Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 53

ASK THE EXPERTS 18 DEARABBY 18 FORUM 21 IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY 18 OPINION 22 OP-ED 23 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1988 17D Bill of Fare Weekly Reader Edition 1 Stptemlint IMS Courier-Post The Colonade, Maple Shade Two Poor Boys Who Made Good Are Now Running for the Highest Office in the World! i it A QUAKES BOY A LITTLE boy sat in Quaker meeting. He had been there an hour. He began wiggling and wiggling, and whispered to his father, "Dost thou think meeting will be over soont" After it Herbert went to Oklahoma to visit his Uncle Laban. His three were the only white children in town. All tho rest were Indian boys and girls.

Such fun as he had playing with the Indian boys! They taught him how to build Indian fires; how to trap rabbits and squirrels, and how to catch fish. When Herbert was nine, his mother took a very bad cold and died. The Hoover children were orphans now. Herbert went to live on a nearby farm with his Uncle Allan. Here he fed the pigs, hoed the garden, and helped milk the cows.

He went to the country school every day. Quakers were very strict about school, too. They thought that learning was next in importance to religion. 1 is ICS si" 553 Is h. wAU Michaul Duknkis resi church, he was punished, for Quakers wore very, very strict.

That was in Iowa, about fifty years ago. The boy was Herbert Hoover. Today we are talking of making him President. Herbert was born in a small cottage. Next to it was his father's blacksmith shop.

Herbert had an older brother and a younger sister. They had lots of fun playing in the blacksmith shop. Being Quaker children, they never fought. To strike one another was a great sin. When Herbert was six years old his father died.

He did not leave much money, so Mrs. Hoover had to take in sewing. She was very religious. She even led Quaker services in the different churches. Once, while she was away, A LITTLE NEWSBOY FIFTY-FIVE years ago, a baby boy was born in New York City.

It was on the East Side, near the river, where many very poor people lived. He was named Alfred. He, too, is running for President this year. Many of our Presidents have been born very poor. In America, everyone has a chance to become great.

It does not matter where we are born, nor what we have. It all depends on what we are. Alfred's mother and father were born in this part of New York, too. When Alfred was born, they lived in a flat. They People will vote for the man Ihey want to be President, Tsvo men vant to be the next U.S.

President. rs tin ViU'iTitvr ft. wtH v(c ftii ihr niAP. h- hr l'r iilcirt wljt llvikirr w.ivt'. Ut knovv wiiocliil'-ln-n ll'tuilt i t'r vour tVm K-r'sv newspaper for school children continues to help youngsters understand politics, as evidenced by a recent senior edition.

The Weekly Reader's first edition in 1928 (left) offered a story about presidential hopefuls. Through 60 years of printing, the ol children years of news for scho By BILL REINHARDT Of the Courier-Post Customers probably won't know it when they enter the Colonade but they may be walking into one of the next new wave of American eateries the family restaurant. The eatery on Route 73 in Maple Shade wants you to say good-bye to diners. There is no counter at the Colonade, only large booths with padded seats and backs. Distinctive chandelier-type lighting brightens a somewhat sophisticated mauvy decor.

There is no hustle and bustle of a diner; it's calm, even on a reasonably busy Saturday night. The only hint of a diner comes inside the large, glossy menu. Clipped inside is a mimeographed sheet of daily offerings. "We've tried tQ make it a little better than a diner," says Gus Lambesis, one of the three brothers who bought the restaurant when it was the Grand Coach two years ago. "You can still get just a cup of coffee.

It's just that you have to sit in a booth to get it." The bill was just under $41 (not including tip) for a dinner for two that including four drinks, two soups and two -desserts. Money well spent The $12.95 for veal scallopine was well spent, although it wasn't the true scallopine. Instead of a tomato base, it came with a light, brown sauce prepared from beef stock. The three slices of veal buried under sauteed onions, mushrooms and peppers on a bed of linguini reminded me more of an offering from Germany than from Italy but it was delicious, nonetheless. Nine medium shrimp sat atop the shrimp skorpios a creation of chef Jimmy Lambesis that brought together fresh tomatoes, sauteed onions and feta cheese over linguini.

