The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-03
FAVOUR CHILDREN
By Olive Roberts Barton .
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The Worlds Fair draws to a close, No longer will the million lights set going by ArcturuB glow mon pink and purple towers and unbelievable blues. No longer will night rockets dye the heavens with rainbow balls that draw involun- tnry "Ohs!" from the crowds.
 The singing fountain and the musical "bird cages' will be silent. The worlds greatest spectacle will be at an end.
 Chicago talks about opening it next year. 1 hope 1t can be done and that the colorful buildings UT. ban did not live to SC may be with- in the means of thousands of people who could not SC it this time.
 It takes time and perspective to prove the salient points of any, thing so colossal. What have we learned? What things have inter- ested people most? What good has 1t done?
 Opinions On Exhibits.
 Probably there are as many opinions as there are people. Each post-vlews his impressions in his own terms. The investor thinks in terms of bonds, profit or loss. The engineer accents the General Industries Building or the hall of Science. The electrician, the Com munication hall, perhaps, and the economist. the hall of states. The churchman remembers tho Hall of Religion and especially the "Anti- och Chalice," said to be the renl Holy Grail.
 Tho thrill hunter thinks back to the concessions, the incompar- able "Wings of Progress" Tho good fellow to old Heidelberg, the movie minded, to Hollywood in the Making.
 everybody, and lucky was he who could spend week or two on tho grounds.
 As for me, I hurried straight to the Lagoon side to see the 'En- chanted Island" built especially for children. There was nothing want ing. I am safe in saying 1t was the greatest playground ever conceived. A magic castle reached by Q draw bridge over real moat. Boats, ponies, miniature railways, and two dozen varieties of merry-go.rounds. Whatever else you may guess, be sure 1t was there. It covered acres and acres of ground.
 Very well. waited to hear the childrens own reaction to 1t all. We were there on a record day, but there were comparatively few children. It was before school opened, too. I had expected to see moro young vacationists.
 was surprised. But the truth Is that when money is tight mother and dad can sometimes sqeeze in little trip, but the children stay at home with auntie. It hasn't been so easy as you might think to get the reaction wanted from children over the land.
 Romance in Real Things.
 But a strange thing has hap pened. Asked what they liked best at the fair, almost to t. man such children as know enthuse about real things rather than play. The making of a car, the workings of 0 diamond mine, the way oil-wells are drilled, airplanes, manufactur- Ing shirts and silk stockings, trans parent skyscrapers with moving elevators carrying automobiles up and won again, the sky ride.
 I really believe that our children are finding more romance in ma chimes than we imagine, boys par ticularly. Certainly boy could almost pick up an education nt the fair.
 If 1t opens in 1884 1t is none too soon to think about planning and about taking the children if possigle. What they see they re- and a world of magic that eclipses fairies and genii awaits them there.