| Show LAW NOT INVOKED INVOICED MERELY QUOTED By BETTY BLAIR An interpretation comparable to the color of our own emotions may flay ay be placed on any subject under the sun suii By the light of reason only may th the truth be perceived 0 Dear Miss BI Blair I j am moved to make a few comments in regard to the e Information information In- In formation that has come to you which v Says that children riding our ur buses M are lIke destructive little mn animals Observation on and judgment tells J Silo me that the van vandals dais that muti- muti Hearts Heart's eart's Haven late street stet ca car property are the same M who deface our trees parks b Buildings and throw roc rocks in ou our ourT Windows T Most of us mothers are no not illiterate rate as you sweepingly intimate and we suffer the same woes at the hands of these ir- ir But just because there iere are some vicious kids kids nothing has ever been said about exterminating all aU children Nuisance or Criminal And by virtue of this same c comparison what kind of a spirit is it that would condemn the whole mass of school children and deprive them of greater educational educational edu edu- opportunities Society everywhere has its handful of criminals With all due respect to your information I am put in mind of a bus conductor He was all for having even the childrens tokens taken away because children children children chil chil- dren who arrive at the age limit of 12 when the bus fare regulation regulation regula regula- tion demands adult fare perhaps perhaps per per- haps more often than not assert they are not quite 12 even though they have passed that dealine by a few months This conductor fairly cursed those I little lying cusses T. P.-T. A. A Opportunity I Naw Miss Blair ten to one i those children didn't lie from outright cussedness Poverty brings these things about too toc too too- and that is just why the T. P.-T. A. A i has a real opportunity to negotiate negotiate negotiate toward the validating of student tickets the year year round I understand that in St. St Louis and Memphis this has long been so The opposing argument was certainly presented to you in hi a adire adire adire dire and drastic light for it is isso isso isso so very unlike you to have hurled such a wholesale reflection upon all mothers as though the whole lot of us were derelict in our child training training just just because a I minor few are dilatory in their duties of upbringing Making the many suffer for the misdeeds of a few isn't good gospel nor good business 2ND ROOM MOTHER My dear after efter reading your letter letter letter let let- ter you may be sure I went in haste to the files of February 7 February 14 and 15 to see what I might have written that could by bythe bythe bythe the light of reason have been Interpreted in interpreted interpreted in- in to imply that I thought mothers illiterate that I thought children good or bad should be exterminated that I condemned the whole mass of school children and wanted them deprived of educational educational opportunities I can only exclaim with the old woman of the nursery rhyme This is not I. I L LIm LIm Im I'm asking you and others Interested Interested interested In in- to read those files again and find a single word or sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence that could be interpreted in that light I do know this that jn in all aU the history of mankind the many have had to suffer for the theof sins of the few No o Escape When I quoted from Emersons Emerson's Essay of Compensation I did not invoke that law Jaw Neither did Emerson Emerson Emerson Emer Emer- son Invoke it on mankind when he wrote his essay He merely stated I what he knew to be the truth of life life life-a a law that is as immutable as the law of gravitation let who things he may escape it Neither do I agree with you that all children who commit depredations depredations depredations on public or private property are criminals Many Meny are misguided misguided misguided mis mis- guided into believing their acts to provide thrills and to be a form 01 of fun Make 1 Your Choice I do not believe either that al althe aU all aUthe the boys and girls who are little angels under their mothers mother's eye are little ittle angels when abroad I am for all the good that may mayI mayL I- I had for humanity children humanity children o or adults I only hope they may behave behave be be- have In such manner that the laws law of companies and the laws of compensation compensation com corn may grant them all aU that the their conduct warrants Believe i it 1 or not nOte you and I and every on one j I of us pay for all aU that we ask fo for forand and get Lets Let's choose our asking 1 and our getting well I heartily recommend the rereading of Emerson's Emersons Emer Emer- 1 sons son's Essay on Compensation t tall to 4 all adul adults In it may be found th the I explanation of many things that ar are happening today I GOLD PL GOLD PLATED GOLD FILLED 1 L Dear M Miss Blair time I have This Is 15 the first come to your corner though I read your column religiously Will you please tell me what is the difference if any between plated gold and g go o 0 1 I f d-f i ill 11 e Cd d jewelry Thank you 14 KARAT There is a great difference between between be- be tween gold-filled gold and plated gold jewelry with the former the more desirable Gold filled means that the gold goldis golds is s filled or lined with brass to give it hardness and strength The quality quality ity ty of gold-filled gold jewelry depends upon pon the amount of gold used in proportion to the brass If the quality of the gold is not stamped you rou are safe in assuming that it itis itis its is s not more than 10 karat plated Gold-plated jewelry is base metal with an outside film of gold plate Only the cheaper grades of jewelry are re made in this way SHOE POLISH STAIN Dear Miss Blair Will you tell me how to remove tan shoe polish from a blue wool dress Thank you E B Z Tan shoe polish stains which sometimes contain water soluble dyes yes make a very persistent stain on n wool and need the expert attention attention atten- atten tion ion of professional cleaners If however there are none of these dyes yes but the polish is made up of ofa ofa a liquid cleaning solution or a polishing pol pol- shing wax the stain may be re removed removed removed re- re moved by sponging with wood or denatured alcohol At least it will willot not ot hurt to try the alcohol sponging sponging ing ng first |
