The Good Old Days
To The Living Section:
Male ineptitude with the carving knife is not necessarily a new phenomenon. In Willa Cather's novel "A Lost Lady," which she wrote in 1923 and set in 19th-century Colorado, the heroine, Marian Forrester, complains: "Nobody can carve now as men used to. But you can get them (ducks) apart, I suppose?" ROBERT MCCORMICK  Staten Island, N.Y.