The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 2, 1947, Page 7

feed e TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1947 sattcanacanscnnseeatsareseceseananeanstensecansseaaeecensennssenerant Storybooks Come to Life SOCORRO | ALICE IN WONDERLAND ..... A section of the pano- rama painting which tells the complete story of the book. STORY-PAINTING DAD ... Randy, Vonnie and Vicki Houghtelling watch excitedly as their artist father paints the pirates and treasure of “Treasure Island.” | AP Newsfeatures IRST aid for bedtime storytallers is slated for top position in Santa's pack this Christmas. It is a new full-color print of @ painting of “Alice in Wonderland,” by Ayres Houghtelling, a self-taught New York artist who believes in the creative stim- ulus of fantasy. The painting, first of a series, depicts the complete story of Alice in a panorama picture, including all the well-loved char- acters and incidents, As pure decoration, it is a perfect pictura for a child's room. But Mr. Houghtelling believes tnat 1 wut help both parents and children to rediscover the charm of the famous book, and will encour-™. age fathers to new efforts Bo Total compensation of U. S. Blorytelling. Says he: . employes more than doubled be- oh pagel sore tween 1940 and 1944, represent ets. They need more of a sense of companionship with the Head of the house. Too often they think of him as en un- approachable grouch who's away all day at the office and ing increases in wase rates, more hours worked and more work- ers. AR barrel of underground oil can have as much os 1,000 cubic feet of gas dissolved in it. mustn't be disturbed in the ee evenings. They‘d be pleasantly Surprised if they found he Was en entertaining guy who gould spin e yarn.” Good home story-telling, the artist believes, can whet a child’s @ppetite for the best in litera-; ture. He adds: “But the trouble is that tc) often the parents themselves think of the classics as dull Probably because they've nev- er taken time to read them— | and their attitude discourages | the children from finding out for themselves. ‘Tae modern child needs more fantasy to stimulate his imaginative and ¢reative faculties.” The artist started his pointing ef “Alice in Wonderland” after his three children, Vickie, Von- nie and Randy, demanded to “see the pictures” when he read ihe book to them. Houghtelling say “I discovered that modern | kids demand pictures because their lives ere filled with them. Movies, comic books, picture | magazines surround them on all sides. So I decided the only } way to get caildron interested | in reading a good boole was to make a beautiful _picture— really a kind of exciting pre- | 1 DO: YOUR PART IN view—out of the book. And it worked.” ‘ Mr. Houghtelling plans series of his “art-told tale a 8d resent completing a paet w of “Treasure Is- | Jand.” The 1940 labor for e : million in the United States W approximately four time: 1850 and 50 per cent larg 1910. paint- thousands upon sev than 4¢ would make available 7,000, ' erm Eurone, to give 100,000,008 peo | Audubon Saciety | Meets Thursday | | The Monroe County Audubon {Society will meet at 8:00 p.m., | Thursday, in the Woman’s Club Building to assist teachers, youth group leaders, and others inter- ested in the formation of Junior ; Audubon Club. | Materials and information for ithe formation of the bird clubs fr boys and girls have recently been received from the National | | Audubon Society in New_York, | together with a Iétter conveying ; ie personalf géod°. wishes of y John H. Baker, national presi- } ‘dent, who lectured here recently. | ; Non-membefs are ‘invited ta attend and participate in the! meeting. While the major busi- | ness of the session will be to ex- plain the requirements and ob-; jectives of the junior organiza- ' tions to adults desiring to aid in| their formation, additional bird- conservation, matters will be acted on. ! In accordance with the aims| of the National Audubon So-} ciety, the local branch is direct- | ing a large part of its activity} toward education of children in the appreciation and understand- | ing of birds. The double objec- | tive is to aid the children in the | enjoyment of. nature and to di-; vert the misguided ones from de- | stroying birds “by killing» or‘ trapping. f Interesting Notes i | | More than-61 per cent of U. 7 \ t farms now haye -elec¢tricity. ! The first elective office Abra- ham Lincoln ever sought w: the liflinois legislature. He seventh in“a group ot 10 can- didates. in| an | | | a | There are more than 75 min-j erals which*are regarded as of sufficient commercial —import- ‘ance to be mined extensively. F It is estimated that homo sa- piens (modern-type man) h been in existence for about 300,- | 000 years. ~ | 1 | | {| The Provincetown Playhouse ! in New York City was one of! the earliest art theaters in the! nation, founded in 1816- British railroads now are con- ducting tests with radio-controll- ed switching which are expect- ed to result in. big advances in ' railroad techniques. | The population of Greece, | ‘about the size of Alabarna, is | {equal to that of Arkansas, Ala- ! | bama and Mississippi combined. i U.S. marriages totalling 13.2 | per 1,000 population in 1942 were | ‘at the highest rate in the his- f | tory of the country. | - Aristophanes, the playwright, | was one of the earliest libraria | and worked in the ancient libr \ries at.Alexandria. 1 | The one-fourth of the U- S.j , population which lived on farms ‘in 1932 received only one-nine- ‘teenth of the U. 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