Show I I Timely Topics I I A BIG CHANGE IN FAMILY LIFE I Almost within one generation the family has changed chan from an absolute monarchy with father as it Its unquestioned unquestioned head to a loose confederacy from which withdrawal withdrawal with with- at will is the heated question of the moment Like any other newly freed group the children run Tun a little amuck before they settle down in the new situation And there is the added difficulty that In this country each generation is usually a little better bettel educated educed a 1 I little more prosperous than its I predecessor so that in in millions of families the children actually actually belong to a I higher or at least east a a. more pretentious social group than I do their parents and oh dear of course ourse wire were we're always she proud h didn't to introduce mother to our friends ends friends but we wish wish I say aint And of ot course w we adore dear old old dad but if we could only Induce him to exchange Sh shirt r sleeves 0 for tor a smoking comfort jacket in his moments of solid One girl to whom I spoke expressed the typical r reluctance to leave the old filial altitude yet the Impossibility of continuing it She has been economically economical Independent since she was 18 she 18 she was a formed char char- charI y I acter at that age needing neither to be bo sheltered sheltered- nor I chaperoned I U i 1 wish I I could respect my mother more she sighed I She is the most unselfish woman that ever lived She would give up a necessity time any to give me a lUXUry and I adore her But In the sense of looking up to her ber I dont don't respect her at all I think Im I'm smarter than sh she is M My father died when I was a little girl and sInce then Ive I've done exactly a as s I pleased i wish I Was was was' I more filial Id I'd feel easier In my own mind I I Whose fault is a situation like that Was the mother too loo mild too self sacrificing or ha has the daughter a false fal I sense of values Or is it merely a tangle of the time I with no one to blame c 1 The whole question of girls economically Independent I creates new issues Adelaide Adelaide Stedman in n Leslie's I |