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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesdiy, December 16, 1938 How To Spot Bright. Child Studied by LIU Professor B7 GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New Yor k TPD Junior's constant "W h y, Mommy?" may irritate, but it's one indi- cation you have a bright moppet in the family. But the for ever asking of questions is just one way parents can the gift- child, says Gay Fauley Dr. Milton M. Klein of Long Island univer sity. Klein suggested that par ents act as "talent scouts," watching for what they con sidered the "unusual, the dif ferent, and the exceptional in your child's behavior." "And," he added, "if these special abilities are sustained, you can call them to the at tention of the teacher and the school for further analyzing and nurturing. Klein, who did a Ford Foundation study of 80 high school programs for children with high IQ's listed several "general characteristics of brightness." "The gifted child early shows a longer interest span, reads more, has a larger vo cabulary and uses it accurate y, is interested in subjects of a profound nature, asking questions about God and the heavens, and can see relation ships early," Klein said. "He will not necessarily be physically under-developed or undersized, will not shy away from sports or group games, and will not be a social out cast among those of his age group." Evaluation by School Klein, a graduate of the City College of New York and now chairman of the Depart ment of History at LIU, dis cussed the bright child in an article in the current City College "Alumnus" and in an interview also. "Final evaluation of a child's brightness should be left to the school," he said. "Proud parents may know few other children to com pare theirs to. The school does." "If your child Is bright you are a fortunate parent, but you can hardly afford to be a smug one," said the educator. "The blunt truth is that the schools are filled with stu dents of high capacity who somehow never fully realize their talents. In high schools, 1 CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS New ideas in Styrofoam. Gold and Silver Cone Wreaths and Swags. ... .... i Hand Decorated Madonnas, 'n Trees and Santas. Pastel Sprayed Magnolia Potted Plants. Cut Flowers Tree Ornaments IRENE'S FLOWERS (Free Corsages) Holly and Greenery Priced to Sell 2318 Capitol Ave. SP 2-6337 they may be so un-inspired, so un-challenged, so bored they fail as many subjects as they pass. Teachers know them es 'gifted drifters'." He said that each year some 200,000 of above aver age capacity "drift out of the eduction stream" by not going to college; an additional 200. 000 enter college but don't finish. How to help the bright child. Klein said that so-called honor classes can be just as frustrating as regular classes, unless the instructor has been chosen because of exceptional scholarship or superior teach ing skill. He advocated early en trance in college or univer sity. There are some schools he named Chicago, Colum bia and Yale which will ad mit bright students before they complete high school. Klein said parents need not worry that the teen-ager will miss work; some studies indi cate that such students do bet ter academically than those of their classmates who spend the extra year in high school. He advised parents to train the child, in high school, to the skills and patterns of learning that college educa tion demands. "Introduce him to the li brary, to dictionaries, encyclo pedies, magazines ... to the cultural resources of a city its museums theaters, histori cal sights, its newspapers . . . are galleries . . ." - "Supervise his study but do not dominate it . . . give him every opportunity to read, abundantly and extensively . . . but above all, allow him the freedom to roam in paths of his own choosing." Mrs. William Naylor Hostess for Group Mrs. William Naylor enter tained the Friday Sunshine club at her home on New Ray road last week. A turkey luncheon was served at noon on a red covered table cen tered with Christmas decor ations. Covers were placed for eight members. A Christmas gift exchange was followed by