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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1951.

SALTY SOLUTION TO THE HOUSING PROBLEM

There is no botter playpen for baby Janet than boat's cockpit. Mothar was doing some painting while sisters encouraged Janet to take a turn at the whee

TT'S CHEAPER to move than pay house rent IT'S

in the experience of 33-year-old Bill Ken. nison. Moving for him, wife Jean and their four daughters, simply means another pleasant cruise on the Zephyr, a 36-foot-ketch which sleeps seven. For example, from Oahu to Hilo in the Hawaiian islands is 200 miles but baby Janet weathered it when she was one month old without missing a single bottle despite bad storms.

Now that even the youngest is a veteran afloat, the senior Kennison's are preparing to teach geography the natural way to daughters Barbara, 13: Dorothy, 10; Virginia, 4, and Janet, 1, by a voyage from Honolulu to the father's home town of Beverley, Mass.

Home to the Kennisons now is a former

Navy busy boat whase Jiving comfort causes its owner to remark: "Any man who'll pay the rents they are asking today for houses is crazy." The father passed on to the children his distaste for a home ashore. The girls swim, rig a sail or box the compass as easily as most girls their age dress dolls. Monotony has no part in life. abdard the Kennison ketch. Bar- bara and Dorothy have attended almost a dozen different schools in two years.

The Kennisons have owned nine boats since 1938. In that period, rescue services have re- sponded to reports more than a half dozen times that they were lost or missing. In every case it was a false alarm. "I don't know why they worry about us," says Kennison. "Noth- ing has happened to us yet-and nothing will.”

THE KENNISON FAMILY laughs as 4-year-old Virginia pretends to be "rescued.”

With her sisters, she can swim like a fish. All girls spurn special size life preservers.

"A FAMILY WASHLINE from holyard to mast is as efficient and more handy to Mrs. Kennison than one in a backyard ashore,

EDUCATION IN THE ROUGH came for. Dorothy and Barbara (front row left and fourth) When their flapting home took them Into river. Jungles of Panama. Mrs. Kennisén watches.

CHILDREN with homes ashore will envy Dorothy Kennison, whole, mother waves hori

amu of climbing to the top of

(r'á' mastián, Honolulu's vacht)