The Seaforth News, 1931-01-08, Page 7The Child and His
Music
Lenora M. Bailey
"I took Billy up to Mrs. Martin's
studio this morning to ask her to give
him piano lessons, and what do you
euppose:she suggested?"
Mrs. Knowles and her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Sawyer„ were talking things over
as was their daily custom.
"Did she think ,Billy too young?"
'No -o,' returned Billy's mother, "I
don't think she did. In .fact, she said
a child's musical education should ho
started when he is very young indeed
—even whiloehe is in his infancy.'
"How is that possible?"
"Well, .she said that the early
pounding or hitting that the child floes
with''his spoon,' an the chair, table or
dish pis the .beginning of a sense of
rhythm which means so much in
music, She thinks one should help
the child by teaching him 'pat -a -cake'
and all such movement jingles."
"What did she suggest especially
for Billy?"
"You'll be surprised. She told .me
to send him to kindergarten Por at
least half a year before I' started him
in the study of piano technique." '
"What did -she want you to •do that
for?" -
"She says that he will learn a lot of
rhythm there and will also learn mo-
tion songs. The fact that ho will
learn to move his body to music will
develop hie sense of rhythm unusually
well, she told me."
"Is that necessary before he begins
to play the piano? I thought all that
Was picked up, naturally, as one learn-
ed to play."
"I did, too, but you should just hear
Mrs. Martin talk about that very
thing. She won't let a pupil begin to
learn to play until he can mareh and
move In other: ways to music `inter-
preting the music by physical move-
ment,' I think she calls it"
"But will he learn to do all that by
going to Kindergarten?"
"Oh, yea.' They teach a lot of that
sort of thing along with much more
that is really fine. 1 want Billy to at-
tend anyway, but I' had thought I'd
start him in music first, before he be-
came so much interested in other
things that he wouldn't want to prac-
tice. But Mrs. Martin assured me e'ioudlt results to them, and adhere
that the training she wants him to get to them, as well.
Age Doesn't Count
I want you to make some beauty
resolutions this bright New Year, I
don't care how old you are or how
young you are; if you begin right
now to form a single beauty habit,
and adhere, to it throughout all this
year, I promise you, this time+next
year you will admit that you have
been repaid for your attention.
Make These Beauty'
Resolves For 1931
Now, . More Than Ever, Fem-
inine Loveliness Looms
High in the Social
Whirl
If everyone kept every New Year's
resolution made in the bright hopeful.
'hours of the young year—what a
wonderful world this would be!
Yet there are, always a few resolu-
tions we do keep. And women who
realize the importance • of retaining
their youth, and gaining more beauty
with each year' should, count among
their resolutions the vow to follow
the laws of beauty 'tally throughout
the entire year. -
Beauty lies more in clear, well
cared -for skive,. Well -brushed hair,
clean sparkling teeth, and all evi-
dences of health, cleanliness and in-
telligence than in mere doll -like
prettiness.
Beauty can be acquired. Not .per-
haps the hind of beauty that will add
your name to the list of immortal
beauties, but certainly the kind of
beauty that will improve your own
looks many times. No woman today
cares to be placed in the category of
beautiful but dumb; neither men nor
women tolerate in tlieir society a
dumb or stupid person. The old days
when mere doll -like prettiness was
an advantage have passed. We must
have some cleverness, some mental
advantages to go along with our
appearance.
However, she who hath both
beauty and brains has a definite ad-
vantage over the girl who cultivates
either asset at the expense of the
other. This is why we find the high-
school graduate, the college ''woman;
the progressive wife and mother giv-
ing a certain amount of time each
day to the duty of improving their
looks.
These are the girls and women
who know the value ofkeeping their
beauty resolutions. It' must be an
everyday practice to build up more
beauty. if you set a few rules for
Yourself to begin w.th, and make
them an automatic part of every
day's duties. you will soon see
there will tend to make him more in-
-- terested in his music and more will-
ing to practice. She is going to teach
him to make up 1 ..e songs and put
them to music h n t:—toach him to
create musks in lr., Olt little way."
