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Imagination Needs
G
Stimulation
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph. D.
Young OOD education of the and fairies. Magazines for
or children are stepping out with add- child at two, eight
for the fanciful twenty stimulates his ed emphasis on
young children. imagination.
of this
Ho may not get much stimulation at school. He gels far moro at the movies, from the comies and from the radio. Yet we por- ents and teachers have good reasons to be worried over the content around which the child's imagina- lion is stimulated by some of the comicu, by many of the movies on the screen, and by some programmes on the air. one big reason why the gory pro-
of the Perhaps
Hittle school
. grammes on the air nce so alluring to children is because of starved Imagination, there being so appeal to imagination in books, especially in, school readers. Supplementary Resders
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Except for a few supplementary readers for the grades appearing in recent years, school readers are limited chiefly to the here-and-now and factual. Few basic school read- ers give wide wings to the child's imagination. When they do these wings may have only pln feathers on them. Most authors and pub- lishers of readers for school chil- dren seem to put their faith in the mechanics of vocabulury and col- com- ourful pictures around very monplace everyday experiences of the child. They are usually drab for
many emotional .colour. Not children would spentaneously dramatise from their pages.
Many nursery school and kinder- gurten leaders bitten by the bug of here-and-now seem to be slowly giving conie place to the imagina- tion. Yet most of the books avail- able for them with young children are short on the fanciful. So also are most new books from which parents may rend to the baby and
Mrs. Myers and I always did be- love in fairies for young children. When our children were very young wo purposely read them folk lore and other fanciful materials, just at the time when educational phi- losophers opposing imaginative ap pealu began to inflitrate among the their friends of fairyland, with doctrines.
According to these subtle propn- sup- children were gandists, our posed to grow up as escopiste from reality. But one is now a pro- fessor of plant physiology, another
aeronautical engineer, the third became a home economist, now a mother of three real young- sters of her own.
# an
and
If, as I have done, you will look into the biographies of the great and useful men and women of the few hundred the last world over
will find that most of years you
fired their imagination them had during infancy and childhood. In- deed, I can think of no better pre- paration for useful, happy living than carly
to "fairy exposure tales," provided the child plays treely with other children of his age and has lots of fun making things with his hands.
Can't You Sleep?
Selecting Exquisite Bed Linen
this
ELEANOR ROSS
UCKY is the bride who is filling her hope chest with bed linens hos in years Bummer. Not there been such a wealth of beautf- ful bed linens, riurdy muslins, smooth-as-alik percales, embroider- od touches, Ano hemstitching, and, for those that like them, a choice of sheets and pillowcases in tempt- Ing pastels.
The type of sleeping equipment chosen will determine what size sheets should be selected, for ́n bed that is double size, ane of those wonderful, wide, models, or a pair of twin beds.
According to Bodsize
Sheets, of course, are bought ac- cording to bedsize, but measure- ments should be checked so that the linen covers the mattress complete- ly. Allowance should be made for generous tuck-in at sides and at the ends. If not labelled "pre-shrunk," should be allowance
made for shrinkage. Extra-length and extra- width beds require larger than standard size sheets and pillows. Bo Aure theso are available before selecting one of those very large beds.
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Despite all the education, there still confusion as to the difference between muslin, percalo and linen sheets. Generally speaking, muslin sheets are woven of heavier threads, contain fewer threads to the square Inch than percale, and, if a good much should withstand quality, hard wear.
Percale sheets are more closely woven with more and ser threads to the square inch. They aren't quite as strong us sturdy muslin, but many prefer them because of their beautiful
and appearance smooth texture. They are also
RIVER BOAT CAPTAIN
DAB and FLOUNDER:
by Walter
Mary Green, 60, stands at wheel of the Mississippi River steamboat, Gordon C. Greeno, as it leaves St Paul for its home port of 6 Louis. She has held a river captain's licence for 54 years. Mrs Greeno and her son, Capt. Tom Greene, operate the Delia Queen and the Gordon C. Greens on excursion trips
between 81 Louis and St Paul,
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
How To Prepare A Birthday Dinner
lighter in weight than muslin which❝7E have not planned to- is an advantage to be considered if
morrow's dinner," said laundry is sent out and charged by the Chef.
weight.
