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Show PAGE FIRST AID FOR FRAZZLED PARENTS The Old Settler By ' MONTICELLO Albert R. Lyman r, My dear San Juaners: Five men escaped from a shipwreck on to a desert Island of the South Pacific. A dreary prospect confronted them, but they decided to make the best of h, and began to entertain and cheer one another with such words of encouragement and entertainment as they could to mind. There came a time when every one had told the last thing he could remember about his lifes experience, what he had found in books or what he had imagined. There was n all their world not a thing to relieve the killing monotony, and now it was a more unbearable desolation by far than it had been when each one had something to distract their thoughts for a mament. The human mind, unless it has been palsied by torpor or excess, is a ravenous machine, depending always some new thing on which to expend its power. Failing to find it, "it preys on itself and is destroyed by thought. Any tolerable menu must have something different added to it at frequent and unfailing intervals. To have the same thing repeated over and over for a very long time is paral"You can tell the new yzingin the old way is unbearable. story Joseph Pulitzer, the blind editor of rite New York World, and one of the most keen and aggressive intellects of his time, had a staff e of men gathering and bringing to him all the time, some new matter on which his omnivorous mind could feed. The consn-mat- e master of his great task as editor of about the most influential paper in the United States. Pulitzer lived much of his time on his wide-awak- r What makes the world interesting? What gives charm and attraction to people and things. I recall that we had been for long weeks in vice-preside- - t, son-in-la- - - on Cruise and son came Black LaRae Mrs. foe a California from Coronado, visit with Tully Harvey family here and the Ed Black family in Blanding. LaRaes husband. Palmer, is now on a six month cruise with Alonje Meets New officers for the year 1159 the Navy. LaRae will join him in were elected last Wednesday at a Coronado in July. meeting of the Alonje Club. HostHere from Phoenix ess for the affair was Yvonna Clarence Black is in Phoenix, Hoggard. Elected president was for a medical checkup and also for Louise IXickett, Veda Pehrson is the family of his son, and Yvonna a visk with the new Steve Black. Also making the trip secretary; was Mrs. Doris Hoggard was Foy and three the reporter is June Haw'kins- The She will spend some time children. outgoing officers will be honored in Scorsdale, Arizona with Mr. at a party on January 28 at the and Mrs. Claude Foy. home of June Hawkins. Last year s Idaho Trip officers are Mickey Armstrong, Hawkins, June Junior Hoggard left Wednesday president; and Yvonna Hoggard, for a weeks visit trip to Boise, Idaho. secretary. Returns from Salt Lake Baby Contest Winner; Mrs. L. Frank Redd returned The Mason Photo Studio of Sunday from a weeks visit in Phoenix, this week announced the Salt Lake City with her winners in the baby contest which and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. was held here recently. Receving Homer E. Smith, and their family. a prize was the family of Junior Mrs. Redd stayed wich the Smith Hoggard; those winning in the children for a couple of days individual poses were the babies while Dr. and Mrs. Smith were in of Jimmy Forrest, Howard Rogers, Las Vegas, Nevada for a medical and Margaret Rogers. Each winner received an 11 x 14 inch portrait. meeting and some relaxation. Visitor from Oakley Jet Training Course Karl Horton, stepfather of Sam and Mrs. Fred Jensen reMr. Lee, spent two days visiting at ceived word that their son, Quinn, Saturreturned He the Lee home. has been sent to Ft. Walton, day to his home in Oakley, Utah, Florida for a six weeks training li Veekend in Salt Lake course to do with jet fighter having Mr. and Mrs. Paul Strong spent is employed a: Hill the weekend in Salt Lake City on planes. Quinn Base and lives in Kearns. Force Air business. They also visited with Utah. and the family of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Stan (i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiKiiiiiiiiii1 ti aii it ii niinitiiiifi in Naiy Husband Here from Neu: Aiexico Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Frost were in Monticello Sunday and Monday. After completing business in Cortez and Farmington, they returned to their Indian missionary duties in Gallup, New Mexico. appetite. face-liftin- g BRIEFS NEWS yacht, consuming all they brought to him, and producing from it, the live, vitalizing material on which other minds could feed. 0 how the animated mind does hunger for something new on which to act. Psychologists affirm that so long as you can supply the kind of attraction on which the mind of your listener can focus, you can hold his attention. When you repeat, he looks elsewhere for something new enough to assure his the solitudes, just we two when we came to an old camping ground and found there part of a weather beaten news paper. We devoured every word on both sides of it and licked our chops for more. 1 looked up and see that there is a chance of my meeting Bll Sikes; Bill is a good fellow, a friend of mine, I sympathize with him and like to do him a good turn, but the prospect of meeting him somehow repells me because I know just what he will say the same things he always says. It is tiresome- It will be about himself, his pet project, his cherished bellyache. grudge, his never-en- d Beyond Bill 1 see Jim Webb; I do want to meet Jim, he feeds on new material and always has something fresh to offer; it may be something new in an old dress, or something old so completely disguised with a new shirt and a new that I am thrilled with it before I recognize it as a dear old saw very acceptable in its new attire. When with my infirmities I had been confined for some time to my room, and my wife was ready to go to town, she ased, "What shall I bring you. I quoted her the words of James Russell Lowell, "Strong tea and scandal, bless me ,how refreshing!" Bring me something to relieve the an idea- a rumor, monotony a report, a scandal, anything on which my hungry mind can pacify its raging appetite. JANUARY 23, 1959 TRIDAY, THE SAN JUAN RECORD TWO i MONTICELLO MEWS here to visit Mrs. Brown's sister, Mrs. Alma Young, a patient in the San Juan hospital, left for home Saturday. Attends Mother Mrs. Una Black went to Salt Lake last week to be with her mother, Mrs. Lydia Chiton, who underwent a serious operation Thursday. Sunday Dinner Guests Mrs. Margaret Nielson and Mrs. H. E. Blake were Sunday dinner home Moab Caller egusts at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Dalton of Moab was a Donald Blake. Calls on Friends caller in Monticello Thursday. Visits Sister in Hospital Mrs. Therus Sorenson was calling Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brown of on friends in town from her Illinois, who came South Creek home Friday. Springfield, Church Workers Plan '59 A group of Church Workers met at the home of Mrs. Etna Schafer Friday to outline their Bazaar work for 1959. Trip for Coal Mrs. Evan Pehrson accompanied her husband to Price Thursday of last week when he went after coal. Weekend at Home Bert Odette and Phillip Sieber came from Salt Lake for a weekend .- -I Blanding Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Christensen were callers at the Guy Palmer home in Blanding on Sun- - D. U. P. Meets Friday Members of Daughters of Utah Pioneers and guests met at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Summers Friday- January 10. The lesson Sutherland. was given by Mrs. Joel Norton Students Visit Home and songs were sung by 'he two Spending the weekend at home small sons of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Bert Odette, Ronnie Turner, were A delicious Barber. lunch was Phillip Seiber, Kristine Soltau, and served by the hostess. Sheree Lyman. They returned to their schoolwork in Salt Lake City THE SAN JUAN RECORD on Monday. Published Every Friday at BYU Student ' Visits Utah. Entered at the Poet Miss Norene Thompson, a friend Office at Monticello, Utah, as of Bob Houghton, spent the weeksecond class mattter under the end here. 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