PAGE EIGHT. Will Toy Satisfy His Majesty? She Asks Him—and Finds Out PRETTY toy—but does it have educational value? Don’t ask the nearest child ex- pert, but hand it to a youngster, who'll probably think up more instructive ways to use it than its inventor ever imagined. And that's the theory on which the Test- ed Toy laboratory of New York has helped manufacturers select the toys you buy for the children this Christmas. The “‘laboratory’’ is really Miss Lillian Rifkin, who takes a toy to & school, recreational center or park and records children’s reactions to dt while they play. Then she fills in an elaborate questionnaire, com- menting on the toy’s durability, fit- mess at various age levels and value ih stimulating mental, artistic, phys- ; i ical or scientific activity. She doesn’t question parents very DRESSM AKING—T his dress de- Ufieh except Segarding the ays ds signing “game” is being tried out girability for indoor or outdoor play. But the child is the final authority, | DY fo youngsters at the elementary Little rubber automobiles, says demonstration school Miss Rifkin Miss Rifkin, are second in populari- | runs under sponsor ship of New ty to blocks. She’s astounded by the | York university and the Child Study elaborate kinds of dramatic play | association of America. PROVING GROUND—Miss Rifkin watches a boy putting a new toy to its practical testing paces. Among her conclusions: (1) Children may be unpredictable in their likes and dislikes, but they're notably consistent in their reactions; (2) play appeal of a toy is paramount; any education value it may have is secondary in the child’s mind. One mother, she says, believed militant tendencies would be fos- tered if her child were allowed to play with toy soldiers. So she for- bade them, but instead the child col- that children build around the cars: ! “Sometimes a child travels ail around the world with them Often be will recreate a trip he's taken in the family car. Sometimes he'll play detective and chase gangsters | lected bottle tops, lined them up in and sometimes he's a taxicab | military formation and shot them driver.” down by cocking his finger. Miss Rifkin finds that toy automo- Miss Rifkin says it’s all “pretend” biles, like toy soldiers, help a child | anyway. “Even a child old enough get the surplus energy out of his | to know war means cruelty realizes system. And both appeal to his in- | his soldiers are just toys, and it’s stinct for collecting. only a game.” i HASTINGS NEWS DEATH NOTICES | | Sunday guests at the A. J. Houck | JACOB WARNER. home were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Shara- | Jacob Warner, aged 84 years, pro- haugh and daughter, Anita, of Carr- minent retired farmer of Chest town- olltown. | ship, died on Sunday morning at his Paul Lumadue is spending some home near St. Lawrence. He had time at his home on Fourth avenue. been in failing health for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Bearer of Bea- Mr. Warner was a pioneer in the verdale, spent the week end at the Grange movement in this section of Jesse Bearer home in East End. | the county and assisted in the organ- Miss Dottie Tasker was at her ization of several grange units in home in Altoona over the week end. the county. He was also one of the Messrs. Sam McClelland and Ed- Pioneer members of St. Lawrence's ward Brothers of Johnstown were in Catholic church. town the past week. Mr. Warner was a son of John and Miss Elizabeth Lloyd of Indiana| Mary Ann (Noel) Warner and was Teachers College, spent the week end born September 25, 1855, in Chest at her home on Spangler street. | Township. His wife, Mrs. Mary E. Members of the I C B U, at their Warner, died in 1922. Surviving are regular monthly meeting held in the these children: Mrs. George Ricketts Municipal builiding last Tuesday ev- of Coalport; Mrs. Paul Gearhart, of ening, unanimously agreed that offi- Akron, Ohio; John Warner of Pat- cers of the past year be elected to ton; and F. C. Warner of Taswell, serve for the ensuing year. The fol- Va. Eleven grandchildren and one lowing were elected: Mrs. Paul O.!