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Mother 0f A êreat Inventor The legend has come do)wn -: us, tbrou-ghý Edison and his mlli.y, that Iýt was because- of ewinadequacy of trie teacher, îrd ia the i;nterests of the boy's éducation, that Ibis mother de- *tded to keep him atd homne and instruct him privately . , , The tremarkable îmother gave the boy *hecl symipathetic understanding .that bred confidence. She aod id forcing or Prodding and madle an effort ta engage bis interest ,, reading him works of good 4teratuire and history tbat shrIý h,%d learned to0 love - and she- was said to, have been a fine reader. Inistead of1 b e ing bored by these ýworks, of ser-iouýs litera-, turc, he grew fasciniated ande at Iline was inspired ta, read such books himself.ý While ýimmnature axnd ill-discip3lined in somne re- spects, he was advanced in Others and scoon becam-e ïa very )rapid reader. Nancy Edîson-i also sensed, or discovered by chance, the rea]' direction of ber son's interests; for one day' sbe brought forth an elemnentar7 book of physical scQience, R. G. Parker'e School ISSUE 4 - 1962 of Natural Philosophy, w h ich described and iilustrated varlous scientifie experiments that c o uld be performed athoe Now biis mnotber fouaid that the boy Uad fruly caught fiîre. TUi was "thle first book la, science 1 read wbenu a boy, aine years old, the first I could under- stand" Uc later said. Here, learning became a "gamTe" that be loved. He read andt tested out every experiment lai rkn thenIbis mother ob- tained for hlm an aid DIctlonary of Science, and be weat ta work on that. H, was now ten »and formed a boyish Passion for7 chemistry, gathering togethier whale col- lections of chernicals la hottles or jars, ýwhich he raaged on shelves ila bis room. Ail bis pocket money went for chemi«- cals purchased at the pharma- cist's and for scraps of metal and wire. -Thus his mother bad accom- plished. that whicb ail truly great teachers-do for their. pu- puLs: shie brougbit hlm to the stage of learniag thiings for him- self, leaýrniag that wbicU most amiused' and interested hlm. "MY omother was the rnaking of mel," he said afâerward. "SUe understood me; sb,, 'et me foal- lowý ry bent.' - From 4'Edison.: A Biogrcaphy,"$' by MaLttbew Jo- sepbson. Here,'~ Your Chance For A Borgain - Unique Photo Collection Up For Grabs By T073 A. CULLEN wherengaie are filed in Ne'wspaper Enterprise Assn. cardboard boxes reaching the ceiling. LONDON - Anybody looking Gernsbeimc's prize exhibit is for 36,000 original Victorian the fist photograph eveýr taken. phtotographs, including tbe first This is a view 0, f a courtyard photo ever taken? Tbey are frcee taken by the French inventor l'or the asking 'ta any city in Nicephore Niepce in 1826. Niepce America which will.provide them called the new process "heliogra- with a Suitable home. Jpby' " meaning sun-writing, but The offer cornes fromr German- could find no backers when he born Hfelmut Gernsbeim, whoi came to London tci market bis atarted tlie collection. But inter- inventi1 on. *sted Americans wh i avte ta act Discovery of the Niepce photo- quikly, Gernsheim warnied, be- gaphi, incidentally, represents éause "the West Germnan cities o eight years of detective work on Munich and Cologne bave made the part of Gernsbeim,. blds for the collection. Gertnsheimýis collection include For 10 year-s Gernisheim,a photos taken during the Indian' emiappranwiha goatee nmutiny ad uring the Crimean beard, bas tried to interest the War.' Alsýo on hand are American British ini establishîing a museum Civil War photostke by Alex- of photographic art, uisiag bis1 ander Gardner, an assistant to collection as Ea aucleus. But there Bradcy. have been no takers lhere. Ilis collection features sucb Now, disgusted with Britisn ia- oddities as photographs taken by COLLECTOR GERNSHEIM AT HOME: IMis private moýgue is bursting out ail over. difference, Gernsbieim is olffring hb collection _abmoad. Ia addition tao plio tograp, ýýeit includes 'books, letters, man uscripts ai-d rcam-eras. At is diffiultta plce a value1o his colecon, Genseim tlls me, because photogmapbs are only no-w beginaîng ta appear at auce- tion sales,. le etimaâtes ifs vwortbi at $560,000, Disposai o7qthe collection is a matter of ýCome UrgelCý f or Gemns'eimtar f as now riown ta tUie pain t wbere be can nof longer cape witb it. Indeed, ensemaýd Ibis wife literally are being crowded out of tbeir London aprtrneat by photo- gaphs. Every n.