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The Brussels Post, 1961-07-06, Page 2it and them slzy ring" with musk'. "The larks are singing!" Each year we make the announcement to one another. The words are sober enough, but what they convey, it is almost impossible to express. It means that our hills and moors are .egain. fit places for new life,, for song and work and laghter, all the things we cling to so passionately, in the name of living, Each year, the rising of the larks has meant a little more to us,, as we emerge from one more winter to greet, the new season. After the larks come the pee- wits, They • usually arrive at dusk, and far into the .darken- ing,• we hear their wild crying,. Next morning we go out eagerly to watch them flashing and swooping over the bare, bowls, fields, Each day after that we listen for the cnrlows and, when we see them gliding over the moor in the evening light and catch the sound of their call, which seems to come from some other very far-off place, we know that spring is really with us. — From "A Croft in the Hills," by Katherine Stewart, Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. es it proper to have one's telephone number engraved on one's personal stationery? A. Never. Q. Has a divorced woman the privilege of continuing to wear her rings? A. If she wishes — although it would seem logical that she would wish to discard her wed, ding ring, MAMIE AND IKE DROP IN FOR LUNCH — President Kennedy put aside his crutches long enough to play host at a White. House luncheon in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Hereto Ikeda. From left: Mrs, Kennedy, Prime. Minister and Mrs. Ikeda, General and Mrs. Eisenhower and the President. Before the luncheon, President Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower held a pri- vate conference. Wasted Time Co eg,e CpgrAes. by uaymood moo- in N.WSwpoi A year ago„ president GraYon irle of Columbia University wrote this indictment of the four- year college •course; "Four years in some adolescent playpens that are called centers of learning may be a pleasant interlude for young people; but it is a luxury which they; their parents, legee, and the country can no longer efford." This sharpens and confirms my, own impression after three deo- ades — first as a full-time and later its a part-time university professor. It comes with added emphasis now when the nation's taxpayers are about to be nicked again for 'Federal aid to students and colleges. The four-year tradition began in medieval times when Oxford and Cambridge were . created, English gentlemen welcomed a quiet sanctuary for their sons un- til they were old enough to as- sume the responsibilities of life. 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Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew', (embroider, quilt, weave -- fa- homefurnishings, toys, ts, bazaar hits. Plus FREE — tructions for six smart veil. Saps. Hurry, send 250 now! When Learning Was A Privilege Think of wearing your printer on a, cord around your neck! That ,was what Dorothy was so proud to do. Think -Pt calling that printer a \book, when it was not a book at all, but just a single page! The hornbook was the only kind of primer the school chil- dren had in those days. When the strange primer was hung around Dorothy's neck, in order that she might carry it safely to school, it really looked more like a toy than anything elee, There was only one printed page, A thin piece of wood was putt behind the sheet of paper to keep it smooth,, and over the printing was spread a sheet of horn so thin that the letters could 'be seen through it, Printing cost so much in those days that the little sheet must be kept safe from wet or dirty gingers, But glass was costly, too, and so the thin covering of horn 'was used, A frame of brass was put around the whole, and the wooden back had a handle at the bottom. The hornbook looked like a little hand mirror. A very odd primer! Dorothy wore her hornbook to school the second day. A new cord had been put through the hole in the end of the little wooden handle, and the horn-. book hung like a very large locket around Dorothy's fat little neck. If Dorothy had gone to school when her own daughter's daugh- ter went, she would have had a real book with pictures. Perhaps there would have been a picture of an acorn and a picture of boy and the rhyme: "A is an Acorn that grew on on oak, B is a Boy who delights in his book," This surely would have given some help in learning A and B. It would have been easier still it Dorothy had learned to read in these days, for nobody would have troubled her with the let- ters at all. She would have bee gun at once with little stories, just as she expected to do, It seemed very stupid to keep saying the alphabet. Round and curly D, to be sure, were easy, but how could any one ever tell which was little b and -which was little d? There were days when Doro- thy wished she lived where lit- tle girls' had no hornbooks. At last she knew that the hump was on the right side of b and on the left side of d; and she knew also the sounds of the easy syllables in the next line, a-b, ab, o-b, oh, and all the others. There were more lines on the hornbook page, and they took a long time to learn, because one was a line that held all the fig- ures, and the lower part of the page contained the Lord's Pray- er. The day she was five years old Dorothy read to her grand- father everything on the horn- book from the cross in the upper left hand corner to the • Amen at the end of the prayer. — From "Everyday Life in the Colonies," by Gertrude L. Stone and M. Grace Ficleett, tovracy„ Harvard, following the, itglish pattern in 