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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949
Children's Books Reflect Spirit Of The Modern Age
Washington—(U.P.)—Thousands of children in the United States have become acquainted with old books. They celebrated National Childrens' Book week by reading many of the books their parents and grandparents once read.
Take one of the oldest—"The Gingerbread Boy."
The "Gingerbread Boy" has been rewritten so many times that it now has two endings. One has the little gingerbread boy breaking away from the bad old fox and "coming back to the waiting arms of the dear, little old lady," who put him in the hot oven in the first place. The other has the fox offering the gingerbread boy a lift across a river and finally eating him for dessert.
Some of the language of the modern kid books could stand a little editing. What city editor, for instance, would pass a sentence like the following from one of the "Gingerbread Bov" books?
"One day as the little old lady was baking gingerbread, she said aloud, just to herself, you know, for the little old man was out in the garden. I think I will make a gingerbread boy."
Zowie! Rather hard for a small child to understand that construction.
Not long ago the Library of Congress got a collection of rare children's books. It's on tour of the country now. It contains no modern titles such as "Peter Rabbit," "Bambi," or "Mary Goes Shopping Alone."
in the old days the titles were quaint. They included such things as "Marmaduke Multiplies Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians"; "Multiplication Table Illustrated, 1816;" "The Happy Courtship, Merry Marriage;" "The Doleful Death of the Bridegroom, 1914;" "The Child's Grammar, Designed to Enable Ladies Who May Not Have Attended to the Subject Themselfes to Instruct Their Children, 1875;" and "The Life and Death of an Apple Pie, 1825."
Nothing about "Cinderella." or "Little Red Riding Hood" in those days. The "Once upon a time" pieces came much later.
Actually, the children's books another day have something to do with kid stuff we see now—a link at least. A booklet called "Children's Books of Yesterday" puts it this way: "The Beginning of children's literature came with the earliest retelling of 'Gesta Romanorum, or 'The Medieval Romances of Chivalry,' or 'Reynard the Fox' or 'Aesop's Fables,' and the like."
Mother Goose, the lovely myth that gave us all so many happy hours before slumbertime, can trace her ancestry to the early French. To the stories of Madame De Denlis.
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that later were fetched to England as "Mother Goose."
We thank Madame. Otherwise we'd never have had "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater," "The Old Lady Who Lived in A Shoe," "Little Bo Peep" and many another hullaby piece. No use telling you what's on the market today. You can look at the news and book stands and see for yourself.
The first publisher and printer of children's books was John Newbeyt, whose first effort was "The Little Pretty Pocket Book," which came out in the mid 1700's.
ISA To Give Formal Dance
The Independent Student Association will present its Christmas formal party Friday, Dec. 16, in the Union. There will be no admission charge for I. S. A. members, but non-members will be charged $1.25 a couple. Stags will be admitted for 75 cents.
Complimentary invitations will be sent to the social chairmen of Greek houses it was announced at the I. S. A. meeting Monday. The theme of the dance will be "Twas the Night before Christmas."
Maxine Holsinger, I. S. A. council president, announced that four I.S.A. offices have been vacated. These are two executive council positions, public relations chairman and social chairman; and two subchairmanships, publicity chairman and alumnae secretary. Independent students may apply for these offices.
The I. S. A. $50 scholarship has been awarded to Ruth Helen Logan, College freshman. The scholarship was awarded on the basis of need and of scholastic ability.
Membership dues in I. S. A.
have been changed from $2 to $1.50
a year.
Albany, Ga.,—(U.P.)—Motorists who do too much celebrating aren't going to ruin Christmas for Royce Hinson, county police chief, if he can help it.
Motorists Will Get A Lift If They Drink Too Much
He has invited any driver who carries festivities a bit too far to "just call my department and we'll drive you home-free."
Persons From 50 Kansas Towns To Go To UNESCO Conference In Wichita
Persons from 50 Kansas t Kansas U.N.E.S.C.O. confere urday.
Hilden Gibson, professor of political science, will act as resource consultant to the group discuss a campaign for human rights. Robert Green, assistant professor of drawing and painting, will act as consultant on international understanding through the arts.
take part in the second annual
Nichita Thursday, through Sat-
Eighty Kansas county councils and U.N.E.S.C.O. organizations will send delegates to the state conference. Seven state committees of U.N.E.S.C.O. will furnish leaders for discussion groups. The committee will cover fields of human and social relations, cultural interchange, elementary, secondary, and adult education, educational reconstruction, and natural science and communications.
A new device in conference programs will be used during the first general meeting. It is the use of a sounding board" to give more persons a voice in plans, recommendations, and projects for Kansas U.N.E.S.C.O. groups. The "sounding board" is being set up because the group will be too large to permit general discussions with person addressing the meeting.
Keynote speakers at the conference include George V. Allen, recently-appointed ambassador to Yugoslavia; Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Kansas State college; Dr. Will Menninger of the Menninger foundation, Topeka; and M.
Coosada, Ala., which claims to be the home of the world's first typewriter and of Alabama's first governor, was settled in 1818 by a colony of Georgians who made it one of the state's outstanding pre-Civil War cultural and resort centers.
C. Cunningham of Fort Hays State college.
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