THE PONCHATOULA TIMES AUGUST 11,1983 PAGE THREE
Art, Music, Photography, Literature, Reviews
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The Book World
Learning to classify
answers
It looks simple, but classification
isn't as easy as apple pie. For
example, in the supermarket, soft
drinks are arranged on shelves by
brand, flavor (lime, orange, cherry),
by size (quarts, pints), by number
(six-packs, eight-packs), and by type
of container (can, bottle).
How does a child learn to classify
things? You help her. Almost every
minute of the day, she hears and sees
you using the idea of same and
different that underlies all classifica-
tion.
The Growing Child newsletter fol-
lows a child's development month-
by-month. For more information and
a free sample newsletter, write to
Growing Child, P.O. Boc 620N,
Lafayette, Indiana 47902. Include
child's birthdate when writing.
By JOYCE BATES
You can
always remember
What
you would
rather
forget
By BROOX SLEDGE
Brisk, little books are coming off
the presses of St. Martin's Publishers
with the rapidity of bullets from a
Gaffing gun and the beauty of it is the
books are uniformly good reading.
Right now, four titles specifically
await your pleasure. There's "Bitter
Finish," by LJnda Barnes; "Death
Stalk," by Richard Grindal; "The
Cheshire Cat's Eye," by Marcia
Muller; and "The Stallion Man," by
Judith Glarer. All are calculated to
put you under their spell.
"Bitter Finish' is an expert job,
finely written, loca]ed in the Napa
Valley wine country. Michael
Sprague. from a wealthy Boston
family, is a former private eye having
, turned movie actor. And now he's
going to play a private eye on the
screen, and in addition he's a partner
in a going wine concern (shades of
TV's Falcon Crest) and when his
associate and the wine business get
, into deep water (well. wine) he has to
drop everything to help her. A
refreshing lilt to an old story formula.
"'Death Stalk" is about yet another
spot of drinking beverage, this time
Scotch whisky'. An American scholar
• .. Child at work on his university thesis gets
llfJ' involved in a peculiar murder on a
small island off the coast of Scot-
land l--le's so stewed he's not sure if
he did the killing. And if he did or
didn't, you'll enjoy it It evokes the
salt spray and sombre skies of the
Scottish moors and coasts.
"'The Cheshire Cat's Eye" involves a
San Francisco private dick named
Sharon McCone and involves equally
San Francisco architectural figures
as well as racial tensions which must
gingerly be handled. You may think
you have it all figured out, even the
outcome of the confrontation at the
end, but don't take any bets on it.
The balmy style of the author carries
the reader on interesting slants from
beginning to end.
As for "The Stallion Man." l just
don't know if I have ever before read
a book with the protagonist a man
who takes stallions around to farms
to present other farm owners with a
mare heavy with foal once his faith-
ful stallion has performed his duties.
The stallion men and their great
Shire horses were welcome visitors
to the villages of Victorian England--
welcome not only to farmers with
mares for breeding, but also to the
these questions,
process of learning
r things--to distinguish
alike and how they
Ys classifying things,
We classify things
day, automatically.
this skill early
to Growing Child,
development new-
We all do. Because we
we can't live
able to tell the differ-
aspirin and arsenic.
that tells a child
the world, where
what part of a
a picture of a doll.
can expect to find
animal crackers and
butter on the
classification skill
to create order
cope confidently
in the future when
not be around to give
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Vinyard
pre-registration
Students entering Ponchatoula area
schools for the first time and attend-
ing grades 5 and 6 are requested to
pre-register at the Martha Vinyard
Elementary School on any of the
following dates: Week of August
8-12, from 9 a.m. to noon, or the
week of August 15-19 from 9 a.m. to
noon. Students who attended Vin-
yard School or D.C. Reeves last year
do not need to pre-register during
this time since their records have
already been processed.
The student's own parent or legal
guardian must accompany the stu-
dent for pre-registration. Copies of
the birth certificate, immunization
record, report card and evidence of
residence in the Ponchatoula atten-
dance zone are needed to complete
registration.
Pre-registration should prove most
convenient to parents and will save
many delays during the parish
school opening date, If additional
information is needed, please call the
school office - 386-6364.
,Parents class
Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's deputy
Suzanne Smyth who is the parish's
juvenile delinquency prevention spe-
cialist announced today she is offer-
ing a course to parents who want to
avoid problems with children.
The course, Systematic Training for
Effective Parenting (STEP), is a
national program which has met
with great success and was adopted
as a good means of getting parents
into a position of positively directing
children prior to delinquent activity,
Mrs. Smyth said.
The course is an eight-week course
and the classes are free to the
community. If participants wish to
keep the course handbook this can
be done at a cost of $5.50, she
added. About two hours per week are
required in classes. A place and
times for the classes will be set when
enough parents register for the pro-
gram, she added.
A maximum number of 10 will be
established in the first class and
parents interested in scheduling the
program should call Mrs. Smyth at
either 542-8693, or leave a message
if there is no answer at that number
with the operator at the various
sheriff's department numbers.
Mrs. Smyth was hired under a
federal Juvenile Justice Delinquency
Prevention grant administered by the
Louisiana Commission on Law
Enforcement and Administration of
Carlminal Justice.
lonely women of the isolated tarm
communities. "The Stallion Man," by
Judith Glarer. grabs you quick and is
ruggedly masculine. Set in rural
Victorian England, the novel features
the lovely Rachel. who is married to
the moralistic clergyman. Esmond
Bates.
Esmond. twice her age. has had a
rigid background which has made
him celibate. Unfulfilled Rachel is
soon the object of many men's
desires, including farmer George
Bashford. not to mention the stallion
man himself. Frank Morgan. When
the stallion man attempts to seduce
Rachel. a tragedy is set in motion.
This refreshingly, frank novel deals
with both spiritual and physical
temptations and sexual repression in
oldtime England.
THE STOP SMOKING DIET
A new book from M. Evans and Co..
"The Stop Smoking Diet," takes a
new direction in the ever-escalating
fight against the little thin, white
stick of tobacco which causes long-
term suicide or murder, depending
upon just how you fix your gaze upon
It.
The basis of the program is very
simple. Nicotine is the addictive
element in cigarettes. Diets that are
high in acid-forming foods (espe-
cially meat. poultry and fish) lead to
more rapid elimination of nicotine
from the system w!)ereas diets made
up largely of base-forming foods
(such as vegetables, fruits and milk
products) cause the body to release
nicotine more slowly. As a result, the
smoker on the base-forming diet
craves a cigarette less often and is
better able to control the impulse to
light up.
By JOYCE BATES
Our journey
m life
is never
a lonely road
with the path
of friends
to detour through
along
the way.
Mayor Bonicard presents the straw- Washington with a certificate of
berry festival queen of Marysville honorary citizenship of Ponchatoula.
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