canasta. . The next meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mrs. C. F. Gordon, 915 Holly street, Friday, January J jg pem Trull To Be Speaker Miss Fern Trull, political science teacher in the Grants Pass high school, will be speaker for the December meeting of the Business and Professional Women's club. The meeting will be held at the Girls' Community club, Thursday, December 18, at 7:30 p.m. The program will be in charge of the international re lations committee, with Miss Connie Payant as chairman. Members of the Grants Pass EPW club have been invited to this meeting. Guests are welcome and committee chairmen are re quested to make reservations for members of their commit tee with Mrs. Muriel Short ridge, NOrmandy 4-1736. Thursday Club Schedules Party Phoenix Phoenix Thurs day club will hold the annual Christmas meeting Thursday, December 18, at the home of Mrs. M. O. Grove, Fern Valley road. Gifts will be exchanged. Hostesses for the evening will be Mrs. Ernest James, Mrs. Douglas Roach and Mrs. Norman Castor. Lone Pine Unit Announces Plan For Yule Dinner An open meeting and the annual Christmas dinner are planned by Lone Pine JExten sion unit for Thursday, De cember 18, at 10:30 a.m. at Roxy Ann Grange hall. A Christmas gift exchange will be held, and women are reminded to take a recipe of their favorite cookies or candy, along with samples, for exchange. Members are asked to call the luncheon chairman, Mrs. A. L. Henderson, SPring 2-9853, regarding food for the dinner. Hostess is Mrs. G. A. Thomas, and her co-hostesses are Mrs. N. S. Thames, Mrs. R. E. Sturgill and Mrs. A. V. Jones. Everyone attending is to take table service. Baby sitting will be avail able at the home of Mrs. Phie ster, 1345 Brookdale road, telephone SPring 2-8087. Party Announced By Moose Lodge Medford Moose lodge plans the annual Christmas party for Wednesday, December 17, at Moose hall, 11 Newtown street. The evening will be gin with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. and will be follow ed by a magic show at 7 p.m. Promptly at 8 p.m. a party for the children will begin Games, gifts and a visit from Santa Claus are planned. Sunshine Girls To Sing Tonight Merhbers of Talisman Rose bud council, Pythian.Sunshine Girls, will sing at a meeting 6f Talisman temple, Pythian Sisters, to be held tonight at the Pythian hall. The girls also plan a carol ing party Sunday, December 21, at 2 p.m. Members are asked to meet at the hall. At the last meeting of the council, December 11, Miss Nancy Kadin was initiated. -t Gift Wrapping Lesson for Club Prospect - Prospect Exten sion unit met at the home of Mrs. Willard Huffman for a lesson on gift wrapping. Luncheon was served to 14 members by Mesdames Shafer and Moore Members exchanged Christ mas gifts Blue Star Mothers Plan Annual Party Blue Star Mothers will be entertained for their annual Christmas party at the home of Mrs. William Naylor, New Ray road, Thursday, Decem ber 18. A potluck luncheon will be served at 12:30 psn. A Christmas gift exchange will follow, with gifts to cost no more than SI. Party, Ceremony Held by Nurses - Mrs. Stella Demo was in stalled president of District Four, Oregon Nurses' associa tion, at a Christmas party held at Girls' Community club last week. Taking office with Mrs. Demo were Mrs. June Anders, first vice-president; Miss Elea nor Ozase&, second vice-president; Miss Elizabeth Swink, secretary; Miss Alena Makin en, correspondent secretary. Mrs. Brooksie Johnson and Mrs. Betty Love are new members of the board of di rectors; Miss Ada Martin will serve as publicity chairman and Mrs. Paul Bird as chair man of the hostess committee. The installation was con ducted by Miss Gertrude Mol loy. Reports of the past year were given. The hostess committee was headed by Mrs. Lois Beach. Pointed Shoes Good for Spring United Press International Shoes will keep to the point next year, predicts the women's shoe style commit tee of the National Shoe Re tailers association. Look for the return of the sharp stil etto and needle lasts. New will be the elongated oval, ta pered square, and softened square toes. The slightly squarish toe has a shaved or