Show r GUIDING INFLUENCE OF MOTHER IS REVEALED DURING SCHOOL DAYS OF CHILDREN Counsels and Comforts Botas Both Bot BothI Launched Education Education Education Edu Edu- I as They on cation and Careers By Dr DR CATHERINE Copyright 1933 for The Telegram CHAPTER FOUR OUR Life may begin at 40 for some somo peole peo plc pIc le but for me it bc began an at 13 13 the year yea I entered boarding school Ever since Walker and Earle a cou cot coupie couple pie of years ears before had gone to SI St St. Albans Alban's at S Sycamore Ill Ill- IllI I had begged to o go away to school So mother and dad staunch believers ers in the y your to our to life themselves for theory promised that hat as soon as I fin finished shed eight grade at Oak Park I might go to St. St Katharine's Katharine's Katharine's Kath Kath- arines arine's an Episcopal school at Davenport Daven Daven- p port ort rt Iowa of which they highly ap ap- ap- ap proved I finished at Oak Park late in June 1921 1921 and the following fall faIl I entrained for or Davenport Mother l Checks Tears When morning came and I stood beside beide beside be- be side ide my family on on the train platform my enthusiasm suddenly dep departed I never ever had been away from home anc ancI and andr andl I r wanted to weep I was inordinately proud of my Scotch blood All AU of us had been brought up to control our emotions So I started awa away smiling Christmas that year was very thrill ing From ont the moment that ha m mother n r and Mary met me at tt a LA Salle balle street station until I started back life Ufe was an unbroken round of Christmas trees and family dinners and young peoples people's parties Blase to Mary l That first holiday home was made more memorable by Marys Mary's changed attitude Until I went away to school we had been more like Jike twins than adopted sisters We dressed alike did the same things almost thought alike But the restrained almost bored manner in which I had greeted her upon by return definitely had put her herin herin herin in the place of younger sister You seem so blase she complimented complimented complimented me Two events stand out on the crowded crowd crowd- ed calendar of that year year Walkers Walkers Walker's marriage a romantic affair which climaxed climaxed cli clio his freshman year at the University University Uni Uni- of Chicago and my decision to become a doctor St. St Katharine's cloistered atmos- atmos 1 r r w. 1 1 1 f k r 4 t L The twins students called Earle and Catherine wh when n they enrolled as medical hopefuls at t Lewis Institute Chicago although there is about three years' years difference in their ages Here they are I shown as they appeared together in their student days phere here had started me to thinking of my future And mothers mother's frequently spoken words came back to me No matter if you plan to marry when you ou grow up she often orten told Mary and me have a profession Be Beable Beable able ble to earn your own living I There Mary and I developed what mother and her friends fondly re- re erred to as a talent for dancing How good we were we probably never shall hall know but mother had us take lessons essons from a former pupil of Paw Paw- Iowa owa This fondness for the dance began begano to o war with my natural inclination toward oward medicine But I decided that thatto to o be a doctor like mother and dad was nobler even than to be a dancer like ike I was so excited that I couldn't sleep Next morning I sent a letter special delivery to mother telling her herall herall herall all about it U. To my amazement she replied quite factly of that she wasn't at all surprised Afterward she told me that ever since I was a small girl painting my dolls and the neighbors' neighbors children with iodine she had felt sure I some som day would become a doctor Dad however was surprised and not too pleasantly He said Its ls l's too hard a life liCe for my little girl Haying Having settled my future I couldn't wait to accomplish it I transferred I the next year to the Chicago Latin school which offered a year four-year course There I was when I went to my first dance dance dance-a a formal school affair with men in tuxedos and an orchestra behind palms at the Drake hotel Thrilled by Dance Frock A boy who lived up the street from rom our house was my escort I fear he made less of an impression on me than the dress I wore When I got home from the dance mother was awake She was always like that waiting up to talk things over Yet she seldom missed eating a 7 o'clock breakfast with her children chil dren Putting herself out was second nature nature na na- ture ure to mother tomother She hated the movies Yet every Friday night my first year home from boarding school she would go with me to our neighborhood picture picture picture pic pic- ture house First she knew I was lonesome for Mary now at St. St And after after af af- af ter that she suspected truly that thai I Iwas Iwas Iwas was nursing a secret infatuation for the freckled boy who played the violin violin vio violin vio- vio lin in the orchestra No Luck in Romance That infatuation got me nowhere It was not until the following summer when I was taking a course in physics at Lewis institute that I had m my first real date That evenings evening's excursion on onto to a Loop movie house and the ride home afterward on top the bus more moretha tha than compensated NEXT Rheta and romance Courtship days before she married married mar mar- ried Earle Trying to make her of the family |