&reat-grandchild also survive, Holtz, president; Mrs. Ed Cassiday, | Funeral services were conducted at vice preseident; Mrs. W. H. Yeager, nine o'clock on Wednesday morning treasurer; Mrs. Vincent Link, finan- in St. Lawrence’s Catholic church by cial secretary; Mrs. R. H. Kelly, re- the Rev. Father Cornelius Enders, O. cording secretary; Mrs. Albert Gill, S. B,, pastor. Interment was made in Mrs. Stephen Jansure and Mrs. Steve; the church cemetery. Semelsberger, guards. ———— A surprise party was held at the MRS. M. J. MILLER. home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abel; Mrs. Carrie (Gardner) Miller, aged on Saturday evening, the occasion be- 46 years, of Barnesboro, wife of M. ing their daughter, Christine’s sev- J. Miller, Pennsylvania Railroad div- enteenth birthday. Games, dancing isional supervisor, died unexpectedly and lunch featured. The honor guest ly early last Wednesday morning at weceived some lovely gifts. Those in her home. Mrs. Miller was a well attendance were: Ann Easly, Mary known resident of the Barnesboro Sullivan, Anna Miller, Louise Geus, community and had been in good Margaret Nelson, Wilbur Morgan, An- health the previous night but suffer- gelo Valant, Joe Sullivan, Richard ed a stroke at 1:30 in the morning, Murphy, Steve Bakajza, Thais, Felic passing away a few hours later. cita and Christine Abel. A daughter of Henry and Henriet- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grimes and ta (Shaffer) Gardner, she was born daughter, Vera, and Jeane Thomas in York, Pa, in 1893. Surviving, in were Monday callers in Johnstofn. addition to her husband, are the fol- Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Dillon and lowing children: William, of Baltimore daughter, Jane, were Saturday callers Md.; Harold, of Ernest, Indiana Co; in Altoona. | Theda, a junior at Indiana State Tea- Miss Anna Mary Bobal spent the chers’ College; Catherine, Earl, and week end in Barnesboro. | Walter .at home. She also leaves one Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Yerger and fa- grandchild. mily of Patton spent Sunday even- Funeral services were conducted on ing at the Earl McKillop home. | Friday evening at the Miller residence Misses Betty Dillon, Margaret in Barnesboro by Rev. John E. Jack- Kelly and Kathryn Owens were Fri- Son, pastor of the Barnesboro Pres- day callers in Altoona. 'byterian church. The remains were Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas and| taken to York, Pa, for burial family were Saturday shoppers in| — MATTHEW J. RYAN. Barnesboro. Mrs. Fred Soisson and Misses Flor. Matthew J. Ryan, aged 71 years, ence and Mary Jansure were Wed- retired blacksmith of Ashville, and nesday callers in Altoona. | one of the best known residents of Misses Kathryn Jansure and Betty Northern Cambria county, died un- Bobal were Sunday callers in Bar- expectedly on Wednesday afternoon aesboro. of last week at his home. Miss Margaret Kirkpatrick spent! Mr. Ryan apparantly was enjcying Friday at the Henry Lantzy home in his usual health at noon time as he Spangler. | ate his dinner as usual. He collapsed HOLIDAY EDITION—UNION PRESS-COURIER. SE TO VO MP PB SE CT TK TS BE I RIL SR ER RL 0 RP A 0 08 9 3 M0 TE GRAND THEATRE PATTON Friday and Saturday 70 THE \LASY MAN <5 SAMUEL GOLDWYN presents ] 