Show r. r A Childs Child's Price 1 ii By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Ve We need to to be reminded how well i orth ith S a little child is is In all this discussion of child training child psychology new methods of development and so on we weare S are apt to regard him as we might regard some ne new V and interesting form of beetle tacked up on th the e professors professor's desk for inspection We Ve talk about careers and children as though Li x equaled y and there was a choke There is no choice There may be indivIdual preference or indivIdual necessity but there is no more mor e choice than there is between a rose and a piece 0 of f pet point Do OU know children It If you ou dont don't find a child chik I and make a friend of him Throw aside your magazines maga maga- and editorials and bridge hands for an hour hou r and lake ake a lesson in divine trust Watch Vatch a little litti a mind unfolding to the world and you'll learn more mor a than all the wiseacres have written The wiseacre e explains mans man's prejudice In the child there is no prejudice Do you OU have children It If you OU do 10 stop worrying i about them and enjoy them There is no pleasure I In a gem It if you think of nothing but Its safety an and insurance Roosevelt In his books of travel speaks over am and andover I over again of children He is never too tired after L' L a days day's wear weary tramp when jotting down hi his notes t to mention the dear little girl or fine son o of f the innkeeper HIs letters to his on children will wil 1 one day be bound In goldEe gold Eve Ee V. V B. B Hansl former editor and noted for he her r work in developing vocations for children children writes write S San an article in a a. recent magazine called What About Abou t the Children In it she discusses the question o of t careers To 10 me the crux of the whole matter lies Hes in this thi S paragraph I know no more Important moment Ii in inthe the da day writes Mrs Irs Hansl than that in which m small son comes pelting into the house shouting fo for r Mom lom at the top of his lungs What is it I answer thinking something tremendously important has hap hap- Oh nothing he lets Jets me down I 1 just wanted wante I Ito to know if you were there That is it The mother who chooses a career that tha t keeps her away from this eager little shout misses S much 4 |