1630, set the style Which still prevails gener- ally in the United States, Imprisoned in this tradition, eolleges have devised plausible means of stretching out their of- ferings from September of the first year to June of the fourth. Long vacations help a lot — three months in the summer, arid weeks for Christmas and Faster holidays, Those happy days off are usually consumed in leafing or in going to and 'getting over innumerable parties. For an in- dustrious few, the summer can be used to earn some money. But considering the ultimate loss to the colleges, it would be cheaper to provide loans and scholar" ships, The male high-school gradu- ate now is faced not only by the necessity for preparing for a vo- cation after college, but by years of military service, If the boy chooses to enter a profession, he will not be ready to earn a living until his middle or late 20s The surgeon earns little or nothing until he is 30 or more, This is an injustice to the student and an intolerable burden on most par- ents, But even with the months of actual study limited by bounte- ous vacations, the academic of- fering has been heavily diluted with plenty of soft or irrelevant courses. The observations that follow may not apply so specifically to the learning of foreign languages or science. But they certainly ap- ply to the disciplines with which I am most familiar, the social sciences. In that part of the curriculum, faculty members with four years to thin out their offering can move with the utmost leisure. Courses are given which need not be taught, only read in books. Usually a faculty member has an introductory course for "funda- mentals," Then a moderately ad- vanced course which merely el- aborates the introductory course. And for the third course, a re- capitulation of the first two. Too often the wisdom and knowledge of a professor could with effi- ciency be imparted in one full year's course. But the colleges justify this part-time use of talent because they want "research" and the writing of books. Jacques Bar- zun, dean of ,the Graduate 'Facul- ties at Columbia, takes sharp is- sue with this insistence upon what is called productive re- search and scholarship. Too often it is' merely an "excuse for a flight from teaching." And the pressure on young teachers to "produce" means gross neglect of students and classrooms. Indeed, the' gifted and inspiring teacher is under a heavy penalty. The dull fellow who can neither teach nor write well is the benefici- ary. The college plant is also ineffi- ciently used.. President Kirk es- timates that the plant is .n oper- ation only about 46 per cent of the time. With a rise of more than 100 per cent in enrollment of 7 million in prospect by 1970, such inefficiency is deplorable. The remedy is three college years of eleven months each. Faculty members might choose time off for writing or travel, or more pay. There would be a faster turnover of students and. less expense for parentsecolleges, taxpayers, and donors, And stu- dents would be able to add a year to their productive life. . . and how glad I 'was to get home. Street.. after street with houses so much alike it would be hard to recognize one's own home in the dark. And the next house no more than ten feet away, I looked at the treeless sunclrenched streets and literal- ly got hot all over. But still suburban life, I have to admit, seems to suit some young couples very well. The children have other children to play with; the mothers have their coffee breaks and Dad has plenty of time left over after mowing the wee lawn (with a power mower, of course!) and hoeing the flower border. So I guess it's not for me to grumble — just so long as I'm not required ,to live in a sub- division, ' Right now we are' experienc- ing joys and sorrows on our own acre lot. Our garden isn't doing too well. Some of it is water- logged so that hoeing is impos- sible. Rabbits are still busy. They have even chewed off some of the small shrubs we planted this spring. And aphids and other insects are every- where, stunting the growth of trees and shrubs. Green cater- pillars drop from the trees on to our heads and down our necks. Ugh! But we are learning a lot. We know how which plants are disease resistant — morain lo- cust, mock orange, trumpet vine, weeping birch and Manitoba maple. Badly infected are the flowering birch, spirea, honey- suckle vine, and of course, the roses. We hand-spray them but sometimes the damage is done before we notice. Our ,petunias don't look too healthy but our iris and geraniums are grand. Flowers are like people — some like it hot, some like it cool. But I haven't found anyone who en- joyed last week's humid wee- ther. But there has been plenty.-to think about besides the weather the Coyne-Fleming contio- versy had everyone talking. And the biggest guessing game to date is what will come out in the Budget. By the time this gets `into print we shall know —.arid some will be happy and others not. That's the way it always is, and alvvays. will, be, A woman will spend $5 for a pair of stockings to give the im- pression she's not wearing any. The man Who says' he's never made A Mistake usually has a wife serho dada, When Larks Sing. In Scotland There is perhaps nothing in hill-life so thrilling as the sight end sound of the first returning lark. You go out, on a still Feb- ruary morning, your footsteps ringing on the hard cobbles of the yard. Suddenly, something makes you stop in your tracks and look up. Against the pale, blue sky you see two, maybe three; or, even four, small brown specks tossing madly in the air. As you look, one detaches itself from the'rest, rises in a series Of ecstatic leaps and comes.,elewly down