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Show figure in a thrilling event and that's when Janie's hand went up to say she had found the ring. She confessed that though she had become a bit frightened over being expected to come across with the ring, on the whole this was the only memorable experience of her early childhood and she had enjoyed en-joyed being the center of even reproving attention. The story points its own moral, don't you agree? 'SUCCESSFUL PARENTHOOD By Mrs. Catherine Conrad Edwards, Ed-wards, Associate Editor, Parent's Magazine. WHY DO CHILDREN tell lies? There are almost as many answers to this question as there are children. chil-dren. Since we've already discussed many phases of this problem, today to-day we shall devote our space to a true story which we think sheds light on one frequent prompting to untruthfulness on the part of children. Janie Martin, seven years old, was branded at school as a liar and a thief. This came about when the teacher told the class that she had lost a ring and asked if any of them had seen it," whereupon where-upon Janie's hand went up to assure as-sure the teacher that she had found the missing ring. But when asked to produce it, Janie hedged. "I took it home," she said, but promised to bring it the next day. When she failed again to produce the ring, Janie continued to temporize. tem-porize. "I gave it to my mother," she said. Now the teacher happened to know Janie's mother, so she accompanied ac-companied the child home that evening to reclaim her ring. But Mrs. Martin knew nothing about the ring or about her child's claim of having found it. After long questioning ques-tioning Janie's mother finally joined the teacher and other censorious cen-sorious adults in deciding that her daughter was hiding the ring in the hope of being able to keep it, and was trying to lie her way out of the tangle. But a few days later a boy found the ring in the gravel of( the play yard and the teacher reluctantly cleared Janie's name before the class. Yet the doubt remained re-mained had Janie dropped the ring in the school yard when she saw her game was up ? Now let's jump a lot of years to one of those chance encounters on a train. In the meantime Janie and her classmates had all grown up and scattered. But on a train one iof these old classmates met a woman who had become a close friend of the grownup Janie in the town where she now lives. During Dur-ing their chat, Janie's new friend remarked, "Janie told the most amusing story one day at a luncheon lunch-eon about something that happened hap-pened to her when she was a child." Here, at last was Janie's own version of the old story about the teacher's ring. Janie, who had grown into a spirited an attractive woman, said that as a child she had found life very dull. She was shy and nondescript Jooking and no one paid any attention to her. Each day when the teacher asked the children to relate any interesting inter-esting adventures they had had, Janie had nothing to contribute. She thought there must be something some-thing wrong with her and her family that nothing exciting ever happened to them. The day the teacher announced the loss of her ring Janie had been feeling particularly partic-ularly out of things. All of a sudden sud-den she saw her opportunity to |