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Show Independence of Child Should Increase With Each Year kept In order; thrlr me la pro-tided pro-tided and set before them three timea a day for year without a worry aloul how they were cooked Or paid for: spending money, good arhoollng. auperan slaty over evrry little Illness, amusement crowded Into every empty hour In other words, life bonded to th-tn on a silver piste end they d'dnt need even to eh ths piste TMIY BICOMf "ACCEPTORS' "Thi condition kept up for fi year create what wa eventually rail an 'sreeptor.' a person who spends his Ufa receiving. Puch a child develcna a thin tender akin, too. He must hsva not only all tha creature com I or I a but li4er-anew li4er-anew a well, tolerance and preiee and klndneee. Hut he hasn't learned to give anything. He a taker, not a giver. He haa to be underatood. Ill not hla business to understand. -Well, be marries, or aha marries, mar-ries, sech transfers these nest-habits nest-habits lo hla own home. A home In which the youn htiehand and wife cipert tn do nothing and receive re-ceive everything will rome to grief In a month. It doesn't tska an Arrhlmedee to figure thst out. When both ara 'areeplor I her lan't any way out." Thla is a greet problem and erv on which all behav lorlala ars concentre! con-centre! in. The happleet people. Indeed, aonut'tiie only happy pen-pis pen-pis In ths world, ars those In whk-h th "neet habile" hava been trained oot during tha yeare nf childhood and adoleevanc. NKA. x By OLIVI ROoIRT BARTON "Nsst lUblls:" That a what w roll tha reaullal ef coddling. It a lood name but hardly strong enough. kor neat habita of hums ns ar different from those of birds. Ths minute bird ewrenle decide that Ihelr babes are etrong enough, smart enough, and quirk enough to tak car ef themselves, eot they go over th edge. A few .da ye ef fetching Ht tho art of flying and grubbing and that'a lha end. umn. lime pot vsn that. Tha nest hsblt of human being last longer than that nf bird a and ths lower animal on account of tha eitraordlnary long lima It takea oli I Id ren to mature. It la natural that th period ef protection ahould linger. What wa hare tn do, then, wa humane, la to adopt a policy nf gradual elimination of these neet hahlla INOIPINDINCf MUST GROW Kvery year that a boy or girl Hvaa ha ahould ba farther away from par-ant par-ant dependence ttten he waa the year before, tintH bv tha time he reartiea lateen or elghleea yeara of age. If need be, he ess be entirety Independent. Inde-pendent. I heard lawyer say rersntly that practically all the divorcee nnw were a result of neet hahlta thst hsd not bee trained Put of Ui children. "Thee rhlldren hava learned to depend body and omil oa their mother!" be declered. Thry never ware taught to know tha meaning of lha word raaponsthlllty. Kverythlng wss dona fog them. New c.lothea aoucht when they were needed; waehed and mended and |