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PETER AND SUE
: TOWN WEEKLY MAGAZINE SECTION
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by BEULAH FRANCE, R. N.
* ALBERT WINS A RUNNING RACE
TO THE OLD MILL
“AW SHUCKS, Al, IT wish you
didn’t have to go back to Cali-
* fornia. When do you s’pose
you'll come back?”
: “T don’t know. But I've missed
several days school now, and I
"have to be back for the opening
next week. The teacher told me,
though, that those days before
Christmas wouldn’t be hard to
make up—the lessons, I mean.”
“Say, Al, I've been setting
some traps for furs up in the
woods” (Tom was speaking);
“can’t we all go up and see if
there’s anything in them?”
Albert shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t care. I sort of hate to
see poor dumb beasts caught in
traps. Let’s not. Let’s go see if
" there’s skating on the old mill
pond.”
“Qkay. Let’s run a race and
see who gets there first.”
The three boys started off. It
was quite a run to the mill pond.
Peter shot out in front. Albert
was second, Tom third. As they
neared the pond Albert caught
up with Peter and passed him.
“Hey, there, wait up,” cried
Peter.
“Nothing doing!” Albert
shouted. “This is a race.” And
he sped on toward the goal, ar-
riving there first of all.
“Phew!” As Peter ran up he
dropped down onto the ground
beside Albert, “Phew, I'm a
' wreck.”
“Puh, puh, puh.” Tom couldn’t
even get breath enough to speak
when he arrived a few seconds
later and flopped down to the
ground too. 3
“Hey, let’s get up off the cold
ground,” Albert said sharply.
“You—a doctor’s son, Peter.
What’s the matter, Tom? You
look like a fresh boiled lobster.”
Tom laughed as he and Peter
struggled to their feet. “How’d
you do it, Albert? I thought I
plied. “But you see he got all
tuckered out by going so fast in
the beginning. We have a coach
at our school. He doesn’t coach
us kids, but we hang around
and listen. When you're twelve
years old he lets you begin cross
country running.”
“Cross country?
that ?”” asked Peter.
“I don’t understand - myself,
exactly. But the big boys wear
shirts and shorts and sneakers
and go on long runs somewhere
or other.
“We hear the coach telling
the new ones to begin by walk-
ing fast then walking faster and
faster, taking as long steps as
you can. The first thing you
know, you are running.
“He tells them t~ let them-
selves go kind of loose all over
and let their hands hang loose.”
“So—well, we just began try-
inc—me and other fellows, and
I guess it has helped a lot. I
want to be a-real athlete when
I get bigger.”
Peter and Tom looked admir-
ingly at Albert.
“Sue said,” began Peter, “that
you were an awful lot different
from when you used to live
here.”
What's
“Well, maybe I am. Course
Sue’s just a little kid—and I
haven’t any time for girls.”
“But—but—,” Peter hesitated.
“Aw shucks. Sue is a kid and a
girl, but she’s sort of sweet too.
You hurt her feelings dreadfully
last night when you wouldn’t
play that game with her.”
“1 did? I’m sorry, Pete. But,
it was such a silly, simple sort
of game—you know—just right
for Sue’s age, but for me—"
~ “Sue cried last night, but I
guess she’ll forget all about it.”
“There you are.” Albert kick-
ed a stone with his toe tip. “Cry-
ing! Girls are always crying
knew how to run. And Peter over nothing. They're the same
was ahead of you at first.” out on the coast too. I guess
“I know he was,” Albert re- theyre all alike.”
AE ARCADE
CHILD'S SENSE OF GOOD BEHAVIOR
MUST BE DEVELOPED
NO CHILD is perfect, and most
parents expect to have to deal
with occasional naughtiness.
But from time to time one hears
of a ¢! "d who is supposed to be
of an entirely different species
from the average. He is va-
riously described by parents,
© teachers and all who know him
as wild, wayward and incorrigi-
ble. :
One certainly would expect to
find something out of the ordi-
nary here—some rare combina-
tion of brute and villain. But it
probably will develop that he
doesn’t even look bad, that he is
just an average boy, set apart
only by an air of defiance. He is
usually an unhappy child.