planed-off look and will be used for shoes "which are a bit dressier than walking types. The "big brother look" has replaced father-son styles in boys' .wear, says Manny Eagle, president of the Boys Apparel and Accessories Man ufacturers Association. Young lads follow high school and college boy styles. Outerwear comes in solid colors rather than plaids this year. Dress trousers generally are darker, but . slacks for casual wear come in off-beat colors. Paris glove manufacturers present, dramatic collections of evening gloves' Black gloves in kid or" suedes are made to accent colored gowns. For black dresses, long 16 or 20 button black suede gloves are popular. Look what's going to the beach-shaggy swimsuits. Mo hair, so fashionable for coats, suits, and skirts, now comes elasticized for bathing suits. It makes up well in the. one piece maillot type. . The blue jean gets a new look with a chemise blouse. It is cut like an old-fashioned bathing suit, comes in blue denim in sizes for teen-agers to mothers. Susanne Nichols, a mother from Connecticut, designed the blouse to wear with jeans or wrap-around denim skirts, which come lined in provincial print den im. A novel note in resort wear in Miami Beach collections a tuxedo handbag. The bag resembles a man's white pique dress shirt front, com plete with collar, bow tie, pleats, and jet buttons, set be hind cear, vinyl plastic. Concert Given by School Attracts Larqe Audience A capacity audience at tended the eighth annual "Operation Helping Hand" concert played ' at Medford High school auditorium Sun day afternoon. The program, given by the high school band and choir and featuring the widely known trumpet virtu oso, Rafael Mendez, was held to raise funds to send the band to San Francisco to play at the annual East-West game. Mendez, who has played widely both on the North American continent and in Europe, was greeted with great enthusiasm by the Jaycettes Plan Party Wednesday . The Medford Jaycettes an nual Christmas party will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, December 17 at the home of Mrs. Ted McLean, 109 Murray street. Co-hostesses will be Mrs. Leonard Howe and Mrs. Calvin McKibbon, and they are in charge of entertain ment. A gift exchange is plan ned, and new secret sisters will be chosen. Calendar Calendar notices and news for the society section of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writ in it and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 p.m. Friday. Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 a.m. of the day for publication and for week day news is S p.m. the day before publication. Tuesday: 6 p.m. -Medford Duplicate Bridge club, Girls Community club. 6:30 p.m. -Pythian Sisters Pythian hall. . 8 p.m.-Chapter BE of PEO, with Mrs. A; A. Lausmann, 200 Medford Heights. 8 p.m. -Natural Foods As sociates, Medford High school, room 30. 8 p.m.-Woman's Society of Christian Service, circle 9, with Mrs. Wilbur E i c h e r, Scenic ave., Central Point. Wednesday: 9:30 a.m.-Woman's Society of Christian Service, circle 2, with Mrs. Milton Snow, 1208 Leland ave. 10 a.m.-Woman's Mission ary Union of First Southern Baptist church, at church. 10:30 a.m.-Centrai Point Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. Arthur Straus, 643 Pine St., Central Point. "11 a.m.-Medford.Townsend club, Carpenters hall, 123 Vi West Main st. -- - 11:30 a.m.-Howard Garden club, with Mrs. G. Staggs, 611 Berrydale ave. 12 noon-Kiwanian Dames, Rogtfe Valley Country club 12 noon-R e a m es Social club, Medford Masonic hall. 12 noon-PhoenixHome Eco nomics club, home" of Mrs. H. R. Glasscock,, 109 Fourth street. 12:30 p.m.-Chapter CP of PEO Sisterhood, with Mrs. J. A. Graff, 31 Geneva ave. 1 p.m .-Wednesday Study club, Girls Community club 1 p.m.-Fraternal Order of Eagles' auxiliary card party, Eagles hall. 1:30 p.m.-Griffin Creek Home Economics club, home of Mrs. Roy LeVander. 