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...hands at living & learning under difficulties, Britain's youngsters have learned to amuse themselves in shelters, to sleep under kitchen tables, under stairs or at their desks. Even nursery-school tots know what to do when Teacher cries: "Run, rabbits, run!" The war has given unexampled score to children's natural instinct for collecting: they collect paper, bottles, bones, aluminium, scrap -it all goes into the war effort. Wartime schooling has also taught Britain's educators a big lesson: when they tried to cut down to the three Rs, pupils quickly became bored. To revive them, teachers...
...reserved for the R----e sea serpents on the grounds that their swimming facilities are inadequate. But, to return to the problem at hand, we must face the broader question: Why give them books at all? My contention has always been that women should be modestly busy in the kitchen or modestly idel in the parlor. Would that Mrs. Widener had spent her money on building new stalls in the Widener stables* instead of in our library, rather than it be desecrated as it is today. Let the inability of these women to enter our Reading Room be known...
...went to their cinemas and saw newsreels of winter on the Russian Front. They saw carloads of woolen socks and greatcoats rolling to the front through snow-covered countryside. They saw German sappers building wooden camps frankly labeled Winter Quarters, German tailors fitting fur jackets to tank crews, German kitchen police getting water by chopping holes in ice, German greaseballs sweeping snow off the wings of fighter planes...
...Pennsylvania spatterware spittoon from a New England Paul Revere soup ladle, Norristown's antique show, held a flight of stairs above an old market where bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers sell their produce, offered as much good hunting as a well-stocked game preserve. Its gaily painted kitchen cabinets, dower chests, desks and tables, Bethlehem painted glass, grotesque Germanic Toby jugs and brightly colored tinware are far more colorful than the prim, functional antiques of New England. Their artistic flavor was well represented by Norristown's reconstructed old-fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch country store, in which heavily skirted, buxom...
...friendly contact with each other. When he visited the fleet, officers and men were throwing a Christmas party together with the greatest of cameraderic. This would never happen in our Navy. German army officers sleep on the same ground as their men, eat out of the same field kitchen, and actually go with them into battle. Another of the journalist-writers tells of traveling through Paris just after the occupation and seeing an officer, who had just taken a squad of his soldiers to dinner at a restaurant, pointing out on a map to them in a fatherly...