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GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER 90 TODAY Celebrating her today is Mrs. J. E. Taverner, Dearborn Avenue, seen above with members of her family. The picture was taken a few years | 90th birthday ago and shows Mrs. Taverner seated. Her great great grand- daughter, little Miss Jane Little, is being held by her mother Mrs. George Little, a great grand- daughter, Next is Mrs. Ray Walker, a grand-daughter and her father, Mr. James Edward Taverner, who is Mrs, Taverner's son, Born on a Toronto Farm 90 Years Ago Great-Great-Grandma Recalls Past Resting yesterday in preparation for her birthday party today, her 90th anniversary, Mrs. James Ed- ward Taverner said "I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth," and sitting up straight, laughing and talking, she seemed very young for ninety. Mrs. Taverner who came to live with her daughter, Mrs. William Griffen, Dearborn Ave., about eight years ago was formerly Miss An- nie Woods, born in Toronto at the family farm which stood at the corner of Wopdbine and Danforth Avenues. Her parents came to Canada from Croydon, England, n 1850, bringing their three children with them. The voyage in a sailing vessel took over seven weeks, during which time the industrious young mother who was married at 17 employed her time by making a quilt of inch squares of material, some of which are still in the family. Mrs. Taverner was but three years old when her father who was & carriage builder, died as the result of an injury to his back, and her baby brother, the young- est of a family of seven that sur- vived, was born shortly afterwards, In speaking of her father she remembered that he had been em- | ployed in building the state coach | used for Queen Victoria's Coron- | ation; the same coach, slightly | remodelled to be used June 2 for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth bid Times were not easy for the young widow, and 'from the old- est to the youngest we all had to help," Mrs. Taverner recalled, and that was the way she brought her own family. She was married at an early age in Toronto, later moving to the Muskoka district to farm. The wonderful old lady now has 125 descendants. She has seven daughters and four sons living; 51 grandchildren; 58 great grandchil- | dren and two great, great grand- children. She brought all her chil- dren up to be God-fearing and in- dustrious. As a girl she learned dressmaking and in turn she taught | her daughters to sew and knit and crochet and made the clothes for | all the family. | Following the orthodox pattern set by her mother she maintained strict discipline in her hdome in which all work and all pleasures were shared alike. "There were so many of us that | we always had happy times," one | of her daughters recalled. "We liv- | ed about seven miles from a| church and it. wasn't often we could get to it, but on Sunday af- ter breakfast and the chores. we weld all change to our ost clothes for dinner, and in the af- Calgary Arranges Coronation Program MURIFL NARRAYVAY Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON (CP)--Webster Booth an: _'nne Zeigler, Britain's' top man-and-wife operatic team, will ditch a well-earned holiday to fly ternoon we would gather round and sing hymns. There was none of the gadding about that there is today, and yet we were perfectly con- tented." Mrs. Taverner made a grimace | when asked what she thought of {lipstck and make-up. She has nev- er used either, nor had a perman- ent wave, neither does she ap- prove of shorts or slacks for girls. She likes girls to look 'like little ladies." She answered with an emphatic "No" when askéd if she would like to start all over again. Modern conveniences and medical services (are all very well, but ways of liv- ing have changed too much for this great great grandmother. Life is too fast and too complicated. Visiting her on this special oc- casion are three of her daughters, Mrs. James Knight of Toronto; Mrs. Ernest Seddon, Agincourt and Mrs. James Tryon of Barkway, near Bracebridge. MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL Faced By Economic Squeeze Farmer Ponders Future Action Dear Mary Haworth: My wife land I are a farm couple and we | like farming but we are faced with | many problems and wonder if by lany chance you might be able to help us. If you don't answer such problems as ours, we thank you anyway. Here are some of our problems: | Pirst, we live in a region where the land has been drowning out from the underflow for several years. We have title to 240 acres but we aren't out of debt on it yet. Should we sell this property and try to find some other place? Or should we stay here? There is quite a bit of oil play in the neigh- rhood. Second, should we quit farming altogether and try to find other work? We have a good start on a herd of Shorthorn milk cows but have failed to do much with them because we've been unable to raise enough to feed tem well. Things are very black for us this spring as we've had to buy so much livestock feed. To occupy my mind I've signed up for a home-study course. : We have rented some ground io