TER AND SUE MOMIE, will you give me some nies 7” “I didn’t hear you say ‘please,’ usan.” Mrs. Stewart continued ir the custard she was mak- for dinner. “Will you please give me some pennies ?” “What do you want pennies or?” ~ “Candy!” said Susan, in a ather low tone of voice. “Candy ?” Mrs. Stewart re- peated. “But where could you buy candy?” ~ “Hattie-Anne’s mother is driving to town and Hattie-Ann id we could ask her to bring back some candy.” Mus. Stewart stopped stirring and lifted the cooking dish from e stove. Then she turned to ‘eager-faced daughter. ~ “Susan,” she said, “you and both know that if you offered Mrs Moore money and asked her to buy you some candy, she would do the errand but return e money to you. I don’t like ints and that would be a very oad hint indeed.” Susan flushed. Her smile fad- d. “Hattie-Ann said—" . “Yes, I know,” Mrs. Stewart interrupted. ‘“Hattie-Ann, too, ants some candy. Well, you oth shall have a little, but you 7ill come in here and make it ourselves.” “Make candy? Will you let is make candy? I never did, Mommie; you always have made it for us.” “This time you shall make it ourselves, I'll show you how. ind it will be lots of fun too.” Susan dashed out of the chen calling “Hattie-Ann!”’ the top of her lungs. Hattie- n had stayed outside pur- ely, for she felt a little neepish having urged Sue to sk her mother for some pen- S. ‘But when Susan came tearing out and said—“We are going to ake some candy!” Hattie-Ann : s delighted. Together the two girls skipped back into Mrs. Stewart’s kitchen. fe HAT A MOTHER has to be omething of a mind reader to understand a baby is generally conceded. Since he cannot tell er what he needs or wants, she must try to figure it out from his cries. She soon learns the fferent cries, however. A gle shriek indicates pain; he ay have an earache. Or if he is colicky, she will pick him up and pat his back. Bawling ex- essed the ordinary physical comforts, such as a wrinkled heet, hunger, cold, warmth, oredom or fatigue. Quickly, by process of elimination, she oks to see whethe. a safety is pressing into his flesh, vhether he is wet, etc, and hen removes the cause. It really is comparatively easy to understand a young in- fant. When he is six or eight months old, you sit him in the ‘highchair, play pen or carriage and he stays put. If he whim- pers, you just wheel him over to e window or into another room, hand him a toy, and he is tisfied for the time being. But at one year of age, he sents a different problem. Fither he can crawl or is learn- He may have be- TOWN WEEKLY MAGAZINE SECTION 0 TR AE by BEULAH FRANCE, R. N. MRS. STEWART SHOWS THE CHILDREN ~~ HOW TO MAKE CANDY “What will Momie ?” “Here is a pan in which to cook the candy. Here is a table- spoon. Now both of you wash your hands very, very clean and dry them well. I will get out the other things which are needed.” . “Wash and dry together,” Susan sang— “Live in peace forever,” Hat- tie-Ann sang back. “We're ready! next?” Mrs. Stewart handed Hattie- Ann the tablespoon and said: “You can do the measuring; Susan can stir; you both can test.” we do first, “Won’t we need a recipe book 7”? “No, this recipe is merely one, two, three. One of butter, two of sugar, three of molasses. Isn’t that easy to remember?” “One, two, three,” Susan re- peated. “Let me see!” said Hattie- Ann. “Oh! We made a rhyme, Momie; did you hear it? One, two three; let me see.” Mrs. Stewart smiled. “All right. Now measure one tablespoon of butter and put it in the pan. Take this teaspoon to scrape all the butter out of the big spoon with. Fere is the sugar. Use a clean tablespoon, for the sugar would stick to the buttered one. Measure out two tablespoons of sugar. That's right. “Now here is the molasses. Pour out three tablespoons of it—Dbe careful! Don’t let it run over, or you'll get too much ‘molasses and the candy won’t turn out so well.” The girls were so interested that for once they were very quiet. “Now, Susan, put the dish on the stove and stir the in- gredients gently while they all melt together. Hattie-Ann, here is a layer-cake tin which we’ll grease with a little butter and have ready to pour the candy in Continued On Page 14 : I HANGE IN BABY AFTER FIRST YEAR ~ MUST BE MET WITH PATIENCE of the tried and true methods of handling