Evening star. [volume], June 15, 1958, Page 2, Image 120

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Words To Live By:
You
Needn't
Feel Lost!
This was the wonderful discovery
of a child when she first faced fear
By SUZANNE NICOL.L.
As a child of seven, I went to live with
my widowed Hungarian grandmother in
her summer residence in Nagy Toronya.
She was a small, slender lady who had
evolved a set of personal rules and
credos from a life filled with both
tragedy and joy.
1 arrived at my new home fortified
with an impression that life with grandma was going
to be something special like a steady diet of candy.
To my horror, my grandmother assigned me a difficult
task within a few hours of my arrival.
She asked me to do an errand which involved going
to an unfamiliar place and fetching an account book
from a total stranger. I balked, fretted, cried out in fear,
“I don't know the way... How will I find it?”
My grandmother looked at me gently and said,
“You'll find it at the cai of year tongue, my cMM,**
and sent me off.
Perhaps it seems a bit harsh to modern exponents of
child psychology. But it wasn’t. 1 found my tongue and
I found it useful. 1 asked as I went, and found my way.
1 often suspect that the pain, or more justly, the fear
of unknown, unexamined experiences is common to
evei > one, child or adult. This experience at seven taught
me that I need only form the words, turn to someone,
and fear would fall away as quickly as I talked.
My grandmother’s lesson is simply this: to trust, even
blindly, to speak, even haltingly, is to open the door to
the outside world. When we do that, the gnawing little
terrors that we keep hidden rush out and disappear. In
an “Age of Anxiety” the lesson rings truer took out,
speak out, let the light flood in and the fear dissolves.
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This Week
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Chairman of the Board
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June 15,1958
In tills issue:
Ffittar’s Day Cover: by Richard Ham
4 Phony Bunny
5 Corf board: taught In Sign Language
s How Scientists Taach Their Children
11 fitedm: look Another Bardot I
14 Savon Ufa-Saving Tips For Thn Family
15 I Know A Different Menshikov
a Attay: Who Let The Birds In*
a FaoMass PM: The Tousled look
a Flatten: Man In A Trap
a Food: Chow Tima In The Big (oca
a TV: Woof To Buy A Crowd?
44 Happy Hints: Trick Clock
« Owls ’Em
a Look Laugh: Father Sneaks A Peek
Next Wssk:
• “Danger: Drug-Resisting Germs.”
An important message from the
newly elected President of the
A.M.A. Read how you can help
in medicine’s newest battle.
a “Pisa’s Tower’s Falling Down.”
Here’s a rollicking new slant on a
famous Italian landmark.
• “WUI You Make A Good Space
man?” This quiz will tell who in
yoUr family is most likely to be
invited to (he Moon.
THIS WEEK Magazine, J»on 15, 1958