4 Holiday Vegetable For an interesting holiday vegetable treatment, stir poul try seasoning into melted but ter. Heat canned blue lake green beans in their own liquor. Drain and combine beans with the savory butter. Delicious with roast turkey, chicken, duck or baked ham dinners. Party-bound pastel plaids just arrived for big V little sisters usually 3.98 and 2.98 H94, 7tol4 You save at WARDS on holiday dresses I Washable, little or no iron cotton plaids highlighted by gleaming Mylar idden threads! See new long lines, flounced flapper styles, side sashes, sailors tool All beautifully made, exquisitely detailed. Hurry in... get set for Christmas! BUY GIRLS' DRESSES ON WARDS CREDIT TERMS large audience. His rendition of "Marcarena" was particu larly outstanding, and the au dience also applauded greatly for "Tico Tico" and the "Mexi can Hat Dance." Mendez, a native of Mexico who has been playing the trumpet since he was five years old, astounds his audi ence by playing the difficult third variation of the "Carni val of Venice" with one fin ger. The musician explained that he first learned this number when he was 11 years old and mastered the one finger technique because "I had to do something differ ent." His double and trirjle- tonguing is described as fab ulous, and his breath control is such that he has been known to play more than 600 notes in one breath. The band numbers were di rected by I. A. Mirick, and the choir numbers by Lynn Sjolund. Among the featured students were John Lacy, Bob Hamilton and Bill Rupp, who played Cofield's "Whirlygig" as a baritone trio. In "The Lost Chord" Bill Hannaford was featured as a trombone soloist. A trumpet sextet, Ted Lawson, Bob Sheldon, Dick Hildebrand, Jim Lacy, Clin ton Stieger and Ray Smith, played Carmichael's "Star Dust." The choir numbers includ ed "One Little Candle" for which Colleen Barr was solo ist. Dr. L. Paul Walker spoke briefly on behalf of the Shrin ers who sponsor the annual East-West game. Mendez, who complimented the Medford High school mu sicians, conducted a short clin ic after the concert, with about 300 students taking part. Sponsors of the concert report that the visitor's im pact on the students was great and it is believed that the value oi ms visit nere ex tends beyond the giving of a good concert. This year's concert was the combined efforts of the school, Radio Station KMED and Purucker's Music House, Ed Lewist program director for the station, wrote and produced the show and serv ed as master of ceremonies Purucker's sponsored Mr. Mendez' appearance. Dried figs with their sweet nutty flavor are a favorite for nibbling at holiday time Make up a trayful of fig goodies, several kinds to please both children and adults. Youngsters love lolli pops, so why not make some of dried figs? Place a soft dried fig on a short wooden skewer; then dip in melted semi-sweet chocolate. Another favorite with the grade-school set: dried figs stuffed with peanut butter. For more sop histicated tastes, you might serve figs filled with a sharp cheese spread. Or stuff the figs with a mixture of soften ed cream cheese and finely chopped candied orange peel. To prepare figs for stuffing, rinse, dry and snip off stem ends. (Kitchen scissors are handy for this.) To make "pocket" for stuffing, slit side of fruit and press open. Walnut Cheese Dip For Walnut Cheese dip use 1 3-ounce package of cream cheese, 2 or 3 tablespoons of orange juice, 1 teaspoon grat ed orange rind and one-fourth cup finely chopped walnut meats. Blend the cream cheese and orange juice until of "dip" consistency. Fold in the orange rind and walnut meats. Serve with apple slices. A 1 3 to 6x V4 934 Annual Dinner Held Last Week . Medford Home Extension unit held its' annual Christ mas party and turkey dinner Wednesday at the court house auditorium. At the brief busi ness meeting conducted in the morning by the vice president, Mrs. Josiah Bartlett, Mrs. Carrie Milness was appointed A.C.W.W. chairman; Miss Joan Dyer, research and Mrs. Mary Payton, librarian. A turkey dinner was served to 32 members and guests. Mrs. E. F. Parker cooked the turkey and Mrs. Frank Armstrong was chairman to arrange the remainder of the meal. Miss Mary Pat Lucy, county home extension agent, was honored euest for the dinner. The table was dec orated with evergreens. To open the program, Mrs. Ira Fitzgerald led in singing Christmas carols, with Mrs. E. F. Archer at the organ. Mrs. Helen