Show YOUR CH LRE What next remarked a woman in the babies' babies department cynically It seems wic wicked ed to spend so much mone money on painted furniture and fussy rugs when children are too little to enjo enjoy it anyway And so she passed on and bought a solid soUd iron bedstead and some taupe carpet which she believed ed not to be beso beso beso so wicked Just why it is that so 50 many people associate brightness with laxity I dont don't know If It is a matter of money perhaps we might call extravagance extravagance a crime but this ladys lady's purchases purchases purchases pur pur- chases cost quite as much or more in the long run nm than 1 if she had l bought sought the tho gay little pink bed and the rug nig with modernistic toys on its border Well it all aU boils down to this Are children ever too little to enjoy beauty as exemplified by color No they are arc not even the old month baby likes a pink rattle I dont don't suppose we shall ever know precisely just what relation exists between our actions and the things that surround us but one thing Wedo we wedo wedo do know we e feel happier in lii surroundings surroundings sur stir that interest us and when we feel happier we behave c better Dont Don't Disregard Art It isn't nt extravagant to my mind if jf tho Iho family purse will bear It to make concessions to art when it comes to tob b buying special things for the children chil dill dren for dren-for for instance a little plate and bowl and cup with a merry design or ora ora ora a colorful one or a chair and table decorated for a child to love We shall take it for granted that they are in good taste and here I must ray that we must have havo an army of real artists at work designing correct correct cor car and lovely things for children We really do not have to depend on ourselves any more moreS or on them These artists seem to have caught the spirit of childhood And so EO If It you are arc buying a new bed for the baby or a bureau for year old Emily or a tiny dinner dinners s set t for the nursery supper upper do not feel guilty if it you choose decorated pieces and dont don't condemn your neigh neith- bor bar for being extravagant unless extravagant unless she really reany Is A little later you oU can train down the tho baby's pink to a quieter hue and begin to guile Emily Emliy too in her color education But to bring them both up in a negative colorless atmosphere is 15 most dull and uninteresting for them and excites not their beauty sense at all The trouble is that wo we expert too much taste in children Crude appreciation is like crude writing Develop It first then shape it |