-oaký and cranny, in- cluding evea tUhe batbr-oom, was crammed wiu items sucb as photograph alJbumos, cam-eras or books o0p11 gapy Wben Grnbei ý aate-dta show aine cf bis more valuabl photos bhacj ta bclirnb a ladder int tU lo t boyite ktcheren Lewis Carroli, author Mf "Alice la Wodrad"and catailogucd ia purpie inký in Carroll's Uand- wri i ng.ý 1WUatIbave lamn ,"said Gemshem,"is a mnuseumn of pbotafgmaphy witÎh its awn ex,:hibi-, tion halls, lecture roms and] 11- braries for- tUe use of students. Surel i tere is roam for such a mIuseuLm la America." Gernshieim feels thatM if bis collection i is ac- cepDtsd as tUe 1nucleus Of sucil a museum bath lie and bis wife sbould be invited ta becomue US diector and curatar. England frôm Germlanýy la 1937. fle spent ftle wrye-ars working as a photographerla ritala ad jin 1945 began, assembEig hie collectiona. Gemsheim anndbis wif e are tUe autbors cof seventeen booka-ý on photoýgrap-hy, includingte publisbied by tUe ford Univer- sity Press i 1954, BURSTING WITH JOY-Mrs. Mae Morse has something toj be proud of: she has two boys in Broaidway shows. Robert, right, isstar of "How ta Succeed in Business Without ReaIIy Trying," while Richard has top role in "Ail Kinds of Giants." Enough to make any mother spurkle. Well, how do you like our win- ter weather? Coming sO sudden- ly makes it a littie bard to take, doesn't it? On Friday wve thiought bad weathier was on tbe way so we rushed out to do someý shop- ping. Passing cars and trucks splashed muddy water ail over my windsbield and it was then I found the spray solution had frozen and wouldn't work. I drove along tbe road trying to see mýy way between spiashýes. Hlowever, we managed to sliLther home safe and -sound and' you can be quite sure we didn't go out again. On Saturday we had- our s-h<?re of freezing raija, lcy roadis, snow and hiigh winds. About midaight Partne-rdicv ered the two dw-ppsfrorn the eavestrough wýere frozen Solidi, so thIey h ad to be dýisconi- Pattern SBonanza 4q £*a4WkeQ& A JUMBO pattera of 12 pot- hoIders, 2 mitts. A varîety ta suit every taste! Use scraps for patholders cor buy ¼il yard of fabrie - makes 2 pothoîders. Patteran784: trans- fer 1M bolders, 2 mitts; diirec- tions, charts, 2 crocbeted bolders. Send ¶IHIRTY -FIVE CENTS' stamnps cannot be acceptedi, use postal note for safetyV) for this pattera ta Latira WbIieeler, Box 1, 123 Eigbteentb St,, New Toronto, Ont. Prit plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD)- DRESS. FOR THE FIRST TiME! Over 200 deuigng in our new, 196ý2 Needlecraft Ca,-taIog - b4ggst ever! Page, pages, pages Mof f h- ibns, homea sore aknit, urochet, sew, weDave, .mbroïder, quilt. Sec jumnbo-kit itet, cloths, epreads, tays, linens, afghansi plus free patteras. Senid 35t, Ontaria resýidents must îInc1Iude le Sales Tai for eaich CATA- LOG ardered. There is rno sa-les tax on the patteras. nected and twa other pipes at- tacbed to allow the water ta u off the roof. Whe v7,uewntt bedfreezîng ain 7was stil! ipeitiîn-g an the windowsos i turnied on the radio ta droV,,ýn thec noise. It xwas easier getting off ta sleeýp ta the saund of sof t nmusie th-an peiting ain. We -also each taok a flashlght ta bed as thiere was no telliag if, and wien. the hydro m ight go of f. Hacwý%ev er, w e were lucky - the wor-st we suf- femed was flickering igts One thîng the starmn did was tàke sorne of aur attention aàway from the meat situation, When we first beard the reports we feit sick the saine as. most people. Sut then, becausýe of our exper- ience on the fammi, wetarteýd ta reason thiings out andc we be- .came quite Sure 1reports bad beeni- grassly exaggerated. It could be that sick and diseaseýd aiiLs bave at times beensluted and sold as prime ýýbe ef - and as such were unfit for bumn consumption. But vwe do not be- lieve that DEA>D aiasweme ever so usedl. TUec few tim--es we bad'an animal die on the farrn the "Dead Stocký" truLck w-,as; sent for tmdîtl. By th ime the truck arvdflie poor eadani - mal)cU!ldn't pCossibly have been used for ihumar, cansumiption asý it would b- bloated 'ca twice its normal size. Aniother thing that basn't been iproperly empr'hasiZed is that dead animais. cannoti' be properly bled. Live aimiaIs muLst be killed and hung in sucha- Pway that all the blood drains a ut 0f the carcass. If fUis is n) olppr- ly done even a iehety aia tan end up unfit for humn con- sumption.