Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Cabin John-Brookmont
Periodicals
Sought by

By Sandy Rovner
Oliver 6.8S63

The Little Falls Library,
which seems to have settled
down to a brisk 4,000-books-per-
week circulation, is still in need
of back issues of several ma
tional magazines, chief librarian
Mrs. Margaret Witze reports.
We must admit that we've
never given much thought to
how a new library was back
stocked" but Mrs. Witze tells us
that "attic clearing" donations
represent the most widely &C.
cepted method for giving a II.
brary past" pointing out, for
example, that the new library
has already been given a COM
plete set of National Geograph.
les dating back to 1920. Current.
ly needed are issues of Scientific
American, 1889; Time, 1856
81; u. S. News and World Re-
port, 1955-60; Saturday Review,
1857 and any back issues of
Craft Horizons. Potential donors
should contact Mrs. Witze at the
library.
Notes From Abroad: The Mar.
vim Schneidermans, of Halbert
rd., who are spending this year
in England on a Rockefeller
Foundation Grant, have sent a
more-or-less open letter via
neighbor Mrs. Anita Greenspan
to the community describing
their British way of life. We
thought the pointed COMPARE
sons unusually interesting and
we herewith excerpt some com.
ments from the self described
I'd S e n hanted suburbanites"
who dreamt of IAN apartment in
Chelsea of Kensington," and
ended up mine miles northwest
of London" feeling "well
oriented, anyway" in Osterly,
Middlesex, a community built
early in the 18th century.
On the house: "In its living
and dining rooms are still bells
which connect to a panel in the
breakfast room-a butlerI
should know where to bring the
tea. Among the furnishings COM
plete if bit worn, are a piano,
a bedwarmer, a grandfather
clock, blue willow platters, and
dozens of little bross objet
dart.
"As in even more modern
houses in Britain, the. water
pipes are stuck on to the houses
exterior. That's in case it gets
so cold that the water freezes,
1t is ever so much easier to thaw
out the pipes than If they were
in the inside. Well, that's valid
because , kitchens, bathrooms
and VIC are no warmer than the
outside. They lack even the
primitive heating arrangements
found in other rooms. We have
coal fires, gas fires, and parafin
fires. By building them, feeding
them, filling them, and damping
them we manage to- keep the
chill out at a cost not much
higher than our winter gas bills
at home. But it has been a mild
winter.
we have controlled draughts |
by encasing our windows in the
plastic storm windows forward
ed to us from Sears. Our neigh
bors are quite dubious about
this because we cannot open the
to let In the fresh |
smog. We no longer point out |
that the house has cracks
aplenty for the air to seep in.
for they then infer that we
think the house not wen built"
On shopping: I'VE don't miss
a
the weekly supermarketing, |
though. Walking a mile to and
from the store is more fun than |
walking two miles in it. Our
shopping center has a post
a stationer, an off-i-
cense, ironmonger, butcher.
dairy, grocer. greengrocer,
children's cloth shop where you
buy knitting supplies. a ladys
outfitters where you take the
drycleaning, and two chemists
both of which are closed on
Wednesday afternoons and Sun
days"
On schools: "Al1 day long all |
three children are in school. |
They leave at eight-thirty am. |
Susan and Sarah (5-year-old |
twins) return at 3:45, JOSH (S) at |
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