Stanley was such a boy. He
ignored requests and rules, and
was a problem both at home and
at school. Moreover, he seemed
to pride himself on being
naughty. No one realized that
he may have been trying to live
up to his reputation. He had a
bad name, which made it very
hard for him to be good. His
mother took a fatalistic atti-
tude toward his badness. She
was in the habit of telling peo-
ple how troublesome he was
and that she couldn't do any-
thing with him. It was a hope-
less situation —and useless,
therefore, for the child even to
try to be good.
The young child has no stand-
ards of his own te go by. He ac-
cepts his parents’ attitudes and
beliefs as a matter of course. He
plays any role assigned to him,
whether he likes it or not. Usu-
ally the brighter child keeps in
character more competently.
Children are not born bad.
. They are dependent, rather, up-
on their parents for moral sup-
port. A child has to be told that
he is good, and how he is ex-
pected to conduct himself. When
he misbehaves, just correct the
deed. Don’t imply that there is
anything wrong with the child
himself.
Children are suggestible, and
love approbation. Usually, they
want to be good if parents have
faith in their essential goodness.
One should build up a good opin-
ion of a child in the minds of
others. Constant fault-finding
is degrading and will send a
child from bad to worse.
YOUR CHILD
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JANE H. cow ARD
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HOME SERVICE
Weave Useful Articles
In Your Spare Time
IMPORTED ? Homespun? They
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Can’t you just see the smart
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woven of yarn in nut brown,
beige and leafy green?
Weaving’s simple as darning,
as the diagram shows. For the
purse, your loom’s a piece of
cardboard—7% by 13 inches.
The green yarn you string back
and forth from V-shaped
notches across the face of the
cardboard.
Then, with a blunt needle
threaded with brown yarn, you
weave in and out, as in diagram.
Make the striped border by
weaving rows of beige and
green.
The attractive belt? Weave it
like the purse on a narrow piece
of cardboard as long as your
waist measure, less hook and
eye.
Other ways to weave are as
simple. Tack bright ribbons to
a breadboard and weave a pil-
low top. Or use a hoop as a loom
to weave a pretty rag rug.
OUR NEW thirty-two page
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AERO AE ERR ARROED
PROFILES . . .
Merry Hull
THE THINGS that make big
money in the manufacturing
line are the seemingly unim-
portant things. The sort of idea
you might never think of, like
the rubber on the end of a pen-
cil or the safety pin... Along
comes Merry Hull, in married
life, Mrs. Bob Geissman, who
invents a new way of sewing
gloves together so that the
seams don’t run along the mid-
dle of your fingers, but at the
edges, where they won’t inter-
fere with your feeling things
« « » Needless to add, she made
a pot of money . .. She sold the
idea to a big glove manufactur-
er, who can’t possibly keep up
with the demand . . . Mrs. Geiss-
man is a commercial artist, the
sister of a commexcial artist and
the wife of a commercial artist
« « « She did free-lance work be-
fore she was married and hated
to give it up . . . The thing that
kept her happy was fooling
around with leather ... She
happened to sew a pair of gloves
for her sister and thus develope
ed the brand new idea which
she promptly patented and sold.
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OOO OOOO OOOO OO E00 00
MODERN WOMEN
by MARIAN MAYS MARTIN
WOMEN FIND STIFF COMPETITION
IN BUSINESS WORLD
CAREERS OR KITCHENS,
which shall it be? One grows
a little weary of the endless and
often meaningless discussion on
where women belong or prefer
to be.
As a matter of fact, ‘career
women are often excellent cooks
and enjoy nothing better than
fussing around in their own
kitchens, while every so often
the world discovers that some
energetic housewife has written
a best seller on the corner of her
kitchen table. If a woman is
fitted for a career, kitchen me-
chanics are not going to keep
her from it. If she is made for
the role of housewife, the cook
stove will get her in the end.
Among the news of the day
is an item reporting a confer-
ence called by Dr. J. Hillis Mil-
ler, Keuka College president, to
discuss the present status of
women. A committee was ape
pointed to study twenty-five
phases of the life of women in
a democracy.
