Show Your Baby Don't Dont Make Dont Make SC Scar on Childs Child's Spirit By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED My leaflet on Conduct for Parents Parents Parents Par Par- may be obtained by anyone anyone anyone any any- one who is interested Send your request with a three cent stamped self-addressed self envelope to Mrs Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department in care are of ot The Salt Lake Telegram Is there any cure for ignorance ignorance ignorance ance and indifference to ones one's duties as a parent Unfortunately Unfortunate Unfortunate- te- te ly ty parents cant can't be discharged for incompetence they can continue continue continue con con- in their blundering ways to make scars scars' on the childs child's spirit and one can can only weep for them A letter too long to print must be boiled down to a few pertinent sentences It has to do with a year old daughter so bright as to be almost in the genius class And this child eager for the attention of the father is repulsed scolded frustrated humiliated all in the name of dis dis- dis- dis In his own favor one must admit admit admit ad ad- mit that he is the perfect illustration illustration illustration illus illus- of the result of just such experiences in his own life He too was flogged unless he jumped at the sound of his fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fath fath- ers er's voice and he is passing on this same discipline to his own sensitive intelligent daughter The mother is trying with limited means to keep a pleasant life home-life for them all She says th the father claims he is tired tired tired- knows he does not work hard though he does get small wages She writes t Each meal is Is' Is a nightmare as he inevitably finds something to complain about dropped crumbs for instance and and jumps and shouts at the child making her cry Then he punishes her for crying She hasn't a bit of home life No children to play with she cant can't touch dirt and get gether gether gether her hands wet He thinks I will ruin her unless I 1 am as strict as ashe ashe ashe he is When I threaten to leave him he says he will take the child away as I 1 am unfit to teach her rightly Brightly When we are alone she is a perfect child Both of them have finicky eating habits He likes no vegetables only fried potatoes and milk gravy She likes only rice and no vegetables but carrots carrots carrots car car- rots and spinach I have tried to talk to my husband but he wont won't listen He wont won't read about chil chil- dren He knows it all He says What can an outsider tell a parent parent parent par par- ent about his own child I 1 want t to be fair I 1 try to get along and arid keep a nice home But I Lam am So miserable What can canI I do The The- person who knows it all aU tabulates himself No one knows it all Il and only the ignorant person person person per per- son thinks so Its It's hard to say this but I would try separation to see if it this might bring him to his senses |