"That sounds interesting, but isnit
it funny how differently they teach
things now from what they did just a
few years ago, even when we were in
college?"
'Live. and Learn'!"
"Yes, old as it is, that seems to be
as sound advice as ever."—Issued by
the National Kindergarten Associa-
tion, 8 West 40th Street, New York
City. These articles are appearing
weekly in our columns.
•Winter Comes to the
Southwest
Shorter grows the days, .
While the peach trees flame,
And persimmons burn behind their
thinning leaves,
Grapevines smolder darkly, copper
and maroon,
The air is fruity, with a mellow
haze;
Hen Robot
Miss Sue LaBall looks over the mechanical hen which was one of unique exhibits a
and pet stock exposition which was held recently in Chicago Coliseum.
annual poultry
night .and morning, and at midday .if Is He Downhearted?" No!
I can conveniently do so. !
Resolved: To caro for my .finger-
nails.
Resolved: To ,cult'vate the fine -
nese and, health of; my complexion.'
To spend at least ten minutes every
night in removing the soil of the day
with a good cleansing cream.
S. S. Adams.
Pomegranates open scarlet hearts
In a kind of golden light,
Flowing slowly, ,thickly, near the
ground,
The hills and valleys float
Within an amber glaze ,
And a sweet and pungent odor le
around;
And then a restless tension takes the
nit•,
The dry soil quickens, and late
in the night,
The first rain falls,
And in the morning there is wind—
Loaves seek the earth, and every-
where
The trees stand bare,
Etched clear against a sky of .sting-
ing blue;
Yet , up and down each hillside,
through '
' The sidewalk, 'on the garden path,
Everywhere the, ga.ilant breeze can.
.pare,
New grass.
Is bursting in deep emerald veins
Young• violets break in pin•ple with
the dawn,
Anil freesias lift pale faces to' the
sun;
Huge fields are white with cotton,
green
'With barley, alfalfa' scents the air for
miles
And miles, and' there are eager heads
Of crispy lettuce growing in between
The budded walnut trees---
And
rees—And mail and every one of; these
Seems, to declare: •
Winter comes -in this, the far South -
Let me see. In France they begin
with their girl babies, keeping their
little bodies .supple and sound. When
they grow into little girlhood they
are taught small duties, such ne sit-
ting erect in their chairs, learning to
place their feet correctly in walking,
and 20 on. In Canada, all too fre-
quently, girls are not taught these
things till they begin to teach them-
eelves. ,Often Canadian women feel.
aelf-conscious about paying attention
to their' looks, as though it were a
shameful thing to be careful of the
bodies that were : given to them by
the same Divine Law that makes
flowers beautiful. We owe much
more to our personal beauty than we
do to the beauty of our flower gar-
dens, but as a matter of progress we
should not neglect either of them.
I want to give you a little New
Year's present. I want to give you a
list of beauty resolutions that I have
made out for you—all simple things
that will not take much time,
Ths Dead of Robin Hood
By William Rose Benet
There hangs 'the long bow, the strong
bow, once was bent
To cleave the clout, to split the wil-
low wand;
Till the quiver's shafts were spent.
The bow thtet wrought wild justice in
this land. -
The red deer, the roe deer knew that
bow,
And king and clergy knew
How sure its clothyards 1leir
To right the poor an" lay oepres-ion
low.
There grows our g:ear; oak, our gir-
thed oak; over all.
The shires of Bngland may it branch
and be
As once in Sherwood, tall
As truth, and honor's ever -living tree!
The hunted and the hounded knew its
ground
For refuge, knew who stood
A still yew hedge in the wood •
Around its bole, when that hero was
wound.
:And beauty hums and loveliness is
blest,
And ,growth' is everywhere!
I
—Peter A. ea. -In "The Christian
Science 'Monitor." '
Merry men all, God opera you to the
hunt;
Through time it stretches, down the
centuries.
