RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30777, 15 June 1965, Page 26

RANDOM REMINDER

SPELLING IT OUT

She is a teacher, just it may be added, but full of enthusiam, energy and initiative in this, her first year away from the ivy walls of the Teachers’ College. Her class is lucky for not only is she full of enthusiasm for her vocation at school, but she spends hours of her time at home on school work instead of paying the attentions that a certain young man would prefer she paid to him. The other evening she returned home from school full of excitement at the project she intended to prepare for her class on the morrow: a great parcel of dough with which the little ones would model all sorts of crafty, if not arty.

articles. She was carrying a bag of flour and to this she added water and dyes in the approved manner until the resulting mess was a revolting mess. She was vigorously pounding it when the telephone rang and a plaintive voice at the other end reminded her that certain arrangements had been made for that evening and one party to them had not heeded them. She blushed prettily, brushed a little more flour across her nose, and apologised sweetly. She had, she said, got so wrapped up in making modelling dough that she had completely forgotten their date. Making modelling dough? asked the boy friend. He

obviously had visions of the young lady smiling and swaying along a platform showing off the latest fashions to hordes of women. You said, he said, you said teaching was your life and you would never do any other work. I So she said she wasn't doing other work. She was • only making modelling ’ dough. I Did she mean she was , making dough modelling • or what? she was asked. - The message, she , thought, was not clearly > understood. It might be i better to spell it out, lltert ally“Modelling dough.” she » repeated. “Making model- » Ung dough. Dough. D-o-e.”