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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-02-08, Page 6Reading 'Wastes hi U.S. Shifting If e nation be judged by the books it s"cads, the United States eeetns to be showing a new seri- 0usness in its outlook and keener Attention to being well-informed. In the past five years adult book eireelation has increased $19 per :Ant, Furthermore, the reading emphasis has shifted NILE STYLE — Modern cock- tail dress, done in beige lace ever matching silk organdy, updates the elegance that was Cleopatra's, awayfrom western and mys- teries toward art, music, and political attain. And special in- terest is being shown in science and technology. Despite Ernest I-1einingway's continuing supremacy as author of the most sought-afterfiction, circulation growth in the nation's libraries is far greater in non- fiction, All of this comes to light in the first annual reading -interest survey be the American Library Association since the 1940's. Some of t a librarians re- sponding to the 200 -library questionnaire attributed circu- lation gains to population in- creases in their particular areas, "For persons, concerned with , raising the educational and cul- tural levels of our citizens this Is an encouraging portrait of the American reader," says David H. Clift, executive director of the ALA. "It is important to know, too,. that librarians also contend that the growing awareness on the part of the American citizens of the need to be informed is due to the widespread publicity given to world events',. through our mass communications' me- dia." The survey turns up, a variety of footnotes to the reading ,ha bits of the nation. Historical, psychological, poli- Beal and sociological novels are most popular. But interest in the historical is waning. Africa and the Soviet Union. are winning prime' interest- in the area of foreign affairs. Slightly less but: still "great In- terest" is shown in the United Nations and South America. In `domestic affairs, education attracts most reader attention. Ie.' politics, 27 per cent . of the librarians report a growing In- terest in conservatism, Here's Your •Chance For Unique Photo Collection By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. LONDON — Anybody looking t'or 36,000 original Victorian ihhotographs, including the first oto ever taken? They are free r the asking to any city in America which will provide them with a suitable home. ' The offer comes from German- rorn Helmut Gernsheim, who tarted the collection. But inter- +Asted .Americans will have to act ituickly, Gernsheim warned, be- iause'the West German cities of unich and Cologne have made ds for the collection. For 10 years Gernsheim, a imail, dapper man with a goatee eard, has tried to interest the rltlsh in establishing a museum of photographic art, using his collection as a nucleus, But there have been no takers here, Now, disgusted with British in - A Bargain — Up For Grabs where negatives are filed . in cardboard boxes •reaching the ceiling. Gernsheim's prize exhibit is the first photograph ever taken. This is a view of a courtyard taken by the French inventor Nicephore Niepce in 1826. Niepce called the new process "heliogra- phy," meaning sun -writing, but could find no backers when he came to London to market his. invention. Discovery of the Niepce photo- graph, incidentally, represents eight years of detective work on the part of Gernsheim.. Gernsheim's collection include photos taken during the Indian mutiny and during the Crimean War. Also on hand are American Civil War photos taken by Alex- ander Gardner, an assistant to Brady. His collection features such odditiesas photographs taken by COLLECTOR GERNSHEIM AT HOME: is bursting out all over. difference, Gernsheim is offering his collection abroad, In addition to photographs, it includes books, letters, manuscripts and cameras, et is difficult to place a value on kis collection, Gernsheim tells me, because photographs are only now beginning to appear at auc- tion sales, He estimates its worth at $560,000. Disposal of the collection is a matter of some urgent} for ixernsi'eim, tor it has now grown to the point where he can no longer cope with it, Indeed, Gernsheim and his wife literally ere being crowded out of their London apartment by photo- graphs, Every nook and cranny, in - eluding even the bathroom, was crammed with items such as photograph albums, cameras or books on photography, When Gernsheim wanted to show one of his more valuable photos he had to climb a ladder Into the loft above the kitehen His private morgue Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland," and catalogued in purple ink in Carroll's hand- writing. ' "What I have in mind," said Gernsheim, "is a museum of photography with its own exhibi- tion halls, lecture rooms and 11- braries for the use of students. Surely there is room for such a museum in America." Gernsheim feels that if his collection is ac- cepted as the nucleus of such a museum both he and his wife should be invited to become its director and curator. Now age 48, Gernsheim fled to England from Germany in 1937. He spent the war years working as a photographer in Britain, and in 1045 'began assembling his collection. Gernsheim and his wife are the authore of seventeen books on photography, including the, "History of Photography," first published by the Oxford Univer- sity Press in 1954. BURSTING WITH JOY—Mrs, Mae Morse has something to be proud of: she has two boys in Broadway shows. Robert, right, is star of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," while Richard has top role in "All Kinds of Giants,' Enough to make any mother sparkle, Well, how do you like: our win- ter weather? Coming so 'sudden- ly makes it 'a little hard to take, doesn't it? On Friday we thought bad weather was "on the way so we tushed out to do some shop- ping. Passing cars :and trucks splashed muddy water all over my windshield and it was then I found,: the spray solution had frozen and ,"wouldn't work. I drove, along 'the road •trying to see my way ' between splashes. Eowever, we managed to slither home safe' and, sound and;. you can, 'be quite sure we didn't go out again. On Saturday we had our share of freeiing rain, icy roads, snow and high winds. About midnight Partner discov- ered the two down pipes from the eavestrough 'were frozen solid, sothey had to be discon- necte'd and two other pipes at- tached to' allow the water to run off the roof. When we went to bed freezing rain was still pelting on the Windows so 1 turned on the radio*. drown the noise. It was easier getting off to sleep to the sound of Soft music -than' pelting rain. We also each took a flashlight to bed as there was no telling if, ' and when,' the hydro might go off. However, we were, lucky — the worst we suf- fered was flickering lights, One thing the storm did was take some of our attention away Pattern Bonanza fmel,u Wt A JUMBO pattern of 12 pot - holders, 2 mitts, A variety to suit every taste! 