Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-13
The Once Over
THE sAp CASE on THE sPrNACH AppICTs
BY II. Z. PHILLIPS

All 0A1 0Al& - &A
Children can Be trained to like spinach. It's oil
done by stimuli. The Institute Of Child welfare Re-
search At Columbia Teachers College has been doing
1t for the last year. Different taste stimuli, pleas
ant. unpleasant and awful, were given to the chill
dren over a period OF 80 days, after which the Riddles
got so accustomed to it that they didn't mind.
According to the teachers, some children became
80 fond OF 1t that they became addicts. This brought
the experiments 70 an end and frightened the teach
ers very badly.
1t Is all very well to change over a child to a point
where he viii eat spinach without q battle. but it Is
another thing when the little one gets 50 he becomes
a regular spinach hound and wants II In everything.
including strawberry shorcake.
1T gave me an awful scare" confessed Miss Ma
tilda @. Schwartzburger. one Of the teachers who con-
Quoted the big spinach experiment. When ! saw
the little dears taking their spinach with a smile and
not even mutterIng at me. I was delighted" she said
today. but when they began to demand II three
times q day, and even for dessert, ! grew cold all
over.
Il guess we gave them too much spinach stimuli
At any rate. the first time I experienced nissivtnss
was when 21 little boys and girls between the ages Of
S and 9 got I'D a round robin demanding an all-spin-
ach breakfast. Up to that time we had been giving
them flapjacks and maple syrup in the morning. I
complied with this request, but got my first big shock
When we TOOK lU tOLS on q picnic one 5atuLudy hna
served d big lunch OF apple dumplings, waffles and
honey, bread and molasses and heaps OF plum pud-
ding. They refused to touch 1t and set up o cry OF
What? No spinach?'
Then realized what had happened. The chill
dren had become spinach addicts. 1t was pretty ter
rifying; I couldn't get any spinach then, but ! fed
them raw dandelion green's while ! summoned the
faculty. The faculty saw the situation at a glance.
To deprive them Of spinach suddenly would have
made them nervous wrecks. We had to let them Ia
per off over a period OF months.
Most Of the children finally got so they could 60
without more than one meal OF spinach q day, but
we are still working on five little boys and girls who
have become spinach slaves.
1T Is pitiful to hear them crying fspin-n-n-nachl
Broccoli-i-i-ir all through the day and night"
Would Bar Thugs from Hunting L~icenses-Head-
line. Except in the open season for adult human be-
ings: Jan. LIST to Dec. 3lst inclusive.
"one Year Prison Term for killing weather Fore
caster ."-Headline 1t seems an excessive penalty.
A count has been arrested in New York as q boot
logger. That's the way 1t goes: every time an attempt
is made to improve the tone OF the profession the
government steps In and spols everything.
HEAR! HEAR.
Inc ActorS Equity is OUT 70 unionlze the taLkles-
The eight-hour lisp with time and a half for over
tones.
Opposition is voiced by the picture masnates who
anticipate a crisis in which a movie star might walk
out in the middle OF a four-sylable word.
Look for q sign over some motion picture cathedral
reading, This theater employs only union voices"
a
MI. John David predicts that In another hundred
years styles tn attire will have changed to such an
extent that men will appear in "~scanties" for street
wear. with legs bare from the ankles to just above the
knees. Another hundred years7 Aren't we going
cray any faster than that2