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Show "The Woman's Touch" "Rewrite job needed to bring Primers up-to-date" by Louise Bruner The announcement about how grandmothers are flocking into the labor market in great numbers and larger proportions than ever before in history means that the old style reader is going to have to be completely com-pletely rewritten to make any sense to the youngsters who will soon be learning to read. The trip to the farm where grandpa is milking Bossie and grandma is baking bread has become as obsolete as the one horse open shay. The primer of tomorrow will read like this: Today I go to grandma's apartment to visit. Today is grandma's day off. Grandpa works the three to eleven shift. Grandma belongs to the union. Someday grandma will get Social Security. The supermarket will cash grandma's pay check. She will buy TV dinners. We will eat the TV dinners and watch television. Mama bakes cookies. Grandma Grand-ma buys cookies. Grandma's bed pulls down from the wall. Down, down, down comes grandma's bed. After my nap, up, up, up goes grandma's bed into the wall. I must go back home for supper. Grandma is going to a dance. Round, round, round, she will dance. Grandma Grand-ma has a new dress. Grandma has a new permanent. Look, look, look at my new permanent perman-ent says grandma. Mama cannot go to the dance. Mama does not have a new dress. Mama does not have a new permanent. Mama stays home with me. I will get a job too, when you are big, says mama. Then I will say: Look, look, look... see my pretty things. See my pretty paycheck. Do you like the things it can buy? Yes, yes, says mama. I will buy a convertible just like grandma's. We will go over the hills to grandma's place and say, "Look, look, look, see our pretty convertible? And now you know why one of three wives over 35 are gainfully employed, with a 50 gain expected in the next 14 years. |