Tárogató, 1949-1950 (12. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1950-05-01 / 11-12. szám
16 TÁROGATÓ A LITTLE ENGLISH ROSE By Audrey Baxendale Rose lives in England. She has several cousins in Canada, and one of them might be you. Rose has learnt to be happy with very little because she was born just when the war began and she has never known what it is like to have as much as she wants of butter or ice cream or bananas or roast beef. She has never had a dress or a pair of shoes that didn’t take precious coupons. She would not dream of refusing to eat her crusts or fussing over her cereal. She knows what it is like to do without altogether. Near Rose’s home is made some of the prettiest china in the world—plates, and cups and saucers, and big meat plates and tiny cream jugs. Most of them will come to Canada, and the ships that bring them will go back loaded with wheat and cheese and meat and tins of salmon. Then the ships will sail back to Canada, bringing blankets and books and skirts and hats and sweaters and gloves to you. Thus the sturdy ships back and forth, trading between the two countries. You and Rose would be such good friends if you could meet. You have the same language and the same interests, and you like the same sort of games— hopscotch and skipping and paper dolls and hide-and-seek and just playing house. When you are grown up you will have to work together in the world, because your country and Rose’s country are part of the same great family of nations, and extra special friends. A NIGHT IN THE PANTRY By Christine Campbell The white kitten followed Jean when she began to carry food from the supper-table down the hall to the cool pantry. Not a sound did her pretty white paws make. Jean was watching carefully her tray of salmon salad, butter, cream and cookies. She opened the door and put the foods in their own places. The white kitty slipped behind a flour barrel. She could smell the good things, but she waited till she heard Jean go out and fasten the door. Then she crept out. What a supper she would have. Why not? She hopped silently to a table-top and wove in and out among boxes, jars and crocks. Everything was tight under lids. She sprang easily up on a shelf and sniffed at heavy lids and hard wirescreened doors on boxes. Now she could hear Jean calling her. Jean would want her to have warm milk and bread with the black kitty before she put them in their warm box for the night. But the white kitty was still hunting for that salmon. NEW CANADIAN TRAVEL RECORD SET New Canadian records in international travel were established in 1949, when travelers from other countries spent $288,000,000, an increase of three per cent over the previous high mark in 1948. Travel expenditures by visitors to Canada have risen each year from a wartime low of $28,000,000 in 1942 to a figure three and a half times as large in 1949. However, although there was an increase of $8,000,000 in spending by nonresident travelers in Canada, there was a much greater increase of -57,000,000 in spending by Canadian travelers in other countries. Net rceipts in 1949 were $97,- 000,000, a drop of 34 per cent from the peak of 1948 but still $7,000,000 higher than in any other year. The value of retail trade rose almost two per cent in January the corresponding month last year. Reginai changes varied little from the all-Canada increase. The output of electric energy by central electric stations in January was at a record level for the month with a total of more than four billion kilowatt hours.
