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RANDOM REMINDER

TYPED

One of the principal duties of the parent, and one of the greatest joys, should be the dissemination of information to the young at every possible occasion. It doesn’t mean bringing the Encyclopedia Brittanica to breakfast: but it is the clear duty of all fathers to answer promptly and properly all the questions put to them by young, searching minds. If they are in difficulties it is the clear duty of all mothers to answer for them.

Appreciation of this need led, years ago, to parents making do with

bread and dripping for months at a time to pay for the cost of the great volumes of accumulated knowledge they brought for their loved ones. They had them ready at hand, and were able to tell their youngsters in a flash about the tribometer, or what a Cory bant was. (with pictures) and the peculiar function of the Ygdrasil. But today, the kids are too smart. They are too up to date. They ask things which haven’t yet been explained in the books. Like the other morning, when the breakfast conversation got around—as it

can so simply—to the yeti. Our nine-year-old wanted to know all about the yeti, and as we had a mouth full of toast and an urgent appointment with a bus, his mother made use of what skimpy information has been published on the creature. She said, in passing, that the yeti was big but looked a bit sort of hunched up and it bad very long hair which hung down over its face.

He was clearly impressed.

“Gee” he said “If it could play the guitar it'd make an awful lot of money.”

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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 44

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RANDOM REMINDER Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 44

RANDOM REMINDER Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 44