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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Parents' Page
by MAURREN.
OWEN
THE TEACHING MACHINE AND THE FAMILY BORGE...
WHAT is the intangible quality that makes the American matron what
she is?
The easy supremacy she maintains over home and family. Her flair for getting things done through committees and organisations. Her looks. Her energy.
Where does she get it all from? Maybe there are special nitrates in American soil especially beneficial to females. Perhaps it is the educational system.
Mrs Sanna Dorge, wife of went home and didn't get thic end of the pianist and
Victor results until the comedian
believer in week, by which time they had Borge, is a keen
lost all interest." travel for her five children, aged from five to 10.
Until recently Mrs Barge would hire a flat in whichever city her husband was appearing, and they all used to arrive, plus cuts, pots, sterilisers and tinned foods in the middle of the night. We took to arriving in the middle of the night," said Mrs our Burge, "to avoid having photographs taken. After a long Journey with the children we used to look more like glusies than the family of a well-known
star."
Apart from owning a holiday estate un the inland of St Croix, in the Virgin Islands, the Borges have a larger estate in Connecticut where they live.
helps in There Mrs Borge marketing the produce of 16,000 apple trees, mink farm, sheep ranch and poultry farm
Her especial interest, once she has organised the children off to their schools (even the young ones have to travel 15 miles) is the psychology of chickens.
Mrs Barge trains the chickens to be more efficient, so that they New York eventually reach restaurants one jump attend of their rivals.
It was while studying the habits of her poultry that she decided that chickens are ilke
Worse still, one member of the Borge family was beginning to fall behind in algebra. This set Mrs Borge worrying, and, unable to find a tutor appar ently whose main ambition was not to break into the theatrical World via the family she found Instead the Teaching Machine.
Victor Borge
Briefly, the Teaching Machine looks like o large typewriter and works on a system of tapes giving questiona
and answers.
The person who is being taught site with pencil ready to fill in the answers which are Immo- diately protected under gloss, thus cunningly forestalling ony chance of cheating.
The machine-its forte natur- nily is mathematics has already proved its worth (750 dollars). And, says Mr Borge, children who have put in 36 hours on machine work in algebra reckoned to be a year ahead of their more conventionally taught classmates.
THE MERITS
THE big advantage
uf
10
the
children in that they do bent in Teaching Machine, of course, their work unly when receiving that it does away with teachers, and, in America where Inmediate encouragement.
the shortage of mathematics
acute 09
09 in truchere Britain, one can understand the enthusiasm of Mrs Borge and her Connecticut friends.
Mrs "They both like." says Borge, "to know that they are doing well in their work.'
ALGEBRA
T that time Mrs Borge did
Ant feel that her children were receiving enough Immedi- in their ale encouragement school work.
"They did their papers." Bold Mra Borge, "handed them
in,
Another point about the Teaching Machine, she says, Is that children do not get bored,
hanging ure get Like the chickens, pecking at a box for Instant food, they get instant
Right wrong.
answers.
Or
Unfortunately, Mrs Borge has not brought her Teaching Machine with her. But next week, she told me, the member of her family with the algebra problem is getting right back to that machine. 30PCO
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A vellum-bound volume found in our holiday cotinge. entitled The Child's Reward, has convinced me that, if anything. the modern child is over-pro- tecled.
Published in 1827 and Jum- packed with tales of Insanity, crime, death and deformities. The Child's Reward is enough to frighten today's cushioned kiddywinks into Bts.
What. I ask you, are the effects on a child's psyche of u few hygenic bullets compared to "A lait to the kinate asylum." prescribed reading for tota in the year of King George IV? It starts:
"Come chlid with me e father
said.
I often have a visit paid
To on receptacle of wor, For Lunatics Come, child
aud kiuno
The verse beaded by a draw- ing of a chained lunatic in his cell, shows the Burdid scene al- tentively observed through a grating by father and small son.
Aunther Ume, father takes his two little boys on a visit to Newgate prison. "Just for- example's sake."
Both boys, we learn, enjoyed their ruting. Including the mo- ment when
"Confined within
Cell,
A little boy they my'd,
prated
With nothing but a crust to
cet,
:
All other food denied."
poor
Later they saw "some men doomed to die venting franile tears of grief."
Death plays a large part in this anthology, and there are verses describing the death of a father or mother in vivid detail.
NIGHTMARE
THERE is something night-
Nursery fashions
Neat, crisp fashion ideas for the very young. Simple to make and easy to care for, these are two of the swootest designs to be seen this summer. Cut on the cross, the bottom will be adorable over o froth of petticoats.
BUTTERSCOTCH CUSTARD PIE
marish, however, about the tale of the child chimney sweep (aged about five), sold by his mother, who sweeps chimneya for one groat. A maternal- looking housewife listens to his 1 tablespoons butter, 114 stirring constantly, until thick- grim tale and tells the blackened caps brown sugar, 3 egg yolks, about five minutes.
Cover and tʊok 20 minutes Infant to forget his troubles and pinch of salt, 14 cups milk, 3
occasionally. stirring as she blespoons flour, 4 cup milk longer dry his tears. For, points out bracingly..."work and 1 teaspoons vanilla. Cool, add the vanilla and pour you'lagel, Bo quell your fears." Cream the butter and sugar into a baked pastry shell.
No complaints Trum me together, and the czu yalks, salt Make a meringue of three future about comics or televi-jand 11⁄4' cups mlik. Mix the egg whites and two tablespoons UBLISHERS of horror ston. Or the Welfare State our smooth with the 4 cup of caster sugar, cover the pic
comics I am
your either, come to that.
milk and add to the first mix with this and ect it into a slow ture. Cook in a double boiler, oven for about 12 minutes,
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GAMBOLS
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GARDEN
GEORGE WON'T
SOTHER US.
HAB
SUGY
TODAY
-(Lorton Express Service).
Barry Appleby
TUNING THE ENGINE OF THE
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LADY
your
LUCK:
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19
AQUARIUS
21-
(January February 19): Refuse to be talked into a venture if you are not absolutely sure that you can succeed. PISCES (February 20-March 20): An acquaintance's re- quest for a loan should be turned down if adequate security cannot be offered. ARIES (March 21-April 19): An old problem, which you thought had been settled inay crop up again, and you will have to give it your undivided attention. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will havo cheering nows from an absent friend an- nouncing his forthcoming visit.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): A person born undor Libra may show great interest in your problem, und will be in n position to help you solve it.
CANCER' (June 22-July: 21): Friends may not take a favourable view of a new
and romantic attachment, you should consider reasons for their adverse opinion. LEO (July 22-August 21): A business Arrangement which is going badly should be terminated how-to cut your losses.
VIRGO (August 22- September 22): Renewed contact with an old business acquaintance could open a
to new line of approach your work.
LIBRA *(September 23. October 22): By underrat- lug your own
merits you may be giving an pride- served advantage to others lena modest. SCORPIO (October
23-
November 21): A promise suddenly remembered may mcon a last-minute change of plans for tonight SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Consider an offer of participation in a business, but be sure not to involve yourself beyond your financial capacity, CAPRICORN (December 22. January 20): An extremely enjoyable party tonight will repay the hospitality you have often shown to your hosta.
If
LUCKY ENCOUNTER:
today is your birthday, a meeting with a man named OTTO may have special significance.
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