Evening star., 1960-12-14
Of LOVE and
LAUGHTER
The True, Test of Culture
Do You Ever Buy q Book?
By MARJORIE HOLMES

college professor of mine have on his study
WALL THE true test of culture s-do you ever buy a
book?"
1t is test that might make many of us hang our
heads What with the high of dentists and diapers
of music lessons mortgages and college educations for
our own offspring books something you borrow from
the public library Or beg for your birthday Christmas
Christmas bears another shining bonus book wise
At last you wander the wonderful world of bookstores
actually buying them.
Here few I've found ana loved and can hardly
wait to give:
For Pair Of Horried Parents
Coping with adOlescents for the rst time they are
think they'll get lot of help out of Dr. Arthur Roths
"The Teen-Age Years" Doubleday. -
DR.. Roth (variously described "teeniatrician" or
teen-olog) considers the teens special he has his
own clinic for them. In this Medical Guide for Young
People and Their Parents he sheds insight into the head
aches and heartaches which often plague youngsters land
tner parents' In the process Of growing up
For Ny Sophisticated Aunt
Who dotes the social column-Cleveland Amory's
who Killed socety?" tHarper. IN these murderously
who decreed who might the portals of the Social
Register was so obscure parsonage she could have
Mr.. Amory is the kind of writer who makes music
even while rattng skeletons. know she'll enjoy the wit
and apomb with WHICH he dissects the -Four Hundred"
and "publi-ciety."
The author who bowed out of writing the memoirs
OF the Duchess Of Windsor because he refused to make
her sound like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" has lot
more to say about Waly. AS well such Washington
hostesses as Perle and Gwen.
For q Young Naturalist
Who's going to buzz with pleasure Familiar Insects
Of America Harper Washington author Will Barker says
that as many people collecting insects these days
once collected butterflies or rocks
They're so available!" he laughs And marvellous
once you really study them" Frankly think Of q
number of available insects I'd rather not collect he
common cockroach, the clothes moth.
But even these become objects dfascinaton in these
For Couple Of Men in Ny Life
Nov We Are Enemies" (St Martins Press by Thomas
j. Femingthe true story of Bunker Hill "A lot people
think we that battle" the author said recent
talk I'VE didn-we ost!" But not without noble heart
breaking and often humorous struggle the part Of heroes
who become as real as your next door neighbors
"Poaris!" Another fact-told like fiction book by James
Baar and William Howard Harcourt Brace. Will all the
drama and mounting of good novel traces the
birth throes OF this missile and the marine which carries
It, And underlying it the theme: Most of the world
and the continents islands FROM here life first
billion here. life in strange cycle, returns
to defend itself. The Poaris ships keep watch"
For q Civil War Buff
"Mr. Lincoln Runs for President" by Melvin Hayes
(CtadeD. With the election still ringing
centennial coming know he'll welcome this excellent
account OF what Lincoln endured to reach the White House.
Sundoy lost child shopping expedition hoppens
thsn think according o Love ond Loushte" Wsmen