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Older Sister Did: Ability to put oneself in the child s place is a valuable asset in dealing with all kinds of behavior problems. Too frequently there is no common ground between the child's world and the adult world. A certain activity is pleasant and constructive to the child, but naughty to the adult. One two-year-old was in the "me too" stage; she wanted to do everything her slightly older sister did. One morning the older sister found an eggshell on the ta¬ble, and crushed it as she had seen her mother do when making coffee. The little one looked for another eggshell, but there was none.
ROBERTS, Brigham Henry, Mormon leader and publicist: b. Warrington, England, March 13, 1857; d. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 27, 1933. In 1866 he emigrated to the United States with his older sister, settling at Bountiful, a few miles north of Salt Lake City. His parents had been zealous converts of the Mormon church before Brigham's birth, and Airs. Roberts with her two youngest children had gone to Utah in 1862, preceding her husband and the older chil¬dren. Brigham worked on farms and in mines in Davis County : at 17 he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. In his early teens he attended school for the first time.See Also His Sister Fanny:Early Years. When the little redheaded, blue-eyed, and, at first, sickly Rud Hayes was only two years old, his brother Lorenzo was accidentally drowned. Thus Hayes grew up as the only male in a household in which his widowed mother and his sister Fanny idolized him. His sister, out of an unusually strong affection for him, also acted as a relentless spur to his ambition—a major cause, no doubt, of his suffering well past his adolescence from "nervousness almost to the point of disaster."
Birchard, he overcame this so fully that he matured into a model of a manly individual.
Hayes was given an unusual amount of schooling for one then living in Ohio. He attended a Methodist seminary at Norwalk, Ohio, and then Isaac Webb's private school at Middle-town, Conn. (later absorbed into Wesleyan Uni¬versity) and Kenyon College. Deciding to become a lawyer, mainly to satisfy his sister, he entered Harvard Law School and finished in 1845, having become an interesting mixture of New England "gentleman" and Ohio "Buckeye."
His sus¬picions are later confirmed when, one day at a cafe, he meets Caoudal, a sculptor, from whom he learns that Fanny had been the sculptor's mistress, as well as model for the well-known figure of Sapho, and that her most recent lover was the engraver Flamant, who, because of her, had counterfeited bank notes and been sentenced to prison. A series of separations and reconcilia¬tions follow, and Jean finally offers Fanny a new life and the opportunity of going with him to a far-off colony. But too weary and old to start elsewhere, Fanny decides to marry Flamant, who, she knows, will idolize her.
The libretto of Jules Massenet's opera Sapho (1897) was based on Daudet's novel.
SIDNEY D. BRAUN, Professor of Frmch, Yeshiva University; author
of "Dictionary of French Literature."
On The Other Hand See Her Sister:Through the league, the Amer¬ican Red Cross today provides supplies and other disaster assistance to sister societies in an average of five disasters a year. The American society also furnishes technical and advisory assistance to sister societies. This activity, most extensive immediately following each of the world wars, has aimed to help new Red Cross societies estab¬lish their programs, war-cripp/ed societies to re¬establish theirs, and all societies to strengthen their services. Aid to sister societies is a care¬fully planned investment that looks to the goal of a fully self-reliant Red Cross society in every country taking its full part in advancing the world-wide international Red Cross movement.
The story is set in Scotland during the reign of George II. The title refers to the Edin¬burgh prison where some of the most spectacular action occurs. The heart of the plot is the di¬lemma of an uneducated peasant girl, Jeanie Deans, daughter of an old "true-blue Presbyte¬rian." Her sister, Effie, is charged with infanti¬cide under an inhumane law. Jeanie's con¬science forbids her to save her sister from execution by perjuring herself, so she sets out on a heroic walk to London to secure a pardon for EfFie. She succeeds through her innocence and frankness and through the aid of the Duke of
Argyle, who arranges a dramatic meeting be¬tween her and Queen Caroline.
The tale is shapeless and uneven, with ro¬mantic and Gothic trappings, especially in fig¬ures like mad Madge Wildfire and the pictur¬esque George Robertson, Efiie's seducer. Undis¬tinguished in the narrative passages, the novel leaps to life in the dialogue, in the Scots dialect. Scott brings history alive not through description but through Jeanie and her father, their moral struggles and the dramatic situations they pro¬duce. |
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