Outlawed, we bore the ,brunt
Of the hour's disfavor, and its
Penalties;
Freemen, forever we with free men
ride
Whenever, by God in I,leaven,
They gather to make odds even!
Our souls with them they shall not
fail that tide.
Lasting Rewards
The following resolutions are the
first and simplest of Beauty Rules. b
know many women wliro follow them
—and they are always the women
who • command attention for their
charming looks. One of these women
is about seventy, and I assure you
she looks. younger than many a
woman young enough to be her dau-
ghter. "I don't. do much, ' my dear,"
she says simply,when I tell her how
wonderful she is; "I just keep clean
inside and outside, think as Rice
thoughts as I can about my fellow
men, do e. good deed here and there,
and add a little powder and the
slightest tinge of rouge to my" cheeks
for good measure." Then she smiles,
at you with her wonderful: smile, and
you eee the lovely dimple in the faint
pink of her cheeks, and decide you
will certainly "keep your beauty
resolutions: all the latest of your life.".
Resolved:, To eat my meals regu-
larly, and to select the ,most whole-
some and nutritious foods. ' To east.
slowly, and as sparingly as my health
and strength permit.,
Pop'sDay --
Day
t 1y you were' not at your Own
Resolved: To get out-of-doors for a,;
walk: every day, even if for only ten
minutes, Tc walk briskly, breathe
deeply said stand correctly while 1
am taking .this exercise.
Redelved: To take a quick but
thorough bath every. day I can.
Resolved: To go to my dentist
once a year to have my teetb exam-
ined.
Resolved: To get enough hours'
sleep every night, , in a 'well-ventil-
atod room.
Resolved: To watch my temper,
guard my tongue and govern my
nerves.
Resolved: To brush my hair care-
p¢� felly each day. To shampoo it at
daughter's wedding? Where were regular intervals of days or weeks,
you?" Bjscz—"I was looking for a• according to its, needs.
job for the groom." "Pathfinder" I Eesolvetl- 79., tivush m tutu 08
Nom, lift me; I would see my Sorest
walls
Badged with colors, yea, till Time• be
done.
Where this last -arrows falls.
Sod me with turf the stag treads
lightly on.
Go soft then, saying naught; but,
When the evil hour vroalcl awes-
hark ye! kneel nesium, silicon and oxygen; the reenabling eighty-eight possible elements
are confined to the thin film called the
-
Owl Laffs.
Love soon burns to ashes when a
man makes a fuel of himself.
There would be fewer divorces if
there, were more laughter' 'and Jess
censure in homes.
Abraham -"How is business?"
Solomon --"Awful! I have so many
dishonest rivals.'
Abraham—"Really?'
Solomon—"Yep. They insist . on
selling at reasonable prices."
When a man becomes a crab, be
starts going backward.
Always be reasonably sure before
you become unreasonably positive.
What's good for high blonde pres-
sure?
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Poultry and Swine. L. 1i, Gulh1, Gu -:ph,
Ontario.
According to Will Rogers the drat
installment Is the worst. c.
"What a whale of a difference a few
letters make."
Sweet Young Thing"May 1 ask,
Mr, Paderewslci, who is the composer
of that selection you played last? It
is indeed wonderful."
Pad ere w sk i—"Beethoven"
Sweet Young Thing—"Ah, yes. Won-
derful! Is he composing now?"
Pakerewslu—"No, madam. He Is
decomposing."
