Show r. r r f tz just One After Another p J r We Ve live to learn and at the end many of us learn that we f S i know much after all Albeit here comes Professor Olga Olgat t r Bridgman Irid rid man head of child psychology at the University of California I in life or success m ho proclaims that toys may win the child easy i. i it upon the scrip scrap heap of of- failure also the California Society for forMental Mental Hygiene with the solemn declaration that 0 f Every new nely toy means a new problem for the parent Hang it all Blinded by long distance participation in the en- en ment of our leading Democrat in m hobnobbing with kings crown walked right into a cruel fate at the hands hand 17 princes inces and such weve we've r. r pr fl the insidious Christmas toy While weve we've been devoted to c celebrating cele- cele le- le and Hun designs the liberty equality Wiling ting triumph over upon of happiness of our posterity the ravenous Teddy bear the theL thet t L Ude ide de porcelain doll doH and the file vociferous tin horn torn have been sub- sub playing hav havoc with the tle mentality y of our precious s kid kid- Fes Tes Alas What's the use Like that discouraged old rooster i Jt ird hi rd of the barnyard today and a feather duster tomorrow f t And still we sl uld well weH know that every new toy means a ar r ew problem for the parent without any warning from a Society i k r or Mental Hygiene ne Just the other night clad almost wholly in negligee we started down to see whether the furnace was making or glaciers and at the bottom of the stairs stepped into one of the new toy problems It It was a thing na named e Noahs Ark I eople who have sat on the cold bottom stair in m the dark and andI d I picked four metal bay trees a two-horned two rhinoceros and a pair t t f horned eighteen reindeer out of their bare foot really ought not notTo Jo To to require a University of California polish toy tor be able to realize that there are new problems in new toys And then of course on your your way back to bed full of mental hygiene you have to put pur your t. t r other bare foot into Willies Willie's meccano which consists largely of f F rivets toothed saw-toothed braces and edged tools t Of course Dr Olga and that Society 5 J for Mental Hygiene have their legitimate mission Reform has got to be unconfined L whatever else happens Weve We've reformed old bloody Bill lern tern until hes he's pretty quiet if not pretty decent Shall we let our trl j mission go to see seed while white old Santa Santa Claus Glaus ravages our childhood t 1 Does your little son snatch his train tram of cars cars away from your 1 n neighbors neighbor's covetous boy Beware Your son will be a Standard t Oil Q 1 or some other octopus in later years Does your little tittle Susie 1 a spank her doll with regularity and aplomb Alas Shell She'll cut the thet t slices of bread mighty thin when a mother in fact Oh what's the use Today a parent with just one blamed problem o lem after another Tomorrow a ghost i f |