~~ @ivorcee, 23, with two children: a e fiSs MacInnis~“wore pink fl gowns with matching head: pieces, arid carride white, tinted Garnations. “Mrs. |, 4 net Yaekin, Miss Larkin and“ must, ie nature weayés designs of ife,-on busy looms.” he moke-wisps. ;“. haze. Last flo- ‘| wers blossoming, leaves’ -drift- ing, withering. And yet despite the beautiful, though rather m s/f was a pe Set work, c ing nds out umes called at r in halfearnest James stirs chairs and pi ing< / “The night, en, doesn’ “Yes, loneso: - like” we a . “ ‘Ain't alfobody.heah but us an’ dem’kittens!”” Until to === Diary == Goodnight. . .. * gold wi - and) ied a ae i with gold 4 ssmaids Mis: Srenda Jones, K MacInnjs’ and Ja- A daughter, 4, and a-son, 3. My husband and I parted two years ago. The divorce became_final last week. / I have been living with my fa- ther, a widower. Mother died eight years ago. My brother, 25. , unmarried, also lives-here. ' Ain February, 1965, I s 0,u ght family service agency help. For about six months I had once-a- week individual therapy, follow- ed by about nine months of group therapy... I am overweight, ‘self- co n- scious about it and lack the will power to stay on a diet. I have no social life and never date. I have many friendly acquaintan- ces though I am not much of a. friend to anyone. I can't seem to give of myself or express what ~F+feel:And Ido fee! intensely*at times. Would I be solving anything by moving out of my father’s: house? On the one hand I think it might be a healthy goal :on the other hand, I think the chil- dren need a man’s influence. Dad is confused and neurotic too; often strict, stern and seem- ingly unfeeling; also moody and inconsistent. I am afraid of dis- pleasing him, though privately critical of him. He puts on a great show in company; people _.. think he~is wonderful but he shies away from. close relation- ships. He ‘has been dating a widow over a year and they are in love “but torture one another with quarrels, rifts and jealousies. I used to wonder if I stood in the way of their getting married, but after talking to him and dis- cussing it in group therapy, I don’t think so. Lsee him intimidating my dau- ghter while pampering my so7: and the awful thing is. I do it too. I try to curb myself because I love her every bit as much as I love the boy. a : Recently I, quit an office job, resolved to find a better. one. Now I am scared stiff to go job huntinz, so afraid of failure that I won't even try: Tell me what kind of help to see and where to locvk.— K.P. Dear K.P.:- In your letter, here cut in half, you mention * that the family service agency therapy group, having adjourn- ed ‘ast June, is now recon- vening. ‘In fact it will have re- convened by the time ‘this an- swer is published. ! You also say, ‘‘But if it is any- thing like the group last year, it won’t help much. The other wo- men, most of them, were reluc- NC ‘Seeks More Guidance | sons lack, in their home setting. Chaglottetown. . “ A Mr, and Mrs. MacDonald are residing in Halifax, Nova Sco- tia. (Photo by R. B. Hambly) problems. They felt the problem lay in their child or their ex- husband, but. not in themselves. Many evenings we sat in silence for-30 or 40 mimutes...”” Etc. This negative assessment of the group endeavor is a curious contradiction of -your earlier testimony, to wit: ‘(It)’ did help me a good bit. I found my way out of the fog I was in. It helped to relieve the hostility I felt for my father. It was help- ful in simply providing someone to talk to.’”’ Ete. ’ Granted that the individuals. who make up the group may not offer much, by precept or exam- ple, towards solving your diffi- culties, still, the fact is that in their midst, in the common quest for answers to problems, you are brought ‘‘in out of the cold’’ of numbly isolated introspective’ loneliness, as regards your wor- ries. : In essence, group therapy is, first of all, a sort of thawing-out process. : z It is the fundamental reassur- ance of finding that you are’nt alone in the dark, that you are, rather, in the same bo't . with lots of other shipwrecked light seekers, after having felt lost at sea. It is this aspect of group therapy that atitomatically re- news hope, interest and energy, with respect to problem-solving. I mean, it sparks this renewal in persons who have the latent capacity to help themselves, if shown the way. Persons who can’t or won't help themselves, | bootstrap-wise; can’t be helped | by others either. j Fraternization, meaningful be- longing, a considerate sharing of qne’s experience with others, for the. common good, is as neces- sary to the individual’s mental balance and social growth as water is essential to organic health. And group therapy is a working substitute for the real interchange which many per- So miy advice is, go batk to your reconvening therapy group | and stay with it, until you have | arrived at. honest’ self- assess; | ment, self-esteem and self- re- liance.— M.H. | Mary Haworth counsels through her column, not by mail or personal interview. Write ber in care-of The Guardian. TAKE CASH AWAY Swedes holidaying ~a broad took 1,128,000,000 kroner~($225,- 600,000). with them last year announce —the—engagement their daughter, Edith Carclyn “eta ‘ EDITH MACGOUGAN. TO WED. IN to Layton Ira Huestis, son of Mrs. Ira Huestis and the late NOVEMBER Mr. Huestis of Wilmot Valley The wedding will take place y terian Churuh, Malpeque on Saturday, November, 12%h at 2:30 o'clock. DONALD COOKE MOLLIE MAYHEW ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED — Mr. George Mayhew, Mar- gate, wishes to announce the engagement of his daughter, Mollie Evangeline, to Donald Robert.,Cooke, son-of Mr. Delmar Cooke and the late Mrs, Cooke, Lackrute, Que. The marriage is to take place in Margate United Church on November 5th, at 2:30 p. m. | Ife whe of bales came to the yard. J Rélph Foy /Try- Mr./ Mrs. Douglas Kinno paud, receutly / visited ‘relatives and _Y., and they were of Mrs. weekend in Geor- Mrs. Aeneas MacDonald, re- Lockport, N. S., spent the long end at Kensington where Jon- son at Evend’s Inn and of Peggy Cecil MacDon- ““T¥itiity United Church was __Mr. and: Mrs. Charles Foley.| the scene of a wedding cere* Saugas, Mass., are visiting Mr mony recently when Ferne and Mrs, Harry Brown and oth-| Tenore- Taylor became the bride—-of-Gordon._ Carl... Fergu- son. Rev. John G. E.. Ball newborn customers last year attending the Murray-Roper wed- |than five years ago. ding on Saturday at Tabusintac,/} The bottom hasn't quite fallen N. B., were Mr. and Mrs. Wil- out of the diaper trade but the - {drying up of part of the market is causing some concern. A problem is also posed for hospitals, some of which are overcrowded in all sections ex- cept obstetrics. P “Many of the smaller hospi- tals overbuilt obstetrics, not cently visited. members of’ the /anticipating the decline,” says} family . a Glasgow and ip, ¢. M. Hoffman, director of maternal health for Ontario. Baby Goods. 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