Show Ill III Mannered Child Requires Notice Praise Plaise By MYRTLE By-MYRTLE MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED ELDRED Ono One cannot repeat too often that tha children demand notice They wan want attention and they want affection not an affection which Is guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guaran guaran- teed to them by their position as a achild achild achild child but an affection which I is theirs because c they are arc individuals Obviously all believe that tha they love Jove their children equally but bu butaU all aU children are arc not aware of ot this Their position in the family gives give some of oC them certain distinctions and when they Jack these distinctions distinctions they have to manufacture to-manufacture ways way to achieve them Margery Gets Noticed Margery is four years ears old Sh She has a baby brother of six months a sister of five live and a brother 14 H. That leaves Margery very elJ little I Ithe in inthe inthe the way of personal distinction The Th baby enjoys his by being young the oldest gets his by being the mos most adult the year old gets hers b by bein being the oldest girl in tho the family Margery has to scratch for notice And she manages it by having suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly achieved the reputation o ot of being incapable Jo of ot cleanliness Margery has been a well trained child up to the time the six months month old child chUd was born Then suddenly she began to have accidents Now No the accidents are dally daily occurrences occurrence Naturally the mother pounced upon this unusual behavior an and elevated it to the eminence of ot a problem She scolded and explained to Margery Marger She shamed an and spanked her But this has not made a dent i in Margery's behavior because th the cause of her has re remained remained re- re unrecognized She lost Jost he her distinction as the baby of ot the family and she has to regain It by being the child who cant can't be trained the child who knows how to b be clean but wont won't be It is obvious that any distinction is better than tha none at all aU Give Gho Her lIer Attention Margery's mother may have ha th the leaflet Retraining for Cleanly Habits for the usual self addressed and cent 3 stamped envelope sen sento sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred of the your you baby and mine department of The Th Salt Lake Telegram But the problem will vanish without without without with with- out aid when she offers Margery Marger other more desirable ways of ot slanting stand stand- standing standing ing out in the family that no doubt doub stopp stopped d noticing her at all aU when thero there was a new baby and she was wa good as good could be |