The study will include govern-
ment, religion, art, childhood
education guidance, volunteer
service, medicine and higher
education.
The decision to launch the
study came after an informal
talk by Dr. Harriett M. Allyn,
dean of Mount Holyoke College,
who. told the group that men
“were gently urging women
back to the home,” and that
“women were preferring to go
back because they found compe-
tition with men in this world
was not as easy as they thought
it was.”
This conclusion does not strike
me as particularly flattering to
our sex. It rather implies that
we can’t take it, which isn’t ex-
actly a faithful presentation of
facts, Thinking women often
quit work because they resent
the low wages paid to women.
One of the women at this par-
ticular conference implied that
men made it uncomfortable for
women in certain fields. She
contended that women could nog
get jobs in the chemistry ime
dustry “because men in a plang
would not stand for womem
around.”
She criticized women for no
being “sufficiently interested im
public affairs.”
On the whole, feeling was
that men are forcing womem
back to the kitchen where, ne
doubt, a great many of thems
belong, and most certainly are
needed.
Doesn’t it follow that women,
being adaptable creatures, usw
ally fill, or try to fill, the vacang
niche? When they are needed im
the home they assume the bum
den of home making. There are
wives, and I venture that they
are good wives, too, who simply
detest housework and who would
far rather make money in some
way congenial to them so that
they could pay a maid to take
over the chores.
When the home-loving woman
finds it necessary to work out
side her home, she does it, if she
is fortunate enough to find
something she can do; and,
what’s more, she usually finds
time to keep her house in order
and her family supplied with
wholesome home cooking aided
and abetted by the excellent
prepared productions that are
now an accepted part of the
well-stocked larder.
One might as well admit that
the husband of the career wo-
man has his bad moments im
which he undoubtedly wishes
that she could see her way clear
to abandoning her eareer and
devoting herself entirely to him.
But to give husbands credit,
they are unselfish enough te
keep such thoughts to them
selves, for men are practical
enough to see that there are ad-
vantages, as well as disadvant-
ages, to the arrangement.
ETO ROT
GAMES OF CHANCE WERE FAVORITES
OF ANCIENT ROMANS
AT THE FOOT of the Cross,
Roman soldiers cast lots for the
garments of Jesus. That may be
one reason why the Christian
Church has traditionally frown-
ed upon gambling. Games of
chance, however, originated in
early religion. Lots were used
to determine the will of the gods
concerning a proposed journey,
the outcome of an expected bat-
tle, the choice of a ruler, or any
important matter involving the
selection of persons, methods,
times, or directions.
The ancient Hebrews used
marked stones placed in the fold
of a garment and then shaken
until one stone fell out so as to
determine the issue. That ex-
plains the Biblical words, “the
lot came forth,” or “fell.” In
Old Testament days the lot was
used variously to determine the
inheritances of the tribes, the
courses of the priests and Le-
vites, the scapegoat on the Day
of Atonement, and the discovery
of one who had sinned.
OLD CUSTOMS
by
L.H.W.
In the New Testament period
the lot continued to be used for
religious purposes, as in the
choice of an apostle to take the
place of Judas.
As has often happened with
things originating in religion,
the lot degenerated into secular
use and finally into abuse in ex-
cessive gaming, Dice of stone
and bone were used for games
all over the ancient world. They
have been found in the ancient
tombs of Egypt and the ruins of
Babylon. The familiar “put-and-
take” of the United States had
its origin in the old spinning die
of China.
Although the Spartans oppose
ed their use, the dice were com-
mon throughout ancient Greece.
Roman emperors were devoted
to the sport, and men like Cali-
gula and Claudius risked great
sums of money in gaming. The
Roman historian Tacitus found
dice in common use among the
barbarian German tribes, In the
face of ecclesiastical opposition,
reputable states have not cared
to sanction gaming houses; se
Monaco has been preserved
artificially as an independeng
state where aristocrats and the
rich may play.
The lowly “craps” has come 8
long wayl ’