Something Spacial
Linen sheels, of course, are some thing special, the sort of thing bought by a doting relative, rather than one
is likely to choose for oneself, unless money needn't be considered. Linen is very smooth und silky, launders beautifully, but wrinkles quickly. The wearability of linen sheet depends upon the
n
[ quality and strength of the yarn
and the closeness of the weave.
By GAYLORD
young child. Yet there is a gradual OMAHA, Neb.-Worry over
shift, even by publishers of chil- dren's books, toward some dwarks
TWELVE-PART
MARITAL
RECIPE
By PATRICIA CLARY HOLLYWOOD-Ray Bolger's
12-part recipe for marital happiness Includes two equal parts love, one part give, three parts take and six equal parts participation in each other's affairs.
The dancer's recipe, carefully followed for 19 years, has resulted in one of the entertain- ment world's happiest mar- riages.
"I ny greatest stress on mutual
Bolger participation,"
said. imagine that most marriages that go on the rocks are broken by u lack of mutual interests."
Bolger means something morc than similar tastes in night clubs, sports and automobiles. Ho meons a respect for each other's prob- lems, 11 working out together of business, Anancial and career prob- lems,
"The experts tell us," be com- mented, "that husbands should not bring their business problems homo with them, that they should leave their worries at the office or the studio or the, wholesale house,
"That's bash. If your wife does not get a chance to worry with you, and incidentally help in the solutions, then you're straining on separate leashes. That's how "mis- understandinge develop,"
Mutual Appreciation
Nineteen years ago Bolger mar- ried Gwendolyn Richard of Holly- wood.
They
remember both
how, three months after they were mar- every ried, they were broke. In town they hit Mrs Bolger shopped thrifly for food,, cooked all the meals and did all the washing.
"We not only ate better and lived better on our tours," Boiger said, but we caved money and were more contented away from
the confusion of hotel life. And it wasn't easy for her. There were of lonely hours in strungo towns,"
Iota
The Bolgers believe you really have to work at being married, that mutual appreciation comes "from" understanding, and under- standing comes only from mutual participation,
Their friends think they have the right recipe. They say they never have known a happler coupla
trivial
of
problems cauar more sleeplessness than concern over the possibility of another war, according to Dr. Herman J. Jahr of the University Nebraska's medical college.
Jahr divided into two classes the persons who long in vain for peaceful slumber-healthy peo- ple with "false ideas," and those who suffer organic ailments which tend to prevent sleep. But the healthy non-aleeper ac- counts for most cases of in-
somnia, he said.
"He is usually a tense, worrisome, stubborn individual," Jahr said. "His greatest worry is why can't I RO to sleep?""
Jahr makes fun of the alleged "sleep-inspiring qualities of beds,
and mattresses, springs.
other equipment." With the proper atll- tude, he said, anyone can lie down On a too-short sofa, the floor, or anywhere else ond Bleep Uke baby.
Habits Vary
A
"You need only a belief in being able to sleep; tired, relaxed mus- cles: a healthy body, and a calm atmosphere," Jahr sald,
A doctor gives
you advice
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P. GODWIN According to Jahr's research, college students require eight to 23 minutes to go to sleep. Middle-aged men take about 25 minutes, and middle-aged women, 10 to minutes. "This
suggest the Indies haven't, as many problems as they think they have," he said.
College students turn an average of 38 times a
night, middle-aged men 53 times, and middle-aged women 20 times. Tossing does not mean lost sleep, Jahr said,
may
"If you slept like a log, you're
"That depends on you, Mon- top sieur."
"On me, how is that?"
"You see I'm planning to cook a birthday dinner. It will informal dinner for
be an four."