be planted in silo maize as fod- der for the cows. Should we go ahead with this or just farm our own land, and meanwhile should I try to get another job in town, answer soon, if possible. L.A. KEEP LAN D Dear L.A.: To acquaint myself with the ' agricultural picture mn your part of the country, I have talked with a man who works in the office of your Senator of Cap- itol Hill and knows something of the farm problems in your local- ity. The underflow that "drowns out" your land stems from the nearby river, I learn, and keeps the af- fected acreage clammy and grav- elly, unprofitable for planting or grazing. But, as you say, a good deal of speculative oil drilling is afoot in of it hitting the jackpot. Thus, our me that you'd better hold on to your farm. You too might strike it rich one day. Keep the dairy herd too, if pos- sible. As I understand, a hard- market may improve and stabil- {ize at a higher level, a little later. | You aren't alone in scratching | for livestock feed this spring. The drought of the past year was the worst in several seasons, I am told --leaving many farmers in- a bad way for grain and ensilage. In consequence, some cattle owners have been moving their herds wo other sections (temporarily) where stock feed is more available. But, if you can get a job in town and use the money to keep the stock fed, you may pull through without sense has already suggested. GET IN CROP As for the field you've rented, intending to plant it in silo maize, | try to get in the crop if you can. But, if you have to tween working that piece of ground and getting a salaried job, the | | guaranteed wage is a better prop- |osition at this time, I think. And, if you can't use the field, maybe the owner will cancel the deal | without further charge if you put | your case before him immediately. | As it happens, the Congressman from your district is one of the | leading agricultural experts in the nation, chairman of the 'House | Agricultural Committee. And, {am told that he would fully ad-- |vise you, through his staff, on such farming problems as you may | wish to submit to him by letter. | Mary Haworth counsels through {her column, not by mail or per- | sonal interview, Write her in care lof this newspaper. Famous Musicians Will Teach At Conservatory Summer School An unusual summer school | Conservatory of Music of Toronto. {Eminent musicians are being brought to Toronto from the United States and Europe to offer master classes and workshop courses for talented Canadian musicians. Among the visiting faculty are Mischa Mischakoff, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony, who for- Toscanini; Ernest Krenek, nationally famous composer, now |ceived from students in all parts of | on the faculty of the University of California. at Los Angeles; and Andre Levy, French cellist and Professor at the Ecole Normale in aris. Gina Cigna, dramatic from La Scala in Milan, and Ern-|serre, Dalcroze Eurythmist; est Barbini, formerly conductor with the Metropolitan Opera Com-|George Lambert, baritone. pany in New York, will also teach. Dr. Edward Johnson brought both is | of these artists to Toronto this year | planned for this year at the Royal |as permanent members of the Con- | | servatory faculty. | An exciting venture in Canadian musical education, the enlarged summer school ig a part of the {Royal Conservatory's over-all ex- pansion program, which aims to- {wards making the school one of the outstanding in North Americal From July 6 to 31 Toronto will be Canada and the United States. Other summer school faculty members, well known in Capa- dian music circles, include Boris | Roubakine, pianist; Charles Peak- Eric and ; : Boris {Berlin will be the director of the school. { Rollinson, theoretician; punitive loss. I advise you to try i this method -- which your good |=" choose be- | the neighborhood--some : friend on Capitol Hill agrees with : ship sale now would bring meager | prices and chances are that the ': a © GRADUATIN Miss Audrey English, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. English, Connaught Street, is among those who will graduate from Toronto General Hospital this evening at the graduation exercises held at Convocation Hall. Miss English will receive the general profi- ciency prize given by the grad- uate nurse staff of the hospital. GROUPS, CLUBS. AUXILIARIES KING STREET H AND § The King Street Home and Scliool Association was entertained |at its recent meeting by five de- lightful songs, given by the pupils of Mr; Carman Waters' class. The annual reports were given and Mr. Waters talked on civil defence. The election of officers was post- poned until the opening of the new school, in the Fall. An interesting skit, on parent and teacher co- operation, was given by Mrs, George Werry and her committee. FELLOWSHIP GROUP °* The Fellowship group of King | Street United Church held its regu- | lar meeting on Tuesday evening. | The devotional period was con- | ducted by Mrs. William Edwards' | group. Mrs, Jack Perry, president, presided for the business period. Members were reminded of the "Open House' on June 18 at the | | parsonage. Mrs. Jabez Wright play- | merly held the same position with (a hub of musical activity with its ed two piano selections. Mrs. Mer- | the NBC Symphony under Arturo |distinguished international faculty. |vin Bury spoke to the group on | inter- | Applications have already been re- | "Life in the Home'. { reminded that Members were the next meeting would be a pot luck supper. OFF TO AUSTRALIA | TILBURY, England (CP)--Forty soprano er, organist; Madeleine Boss Las British youths aged 16 to 18 left here for Australia under the Dis | s movement resumed in 1947, a total | Brother movement. Since of 1,154 youths have left in 37 'groups. HAS NO CAP! CAP ! 