THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1951.
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LITTLE THINGS THAT PLEASE
A GOING-AWAY-FOR-THE-WEEK-END LESSON
by CUMMINGS
CHILDREN'S HOW TO GET ON WITH ANIMALS
EVE
VILLAGE
were
NEW YORK, an of the adult who recom VERY year more and Pauled the British "delegation,"
from Brain ikte roy more unofficial "am mong the "live. wires" of tite basendors" cross the At- community and got along fee" lafe in bath directions, with their U.N. neighbours.
beat on improving relations And Mrs Katherine Milne,
between America and ita
headmistress of Dame Allans
neighboura on a inan-in-the- Giris' School, Newcaste, who wai street lovei.
the caseuch
Breda- adult lega supertet her euntry's Americans have in the raptation ser having a tinter. in by coza- last few years suddenly be most diplomatic ulc
of the con:
come aware of the fact that. Peg the wards
which will be sung by CLS.V.
the Atlantic is a very small children all over de word. pond indeed, and that the security of the whole free world depends vitally on # firm understanding of how i their European neighbours think, what makes them doi the things they do, what, in fact, "nakes them tick."
Scientists believe strongly that the younger genera- tion is the key to world peace, and this idea has evoked one of the most in- in teresting experiments international living that has happened since the war.
Fifty-five children of nine nations including six from Newcastle, England-have .........
KAY MURRAY tells of a juvenile edition of the United Nations
...........
home
recently returned after spending il unique! month in what might be -called a juvenile edition of
United Nations.
A highly qualified Monet of educationists and scientists, psychologists has been carefully watching the £140,COM.
Children's International Summer Village at Cincinati, Ohio, in the hope of Hading sclentine As to how "typical Ruliance
human beings of different nu- tionalities. who have not had their prejudices trained n fixed, surmount humiles to com- mon understanding."
The ages of the children, whe Denmark, came from Sweden, Norway, Austria, France, Ger- many, England, Canada. Mexico and the U.S., was fixed between
ធារី
"Do it down,
"Apropos nollting In particular - how's Felicity these days?"
*He's talking to you. 1. **
London Express Service
BERNARD WICKSTEED goes to the seaside 150 Million
THE WICKSTEED family are making a series of imaginary journeys into the past, accompanied by their scientific friend Dr. Pebble- bed.
THEIR FIRST excursion is to the seaside as it used to be 150 million years ago, when the Port- land stone of which St. Paul's Cathedral is bufit was being Inld down on the bed ut the sea.
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Years
Ago
FRIDAY, 150 million
years ago. TELL, hère we are,
away
back in time to period when most of England was under the sea. Devon and Wales are on the east coast, and the Atlantic is all dry land.
It's a lovely place for a holiday. The sea is beauti- fully warm and clear, with little coral islands sparkling in the sun.
The children are having a
10 and 12, ance a that level grand time catching extinct
"children are still Rexible, in their social attitudes."
Already. the scientists have learned a lot. They have dia- coveted, for instance, that tack of a common language is by na means the b'agost barrier.
"Chlidren live primarily
crabs and collecting empty shells as big as cartwheels, I don't know how roing-to-get-them hotne..
we are
million
Here's a postcard from the British ccaside 150 years apa: plerodactyls instead of seagulla; low-lying. kills instead of cliffs and mountaina; overgrown. ferns for trees, and not a flower in sight.
could fly for miles out to sca.
"This is icmarkable." he raid, "because hey are not power driven Lze birds, They are really gliders thut soar in the wind and oir currents. That's why they are so lighily built."
Thers were sponges, too, and Jellyfish, and sea urchins, Great monsters that looked
like
eros between a sturgeon and a shark chased under the boat un carly form of herring,
►
Su: the creature that gave mucher her biggest scare, and
period of time you are struck by made her call out to the chil- You can't put your finger on i:
When you first-get to thi
something cdd bout the scenery.
at Arst
till you realise there aren't any flowers.
Under the
tha:
sea
dren 13 stop trailing their hands in the water, was a thing about the sizc of u smatt poppuise, with huge eyes and a Jong beak-like mouth fult of semble teeth.
