Show Adult Excuses His Own Faults Fults F By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Every day we ve oldsters do things that we know are r out ot of order but they are so unimportant unimportant usually we wo say to ourselves that it doesn't matter It is easier for dad to throw theo his magazine on ozi the chair when he goes out than to lay it on a table Or just this once mother uses the blue tea towel reserved for glasses to finish off the pans Between dawn and dark our little lapses are legion If H conscience pricks at all we stroke it and say Be still sUlI But this same conscience gets terribly busy when the children get the least bit careless How re responsible responsible re- re wo we suddenly become If l Lucy pulls puns the curtain crooked or orLance orLance Lance Lanco leaves his hat bat in the hall hal Viewed Differently These small everyday affairs are arc not important in themselves Actually Actually Actu Actu- aU ally they are the stuff days clays ar armade are made of However they show the difference between the tho two ends of the telescope Adults minimize their own slips as officers and mag magnify if those hose of ot their young oung r re re- re Children need be told old trained taught responsibility They must absorb l i idas 9 neatness 1 ne arr arrangement arrange arrange- g ment and fitness Mistakes must frequently be mentioned meI and recurrences recurrences recur recur- dealt with But legions of ot children live livo under constant irritation irritation tion that te tends ds neither either to improve them nor make mak them more mor thought thought- ful ul Daddy at th the may feel it quite permissible to throw balls of crumpled crumpl d p paper e er o on th fh fl ri in instead stead of ot Into the basket beside him Or l leave ave a burning on on his ash tray to 10 fall off and nd mar his hi desk At h home me he may he-may may hit the cell- cell Ing 1 if Lance lays a hand on the Wire vIre of the screen or Lu Lucy y leavean leaves leave an orange skin about poJ Parents Love y tp to E Explode l de Why excuse ourselves just Because Be Je- Je c cause we know b be beter t er eri Why g get getIl t All Il worked up when half the tho time tim t the e offspring do don't dont t know better better- or x r else lse forget as BS children will 1 Is it ita a feeling o of or over ity f th their r training A Actually no sno Short t tempers tem and a a love of exploding ing i g on the slightest provocation are tie the best W we wo can say for ourselves much of th the tho time I If W we wo parents would remember the he little story o of the mote and the beam we might fi find d' d a 3 better r route ute Q management nt Training by temper and counseling counseling counsel counsel- ing by Jy y complaint get poor re results u s. s They cease to impress But ut however how hoW however ever that tha may be why dop dot don't t we play fair and slap our own han hands s 4 occasionally |