Biddeford-Saco Journal from Biddeford, Maine • 3

Biddcford-Saco Journal Friday December 6 1963 71 Dear Abby-? Too Old For The Count New England Vignettes They say anything about kissing your aeaetaiy after: a bard day at the office: Working unler a federal net the Worcester State Employment Service set up a framing course in turret-lathe operation for 15 unemployed men The course came to a rather abrupt end when the Heald Machine Co hired all 15 men am weeks before the course was to have been completed A recent survey at Wheaton College Norton Mass sho possible to a student a student to By Leslie Nason EdD Professor of Education University of Southern California School Home Can Cooperate To Teach Right From Wrong Miss Massachusetts for the Mim America contest She became Mrs Enstrom in 1058 In 1960 she graduated from Emerson College Boston And last month she won a degree in speech therapy also at Emerson work' and still take an active Safety experts at the Automo- part In campus life bile Legal Association say The school did not divulge the jwu rc mad at your wife about number of working students but toast at breakfast don't it reported that 33 cent of so why should I play in a recital here as a surgical nurse She her only adult pupil and can't see myself in a recital with a lot of children attended some of her recital She stands in the wings and counts What would YOU tell her Abby? THINKING IT OVER DEAR THINKING: tell her not to count mi me DEAR ABBY: A church-going neighbor of high moral character needs desperately to be told what to do with her hair She can't afford to go to a beau parlor so she fixes it hersel It has been bleached until it looks like hay And she sets it in those tight little ringlets that were popular 25 years ago This woman nas two lovely daugb ters who will soon be in their teens and Abby you know when a mother kicks like she is working at the oldest profession she spoils her chan ccs for popularity I know doesn't tell her a stranger certainly cant Perhaps her daughters will eventually But if Hilarity" depends on bow one's mother wears her hair who needs it? DEAR ABBY: Would you call a properly chaperoned if the parents are in one part of the house and the kids are in another and they see each other all evening? These young folks are from 16 to 18 years of age and their idea of a gopd chaperone is one who stays completely out at sight I always thought a chaperone should make a few appearances during the evening but I am told no other parents do this I hate to embarrass my daughter by being different but I think dishonest to assure other parents that their party is being chaperoned and then stay out of sight all evening If I am wrong please tell me MRS DEAR MRS No you are right A good chaperone needs to pop in only once to let the kids know that die may pop in at any time stay mad when driving to the office back and give her a Mental attitudes have great deal to do with highway acd-1 per those with jobs on the campus ar on the list for high academic standing In addition 21 per cent of those working girls also serve as officers of extracurricular organizations on the campus DEAR ABBY: Ten months ago I started taking piano lessons I am 41 A few days ago my piano teacher handed me a copy of THE BLUE DANUBE WALTZ and said that was to be my recital piece 1 protested but she refused to take me seriously I told her let her know What I want to know is am I obligated to play in her recital? Just what is the purpose of a recital? For whose benefit is it? The or the teacher's? I never expect to play publicly should bring down a grades because he talks too much? This happened to my son in second grade Now his fifth grade teacher tells me that fits grades are going to suffer again and he will not receive the grades he deserves I hate to "go through this with him again Mrs Bogota NJ Answer: Talking too much is often an indication of1 lack of self -discipline However I do not approve of lowering grades as a rlsciplinary measure Responsibility for proper behavior in the classroom must be placed directly upon your son Explain to him that it is his problem and that you expect him to solve it Have him plan to behave in a satisfactory manner His teacher and other students will be happy to cooperate in helping him form more acceptable habits of behavior (You can write Dr Nason in care of the Biddeford Saco Journal He will answer questions of widest general Extra Firm Mattress Reg $7950 OUR PRICE Political Advertisement Political Advertisement $3950 on your mind? For a personal reply send a self-ad dressed stamped envelope to Abby care of this paper Open Thursday Friday Nile Til 9 dalOros 343 Alfred Street Biddeford AT 2-9583 HEALTH CAPSULES by Michael A Petti MJk Dear Dr Nason: I am a senior and am doing a research paper on of Ethical ana Moral Values in What is your opinion? 1 Should students be taught about God? 2 Should they be taught the difference between right and wrong moral conduct and the consequences resulting from the latter? Mias Langley Park Md Answer: Here are my personal feelings regarding your questions: 1 Students should be taught about God by their paints and through their church Although responsibility for training rests outside fix school certainly a mention of God within file school should not be taboo 2 Parents schools and the church should cooperate in helping students know the differ ence between right and wrong moral conduct They should be taught an appreciation of the rights of others and respect for another's property Even though moral codes differ among various groups of adults a rather definite moral code is necessary for good mental health and happy living Dear Dr Nason: My little girl is now in the third grade-She -has always been a bright chill learning earlier and faster than other children In kindergarten the teacher told me she was ahead of the other children and should have extra work Now she la slow In completing her work seems to be about the slowest one in class and dislikes school She is left-handed Could fids be her handicap and if so is (hare anything I can do about lira Grew Bay Wis Answer: Xf your child's left-handedness re-urts in an awkward and labored handwriting it could be a major part of the problem Show her how to hold her pencil with the point extending an inch beyond the end of her fingers Rave her practice writ' lag and nwiifing the asm sentence while frying to improve the ease with which ibe By JAMES GALOGERO BOSTON New England Vignettes: In five months of work this year Dick Stuart made more than twd dozen mistakes When he makes an error jotted down in a notebook and he continues at his dodge As a first baseman for the Boston Red Sox hardly a day goes by that somebody ask for his autograph in idolatry -Raoul Soucy of Coventry RI made an error in 30 yeafs of work and nobody ever has asked him for his autograph As a dynamiter his first mistake will be his last he said recently is not only an explosive job but a delicate one too I can blast out a ledge in the cellar of a house without cracking any In his time Soucy has set off anywhere from a cup of dynamite for a small indoor job to several tons of it to knock out the side of a hill One of his recent projects was to fell a tall brick chimney in West Warwick RI He fold spectators -where they could stand and dramatically pointed out exactly where the chimney would fall He didn't miss the spot by an inch Just for calling the general area where bit a home run many years ago the late Babe Ruth was hailed as a hero and baseball fans still talk about it Soucy wai born at the edge of a quarry in Van Buren Maine 55 years ago His home is made of granite he blasted himself out of a quarry in Connecticut and he exploded the stone for his garage out of woods on bis prop-perty Soucy even keeps blasting caps hi his bedroom His wife is somewhat nervous about his job but in 30 years never been Mothers and teachers who complain about the scrawly handwriting of some children may take heart in the fact that even at vaunted Harvard College there are students with penman hip that defies the eyes: Witness this advertisement In an lame of file Harvard Crimson fids week: "Someone's got my Norton Anthology and a full set of notes for English 10 With my handwriting due (ale) you no and like to pan the course AH the old cliches about "beauty and seem timeworn when you uae them for Mrs Ronald Enstrom of Providence RI As Mias Daly Hirsch she won tha beauty title of Miss Providence in 1956 In 1957 ahe was picked as FOR MAYOR DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES DEC 9 IF A PIECE OF SILVER COOKED WITH MUSHROOMS P0E4NY TURN BLACK POES THIS MEAN THEY'RE SAFE? 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