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-
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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
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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
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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
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