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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1953.

A page with a próblém for all parents who have ever säld 'Once upon a time...'

How you lead children to

a 'good book'

by LADY PAKENHAM

Wife of the formor Civil Aviation Ministër and mother

Here is

the

of eight--four Boys and four girls.. HAVE championed

a typical passage the cause of comics; be from the insi chapter:

(there cause at least they do many far worse ones than

thisi). train children in the "Then Tom cómo to habit of reading.

Irland of Polupragmorgne...... Now comes an Interest- and a very noisy place it is, as might be expected, considering ing letter from Mrs Bryson, that all the inhabitants are ex- Blackfriars Road, London, officio on the wrong side of the who raises

further house in the H

Paritament Ο Man, and problem:

the Federation of the How to Jend World... children on from comics to reading good books?

"Comies are so easy to read," She writes, "that what we call 'good books' will be left un- opened unless the comics wisely rationed."!

'are

Mrs Bryson has certainly gu! something there. But rationing comics does not by itself le- velop a taste for good litera- ture. Luckily there is an al- -together delightful and simple method for doing so, available to every parent.

I have just finished reading "The Water Bables" aloud to seven-year-olds. my five anti The fascination of the story

Water

Here are a few Hints on the Art of Reading-Aloud for those who are not yet adepts;--- 1 HAVE a regular tone every day for reading alout. I The And just before bedtime best, and after luncht also dur- in the holidays. Never miss.

ALWAYS have the children really close to you while ronding, the youngest your

lap, the others on cách side, or

on

oven the clidir so that JUTAS they can SCL the print,

Children

of

seven upwards

love to follow

the written

word. It helps their own read ing and teaches them how pronounce.

children

to

need п

BOOKS-and what

might they be?

This is less than

and

PIONEER NAVAL JETSHIP

(BY OUR NAVAL CORRESPONDENT)

TINY steam-boat called

pleket boats at the Diamond Jubilee Review of 1897 and, most unofficially, royblution- leed the univies of the world. It was owned by that great engineering ploncor Sir Charles- Parsons, and was powered by the prototype of the steam turbines which now causé warships to move.

major

When the Queen reviewed the. Ficet

at Spithead the other day, craft not

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much larger and rcarcely less revol was

quite oficially,

in Une W. IL

was called the Bold Pioneer atid ta the first boat, to specially bullt for the Royal. Navy to take gas turbine boost.

This time it is not a case of

be

Prisit schoolchildren spent on books for all schools, Dare reading less and collegts and technical colleges, an enthusiast forcing his ideas less--and their teachers are cert-about 3d. fri the £t The Admiralty and industry have 1 per- upan naval thought. Tho worrying about it more and Education Mjulstry explains combined to produce

that the average for the year which will hasten

a bost more.

the obsa- 1951-2 was about Os. n head.

lescence of all other warships Result: The National Yet for every 5s. spent on

Looking rather like a million- alre's yacht but distinguished Book League and the Asso- books, from which the young- 3 SMALL

pleture on every page. Some ciation of Education Com-sters can extract the rich nug by two funnels set side by side books are bound with the print mittées are organising an goes on teachers' salaries,

Ects of learning. nearly Eit and three formidable guns, it could spit fire at any hostile ship and pictures on separate pages, inquiry into the running £2-108. on fuel, light, and with greater effectiveness `thian I never read this aloud. Most

cleaning expenses,

**anything else of its size. their attention on the story.

They consider the situation is try 4 DON'T

reading long serious, Joseph Compton, NBL aloud stories

until gripped them as no comic ever children are of school age. Be TV, films,

the Chairman, says; "We find that y

and comic hus. But for me It was an

fore Live, the child lies to hear are making such inroads into arduous laske.

a complete story every

ime lime reading

that Words needed explaining on

Even my children grow up with a every page. Lour passages had you read to him.

seven-year-old could hardly reading habit they'll slide SYSTEMATİC to be skipped entirely. (bear to wall for the end of from books oitogether."

cidentally, is surprising how The Water

one soon gets at glancing can expert

ahead and skipping, an unsuit- able passage without hitch),

In my own experience this method is fool-proof. It works with even the most book-shy child. You just lead your stiil to the waters of literature and it drinks! This magical solution, in two words, la rending aloud.

ATOW, at this polit I

hear hundreds of renders muttering indignantly: "Teach- Ing her grandmother to suck CE89...Of course we read Bloud to our children.....

Yes, but I do

not mean just reading a page or two out of

You need not always read the whole of a "good book" aloud, Some children like to be help- beginning, ed over the slow

will and then they

carry on by themselves. I found this.

ler Scott's "Ivanhoe."

children need a picture to rivet of school libraries.

Bables," which took us a fortnight to reach,

ENCOURAGE IT

5 DONT worry it your child demands to have the same book read over dnů över ögam Children love to know their

No money...

