themselves. stead they are alone in the characterless atmos- phere of a hotel room, condemn- ed to live for a time in complete- ly unnatural condition impose restrictions on them.”
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which
“The worst’ of these is th e
began to grow, almost entirely” practical ‘impossibility of get:
ting away ‘from “each “other,
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Systems Being Tried Out —- To Assist Handicapped.
‘ By BOB MacKENZIE
OTTAWA (CP) — Experimen- tal electronic engineering work at the University of Saskat- chewan may offer hope to peo- ple Sf normal intelligence who are unable.to communicate be- cause-of combined ‘speech- and physical haridicaps.
Two communications systems now being tested on six children sufferigg from’ cerebral palsy
_jare'‘showing promising initial
results at the Physical Restora- tion Centre in’ Saskatoon, two graduate students reported to the Canadian Medical and B t- ological Engineering. Society’s conference Thursday.
At.present the only way peo- ple with such handicaps can communicate is with a ty p'e- writer. ficient control of their arms and hands, they have to use a long rod controlled by their head and neck muscles or any other mus- cles over which they have’ suf- ficient control. ,
With the .small size and close spacing. of..the.keys.‘‘the error rate is high’, Robert N. Kava-
Because some lack suf-’
tivated by the operator - insert-
The holes are much larger than typewriter keys — three- quarters of an inch wide at the
rface— and offer a wider
lection than the _ typewriter keyboard.
The -control system employs 100 holes, arranged in 10 rows of 10, and a four-way selector of 10, and a four-way selector switch that enables four differ- ent uses for each hole — similar to the key: which shifts a‘ type- writer keyboard from small to capital letters,
400 CHOICES .
This provides 400 different selections on the control panel, 350 of which are complete words or common letter com- | binations while the other 50 are individual numbers and letters to spell out words not included on the‘master system.
Both test systems use this | control but they employ differ- | ent methods to get the message across. One system produces the words andrtetters; on a type- writer — a device intended pri- marily for use in classrooms.
nity hall.
Mrs.--Peter . Proud, Roll call ;was answered with a home made corsage.
towards 4-H club expenses. A re- port was given on the WI pre- sentation of scholarships Covehead Hall. The first award went to Betty Anne Crockett of York. A report on the institute picnic which was held at the shore, proved it’to be a decided
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Mrs,’ Lowell. Watts was hos- tess to the most recent meeting of the’ York .Women’s Institute which was held in the commu- In the absence of the
the vice-president,
presided.
freshment”'¢ommittee will be Mrs, -Reifben Watts, Mrs. Rict- ard Vessey, Mrs. Leigh Vessey, and Mrs. Lloyd Vessey. The visiting. committee will be Mrs Lloyd Vessey, Mrs. Elmer Brown Mrs, William Crockett and Mrs Lewis Vessey.
president,
It was decided to give money| ~ veg CHANGES NAME
OTTAWA (CP}—The -Nationa) Employment Service became the Canada Manpower Division Saturday as a federal adminis trative reorganization went into , effect. Former NES offices now will be known as Canada Man- power Centres.
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naugh sqaid in an interview. — The first answer was a spe- cial keyboard using tapered holes where the “‘keys’’ are ac- ing a probe into the hole. —
There are children from seven states at the. nursery. It's now. so big that Sister Patrice said she now must limit it-to chil- dren from North Caroline. .
greeable, ‘because of her inabi- lity - - or just plain obstinate re- fusal - --to be ‘alone at any time of dey or night: that my sister’s hezl'h begen to break At. that point we agreed to share the respcensibility of mother’s care. Frankly, I] don't know how much longer I can keev the ag- reement. Mother is becoming increasingly confused and down- * right slovenly. Her toilet habits are ‘deplorable. She_doesn't wash or bathe unless I personal- Last
point. My sister can’t care for her alone. And mother is adam- ant about not going to any kind of home for aget zersons. I do not want to hurt her but my fa- mily is tired of my constant ir- ritability. ;
My husband, a model. of pati- ence until recently, now says the situation is. unworkable. He says we must start having a life of our own, with mother not in- cluded in everything we do and everywhere we go: Please
morning, .noon or nigh.”
