Show Where Are the Happy Care Care- Free Care Free Children B WINIFRED I N ED BLACK By BLACK 1 by Newspaper Feature o Service Inc Where here are aro the children The real children the tiro funny children I the foolish children the naughty children chil- chil dren ciren the careless children the stupid children the light hearted children the children who live simply for or the lire fun Cun of living lI U How w Ion long Is it since youve you've seen Been one ono of or them iI i i t ought to bea be I stow lImo a little girl Irl who child a 11 has teeth than really real belong he- he She more and nobody Inthe Inthe In her just long IonS to the world over ever had And le legs her and heart arms IB kind grow grow I Iso so fast tast as hers and she has Is good and her temper as honest eyes and a sweet and gentle voice but she's sho's not n a child anxious ro- ro re reI responsible Is 18 woman a 1 little tittle Sh She a n oman Worried taking care tak I anxious for school chool about her tests In the te right ri ht four fear she Mh hn I Is not doing exactly tiling thing taking till tal Ing thought of the morrow as If II she were 30 Instead of l 12 I know a little bo boy who tho ought to be bea a child lies He's 6 0 years cars old and sturdy and ana strong and his eyes are clear and true and his heart Is la loving and warm but ut ho ho Isn't a child H lies s a little man planning his work worle thinking out his days das going to bed bcd early carly so 80 he hell he'll 11 pet get plenty plent of or sleep getting get get- et- et ting up early carb so hell holl have time to finish fin fin- ish his Iris work before school responsible careful carMul conscientious Where are arc the children the tho children you OU used to know Tho girl Irl I knew when I wa wat 12 didn't c care re a snap of ot her fingers wh whether th r school chool kept or not except that she preferred pre pre- the tho not She didn't study Stud and she didn't worry Time to Be Serious If Ie she missed a f test that wan was a a. Joke on the teacher If Ie eho sho lost her hooks books what of it Who Vho car cared d anything about an old book ook anyway If she sho got her feet wet hurrah Maybe sh shod shed tL have c a cold and ancl the doctor would order ordel oysters for tor her plenty of them and nothing plain like steak an and chops If I I should hould give Ivo the little girl I know now a really hard scolding shed she'd cr cry for hours hour and be he heart henrt broken And Aud I used to tako a half dozen a da day from half a dozen different people and andI go I out In tho the woodshed and entertain the visiting neighborhood h by giving Imitations Imitations Imi Imi- aa ns near to Ufo life as I could make them of oC tho the various scolders If Ie teacher kept me after school I 1 1 wasn't heart broken I was mo mad just plain American n ma mad and so was the tho teacher leacher And when I got home I hearda heard R n few remarks from my mother She didn't mean them thorn and I knew she sho didn't and sho knew know I knew sho didn't and I had a big slice of ot hot gingerbread gingerbread ginger ginger- bread brend with plenty of or butter on it and while I ate it I told the cook who made it all nU about how I hated teacher and how teacher was partial to somebody else else- and hated me But when whee teacher was sick I T picked all nil the prettiest flowers In my little garden garden gar gar- nr- nr den Ien and und took them to her and teacher smiled and liked me a a. little tittle though she he knew that I 1 knew n w that she knew knew- for we were all 11 rather human in tho those d da days But now n w. w wore re alt all so serious and so so ambitious and so conscientious and MO o earnest I wonder if theres there's really 1 a careless child chill left leet on Oil onearth onearth earth Id I'd go a n good ways to see ono Theres There's so Sa much time to be serious Thor There are aro BO so many years earH to be earnest earnest earn earn- est and there aro are such n a lot of ambi ambitious i- i and conscientious times waiting for us try right around around the tho corner cornor sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times I wonder It if its Ils quite Quito fair to Introduce in introduce In- In It tho the children t to the tho cares of or life quite so en early Lets Let's B Be Children Now Come on Little Girl lets let's run yaw yay a y from school for a 0 a whole day lay Lets Let's t not wait till Saturday SI l lets let's go today I Lets Let's take a stick slick and a pair of rub ruh- rubbers bers and lets let's go o poking around sonie- sonie wro to find some come l hussy U y willows Anti And j lets let's tell ten fairy stories und and whisper of if happens w we dont don't like wor lets let's not bo be hurt about it or grieved or r wor worried lets Ids Juat just be Jn mad tI plain old e d 1 mat mal and lets lct say Ia so In plain English and not care a cent about IL Como Come on Little Boy Joy let wool school KO go this morning Throw the geography into the tho the corner lo lose o your forget your OUI book make malce a picture of Inthe In copy cony th thi the front of your sacred acred lesson bookLets bookLet's book I I. I Lets Let's see what Is 19 It we used to write Steel Sted not nol till this hook book for fear f ar r of shims shame For here here you OU seo ceo lh till tho owners owner's name Isn't It scandalous Why the very r word steal al Is tabooed It might suggest CHt hu hl s not bo be modern and esoteric toda today |