| Show Sympathy Not Disgust Should Be Reaction to Childs Child's W Worries orrie By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON We tte would be If it vo wo could look hook into the hearts of children and learn the secrets tg of ot their happiness l' l For o. o children atc arc Just a IN as capable able of or suffering as ol older er people Some of the the- things s that worry them seem scent foolish and silly to us Ui hut if It we look hook back to our childhood childhood child child- I I hood hoo I think almost all of us candIg can eHn candig ell dig up a memory nc nory of ot some sort wort or orI other other something something that caused u us un untold untold un- un I told misery for days day and months month at a time antI and the very thought of which still brings back a of ar bitterness Something th that thiat t could have been avoided If only our parents par par- lad had Un understood and tried to help That Is 18 why I think those thoo of or us wh who havo o children should ho realize how real their worries s m are arc Call them complexes anything It il doesn't nt matter An unhappy y child Is li an unhappy child and I cant can't think of ot anything won Wor worse c. c Moreover Moreover More More- over o I cant can't think of oC anyone more de Jn cr of or help I 1 spoke of this to a group roup of mothers one day And nd ono one up Instantly Youre d right ht I 1 suffered the tortures torture of or the tue condemned con con- because I had hl to to wear patched shoes Each of ur lIS us had to 0 wear our shoes shoe until thoy they lad had at nt least ono one patch apiece Of or course shoes were shoes thoc In those days das and Ond most children were much shoes to But I was strangely sensitive about my feet and I hinted hated those shoes shoe until I r lost sight of C every er other oilier blessing I hadId hadId had Id I'd wear a 11 dress or 01 an old coat forever forever for for- ever an and not mind it I had no I pride about clothes I 1 had no I ne hess 5 on earth but ut shoes shoes nice nice w Who i Nho shops shoes s Hut But I had that one with l MEMORIES OF WORRIES Aly My Iy mother couldn't know i suffered SIte hc was simply ly uste dla-uste i at in my always alwn's fussing about my f f r But when whet I 1 went down the tho ho j tr street t tr k school with big IS black patches clinIng din chin trig Ing lII like c leeches to my small toes 1 tv hero helo to tell you ou I 1 might have o b to the guillotine and yet et ah S called mo me a soo goose c. c She Just guess that's guess that's all Another woman said ald i 1 had cross too too art an eternal terror of ot be k In lug Ing discovered ered without an any in ilL my pocket ct You liCe ce in t th days most children Im hadn't nl mar upending spending mone money at al least leat no not In oc o little town Our mothers dl hand out and dime dIni 0 weekly allowances or movie movie- ml mow 1 as they do thu now There were n movies rno then to speak of Or Of the thuG children didn't handle their ow OWl admission AN EMBARRASSING G MOMENT Wo moved mo to the tho eft city to a Pro porous lI neighborhood One da dt when I was about abou six the lie crowd Ci girls I J was tas with nih Mopped at at drug dru stork store tor and amid ordered sodas soda thought It was a treat In an and orden ono too When I found I It wi 1 pu Dutch ch an and had la no money to MJ IS a I wanted to dio diG for sheer an ment Never er c will I force orzo tho the looks loos of ot those thoe HUla girls suppose that planted tho ho terror o 0 empty pockets in m my br brain for Or 1 leu w car remember bt'S begging int and an begging m III n. n mother after that just to let m rn take tahe a dime lime along not nol to sp spend n nd bu b Just to keep If another em emergent r enc trapped me nie I wanted to lt be read road I knew I never could coul face anoh tm tragedy el like that But lint I never r So to it and It spoiled poll d life for me f fo to months on end Wo e might try to reach secret miseries of or tho t Often when wilen thc they appear to be II lU lUand an and wont won't cat wont won't s sleep aru ani look pale pal and amil nervous it is on somo sorno secret worry OtT We Va l tr to get tet them to talk taU It out with and then lI try to understand an an- help F. 4 |