\In the home, he added, ‘the proper, normal setting of life falls into its proper plate.”
week-old girl who he said would live no longer than six ‘monthis.
This child also was a hydroce- phalic, with an enlarged head, a
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Bee WAL Leavin tt house jadvise me. F. E.|—A-Roman Catholic nun who - : ot . wearing her erslip dver her| DEAR\F: E.:. It is my guess |teaches religion to deaf young- dress, that your mother’s deterioria-|sters never uses the sign - :
language. Instead, she speaks slowly and enunciates carefully.
“The deaf are trapped in their own world if they use sign language, but if they speak, they are an integral part of so- ciety,’ explained Sister Mary Madonna of the Sisters of Joseph | of Carondelet Order. .
With Sister Ann Gerard, a fel- low teacher at the St. Joseph School for the Deaf in St. Louis, she taught summer religion classes at St. Thomas the Apostle school here to 16 deaf Catholic youngsters.
tion.as described probably re- flects around 50 to 60 ‘percent of the ‘‘aging process that can’t be helped” (hardening. of. the ar- teries,-maybe,) to quote the doctor's phrase, and approxima- tely 40 to 50.percent character- istic bullhead determination to -+make appropriate security plans for her that aren’t along lines she would elect, in a field of narrowing choices.
In short, ‘I seriously doubt that she is so seriously lost to reason as the usual thing that she does-' n't know what she is doing, and why, during a substantial part of her daily nuisance perfor- mance. . :
For example, I would surmise that her -stubborn’ and so far triumphant refusal ty stay alone. for a’ moment, day. or night in either daughter's household; also her inventive recent refusal to bathe unless you stand over her; also the incident of her almost .- repeat: Almost - - getting out of the house wearing an underslip over her. dress, etc., are a welling-up not so much of pitiful elderly un- control, as ofa lifelong habit of irisidiously putting the screws on persons in situations it dis- please her - - where she isn't the boss and elects not to be’ bossed. “In-effect, she is ring master of sorts in the family round --u-p, tlycenters on her problem - type widowhood.. Still acting reflexly in the matriarch role, she keeps all of you jump- ing to ber lead-plays, chiefly because .you are her children,
She shares a room with my . two young daughters « there is no ‘other ‘possible arrangement)
Teacher Fine's New Alohabet Is Useful
EAST PRAIRIE, Alta. (CP)— feacher Marion Loring says her experience in. teaching Metis children English with a 44letter phonetic alphabet has corivinced her of its value. :
The method is known as ITA— Initial Teaching, Alphabet which was devised by Sir James ee the English education
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(including your two brothers whose help to date consists of “giving advice”), and forth- rightly transfer your mother to a psychiatrically staffed first- rate nursing home for the aged.
Experience in similar cases | indicates_that the nursing home sojourn with its humane but , impersonal mimistry can be remarkably effective im revis-' ing the elderly patient’s attitu- des from. erst-w tyrannical to rationally cooperative, so that early return to the family ma become feasible. M. H.
Mary Haworth counsels through her column, not by mail .or - . interview. ; ns Write her in eare of The Guar- | ‘ dian, ,
Last September, few of the Metis children here could speak, read or write English. By the end of the school year, Miss Loring says, a number had be- come fairly fluent with the help of ITA.
One boy who-at:first- could do nothing more than string to- gether a meaningless jumble of werds was able to write a c o- herent story after two months.
Anot of oe to schodlijand {couldn't read or Ga holasing ‘ 300-word
Ties” by*the.end of the year. ____ITA, in Which’each sound has “its own symbol, has been” used exp2rimentally in some Vancou- ver schools in the last few years. Propenents say it heips some children through the first
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In Nigeria, where Miss Loring |Plainly impossible situation is MARKET taught for two years before |to unite as a committee of res- MEAT %
coming to Alberta, the native|ponsibilé minded next-of-kin
children taught by the ITA i _ method did far better, she says, oe
than those using traditional methods. —
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