Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-13
The Once Over
rHE SAD CAsE or THE sPNACH ADDICTs
BY q. Z. PHILLIPS

1hE GhO Nno6 VI AAI
Children can be trained to like spinach. It's al
done by stimuli. The Institute Of Child Welfare Re
search at Columbia Teachers College has been doing
it 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
SO fond Of it that they became addbcts. This brought
the experiments TO an end and frightened the teach
ers very badly.
1T Is all very well to change over a child to a point
where he will eat spinach without a battle, but it is
another thing when the little one gets 50 he becomes
a regular spinach hound and wants it 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 I 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 it three
times a day, and even for dessert, ! grew cold all
over.
II guess we gave them too much spinach stimuli.
At any rate. the first time I experienced misgtvtngs
was when q little boys and girls between the ages Of
5 and 9 got up a round robin demanding an all-sptn-
ach breakfast. Up to that time we had been giving
them flapjacks and maple syrup in the morning. /
complied with this request, but got my first big shock
Wnen we TOOK lU JQLS On q picnic OLE OdtuLoay dHd
served a big lunch OF apple dumplings, waffles and
honey, bread and molasses and heaps Of plum pud-
ding. They refused to touch it and set up a cry Of
What? No spinach?'
Then 1 realized what had happened. The chill
dren had become spinach addicts. 1t was pretty ter
rifying; / couldn't get any spinach then, but I fed
them raw dandeion green's while I summoned the
faculty. The faculty saw the situation at a glance
To deprive them Of spinach suddenly would have
-.,Io &bo-- vrruo,.r ~~~a,ke NE ho6 IN Iaf fher0 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 a day, but
we are still working on five little boys and girls who
have become spinach slaves.
1T is pitiful to hear them crying 'Spin-n-n-nach!
Broccoli-i-i-ir sIl through the day and night"
Would Bar Thugs from Hunting Licenses.-Head
line. Except in the open season for adult human be-
ings: Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st inclusive.
One Year Prison Term for killing Weather Fore
caster. It seems an excessive penalty.
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A count has been arrested in New York as a boot
logger. That's the way it goes: every time an attempt
Is made to improve the tone OF the profession the
government steps in and spells everything.
HEAR! HEAR.
The Actors Equity is out to unioni5e the taIkies.
The eight-hour lisp with time and a half for over
tones.
Opposition is voiced by the picture magnates who
anticipate a crisis in which a movie star might walk
out in the middle OF a four-syllable word.
Look for a sign over some motion picture cathedral
reading. This theater employs only union voices"
Mr.. John David predicts that In another hundred
years styles in 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 that?