Show fLet Let Children hi dren Plu Play In Expert was a plc picture ure book little girl with golden curls curl pink checks cheeks Dainty as a fairy she he always was dressed by her adoring mother in the latest Paris Pari baby f fashions In the pork park and on the street ever every everyone one turned to stare at the exquisite Immaculate in her French modeled coat and her spotless white shoe shoes l toys ne r became battered bat bat- and chipped If soiled lolled they were thrown away and new now ones one were put in their place Her moth mother r could not bear to see her treasure handle any an- anything thing not entirely clean of course was not allowed to play in inthe the dirt in the park like other children She wasn't permitted In the sand pile either You cant can't tell ten what children have been there her mother told nurse nurse she he might c catch something Keep I Out of Dirt instead d. d sat on the bench beside her her nurse or walked sedately along the cl cleaner aner paths She Sheva was va very careful not to get her white shoes shoe dirty or to rub a smudged ed finger fin finger finger ger down the f front of her beautiful blue coat Having been given by her mother a horror of oC dirt dir germs spots and smudges accepted her immaculate im urn maculate life liCe enough Before she was four tour she had developed dainty habits of or her own volition She was always exam examining her coat or orthe orthe orthe the tablecloth for spots and i if one was discovered went after alter itin it itin itin in tears un until Ulim it was removed But had one unfortunate habit Every night that the nurse nure went out and her mother put her to tobed bed she vomited The doctor was consulted was found to be In excellent h haIth Yet the habit persisted wes was scolded ignored coaxed She made madean an obvious effort cHart to control herself but it seemed he she could not Couldn't Help It could not help herself Although Al Al' Although though there was no physical cause for Cor her vomiting the reaction was already beyond the childs child's own conscious con conscious control Adult authority seems very powerful powerful power ful Cui and unassailable to a small mall child a ruling which hc he does not dare openly attack Yet fie e often orten bitterly resents its restrictions If Il they interfere interfere in in- with his every natural instinct instinct in in- frustrate his every voluntary act the situation becomes unbearable He must rebel things must change It is natural for lor small mall children to play in the dirt From tenement or palace they are all little savages Cleanliness is not important to them nor is the condition of their clothes forbidden all natural contact contact contact con con- tact with dirt by her mother retail b by making her own dirt not only a as a method of revenge but in order to show her mother what was lacking in her life lICe |