Show YOUR BABY AND MINE Favorite Objects Are Useful j To Give Sense of Security 1 I By Myrtle Meyer Ie er Eldred Where is there the child who has never had a favorite object without which he could not j sleep This object bedraggled and lifeless seems a constant I support in times of stress and strain year Three-year-old Ann sucks Bucks her thumb But this is not enough When she collapses from play when her mother scolds when she is sleepy she runs for a sheet crib-sheet which she folds and snuggles against her cheek A As soon as she is happy and re revived revived revived re- re again she casts it away Raymie has a brown bear and anda a dog they dog they have no other names which he has squeezed flat with his loving embraces He can play all aU morning with one or the other tucked under his t tarm arm and never a night but he must have them beside him I when he is put in his bed There has been many a frantic bedtime bedtime bedtime bed bed- time hunt for these elusive ani ani- mals Favorite Blanket Another Anne has a favorite blanket It is a crib blanket and she sleeps with one corner of it next to her face Without it she cannot release herself into slumber Billy is addicted to sucking on the corner of a white cloth diaper dish towel what have you He can put it in his mouth and run around playing while it drips with saliva Every mother can add to this list the special objects to which her child feels child feels a strong attachment attachment attachment attach attach- ment and with which he refuses to part no mater what the sham sham- I ing and ridicule to which he is subjected rYr et JJ T r. r a v r f y r s s f if a rJ C 1 r Y YI Yr r I r 4 J 4 S 3 J w t K 1 r y r lw w v y f r f a Y UNCHANGED BEAUTY This large stone fireplace gives the wonderful rustic touch to the rest of the house In background is picture of a famous ancestor |