him work. For some reason, although mothers want children to grow up, they are not always pre- pared for the changes which normally take place during this process. Growth is change. Every important turning point in a child’s life is marked by some change. A child whose motor abilities have developed to a point where he has an urge to walk is begin- ning to have an urge to act in- dependently in general. Given the freedom, the floor space to crawi on and proper playthings, he is easily satisfied. His play actions are less random now. He will open and shut a box, bang with a spoon, hug his doll, and move pots anc pans out of the closet as mother does. He will need more constant watch- irig. But if denied these activi- ties, he will prove fretful and difficult to manage. YOUR CHILD by Now what ~ ory committee of the New York = g 2 47 7 A 7 7 HOME SERVICE Tropical Beauty Offered By Glass Gardens A MINIATURE greenhouse to make your dearest gardening dream come true! Blue-purple Africian violets and rosy begonias bloom glori- ously in this glass garden. And a tiny pebbled path leads into a wee thicket of plumy ferns. Have you a weakness for or- chids? Raise” your own. Start with the easiest to grow, sypri- pedium, a charming tropical cousin of our lady’s slipper. Try next the -cattleyas, the large showy orchid of the flor- ist’s shop. Are your tastes simpler? Make charming use of a spare fruit jar—plant slips of helio- trope and coleus for a southern exposure, a single African violet for a northern window. Any fair-sized' glass contain- er with a lid makes a satisfac- tory terrarium. Moisten soil well at planting, fit lid on tight- ly, and your garden will grow for months without watering. OUR thirty-two page book- let tells how to plant and care for all sorts of fasci- nating terrariums and dish gardens. Orchid and gar- denia culture. Cacti. Send ten cents for your copy of Booklet 155, “Glass Gardens and Novelty Indoor Gardens,” to TOWN, Home Service Bureau, P. O. Box 721, Rochester, N. Y. Also available at ten cents per copy is: Booklet 127, “The New Way to a Youthful Figure.” Be sure to include ten cents for each booklet or- dered. SHAH AAO ER PROFILES . . . Edward J. Noble PRESIDENT Roosevelt, with his flair for the dramatic and the surprising, has gone to enemy camp to appoint Edward J. Noble Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority . . . Noble, whose home is in Green- wich, Connecticut, is a Republi- can, makes the well known candy with the hole, is an ad- vertising” man, is very wealthy —in short, he is not a good Democrat who needs a job; he is merely the right man for it . . « Fifty-six years old, he uses his cabin plane to fly from his summer home in Thousand Islands to New York ... Presi- dent of the Life Savers Corpor- ation, he was told years ago that his idea of a candy with a hole in the center was insane— he has made millions out of it . . . Noble is a director in five corporations and one bank, is a member of the industrial advis- Bank. MODERN WOMEN by MARIAN MAYS MARTIN. CHILD NEEDS HAPPY HOME LIFE TO BE GOOD SCHOLAR IF LITTLE Mary’s report cards were pretty poor last season and Junior’s schooling threat- ened to be a total loss, it might not be entirely the fault of either or both of the youngsters, but yours, dear lady, or yours, good sir. So says Dr. Frank J. O’Brien, director of the Child’s Guidance Bureau of New York Board of Education. The child’s failure in school is often the result of a ‘complete failure of parents. He claims that unhappy home rela- tionships and a child’s inability tae adjust himself to environ- ment are most frequently the cause of school failure. “The school environment often becomes a threat to the child’s previous security, happi- ness and method of self-expres- sion,” Mr. O’Brien’s report ob- serves. “In many instances; re- gardless of the child’s good na- tive intellectual ability, these problems have interfered with his doing good school work. In this state he looks to the teach- er as he looked to his mother for encouragement, protection and perhaps, above all, sym- pathy and affection.” The domestic problems of a child’s parents are terribly im- portant to a sensitive child. Children are quick to feel dis- cord and are unhappy in any atmosphere in which there is