again, its song rippling from itsAitiy throat, How some- thing so small can let loose such a volume of sound is what amazes• you. Soon the others join 4,144/ et& ihtss's, Enjoy the sun• in a styled-to- slim playsuit — wrap on the skirt when r "dress look" is re- quired! &nos:stilly zips 'up back, boy shorts give you a trim thigh- line. Printed Pattern 4883: Hall Sizes 14%, 161/s., 181/2 , 20%, 221/2 , '24%. Size l61/2 playsuit takes 21/2 yards 35-inch; skirt 2% yards. Send FOETY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, • use- pastel note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly S 1Z E, NAME, ADDRESS, STY L NUMBER, Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto; Ott. ANNOUNCING the biggest fashion show of Spring-Summer, 1961 — pages, pages, pages of patterns in our new Color Cata- log — just out! Hurry, send 350 now! The strange bird I mentioned a few weeks ago is not a hermit thrush as I imagined. It is a Brown Thrasher. And apparent- ly it had a mate as a nest was built in a big thorn bush next door. Three brown speckled eggs were laid and carefully,. tended by the mother bird. Our neigh- bour kept close watch to make sure the nest was not disturbed by marauding cats. But her watchfulness was not sufficient protection against crows and starlings. And so, one by one, the eggs disappeared, leaving only scraps of broken shell. But the thrashers are s till around. We often see them on or near our feeding station and quite frequently hear them singing from the top of a nearby tree.. They are beautiful birds to see and to hear. It grieves me to think their eggs were destroyed. If only there were some way to protect our song birds from ma- licious and less attractive birds. Of course the birds fight for themselves as much as they can. We quite often see a thieving crow being chased away by a number of smaller birds. Cow- birds are particularly aggress gressive. And yet too often it • is the crow who wins out, presum- ably by cunning and stealth. Because of tragedies in the wing- ed world such• as happened to the brown thrasher ,bird watci- ing is not always a pleasure — it can be a heartache, But then what applies in bird- land also applies to humans. Things do not always turn out the way we' plan them. Birds build their nests in what they think is a sheltered spot. In just the same way' man may buy or build a house in a beautiful, quiet country setting. The place is reasonably close to good roads, churches,. schools and shopping centre so everyone is happy and enjoys the freedom of country life. Add theri, it quite often happens,• the family is hardly settled before a. speculator buys up most of the.adjacent land and first thing they know bulldozers' move in, houses spring tip like mushrooms overnight—and then, it's goodbye 'privacy and coun- try living. Another case might be that of a family crowded into a city apartment who' get listening to housing propaganda on the radio — "Own your own home in our newest and most spacious Sub- division . s enjoy independence at its best . . low down pay- ment and Move right in." It sounds good compared to a city apartment, So they buy a house with all the trimmings.. They Soon find the locality lacks trees, privacy and space but it has Art abundance of clogs, eats, drett and cars. And you know it is funny What can happen in a Modern honied I went to a new house one day and after ringing the bell I heard al voice say "fill, answer the door will 'you in the lathroonir The lady of the house had obviously forgotten the bathroorn window opened out on to the front porch! Just lately have been listen- lag to a lot 'of nearby subdivi. sion advertising so 'last Sunday when Bob was here suggested that we take a run over to see What it was all about, We 'did Sounds And Smells 'In The 'Country In writing of the days of my grandparents there are 'one or two things which I should like to stress, since, they belong to those times and "'have passed away so completely. The first was the lovely smell, which was inherent in the hedgerows •drap- ed with hawthorn and honey- suckle, and in the verges lined with huge docks, burdocks,. tea- sels, hogweed and wild parsnip, to say nothing of campions, corn- flowers and poppies. This was mixed with .the gritty dust of . the roads, and sweat of horses and. Stockholm tar. ' Then there were the gardens. In grandmother's case, as you Might expect, it was Elizabethan in character, Little sanded paths ran here and there between low box borders, like a knot garden, and rivalled one in' fragrance and atmosphere. In high sum- mer the hollyhocks, grew so, tall that they almost turned into the bedroom windows. A n. d, ot; course, there was a fuchsia. When the sun shone on this it loosened a gentle perfume which lingers in the memory even now. tranctmotheT's neighbour, an- other Barham, was a gardener- coachman at the•rectory, awl he went ih for pansies, which also were grown in little beds ringed with box. Other smells came from the stockyard, .of hay and straw, and large beds of net- tee, Another quality, fittingly com- plementary to the other, Was that of stillness. The air seemed still, as quiet as a mouse, so that what sounds there were travel- led long distances and were full of music and echoes. The crunch of wheels grinding on the gritty road and the clip-clop of the horses. The barking of a dog (a peertent at night) at some dis- tant farmstead; the Ware of a cow robbed of her c a 1 f; the bleating of sheep — and there were many flocks ih those days. To these were added oh market days the ring of bells on the horses, which beside the sound was as equally pretty a sight. 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