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V TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 26, 1958 Juried Treasure Family Council Pemneyi a IT ACT rll OAW Sugar Bowl With Cat Cover Steal at $55 A covered , lugar bowl, In clear glass, with square handles and a shell design on the side, had just been auctioned off for $15, and now the auctiioneer was hold ing up another one. It seemed to me Identical with the first. Yet somehow or other, there was a height ened interest among the bid ders particularly among the women. It showed itself with an opening bid of S15 that was quickly topped by a series of ethers, boosting the price swiftly to $35. The auctioneer paused to survey the crowd. "Surely there must be more cat enthusiasts here," he said. "Who'll make it forty dollars?" "What does he mean by that?" I asked the lady next to me, whose S40 bid was quickly topped by another. "The cover has a cat on it instead of a dog," she said, in dicating a bid of S55. She got it at that price. "But what's so extraordin ary about a cat being on the cover?" I asked. "The other one was a dog," she said. "To have a cat on the cover is very rare." Later she explained to me that back in the 1880s when the design was probably or iginated, cats were rarely po trayed in comparison with dogs. "Cats weren't popular then as they are now," she said. "Maybe it was because peo ple were then so much near er the time when , their an cestors believed in witches and regarded cats as their familiars. In any case, I'm very lucky to get it." The other ladies evidently thought so, too. The one who had got the sugar bowl with the dog on it felt that she had paid a little too much, but she made it plain that she thought the $55 price was a steal. EASIER TO FIND U.S. GOLD COINS IN FOREIGN LANDS A friend of mine, just back from in East Pakistan, asked me to take him to a coin deal er. He had a gold coin, a one mohur piece that had been put out by the state of Cooch Behar, one of the princely states of India that has since been merged with West Ben gal to form part of the tie public of India. Though the coin had no date on it in Arabic numerals, the proprietor was able to identi fy it as a piece that had been put out in 1914. It was in ex cellent shape, even though there were a couple of minor scratches on the side that showed a lion and an elephant supporting a shield. It took a little while for them to agree on price, but finally they decided that $55 would be mutually satisfac tory. My friend said there are plenty of native money changers in Pakistan who have stocks of gold coins. They know nothing of numismatic values; hence they are more than willing to swap a small er gold coin for. a bigger one. "It's the amount of gold they're interested in," he said. "Like this one mohur piece. I got it for a ten dollar gold piece." "Okay," I said. "But where are you going to get the American gold pieces?" He grinned. "You can find American gold pieces almost anywhere in the world but the United States," he said, "And in the Far East it doesn't carry a much higher value in certain places than Amer ican or Canadian paper money." BOOK COLLECTING MANIA LEADS TO A RARE ITEM "7 The book collecting urge sometimes develops into 1 a mania. Jim showed me- a book the title of which I had seen be fore and one that I had never thought of as other than a very low grade collector's item. It was "An Interpreta tion of Genesis," by Theodore Powys. But the copy he handed me seemed different from the others I had seen. His was a small volume, somewhat less than six by four inches, page size, and bound in blue boards. "Wasn't this the one pub lished in New York back in the late 1920s," I asked, "and a, few years earlier, in Lon don, by Chatto and Windus?" "It's the same title," Jim said. "But neither of those was the first edition, and this is. It was published way back in 1908. It has only 99 pages. You can get a full description of it in Dr. Jacob Schwartz's bibliography." "I paid $100," Jim said, "And I'm very lucky to get it. Schwartz says that only 100 of them were printed and 50 of those were destroyed. This happens to be one of the very few known copies." (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist The sense of hearing is far more acute in sleep than dur ing waking hours. Originally, It was a life-saving necessity protecting the sleeper from perils which might overtake him. And so, even today, sounds are magnified to such an ex tent that even the drip-drip of a faucet can ;be truly intol erable. Part of this is due to the quiet of night during which small sounds seem in finitely louder. Sound has an amazing in fluence on all other senses. Patches of color, so distant as to be indistinguishable, can be brought into the subject's field of vision by the mere sounding of a tuning fork close to the ear. Many sub jects can read barely legible print with ease and speed when a certain tone accomp anies the effort. Tastes, odors, and touch are similarly affect ed by sound. In contrast the perception of sound is also affected by color and brightness. The ticking of a watch becomes clearer under the influence of .red; and considerably less dis tinct in blue surroundings. As a result, a tinny alarm clock would seem much loud er in a red room than a blue one. As one might expect, music exerts very definite effects. Depending upon its pitch, in- j tensity, and timbre it can j make blood pressure rise or fall and piped into hospit- j tal rooms doctors have found that classical music can be I soothing, relaxing and con- j ducive to the promotion of pleasant dreams. . Shrink from Shrill Tonet Both mind and body are affected by what we heard: j the rousing march has stirred ' the blood of men going into combat; low-down "blues" can induce a blue mood. We shrink from shrill tones; our flesh crawls when chalk screeches across the black board; lullabies lull us to sleep; a strong and urgent beat will excite the listener. Other bodily reactions oc cur too. By arousing pleasure able emotions, some sounds cause the digestive fluids to flow more freely. Good food and music make a great and natural combination. ( Released by McChir Newspaper Sydnicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life na ture adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Sallv T Thp rhilri wnnlri ' be better off with me. Myra M. She adores me and I adore her! Sally T. My brother and sister-in-law were killed In a tragic accident not long ago. They left a 4-year- old girl. Since that time the child has been living with my mother and my unmarried sister. My mother is ailing and my sister goes to work. As a re sult, she has put the child in a nursery school during the day. My sister, Myra, says she wants to keep Dorothy and bring her up as her own. Now Myra is nearly 40 and unmar ried, so it doesn't look as though she'll ever be able to make a proper home for the child. I have three boys and I would love to complete my family with a little girl. I really feel that the child would be better off with an experienced mother like me. Myra M. Why do people assume that a single woman would not make a good moth er? Dorothy has been thriv ing with me, in spite of the shock of her parents' death. She adores me and I adore her and she says she wants to stay with me. I have a very good job and can give Dorothy the best of everything. I am prepared to devote myself to her wel fare. It is true that I have had no experience in motherhood, but I don't feel that my sister is so wonderful, despite her experience. She does not have a happy home. She and her husband fight a lot and have separated twice. I think she has done a very poor job with her own boys. In any case, I don't see why she should have everything she wants. The Council: Despite their genuinely loving motives, these sisters have a great deal of self-interest in this matter. They should recognize that the child's welfare is the only important question. Since they do not have the objectivity to. determine this, they should be willing to let one or more competent out siders offer their recommed ations. A family service bur eau would probably be best equipped to delve' deeper in to the matter and give advice. Myra should realize peo ple don't "assume that a sing le woman would not make a good mother." They do as sume that in most cases she cannot provide the best home conditions for a child. A home with a businesswoman and an ailing, elderly woman, such as Dorothy now has, would not be considered the best choice by most persons concerned with child welfare. On the other hand, Myra's accusations about Sally's home would have to be ser iously looked into by un biased parties. It is possible that they could offer a third alternative. In any case, a decision by competent outsiders might take some of the bitterness out of this struggle between the sisters. 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