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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-02-12, Page 7"To Sweep Cobwebs From l The Sky" This isn't much of a thesis, and won't out any ice. It just hap- pened that I said, the other even- ing, that I was unimpressed by these efforts to get modern man off the ground and amongst the galaxies of yonder, "For," I said, "I knew a woman once who went up 70 times as high as the moon I" Somebody said, "Oh, that's right—she went up in a basket!" "No," answered I. "She was test up in a blanket" "It was a basket' "Nope, a blanket.' Sowe got Mother Goose down, and in this book it was a blanket, and we spent a most pleasant evening with some wonderful book folks we hadn't visited since the children were so high. One woman said she went, a - shopping recently and tried to buy a Mother Goose book, and couldn't get one. They had a wonderful assortment of books for children, and the man tried to persuade her to buy some- thing more modern and "better", He seemed to think there was something treasonable in want- ing a Mother Goose at all, but yielding to insistence he at last brought out a beautiful book of {"Mother Goose Tales" which in - eluded "The Three Bears", "Red RIding Hood", and "Whittington and his Cat'"! The lady said she was just browsing and went home to think about it, I made a small tour after that just curious( and found the lady o is right. They had a wonderful selection of "juveniles" duly ap- proved and recommended by whoever it is that has presumed to pass on juveniles. I thanked them, and said I was just brows- ing, There was a time we got con- siderable academic discussion about the "fitness" of Mother Goose for children — indeed the fitness of all the old favorite nursery amusements was ques- tioned. Children's literature was "cruel and gory and gruesome", and shouldn't be lodged in e budding mind. I worried a good deal about the people . who thought they.. understood such things, reveal- ing therewith that they didn't— I never worried much about the children. "I'll grind his bones to make my bread" might lift goosebumps on a horrified adult, but I happened to know the children didn't much care. All that ever .suggested was that N.L. ROOKIE OF YEAR — San Francisco Giants' first baseman Orlando Cepeda, above, has been chosen .through Baseball Writers Association balloting as National League Rookie of the Veal'' for .1958. DRAWING A BEAD. — Hunting for twigs instead of animals, is forester Hugh Hill. He uses a .22 -calibre rifle to shoot off the ends of branches from a superior pine tree. The twigs will be grafted to rooted stock to grow .high-quality 'trees for the wood. pulp industry. Gram/rile repeated it in a hollow, giant)ook voice, and crunched the youngster to her in a squeez• ing hug, and mauled him gently until he gurgled and giggled and said, "Ag'in, gammie!" Ah; well . . But here, suddenly, was .this "old woman" tost up in a blan- ket. Completely anon y m o u s, thoroughly unidentified, she had used no count -down, had com- puted nothing, knew no radar or electronics, and without the slightest allowance fbr error had done what the greatest modern, minds haven't been able to do. She gave us no double-talk about defense and civil liberties, and had. no urge of international competition. She had simply gone up with a broom to sweep cobwebs — a neat, motherly, 'housewifely chore admired on every hand — and she had said not to worry a bit, as she'would be back soon. The .little jingle has in it every philosophic ad- monition we need for our own times, and it is scientifically cor- rect with our latest knowledge. Great truth and perspicacity prevail in Mother Goose. We should, consider, for instance, the mad father the mad mother, and the mad children who climbed madly on a hOrse and rode mad- ly away. This hould be con- sidered; it is vital. And take the old woman (another "old' -wom- an" of course) who lived under the hill. If she' not gone, she lives there still. There ' is no equivalent example in all the high statements of our knowing era of a similar logic. I have heard nothing from anybody which even approaches the in- disputable clarity of this remark, You let one authority say. something, and another will jump on hien — even in areas where opinion is ruled out we have opinions. But you cannot quarrel with this old 'woman. There is a lesson here. and 1 wish I knew what it is. All else is transient and fleeting, amend- able and provisional — but the old lady is permanent and im- movable through the incontro- vertible coefficient of "if". Where else, but Mother Goose, could you look for such assur once? And yet Mother Goose is more andmore seldom, and. "better" books` are .urged upon the child. Still, how can any such ancient lore be "sold" to people now? This is today, pro- found , and advanced, and the Queen has pressing problems of social, economic, and political hue to worry about. She would not fry pudding for breakfast. Welfare has eliminated the beg- gar for dogs to bark at, and ladies no longer ride "Prim, prim, prim!" The woman I mentioned told me her desire to buy a Mother Goose came while watching a television show. A mother of seven was up with a chance for the grand prize, and the man said, "Now your category' is Mother Goose, What did Jdck swap for a hatful of beans?" Just what Mother Goose has to do with Jack and the Beanstalk is one thing, but the Mother of Seven didn't know. anyway. My friend decided it was time •!o brush up on such things in her own family. She said she thought for days about the Mother of Seven who knew no Mother Goose, or any Jack or Jill, and who wouldn't know what it's like to cuddle ar wee one in his clean:, fresh pajumpers while he nestles against you and looks up with the bedtime, story - time, shine in his eyes. -by John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. How Can 1? By Anne Ashley Q. How can I take proper care of winter geraniums? A. Geraniums should not be kept too warm or watered too much for winter blooming.. They should be kept just wet enough so that the ground looks dry most. of the time; and they do best in • full sunlight. Q. How can 1 make curtains hang evenly after laundering? A. Slip curtain rods • through the lower hems and leave -them there for a few days. They will straighten the curtains. 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