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But then, because of our exper- ience on the farm, we started' to reason things out and we be- came quite sure reports had been grossly exaggerated. 'It could be that sick and diseased animals have at times been. slaughtered" and sold as prune beef — and as such were unfit for human consumption. But we do not .be- lieve that DEAD animals were ever so used, The few times we had an animal die' on the farm the "Dead Stock" truck was sent for immediately: By the time the truck arrived the poor dead ani- mal couldn't possibly have been used for human consumption as it would be bloated to twice Its normal size. Another thing that hasn't been properly emphasized is that dead animals cannot be properly bled. Live 'animals must be killed and hung in such a way that ail the blood drains out of the carcass. If this is not proper- ly done even a healthy animal can end up unfit for human con- sumption. The same applies to poultry. Remember the days when the popular way of killing a chicken was to take it to a wood block and chop its head off? Those days are gone for ever; Chickens are now scientifi- cally killed, bled, and hung. You can tell when a chicken has been properly bled by its while flesh, Certainly there must have been irregularities in the cattle trade and a lot of inferior meat placed on the market but we feel sure , the reports are a little more 'spectacular than they should be. However, it is a good idea to buy meat from a "Canada Approved" carcass, Here and there you can find it stamped on a roast of beef, Now for another subject. How. do you like our "improved" tele- phone system? I ask this because just recently we have had rea- son 'to doubt, As you know, we now have direct dialling to many places. So what happens? Here is an instance. Last week I put a call through to Hespeler. To do so I had to use no less than 13 ,digits! So 'many figuresare con- fusing, to- say the least. Then we' have a 'new type of party - line ' — generally two to a Zine 'hut the rings come through on only one receiving set, That, I suppose, is an improvement, but it has its drawsbacks, On the old type party line all the rings were heard so everyone on the line knew when the phone was in use. Now the only viay we know is by hearing voices when we pick RP the receiver, Just recently a young mother left word at her doctor's office for him to call' as her baby was very sick. Site wait- ed and waited After an hour, and a half she deeided to call again. When she picked up the receiver she found the other party busily engaged in conver- sation! Later the doctor told her the had tried to get through sev- eral times but the line was al- ways busy. Isn't there some way in which such a situation could be avoided? Couldn't the •tele- phone people invent a set that would show a red light when the line was in use? My personal problem is our extension phone. Partner and 1 have reached the stage when we both require "forty winks" after lunch. Often we just get nicely snoozing when ding -a -ling goes the phone, . Apparently there is no way of disconnecting' the ex- tension without 'throwing the line out of commission. So 1 guess the only solution is a portable phone, to be plugged in and out as re- quired, leaving the main phone as is, in the kitchen, with its bell toned down to almost a whis- per. Modern conveniences! What It problem they are!! Mother Of A Great Inventor The legend has come down to., us, , through Edison and his family, that it was because of the inadequacy of the teacher, and in the interests of the boy's education, that his mother de- cided to keep him at home and instruct him privately . , The remarkable mother 'gave the boy the sympathetic understanding that bred confidence. She avoid- ed forcing or prodding andmade an •effort to engage ,his interest by reading him works of good literature and history that she had learned to love — and she was said to have been a fine reader. Instead of b e i n4g bored by these works of serious litera- ture,- he . grew fascinated and at nine was inspired to- read such books himself. While immature` and ill-discipined in some re- spects, he was advanced in others: and soon became a very rapid reader. Nancy Edison also sensed, or discovered by chance, .the : real direction of her son's interests; for one day she brought forth an elementary book of physical science, R. G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy, which described and illustrated various scientific experiments that c o u l d be performed at home. Now his mother found that the boy had truly caught fire. This was "the first book in science I read when a boy, nine years old, the first . I could under- stand" he later said. Here, learning became a "game" that he loved. He read and tested out every experiment in Parker; then his mother ob- tained for him an old Dictionary ofil ciente, and he went to work on that. 1 -le was now ten and formed a' boyish passion for chemistry, gathering together whole col- lections of chemicals in bottles or jars, which he ranged on e helves in his room. All his pocket money went for chemi- cals purchased at the pharma- cist's and for scraps of metal and wire. Thus his mother had accom- plished 'that which all truly great leachers do for their pu- pils: she brought him to the stage of learning things for him- self, learning that which most amused and interested him. "My mother was the making- of me," he said afterward. "She understood me; she let me fol- low my bent." - From "Edison: A Biography," by Matthew Jo- sephson. Modern Etiquette liy Anne Astdry Q, Is it considered hi good taste for a divorcee to insert an an- nouncement in the newspapers of her engagement to a seoofd man? A, There is nothing exactly improper about this, Usually, however, such an engagement is announced merely by word-of- mouth to friends, Q. When eating a fried Ogg whose yolk is rather "runny," is it all right to put a small piece of bread on the end of the fork and use this to dip up the yolk? A. Not only is this proper — but'very practical, too, Q. When a family has guests whoaro of a different faith, should they omit the usual pro- cedure of saying grace before dinner? ,A. It is perfectly correct for a family to follow its regular cus- tom, and the guests sit with bow- ed heads until the prayer has been spoken. Q. I thanked each guest per- sonally for .gifts received at a birthday party in my honor. Am I supposed also to write "thank you" notes to each of these per- sons? A, This is not necessary. 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