You must like feta cheese to thoroughly enjoy this dish since some of the large lumps of feta did not melt down. Our capable server, Beverly, helped when we had trouble making entree decisions. She took cocktail, appetizer and soup orders and left the menu with us to further peruse the 60 selections. Four large mushrooms made up the mushroom caps appetizer ($4.50) Each held a mixture of crab meat, mayonnaise, egg, onions and pepper that was moist thanks to the addition of white bread. My bottle of cold Miller beer ($1.50) came in handy during the first few bites the mushrooms were piping hot.

The price story The Colonade's prices, in general, are comparable to diner prices. Four of the six $8.95 specials that night roast stuffed turkey, roast stuffed breast of chicken, chopped beef steak and roast top sirloin came with two vegetables, rolls and butter, dessert and beverage. The other two breaded veal steak parmigiana with linguini, and homemade linguini and meatballs came complete (served without vegetables). Other chef suggestions (average price $9) were barbecued ribs of beef, roast leg of lamb, roast loin of pork, roast prime rib, veal marsala and chicken scampi. They come with salad bar (which holds a rare find, Greek salad) and potato.

Forty-five other entrees were categorized as prime steaks and chops ($14 average price), continental cuisine sauteed specialities poultry and veal ($9) and from the sea The Colonade is more than a glorified diner with a large menu. It's an alternative for those who dislike diner atmosphere but still like.affordable prices and better than average food. THECOLONADE Route 73 and Baring Ave. Maple Shade 235-8550 he loved, an American divorcee. "That would not be true today," said Johnson of the handling of the news event.

Still, some critics might argue that Weekly Reader, in writing for children (preschool through grade six in eight age-related editions), continues to sidestep certain touchy issues. A story last year on AIDS and avoiding AIDS mentioned, in part, that those who don't want to refrain from sexual contact ought to "take proper precautions." There is no mention of condoms. "That's something we wouldn't talk about in Weekly Reader," said Johnson. "It's too difficult for teachers to deal with. We're not just writing for kids.

We're writing for a classroom in which a teacher is in charge. We have to write material that works for teachers as well as kids." Francisco skyline. The span was to be the longest single clear span bridge in the world. A 1944 article detailed the coming of television. It is easy to forget in 1988 how relatively recent is the advent of the medium that combined pictures with words.

The story said that viewers "will know what it is like to be in two places at once." It described what a television would look like by saying, "A television set will look much like a radio cabinet." A 1951 brief said good-bye to the penny postcard, soon to become two cents. Weekly Reader, despite its considerable achievements, wasn't the New York Times for the junior set in every issue. A 1937 piece on the abdication of Britain's King Edward VIII conspicuously failed to mention why the ruler stepped down to, of course, marry the woman ers in their classrooms. "We're quite unashamed about it," said Johnson. "We've always done it and that's something for which Weekly Reader is valued." The new Weekly Reader book undoubtedly will be valued by adults hungry for nostalgia, as well as younger readers.

An astounding two-thirds of all adults in the country about 150 million used Weekly Reader when they were in school. The book is capable of unleashing a hope chest of memories and evoking eras that seem so distant now but occurred during the lifetimes of many persons still living. For instance: A 1935 story gushed enthusiastically about the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, a structure that now seems as if it always were a part of the San for Kids," a compilation of Weekly Reader stories since 1928, a book that commemorates the paper's six decades in business. The Weekly Reader's first issue included biographies of two presidential Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith, and a piece on the importance of cod liver oil. Do stories on cod liver oil, proper telephone manners and fire safety suggest that underlying the Weekly Reader pages is a certain goody-two-shoes tone? "Sure, there is.

Sure, there is," said Lynell Johnson, the journal's executive editor in a recent telephone conversation from the publication's offices in Middle-town, Conn. Johnson said the paper makes no apology for raising such moral issues as truthfulness and fairness, questions of ethics that children can discuss with teach By JUDITH W. WINNE Courier-Post Staff During the last 60 years, the Weekly Reader, a newspaper for children, has covered such grown-up topics as famine, racism, AIDS, war and urban flight. In a 1982 story on unemployment, a jobless man poignantly describes what it's like to be out of work: "It's like death but you go on breathing." Like the quote, Weekly Reader has excelled at distilling complicated topics and events into concise, well-phrased descriptions. And for those events that were less than world-shattering the hula hoop craze, the invention of paper clothing the Weekly Reader has offered a light-hearted look at the way we live in changing times.