Arnspiger, a guest was introduced and she dem onstrated making a clever Christmas tree table arrange ment of colorful balls. Mrs. Ralph Jones demonstrated to the grout how she made kissing balls." Mrs. Fitzger ald read an article which told in detail how to make and light the candles for an Advent wreath. The hobby tables were dis cussed and each member -who brought handmade articles ex plained how they were made. Mrs. Roland Beach, who had the largest collection, gave the history of her Christmas scene entitled "Time for Re flection." A gift exchange and social hour completed the Christmas party. The January meeting of the Medford Home Extension unit will be held Tuesday, January 13, at the court house auditorium, instead of the regular Wednesday meet ing. Miss Lucy will conduct the project lesson on posture and exercise for obesity. 1 Hats Bright Millinery designers aim to give women a season full of bright moments. Evening headwear comes in glowing shades of ruby Velvet, pink satin, and amethyst. For day time, choose from hats in em erald plush, sapphire furry felt, blanket plaid mohair, or "conservative" brown mink See this extravaganza of shoe flattery ... everything from pointed pumps to resplendent evening slippersl Patent in black, Gunmetal, Glass-heel jeweled tintable brocades . . . and excitement's at its peak in this gala holiday collection! - Use Your Pick's Apparel Charge Account Hi and low Heel Values Galore! Tremendous Selection BLACK PATENTS Both Heel Heights ' $9.95 to $12.95 Toastmistress Clubs Advertise Centennial With Christmas Cards Portland Thousands of invitations to visit Oregon during its centennial year will be sent to all parts of the United States -in Christmas greetings by members of Toastmistress clubs in the Portland-Vancouver area. More than 500 members of 22 Toastmistress clubs affili ated with the clubs' council No. 5 have undertaken to send the invitations. Under the plan, each member will send invitations to at least 10 people and enclose a pic ture post card of Oregon with each invitation. The clubs are in Portland, Hood River, Oregon City, Hillsboro and Vancouver. Centennial officers have ex pressed hope that all Oregon residents will invite out-of-state friends to spend their vacations in the state next year and suggested Christ mas greetings as appropriate media for the invitations. The Toastmistress' effort was the first organized response to the suggestion. . CommunityClub Adds Bookkeeper Mrs. Marie Iverson (MA.) Putney has been added to the staff of Girls' Community club, according to an an nouncement yesterday by Mrs. Dolph Phipps, president of the board of directors. Mrs. Iverson will serve as book keeper and day-time recep tionist. Mrs. Mabel Houck will remain at the club as housemother, and will be re ceptionist during the evening hours. Mrs. Putney came to the Rogue valley in 1926. Her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Engvald Iverson, organized and conducted rural Sunday schools in Jackson county for the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Putney is known for her work as a Presbyterian Sun day, school teacher and with parent-teacher associations Mrs. Putney took over her duties yesterday. .... Old powder puffs make ex cellent applicators for wax shoe polish. Wash the puffs thoroughly and keep in shoe polishing kit. $10.95 $12.95 112 U Glasswork Exhibit Set for Tonight The public is invited to at tend an exhibit of work of two adult education classes to be held tonight in Room 342, Hedrick Junior High. school. . Women of the millinery class will exhibit hats they have made, and the second class to exhibit will display oil painting work. Refresh ments will be served. Your Family Gift Center OPEN TILL 9 TONIGHT! Gi (33QHS5 Exdttoe. Shape -k 3 Decorating : Tip. Mr Did TWdew v Desired ' WEAR-EVER and Pastry Decorator FREE Recipes : I I II $525 FREE PARKING Specialists in Homewares -245 S. Central at 10th We Give GREEN STAMPS Pick's Will Be Open Ever Night Until Christmas Until 9 o'Clock East Main Street Next e Robinson Bros. Easy teVji: Load Vk Eoty to U"VL, J Easy to J "k Chang Shapes While - J J&SpS Gun is XL Leaded j7 bbi . 8 1 s HP