Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-17 | Page 16 | Your Baby and Mine

YOUR YOUR BABY jl AND MINE I IARE By MY MYRTLE MEYER EVE ELDRED D ARE CHILDREN OF OLDER PARENTS MORE INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT INTELLI INTELLI- GENT AND CLEVER Mrs J J. J A. A C. C writes Do you rou think the he children born of ot parents between between be- be tween 35 and 40 are naturally more clever lever and intelligent than those born orn of or younger parents We Ye e have two children and the youngest was born when my husband husband hus- hus band and and I were 21 and 20 20 ively The babies seem intelligent enough nough but I r sometimes feel very dumb because I cant can't answer their questions Answer The answer to the question asked is 3 probably no The childs child's native intelligence his ability to be educated educated educated edu edu- up to a a. certain standard would be exactly the same for fOI a a. achild child born of young oung or old parents Which only means that you can not improve on your native equipment of f intelligence but that you ou can make more and better use of ot it as you fou grow older If It you ou are a highly highly high- high ly y Intelligent young person you ou will also Iso be a highly Intelligent old one with the incalculable advantage of all 11 the rich additions made by your education your reading observation and nd experience If It you are a dull young one you ou will bo be a dull old one ne because you have no ability to tomake tomake tomake make use o of the riches around you Ago igo wilt will give you nothing but experience experience ex- ex and you ou may not make much use of that The mother we will vill say who rears the tho ninth child exactly as she reared the first tint one has gained nothing by her nine experiences ex- ex experiences ex ex- s in motherhood She los has stood tood still and she will wUl make the same ame mistakes with the last as she shedId shedid shedid did with tho the first That is simply lack ack of intelligence and her ninth child would inherit no better intellectual intellectual intel- intel equipment than the first But Dut If it she is Intelligent but simply simply simply sim sim- ply lacks experience by the time she he is s 35 or 40 she is going to be bea bea bea a very wise educator for her yO young yOng ng child She will be able to answer his ils questions probably and so spur him to further curiosity and furher further fur fur- ther her accumulations of ot knowledge I heard a small boy ask uk his mother moth moth- er on the street Why do t the e cars always make mako a Izz noise when they hey stop Th The Tho mother dragged him ilm Into the car and left his ques q question estion es- es tion hanging In midair Perhaps she didn't know how to explain brakes and air pressures so that he 10 could grasp it but she should have havo told him rim that as soon as she got homo home she would look It t up or op ask uk daddy The wisest course for a 3 young oung mother lacking experience to to follow follow follow fol fol- low is to buy herself a good standard stand stand- ard nM enc encyclopedia and make use use of oC It every time the children ask her hera An a 3 question she cant can't answer answer Is better late lato than never h o Mrs Eldred will vIII be glad to give a advice regarding the diet and general care of children A self self- addressed and stamped envelope pa enclosed with your request mailed to Myrtle Meyer 1 In care of ot the tl Your Your- Baby and Mine department of ot this newspaper newspaper news news- 1 paper aper will bring brinS' a prompt re re- re pl ply