I would like a dinner a l'Americaine."
"No trouble at all." I assured him. "It will be a pleasure to
climax this dinner with a nice big coconut devil's food cake. I shall leave the centre icing plain, so I can write Happy Birthday on it with white feing. If you have no pastry tube, this is easy to do if you make a cone of stiff letter paper, half fill it with soft icing, then press it out as you write. I'll use a combination of green and yellow candles in green candle holders; they will look love ly against the chocolate icing. And on the edge of the cake, forming a border on top and on the sides, I'll
"And that means?" I prompt- drift on as much shredded coconut ed.
Tomato Soup
means
"Well, it
an all- American dinner. For example I like very much your tomato
soup from the can served very.
hot."
"Really?" I laughed. "What would you like with it?"
"I would like canapes of American smoked salmon dark bread."
on
"And what would you enjoy most for the main dish."
"Baked ham and sweets," he answered promptly. "And may
as the leng will tuke. And Chef,
I'm going to suggest this entire din
ner to our readers."
Birthday Dinner
Tomato Soup Smoked Salmon Canapes "Dnked Ham und Sweets" Corn-on-the-Cob
Avocado and Grapefruit Salad Coconut Devil's Food Birthday Cake
Coffee.
All Measurements Are Level Recipes Servc Four
Smoked Salmon Canapes
Slice pumpernickel in inch wide
I have a vegetable that I like lengths. Spread lightly with butter
very much?" he went on. "It is and
cream cheese stirred until
likely to be stir as a beard in the the corn that you cat by hand, creamy. Cover neatly with thin morning" he said.
Don't Count Sheop
Jabr advises against counting sheep to woo slumber. "You'll get
more interested In an accuurte count than in relaxing."
Fresh-air fiends and closed-win- dow fans may follow their natural bent, "but don't overdo and bake or freeze yourself," he said.
He urged common sense in the matter of bed-time snacks. "If a sandwich or coffee keeps you awake, by all means avoid them." Jahr belleves much adult Insom- nia is the result of bedtime being used as
threat
or punishment during childhood.
"Forcing bedtime on a child cre- ntex an antagonism which may make him a worrier with Insomnia In later years,” the doctor said.
"You mean corn-on-the-cob, stlces of smoked salmon, and grind Well, it's a little early in the over a tile fresh black pepper.
fresh season, but if there's no corn in market, we'll use frozen corn-on-the-cob. And now the salad?"
"I would like the sliced avocado with the fresh grapefruit sections, he said. "That is a real Americant salad which is de luxe."
"Now for dessert you're going to have a birthday cake. What's your favourite cake?"
Chocolate Layer
The Chef hesitated. "Would it be
Coconut Devil's Food Birthday Cake
c.
Sift together 2 c. cake flour, 1 tsp. baking soda, 4 tsp. salt and 1
firmly e, granulated sugar, or use packed light brown sugar. Meantime allow c shortening to stand at room temperature so it can be stirred until well softened. Sift the dry Ingredients into this. Add milk and mix until the flour is well dampened. Then beat 2 min. Add too much trouble to bake chocolate e. additional milk, 2 unbeaten eggs, layer cake, with a chocolate cream 3 squares melted, unsweetened filing, a thick chocolate icing and chocolate and 1 tsp. vanilla, and shredded coconut' all over?"
beat min. longer. Oll two in. layer cake pans and line the bottoms with thin letter 'paper. Pour in the batter; spread it higher at the edges than in the centre, and bake about 30 mb. in a moderate oven, 350 F. Cool 5 min. Remove from the pans; when cold, put together with cook- ed chocolalo Alling. Cover top and sides with chocolate frosting, and drift over as much shredded coconut as will stick.
CONVERTED TRAM IS THEIR
HOME
Whan Bodariak and John Davison, brothers of Palemont, West Virginia, moved to Morgun town to attend West Virginia University, they took this volá trầm" car with them and con- verted it into a home. The youths spent considerable time Installing drainage 111e, concrete fooling and¬n concrete block foundation. They don't expect to have any trouble in molilig
their home for what it cost them.
