Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Thursday, March 9, 1961, page 45 (of 84)
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you move one in and gather around it
ILLUSTRATION BY BERNARD OWEN A dining-room table is likely to be the largest continuous flat space in the house—an attraction for all. you move one in and gather around it d....ng-room table than it ever had in the kitchen. Also, the children, who previously had been wolfing their food as quickly as possible and heading for unknown regions, began to linger occasionally at the table and bring up subjects they had seldom before discussed with us personal problems and sometimes family grievances they had long been nursing. Conversation began to flourish. When it was possible to move back to the kitchen, we didn't go. We had rediscovered the dining room, and none of us planned to give it up. Since then, the dining-room table, the largest continuous fl... surface in our house, has become the focal point of our family life. Almost every night sees it in use. Frequently, there's a two-handed game of rummy going on at one end, letter writing in the middle, and a scrapbook being pasted up or a complex model put together at the other end. The incidence of television-watching has dropped sharply. Our children frequently study at the table, their legs circled about the chair rungs in a squirming frenzy of enforced concentration. This has produced all sorts of subsidiary benefits. Studying with one eye cocked at the television set, either wistfully at an empty screen or soporifically at the inevitable Western, is a thing of the past. These three individuals, who once disappeared to their own parts of the house and stayed there, have become acquainted in a pleasantly spontaneous sort of way. They are no longer simply competitors for family possessions or boarders who convene three times a day for meals but rather part of a family group in which a vagrant sense of loyalty and cooperation is stirring. We have frequent family dinners with upwards of a dozen relatives Continued Suburbia Today, March 1961 13
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