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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-01-11, Page 2• dolts Can Learn Fetter amid Faster The "old dog" takes very easily to new tricks, 're prove it, the 'ELS, National 5ociation of Publie School pi.chilt Educators has just put out 4 booklet "flow Adults Can earn More—Faster." It insists that adults can learn. If they say they can't pick up 1tew ways of doing things, or ban't memorize things the way they used to, they are just not telling the truth. Facts prove otherwise, Some time ago, according to the book- let, a group of 50 -year-olds were Leven the same intelligence test Whey had taken 31 years before. They made higher scores in prac- tically every part of the test! In another case, a group of men 7 Tri 20 to 83 years of age took a urse in world affairs at the niversity of Chicago. The older students were more successful ¢1,nd continued the subject for a longer time than the younger students. As for memorizing, an adult is better at memorizing facts for ttse in a speech or examination tan children. "Children are bet- er —but only a little better — an you are in memorizing facts and retaining them for long periods." Actually, adults have the ad- vantage over children in learning because of "their years of experi- rie Festivity Cloth 1 61 . 444tLd V 1' NCReCQJ{ l' Add glamor 'n' glitter to your holiday dinners and parties with a cloth as merry as the season. Easy, fun to embroider in gold - silver, red -green with sequin sparkle. Pattern 948. 12 motifs 101/2x101/4 to 21/2x3 -inches; direc- tions 52 to 70x90 -inch cloths. Send THIRTY -CENT CENTS, (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto. Print plainly PATTERN NUM- BER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalog — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of fash- ions, home accessories to knit, crochet, sew, weave, embroider, quilt. See jumbo -knit hits, cloths. spreads, toys, linens, afghans plus free patterns. Send 25c. Ontario residents must include lc Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered, There is no sales tax on the patterns. ISSUE 49 — 1961 ence in living" and Incense when they set out to learn something they usually have a strong reason for doing so. The booklet; a new publication put out by the National Educa- tion Association in Washington, is an engaging bit of literature in itself, amusingly illustrated and delightfully persuasive, It makes one want to be as smart as the NEA writers claim be is. It makes the process of "listening" and "taking notes" sound so intriguing that the reader wants to run to the near- est stationery store for paper and pencil. The technique in listening, educators say, is to "listen for use,"—for practical ways in which a speaker's remarks can be of use in one's own experi- ence, "Listen for basic thought" — for the title, themes and message of the speech, "As he (the speaker) talks, concentrate hard, listening for the grain of content in the chaff of words, You'll find listening is an active, dy- namic thing," the booklet prom- ises, "Listen with pencil in hand" also, and don't be shy about making notes, You might even try some "practice listening" if you're rusty, Just tune in on a radio speech and see if you can sum up in five sentences just what the speech is all about. Or, if you want to be a sophis- ticated listener, listen critically, the booklet suggests. "Listen for 'sneaky' phrases ... for lapses in logic . , . for loose statistics . , . for political propaganda .. . or slanted viewpoints, ..." There is good, sound advice on note -taking. Most of us could use it. The gist of it is, don't make notes on scraps of paper, backs of envelopes. "Invest in a strong loose-leaf notebook, with plenty of room for additional pages." This is nothing, of course, we don't know. But it is so often something we don't do, writes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. The next bit of advice the edu- cators have to offer is "make your notes short and to the point." Sum up the high points. When you hear the speaker say: "The point is , . ." or "above all ." or "to sum it up . " get set. He is ready to make his pitch and this is where the note - taker goes into action. Study tips include recommen- dations on methods of concen- trating on a subject and catching yourself when you get off the track. "Jerk your mind back in line the moment it wanders" A suggested device to check up on any mind -wandering is to place a mark on a piece of paper every time your mind wanders. "Try- ing to keep down the number of marks keeps your mind on your work." Six suggested ways to improve your memory: "Before you start memorizing anything, read it over from beginning to end, Un- derstand it. .. Don't try to cram your memory.... Use initials as memory aids... Find the mem- ory trick that fits your 'type'. , . . Always 'overlearn.' . . Put the information to use right away. Almost everyone