quarreling and active unhappi- ness. It is placing a terrible handi- cap on our children to subject them to the domestic firing line and to scénes. A mother should try her hardest to protect her children ‘from any and every thing that will react unpleas- antly on them. Loving both par- ents as a child does, it is not difficult to understand how tragically they feel bitter scenes between them. It is monstrously unfair to ‘chiidren to assume that they don’t know what it’s all about, or that such scenes are not re- tained in their memory, or that they are unaffected by them. Who can say that a child is me capable of worry or is not afe fected by the sorrows of his elders? An unhappy home life fis beund to affect a child’s later life. Many a bachelor refuses to marry because he remembers keenly the unpleasant scenes enacted before him by his pare ents, and many a girl really fears marriage for the same reason. Dr. O’Brien also reports that 1,417 complete physical examie nations have been made. Nearly 80 ver cent were found to have one or more physical defectss the majority, however, were of a nature that could be corrected. “Dental defects led with 36.2 per cent. Visual defects claimed 27.3 per cent, while 24.8 per cent of the pupils suffered nose and throat ailments. Malnutrition problems accounted for 19.5 per cent; 15.6 per cent had diseased or infected tonsils.” In many well regulated homes a child’s parents have him exe amined by both a dentist and dcctor before he goes to school, Examination of the eyes is also a wise precaution. One naturale ly assumes a normal healthy child to be free of nervous dise orders and to have a curious and active brain. It’s natural enough to ase sume that when a child is men tally and physically sluggish there is something wrong with him. It’s just as well, how= ever, to skim “back mentally over the home .scenes to which the child has been subjected and to correct anything that might be a contributory cause to his condition. Time was when children were cautioned to be seen and not heard and when “shushing” and “don’ts” were their daily fare. We've learned how harmful such practices are. Children are now encouraged in self exprese sion, and we know that those who are intelligently handled at home are bound to make the best record in school. EE A A ER VINE TORCH DIPPED IN BEESWAX ANCESTOR OF CANDLE CANDLES serve on many oc- casicns in our culture. They il- luminate Christian altars and: they often surround the coffins of the dead. They burn for the eight days of the Jewish Feast of Lights. At Candlemas in liturgical churches they are car- ried in procession in honor of the presentation of Christ in the Temple. In some homes they still light the Christmas tree. They also adorn birthday cakes. Primitive candles were torches made of strips of bark or vine tendrils dipped in bees- wax or tallow and tied together. They were also made of the pith of rushes dipped in any con- venient household grease and known as rush lights. Burning about a bier, candles are reminiscent of fires built around the dead in ancient times to keep evil spirits away. Such fires gave way to burning torches and, finally, to candles by the 4th century. OLD CUSTOMS Hanukka, the Jewish Feast of Lights, ' still widely observed, celebrates the dedication of a new altar in the purified temple of Jerusalem in the days of the Maccabees after the old altar had been desecrated by the Syrians, who sacrificed a sow there. Candles burning on Christmas trees and in Christian churches symbclize Christ as the “Light of the World.” Back in the Middle Ages, as a special devotion, wealthy persons sometimes had a candle made the same height and weight = as ‘themsevles. Eras. mus gihed at a person who promised ‘St. Christopher a cane dle as large as the saint’s statue in a church of Paris. Candles on birthday cakes symbolize life, hence one for each ‘year. An old German cuse tom placed a thick candle in the center of the cake. It wa, called the “light of life” and only the person celebrating his birthday was supposed to extinguish it, lest bad luck ensue. The English and French have long used the expression, “burning the candle at both ends,” preserving this symbolism of the candle repres enting life A
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