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Yertr4touncl Schools
The possibility of a 12 -month
echoed year has been kicked
around for several years now.
The recent CaliforniaCitizens
Commission on. Education recom-
mended that the Legislature
study the possibilities of a year-
round year.
Educators have debated the
effect of a three -mallets vacation
for teenagers. It has been point-
ed out that this country no long-
er has a rural economy — child
labor has been replaced by ma-
chines. Yet we still retain the
short school yeas' with a long
summer zr e vacation,
Lnn
S. Bryan Jennings of Middle-
burg, Fla., a member of that
state's chamber of commerce
committee on education, has
been an outspoken advocate of
year around school use,
Jennings advocates "the effi-
cient use of educational facilities
and teaching personnel by abol-
ishing, as rapidly as possible,.
the outmoded system of operat-
ing schools foxnine months in
the year and allowing our build-
ings—which represent the in-
vestment of billions; of dollars—
to stand idle for the remaining
three months of each year."
Jennings estimates that if all
of the schools in the nation
would operate 48. ,r>eeks in the
• year with staggered enrollments,
the equivalent rf 444400 addi-
tional classrooms would be cre-
ated—equal to a ccnetruction cost
of $18 billions. Merced (CZ'if
Sun -Star.
They Really. Ate
In Grandpa's Day
Yre nr:',n• : ^reen't c-'.ing as
much as you did a few years
back --according to scientists who
have been checking up on the
amount cf food we consume.
One result cf this is that our
dinner elates have been shrink-
ing in size. They are consider-
ably :'mailer than they were in
grandfather's and great-grandfa-
ther's times.
They and their forefathers
consumed food in a big way. Up
to a century ago six or seven
courses et an ordinary meal were
quite common.
The newspapers of earlier
times frequently told stories of
extra -special eaters, too — men
who ate record amounts of food
to win wagers or just for the
sheer fun cf it,
Garagantuan eaters are rare
to -day. No one organizes a fes-
tival of the stomach as did some
of our ancestors. You don't hear
for instance of record appetites
reike th•it Ci a man named "Beef-
steak Pete," who once consumed
venteen pounds of beef for
inner or that of "Lambey"
mith who actually ate seventy-
ve smell lamb chops ata
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boosting to 25 the total number of jets the airline has in operation or on order. The new
short -to -medium -range aircraft ore scheduled for Lufthansa's routes to the near east and
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HRO aCL S
RF M
Oh dear, it looks as if we've
got to face it again . the
speeches, the promises, the pro-
paganda that always precedes a
general election. We almost wilt
at the thought of it. Not because
we are so well satisfied with the
present government that we
want them to remain in office;
not even because we are dissatis-
fied with them and want them
out. Sounds as if we're sitting
on the fence, doesn't it? It isn't
even that. When the tisne comes
we shall know which way to
vote — but we would like to
. postpone it as long as possible.
Our immediate interest is the
weather. We haven't really had
a bad winter but yet I don't
know of any year when we have
looked forward to spring so
eagerly. Last week it made me
feel just wonderful to see a red,
red robin •strutting around on
the lawn. He won't be so wel-
come later on when small fruits
are ready for picking. But have
you noticed — although you see
robins at this time of the •year
you never hear their sweet song.
Maybe they are afraid of getting
g
laryngitis if they warble too
much before the weather warms
up. Most people look for an
early spring when Easter is early
but of late years there seems
little connection between Easter
and the weather. Here's hoping
this spring will be an exception.
I think the children around
here must be longing for spring •
too. Anyway they make a bee-
line for our patios, front and
back, where we have a six-foot
overhang that keeps dirt inthe
planters nice and dry, making it
just like a sandpile :for the
youngsters to play in. That is
until the dirt gets mixed up
with the snow. Then they are
able to make mud 'pies with
which they plaster our steps and
patio, A lovely mess, I assure
you. Generally their shouts and
squeals of delight betray them so
it isn't long before Partner or I
chase them home. Their mothers
are no more pleased with their
escapade than we are because
they go home with snowsuits
plastered with mud. I am thank-
ful it is the patio' we have to •
clean up and not the kids! Any-
way, the poor little tikes have to
play somewhere.
Incidentally, have you noticed
how times have changed the way
in which children get fresh air
and exercise in winter? When
our two were small I used to
dress them warmly and take
them for a walk, even if it was
only for half -an -hour. And I
kept them on the move. That
wav they didn't get a chance to
get cold or run into mischief.
Nowadays mothers put snowsuits
on their pre-schoolers and send
them out to play by themselves.
