The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
DRUNK OR CRAZY?


 My husband, writes an unhap- py woman, is good and kind, but, oh, so stubborn. He never used to drink at all. Now he says he can't help it, he has to have 1t. and every few weeks he manages to get too much. He says 1t doesn't hurt any one, and it is my fault if I won't go and drink with him Always when he does drink to excess it is because some one said something to hurt his feelings. or he thinks some one is trying to put something over" on him ..
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 The unfortunate victim might ba describing the behavior of a nint year old child, spoiled child.
 If she can persuade her hus- band, perhaps in a sobed repenten1 interval, to cultivate the acquaint- ance of local group of Alcoholics Anonymous, there is still gooo chance to bring him beck to his senses. Let her and him under stand clearly that Alcoholics Anonymous members are all men or women who have themselves conquered the drink habit or ars at present making the fight with the friendly help of others of the group. Look in your telephone dis rectory or maybe in the classified columns 10 your paper for the ad- dress of a group in your vicinity, Don't let the little boy shrug it oil with the sheer that A. A. is just racket or a bunch of reformerS or a cover for something-there ara no fees, dues, obligations involved This woman's plight raises ths question whether the addict cravea the narcotic (alcohoD and indulgea in it in that cowardly way because he is mentally defective in the first place, or whether the alcohol, taken at first in an adventurous spirit or a spirit of bravado or maybe "so- cially," impairs the higher facul- ties, or, say, addles the brains, just enough to make the drinker behave like a moron or 8 child. This question takes me back to the days when some nice kind la dies organized us kids and taught us to sing we're coming we're corn- ing 8 brave little band on the safe side of temperance we now take our stand and we don't use tobacco do you know what we think that boys who do use it are quite sure to drink. And that's precisely how it turned out. Boys in the gang who showed of" by smoking, in def1- ance of the teachings of the nice kind ladies seemed to progress cas- lily from that to drinking = they couldn't decline the first drink, of course, for fear they would be re- garded as temperance" sissies. ' believe the majority of those poor kids were mentally defective, if not morons, from the beginning. It does not follow that I attribute all alcoholism to this cause. At tho same time I can't for the left of me see why any one of normal health and normal intelligence should ever take any alcoholic beverage or liquor by way of a social gesture or custom, or to please any one else or just for the hell of 1t.
 QUESTION and ANSWERS Right OF Left
 Is 1t possible for a woman to give birth to babies of both sexes after one of her ovaries has been removed at operation? DO not boys originate from one ovary, | girls from the other? ''
 (Mr. and Mrs. H. O. | AnSWer-Nobody knows, of course, from which side the ovum came. in any case. Of hand can find no record of the birth of both male and female children after the mother has lost one ovary, but five will get you ten that 1t happens so in, many cases.
 Hot Flashes
 Thank you so much for your help. have suffered much distress from hot flashes for over five years. Very soon after I began taking calcium and vitamiu D as directed in your pamphlet l experienced relief and now I scarcely notice them when 1 they do come. (Mrs. w. e. .n. Answer-I am glad to send the pamphlet on "the Menopause" to any reader who asks for 1t in writing and incloses stamped self address envelope.
 Weak Arches
 1 I am forty, troubled with weak arches and calluses. (Mrs. F. D. M.) My daughter, 12, has weak ankles.
 Answer-Send ten cents and stamped self addressed envelope for booklet Care of the Feet Copyright 1945, John F. Dille Col l TanS vaarS tn accmOnliSI