4ayCOOPE THE REAL GLORY w= DAVID NIVEN- ANDREA LEEDS REGINALD OWEN BRODERICK CRAWFORD « KAY JOHNSON Directed by Henry Hathaway PROM THE NOVEL BY CHARLES L. CLIFFORD « RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS ERROR TRE TE TL ETE RR RR RS Se 0 0k 0 0 0 0 0 0 oe Ge i 0 2 2 Th 2 REBEK EEE The CAT ond the CANARY" BOB HOPE - PAULETTE GODDARD with John Beal. Douglass Montgomery. Gale Sondergaard a A a a RPE TET DEANNA'S oe, : A new grown-up star joins the romantic heroines of the screen! PID DURBIN VOIRYWI/I74 zz Helen PARRISH - Robert STACK TET PALLETTE - Lewis HOWARD June Storey + Leatrice Joy ERATE 2 2k SRR RRR RB TE OE TE CT Te a - Matinee Sunuay atv wizw RS PS EE RS RA Ra RE PETS Ro TESTE a short time after leaving the table. brothers—Dr. M. J. Buck, A. C. Buck Deat hwas attributed to a heart at- and B. J. Buck, all of Pittsburgh, and tack. M. L. Buck, Hastings. Mr. Ryan operated a blacksmith Funeral services were conducted shop in Ashville for many years and on Tuesday morning with a high mass retired about ten years ago. He was of requiem in St. Benedict's church born in Cambria County in 1868, a at Carrolltown ,and interment in the son of James A. and Clotilda (Moy- church cemetery . er) Ryan. He was married twice. His first JOSEPH S. SPROUT. wife, the former Ida Croner, preced-| Joseph S. Sprout, aged 71 years, a ed him in death. Surviving are his retired Cambria County farmer and a second wife, Mrs. Mary (Parrish) RY- former road supervisor of Clearfield as ay BY, township, died 8 Hine o'clock an y Fa. ~ day evening at his home in est an, Steubenville, Ohio. He also leav- a 2 es an adopted daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Death. termi , { . ; 3 rminated an illness of sev-| Simon Det Mish. Three children eral months of a complication of ail- | . | ments. Mr. Sprout operated a farm Funeral services were conducted on near Chest Springs for many years Batinady aim on 8 Thonay Sa and retired about five years ago. olic church a ville and inter- : s . He was born near Chest Springs ment was made in Holy Name Ceme-| _ Y ‘ ? : | tery at Ebensburg. | and spent his entire life in = that 10- | | cality. He was born September 11, | | MES. JAMES B. ECK. | rad) Sprout. Mrs. Annie R (Bucs) = o 204] Surviving are his widow, Mrs. 73 years, wife o ames Bb. LCK, Ol} gigie (Nammen) Sprout, and these South Fork, R. D., died at 5:55 o'clock | \pi1qren. Vellicitis, wife of L. J. Kel- last Saturday morning 8 the home of ler, Chest Springs; Mary, wife of her neice, Mrs. Eawin | Hse 0 Tl Paul Conrad, Cambria township, and tings after an extende ness. TS. | william and Jane Sprout, both at] Buck was a daughter of John and Ra- | home. | chel (Sherry) Buck ,and was born in | Carrolltown on July 7, 1866. The Eck| Ie was a brother of George Sprout | | family formerly resided in Gallitzin | of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Lavina Wills of | until a short time ago when they | Ashville; Mrs. Katherine Moran of moved to South Fork, R. D. Mrs. Eck | Altoona; and Mrs. Grace Schrapfer, came to Hastings several weeks ago|©f Pittsburgh. He also leaves eleven to visit her neice. grandchildren. Mrs. Annie R. Eck is survived by Funeral services will be held at her husband and these children: Re-| nine o'clock this Thursday morning gina Eck, Shenandoah; Ellen, wife of | with a requiem high mass in Saint Fred Beam, South Fork, R. D, and| Monica's church at Chest Springs Mary Louise Eck, Gallitzin. She also and interment will be made in the leaves two grandchildren and four | church cemetery. g Sunday and Monday § . 