Show Your Baby and Mine B By MYRTLE 1 l ELDRED I In meeting unfamiliar situations the difficulties of at the young mother are Increased b by the thc almost inevitable resistance of older adults A middle middle- aged adult is the victim of firmly finnly ensconced ensconced en en- Ideas To change any of them is like moving a family from an established home The adults adult's whole system revolts agai against t the change When her d daughter or her daugh daugh- In lav endeavors to put Into practice tice some of the modern ideas in vogue the mother or mother law is her most persistent opponent She cannot adjust herself to th these e new ideas idea because by so doing she must give up or change those Ideas which she has held tenaciously since her own children were small mall This di difference ference of oC Ideas is the tragedy tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy of parents living with married children or vice ver versa a It Is a tragedy trag edy which has been by the thc economic conditions which have thrown families together whether they would or not Quite often the he younger adult must for the sake of oC peace and perhaps because she Is an an economic burden to her parents or parents law let her baby be spoiled her own ideas ridiculed ridi rid merely because she cannot do doas doas as she pleases pleases' in these extraordinary circumstances I wish I had an answer for all all' the unhappy wives who have no weapons weapon with which to meet unjust criticism Certainly it is no crime erime to be young and inexperienced It seems more more of ofa a 1 crime in Jn my eyes to accept the dictates of adults merely because they are adults and not because their opinIons opinions ions or their advice is worth accept accept- in ing Mothers may weakly allow grandparents grandparents grand grand- parents to spoil a child because the they treat him as a delightful to toy but It h It Ithe the mother who must quiet the cryIng crying crying cry- cry Ing infant and wheedle dle him to sleep when they tire of playing with him When the mother allows her baby to tobe tobe tobe be fed against the advice of authorities Ues ties tics or doctors it is she who must answer an ant for the childs child's ruined digestion and ill health helth In the end the parents par must blame themselves and be blamed for what the child is and be be- becomes comes In view of or this fact let young par do their own thinking Mistakes Mistake are arc at lea least t of or their own making and by being true to themselves they are arc more convincing to the child We offer bUer a leaflet on The Problem of Relatives which will vIII be helpful to young parents whose backbones need stiffening Simply send a self self-ad- three cent stamped envelope envelope envelope enve enve- lope with your request for the leaflet leaf lea let |