Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-27 | Page 10 | Rules Made for Young Must Vary

Rules Rufes Made Madet t F For r Young 7 5 r Must M us t Vary a ry f By y OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON The grand sweepstakes of ot spring Is h here re Only moth mother r gets tho sweeps doesn't and father get his steaks r Every year the thc house has to have Its exercises especially after a long Ions winter like the past one to carry it along for another year t This This' is the time I feel teel sorry for forthe forthe forthe the kids Oh no not because they have to eat snacks and sleep in odd dd corners but because of ot the I warnings Mother Isn't going to have her new wallpaper marked or the new brand-new rug spotted Fresh curtains are arc verboten to small grimy hands too As for lor the furniture and floors gleaming with fresh tresh polish angels help the careless careless care care- less Jess if toys make any scratches Outside father lather has not been Idle either cither He has sought s solace lace in his garden Rows of string mark the spot where precious seed lie Little envelopes on sticks are stop signs beyond which toes must not venture Tho The dog Is tied up and everybody on probation What a time Now of course mama knows very well that one of the new chair covers covers cov cov- ers rs Is going to have choc chocolate late smeared on it ft Tho The law of ot averages averages averages aver aver- ages says so Or the second step from the tho bottom look ashamed of tho the chewing gum tramped into l its new new- velvet coat Papa too can place a safe safo bet beton beton beton on small Polly taking too great an interest in his radishes and delving into earths mysteries with the mIxIng mixIng mixing mix- mix Ing spoon He needn't have a stroke a-stroke over it it either cither for h he knew before betor he ae began that an average number of ot accidents would occur and all tho the r red d' d lights light be could hang out couldn't keep all the jinxes awa away Once in a R. while it all works out fine and furnishings escape at least until the first flush of ot mothers mother's pride wears off ort Then a dab here or ora ora ori a i spot there ceases to be bo vital When dad reaches the stage where he makes a sour face tace at the hose and declares the whole can candry candry candry dry up for all he cares a 0 tomato more or less wont won't matter But in the tho meantime woe to him who forgets The moral is this Parents are area a good bit t that at way vay When they they are glowing under a new interest their heir children had better watch out T Johnny permitted d to jump on the theold old covers may forget they are new Orders ar but custom sets his pace A great deal of ot blood pressure would be kept down if It we could remember the tho law of ot averages and resign resign- ourselves t to a a small bitter itter dish of ruin in the punch of housekeeping The enormity of ot a childs crime depends largely on the state of f mind d at the moment of ot his parent arent A mistake in selecting the wood for the foundation found years ago has been een found to be the cause of the deterioration of Waterloo bridge in London now being razed r