Nursery rhymes, stories, and music

A small girl needed a pair of new shoes. 'Black lace ones,' came her reply when her mother mentioned the matter. 'When out one day,' adds her mother, 'I saw some nice fawn ones,' but - 'No mummy. black lace ones, please.' And black laced shoes if had to be. 'Never,' says her mother, 'shall I forget the look on her face as we came out of the shop happily carrying her parcel. She looked up and said: "We were luckier than Penelope, mummy, we only went to one shop and had the first pair of shoes."'
So much may their stories mean to our under fives, and so strongly may they influence their actions and their thoughts. This story of Penelope, by Joan E. Cass , and its companion, 'Penelope's Dustpan and Brush,' are to be retold today and on Wednesday by Julia Lang, with (tomorrow) the tale by Jean Sutcliffe which Penelope's father invented about her new brown bunny slippers bought at the same time as the shoes.
Meanwhile we assure another enquirer that we have not forgotten Tommy the Tugboat; his story, by Dora Thatcher, will be heard again from Daphne Oxenford on Thursday and Friday this week.
(Elizabeth A. Taylor)