The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

1T must be wonderful to be a child
Il these days and get fresh off the
press the books that lie Orleans is
writing.
Have before me his latest, Father
Camden" which is the companion
volume to 'Funday."
Am going on record by stating
that no home which shelters very
young children is complete without
these modern Mother Goose and
Father Gander jingles.
This latest collection of simple
rhymes and crude sketches carries"
out the fine tradition started in
"Funday.' "Funday' actually pro-
vided a drawing. a jingle and some
thing to do and observe for every
day in the year.
Father Gander" captures just as
the first book the natural longing
Of every child for beauty, romance,
rhyme and observation.
The book is dedicated to all the
little Judiths and Julians in the
country with these words:
They always talk
OF Mother Goose,
But never
rather Gander.
We're fond Of the
Old Gentleman;
In fact. we think
Hes Grander.
This book starts with New Years
day with a greeting from all chill
dren to all other children that
everybody, as well as the year,
have a happy birthday.
On the second day of the year the
child reading this book will nat
urally want to observe in what kind
of business their dad is engaged.
The author of Father Gander'
is an author, and for the second
day Of January he records for his
children that he is a lawyer. They
have been curious because they
have seen their father carry a brief
case.
So, Orleans has drawn a brief
case and built his jingle about
travelling to court and trying cases.
e r
or course the splendid and fine
~ way to read this book TO chill
dren is for the father to read this
Jingle and then in his own way tell
his children about his own work.
So many human experiences of
the child have been captured and
attention focused upon them. We
all know how children when they
are very young desire TO write let
ters with pen and ink.
This desire has been caught in the
picture of an ink blot on an en-
yelope with this jingle:
I want TO write
With pen and ink.
I'm really old
Enough, I think.
But mother saws
That 1 should not
Because I'm sure
To make a blot.
In "Funday," I thought the mas
terpiece was how the milk gets into
the milk gets into thebolr
the milk bottles. but in Father
Gsnder" on a May shower day. the
Jingle about the clouds is the mas
terpiece.
This jingle is filled with magma
ton of tha pureSt kind. The chill
dren want to take a walk and it is
aiming co fhat- met mich 49, 49,
clouds could see when little children
want to take a walk that it wouldn't
rain.
So the children wish that the
clouds have eyes so they wouldn't
bump together and make it rain.
Father Gander" is so rich in the
very qualities that every child is
always reaching for that it is a pity
that there is not a fund which
would put Father Gander" and
"Funday' in every home.
Father Gander" is published by
Claude Kendall. 10 Fifth avenue.
New York City.
This book certainly makes the
life Of children n happy paradise.
Have before me another book for
children. This time the jingles
are set to music. II is called The
Roundabout Book" and the jingles
we're written by two boys. Bob and
Ted Maier.
To properly present this book to
children. some adult in the family
must play the piano. These little
tunes and Jingles At every season
Of the year.
II 10 published by Riker. Brown &
Wellington. Inc. and sells for 81.
II you have a piano in your home
while the children are growing UP,
then this book will solve many prob