An Ichthyosaurus," said Dr
PHERE are plenty of man! Pebblebed.
forms as big as trees, but uct_a. blɛom to be seca....
And as there are no flowers
One of the first things we there aren's any bees. But the saw when we got here was ans, beetles.
in
AL
a world of action, and they are
to develop their quick
***! sutfactory melhads of
com munications." says Dr Dorks Twitchell Allen, psychologist at the University of Cincinati and chairman of the profeet.
Words did not matter nearly as much as the fast that they could draw what they wanted to express or compare arts and crat's efforts, cr join in muste and athletics.
cockroaches. and
"I don't care what it is," said mother."Make it-ge- way."
Grains of sand
ridiculous looking bird dragonflies make up for that, at
the doctor with teeth and a long tail we quickly found when we sal
was a reptile explained, that it could waggle about, down to a picnic lunch of oysters. A ichthyosaurus,
They were much the come an that swam. Some day about 150 was about the size of a
daughter called crow, and Dr Pebblebed said present-day oysters, and probably million years hence, he rald, a that one day its fossilised have pearls in them, though we arpenter's
Mary Anning would achieve skeleton would be put in
International fame by discover After lunch, to the great ing the first fossilised skeleton South Kensington Museum.
delight of the children. Drone in the cliffs of Lyme Pebblebed produced - a
glass Regls. bottomed boat for colting at the bed of the sca.
Flying reptiles
THE boys wanted to know all abou; its nesting habits, but the Doctor couldn't help them, Although specches in discus-He said no one had ever seen one sions had to be translated into of tas exes. fossilised or olier- six different languages by the wise. adult delegates who accompanied them, the children took this in their stride,
"Wel, let's go and And one," sold Pally. "Then we'll be able to av.up it for sweets at rehool different But all he found was a dead sounds In their seven joint pterodactyl that he threw at his
theiltue slater.
They learned that
languages can
same ldca.
represent
Learning that different prople
Pterodactyls are those exilnot
do the same thing in different-fying reptiles with bat-like wings .waya was one of the big hurdles. tha! you see in comic strips.
Many international tensions
the seclul selentis.s Cincinatti.
1
They keep swooping down from
are psychological in arigin," say the rocks and trees and look at terrifying, but Dr Pebblebed bays People may quarret round on it's only their curiosity as they've conference table never seen human beings before. international
didn't find any.
mirugulous
There was a swift tido run- ning as we drifted along in our "Nothing very about it," he said. "Class is made bant, and the sea-bed, seemed to be in constant motion: Little we've plenty of of sund, and
grains of what appeared to be that."
sand rolled Over and over in the current.
Sponges, too
world."
"Where are you going to take us in that thing?" said mother,
the sall "There,
now," The doctor pointed towards the
sea out Dcator. "Look at those grains horizon. "Under the
with respect, because one day, there lies what will one day be
ho •sald. "That is when the age have hardened Dorset,"
into them compressed Is being and where Portland stere
Sir slowly built up ca the ɛca-bed tone, un architect called for the future glory of London." Christopher, Wren will use them to benulify with churches the
the greatest city Ir
The core of each grain is a and speck of sand, he suld, It the lime from rod clear, clean sea has collected,
If you look at a piece of Portland stone with a magnify- ing glass. you
can pick out the individual grains that were rolled into smoothness by that ancient ideway above which the ptemdactyls flew,
THE water was .co clear and shallow that we could tee
The bottom of the boat. There everything through the glass at great banks of Bay The dead one that Philip found caloured corals, and things that was at least three feet adress at looked like lilles waving in the
he, wingtips, but funnily enough current. It weighed only a few ounces.
not because they really disagres on the busle problem bu: because they don't understand how the other perzan thinks.
According to Mr
C. W Mitchell, headmaster of New- Dr Pebblebed said that some Castle Royal Grammar School, of them were 20 feet across, and
Giving 'Im the Pitch
NANCY
COME
HERE, SLUGGO
FIRST, I'LL TIE YOUR RIGHT ARM TO YOUR SIDE
were
Actually they weren'i plants at all, the doctor said, but animals on stalks,
NOW; I WANT YOU TO LEARN TO THROW WITH YOUR OTHER
HAND
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