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Chocolate Cream Filling: Add squares grated unsweetened choco- late to 4 c. milk, and scald in a double boiler. Stir in 4 c. flour blended smooth with
4 e, adul- Honal milk Cook and stir 3 min. Beat together I CEE, 0 tbsp. sugar and top. ・ salt;
into the thickened
milk
Cook over hot water 10 min. stirring occasionally. before
Add 4 tsp.
stir
vanilla; cool spreading between the cake layers.
small Chocolate Frosting: Into a double boiled top put 3 squares
cut
up unsweetened chocolate, and tbsp. butter or margarine. Melt over boiling water. Next, to 3 C. sified confectioner's sugar add. W 7 ibsp. whole milk or top tsp. salt, cream and 1 tsp. vanilla.
ang:
Add the hot chocolate
mix mixture and well. Let stand, sirring occasionally until the frosting thickens and to the right consistency to spread. This is enough to cover the top and sides. of a 1 in. cake.
Trick of the Chaf
To give corn-on-the-cob 'a fine flavour, just take off the outaldo
leaves and the corn silic. Fold the inside leaves over the corn; then boil In plain water until tender, about
8 min., Do not usɑ any wilt
FIRE. ARM LICENCES
YAB Cheron Batt
Hidden Love Story Of R.L.S.
TWENTY years ago, a man T
about 45 years old called on a well-known London book
in- seller. The bookseller's terest in him was immediate, as had been that of many other people.
tor who, stumbling on the fact of his lucky appearance, decides to exploit it.
He rends all he can find about end his "father"--and in the begins to doubt his own im posture. The reader is lef rather confused, to form his. own judgment of the truth.
But, turning from fiction to history, it would hardly be sur-
For his visitor bore an asto- Inlshing resemblance to R: L. Stevenson. Trus he did every- thing possible to enhance the likeness by wearing his hair at prising if Stevenson had a son the Stephensonian length and on the wrong side of the blan- by leaving a Stevensonian tuft ket.
of
beard below his
chin.
And if the stranger's story there
was accepted,
Was
BOOKS
Goorgo Halcolm
bo
Thomson
nothing
astonishing about it. For he claimed to Robert, the illegitimate
son of Stevenson by an burgh barmaid.
י,
When ho WOB twenty, he
took up with Kate Drummond, lovely Edinburgh streetwalker, whose professional name Claire.
a
WAS
He wrote, obscurely,
Edin of a child of theirs who was
born.
His parents provented
He explained in his simple. him from marrying this girl. apoken, attractive way that he Later, Stovenson wrote a novel had worked his way to London Unsed on his life with Claire. His by practising his profession. He wite threw it into the fire. was an artist. He had painted Inn signs on the road. Now he needed money.
* * *
THE LAST CIRCLE. By Stephon Vincent Benet, Heinemaun, 10%, Od. 205 pages.
or two of this collection of stories riso well above the level
Many people believed his story. The London bookseller was опе. Nell Munro, the novelist, was said to be another., of competence. For instanco the
to
ONE
Yan- Queues outside Edinburgh story called "The Angel was
kee," which tells how P. T. Barnum, theatres, whom he asked
the circus king, bought the angel in look at him, believed with more Johnathan Shank's barn, for modest sums.
thousand dollars."
of
*
*
NOW G. B. Stern has cast in the form of a novel ("No Son
G. Mine. By
B. Stern. Cussell. 108. 6d.) the story of a tramp making just Buch a claim. Miss Stern's character, Robert, is an impos-
two
The angel came from Cape Cod and his name was Captain Wilkins. how it felt like to be дл Asked angel. he replied.
bad "Tain't Naturally, it's a change."
Captain Wilkins was astonished to And himself travelling in the carriage as General Tom Thumb, the dwarf. "But you've got to bellove things when you see "em," he said.
A pleasant volume.
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