5 Thursday, December 14, 1939. Tuesday, Bargain Night Return Engagement of one of the best films ever made! $2,000,000 Film TH RILL! Thy broke. avery low of % CE loving, stealing an Island Paradise in a South Sea (}P Eden! One of the great adventures of all time, lives again in a screen epic it fook two years and two million dollars to make! “2a Je (TT THE 1 Bounf ; starring CHARLES g g 8 : & : 3 G & | 3 g g an LAUGHTON «= (GABLE *** FRANCHOT TONE Herbert Mundin « Eddie Quillan Dudley Digges . Donald Crisp | - A Frank Lioyd Production T Associate Producer: Albert Lewin PICTURE See It Again! Wednesday and Thursday TERROR STRIKES FROM THE SEA! > < ~ CC CONRAD VEIDT VALERIE HOBSON SEBASTIAN SHAW Screen play by Emeric Pressburger Directed by Michael Powell A COLUMBIA PICTURE I0OQAONNNNNANANNANNNNNONNONN DOONAN. Iso Selected Short Subjects - Every Night. TP I FN 5 a i RR SA TO PS ESA TS PS SA SN PA SATAN RES MRS. GEORGE JROZANICH. | MOUNT ALOYSIUS, CRESSON, | Mrs. Mary (Gulanich) Stronko-| ANNOUNCES CHRISTMAS | Jrozanich, died last Saturday morn- CANTATA FOR DEC. 18TH ing at her home in Barnesboro after A an extended illness. She was 73 years A Christmas cantata entitled “The of age and was born in Europe, com- . ing to this country many years ago. Wondrous Story,” by Richard Kountz | She was twice married. Surviving are | —Witmark Publication—will be sta~ { her second husband and a number of ged by the Mt. Aloysius Junior Col- 3 | children. Funeral services were held | joge and Academy Girls under the on Wednesday in St. John's Greek| ,. : 1 Catholic church at Barnesboro: an a) direction of Mrs. James Carroll, vocal interment was made in the church teacher on the evening of December cemetery. iy at 8 p. m. in the school auditor- um. : A special feature of the occasion JOSEPH A. SANKER. will be selections by Mozart which Joseph - A. Sanker, aged 76 years, a former resident of Cresson and Lo- retto, died on Tuesday of last week at the Carpenters’ Home in Lakeland, | Fla, according to word received. He was born near Loretto in 1863. Sur- viving are a brother ,Simon Sanker of Cresson, and a sister, Mrs. J. J. Web- | er of Ashville. The deceased was a | both deceased. JOHN BUZMINSKY. John Buzminsky, three months’ old last week. Besides the parents the in- fant leaves several brothers and sis- ters, DO YOU KNOW? Analgestic properly ° administered to mothers during childbirth, do not | increase infant death rates above] those which occur in mothers deliv- ered without such comforting aids, according to a survey recently made by two Washington, D. C., obstetri- cians, WR will serve as incidental music during the performance. Bernice Ertter of Carrolltown will sing the “Allelluia™ from the Exsultate Jubilate by Mo zart ;Mary Dunnegan of Ebensburg, will play a concert Rondo for pianc accompanied by a small orchestra group consisting of second piano, of | 1866, a son of Henry and Jane (Con-| gon of Mr. and Mrs. John V, Sanker, | flute, clarinet, two violins and cello. Miss Barbara Westrick will sing a second soprano part in the Carols. Other members of the College Choir |are: Elizabeth Farkas, Ann Felty, Madeline Davis, Florence Hunt, Dol- | son of Andrew and Anna Buzminsky, Harri B: | of Colver, died at the hospital there coo fon NT Suan, Janel Corp, Ida Erculaini, Ethel Geibel, Helen Carl, Isobel Gray, Virginia Lovelace, Betty Mayer, Joan Marsh- all, Patricia Marshall, Victoria de los Reyes, Marie Schultz, Jean Welsh, Mary M. Yingling and Betty Harlow. The children of the grades will pre sent a twenty minute operetta, “The Gift of Christmas” by Myers and Carrington. These children will ap- pear first on the program. FOUR ROOM APARTMENT with bath for rent. Inquire Mrs. M. S. Yer- ger, 506 Palmer avenue, Patton, Pa. 3% PEON poe | Sr
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