Light, Compact

Astonishing

WHAT is, the Immediate unless many years,

strips sift of this? A teacher of plotting, radne, and

re-

real

away

propulsive machinery being so light und

compact, there is plenty of room for experience ex-necessities of modern naval plained it thus: "A boy or girl warfare. associates a book with a grub-

The

all

the

"Two engines of the kind that by, blog-cared, taltered thing are in the Bold Pioneer and also that has been handed down for in her sister chip; Boul Path-

finder,

years.

When he leaves school; hiralty.

for

of

пеш

developed

for

the

by Metropolitan have been bou

bought by the United States Navy for evaluation, as have two larger and longer-life gas turbines of the kind made by Rolls-Royce educational fer installation and trial in the famous war-time steun gunboat, Grey Goose.

liardly knows a real book, and or years past, pubilshers of far less that it can be enjoy

books educational

have ed." been worried about children's Waning interest in reading. An Publishers carlier, National Book League books have to shelve ambitious

the amount of schemes ingraily into eight money that local 6 AT about seven of

series of education school books because they kilow your elder children

will commitices spent on

Ultimately there will be gas textbooks that the schools cannot afford turbines in most ships of the begin reading aloud to the produced some astonishing an- to buy them on their younger ones. No nect! to swers.. AGAIN, a child may like to dilate on the obvious No, I mean something får alternate between reading tages of this development. Junt more systematic and serious. a book to himself, and having encourage it.

bits of it read aloud.

the book that has been pushed method worked with Sir Wal- books by heart. under your nose more and more insistently during the last ten minutes, and shriller appeal: "Mummy, read to me, read to me, READ TO ME!"

with o shriller

If reading aloud is to achieve

BEGIN EARLY

allowances.

present

Royal Navy, either providing all the power, boost power, or for this auxiliaries for pumps and; trical generating sets.

have boosted ships will elthur steam turbines or diesel engines when cruising at lower speeds.

This makes possible a reduction of the weight and

London County Conell, for Other publishers see instance, has an estimate for trend as the shape of terrible the education committee for things to come; they foresce a The 1952-3 of £25,508,205, which time when this

present does not include capital expen generation is grown up and teens. dilure.

rarely reads a book at all.

advan

its

finest possible results it must be developed into science, an art, and an' educa- tion.

A

the

Personally, I believe reading 7 READING aloud need aloud should be a reat family institution. It should begin at children are

of one age

and continue us these ong as the family is together. ed reading Shaltespeare

first showed my eldest with me.

not

When slop

their One of my song greatly

even

in

thè

enjoy- aloud

HESITATE before

But out of this huge sum only about £190,000 is to be

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And first, what arc fine results? To begin with, reading a "good book" aloud child the "Babar" books when transforms it, as if with magic wand, from a moving, imeult task into absorbing and exciting This applies particularly

children's classies.

We parents are too apl

she was ten months old. Very 8 slow soon "showing

pictures" dc- an veloped Into "telling the story story. teo.

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mak- It is ing this last point.

which Was about something done by the first Elizabethans. It continued down to our Vic- years lorian grandparents. Only in "Don't this age has it died out. Why From not revive reading aloud by aloudadults?. eleven I read, Kingsley's "Water" Babies.""into every children's "Classic" our children's hands and then der the sun.

I sometimes read aloud Crumble when they refuse to But nothing cun really beat my husband. We both enjoy it read it.

Dickens, whose books were for five minutes. You sec, How many of us realise that refialised in "Household Words." my voice has a mysteriously this, so-called "children's book Every chapter, is a complete soporifle effect. Very soon contains pages and pages at who,e, and always ends.on H find I am reading to a "sleep- abstruse argumentation?

note of thrilling expectancy. ing partner."

To At about three or four old she began to say,

to tell the story, read " push a famous classic, Gay, four to

un-

The CHAPMAN PINCHER column finds a radioactive riddle

The

girl who made the

atom - counter click

PRETTY, young Barbara throat with a more sensitive substance called polonium,

Potts, an Australian detector.

He was soon satised

that

to

I

a

James Leasor bulk of the total machinery for

QUEEN BECOMES THEIR CHIEF

From LES ARMOUR

Nan official chief of the

the

London, sovereignty over the native In- TOW Queen Elizabeth is tans of B.C. and over

Kwakiuti peoples in particular. Kwakiutl nations.

Further, only one chief could Inveat another with the spiritual Last week, in a precedent power. In special cases, In- breaking

cut through omeini vestituro could be made through red tape, Chief William Seow, a close personal assistant to the president of the B. C. Native chief. In this case, the Queen's Brotherhood, and B.C.'s Agent secretary would suffice. General in London, William McAdam, drove through the galer of Buckingham Palace and presented the ceremonial tribal robe to Major Sir Michael Adeone, one o! the Queen's secretaries.

Investiture

Agent-General McAdam ex- plored all the offelal channels and met blank wails,

sweep away

Sir Michael said he was breakdown próduct of ralliun, | delighted—and he was sure the Finally he called Sir Michael. scientist working at Oxford

How did it get there? The Queen,would be, too.