Fans of Weekly Reader are likely to enjoy "60 Years of News They practice inside for hunting outside Poliomyelitis rears its head in another way Poliomyelitis, the terror of decades ago, is a disease everyone assumed was over and done with. Not quite. It is staging a mysterious encore for those once afflicted. It's called post-polio syndrome and by any name it's a particularly cruel twist of the knife. Sid Moody, one of thousands of ex-patients at risk, has researched the subject and writes of polio's sudden return in another way, as well as his experiences with the disease in 1948, on Page 20.

pictures of deer and small mammals taped up where the bowling pins would be. There are bins of orange and yellow arrows where you'd find the shoe racks. On the walls are mounted antler' trophies donated by the regulars. Men come here with their sons and their buddies. A few even have, brought their wives.

Two who are sitting on the sidelines chatting' marvel at the "instinctives" those rare archers who can hit the smallest target without even looking. "They're like great baseball players. They just feel how to do There is an archery league here structured much like a bowling' league. To the suburbanite who never has tasted venison or clung for 15 hours in the cold to camouflaged Please see MEET, Page 19 By SHIRA BIRNBAUM Ot the Courier-Post With eyes fixed firmly, arrows sharpened and biceps flexed, South Jersey's bow and arrow hunters are preparing this month for opening day of fall bowhunting season Oct. 1.

They line up in a row most evenings at Maple Shade Indoor Archery, South Jersey's largest practice center. Here, in a low-cei-linged second-floor hall in what used to be a furniture store on Main Street, they share love of the woods, alluring tales of deer downed with a single arrow and lots of opinions on varying brands of buck-lure-scented rub-on oils that mask the smell of sweat and boots. Maple Shade Indoor Archery looks like a bowling alley but with i Courier Post photo by Shira Birnbaum A good look: Leon Santore of Atco inspects the non-lethal end of an aluminum arrow at Maple Shade Indoor Archery. FINE FINE FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE FINE Living Healthy Get back to nature Think you need more bone-building calcium? Don't rely on pills to do the work. Instead, get calcium from natural sources such as milk and yogurt, the U.S.

Department of Agriculture recommends. Researchers there and at Tufts University found a teaspoon of glucose a sugar taken with calcium increases the body's absorption of calcium by 25 percent. Both yogurt and milk contain naturally-occuring sugars. SHIRA BIRNBAUM Have You Heard? Have time for trivia? Some trivia for confirmed Anglophiles: Big Ben, the great 13'a-ton bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, first boomed out in 1859. The bell took its name from Sir Benjamin Hall, a tall, stout man nicknamed Big Ben, who was commissioner of works when the clock was installed.

Its chimes have been broadcast regularly on BBC radio since 1923 and during World War II were a symbol of hope for people in occupied European countries. JUDITH W. WINNE Inside What's in and out Comes the change of season and the ladies put away the summerwear and take out the autumnwear or go out and buy new things for the fall. If you're headed for the store and would like to know what's in this season, read Ask the Experts on Page 18. The big question They're getting married and he wants to know if she's a virgin.

Now that's a legitimate question except she can't give a legitimate answer because she isn't sure. See what Dear Abby has to say on Page 18. Out of the Past Landing a good son Wolla Swanson, the Swede who first i held title to the 200 acres that became Woodbury, didn't hold the land long. He exchanged half the property for a tract in Philadelphia and stipulated that the other 100 acres would go to his son, John, on two conditions. First, John must 'be a good Also, he must 'help his John must have been a dutiful son because he got the land.

He later sold it for 30 shillings in 1736 to Thomas Wilkuns, the local blacksmith. EILEEN SMITH HODGES PRICE (each dollar sign represents $25) Owner: Lambesis brothers. Menu: American. Credit cards: All major. Reservations: Suggested tor parties of five of more.

Hours: 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. daily. Seating: 200. No-smoking section: No.

Parking: Adjacent lot. Facilities tor handicapped: No. AAAtAfi A AAAJ rAr r- -1 AJ A rtr At f- 1 i A A AAAAA A A A A A A. A. A A M.A AAA A.A.A..

AM..