wants to read faster. There is a chapter in the booklet on this, too, with the en- couraging assurance that "almost everyone" can do just this. Here is one way: "Force your- self to 'gulp' your words, by moving a sheet of paper down the page, covering each line aft- er you have read it. Move the paper fast enough to keep your- self reading . more rapidly than you ordinarily would." The booklet's purpose is not to start a trend in adult education. The trend is already here, with some 9,000,000 American adults taking all kinds of courses in what the National Education Association considers "one of the most exciting and important movements in education today." OLD TIMBERS MAKE A NEW CHURCH — Timbers from old log -train trestles were salvaged for construction of a non- denominational church near Enumclaw, Wash., about 30 miles east of Tacoma. Steam locomotives which once used the trestles on Weyerhauser Company's tree farm hays been re- placed by log trucks. Four of the men who helped build thq church admire their work. The salvaged wood, 36,000 board feet, was In good shape after 30 yeare exposure. DRESSED TO BE BLESSED — Dressed to his tasseled tusks, this silk -clad state elephant waits -with his uniformed keep- ers for his turn to be blessed by the Maharaja of Mysore, India, The ceremony is part of the traditional Dusserah Festival commemorating a historic victory for "the good," HRONICLES 11,1.9S.RIA1121 We have been having a mar- velous time this past week. Oh no, we haven't been on a trip, if that's what you are thinking, We haven't been any farther than our own basement. In fact that is exactly where we went, where we stayed and where we shall continue to stay for at least an- other nother week. Oh no, we are not practising living in a bomb shel- ter. I told you in my last column we are not in favour of that. Our one and only reason for practi- cally living downstairs is for the purpose of clearing out junk! And believe me, it was neces- sary. A lot of the stuff down- stairs was what we had brought from the farm — thinking we would have time to make use of it later on. Instead of that we added to the pile. OId clothes to cut up for braided rugs, some to make over for our grandsons. Stacks and stacks of magazines that contained "interesting ar- ticles"; paper -back books, local newspapers, travelogues, maps and recipe folders. I'm telling you we could hardly navigate in our basement at ali. More than that we could never find any- thing we wanted even if we were sure it was there. One day I began to look around and wondered what would hap- pen if either of us should pass to the "Great Beyond"! That was when I determined to clean up— and Partner was only too glad to cooperate. Already he has burnt five bushel baskets full of junk—and the end is not in sight. We also packed a carton of "bet- ter books" ready for a White Elephant Sale. I don't mean bet- ter in regard to the condition of the covers but to the reading matter — some of them are clas- sics, some poetry, still of value to anyone who has the time and inclination to read them. It has been a tiring job and yet in a way, enjoyable. Read- ers of this column may be inter- ested to know I came across many of the letters you have written to me over the years. They will not be burnt—at least not in my lifetime. They are stacked away in a big carton marked "Fan Mail." Often when 1 take down a box I haven't any idea what I am going to find inside. One such box was about eight inches SALLY'S SALLIES I=UR 5AI.(5N Itglom had lid now; n eImp pt Tow." square. "Now what's in here?" I asked myself. You'd never guess. Love -letters, no less! Another box contained letters covering a two-year period from my much beloved mother who died in 1923 of cancer. I often wondered about mother ... had I given her enough attention while she was still living, especially after I came to Canada. Thank heaven her letters reassured me on that point. Apparently I had written quite regularly and Partner and I together had supplied a little financial assistance. All her let- ters were pathetically cheerful although I know she suffered terribly and was getting weaker all the time. You can imagine what those letters meant to me bringing back many happy me- mories as well as sorrowful re- collections concerning her last illness. The box of love -letters 1 haven't had the courage to open yet. When I told Partner about them he said — "You had better burn those unread!" Now why should he say that? Do you sup- pose he thought they might con- tain reasons for regret, of unfor- filled promises — or of dreams that didn't materialize? Anyway they could boomerang for either of us as some are from•. Partner to me, others from me`tgohim. At the moment I don't think I have the courage to'opeit'-them anyway. Not only that, I haven't time as I have yet to sort out my collection of writings. I have a printed copy of everything I ever' had published, dating back to 1923, in