Show IDEAS OF INSTRUCTION IN FACTS OF LIFE NOW SHOW MARKED CHANGE Parents Warned Against Overemphasis in Teachings By Dy MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Bring Brine your problems about I diet general care caro and management manage manage- ment meat to Myrtle Meyer Your questions will be answered promptly If U you will send a self ell addressed cent 3 stamped envelope envelope en en- with yo your r letter latter to Mrs Eldred In care of the Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper The ideal time for lor mothers to offer sex ex instruction to their small children childrens Is s when a new baby is expected in inthe inthe the he family Unfortunately all do not have lave this ideal opportunity and must match natch at it when it comes naturally llly in the shape of the childs child's questions There seems to be no real par parental opposition to giving sex instruction as there was in th the early days of this department now 16 years old That day is past definitely Now parents accept the advice to tell children In pleasant instructive fashion the Information In Information formation they will get anyway and thus hus set the sound round clean foundation for or a later structure of sex education suited to the developing und understand understand- nd tog ng of the child Some mothers In the eager acceptance acceptance accept accept- ance of ot this idea hoping to prevent their heir children growing up with the faulty aulty or distorted idea of sex which was their own experience e occasionally occasion ally have erred in going too far They gave not necessary Instructions Instructions In In- but much th that lt could have awaited the childs child's real Interest later Most Host children set their own limits by y their questions But there are re parents par par- eats who pour floods of information over iver the hapless s child who queries idly Where do babies come from The simple answer to this question questions is s incorporated in our leaflet on Telling Children the Facts of ot Life Lite and it may be had for n a sell self cent 3 stamped envelope sent with a request for lor it to Myrtle Meyer Eldred Eldred El El- dred in care of the Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper This is only the first question chU- chU dren from 3 to 5 years ask Further information may be had from the books listed on n the leaflet lennet as instructive instructive tive reading for tor parents themselves The child develops an ln attitude toward toward toward to to- ward sex not only by the answers which his parents give to his questions questions questions ques ques- but by their own attitudes toward toward toward to to- ward the subject Do they answer questions as ns If they were no more cons consequential than a question about the stars or do they answer them with a n that implies that thc they are arc talking about something naughty which authorities have given them permission to discuss The parents need more than a vocabulary and some knowledge of physiology To answer sex questions truthfully is as Important but no nomore nomore nomore more important than to answer truthfully truthfully truthfully truth truth- fully any other question a child asks about the phenomena of life Ute about him SEEN ON FIFTH AVENUE One does docs not have to mortgage the family homestead to the thc hilt hUt to own owna a smart fur coat For this year pelts far less precious than mink o or Bussian Russian Bus Rus sian broadtail are cut and handled with the same sam expert precision anc and care Very charming and not at all expensive is a coat of gray lamb Iamb It ItIs ItIs Itis is like a belted jacket of the the- Norfolk variety except that the sleeves arc re reattached attached to a l longish cape that swings loose in back Another splendId splendid splendid did coat that does docs not cost a fortune Is a Russian Cossack model in black Persian lamb Iamb It has a narrow black calfskin belt with a dull silver ornament orna ment and the skirt kirt flares lares widely below be low the waist |