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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-04-13, Page 2More About Those 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 It has been point- ed out that this country no long- er has a rural economy — child labor has been replaced by ma- chines.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 single real. For Entertaining $Auha qtr LJ i Dress up a luncheon table with this set — large doily as center- piece, smaller as place mats. Scalloped border enhances .raceful oval shape. 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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- De.ddykine, when you gs the bii4 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. 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