The snowsuits are such a pro-
tection against the weather there
is little fear of them catching
cold. Bat what is there for the
pocr little mites to do? Natural-
ly, if they can find any nice dry
dirt they are going to play with
it. Failing that they get bored'
and come pounding at the door
for a cookie or to go to the bath-
room. Mothers grumble because
children are no sooner dressed
than they want to come in again.
To my way of thinking it is eas-
ier to take them for a half-
hour's walk rather than turn
them loose on their own, Exer-
cise is what they need - and the
'fresh air is good for mother too,
Of course on a farm children can
always find plenty to amuse
them at the barn — and they
PETITE — Vicki Trickett flies
in for a visit. She'll soon star
in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian."
love to help Daddy with the
chores. Which goes to show
there is no place like a farm for
raising a family.
Speaking of raising a family I
was very interested in the eco-
nomy menus published a few
days ago by one of 'our evening
papers. Some of them looked
quite good. But I couldn't help.
thinking what a luxury thole
meals would have been in Eng-
land when we were on war
rations. To make our weekly
ration of two ounces of butter
go further we mixed it with
mashed potatoes and then re-
molded it into pats. A filling
and favourite dessert was bread
pudding. Our family still likes
it. Here is the recipe. Greasea
pyrex dish with margarine. Fill
it three-quarters full with stale
bread, Sprinkle with brown
sugar, raisins, currants and peel.
Add cinnamon and vanilla, Also
two tablespoons of margarine.
Beat one egg and sufficient milk
to cover the tread. When bread
is soaked blend. thoroughly with
fork. Bake in 375 degree oven
about an hour. '
Good old-fahioned oatmeal
porridge .instead of packaged
cereal is another budget saver.
If you know how to make it
properly. Too often it is a thick,
lumpy mess. It should be smooth
and creamy and served with
brown sugar and whole milk.
And why should porno and beans
• always come out of a can? Any
good cook book will tell you how
to make Boston baked beans.
Soup? There is nothing so eco-
nomical as homemade soup, with
rice, or pot barley as a filler.
Potatoes? Scalloped potatoes go
a lot farther than boiled, And do
you know that brown sugar
syrup makes a good dessert for
children if fruit is not available.
Boil two cups of sugar with one
cup of water. Add vanilla or
maple flavouring and you have
a dessert as good as maple syrup.
Fine for sweetness but don't for-
get all children - and grown
ups too, need raw fruit, vege-
tables and fruit juices,
Spring is gradually approach-
ing—however, one skeptical in-
habitant we know of continues
to carry a snow shovel in the
trunk of his car.
DRIVE CAREFVL1,V — The
life you save may be your own.
An Otter 'Makes
Himself At Home !
I have never been able fully
to make up my mind whether
certain aspects of otter behaviour
merely chance to resemble that
of human beings, cr whether, in
the case of animals ,as young as
Mij was, thereis actual mimicry
of the human foster parent. Mij,
anyway, seemed to regard me
closely as I composed nmyself on
my back with a cushion under
my head; then, with a confiding
air of knowing exactly what, to
do, he clambered up beside me
'and worked his body down into
the sleeping -bag until he lay flat •
on his back inside it with his
head on the cushion beside mine
and his fore -paws in the air. •In
this position, such an attitude as
a child devises for its teddy -bear
in bed, Mij heaved an enormous
sigh and was instantly asleep.
Mij and I remained in London
for nearly a month, while, as my'
landlord put it, the studio came
to look like a cross between a
monkey -house and a `furniture,
repository. The, garage roof was
fenced in, and a wire gate fitted
to the gallery stairs, so that he:
could occasionally be excluded
from the studio itself; 'the up-
stairs telephone was enclosed. in
a box (whose fastening he early
learned to undo); •my dressing -
table was cut off from him by a
wire flap hinging from the ceil-
ing, and the electric wires were
enclosed in tunnels of hardboard
that gave the place the appear-
ance of a power -house.
All these precautions were en-
tirely necessary, for if Mij
thought that he had been. ex-
cluded for too long, • m o r e
especially from visitors whose
acquaintance he wished to make,
he would set about laying waste
with extraordinary invention .. .
There was nothing haphazard
about the demonstrations he
planned; into them went all the
-patience' and ingenuity of his
remarkable brain and all the
agility of his muscular body.
More usually, however, when
he was loose in the studio, he
would play for hours at a time
with what soon became an esta-
blished selection of toys, ping-
pang balls, marbles, india-rub-
ber fruit, and a terrapin shell
that I had brought back from
his native marshes.
Scarlett O'Hara
Comes Back Home
Mies Scarlett O'Hara of "Gone
With the Wind" fame came home
to Atlanta, Georgia, after 20
years of wandering in foreign,
parts, and the people took her to
their hearts like a long -lost
dawgh�ter.