papers, magazines and books, some of them published in England. Some of the cilp- pings are pasted in scrap -books, others are loose or in the orig- inal paper or magazine in which they were published. When I was giving them the "once over" I couldn't believe I had written so much. In his way Partner is as bad as I am for hoarding — he saves old nails, screws, bits of board, tools that need fixing, binder twine and odds and ends of paint. Sometime we shall get it all sort- ed out, There will still be a lot of stuff left. An old edition (24 volumes) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which we consider priceless. Also a huge Webster's Dietionary, Print and flannel- ette cuttings I refuse to throw out — I am hoping to make two quilts for the boys. Small glass jars make good containers for nails, buttons and so an as they don't need to bo labelled — you know what you've , got at a glance. Advertising letters come .in handy for making carbon cop- ies for anything I type. Well, that's what we've been doing, Does it put any of you in the notion to go and do likewise? I'm telling you it'll be a grand and glorious feeling when the job is done! Try it yourself some- time, A psychiatrist 15 a man who doesn't have to worry as long as other people do. Hope Rembrandt Wasn't Listening In less than four minutes, the whole fabulous business was over, Louis J. 1Vlarion, an amia- ble auctioneer who, can turn high drama into .corn with his quips, opened the )'ijiding at $1 million with a sealed? bid. Then, .to an obbligato of 1;as,ps from a swel- tering audience rod 1,800, the bid jumped upw'ai'd'Sto $2.3 million— the highest price ever offered for a painting. There it hung for a few tentative seconds until Mari- on rapped his ivory gavel. The audience applauded and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art had a glorious new acquisi- t f o n; Rembrandt's "Aristotle Contemplating t h e Bust o f Homer." The Rembrandt was the great prize of the Erickson collection, a group of 24 paintings that had inspired an international guess- ing game about how much they would fetch and whowould buy them. At last month's auction at the Parke -Bernet Galleries in New York, the answer was given in little less than an hour. Muse- ums, dealers, and private collect- ors paid a total of $4,679,250 for the collection, more than twice the previous auction record, set in London in 1958 at the sale of the Goldschmidt collection of im- pressionist paintings. Ironically, when , Rembrandt painted the "Aristotle" in 1653, he was near bankruptcy. The work was commissioned by a Sicilian nobelnian, Antonio Buf- fo, who wanted a portrait of a philosopher. When it was de- livered to him, he complained of the size of the painting (41 by 41/2 feet), and of its "unfinished" Took. Nevertheless, he paid Rem- brandt 500 florins—$7,800 in to- day's currency. In recent decades the "Aris- totle" has been the only great Rembrandt remaining in a pri- vate collection, and many impor- tant museums were hopeful of being willed the painting at the death of its owner, Mrs. Anna Erickson, widow of wealthy ad- man Alfred W. Erickson (Mc- Cann-Erickson, Inc.). But she provided instead that her estate be divided into 90 equal parts, which left the trustees no choice but to sell the whole collection. At the auction last month,. three museums, the Met, the Cieweland Museum, and Baron Henry von Thyssen's Museum in Lugano, found themselves bidding against each other, with director James .7. Rorimer of the Met puftfeg, in the winning bid himself. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Is it considered In• goods taste to mix jewelry -- for in- stance, to wear gold earrings and a pearl necklace? A. This is quite all right. Not everyone can hope to have all her jewelry matching. Q. When eating olives at the - table, is it proper to put the em tire olive into the mouth and;, after the meat has been eaten' off, remove the stone from the, mouth? A. No. The olive should be held in the fingers and nibbled off the stone. Q. Is it really considered hr good taste to extend any and alt kinds of social invitations; over the . telephor: '? A. One may use the telepllinare. for almost any :kind of !twat t*Rn,. with the exception of formal cines (t, In a double wedding of two sisters, dues each bride have her awn plaid -of -honor? A, 'Yes; although they may. sl}are bridesmaids. And, of course, each bridegroom las his. own best man, 100, Q, ltn what room of the home Should a tea he given? A, The table may be spread in the living room, if the group is a small one and the room Is large. Preferable, however, the table should be in the dinning room. 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SEA BAUBLE—Actress Nancy Kovack poses prettily on an Italian beach between working sessions on a new film, "Jason and the Golden Fleece." The former TV bubbler waxes eo, static over Italy where, she says, she has learned ''to live every .day."