Evening star. [volume], September 03, 1961, Page A-16, Image 16

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Philippine Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo
begins his weekly letter to his two grandsons,
Carlitos and Mickey (shown in photo in back
ground), by clipping the comic page for the
illustrations to go with the story he writes.
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»f hi» brathwr, And Oar 11 to* should not »*U ««tll hi* ear koala capital/,
th# doctor thauld tall him -han ha ®><n «4» . You nu»t obey ttaeslta »lw»y».
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good am who ma* * good awianer. AMr ; > 4
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kind end bravo. He also preyed s®Bb«L
to Sod. One da/, he w>a told there
n< * bad can in the river. You
rauaaber the river near «y town, L n
Caalllng. The bad raan was dl»Wb-| >
lay other people and steeling. yt jfflj®
then he would hide in the river.
The policemen of the town
wanted to get hits, Hut they did I
want to shoot hist. It is bao to
Shoot a men, special he la i
net armed. |
So they asked the ;*ood twn to H
capture bin. sh» good orn i» a 4V
swirwar, a good one, like Oarlitoe. J
So the food man juaped In the rives. tBBT <
He saw the bed ana who looked « 4e]W
1h» good »an stooped and preyed first. i ; iW
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Then he grabbed th* bad n*h and
they bad « fight, book at ti-oe in ■■*
the picture, the. are really having a
tussle, the bad nan wee a rong, but 1
the good man we a stronger. He ie
Stronger because the good bo rd ie
with hilt. He preys a« you and Kic*-ey
before goln- to bed every niglit.
te end -,«i they fought, the pood ar>n wee stranglinr t e bed
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"My Dear Carlitos and Mickey: . . ."
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preyed. He asked the bord tp' help
him get the bed man but not to hurt blast Wly. '
But the bad nan lunged for the good man and he tried to grapple with
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U.- k. ?'•’ 801 h ® l4 of tt * * 4 ftnd h * « oul4 hav » strangled
him but he decided no to. He saw the bad asm wee already very weak, go
he let hin go, and he went the other way. He vent the other way to
call the p:lie«»en idio were on river's bank. He shouted to tr.esi
H< V» off leers, you can now get th
p’ -;. bad nan. H> j,* weak and exhaustsd.
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to death. He is now yours and you can take hia to jail.*
, . «« «»e poliewn took their river police boat and dragged tf.e
. bad Sian and they took hia to jail.
Biat'e how all the bad sen should end ~ in jail.
s. M * ha ' Ud r * Beal> ® r > '”’?•» that no or-tter how strong you
are, be tei u to your ansqy. fees he la down, don’t hit bin anymore.
A '.ig hug and kieses from
Tpura effecfriorantely,
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SUNDAY STAR
D. C., September 3, 1961
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It only takes the Ambassador 15 minutes—he
says he "can't afford more time that that"—
to write out his weekly story for his grandsons.
Inspiration comes to him as he types the letters
each Sunday.
Romulo
Writes
For'Two ■
By RUTH DEAN
Star Staff Writer
Philippine Ambassador
Carlos P. Romulo, former
war hero and president of
the United Nations General
Assembly, finds time on Sun
day to write children’s stories!
But this Pulitzer Prize win
ner’s audience is more ex
clusive than the one for
which he has written 11
books, including his last best
seller, “I Walked With He
roes.”
His children's stories are
only for the enjoyment of
two most dear to him—his
grandsons in Manila.
Every Sunday after attend
ing church with Mrs. Romulo,
the Ambassador sits at his
typewriter and has a 15-
minute letter visit with 6-
year-old Carlos 111 (Car
litos”) and 5-year-old Miguel
(“Mickey.”)
There’s nothing prosaic
about these letters from this
imaginative author and for
mer newspaperman.
The Ambassador starts out
first with two pages of type
writer paper on which he
pastes pictures he has clipped
from the Sunday news sec
tions and comic strips. He se
lects those which he thinks
would appeal to the boys—
lions, tigers, swimmers, cow
boys and Indians, etc.
Around these pictures, de
pending on the inspiration of
the moment (he never thinks
of what he’s going to write
ahead of time) he weaves a
little story with a moral in
it. “But it must be within
their sphere of knowledge,”
he explained.
With characteristic humor,
the Ambassador mused, “I
never thought the day would
come when I would be cutting
paper. You do for your grand
children what you never did
for your children.” More
seriously he added, “especially
for the two boys, when they’ve
lost their father. I try to fill
his place.”
This week, for example, he
sent them a story about
swimmers because Carlitos is
in the hospital with an ear
infection received in swim
ming. He begins the letter
with advice to Mickey to take
care of his brother because he
is not well, and to Carlitos
not to swim until his ear heals
completely. He ends this
brief bit of advice with “You
must obey Mamita always.
And now for our story;”
In lucid phrases which he
types out with scarcely a
pause for inspiration in his
15-minute writing stint, the I
Ambassador tells the boys a
tale that has the story teller’s
master touch. It is a tale of
good and evil with a timeless !
moral.
Counsels this general who '
was Gen. MacArthur’s aide
de-camp in World War 11,
“You should remember, boys,
that no matter how strong
you are, be kind to your
enemy. When he is down,
don’t hit him anymore.”
