Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-15 | Page 13 | Wishes of Child Deserve Respect in Clothes Choice

Wishes of Child Deserve t j h Respect in Clothes Choice Choi By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON DARTON The day that Mary Louises Louise's Aunt Ethel brought her a D. pink dress drass Mary Louise Louise- was vas so pleased she could hardly wait to tell Betty and Ruth and Katharine about it They had had pink dresses for n a long time Ume She had nice dresses too of course but they were blue and brown and red Not pink Mary L Louise tried to think of some nicer words than usual to explain how pretty her new dress was but she couldn't find fine find any But you'll see it soon she promIsed promised prom prom- bed hopefully They didn't though Mary Louises Louise's mother hung the dress away carefully carefully care care- fully and only lot let her small daughter daugh daugh- ter wear It to Sunday school on Sunday morning and when Important important important tant grown folks came carrie to dinner What would you like to wear to S I school today she ahe asked Mary Louise da r one day 0 My Iy pink dress came the hopeful answer S l- l But that's a dress dreu up dress t What about the thc blue plaid 1 I Then the school had a special prom pro gram Surely now she could wear the pink frock But her moth mother mothr r decided that white would be much nicer Betty and Ruth and Katharine Katha Katha- rine wouldn't have seen tho the dress dreg at all If Mary Louise LouLs hadn't brought them into the house one night after school taken them up to he her bedroom bedroom bed room and spread d the pink ruffled ru frock on the bed bedS Her mother passing through the hall halt heard the chorus of Oh wOh its it's beautiful Its any pink dress I lever ever saw Try It on Mary My Louise Louisel S She went down to the living horn and did some pretty straight think ing tag After all all Mary Mary Louise Louise took no special pride in b being Ing dressed up f for r her mothers mother's friends It was wu her own group before whom she wanted to appear In her new dress drus Surety Surely the childs child's attitude deserved to be taken Into consideration and sho she was entitled to a little of the pleas ure of her own dress Vanity Guides Mothers l Children are not judges of of the durability or suitability of ot clothing that we know w. w Mothers others pa tient wise vIse and guiding However small girls and boys should be permitted per per- milled to enjoy th the cloth clothes they wear A pink gingham Is just as s practical as a blue gingham for school if pink is the childs child's favorite color A red stocking cap will do quite as well as a blue one if ita ifa a small boy wants a a. a merry touch Party clothes should be worn sometimes s in a childs child's own group not always for tor or the family company Too often mothers mother dress their children In such a way th that t they will willS reflect pleas pleasantly nUy upon the mother in the presence of her own guests The Tho child as a personality who may despise ruffles or sandals or bare knees knee Is Js not considered Mary Louise would havo have appeared very foolish learning reading and writing and arithmetic in a pink crepe dress but for the glorious shining moment when she he spoke a a. apiece apiece piece she should have had her boon granted She he would have skipped of off to school in a n brown gingham perfectly happy the next morning