You aren't really old until you wish
to comfort a squalling brat instead oe
choking it.
yv ords. in German Often - Gertrude—''Agnes has made three
Made Up Like Dominoes men. marriages, but divorced all 'her
A Frenchman calling attention to husbands;"
the fact that in some languages words ! Clarice—"Yes, sae moves in the best
are made up as in a game of dominoes triangles, so to speak."
ty adding new pieces proceeded to! When the guest was leaving his
have fun in the following way in hotel- to hurry to the station, he no -
showing how it was done in German,
says "The Pathfinder." `tired that he had forgotten some-
A kangaroo in German is "beutel-'thing. He said to the bell boy:
ratten," meaning a rat with a bag. A 1 Guest—"Run up quickly to room 450
cage is a "kotter," so a kangaroo cage and just see 11 my umbrella is there.
is a "beutelrattenkotter." Grating of I think it's to the deft of the wash
a cage is called "latten" and the roof stand. But burry up '
"getter," hence a kangaroo cage with A minute later the b y returned, and
a roof and grating would be "beutal-
rattenlattengitterkotter." Going.a step
further, bad weather in German is
"unwetter," So a kangaroo cage with
a roof of grating to protect it from
bad weather would consequently be
"beuteirattenlattengitteru n w e t t e r-
kotter."
Another example:
A Hottentot mother in German in
IIottentottemnutter," Children who
stammer are called "straetertrottel,"
so a Hottentot mother of such children
would be "Hottentottenstraetertrottel-
mutter. To add a little, an assassin is
an "attentatei," Accordingly, the as-
sassin =)f the mother just; described
would be '"Hottentettenstraetertrottei-
mutteratteneater."
Only just turned four and speaking
only Polish, little Roman Semezyszyn,
traveller by Canadian Pacific from
Lemberg in Poland to Drumheller, Al-
berta, is here shown photographell at
Winnipeg when his 7,000 -mile trip was
nearly completed, Laughing heartily,
little Roman appears to be delighted
with his new gauntry and the friends
on.the 'C,P,R, who looked after him so
pleasantly during his long but appar-
ently delightful journey.
Earth's Core Composed
C4 Iron, and Nickel
The core of the earth is composed
of iron, Dr, Lesson H. Adams, phys-
ical chemist of the Geophysical Lab-
oratory, Carnegie institution, of
Washington, says in a research nar-
rative issued by the Engineering
Foundation,
"Neglecting the relatively thin slim
of sedimentary reeks at the surface,"
aecording to Dr. Adams, "there is a
first -layer of granite ten miles thick
below that a layer of basaltic rocks
twenty miles thick; then 2,000 miles
of peridotite, a ruck rave at the stir -
face, consisting of iron magnesium
silicate, and finally a central core
4;000 miles in diameter of metallic
iron with a little nickel.
!'Perhaps the most striking feature
of the composition of the whole earth
is that our globe is made up almost'
entirely of four elements: iron, mag -
Kneel and bend bow and draw
And loose your shafts in a whittling
sleet of steel!
Ardent Proposals,—She "I've been
asked to get married lots of times."
He ---"Who asked you?" She—"Mother
and Father."
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crust.
Subways for pedestrians are becom-
ing popular, according to a report by
the Department. of Commerce. )'-Iiclden
forces seem to be at work, in one way
ror another, to place the pedestrian un-
dor ground.
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be delighted web their fragrance and efficiency.
Send for ural outfit Soap and Ointment to
"Cudcura," Dox 2616, Montreal. Canada.
Scrub Land
Changes to
Big Happy Farm
panting, said:
Bell Hop—"tt°, sir, the umbrella's O1'_a ;iz&A ....^-"1., of Adelaide's
still there, at the left of the wash jorkless Proves Big
stand.'ac. c
cess
Youth- e"I'm bent on entry ;g that Adelaide, S. Ar 1 n n the depths
birl." of unemployed aeprt rn o naive en
Iris. Friend—"Well, go ahead and terprise under ideal a rs is the
marry her, Then you'll not only be change that has been wra.-!-t among
bent but broke."
A certain club had replaced its fa-
miliar black -coated servitors with
young, and sometimes pretty, wait-
resses. One of the old die-hard mem-
bers who had strongly opposed the
idea dropped in for unch one day:
Die -Hard Member (growling)—"How"
is the duck to -day?"
Pretty Waitress—"Oh, I'm all right.
How are you, sir?"
"A roiling pin Is no good to an
igloo dweller—slie can never get
her husband cornered,"
. "Johnny,
Mamma. Johnny, see that you give
Bobby the lion's share of that orange."