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Os LOVE and
If LAUGHTER
By MARJORIE HOLMES
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Fire on the Beach Brings Joy
And a Call to Father for Help
The moon is a pale golden melon half in a laven
der sky.
The fire on the beach lifts golden tongues from a
rosy heart. You hear it snapping and crackling, along
with the voices of the young people who are laughing
and kidding, and the music of a transistor radio that
they have hung from a tree branch. *
They have built their fire in the space between two
rearing rocks. The rocks rise behind and about them,
placid, ancient and serene, their sides illuminated by the
fire like the sides of a cave.
“They won’t let us come, they won’t let us roast
marshmallows with them!” the smaller fry complain to
you, where you sit with friends on the patio just above.
"Can we build our own fire? Can we have a bonfire too?”
“Sure, why not?” you say. “If you'll gather the wood.”
And so now you see these other figures, sprite-small in
the moon and the firelight, prowling about, gathering up
twigs and leafy sticks. You watch them crouching over
their pitiful pile of paper and inadequate fuel, striking
matches that only go out—especially when they get scared
and drop them. So your husband rises and goes down to
help. He gathers an armload, and, over their
“Let us do it, we know how!” gets their fire laid.
So now two bonfires are leaping on the sands below,
snapping and calling to each other and waving white arms
of smoke.
“Whew! That surely should be enough to keep the bugs
away,” someone laughs. “But doesn’t it smell good?”
There is the acrid tang of burning wood, the fishy
smell of the water, the odor of leafmold and earth. The
moon, looking cool and almost succulent in the sky, seems—
like happiness—close enough to hold in your hands.
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“I was saved from making the decision as the phone
rang, and the girls were upon me instantly. Here’s a house
hold hint: if you can’t find your children and get tired
of calling them, pick up the phone. No matter if your
children are at the movies, in school, visiting their grand
mother or on a field trip in some distant city, they will
be upon you magically within seconds after you pick up
the phone.”
From Whatever You Do, Don’t fantc, a hilarious tale
by Jean Mercier about a Manhattan housewife transplanted
to the perils of suburbia.
Wednesday: Mother is called "today's centaur—half woman, half
station wagon" in Wednesday's "Os Lava and Loaghter" in the Society-
Home Section, with a stress on safety in the car.
READERS'
CLEARING HOUSE
Living Off the Land
F. F„ Washington
I am interested in compiling a recipe file to be
kept on hand in case of a national emergency.
What I am interested in obtaining is the names of
edible plants which grow wild.
A fine book entitled “Edible Wild Plants of
Southeastern North America” has been most help
ful but the instructions are
rather vague. For example,
paw paws were used in thick
ening custard, but the book
says nothing more than that.
If any of you readers know
of some such recipes using
poke, paw paws, persimmons,
wild nuts, etc., I wish you
would contact me through
this column. I would like to
know, however, if you have
actually tried the recipe and
what you thought of it.
Recipes using wild animal
produce, such as eggs and
honey or using wild game it
self will also be welcome.
A list of first aid items
which can be made from
leaves and roots might also
be a good one to have on
hand.
If there is enough response
to this, perhaps I could share
the information by getting up
some sort of a little pam
phlet.
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Finger Taming
Mrs. W. F. K„ Alexandria
Will you kind readers
please tell me where I can
find a parakeet hobbyist who
can sell me a baby bird no
more than 35 days old? The
birds at the pet shops are
too old. Thank you.
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Blanket Fuzz
Mrs. R. W. S., Falls Church
Last year I purchased three
summer blankets from a
well-known mail order house.
My problem is that there is
no end to the fuzz that comes
off of them. They are 90%
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MAIL a* a public-service exchange
of ideas between area readers. The
Star cannot accept phone calls per
taining to this column. All letters
must bear the writer's full name and
address. No advertising is printed,
tried soaking them in salt
water overnight, which is
the method used to remedy
this problem with wool
blankets, but It didn’t work
with mine. If no one knows
of away to fix them, what
is the consensus on using
them as the filler for a
quilt.
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To Mrs. P. B. E.. Wheaton
Mrs. C. S„ Falls Church
To stop up the hole in
your leaky tube cake pan,
I would suggest that you put
freezer tape around the out
side bottom seam. My chil
dren bent the edges of my
pan while playing with it,
and I feel now that a dona
tion of the pan to the toy
box might be worthwhile.
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DEAR ABBY: What does
a girl do when she finds out
that a boy for whom she
cares a great deal has be
trayed her confidence by
broadcasting to all his friends
things that should have been
kept secret?
BETRAYED.
There is nothing you can
do about it now. But you
can profit by your own sad
experience and never again
give a boy anything to
“broadcast” about.
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DEAR ABBY: While I am
writing this, my 22-year-old
'daughter is stretched out on
the lawn chair in her bikini
bathing suit with her sun
glasses and movie magazines
and she will be there all day.
She spends every Saturday
and Sunday that way. She
is the laziest, most self-.
centered, inconsiderate per
son I have ever known. She
has a job which pays well,
but she never offers to pay
one cent toward her room
and board. She is up to her
neck in debt because she
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