Barrie Examiner, 23 Jun 1958, p. 12

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ms LOGIC PANTASY By HOLLY BROWN dust suppose you had pair ofpet penguins Where would you keep them The logical if inconvenient place would be the refrigerator nut substantially is what fantgsy is the logical play of the imagination over set of improbable or impossible circumstances Children who often wonder whatwould happen and thls kind of intellectual play is healthy mental exercise which strengthens the imagination and trains the reasoningpowers to see relationships which exist be tween ideas MR POPPERS PEN GUlNS Is very simple fantasy based on the unlikely circum stance that the Poppers possess pair of penguins and that the lady penguin has laid and hatch ed no less than ten eggs Given the unlikely circumstances the character of penguins and the per sonality of Mr Popper there is not an illogical or unreasonable development in the storyBut fantasy isvnot always as simple as this Syppose Male were to for sake his dim safe underground home and take up residence with Water hat in the quicksilver world of the riverbank This is what Kenneth Grahame supposes ln THE WIND THE WILL 0WSand what follows is every bit as logicai though Infinitely more subtle and sophisticated than the lively experiencesof the Popper family if mole were human child he would be justlike the Mole in the book cautious sensible and determined yet tired with lively spirit of adventure His adventures range from the slapstick to the mystical and afford the child who identi tics himself with Mole share in the life of the small creatures who inhabit the riverbanklhis vicarious experience draws him closerto and gives him better understanding of the world of nature and at the same time sat lsilcs the longing of children who like animals to tail to them and share their lives But more than this the life of the flier bank in its infinite variety and like that at times unfailing continuity reflects in miniature the variety and contin utty or all life whethcr human or animal Suppose you chased White Rabbit and fell down his hole What would happen Well at most anythingcould happen once you accept the premise that lit tle girl could fall down rabbit hole but if you want to make good story of it thegtcvents must laave pattern in which they ac quire certain logic otherwise the result is without form and meaningless In Low Carrolls ALICE lN WONDERLAND Alice is always too short or too tall tooinear or too far too early or to late nothing is ever quite what it seems and nothing is ever quite right We are not really sur prised whcn Alice finds she has dreamed it allpfor Carrolls in spired nonsense has the madden ing irrational logic of dream it is fantasia played on the fact that dreams are what they are and that life also is rather THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is similar nonsense fantasy in which imagination plays with the fact that mirror reflects everything in reverse It is therefore only logicalthat LookingGlass Land should be place wheroone has torun very fast in order to stay in onevplace Chiidren are strong ly addictedto nonsense butthoy oughtto be provided with the kindof nonsense which makes sense Suppose you could go backward in time Alhis is an idea which seems has great appeal for child Ten and for goodmapyzreosons as well perhaps because the almost univ salhuman no to humdrum familiarity ng gtstrange and there ing Butto do this you and Sister ln THE SHIP THAT FLEW you could 1th the put at will choosing out those times and places which interested you most and returningwhcn you had had enough 0r suppose you lived in an old old house which had kept the past alive in its ageshrkeneduails Then you mtght like Penelope in TRAY ELLER lNliMEstep without warning into the age got 0de Queen Hess and find yourself watchlng the desielopment ofva plot to free MaryQuccn of Seots and set her up onthethrone England or suppose youtound half of an ancientEgyptlanamw let in your search for the other half passed into the great age of the Phnrohs Mrs Ncsblts children did in THE AMULET Then history would lose its text book flavor andjome alive The time fantasy has its rule You cannot change history If you do not like the way it is going you can only stand help lesst by but it may be that having been there you willund erstand better and not be quite so sorry You cannot stay in the past no matter howrmuch you like it for you do not really belong there Most important of all the magic which transports you there provides only transpor tatton not protection Once you have arrived you are on your ownI dependent on your own courage and skill to escape the pcrils of your new environment This is the proper function of magic to provide opportunity for the exer ciaoof witantl courage not to make them unnecessary and to re dueehuman beings to the status of puppets Suppose you expanded the fairy tale to book length You would ofthc fairy tale that in the strug gle between the forccs of good and evil good must prevail and that magic is secondary force brought into play by theaetlons of the hero You must presenl an ideal of behavior with which the young reader can worthin identify himself For if magic is on alipowertul force controll ing the action of the story then the terms good and evil become meaningless and illogical and the story infinitely less exciting George itfacdonalds THE FRIN CESS AND THEGOBLIN is direct carrying of the fairy tale tradition The goblins in their and are defeated partly by the magic of lrcnes greatgreatgreat old grandmother but mostly by commonsense of Curdie the min ers son But it is illogical to expand the airytale unless you add sub stance to it and George Macdon aid has done this by giving his characters greater personality in thefniry tale and making the dc cislons between good and evil lesssure and clearcut than they are in the fairy tale It is an advance in sophistication over the fairy tale anda step closer to actuality Manyof these books but not ably THE WINDJN THE WIL LOWS and ALICE lN WONDER LANDcry out to be read aloud and they are idealfor classroom reading ADDED CONFUSION The workings oirthe Russian mind become even moreudifficluli tofathom with each successive pronouncement by one of the spokosmen Its likelythat thats the way Russia wantsit Grande have to accept the basic premise darkmountain caverns plot cvll against the little Princess Irene lrcnes courage and the sturdy noun usnau Gitdin Pun Staff Wrttcr Measuring cups and spoons made to standarda set byrthe government will ooonbe on the market says the Donadianfis sociation ot Consumerh it marksu milestone for the IS sedation which has been work of siandardiaa Tests showed that one measur ing cup might hold up to 50 cu centimetres more thananother the association saysand this is an article most people regarded as already standardized With he CanadianHome Economics Associatiod and the Canadian Dietetic Association the CAC asked the government to set up regulations and these were approved last year Must Keep Watch But appearance of standard ed measures in shops is not end of the road for the Consum crs Axonlotion The fact the standardsare there does nob mcananybot1v has to follow th the group reports But it recommends buyers to see that new measur ing cups are marked Canada Standard or CS the mark perrnittcd when measures are regulations size The specificationsfor measur ing cups define astandard cup as containing Veight Imperial fluid ounce 101 2273 milliliters plus or minus threepcr cen tolerance Similar regulations apply to low IOW As it riii Mr GUARANTEE for your reepppubla Safety Check LAK ST éjMutfiéilj prices BfEGQeriChtires ThisSPEClAL5ALE attarsyeo new tile my one protection at low mono soving prices Top allowance tesDrlvn in tore Elli Ill EE US FOR TIRE ROTATI SPEtA NO atnvrdSTi OFFICE nLthArERIALsroR sALsV sntsswinn on flop itinerant EVERY oasest seamster Jim from thoInshionnflmi showythatchcmisemdtnpeu lines will still be the flyinfor Mr and Mrs Bldweli and familygvinlted on Sunday with ur and Mrs William Luck 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