Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-03 | Page 15 | Babe's Tears Best Helped by Ignoring

Babes Babe's Tears Tear's Best Helped By Ignoring I ng By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON DARTON Can you euro cure the cry baby I dont don't believe belle you ou can How about yourself When hen you have to you cary don The only difference difference differ differ- ence enco is 13 you dont don't have to often otten You have hilve other ways of expressIng expressing ex ex- pressing distress But once you ou feel tears coming they come that thatis is all Dont you dare to cary says mother stamping her foot Johnny stops and sniffles perhaps The reason is Is ls th that t fear tear has stepped In Inand Inand inand and jolted the other sad emotion out of the way Then en he begins Ito to think he had better go and hunt up Charlie wh was calling a minute ago follows s fear and tears and both boCk are gone But these substitutions substitutions substitutions sub sub- are nt cures Five minutes minutes min mm- utes later Johnny ma may b be bawling about something else The Tho cry-baby cry is a problem He HeIs Heis Heis is also a result A result of himself himself him him- self partly because of Uv ness and also of self-pity self that was allowed to start dear knows when and grew with the years All children who vho weep easily are areto areto areto to bo be pitied but it is best to keep keepit it a secret To sympathize only opens the floodgates wider It Is a terribly hard thing to do dowhen dowhen when ones one's heart is aching for or the unhappy one but it Is the kindest thing in the end No one can help the chronic crier but himself He wants to help himself but he would die rather than let it be known What he does not want Is to be bc talked about especially if he Is past babyhood Perhaps he is trying to be a a sport and hold back the tears You notice it and say sar Darling Im I'm so sorry It Is just too bad That's the very thing he hoped you wouldn't sa say because it breaks the dyke he was so brave bravely I tr trying ing to hold up If It on the other hand you had kept silent or walked awa away leaving him to his own strength he might have mastered the tho impulse by tremendous effort There arc are tears of rage and tears of f sorrow The weeper easy seldom cries ries from anger He just carries his is feelings on his sleeve that's all and nd they are easily scraped As time goes joes on he will increase his world and nd be bo so busy that the crying episodes episodes epi- epi odes will wUl diminish He or she ma may always cry easily many people do o. o But control comes with the years ears or at least a substitution for control