- The samne apisto poultry. Remembhej tUe d ays when tUe popular way GIkilling. a. cbicken was ta take ift oaa wood block and chcp its head off? Thase days are gone for ever. Cbickens are now scietiti- cally killed, bled, and Uung. Yoau can tell when a chic',en bas been properly bled by its while fleýsà, 'Certainl y there imutave been irregularities in the caý.ttie trade and a lot of inferior miea-t iplaced on tUe market but we feel sure the reports are a litt1e More- spectacular. than they* vshou)Lld be, However, it is a go.od idýea ta buy meat from. a "Canada Appr oved"' carcass. Rere and there you can fiad it stampedi on a roasýt of beef. Now for another suLbicect. Ho0w do you like aur 'improved" tele- phone system? 1 ask this bec-ause just recently we have had ra son, to doubt, As you know w now have direct dialling to mîaay places. So what happenis? Llris an instance. Last week 1 put a caul througb ta Hespeler-. To do .so 1 had to use no less than 1i 3 digits! So mýanyý figures are, conl- fusing, to say the least. Then we have a new type of Party- line- generally two to a line but the rings corne truhOn. o nly onercein set. That, 1 suppose, is an ilrv iet, bt it bas its drawsbacks. On the old type party-line ail the rings were heard sa everyone on the line kne-w wben the phone was in use. Now tbe only way we know is by 'i-earing, voices when we pick up the receiver. Just recently a young mnother left word at ber dloctor's office for hlmi to caîl as ber baby was velry sick. SUe wait- ed and waited. Afte-r an'bour and a haîf she dcecidedi to cal again. When shé picked up the receiver sbe f ound the other 'party busily engaged in conver- sation! Later the doctar told ber be had tried to get through sev- eral times but tUe lune was al- wa.ys busy. Isai't there some way in whicb such a 'situation could bev avoided? Couldn't the tele- phone people lavent a set that ,would show a red lï,it wben the line was in use? My personal problem is our extension phone. Partner and 1 bave reached the stage when we botb require 4forpty winkýs" after, lunch. Often we just get niecly snoozing when dingc-a-linig goeâ the phone. Apparently there is no way of disconniectinig the ex- tension without throwing tUe Ulne out of commission. So 1 guess the only solution is a portable phonle, to be plugged in and out as re- quired, leaving the main phoie as is, in the kitchen, with its bel toned down to almost a whis- per. Modern convèniences! VWb-at a problem itbey 'are!! Reading Tastes In U.S. Shifing If a nation be judged by the books it reads, tbe United States seems to be showing a new seri- ousaess in its outlook and k-eener attention ta beîng well-inforrined. In the past five years adult bc-4k circulation bas increased 29 per centý. Furtbermnore, the reading empliasis bags shifted a1way1 from western and mys- teries towardi art, music, and political affairs. And special la- terest is being shown in science aind tecbnology. *Despile Ernest Hemingway's contiauing supremacy as author of the most sought-after fiction, circulation growtb in the nation's lîbraries is far greater in non- fiction. Ail of this cornes ta ligbt in the first'annual reading-interest survey by the Amnerican Library Association since tbe 1940's. Some of, t he libra rians re- sponding ta the, 200-library questionnaire attributed circu- latinn gains -ta population in- ereases in their partieular areas. "For persans concemned with rising tbe educational and 'cul- tural levels of' aur citizens this is an encouraging portrait of the Americanr reader," says David H. Clift, executive-director of tbe ALA, "It is important to knaw, too, that librarians also contend that tbe growing awareness on the part of the Amnerican citizens 'of the need ta be informed is due ta the widespread publicity given to world events throuigh our mass communications me- The survey tuirns up ,a of fooctnotes to the reading J bits of the niation. Historleal, psychological, poli- tical anld sociological novels are most popular. Buit interest in the istorical is waning. 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