Show J I I YOUR CHILDREN W b bJ NEi NEA I have two hobbies One is that arty room is not good enough for forthe forthe the children the other is hI that just any old room is not good enough forthe for tor the boy This little space apace Is gOing to hold no brIef today for the brIght sunlit pleasant room that I have urged over and over over again for tIle the children children chil- chil dren but it is going soing to hold a most violent prot protest st against the the- combination combi- combi nation over storage the alley room that too often falls to the lot of Thomas or Richard or just Henry because he Is aboy bo It isn't rIght It Isn't fair it Isn't policy If you want your boy to i grow up imp with the feeling Im just justa a boy and anything's good enough for that's Jno exactly the standard standard stand stand- ard he is going to grow up to lIe He wont won't rise much higher than the standard you u set for him when heis he I is little Why shouldn't a boy experience a feeling of and resentment resentment resent resent- ment if hi his living quarters by comparison with those of his sisters rs or parents Aside from this however there is the peculiar psychology of th the male that clings to those things he can can luis ids very own He fInds expression in a thousand wa ways his s 's own dog his luls own tent his dugout You ou never of boys borrowing each others other's caps and shoes or coats coat as gIrls do Pride of posses posse zion sion Is not a prerogative of girls I never knew a boy who didn't swell up with the most touching pride at havIng his own room a a. regular fellows fellow's room aU all fixed up with things a bo boy would a like book shelf a place for baseball bat batand batand and gloves and mask the old football football foot foot- ball and all other 1 paraphernalia of hi his growing up process that a bo boy loves all beautiful to him he lIkes nice covers too and a rice Dice carpet and pretty curtains lIe He doesn't care if they cost 10 cents a yard or or but lO-but he will like the attention and gauge hIs estImate by that The big thIng is not to make him feel an extra an incumbrance to be stored like the old leftover furniture furniture furni- furni ture just any old place |