0 CHILD GUIDANCE By CLEVELAND MYERS NOW and then some child ex- pert finding a school laggard who ranks high in an intelligence test, will urge his rapid promotion or skipping of a grade without tak- ing into account the learning skills he has not yet mastered. The mother of a sixteen-year- old lad writes that he got only 60 in Math and English on his last report, and just passed in Social Studies. grade in his class in Music, and plays several instruments well. OFTEN SICK During his first two grades at school, this boy was sick a great deal, was left back in the second grade and again in the third grade. "After he had finished third grade," his mother says, 'I talked with the visiting psychiatrist who tested him and said he was very smart. He advised us to have him coached during the summer in 4th grade subjects, which we did, and he was put in 5th grade the next fall . . . Since then, he has barely passed in succeeding grades. '""He frequently has temper tan- trums or will sulk in order to get his own way. I'm afraid we're too willing to give in to his whims to keep peace in the family." The boy's younger brother is re- ported as "very quiet," that he "gets along very well with other children, reads well, makes things down in the cellar, practices on his mellaphone, which he plays well, takes correction fairly well, responds to help in school subjects and gets fairly good grades." I suggested to this mother that she consider the effect on this older. boy of his younger brother who appears to cause no worry. I entreated her and her husband to try to be most calm when this boy grows most excited and dis- agreeable. I pointed out that his discovery that his raging and pout- ing won him satisfaction, through causing his parents to cringe and surrender to his whims, only eggs him on to be more explosive and disagreeable, and I explained that The Problem of the Bright Lad 'Who Lags at His School Work Yet he gets the highest | PC THE DAILY TIMES-GAZE TTE, Thursday, May 21, 1953 § their strongest measure for help- ing this lad control his temper and ugly ways was. through discipline of themselves so as not to be af- fected by his outbursts nor to re-| ward him in any way for his] ugliness. It certainly is futile to] exhort, or even rebuke, a child while he is enraged. GREATLY -HANDICAPPED Since it is water over the dam for this boy and his parents, I pur-| sely made no reference, in writ-| ing the mother, to the misfortune | of his having been skipped to the| fifth grade without having mas- | tered first the basic skills of the fourth and earlier grades. No! matter how bright a child may be, he is seriously handicapped in! basic school subjects later if he has not mastered the skills of earlier subjects essential to pro- gress in these 'later subjects. This I would like to emphasize to those responsible for the edu- cational guidance of the child at any age or grade level, no mat- what his achievement on an in- telligence test reveals. Of course there are some very bright chil- dren who are stimulated to make © Italian Movies Have Different Approach Two Italian pictures of more than routine interest are currently showing at a downtown Oshawa movie house. The first one, "Rap- ture," starring Glenn Langan and Elsy Albiin, and American directed, is notable for the lovely landscape of the Roman countryside and the intriguing glimpses of classic sta- tuary in pastoral settings. sensitive and mobile face of M Albiin brings a fresh new talent to the American screen. "The Loves of Don Juan," with Italian dialogue and jocular lish sub-titles is the story which Mozart's opera "Don Gi vanni" is based, and Mozart vides most of the elegant ground music for the caperings the Spanish amorist and his S Panza-like servant. The aria * Cie Darem" is heard at one pois and its bouncy theme points much of the action of this bea fully dressed and floridly concoction. The two pictures a vaguely appealing duo. up arrears of earlier grades when promoted yet it is highly import-| ant that someone be responsible | for seeing that these arrears ac-| tually are made up, | BIG SHOPPING CENTRE | TORONTO (CP)--A $4,000,000 shopping centre will be built at Cooksville, 10 miles west of here, if Toronto township can provide || sewage facilities. Tentative plans call for construction of 40 stores, a drive-in theatre, a recreational area and a five-acre park. DRAPES - CURTAINS VENETIAN SHADES Made-to-Meosure FREE ESTIMATES WARD'S Simcoe ot Athol Dial 5-1151 mer Vacation. 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