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are reaching out to become that;
The writer has a 12-year-old daughter, like many Virginia parents, he would like to have her draw the maximum from the storehouse of human knowledge in the hours which- she spends in school. She came home the other day with a report that she had been receiving instruction In the application of lipstick! Believe it or not, that is one of the “rich offerings."
There are many other things that children might be taught, if it comes to that. Table manners for instance, although school authorities might differ on some controversial point like the question of whether to cut lettuce with a knife and fork and what to do with prune seeds. The “personal grooming” course might be extended to boys, some of whom are none too proficient in combing their hair. Instructions in tying a bow tie would offer a real challenge.
But we old fashioned folks cant get the idea out of our heads that some of these things can be learned at home and that the precious hours of school are all too little time in which to learn reading, writing and arithmetic iM the great lessons which are written in books. We need fewer mentality tests and more of the wisdom of the ages.
Of course, like Governor Battle, I'm just a taxpayer, but we cow hands have an idea or two which even school authorities might pause and consider.
Weather Gets Fouled XJp
For Thanksgiving Season
Thanksgiving day was as pretty as you’d want to see, but beginning Friday night the weather^ man threw the book at us. He began Friday night with a thunder storm, and turned the mess into sleet up at Chester Gap and down ^he mountain side to fVont Rdyal. On Saturday afternoon the weatherman seemed to change his mind again and snow put a slippery skim on ail the highways to_ _ send returning Thanksgiving holiday guests at at snail's pace—or over in the ditch—on their trips home.
Taking it as a whole, however, Rappahannock got it pretty easy, considering what can be read in the papers about the heavy snow storms and floods in the other sections of the country.
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