Johnny: "Yes, ma," Bobby: "Mam-
ma., he hasn't given ane any." Johnny:
"Well, that's ell right. Lions don't eat.
oranges!"
Somebody told old Ragson Tatters
that playing the stock market was a
dangerous game In which one was like-
ly to win one day and lose the next,
so Ragsoh'evolved a new system. He
says: "I'm going to try playing the
market every other day and get rich,"
If you would B Ys.
Whenever U C Bs,
IT will mind your Is
And never, never Ts.
Some day science will arrest the
story while it's brewing.
Bride—"How do you like these bis-
cuits?"
Newlywed (Absentmindedly) —"Did
you make these with your own little
darling hands?"
Bride (hesitatingly)—"Why, yes."
Newlywed (mentally absent)
"Who lifted them out of the stove for
you?'
a number of Adelaide's workers at
the industrial colony in the depths of
the bush 40 miles south of he city-
In the midst at an extensive forest,
owned by the Cove'•nment, 50 prang'
men, who have been for :a long time
idle in the city streets, and with no
objective in life a'e now proud and
pleased workers, brio„:ng new hop' in
surroundings that cannot to exceeded
in loveliness to an, part of -he world.
This organization is the eexult 0' an
appeal by the Central Methodist '4is-
sion under the leadoiship of the Rev.
Samuel Forsyth. which has led so far
to the raising of 40,000.
The Government has given practi-
cally an unlimited Been of land, as it
isanxiot-s to lustre the seccess of this
happy little colony in the untamed
scrub.
Only a dense fores. eanfro:rted the
men when they went dawn to begin
operations, but within ten weeks, the
nucleus of a big and .strias farm has
been established. Trees are being
felled for agricultt.ras land and roads
are being made, preparatory to the
erection of mime substantial h"mcs
than the huts which the men row oc-
cupy. Eventually. the enemy w 11 hese
electric light, telephones and al the
amenities of a model ctttleme t.
A retired weir to-do aviculturist,
Samuel R. Gray, has givu'i his ser-
vices to supervise operations, and ?eV.
oral fine wooden huts with brick fire-
places, a el ample spaee for four men,
have been built. It ie not a just -do -as-
you-pleast curt of settlement, Le:-
strict
orstrict discipline is observed and there
are pe ,alties for breaches of rules..
The men are not allowed to leave the
colony without permission and there
are fixed v rrltirie hot -5 i n •n to
5 p.m., vah an hoer for lurch. I,:ghts
out” t u-uled at 101 50 pan., ant
throe r ,volar m':su, are f,crtetl, Six
acres have now ba n sowe to teats and
fruit trees, ar l ver cable plots have
been in ,e, tl cd. Stork is being rais-
ed for marl etine Large poultry 71.1712
will be a feature. c d poultry Tearing
will be eonducicd on modern lines on
a largo scale. There will shortly, be
nearly 2,000 birds on the colony.
The area so far cleared for grazing
is 170 sleras, and as the land in this
locality is particularly good Dol vage-,,
tables, the then are growing large sup-
plies fur the Adelaide market.
Tire. organizing commissi mer, Mn
Forsyth, says that although' the colony
has beta established primarily to re-
lieve the prevailing unemployed, it is
hoped to make it a permanent benefit,
to the State.
INFLUENCE
You will find, if you thinkfor a
snonreet,that the people who lnfht-
enee you are people who believe in
Yom In an atmosphere of suspicion
shrivel up; but in that atmosphere
they expand, and fled encouragement
and educative fellows! ip. To be
trusted is to be saved. And if we try
to influence or elevate others, we
shall soon see tha'. success is iii pro-
portion to their belief of our belief
15 them. Drummond.
Nothing makes a mother bleat so
loudly as for her boy to have an at-
tack of calf love.
The word 'waffle reminds us—have
you heard of the absent-minded pro-
fessor who ,played a waiRe on the
phonograph and ate the record?
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