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Eager 'Artists,' 2 to 9, Draw As Maud Ellsworth Advises
By Martha Moser
The nicest thing about drawing is that we can make our pictures just the way we want them, a retired professor said.
Twenty-three children clustered around her chair. Twenty-three pairs of enraptured eyes glued themselves to her face. Heads were cocked to hear her words. When she asked how many liked to draw, twenty-three hands shot upward.
MAUD ELLSWORTH, retired professor emeritus of education, presented an evening of art for faculty children at the Faculty Club family night Sunday. The children were from two to nine years old.
"Draw something that tells me a story about you." she instructed.
Little fingers grasped crayons big enough to fill their whole hand. They pushed the crayons across their papers. A seven-year-old picked up a yellow crayon and deftly put a sun into his picture. It was a picture of a ship.
ANOTHER YOUNG fellow tugged at a suspender strap that persistently fell off his right shoulder. He stood up and showed his picture to Prof. Ellsworth.
"It's the Liberty," he announced proudly.
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Pointing to his masterpiece, he said, "This is a snowman! And this is the sun."
A two-year-old redhead in a white sailor dress stretched out on the rug. Assiduously she placed
PROF. ELLSWORTH walked between the children and offered advice. She told them how they could make something from a mistake. She said it was not only fun to draw pictures but also to look at others' pictures. And she held up a picture of a very famous artist. It was a print of a mother and child and it was by Picasso.
a blue circle in the top left corner of her paper. An orange circle went in the bottom right corner. She showed her picture to the group.She did not feel the picture needed an explanation.
"What do you like about this picture?" Prof. Ellsworth asked.
"I don't like it," said a little boy. "It looks like all girls."
The children studied the picture. A girl noticed the baby wore a blue shirt. It was the only color in the picture.
ANOTHER BOY reflected, "I think that's the artist's wife and baby and he loves them."
Prof. Ellsworth said color made a person look at a certain place in a picture. Color drew attention to something the artist thought was very important.
THE CHILDREN'S eyes sparkled. They had learned that trees can be gray as well as green. They had learned to color over a mistake. They had learned that an artist tells a story in a picture.
They proudly showed their trees and houses and falling leaves to their parents. They were real artists.
Liz Is Reported Still Gravely Ill
LONDON — (UPI) — Doctors reported a definite improvement today in the condition of Elizabeth Taylor but warned that the glamorous movie queen is still gravely ill with pneumonia. The crisis in her fight to live could come today.
Two new drugs were administered to Miss Taylor during the night—"designed to fight poison in her system," according to Dr. Carl H. Goldman, one of the six doctors who maintained an all-night vigil at her bedside.
Official Bulletin
Presidents of All Organizations: Report changes of officers since September, 1960 by March 15, 1961 to the Dean of Men's Office.
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 231 Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin to the office. Only Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Owl Society (Junior Men's Honorary) Membership Applications: Apply to the Dean of Men's Office before 4:30 p.m. March 15. Second semester sophomores, or first semester juniors with at least a 1.50 G.P.A. may apply.
Catholic Daily Mass: 6:30 a.m., (Mon-
day), St. John's Church, 13th and
Kentucky.
TODAY
Business Placement Bureau Job Interviews; Cargill, Inc.; J. A. Folger & Company; Peat, Marwich, Mitchell & Co. Business Placement Bureau Job Interview, in room, 202, Summergall Hall.
Teachers Appointment Bureau Interview Schedule: All day, 117 Bailey Hall. Interviewers will be Lester Gabel, Director (Elem. & Sec.) Des Moines, Iowa, and Robert Ward, Pers. Dir. (Elem. & Sec.), Kansas City, Mo.
Department of Mathematics presents Professor Walter K. Hayman, Univ.of London Lecturing for the American Mathematical Society, 4:15 p.m., 103 Strong, Lecture on "The existence and Uniqueness of Certain Measures."
Teachers Interview Schedule: Interv
viewers from Tulsa, Okla., for Elem. &
Sec., and from Denver, Colo., for Elem.
& Sec.
Methodist Student Center Community Worship: 9:15 p.m.
TOMORROW
Mathematics Lecture by Prof. W. K.
Hayman: 4 p.m., 103 Strong, "Growth and Coefficients of Smooth Analytic Functions."
Business Placement Interviews: Mitchell & Co.; The Kroger Co.; Linde Co. (Division of Union Carbide); The Good-year Tire & Rubber Company.
Soccer Practice: 4 p.m., Intramural Fields.
Jay Janes Meeting. 5 p.m., 306 Kansas Union.
Philosophy Club: 7:30 p.m. Meadowlark Room, Kansas Union. Dr. Peter J Caws, Professor of Philosophy, "A Quantum Theory, of Causality."
Episcopal Holy Communion: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Virtue is like a rich stone-best plain set.-Sir Francis Bacon
Square Dance Price Set by Waist Size
Those extra inches of waist "muscle" from pizzas and chocolate malts will cost you if you pay the admission price at a public square dance Saturday.
Phi Kappa Epsilon, professional physical education fraternity, is sponsoring the dance and is charging the admission price of one cent per inch of waist measurement. The calling starts at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson Gym.
Better bring a slim date if your budget isn't in the best of shape either.
Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.-H. L. Mencken
Prize-Winning Photographs Displayed in Union Lounge
Prize-winning photographs of the Popular Photograph $25,000 International Picture Contest will be on display in the main lounge of the Union Building today until March 18.
The exhibit features approximately 100 contemporary prints in both color and black-and-white.
Infant a Vandal
AUSTIN, Tex. — (UPI) The evidence was overwhelming that a South Austin resident was wrong when he told police that a child who lived two doors away was guilty of vandalism in the neighborhood. The young mother at the "suspect's" house pointed out her son — a 7-week-old baby.
Tuesday, March 7.1961
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (UPI)
—The UN General Assembly resumes its 15th annual session today with the Congo crisis and "cold war" problems the priority items to be taken up by the delegates.
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UN Continues Talks on Congo
Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah, the only chief of government on hand for this session, was scheduled to address the assembly (at 2:22 p.m. CST), shortly after the call to order by President Frederick H. Boland of Ireland.
One of the most pressing problems facing the delegates was the critical situation in the Congo.
Nkrumah, here to sell his proposal for an "all Africa" settlement of the Congo crisis, planned to attend a meeting of the 18-nation Congo Advisory Committee.
Catholics Favor Spaced-out Families
PARIS — (UPI) — The Catholic Church came out in favor of spaced-out families in a statement yesterday, but rejected the use of contraceptives.
The church said parental self-control is the only answer to toollarge families. It said Catholic authorities "are not in favor of unlimited births at any price" but it added "one must reject any methods which by use of contraceptives or sterilizers prevent artificially the bringing of children into the world."
Deadline Is March 17 On License Reports
Students who have not yet reported their 1961 license plate numbers to the Traffic and Security Office in Hoch Auditorium have until March 17 to do so.
Letters are being sent to those students who have not yet notified the office of their new plate numbers. A return card will be enclosed for the student's convenience.
Traffic tickets will be issued after March 17 to students who fail to comply with the University regulations on this matter.
The whole trade in the luxuries of life is brought into existence and supported by the requirements of women. —Count Lyof Nikolayivitch Tolstoi
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