He agreed to Chlet Scow, at the request of protocol-in this instance. theory: University, happened to put the rays were coming only scientists soon had a

B.C.'s native Indians, brought an atom-ray detector near from two gold filings in Bar- the fillings had been made from the robe with him when ho The final investiture was

was only one way to make sure: 'outer bara's back teeth. But there gold previously used os the came to London for the Corona- made only a few hours before

casing for radium 16. But oMelais cast ज्ञ

Chief Scow was due to fly to Jaundiced eye on the presenta New-York. tion.

her mouth. To her horror it began to rattle like to chic was whisked to London, needles.

machine gun.

where University College, Hos- pital dental expert

de Cyrft

Barbara's dentist in Australia Sho was convinced that Vere Greco removed the fill- and his gold supplier wore she must have swallowed ****

ings.

Bome of the highly poisonous radioactive chemical with which she wan working.

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traced, but there the trail end- ed. Barbara de back in” (Aus-

Symbol

ship of any given power and makes more room for the equip ment and men devoted to the petual, job of Ipeating and, siak- ing the cerny.

Windmills

Perhaps it should here bo explained for the uninitiated that a gas turbine contains

unit similar to the jet engine of an aircraft, but instead of blow- ing hot gas out astern and pro- ducing a thrust by Jeti reaction; the jet is used to turn one or t ceries of which turn an ordinary marine enclosed windmills,

screw.

arrangement is more efficient at sea than Jet propulsion.

This

It has been claimed that Britain has a four-year lead on the rest of the world in this field.

Perhaps it is natural that a country which has lived with the sun since the days of King Alfred should be quick to in- vent things assbciated with

and to apply now us to the

business of sca-going,

In the dilesel engine feld Britain has again jumped into the lead with the amazing deltic, which is very much better than the excellent Ge man diesels of World War

Built by Napiera and with, a revolutionary

lonary triangular pattern for its cylinders, thus now, the best compression Ared engine In the world. for powering small

British Enterpriso

Kin

In a letter accompdying thờ rebe, the chief said: "It has been my proud privilege to at- tend the Coronation of Her Ma-warships, elther on 118. ows or jesty at Westminster Abbey as .combination with gas turbines.-- the representative of the Indian tralia, with a new set of All- The Queen, they pointed out;

Brotherhood of British Colum- ings. And all gold which goes was NOT accepting Coronation bla and of my people, the to dentists is now being "montgifts. Even if she did doelde Kwakiutl antion of the Pacific tored" with an atom-ray de-o accept it, the robo would Coast of Canada.

have to go from B.C.'s oficial tector to make sure it is not representative to the Canadian "It was the wish of my High Commissioner, and then people that I should bring a to officials at the Palace who, Chilkat Blanket, woven in the In turn, would pass it on to manner of our people, and the Queen's secretaries,

symbolic of chieftainstilp, to Chief Scow explained that the present to Her Most Gracious robe was not a gift; it was a Majesty an a token of their symbol of the Queen's spiritual loyalty and affection."

A quick check with a ray- detector showed that Barbora So after colleagues confirmed was no longer radioactive. The that Barbara's mouth was in- fllings were. Barbart went out radioactive, deed emitting atomic rays she to celebrate. The fillings went was rushed, to the Harwell back to Harwell

for minutd ntotri_station, 14 miles away analysts, There the chicf medical scientist, Dr Jotun Loutit, There probed Barbara's mouth and quantities

JOHNNY HAZARD

I'VE SEEN HIGHWIRE PERFORMERS POR TWENTY } YEARS; AND I PARESAY NO

ONE COULD WALK UP AN

ANGLE THAT STEEP!

Footnote: Do not worry you have gold · Allings. The Harwell tests showed that the scientists extracted radibdetivity was not strong

of : radioactive enough to harm Barbara.

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BESIDES, OUR LONDON FOG WOULD MAKE THẤT CABLE QUITE SLIPPERYTO SAY

| NOTHING DE PRACTICALLY

· BLINDING A MAN!

OKAY, INSPECTOR, YOU'VE KILLED MY THEORY? HOPE YOU DON'T MIND IFI KICK

HOLES IN YOURS!

By Frank Robbins,

SURE WERDER IS FAMILIAR WITH THE TOWER BUT THE SENTRIES ARE FAMILIAR WITH, HIM AND WERDER HAS NO

"OCARS AND NO LIMP.

...this situation. calls for a

Fan Miguel

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The Admiralty itself, has de signed another heavier range of diesels for ships in which weight considerations are less critical

No excuse is offered for ex- plaining, firal: and foremost, British enterprise in the field

of- propulsive and auxiliary machin- егу, Because it is basic All refinements of radar and guiliying equipment. become af embarrassment rath than on asset if anything but the lightest and smallest

sultable

the

machinery is used.

to

Navy'n

Ships either become tourbig for their bite or too congested:

the world and light. range Nevertheless, the innovations since the war havo

the Royal included the offensive ment and techniques assoc with the hitting power of wdri ships.

Our new mortar for throwing ahead patterns of depth, chirkes, coupled with highly efféettva submarine location devices, greatly interested the US. NAVY when the destroyer Rocket, of, verted to an anti-submarine. frigate, vialled American Waters,"

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