The British actress, Vivien
Leigh, whom the whole world
identifies with the charming but
turbulent heroine of the late
Margaret Mitchell's epic of the
Civil War, returned for a three-
day visit in connection with a
revival of the film which first
made her famous. The revival is
a part of Atlanta's Civil War
Centennial Celebration.
Standing on a floodlighted
platform in front of Loew's
Grand Theater where "Gone
With the Wind" first was shown
22 years ago, Miss Leigh looked
,into the upturned faces of thou-
sands of Atlantans crowed into
the triangle formed by Peach-
tree
eachtree and Pryor Streets (Atlanta's
counterpart of Times Square)
and told them; "It's wonderful
It's wonderful to be back,"
Her cultivated British, voice was
clicked with emotion.
With her was Olivia de Havel-
land, who played the part of
Melaine Hamilton, the gentle
and faithful wife of Ashley
Wilkes, She also was greeted
by .stormy applause. Only they
• of the four principal stars of
"Gone ,With the Wind" are left
today. Clark Gable, the.swash-
buckling Rhett Butler of the
film, passed on recently. Leslie
Howard—the cultivated but fu-
tile Southern aristocrat, Ashley
Wilkes—was ,lost on a British
transport plane during World
War II.
The movie's revival brought
back a flood of memories to
Mayor Hartsfield,, who has serv-
ed in his post longer than •the
mayor of any other Iarge Ameri-
can city, 'whites Joseph H. Baird
in the Christian Science Monitor.
It was he who welcomed the
film - starts at the premiere in
the same theater Dec. 15, 1939.
When he met Miss De Havilland
at Atlanta's new municipal air-
port, she noted the modernistic
administration building and look
ed away toward the downtown
skyline where 20- and 30 -story
skyscrapers now rise where once
there were historic buildings of
the past Civil War era, alb}
observed:
"My, how Atlanta ha s
changed!"
"Yes," the Mayor said with a
grin, "a new city, but the same
old Mayor,"
At a press conference• at the
Biltmore preceding the bail, Miss
Leigh, who described herself as
a "middle-aged Scarlett," dis-
closed around -the -
worldplans for an 81
world tour, with other British
actresses and actors with a rep-
ertoire of four plays. These will
include Shakespeare's "Twelfth
Night" and "Merchant of Ven-
ice," "Duel of Angels" and "The
Lady of the Camellias."
After a tour of Far Eastern
countries, the British players
will come to the United States
in the fall of 1962.
A correspondent found• a
chance to ask Miss Leigh a ques-
tion that always has intrigued
him: "How did you, as a British
acrtess, manage a convincing
Southern drawl?"
"I just studied it for 'two
weeks," she replied.
Miss Leigh said that recently
she had seen the screen tests
which she had made in Holly-
wood before Mr. Selznick as-
signed her the coveted }role of
Scarlett O'Hara, and was amazed
now that he had done it.
At night he slept in my bed,
still, at this time, on his back
with his head on the pillow, and
in the morning he shared my
bath. With utter indifference to
temperature he would plunge
ahead of me into water still too
hot for me to enter, and while
I shaved he would swim around
me playing with the soapsuds or
with various celluloid and rub-
ber ducks and ships that had
begun to accumulate in my -
bathroom as they do in a child's
— From "Ring of Bright Water,"
by Gavin Maxwell.
•
Matrimony is a process by
which the grocer acquires an
account the florist once' lied,
"You'll appreciate it ntaee-
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Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley
Q. When a business letter is
addressed jointly to a man and
a woman, what is the correct
salutation?
A. "Dear Sir and Madam."
Q. I( a man is walking wills.
a woman and she is tarrying
her oat err her arm, should he
offer td parry it for hes'?
A. This is not expected,
Q. What is the best and easi-
est way to introduce Married
couples td each other?
A. One good way is merely;
"Mn and Mrs. Carson. Mr. and
Mrs. Rogers," Or, "Mary and
Tom Carson, Helen and Dick I.
Rogers."
Some fellows Q. S ws I ve never
occasionally phone me try-
ing.
riot Y Y
ing• to make blind dates. Would
it be proper for use to accept'
these?
A. Blind dates are dangerous,
unless arranged by a friend, Iia
this case you mention, it's al-
most
t-most like being "picked up" on
the street. Boys anho do their
blind dating on telephones are
usually pretty poor pickings
themselves, or they wouldn't
have to get dates this way.
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ISSUE 14 — 1961
PARIS IN SPRING — Actor. Karl Boehm ha's eyes only for his
wife, Mouchie, as they take in the sights of Paris. He is in the
French capital for the filming of "Pour Horsemen of the Apo''
ca lypse."